SF News Hey Chatty Cathys: Talking To Strangers In Grocery Stores Helps Spread COVID There is public health advice, from experts, confirming that unnecessary chit-chat in public can actually be deadly, even with masks on.
SF News SF Gym Owners Call Out City For Allowing City-Worker Gyms to Open When They Can't Indoor gyms that serve San Francisco police officers and other government employees have reopened for workouts for limited numbers of people at a time, and San Francisco gym and fitness studio owners are decrying this as hypocritical when they are forced to remain closed.
SF Politics Fresno-Based Salon Owner Behind Leak Of Maskless Pelosi Photo At SF Hair Salon A Fresno-based hair stylist and salon owner says she was "outraged" when one of her freelance stylists told her she would be accepting a blowout appointment with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the Union Street salon she owns. And that's why she released surveillance footage of Pelosi to Fox News.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Public Health Director: Indoor Dining Not Happening Anytime Soon As expected, Mayor London Breed and Dr. Grant Colfax gave their latest updates today on businesses that are allowed to reopen under public health orders, with September 1 being the latest goalpost for certain categories of businesses.
SF News Pandemic Updates: Bay Area Hospitalizations Drop; SF Restaurateurs Confused By New State Rating System The number of COVID-positive hospitalized patients in the Bay Area declined 27 percent in the month of August, but August was the deadliest month so far in the region since the pandemic began.
SF News SF's Watch-List Rating Improves As Newsom Unveils Color-Coded Rating Thing to Replace County Watch List In his public address today updating the state on its double-disaster fire/pandemic situation, Governor Gavin Newsom focused on improving how the state is handling its county "watch list" messaging — and slightly altering how the latest reopening guidance is going to work, going forward.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Half Of SF Restaurants Are Non-Operational, Restaurant Receipts Down 84 Percent, According to Credit Card Data Outdoor dining and takeout still only amount to a fraction of the number of meals these restaurants would have been serving nightly during normal times.
Arts & Entertainment Mission's Carnaval Becomes Job Fair and COVID-Testing Event This year's Carnaval in the Mission, moved from Memorial Day to Labor Day weekend, will look a lot different than most years, but there may be a few dancers passing through.
SF News Newsom Enacts New Fire Shelter Strategies to Avoid COVID-19 Outbreaks We’re now feeling the full fury of coronavirus and wildfire crises happening at the same time, and the state is scrambling to make sure COVID outbreaks don’t hit thousands of shelter evacuees.
SF News First COVID Rapid-Testing Site For Airport Workers In the U.S. Comes to SFO San Francisco International Airport just became the first airport in the U.S. to offer rapid COVID-19 testing to all airport and airline employees, with results in an hour or less.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man To Fire Up Online Shows and Apps, But Nevada Preparing for Crashers Anyway Burners are madly coding away to create a suite of “Multiverse” experiences in lieu of their annual bacchanalia, but the feds are keeping an eye on whether some of them will just show up at the Black Rock Desert anyway.
SF News It Took Three Months For The Bay Area to Reach 25,000 COVID Cases, and Six Weeks For That Number To Triple The mind-numbing daily updates about the coronavirus have become, at this point, a lot of noise to many people — even though there are actual human lives behind each number. Still, certain figures are striking when you look back at the data.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Officials Order Removal Of Hashiri's Dining Domes On Mint Plaza Due to COVID Transmission Risk It looks like a high-end SF Japanese restaurant's attempt at preserving the fine dining experience via outdoor plastic domes — and preventing panhandlers or other wanderers from bothering diners — is a violation of local pandemic health orders.
SF News SF Jury Trials Are Back Underway, With First Verdict Now Rendered You’re officially now at risk of being called in to jury duty again, as transparent masks, Zoom, and tiny jury pools have the wheels of justice turning once more.
SF News American Airlines Passenger From LA Arrested After Striking Gate Agent Over a Demand to Wear a Face Mask After being denied permission to board a connecting American Airlines flight at a Phoenix airport Wednesday, Los Angeles local Yolanda Yarbrough allegedly struck a gate agent in the face — and was later arrested by Phoenix police on “suspicion of assault.”
SF News Pandemic Updates: Bay Area Hospitalizations Drop While SF's Tick Upwards Between Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties alone, 1,123 new cases were added to the Bay Area's cumulative total today, and Friday's increase is the biggest one-day uptick in the region since mid-July.
SF News Tahoe Residents Plan Weekend Protest Telling Tourists To Stay Home In what's likely to be a futile effort to discourage people from coming to Lake Tahoe from outside the area this summer, some residents of South Lake Tahoe are planning a demonstration Friday afternoon.
SF News Don't Go to the Dentist Just Yet, Warns the World Health Organization The World Health Organization has issued a new recommendation regarding dental offices, and it doesn't bode well for the dental profession this year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Documented Cases of Restaurant Transmission of Coronavirus Could Further Delay Indoor Dining Data is beginning to emerge from contact tracing in states where indoor dining and drinking has resumed that proves that restaurants and bars can become vectors for spreading COVID-19, spelling bad news for the hospitality industry as a whole.
SF News Two Out Of Five COVID-Positive People May Be Asymptomatic Due to Other Coronaviruses In the Past The estimates have changed over time, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now saying that some 40 percent of COVID-infected people will be asymptomatic or only mildly symptomatic. This is up from a CDC estimate of 25 percent back in April.
SF News Breed Allocates Nearly Half a Billion Dollars to Fight COVID-19 In New Budget The mayor sets aside $446 million for coronavirus relief and services, but that’s contingent on no “second surge” of infections, and full reimbursement that the federal government has promised.
SF News A Legacy Of LGBTQ Activism and Medical Smarts Helped Spare San Francisco From the Worst of COVID A look back at the last 45 years of San Francisco's history yields several key moments that can be traced directly forward to the city's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SF News London Breed Says She's Celebrating Her Birthday On Zoom As SF Remains In COVID 'Red Zone' Family and friend gatherings, and birthday parties, remain some of the main points of COVID transmission according to San Francisco contact tracers. And thus Mayor London Breed says she'll be celebrating her birthday today in a socially distanced fashion.
SF News That Neck Gaiter/Bandana Is Not Protecting Anyone From Your Droplets People wearing neck gaiters or bandanas as face coverings may be doing more harm than good if they are infected with the coronavirus, according to a new study on mask effectiveness.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF Tests Two-Drug COVID Therapy They Hope Will Be 'Golden Ticket' Santa Clara County just added 740 COVID cases likely as a result of the state backlog, two Stanislaus County residents were arrested for an April murder in SF, and UCSF hopes that remdesivir and the anti-inflammatory interferon will be the "golden ticket" in treating COVID patients.
