SF News San Quentin COVID Outbreak Claims the Life of 55-Year-Old Prison Guard The outbreak at San Quentin State Prison has claimed its first life among the prison staff, and it's San Jose native Sgt. Gilbert Polanco.
SF News Young Adults Now Represent Nearly Half Of All COVID Cases In SF, Over One-Third Of Cases In California Young adults in California between the ages of 18 and 40 appear to be the primary carriers and spreaders of the virus. And while they may require hospitalization in fewer numbers than older adults, they are far from immune from the serious symptoms.
SF News California Health Secretary Says 300,000 Health Records Backlogged Because of CalREDIE Glitch Earlier this week, it was revealed a data system hiccup led to the state grossly underreporting COVID-19 cases. Yesterday, that glitch was estimated to have caused some 300,000 health records in California to go unprocessed — many of which were COVID-19 test results.
SF News Outspoken San Mateo Health Officer Calls State's Watch-List Process 'Arbitrary' and 'Misdirected' Dr. Scott Morrow, who has the distinction of being the longest-serving county health officer in the state of California, has been mincing no words from the start of the pandemic. And this is no exception.
SF News San Francisco Announces Continued Impacts From State COVID Data Reporting Tool While San Francisco's COVID patient data may be somewhat better than other counties due to a move made early in the pandemic with regard to how labs report to the city's health department, it is still seeing the impacts of statewide underreporting.
SF News New Data-Mapping Tool Estimates Chances Of Encountering a COVID-Positive Person in Any Group If you're heading out to meet a group of ten people in someone's backyard in San Francisco tonight, the chances that one of those people will be currently infected with the coronavirus is 15 percent. Raise the group number to 25, and the probability rises to 34 percent.
SF News CDC, Stanford Doctors Now Saying Workers Who Test COVID-Positive Can Return To Work After 10 Days Multiple Bay Area counties are now going to be recommending that businesses allow workers to return to work 10 days after testing positive for COVID-19, so long as they have a relatively mild case.
SF News Overwhelmed By Lab Data, State and County COVID Cases Currently Being Undercounted While other metrics like declining hospitalizations appear to show a positive trend in the pandemic in California, the current confirmed case numbers for many counties represent undercounts due to a technical issue.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Serpentine Shutters In Dogpatch; Straw Closes On Octavia; 4505 Burgers & BBQ Closes Its Oakland Spot There's a trio of permanent restaurant closures to report as we roll into the month of August and approach the sixth month of this pandemic. First up, marking the end of an era for a Dogpatch mainstay, Serpentine is closing its doors for good.
Bay Area Sports Stanford, Cal Football Players Threaten to Boycott College Football Season Over COVID-19 Concerns “Hundreds” of players from across the Pac-12 say they will not take the field unless college football cleans up its safety protocols and gives them health insurance.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations, New Cases Show Signs Of Decline Statewide In the enormous state of California — which as Governor Gavin Newsom has said before is equivalent in scale to about 20 states the size of Nebraska or Idaho — the latest surge in coronavirus cases is showing signs of abating, though that should probably only inspire some cautious optimism.
Bay Area Sports Op-Ed: Let's Play Ball? When Profit In Professional Sports Outweighs Life Living in this country during the COVID-19 pandemic is an obviously surreal experience. A case in point is the mad, profit-driven rush to resume professional sports, and what it might mean both for players, and for encouraging dangerous social gatherings among fans.
SF News Active COVID-19 Cases At San Quentin Fall to 145, With 21 Deaths After nearly 2,200 inmates at San Quentin State Prison contracted the coronavirus beginning in early June, the number of active cases in custody on Monday fell to 145, while two more deaths have been recorded.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Modoc County Confirms Its First COVID Cases A big-rig crash clogs up I-580 eastbound near Livermore, San Mateo County hair and nail salon owners lament having to close again, and the PGA Championship lands in SF on Thursday.
SF News Richmond Doctor On Non-Mask Wearers: 'Our Rights Are Going to Kill Us' At a news conference with the Contra Costa County Department of Public Health on Friday, a Richmond doctor minced no words in condemning people who won't wear masks in public spaces, and in saying he was "embarrassed" by fellow doctors who had not stepped up to treat COVID patients.
SF News SF To Open New Non-COVID Hospital Site In Presidio As Surge In Hospitalizations Looms Saying that a "huge surge" in COVID-19 hospitalizations is around the corner, SF Director of Public Health Dr. Grant Colfax announced Thursday that the city is opening up a new in-patient hospital facility in the Presidio in order to accommodate COVID-negative patients in need of acute care.
SF News California Investigating Whether COVID-19 Disproportionately Affects LGBTQ Community The state will start reporting sexual orientation and gender identity in its COVID-19 counts, as LGBTQ activists suspect their community is particularly hard-hit.
SF News SF Doctor With 25 Years Experience In the ER Says Volunteering At Texas Hospital Was 'Overwhelming' A San Francisco ER doctor has spent a week volunteering in makeshift intensive-care units at a hospital in Brownsville, Texas, and in an interview with ABC7, he says it's been the hardest week of his career.
SF News Workout Studios and Boutique Gyms In San Francisco Push Back On Reopening Delay A group of small boutique gyms with personalized fitness training are demanding to see scientific evidence supporting San Francisco officials' reasoning for keeping their doors closed during the ongoing public health orders.
SF News SF Catholic Priest Implores Congregants to Come to Mass, Says COVID News Reports Are 'Largely Unreal' While evangelical churches and multiple denominations have been called out around the country and in California for encouraging people to gather for worship in spite of public health orders, it's the Catholic Church in San Francisco that appears to be the biggest problem.
SF News Sonoma County Records Seven New COVID Deaths In Nursing Homes Sonoma County had its single biggest one-day leap in its COVID death count late Tuesday when it recorded seven new deaths from the coronavirus, all in skilled nursing facilities.
SF News Free COVID Testing Offered for LatinX Community at 24th Street BART As part of a study and in an outreach effort aimed at the San Francisco community hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, free, fast testing will be offered two days a week at the 24th Street & Mission BART station.
SF News Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Remove Video of 'Doctors' Who Were Denouncing Masks, Promoting Hydroxychloroquine A video of some doctors broadcasting from in front of the Supreme Court building and making spurious claims about the COVID-19 pandemic — which the president of course retweeted — has been removed by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube citing their policies on misinformation.
SF News Pandemic Updates: Bay Area Hits 49,000 Cases A few updates for this pandemic Monday: a study suggests that there are six "types" of COVID infections, UCSF has a paper about everything doctors have learned so far about treating COVID-19, and the Bay Area added over 700 new cases today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Tightens Mask-Wearing Orders to Include Parks, Outdoor Dining (While Not Actively Eating) The latest public health order from the city has been expanded to "all fluid situations where distances between people change frequently."
