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."
SF News Bay Area Has Its Worst Week Yet With 170 New COVID Hospitalizations, 54 Deaths, Over 5,600 New Cases With most of the data in for the nine counties in the Bay Area, this has officially been the worst week to date in this pandemic for COVID hospitalizations in the region, and likely the deadliest.
SF News San Francisco Hairstylists Not Psyched To Be Cutting Hair On Sidewalk With Wind, Fog, Homeless While it's fine and well for more temperate, inland parts of the state where parking lots are the norm, it's not going to be feasible for a lot of salons to do business outside in SF's less quiet neighborhoods.
SF News California Sees 12,800 New COVID Cases In One Day, 10 Percent Positivity Rate; 500 New Cases In East Bay Alone The state of California just overtook New York for the most cumulative coronavirus cases, and broke its one-day record for new cases with 12,807 in one 24-hour period. And over 500 new cases were just added in two East Bay counties.
SF News UC Berkeley Reverts To Online-Only Classes After Frat Party Outbreak and a Local COVID-19 Spike "After weeks of developing a very elaborate plan for a hybrid model in the fall, we decided after we had a serious fraternity outbreak, that it was just too risky to teach face to face," said UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ in a letter to students on Tuesday.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pfizer Gets $2B Vaccine Contract Twitter is booting all QAnon conspiracists off the platform, BART just gave out raises despite budget woes, and Pfizer just got a federal contract to produce 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, pending approvals.
SF News UCSF Med School Chair Suggests Hope For San Francisco In Avoiding Explosive COVID Surge While surging cases in the Bay Area concern Dr. Bob Wachter somewhat, he strikes a hopeful note here in mid-July that San Francisco will escape the high mortality rate and overwhelmed healthcare system being seen elsewhere in the country.
SF News You Can Now Get a Massage, Manicure, or Haircut in California If It's Outdoors Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled some revised rules around barbershops, hair and nail salons, and massage parlors on Monday, allowing them to offer services outdoors.
SF News 170 People Possibly Infected With COVID in Yosemite Valley After Virus Found in Sewage The great outdoors is hailed as a recreational safe haven amid the pandemic. But after Mariposa County health officials shipped samples of untreated local wastewater to a Massachusetts lab for analysis, the yielded results show 170 people might have been infected in Yosemite Valley.
SF News Newsom Orders Schools To Stay Closed In Watch List Counties, Setting Up Battle With Orange County Newsom says that counties that have been on the state's monitoring list for 14 days due to rising COVID metrics must do distance learning only at the beginning of the school year next month.
SF News DiFi to Non-Mask-Wearing States: 'No More Federal Stimulus For You' Senator Dianne Feinstein just pulled a very Dianne Feinstein move, announcing a proposed amendment to the next federal stimulus package that would withhold money from states where face masks in public are not yet mandatory.
SF News Nationwide Retail Chains Make Masks Mandatory; Benioff Wants Unmasked People to Be Fined Walmart, Target, Starbucks, and a long list of other national chains are ignoring the culture war and requiring face coverings, and even Trump’s top toady at the CDC is now on the mandatory mask bandwagon.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Vents to 'Vogue' About White Progressives, and Those Protesters Who Came to Her House The interview covers a range of topics, including the needs of the Black community in San Francisco, her frustration with the mostly white progressives she encounters in local politics, and handling the ongoing pandemic in San Francisco and its large homeless population.
SF News First Coronavirus Vaccine From Massachusetts Firm Releases Highly Promising Phase 1 Results The first coronavirus vaccine we wrote about back on March 17, developed by Massachusetts-based biotech firm Moderna, is already in its second phase of testing and about to enter its third later this month. And a report on the first phase is being called a "triumph" by one Stanford expert.
SF News Day Around the Bay: COVID Hospitalizations Hit New Bay Area Peak An SFPD officer suspected of domestic violence and sexual assault in San Mateo County will not be prosecuted, California may shift its COVID testing strategy, and the Bay Area just hit a new record of hospitalizations with 673.
Business & Tech Airbnb Gets Dragged For Asking People To Donate Cash To Homeowner Hosts It certainly isn't the first utterly tone-deaf thing that Airbnb has done as a company, but amid a global pandemic and recession, it seems wildly inappropriate and dumb to be asking customers to pad the pockets of hosts — i.e. homeowners — who are suddenly out their side income.
SF News Trump Administration To Bypass CDC With COVID-19 Data, Raising Alarm Bells About Distortion of Numbers The Trump administration has issued an order to hospitals to begin reporting their COVID-19 patient data directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), bypassing the politically neutral Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Louis' Diner at Lands End To Close After 83 Years Another SF icon, albeit a humble one, is biting the dust after 83 years of continuous business. The owners of Louis' Restaurant at Lands End, perched above the Sutro Baths around the bend from the Cliff House, announced Monday that they are closing permanently.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dominique Crenn Says Restaurant Industry Is 'Kaput' Sup. Matt Haney's proposal to create a new Department of Street Cleaning moves forward, a new UCSF study finds that young people have a 1 in 3 chance of having a serious COVID case, and the Bay Area is starting to see serious testing delays.
SF News Health Director Predicts Between 900 and 3,000 COVID Deaths In SF By Year's End Without Infection Slowdown As the city of San Francisco approaches its 5,000th confirmed case of COVID-19, likely sometime this week, Mayor London Breed and Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax issued some grim predictions for the second half of the year, if infections don't slow down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newsom Issues New Statewide Order Closing All Indoor Restaurants and Bars, Makes Further Mandates For Watch List Governor Gavin Newsom just issued a broad, statewide order covering counties both on and off the public health department's watch list, ordering many reopened businesses to close once more.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Lawsuit Against Insurer Who Denied Pandemic Claim Could Become National Case Earlier this week, iconic Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse filed suit against its insurance company for denying a vital interruption-of-business claim. Founder and owner Alice Waters says she wouldn't be going to court unless this were a serious matter.
SF News Nurses At SF Hospitals Should Be Getting Regular COVID Tests. Why Aren't They? A spike in COVID-19 cases is happening among the staff at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital, and neither there nor at Kaiser Permanente's hospital in San Francisco are nurses who deal with COVID-positive patients getting mandatory, regular tests themselves. Why?
SF News San Francisco Sees Post-Holiday Spike With 171 New COVID Cases In One Day Once Thursday's numbers were in, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) reported a jump in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city of 171 — a 4-percent uptick and two and a half times higher than the average daily new case count of the last two weeks.
