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.
SF News Haight Neighborhood Group Sues City Over Sanctioned Homeless Camp A group calling themselves Concerned Citizens of the Haight is suing the City of San Francisco in federal court over a sanctioned "Safe Sleeping Village" that is set to open Friday on the former McDonald's lot at Haight and Stanyan.
SF News BART's 15-Point 'Welcome Back' Plan Includes Personal Hand Straps, Electrostatic Fog Treatments As BART prepares for some of its pre-pandemic ridership to return, agency management today unveiled a 15-point plan to keep riders as safe and as socially distanced as possible on a public transit system.
SF News COVID-19 Outbreak Hits Fish Packing Plant in Santa Clara County Nearly 40 cases of coronavirus have been traced to the Lusamerica Fish Company in Morgan Hill, and employees’ relatives charge that the company kept it under wraps.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist To Reopen For Takeout Bloodies and Margaritas, Will Remove Picnic Tables The Mission's 43-year-old beer garden Zeitgeist is about to reemerge from its pandemic slumber, and as many drinkers around SF are starting to realize, it's venues like this with big outdoor spaces that are going to luck out, business-wise, in the coming months.
SF News SF Among 11 California Counties Not Moving Into 'Phase 2.5' Yet Governor Gavin Newsom began teasing out more details about California's reopening timeline, which will be pushing forward this week for 47 of the state's 58 counties with the reopening of restaurants, barbershops, and hair salons, with modifications. SF is not one of them.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mayor Issues Order Allowing Restaurants to Take Over Sidewalks and Parking Spaces Once dining in restaurants is again permitted in the city of San Francisco, restaurants will be able to set up outdoor seating on sidewalks, in alleys, and in street-parking spaces under a new, expedited permit program announced by Mayor London Breed on Tuesday.
SF News Alameda County Overtakes Santa Clara For Most COVID Cases, Adds 280 Over Holiday Weekend Over the holiday weekend, Alameda County overtook Santa Clara County in its cumulative tally of COVID-19 cases as new cases appear to be growing faster in the East Bay this month than elsewhere in the region.
SF News Black Bay Area Ministers Hold 'Socially Distanced Sermon' In Support of Church Closures, Call for More Testing On the steps at San Francisco City Hall, ten of the Bay Area's leading black ministers held a "socially distanced sermon" Memorial Day afternoon, advocating for churchgoers to uphold social distancing practices — and continue "worshiping in place."
SF News Racist East Bay Letter Writer Arrested By San Leandro Police; Released Due to Backed-Up Bail Schedule 52-year-old Nancy Arechiga was apprehended by San Leandro police in relation to a number of xenophobic notes posted at the homes of East Bay Asian Americans, as well as in nearby public places, though she was later released due to the state’s backed-up bail schedule caused by the pandemic.
SF Politics Report: Half of the #Reopen Crowd on Twitter are Probably Bots A Carnegie Mellon University analysis found that 82 percent of the most influential COVID-19 retweeters are bots, and that bots comprise about half of the Twitter accounts that are crowing “Reopen America.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Tavern and Blind Cat Shutter in the Mission, Bringing an End to a Dive Bar Mini-Empire Today in bar casualties from the pandemic we have Thieves Tavern and Blind Cat, the last two dive-y spots in what was once a four-bar empire owned and operated by Paul Bavaro.
SF News SF Adds 122 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In Biggest Single-Day Jump Yet As testing has become more widespread, we have expected to see jumps in the number of new cases. But apart from a one-day, 6-percent jump on May 5 when 104 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed, the numbers of new cases found have not jumped so significantly day to day.
SF News San Francisco Man Reunites With Family After 61 Days In UCSF's COVID Unit Ron Temko says he was "one breath away from death" at more than one point during his two-month stay at UCSF Parnassus, suffering a severe and nearly fatal case of COVID-19.
SF News SFMTA Unveils Plan For More 'Slow Streets'; Muni Chief Discusses the Future of Public Transit on NPR The SFMTA has just published its amended plan for temporarily closing more city streets to vehicle traffic in order to allow more freedom for pedestrians, runners, and cyclists to occupy the roadway.
SF News USC Study Finds Even Greater Coronavirus Antibody Prevalence In LA Than Santa Clara Study A study that tested 863 Los Angeles County residents last month found that 4 percent of them carried antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 — and 60 percent of those who had been exposed to the virus were entirely asymptomatic.
SF News California Suffers Deadliest COVID-19 Day Yet, But Newsom Lowers Bar for Counties to Reopen Gavin Newsom eased the standards counties must meet for reopening, but then Tuesday the state reported the most coronavirus deaths of any day yet.
SF News Dolores Park Gets Dotted With Social-Distance Guidance Circles For all those looking to squeeze in to an already crowded Dolores Park this spring and summer, Rec & Parks has done us the solid of painting circles on the grass to show people how far apart they need to be to maintain pandemic-resilient social distance.
SF News DOJ Civil Rights Official Says Newsom's Reopening Plan Discriminates Against Churches A Department of Justice official has written Newsom a strongly worded letter suggesting that the state's reopening timeline violates the civil rights of the faithful and represents "unequal treatment of faith communities" because of the imposed delay on reopening places of worship.
SF News San Francisco Nurse Shares Photos After Eight Weeks In Hospital With COVID-19 With no underlying conditions, Schultz thought that his age and fitness level would save him if he became infected. But now, after being intubated for four weeks and just out of the hospital last week after 57 days, he's been wanting to get the word out that no one should feel safe from this virus.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Gets an Artists' Pandemic Relief Fund Too, to the Tune of $625,000 East Bay and Oakland artists can get up to $2,000 apiece in unrestricted grant money, in a program from the same nonprofit that gave COVID-19 artists grants in SF.
Arts & Entertainment SF Nightlife Operators Look Ahead to Outdoor Shows, Local Acts, and Telling Unmasked People to 'Get the F**k Out' The year (or two) ahead for San Francisco nightlife venues is full of unknowns, but during a virtual summit on Monday, nightlife operators gave reason for optimism for the city to have a much-needed reset from all this.
SF News Oakland Couple Together 34 Years Shares Harrowing Story Of Surviving COVID-19 Kevin and Martin Jones met in 1986 at The Stud in San Francisco. In March, when Kevin returned from a trip to Paris and almost immediately came down with COVID-19 symptoms, he walked into an Oakland hospital and his partner of 34 years thought he might never walk out.
SF Politics Trump Spends Morning Tweeting About Transit Funds That Were Announced a Month Ago In an effort to change the conversation away from his moronic decision to take the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to fend off the coronavirus, President Trump was on Twitter this morning "announcing" month-old transit funding allocations from the CARES Act.
