SF News Pandemic Updates: Hospitalizations Return to Mid-September Levels; Santa Clara County Warns of Surge COVID hospitalizations are once again on the rise across the Bay Area, with clear upticks visible in the East Bay and in Santa Clara County as we big this first post-election week.
SF News Biden Names Three UCSF Docs to Pandemic Task Force The Biden Administration is beginning to take shape already, and the president-elect has said he wants to make tackling the COVID-19 pandemic his number-one priority.
SF News Bay Area May Tell Inbound Travelers to Quarantine For 14 Days Health officers in the nine Bay Area counties will be meeting Thursday to discuss possibly instituting a 14-day quarantine rule for all those traveling here from parts of the country that are experiencing surges in COVID-19 cases — similar to one instituted in New York State.
SF News Contra Costa Becomes First Bay Area County to Roll Back Reopening Rules As It Faces Backward Slide to 'Red' Tier Contra Costa County public health officials announced Wednesday that the county would be ratcheting back its rules on some higher risk business activities, decreasing capacity for restaurants and movie theaters as it faces a possible move back to "Red" tier status next week.
SF Politics Trump Rallies Caused 30,000 COVID-19 Cases, 700 Deaths, Stanford Study Finds Stanford researchers ran the numbers and linked Trump rallies to 700 deaths, with the depressing kicker that these were “not necessarily among attendees.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noting Very Small Growth In COVID Cases, San Francisco Hits Pause On Further Reopenings Any hopes that restaurants had of increasing indoor capacity to 50 percent next week are now dashed, but it may still happen in a few weeks if cases go down.
SF News Solano County Patient Has COVID-19/Flu Co-Infection, ‘Twin-demic’ Fears Grow A handful of people in the country have contracted coronavirus and the flu simultaneously, one here in the Bay Area, and the double-whammy co-infection threat is real.
SF Politics Hotels-for-Homeless Program Begins Wind-Down Next Week With 500 Moving Out San Francisco's lauded but temporary program of housing vulnerable and elderly homeless individuals in hotel rooms during the pandemic is set to wind down over the next seven to eight months, and next week the first wave of hotel closures begins.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Vote to Pay Up to 65% of Unpaid Back Rent to Landlords Back rent is piling up under the eviction moratorium, so the Board voted Tuesday that the city would pay between 50-65% of it for qualifying tenants and landlords.
SF News Alameda County Says Middle and High Schools Can Reopen After November 9 Two weeks after it advanced to the state's "Orange" tier, Alameda County announced that middle schools and high schools may reopen on or after November 9, with restrictions.
SF News Humpday Headlines: COVID Outbreak Infects At Least Five at UCSF Hospital Two patients and at least three healthcare workers in one unit at UCSF Parnassus have tested for COVID-19, Fairfield police are seeking a suspect in a hit-and-run that killed an 81-year-old, and PG&E issues the "all clear" for those who lost power.
SF News Bay Area Sees Slight Uptick In COVID Case Counts, Hospitalizations as Three More Counties Enter 'Orange' Tier The Bay Area isn't seeing anything close to what some other states and regions are seeing, and hopefully we will not as flu season arrives. However there are at least small signs of a slight uptick in cases outside of San Francisco in the past week.
SF News Muni Rider Details Comedy of Errors As Bus Driver Attempts to Keep From Picking Up More Than 30 Passengers In normal times, it can be hard for a Muni bus driver to skip stops when they have an over-full load of passengers while also letting people off where there need to get off. But add a pandemic to that and it's even more impossible.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco to Allow 50% Capacity In Restaurants, Outdoor Bars Without Food As It Becomes First Bay Area County to Enter 'Yellow' Tier On Tuesday, Mayor London Breed announced that the city and county of San Francisco had moved into the least restrictive "yellow" tier in the state's reopening framework, and if numbers stay low more businesses will get to reopen in two weeks.
SF News Angry White Lady In Saratoga Kicks Door, Throws Fit When Neighbor's House Is Used For Gender-Reveal Party Another 'Karen' moment was caught on camera over the weekend in the South Bay, only this time the Karen in question was not an anti-masker or BLM mural objector, but a righteous neighbor claiming that a party in her midst was "illegal."
Business & Tech Local Experts Question WHO Study That Called Into Question the Effectiveness Of Remdesivir for COVID Patients The results of a study released Friday prior to being peer-reviewed are alarming some Bay Area infectious disease specialists because they may mislead other doctors or the public.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Will Pay Artists $1,000 Per Month 'Basic Income' Stipend in Pilot Program Tucked into a report last week are some details about a pilot program that had not previously been publicized, providing stipends to a group of qualified artists in the city to help them survive through the pandemic crisis.
SF News Alameda County Moves to 'Orange' Tier But Will Not Open Indoor Dining Yet; Santa Clara County to Allow 25% Capacity Both Alameda and Santa Clara County moved into the state's "orange" tier status for pandemic reopening, joining San Francisco in the second-least severe group of counties with only "moderate" virus spread.
SF News Covidiot Files: Trumper Yoga Studio in Pacifica Advertising ‘Mask Free’ Classes The MAGA-yoga connection apparently exists, and a hot yoga studio could be in hot water for “mask free” classes flouting health restrictions.
SF News SF & Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Return to June Lows as Case Counts Stabilize There's been a lot of other horrors in the news lately. But in terms of COVID case counts, virus spread, and hospitalizations, it's been mostly good news in the Bay Area since mid-September.
Arts & Entertainment Movie Theaters In San Francisco Refuse to Reopen Under City Rules Banning All Concessions A coalition that includes the city's biggest and most popular cinemas says the theater owners are keeping their doors closed until the city allows them to sell food and drinks, which are their money-makers.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Says Pandemic to Blame For Major Uptick In Homicides Oakland is on track to record more homicides this year than in any of the last five years, and the reason for the steep jump in gun violence is directly correlated to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the city's interim police chief.
SF Politics SF Public Health Director to Trump: Your Flagrant Disregard For Science Has Caught Up With You SF's Department of Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax minced no words in reacting to President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis, which was revealed late Thursday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 17-Year-Old Oakland Restaurant Dopo Closes; Owners Say Government Failed Them Beloved Piedmont Avenue Italian spot Dopo will serve its last lasagna on Saturday, and the owners say that not enough has been done by federal, state, and local governments to prevent a mass die-off of restaurants.
SF News Two New Infections Appear at San Quentin and Two More Inmates Die Of COVID-19 The COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin State Prison was largely contained over a month ago, with no new infections detected for weeks on end. But according to new data from the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), that may be changing.
