SF Politics Breakthrough COVID-19 Cases Hit Pelosi’s Office, White House Staff A current total of two Washington staffers, one of Pelosi’s and one of Biden’s, have been infected with COVID after being fully vaccinated, but the President and Speaker themselves were reportedly not exposed.
SF News Two Weeks After July 4th, Delta-Variant Surge Causes Spike In Bay Area Hospitalizations COVID hospitalizations in San Francisco have doubled in the past two weeks, and across the Bay Area, the hospital count rose 12% on Monday alone.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dow Slides On New COVID Fears Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties are all back in what would have been "Purple" tier status; GrubHub and DoorDash are suing SF over that 15% fee cap; and four more local counties including Napa have joined in the voluntary mask guidance for indoor spaces.
SF News Bay Area Health Officers Urge Residents to Wear Masks Again in Indoor Public Spaces, Voluntarily A day after Los Angeles reinstituted its mask mandate, a coalition of Bay Area health officers including those representing San Francisco and Alameda counties issued a joint statement urging residents to wear their masks again voluntarily.
SF News SF COVID-19 Infections Rising Again, Breed Pleads for Vaccinations in Bayview San Francisco has been the ‘poster city’ for vaccination rates, but since the June 15 reopening, we’ve gone from 10 new cases a day to around 40.
SF News SF Woman Who Coughed and Said She Had COVID While Robbing a Walgreens Found Guilty A crime that was arguably over-charged in the early pandemic has resulted in a possible 20-year federal sentence for one woman — a steep price to pay for stealing some stuff from a Walgreens, which as we've seen, is a pretty common occurrence.
SF News Naturopathic Doctor In Napa Allegedly Sold Fake Vaccine Cards to Go With Her Fake COVID Immunization Pills A Napa woman who told patients at her naturopathic and homeopathic medicine practice that the available COVID-19 vaccines had "toxic" ingredients in them now faces federal charges for falsifying vaccination cards. And she's the first person in the country to face federal charges for such a scheme.
SF Politics Newsom Appears to Backtrack on Hardline Mask Guidance for Schools, State Will Leave Rules Up to Districts After announcing guidance for California public schools on Monday that had been leaked out on Friday, and facing backlash from critics of Governor Newsom's pandemic response in general, the state's public health department is backtracking a bit.
SF News Some Breakthrough COVID Cases Among Vaccinated Appearing In Bay Area; CDC Puts East Bay Areas on Hot-Spot List In the wake of a holiday travel week and the growing spread of the Delta variant, local reports are coming in with a bit more frequency of fully vaccinated people testing positive for COVID-19 and even getting sick.
SF News Delta Variant Could (Maybe) Bring Mask Mandates Back In Some Places Spread of the extra-contagious Delta variant in the Bay Area and elsewhere has sparked a lot of chatter, and questions, about whether the relative freedom we're all experiencing with public health orders lifted could be short-lived.
SF News COVID Cases Are Spiking Once Again In Alameda County Among the Unvaccinated Alameda County, parts of which became early hot spots of COVID-19 infection in 2020, may be poised to become a hot spot once more as unvaccinated pockets of the county are seeking outbreaks of cases that are being mirrored elsewhere in the country.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO Launches COVID Testing Pilot For Arriving International Passengers A 75-year-old woman was knocked down and critically injured by a fleeing shoplifter in the Outer Mission, former homelessness czar Jeff Kositsky is leaving City Hall entirely, and SFO is giving free COVID rapid-testing and variant-testing kits to arriving international passengers.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Rise 10% In Bay Area; Sonoma County Seeing About 60 New Cases Per Day Among Unvaccinated The pandemic picture in the Bay Area hasn't entirely cleared up and turned sunny, and there continue to be pockets of new infection in multiple local counties, as well as an unsettling uptick in new COVID hospitalizations.
SF News Data Finds 'Breakthrough' COVID Cases Exceedingly Rare Among Vaccinated Californians Despite the ongoing presence of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19, and an average of 950 new daily cases around the state in the last several weeks, so-called "breakthrough" cases of the disease in vaccinated Californians continue to be very rare.
SF News 70% of Latinx People In SF Have Had at Least One Vaccine Dose; 81% Vaccinated Citywide San Francisco announced what it said was an "important milestone" on Tuesday, saying that 70% of eligible Latinx residents, i.e. those over the age of 12, have received at least one vaccine dose as of today.
SF Politics SF Extends Eviction Moratorium Through December as City and State Work to Cover Tenants' Back Rent Low-income tenants in San Francisco who were most impacted by economic shutdowns in the last year are getting another reprieve from the Board of Supervisors — and for those who owe back rent, it may be just a matter of weeks before their landlords get paid.
SF News You Can Now Show a Digital Vaccine Card on Your Phone With California's New Online System Don't call it a vaccine passport! But California now has made vaccination records available digitally through an online portal, which creates a scannable QR code that you can show to get into stadiums, concert venues, and the like.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: With Capacity Limits Lifted, the Castro Comes Alive Again With fifteen months of COVID-19 restrictions behind us, the Castro’s bars and restaurants were bumping Tuesday night with San Franciscans celebrating the end of social-distancing rules.
SF News New Analysis Finds Younger Latinx Residents of Santa Clara County Were Far Likelier to Die of COVID-19 Than White Residents Providing further evidence of the racial inequities of the pandemic, new analysis of COVID cases and deaths in Santa Clara County finds that the virus killed mostly elderly white residents, but deaths among Latinx residents skewed much younger.
SF News Workforce Nonprofit and UCSF Canvas Tenderloin Offering J&J Vaccines to Residents Saturday afternoon, Code Tenderloin — a local non-profit organization dedicated to helping employ disadvantaged San Franciscans in long-term positions — and UCSF staffers went around the Tenderloin, inoculating those wanting a single-dose shot against COVID-19.
SF News Five Bay Area Residents Win $50,000 Prizes In Second Vaccine Lottery Drawing California's vaccine lottery continued with its second drawing on Friday, awarding 15 more Californians with $50K for getting a COVID vaccine — including one more from San Francisco.
SF News COVID Cases Spike In Sonoma County Among the Young and Unvaccinated Just days away from the June 15th lifting of most public health mandates, Sonoma County is seeing a disturbing uptick in COVID cases that could be mirrored elsewhere in the state as the summer goes on.
SF News San Francisco Finally Says Yes, You Can Take Your Masks Off on June 15 (Except on Muni) Business owners around the city have been waiting patiently to find out whether mask rules and capacity limits would actually be lifted in San Francisco when they are in the rest of the state on June 15. And now we know.
SF News Herd Immunity For San Francisco May Be Just Three Weeks Away There are still a few unknowns, and it would be unwise to declare ourselves definitively out of the woods, but some often-quoted experts at UCSF are sounding pretty bullish about San Francisco's shot at herd immunity.
SF News You May Want to Answer Unknown Calls For a Couple Weeks As CA's Vaccine Lotto Kicks Off How will you know if you've won $50,000 or one of the $1.5 million grand prizes in California's vaccine lottery drawings? State health officials are going to try to call you on the phone, so you may want to answer unknown calls on your cell for the next couple of weeks.
