SF News San Francisco Bars to Reopen Indoors May 7, But Patrons Must Be Seated San Francisco is expected to enter the "Yellow" tier next week for the first time since October, and the city is planning to lift more public health restrictions on businesses — most notably on bars.
SF News California Has Had 1,380 'Breakthrough' COVID Cases Among Vaccinated Since January As better news arrives about mask mandates and such, we get other news that California has recorded 1,379 cases of COVID among people who are considered fully vaccinated, underscoring the need for ongoing caution.
SF News San Francisco Likely Has Just One More Week In 'Orange' Tier The state released its updated metrics for the Blueprint for a Safer Economy, and both San Francisco and Los Angeles counties look poised to move into "Yellow" status by next week, along with one other Bay Area county.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cut Back Drinking for a While After Being Vaccinated, Some Experts Say The medical advice about drinking alcohol after getting a vaccine shot has been mixed so far, with the general advice seeming to be "don't overdo it." But some experts have cautioned that heavy drinking may seriously inhibit your immune reponse in the weeks after your shots.
SF News CDC Updates Mask Rules for the Vaccinated; San Francisco Rules TBA On Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its guidance on wearing face masks outdoors, and on the rules for the fully vaccinated — essentially endorsing what many of us have already been doing after our second shots.
SF News Two-Thirds of San Franciscans Now Have At Least One COVID Vaccine Shot In Them As of Thursday, a full two-thirds of the city (67%) has received at least one shot in the arm of a two-dose vaccine, and 40% are fully vaccinated. Appointments at the Moscone Center are also readily available right now for next week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Are Scaling Back Takeout Offerings As Demand Slips The great takeout boom of 2020 and early 2021 looks to be headed for a bust as more SF restaurants restart indoor dining and prepare to eventually get back to something like normal.
Arts & Entertainment Sorry, Anti-Vaxx Burners: Burning Man May Require COVID Vaccine For Entry Very soon there are going to be a lot of disadvantages to not having a COVID-19 vaccine, besides the danger of getting and/or dying from COVID-19. The latest potential downside: You won't be allowed into Burning Man.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marin County Blames Missing Yellow Tier on Spring Breakers Prosecutors say that Kristin Smart's body was previously buried in Ruben Flores's backyard, a group of Wisconsin newspapers is suing Facebook and Google, and Marin County was denied the "Yellow" tier due to spring breakers with COVID.
SF News UCSF Doc Pushes Back on Vaccine Companies, Says Booster Shots May Not Be Necessary UCSF infectious disease expert Dr. Monica Gandhi, who already this week was advocating for nixing the outdoor mask mandate for cities, also pushed back on the commonly held assumption that vaccine booster shots are definitely going to be necessary.
SF News One UCSF Doc Says Outdoor Mask Mandate Should Be Lifted; Another Says He Still Won't Dine Indoors It's getting to where infectious disease experts may start diverging in their levels of relative caution when it comes to public safety mandates. And while two UCSF doctors don't necessarily disagree in some recent statements, one is urging a lifting of SF's mandate on wearing masks outdoors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Long Will It Be Before People Are Cool With Dining Indoors? The Bay Area is showing its trust in science and heeding the warnings of experts, and restaurant owners still say that indoor dining isn't as easy of a sell as outdoor dining is — even though all Bay Area counties but one are now allowing restaurants to operate at 50% capacity indoors.
SF News Pfizer CEO Suggests Third Vaccine Dose Likely Needed, Might Be Annual Thing Like Flu Shot It's looking more and more likely that ongoing immunization against the mutating coronavirus will be needed, and on Wednesday the CEO of Pfizer suggested that recipients of its vaccine will likely need a third booster dose next year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starting Thursday, SF Restaurants Can Stay Open Past 11 p.m., Music Venues Can Open at 35% Capacity While San Francisco awaits a promotion to the state's "Yellow" tier, the city is moving ahead with relaxing more restrictions on restaurants and performance venues starting on Thursday morning.
SF News 39 Sonoma County Residents Got COVID After Being Vaccinated — But That's OK, Experts Say, and None Were Hospitalized Sonoma County public health officials revealed Tuesday that 39 people in the county have been so-called "breakthrough" COVID cases, meaning that they became infected with the coronavirus more than two weeks after getting their second vaccine shot.
SF News FDA and CDC Recommend Pausing J&J Vaccinations Following Blood Clot Cases Six women came down with a rare blood-clotting disorder within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine, prompting federal authorities to recommend Tuesday that states pause in distributing the vaccine just as broad vaccine eligibility begins.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Extended For One Month, Without FEMA Help Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the Oakland Coliseum — technically now RingCentral Coliseum — mass vaccination site will continue operating for four more weeks past its scheduled sunset date, which was on April 11.
SF News 6,000 Show Up For Drop-In Vaccines at SF General After Zip Code Expansion 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.
SF News San Francisco Expands Eligibility for Drop-In Vaccines to More Zip Codes, All Ages If you're 16 or over and live in one of eight SF zip codes that the city considers "high-impact neighborhoods" in the pandemic, you can go line up for a same-day vaccine at two different drop-in vaccination clinics.
SF News San Francisco Won't Enter 'Yellow' Tier Due to Case Numbers, But a Few More Restrictions Get Lifted Next Week 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.
SF News CDC: You Can Stop With the 'Deep Cleaning' and Hygiene Theater 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.
Arts & Entertainment Live Indoor Events to Restart April 15 In SF, But With Lots of Precautions Mayor Breed announced guidelines for indoor events to return next week in SF, and the Warriors will let fans in the stands on April 23 for a Nuggets game.
SF News New Vaccination Clinic Opens In SF's Excelsior District, Serving Neighborhood Residents A new vaccination clinic with phone appointments and some drop-in availability has opened to serve the hard-hit Excelsior District, much like neighborhood clinics that have opened in the Mission, Tenderloin, and Bayview.
SF News If You're Not Vaccinated, Stay Home, Order In, Be F**king Patient If you haven't yet received at least one vaccine shot and waited the appropriate two weeks after to resume more normal activities, you should not be resuming those activities as if we're totally out of the woods and you have nothing to fear — I don't care how young or invincible you think you are.
SF News Brace Yourselves For Vaccine Card Fakes, Which the FBI Considers a Federal Crime Next up in our Great American Pandemic Story we are likely to see a wave of stories about vaccination card forgeries — given how easy they are to fake, how many dumb Americans are still avoiding getting vaccinated, and you'll seen need one to go to a concert.
