SF News Current COVID Surge Likely As Large or Larger Than Winter Omicron Surge According to wastewater testing in the Bay Area, the amount of COVID virus in circulation in July is up at levels not seen since January — the numbers just aren't being reflected in official case counts because no one is getting PCR-tested.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Climb Back to February Levels In Bay Area and California; Cases May Be Headed For Another Peak Hospitalizations continue rising, driven by the May and June surge of Omicron variants in the Bay Area and beyond. And case counts, though unreliable, still paint a picture of continued or accelerating surging.
SF News BA.5 Omicron Sub-Variant So Infectious It’s Dispensing With the Notion of Immunity for the Vaccinated and Recently Infected We’ve always thought that fully vaccinated and recently infected had a “hybrid immunity” that shielded people from reinfections, but the BA.5 Omicron sub-variant is so infectious that its throwing that adage out the window.
SF News Mayor London Breed Has COVID, Will Be Sidelined For SF Pride Festivities Mayor London Breed has tested positive for COVID, like nearly every elected official in the last couple of months, and this means she will be quarantining on Pride Weekend.
SF News Early June RSA Conference at Moscone Reportedly a ‘Hotbed for COVID-19,’ Attendees Call It ‘Super Spreader Event’ The “risk professionals” at a recent SF security conference may not have factored in the risk of a largely maskless event at the height of an Omicron surge, as hundreds of attendees say they caught the virus while networking to battle computer viruses.
SF News Humpday Headlines: California Marks One Year Since Pandemic 'Reopening' Depressingly, it's been one year since California "reopened" and declared the pandemic nearly over; an hours-long standoff ended in five arrests for child endangerment in Campbell; and two Bay Area counties see their COVID numbers spike again.
SF News San Francisco's Daily COVID Case Numbers Begin to Fall, But Test-Positivity Rate Remains High This latest Omicron-subvariant surge may have peaked in SF in the last week or so, as was predicted by infectious disease modeling. But the city's rate of new COVID tests coming back positive was the highest it's been since January.
SF News Wow, This Sucks: Bay Area Woman Has Been Stuck on Cargo Ship in China for Four Months Vallejo Maritime Academy grad Madeleine Wolczko has been unable to leave a ship stuck near Shanghai for more than four months, as China’s COVID lockdowns have restricted the whole crew to being stuck on board.
SF News Alameda County Opts to Require Masks Again In Most Indoor Settings — Is Anyone Really Listening? As the latest COVID surge persists, with hospitalizations and cases seemingly not yet a crest in Alameda County, county Health Officer Dr. Nicholas Moss has reinstated a broad mask mandate that we haven't seen the likes of for several months.
SF News Dr. Monica Gandhi: Models Suggest Current COVID Surge Will Be Over By Pride Weekend Good news for Pride revelry! Even though the current uptick in COVID cases doesn't seem to be stopping anyone relatively young from partying right now, one local infectious disease expert says that the surge should peak in the next week or so if it hasn't already, and be over by late June.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations in California Up 100% From Mid-April Low; Bay Area Returns to Early March Levels Hospitalizations of patients with COVID-19 — some of whom may have been hospitalized for another ailment and happened to be COVID-positive — have ticked back up across California as a result of the latest surge.
SF News They’re Back — Indoor Mask Mandates Return to Berkeley Schools, In What May Be the Shape of Things to Come Hoping to just make it through the rest of the school year without further COVID catastrophes, Berkeley Unified School District puts the indoor mask mandate back on.
SF News Bay Area Health Officers Issue New Statement Strongly Urging Mask-Wearing Indoors Amid Uptick In Hospitalizations COVID hospitalizations in the Bay Area ticked above the 500 mark for the first time since early March on Thursday, and daily new case counts continue to be high in San Francisco and elsewhere around the region amid the BA.2 surge.
SF News Bay Area Scientists Sound the Alarm That Omicron Subvariants Are Reinfecting People Like Mad SF wastewater data indicate COVID-19 infections may have doubled in the last two weeks, as new variant “sublineages” are finding ever-new ways to evade the antibodies.
SF News UCSF's Dr. Wachter on COVID Watch After Wife Tests Positive While Traveling One of our local pandemic-era soothsayers, UCSF Medical School's Dr. Bob Wachter, may soon be dealing with his own bout of COVID-19 for the first time, in a story now increasingly familiar among those who have been extra-cautious and COVID-free up until now.
SF News San Francisco, Three Other Bay Area Counties Return to CDC's 'Yellow' Tier as Latest COVID Surge Hits You may know someone with COVID right now, or you may have it yourself, as San Francisco is a couple of weeks into a surge being driven by the highly contagious BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.
SF News We Have Hit One Million COVID-19 Deaths In the United States America remains the nation with the highest COVID-19 death toll in the world, and regrettably, this week, the country suffered its millionth COVID death.
SF News UCSF’s Dr. Bob Wachter Says He’s Masking Up Again, Says 1 in 30 San Franciscans Has COVID and Doesn’t Know It COVID Twitter sage Dr. Bob Wachter says “there's a lot of Covid out there” in San Francisco, encouraging masking up indoors as he estimates that one out of every 30 asymptomatic people in SF are indeed positive for COVID-19.
Business & Tech Airbnb Ending Their Refunds for COVID-19 Cancellations You will no longer get a refund if you cancel your Airbnb reservation due to COVID-19 after the end of this month, which happens to coincide with the launch of the company’s forthcoming "guest travel insurance product.”
SF News Winning Personality Who Coughed on Uber Driver Last Year Arrested For Identity Theft In Miami The 25-year-old woman whose friends and family probably should have sat her down years ago and confronted her about her penchant for poor choices is once again in legal trouble, this time in Miami.
SF News BART Just Reinstated Its Mask Mandate Through Mid-July BART is now the lone transit agency in the Bay Area with a mask mandate, after going a week with some flip-flopping on the policy.
SF Politics Kamala Has COVID, For Real This Time Vice President Kamala Harris has, like a slew of D.C. denizens, tested positive for COVID and is isolating. The positive test comes about a month after Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff contracted the virus.
SF News Remember the COVID-Stricken Cruise Ship That Docked In SF Last Month? It Just Reported Another Outbreak The Ruby Princess cruise ship docked at the Port of San Francisco in late March with a slew of positive COVID-19 cases in tow. Well, the superspreader vessel recently arrived in Hawaii... with 143 COVID-19 cases on board, according to a new report.
SF News Now at 5%, SF's COVID-19 Positivity Rate Considered 'Too High' by Some Health Experts At this present juncture, San Francisco's positivity rate for COVID-19 sits at 5.1% — sparking concern amongst experts at John Hopkins University. Why? The last time SF saw such a high positivity rate was in January at the start of that season's holiday surge, which later peaked at 18.9%.
SF News Nearly One In Six Attendees Got COVID at San Mateo High School's Prom Of the 600 attendees at the prom held at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum on April 9th, 90 tested positive for COVID-19.
