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Chez Panisse Lawsuit Against Insurer Who Denied Pandemic Claim Could Become National Case

Earlier this week, iconic Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse filed suit against its insurance company for denying a vital interruption-of-business claim. Founder and owner Alice Waters says she wouldn't be going to court unless this were a serious matter.

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Nurses At SF Hospitals Should Be Getting Regular COVID Tests. Why Aren't They?

A spike in COVID-19 cases is happening among the staff at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital, and neither there nor at Kaiser Permanente's hospital in San Francisco are nurses who deal with COVID-positive patients getting mandatory, regular tests themselves. Why?

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San Francisco Sees Post-Holiday Spike With 171 New COVID Cases In One Day

Once Thursday's numbers were in, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) reported a jump in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city of 171 — a 4-percent uptick and two and a half times higher than the average daily new case count of the last two weeks.

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Virtual COVID-19 Conference, Attached To SF-Hosted AIDS Conference, To Feature 140 Studies On Friday

On Friday, July 10, a day-long virtual conference on COVID-19 and research underway into how to treat the disease kicks off at 7:30 a.m., tacked on to the end of the annual International AIDS Conference which was supposed to be taking place — physically — in San Francisco.

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Mayor Breed, Supervisor Walton Both Test Negative For COVID-19, Will Get Tested Again

After both potentially being exposed to the coronavirus this week, Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton have tested negative — though Breed says she will be tested again next week as a precaution.

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San Francisco's Iconic Cable Cars Likely To Stay Off the Streets Well Into 2021

Chalk it up to another — albeit temporary — casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. SF's beloved cable cars are going to remain offline indefinitely, likely until a vaccine puts a final end to the spread of the virus, and both operators and riders can be assured of safety.

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SF Mayor London Breed Tested After Possible COVID Exposure

San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Wednesday evening that she and Supervisor Shamann Walton had attended an event recently where they may have been exposed to the coronavirus.

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Sonoma County Prepares To Potentially Land On State Watch List

It's been just a week since we heard about the fairly lackadaisical attitude being exhibited by Sonoma County bar patrons amid the pandemic, and now indoor bars and restaurants in the county may have to close again as COVID hospitalizations rise — as they have been doing around the state.

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After SF Restaurant Complains, DoorDash Apologizes For 'Error' In Which It Was Violating 15% Fee Cap

DoorDash, which like other delivery apps must abide by a 15-percent delivery commission cap in San Francisco that was imposed back in April, was charging at least 10 local restaurants an outrageous 30-percent fee on delivery and pickup orders as recently as this week.

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Pandemic Updates: East Bay Counties Rack Up Hundreds Of New Cases

Cases continue to surge in Alameda and Contra Costa counties; the CDC is cowing to President Trump's anger over guidelines around the reopening of schools; and a new study out of the UK points to serious, lasting brain disorders in recovered COVID-19 patients.

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Stanford Announces Elimination of 11 Varsity Sports Programs, Citing Pandemic

Calling the news "heartbreaking," and citing that it will impact some 240 student-athletes and 22 coaches, Stanford announced the upcoming end of almost a dozen varsity teams including men's volleyball, men's and women's fencing, and field hockey.

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United Airlines Sends Furlough Notices To Almost Half Its U.S. Employees

In a sign of growing trouble for the airline industry, United Airlines has sent mandated 60-day job-cut warnings to 36,000 of its employees — or nearly half of its U.S. staff.

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Mayor Breed On Reopening Pause: 'We Need These Numbers to Go Down'

San Francisco recorded just 28 new COVID-19 cases between Monday and Tuesday this week, however the city's new case metrics are still well above the public health department's goal, and thus outdoor bars and indoor dining have to remain on an indefinite pause.

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Six San Quentin Death Row Inmates Have Now Died Of COVID-19

As of a week ago, there were just over 1,000 active cases of COVID-19 at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County. That number has grown to over 1,400, or 40 percent, and now a total of six inmates have died from the disease. It is by far the biggest outbreak at a California prison.

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Napa To Shut Down Wineries and Indoor Restaurants As COVID Case Count Climbs

Napa County is set to be placed on a state watch list by the California Department of Public Health on Monday, and that means it will have to re-close a number of businesses that have reopened there in the last month.

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SF Won't Restart Indoor Dining Next Week; No Future Date Set

Sources from City Hall and the local restaurant lobby say that San Francisco will not be reopening restaurants for indoor dining on July 13 as previously planned.

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All Beach Parking Lots In SF Are Closed For July 4th Weekend

If you have an urge to see the ocean this weekend and are planning to do so in a socially distanced manner, you had better walk or take a bike, because none of the beach parking lots in San Francisco will be open.

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COVID Hospitalization Rates Consistently Rising Across The Bay Area

As a metric of where a region is in this pandemic, rising rates of hospitalization for severe COVID-19 cases is not a good sign. But that is what has been happening over two weeks across the Bay Area.

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Newsom Says Indoor Restaurants and Wineries That Have Opened In 19 Counties Must Close

In a reversal — or, as Newsom is now calling it, a slide of the "dimmer switch" on reopening — Governor Gavin Newsom ordered all winery tasting rooms, indoor-dining restaurants, museums, and other businesses that have opened in 19 California counties to close, effective immediately.

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SF Catholic Churches Have Been Holding Illegal Gatherings; City Attorney Threatens Restraining Order

In a seven-page cease-and-desist letter dated June 29, City Attorney Dennis Herrera said the church was "putting its parishioners and the larger community at risk of serious illness and death."

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Little Chihuahua On Divisadero Temporarily Closes After Three Employees Test Positive

One of the four Little Chihuahua locations in San Francisco, on Divisadero near the Lower Haight, has temporarily closed after three staff members have turned up COVID-positive.

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Sacha Baron Cohen Punks Alt-Right Event As Racist Bluegrass Singer

Prankster and master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen pulled off a new prank over the weekend, showing up as an invited guest performer at an alt-right group's rally for "rights" in Olympia, Washington.

Bay Area Sports

Giants Prospect Hunter Bishop Tests Positive For COVID-19 Just Prior To 'Summer Camp' Training

One of the San Francisco Giants' top prospects for this upcoming, abbreviated 2020 season, 2019 first-round draft pick Hunter Bishop, has just tested positive for COVID-19 while in Arizona.

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Sonoma Bar Patrons Act Like Virus Is Behind Them As County Case Count Rises

Sonoma County, unlike most of the Bay Area, has allowed bars to serve drinks indoors — and allowed wineries and restaurants to reopen for indoor service with some restrictions — since June 19. The effects of that reopening step may start to appear shortly.

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Nearly One-Third Of San Quentin Inmates Now Have COVID-19; Death Row Inmate Dies

There are now 1,011 active cases of COVID-19 at San Quentin State Prison, meaning that almost a third of the entire prison population has become infected in the span of just two weeks.

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