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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To-Go Cocktails and Outdoor Dining Extended In California Restaurants and bars in California can continue selling to-go booze through the end of the year, and outdoor parklet dining and alcohol sales are being extended as well, ahead of state laws that will solidify both.
SF News With Bay Area COVID Cases Continuing to Decline, Marin and Solano Counties Reach New Tiers The seven-day average of daily new cases in the Bay Area was 174 over the last week. That is down dramatically from an average of 518 recorded cases each day in the first week of May.
SF News California Hits New Low In COVID Test Positivity; Five Bay Area Counties Still In 'Orange' Tier As we approach the last few days of May, just three weeks out from the much anticipated June 15 date for widespread lifting of public-health restrictions, California looks poised to see fewer and fewer COVID infections.
SF Politics SF Legislators Call Bulls**t on School District's Scheme to Get $12 Million In State Funding for Reopening San Francisco's legislative delegation in Sacramento is calling out the SF School Board for their attempt to reap the benefits of a state funding program without actually complying with the spirit of the legislation that backed the program.
SF News SF Is Throwing Free Vaccine ‘Family Events’ with Food, Prizes, and Ferris Wheel Tickets to Encourage More Shots Now the Department of Public Health is throwing around free Skystar Wheel tickets, Clipper fare, zoo and museum tickets, and free food at family vaccination parties the next three weekends.
SF News California to Drop All Capacity Limits, Require Vaccinations for 'Mega Events' Starting June 15 The California Department of Public Health released new details Friday about what pandemic-related restrictions will look like statewide come June 15 — and the short answer is there won't be many restrictions on daily life at all.
SF News SF General Has Zero COVID Patients Right Now Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital hit a pandemic milestone on Thursday with zero COVID admissions, and no COVID patients at all in beds at the facility.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Offers Second Pfizer Shots For Anyone Who Missed Theirs (For Limited Time) The Oakland Coliseum mass-vaccination site is winding down on May 23, and Alameda County is putting out a last call for anyone who received a first Pfizer dose and may have missed their second appointment.
