SF News Highly Suspicious COVID-19 Antibody Testing Site Raises Scam Concerns in San Jose A company called TestMe2 is charging $150 a pop for coronavirus antibody tests that have been rejected by the FDA, and not returning results for a month or longer, among many other red flags.
SF Politics SFMTA Reaches Truce With Supes, Agrees to No Muni Fare Increases for Two Years SF Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce that they have reached an agreement with SFMTA leadership to halt all Muni fare increases for two years.
SF News Alameda County COVID-19 Cases Double in One Month As Other Bay Area County Counts Have Slowed As a result of a surge in cases in Alameda County — 100 percent growth in 30 days — health officials are holding off on allowing any outdoor dining for two to four weeks.
SF News Frontline BART Worker Tests Positive for COVID-19 A third BART employee, this time a frontline worker, has tested positive for COVID-19, and BART says that the worker did not interact "closely" with riders, had been masked on the job, and has been sent home to self-isolate.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Extend Eviction Moratorium Indefinitely The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to extend the pandemic-related eviction moratorium for residential tenants in the city past the July sunset timeframe that was initially approved in March. And an SF lawmaker is introducing a similar statewide measure on Wednesday in Sacramento.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Tenderloin Dive Aunt Charlie's Saved By Crowdfunding A crowdfunding campaign that set out to raise $100,000 last week to save Aunt Charlie's Lounge succeeded in reaching its goal within just a week, and on Monday there was a socially distant drag show on the sidewalk outside to celebrate.
SF News Sure Enough, COVID-19 Outbreak Hits Tesla Plants After Elon Musk Defies Local Orders We don’t know how many of the 10,000 workers at the Fremont Tesla plant tested positive for coronavirus, but media reports describe the number as “several.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As Outdoor Dining Resumes In SF Friday, Bars Ask City to OK July Reopenings Mayor London Breed gave the green light Tuesday for San Francisco restaurants to begin outdoor, sit-down dining on Friday, three days ahead of the previously announced date of June 15. And a petition by local bar owners is seeking an accelerated schedule for their reopening as well.
SF News Pandemic Updates: 10 New Bay Area Deaths, Study Finds Multiple Virus Entries In CA, and WHO Downplays Asymptomatic Spread In pandemic news Tuesday there is a mix of good and bad, and an interesting new study looking at the genetics of multiple SARS-CoV-2 strains that entered California at the beginning of the year. And new cases aren't exactly slowing down locally.
SF News Berkeley Study Suggests Social-Distancing Measures Prevented 530 Million COVID-19 Infections By April A new peer-reviewed study has found that public health orders to enforce social distancing have saved an untold number of lives and likely prevented around 530 million COVID-19 transmissions across six countries.
SF News UCSF Testing Effort Welcomes Hundreds for Free COVID-19 Screening in Bayview-Hunters Point Unsheltered residents in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood — which has the city's second-highest homeless population — flocked to the United Council of Human Services' Mother Brown’s Dining Room on Saturday for free barbeque, music, and COVID-19 testing organized by UCSF.
SF News SF Opens Pop-Up COVID Testing Site Specifically for Protesters San Francisco has opened a new free testing site as St. Mary's Cathedral (1111 Gough Street) specifically for people who have attended protests, no symptoms required.
SF News Passengers From Grand Princess Mexico Cruise Sue Company for Negligence In the second lawsuit to be filed by passengers aboard a Princess Cruise Lines cruise from San Francisco who were exposed to the coronavirus, passengers who sailed from SF to Mexico and back in mid-February are suing the company for negligence.
SF News Photo: Is This What SF Office Life In a Pandemic Is Going to Look Like? Two people per elevator, each facing a corner, and one at a time in all restrooms — these are just two of the things downtown office workers are likely looking forward to as San Francisco companies begin to reopen office spaces.
SF News UCSF Doctor 'Persistently Positive' For COVID-19 After Three Months 66-year-old UCSF medical director Dr. Coleen Kivlahan is one of 60 UCSF medical professionals who have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, but she's the only one who has not recovered and who continues to test positive for the virus nearly 90 days after she believes she caught it.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Organizers Stay Mum As Coachella Is Rumored to Be Skipping 2020 Altogether There's been no official update from Another Planet Entertainment, the promoters behind the annual Outside Lands music festival in Golden Gate Park. But at this point it seems clear that August is off the table, and a postponement to fall might not be in the cards either.
Arts & Entertainment Most of Broadway SF's Theater Season Moved to 2021, Including 'Oklahoma!' and 'Moulin Rouge!' They're still calling it the 2020-21 season, but all of the slated BroadwaySF shows will run in 2021, with some sticking to their originally scheduled slots and others postponed to slightly later runs.
Arts & Entertainment AMC Theatres In Danger of Complete Financial Collapse In a regulatory filing today, AMC Theatres says that it has "substantial doubt" it will be able to continue operations this year even after sheltering restrictions are lifted and cinemas are allowed to reopen.
SF News Health Experts, Governors Fear Mid-June Spike In COVID-19 Cases From Protests Four consecutive days of nationwide protests, with protesters numbering in the tens of thousands in some cities — some masked, some not — have health experts and state and city leaders worried about a spike in new COVID-19 cases in the next two weeks.
SF News As Shelter-In-Place Restrictions Relax, Traffic Returns to San Francisco With "Phase 2A" of the City’s reopening plan beginning Monday — after weeks of marginal lifts on its shelter-in-place order — another reality of urban life is slowly, but surely, making a comeback: downtown traffic.
SF News Sonoma County Sheriff Decides to Take Trumpian Stand Against Public Health Orders Because 'Freedom' The sheriff up in Sonoma County would like everyone to know that he stands for freedom, and he's frankly tired of all this science mumbo jumbo that's keeping him from getting a haircut, or whatever.
SF News East Oakland Quickly Becoming Hardest Hit COVID-19 Hot Spot In the Bay Area The Fruitvale zip code, 94601, has one of the highest per capita rates of COVID-19 cases in the Bay Area, and today we learn that 12 workers at the Fruitvale location of Cardenas Markets have tested positive for the virus.
SF News Starting This Weekend, San Franciscans Must Wear Masks Everywhere Under the latest health order from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, city residents are being required to wear masks everywhere outside their homes, with few exceptions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Says SF Restaurants Can Resume Outdoor Dining June 15; Bars, Nail Salons and Gyms Can Reopen Mid-August Mayor London Breed laid out specific timeframes for the next phases of San Francisco's reopening of businesses on Thursday, and for the first time restaurants, bars, hair salons, and gyms have some target dates to resume semi-regular business.
SF News New Study Rewrites the Timeline Of When COVID-19 Began Spreading In Washington State Disagreement and uncertainty in the scientific community have been playing out in unusually public ways in these early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. And now we have a study about the timelines of transmission in the U.S. and Europe that upends several previous scientific assertions.
