SF News Newsom Lifts Regional Stay-at-Home Orders as Bed Capacities Rise Governor Gavin Newsom has lifted the remaining regional stay-at-home orders across California, returning to the county-by-county, color-coded system for reopening, and San Francisco will be allowing outdoor dining to resume in short order.
SF News Bay Area ICU Capacity Swings to 23.4% — Could Lockdown End Soon? With the Bay Area's ICU capacity now over 23% — a massive improvement from the last reported ICU availability rate of just 6.5% — the region now falls under the state's criteria for leaving its current stay-at-home order.
SF News California Is Now the Worst State in the Country When it Comes to Giving Out COVID-19 Vaccines We’ve all been bemoaning how sluggish SF and the state have been at administering vaccines. Though usage rates are rising, those upticks aren't enough to stop Alabama from leapfrogging over CA — making us now dead last in the country for the percentage of supplied shots being used.
SF News Legendary Talk Show and Radio Host Larry King Has Died at 87 Larry King — the broadcasting giant whose interviews with world leaders, global popstars, and Hollywood staples captivated audiences from around the globe — died Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to a statement from Ora Media; he was 87 years old.
SF News Bay Area Sees Another Spike In COVID Deaths, With 250 More Dead in 3 Days Adhering to a grim schedule that was predicted by public health experts, the holiday-season surge in COVID cases is now showing its spike in deaths, both locally and elsewhere.
SF News Mass-Vaccination Site Soft-Opens at City College — No Walk-Ups Allowed The drive-through mass-vaccination site at City College "softly" opened Friday morning at a five-acre parking lot, with a plan to administer 500 doses today to healthcare workers and people over the age of 65.
SF News Mass Vaccination Site at City College Expected to Open This Week Despite Dip In Vaccine Supply A mass-vaccination site at the main campus of City College of San Francisco is still on track to begin doling out vaccine doses by the end of this week, even as the city's health department says it is about to run out of vaccine doses in the next two days.
SF News Part of Moderna Vaccine Distribution to Pause in California Due to Allergic Reactions "A higher-than-usual number of possible allergic reactions were reported with a specific lot of Moderna vaccine administered at one community vaccination clinic," says California State Epidemiologist Dr. Erica S. Pan.
SF News Three Mass Vaccination Sites Opening in San Francisco; Oakland's RingCentral Coliseum to Also Become Vaccination Site With Bay Area ICU capacities now commonly sitting at single-digit percentages, the news of mass vaccination sites soon opening up across the region is a welcome update — and the three planned sites in San Francisco could collectively inoculate thousands a day.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outdoor Dining *Might* Restart In Bay Area By Second Week of February The outdoor dining era in San Francisco — and elsewhere around the Bay — might be able to resume in about three weeks, give or take, according to projections from the state on COVID-related ICU capacities.
SF News Biden Taps UCSF Prof. David Kessler to Lead Vaccine Distribution Effort UCSF professor of pedriatics, epidemiology, and biostatistics, and former FDA head Dr. David Kessler will be President-elect Joe Biden's chief science officer of COVID response in charge of vaccine science.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Now Allowing Users To Out Businesses and Restaurants for Violating COVID-19 Guidelines The San Francisco-based company synonymous with publishing crowd-sourced reviews on local businesses will now allow users to post complaints about businesses violating COVID-19 safety protocols.
SF News Mayor Breed Offers Up $62 Million More in Small Business Grants and Loans London Breed shook the tree at City Hall, and produced $50 million in loans and $12 million in grants for a very substantial small business COVID-19 economic relief package.
Bay Area Sports NBA Considers Pausing Season as COVID Cases Rise Among Players Yet another sport may see yet another inconvenient but prudent safety measure get in the way of gameplay, as we're hearing a report that the NBA is considering a one- to two-week pause in the season due to COVID-19 infections.
SF News Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Implements COVID-19 Surge Plan To Contend With Growing Cases Saturday, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) recorded over 2.6 million cases of COVID-19 in the state. Now, the Zuckerberg SF General Hospital has put in place its "COVID-19 surge plan" in response to a deluge of new hospitalizations.
SF News Rapid COVID-19 Testing Effort Beginning Sunday at 24th Street BART Plaza Among the hardest hit in San Francisco from COVID-19 continues to be Latinx community members. A new testing effort starting Sunday morning at the 24th Street BART Plaza aims to get a better grasp on the situation and gather people's sentiments around vaccination.
SF News Bay Area Adds 100,000 New COVID Cases In 25 Days It took over six months for the Bay Area to reach its first 100,000 COVID cases, and almost three months to reach 200,000 cases. But the cumulative case total is expected to reach 300,000 on Saturday, 25 days after hitting 200,000 on December 15.
SF News Bay Area Records 135 COVID Deaths In 48 Hours Much as was predicted in early December as new COVID-19 cases began to surge in Bay Area counties, a subsequent surge in deaths appears to be happening in the region now, five to six weeks on.
SF News SF Supervisors Propose $5 Per Hour Hazard Pay Bonus For Grocery Workers, But Stores Have to Pay It It’s merely a non-binding resolution “urging” grocery stores to give their workers a $5 per hour raise, but the stores are expected to foot the bill.
SF News Bay Area ICU Bed Availability Falls to 5.9%, While San Francisco's Stands at 35% SF Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax cautioned that it will be at least another week or two before we get a better picture of the impact of gatherings and holiday travel over Christmas and New Year's.
Business & Tech Small Businesses in CA Now Have Until January 13 to Apply For COVID Relief Grants The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz) announced Monday that the deadline has been extended for small businesses to apply for economic relief grants of up to $25,000.
SF News After Freezer Fails, One NorCal Town Rushes to Give Out 830 Vaccine Doses Before They Go Bad Up in Mendocino County, there was a close call on Monday after an ultra-cold freezer storing hundreds of vaccine doses failed, and doctors went into emergency-distribution mode.
SF News SF Nurse Who Barely Survived COVID Sparks Online Anger for Allegedly Attending New Year's Circuit Party A nurse who posted photos of himself last May as a warning to others about how COVID-19 had ravaged his body over the course of six weeks in the hospital has attracted negative attention after apparently posting online about attending a gay circuit event in Mexico over the New Year's Eve holiday.
SF News Bay Area ICU Capacity Reaches Record Low; Post-Thanksgiving Surge Finally Slowing Down San Francisco extended its stay-at-home order indefinitely right before the new year, citing a worrisome climb in hospitalization numbers around the Bay Area. Sunday, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) revealed the Bay Area’s current ICU capacity is now at 8.4%.
Arts & Entertainment SF Supervisor Hopes to Raise Funds From Local Billionaires to Save Nightlife Venues Supervisor Matt Haney hopes to create a nightlife fund that will attract private-sector donations so that the city doesn't lose one of its greatest cultural assets before the pandemic is through with us.
