With vaccine appointments nearly impossible to find a few days ahead of the statewide expansion of eligibility to everyone age 16 and up, the possibility of a quick and easy drop-in vaccine brought out thousands of people on Saturday, most of whom went home disappointed.

Though San Francisco expected to be the first county in the Bay Area to enter the "Yellow" tier for reopening next week — returning where it was for a brief period last fall in terms of falling COVID case numbers and hospitalizations — that won't be happening yet.

The Centers for Disease Control confirmed today what epidemiologists have been saying for at least eight months, which is you don't need to keep disinfecting surfaces and decontaminating your groceries because the coronavirus doesn't spread by surface contact.

COVID case numbers have been dropping and so have hospitalizations since January in the Bay Area. But the reason you're still hearing so much conflicting information is that there aren't enough vaccinated people yet to let our guard down.