SF Restaurants, Food & Drink These SF Bars and Restaurants Have GoFundMe Fundraisers to Help Staff Like we’ve said before: you can help buoy many of SF’s restaurants and bars amid the COVID-19 crisis by ordering pickup and delivery from them. An ample amount of those same places also have active GoFundMe fundraisers to help staff that you can extend some digital dollars to, as well.
SF News Public Health Director Fears Imminent Surge of COVID-19 Cases at Laguna Honda Hospital It was reported this week that six staff members and one resident at Laguna Honda Hospital tested positive for COVID-19. SF Director of Public Health Dr. Grant Colfax is now concerned about a likely outbreak of the novel coronavirus at the facility — which houses hundreds of elderly patients.
SF News Governor Newsom: California Increasing Ventilator Output, Emphasizes Need for Social Distancing In a press conference Saturday, Governor Newsom said California is upping its ventilator output, hoping to now acquire some 10,000 examples. The 52-year-old politician also reiterated the need for Californians to maintain proper social distancing practices amid the current pandemic.
SF News SF Leases 300 Hotel Rooms to House COVID-19 Patients and 'Vulnerable Populations' On the heels of District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston putting $10K of his own money toward a private fund that will help house unsheltered San Franciscans at the Oasis Inn during the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of SF announced yesterday they’ve now secured leases for around 300 hotel rooms.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink These SF Bars Are Offering To-Go and Delivery Cocktails For those of us who once regularly visited San Francisco's many watering holes, we’ve been reeling during these shut-in times — as have those who work behind those bars. Fortunately, there’s a substantial chance your beloved dive is now selling cocktails for pick-up or delivery, NoLa-style.
SF News Oakland Man Allegedly Steals $780 of Energy Drinks, Claims He Has Coronavirus to Evade Security In a caper that could only happen at a Walmart, San Leandro police thwart a Monster heist of energy drinks where the accused scared off security by saying he was a coronavirus carrier.
SF News Supervisor Preston Secures Private Funds for Hotel to House Homeless Dean Preston puts up $10,000 of his own money into a private fund that will keep at least 30 unsheltered people put up safely to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic at the Oasis Inn.
Business & Tech Airbnb Hosts Furious That People Can Cancel Stays for Free During COVID-19 Outbreak The home-sharing service Airbnb is allowing guests to cancel for free over the “extenuating circumstances” of coronavirus travel restrictions, but house-hoarding hosts are huffy about it.
SF News Photos: Mission District and Haight-Ashbury Shops Boarded Up — With Notes of Solidarity in Tow Non-essential businesses still sit vacant throughout San Francisco amid the coronavirus crisis, with many now boarded up, as if expecting a hurricane. But between the long stretches of plywood canvassing window panes across the city, irrefutable signs of unity and hope prevail.
Arts & Entertainment Breed Unveils $2.5 Million Arts Relief Fund, But Industry Faces $48 Million in Losses Mayor Breed’s Arts Relief Program will dole out $2.5 million, possibly more if outside donors step up, which is still just a drop in the hat amidst months of cancelled events.
SF News E-Scooter Companies Scoot, Lime, and Jump Halt Operations in SF; Spin Continues Running Scoot, Lime, and Jump are choosing to stop all operations in San Francisco over the COVID-19 pandemic. Of SF’s four e-scooter rental companies, only Ford Motor Company-owned Spin continues to run, promising to clean their scooters more often to provide "a safe ride."
SF News Governor Newsom: More Ventilators Coming, COVID-19 Testing Still Limited, and Eviction Ban Extended Governor Newsom held a live-streamed press conference Saturday to give an update on California's current response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The news included an increase in ventilator production, plans to make COVID-19 testing more available, and an extension to the ban on evictions.
SF News SFPD Has Issued Zero Citations to People Violating Shelter-In-Place Order Five days into the shelter-in-place order, San Francisco police have yet to cite a single person for violating the command, opting to educate the public about the order rather than issue tickets.
SF News Workers at Still-Open, ‘Essential’ Businesses Face High Risk, Low Financial Reward The unsung heroes of the ongoing coronavirus crisis are the nurses, grocery clerks, and delivery drivers slogging through amidst angry customers and precarious conditions.
SF News San Franciscans Are Going to Dog Parks and Jogging on the Embarcadero and CNN Is Pissed CNN's Jake Tapper took aim at SF on the broadcast last night, showing a live feed of people strolling and jogging on the Embarcadero as if it were a normal day, and asking Dr. Sanjay Gupta if this was at all acceptable.
SF News Lockdown is Here: Bay Areawide ‘Shelter in Place’ Orders Go Into Effect at Midnight Bay Area residents are officially being urged not to leave their homes, with very few exceptions “for essential outings,” in San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, and San Mateo Counties, starting at midnight tonight.
SF News SF Opens New Coronavirus Testing Center, But It’s Referral-Only You can’t get a walk-in test, and they’ll only take people referred by a doctor, but the temporarily shuttered Castro-Mission Health Center on 17th Street has been triaged into a COVID-19 testing center.
SF News Two More Coronavirus Cases Confirmed in NorCal, Plus One More Suspected As many as three more Sacramento and Humboldt County victims could be infected with coronavirus, in addition to the five cruise ship patients hospitalized in northern California.
