SF Politics Trump Could Have Given Biden COVID At First Debate, Tested Positive Days Earlier According to New Account Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows details how Trump initially tested positive for COVID last fall days ahead of his first debate in Cleveland with Joe Biden, but went ahead with his schedule anyway.
SF News First U.S. Case of Omicron Variant Found In San Francisco Wouldn't you know it, the first known case of the Omicron variant of COVID to arrive in the U.S., via South Africa, is in San Francisco, and the patient is already reportedly recovering.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Again Seen Partying Maskless at Nightclub, Again Says She Did Nothing Wrong Some finger-wagging is going on over at the Chronicle once more after a new video surfaced of SF Mayor London Breed dancing and cavorting with friends without a mask on at a nightclub on Thanksgiving night.
SF News New Omicron Variant In South Africa Freaks Out W.H.O., and Maybe You Should Worry About It? There are a lot of open questions about a new, highly mutated COVID variant, B.1.1.529, first detected in South Africa that is leading to travel restrictions across the globe. Some experts say there are causes for concern, but it also may not be a huge deal.
SF News Map: Everywhere You Can Get a Free COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Shot in SF There are 109 locations in San Francisco providing booster vaccine shots to the general public, and quite a few of them do accept drop-ins.
SF News California Boasts Lowest COVID Test-Positivity Rate In Nation; Bay Area Back in Yellow Tier San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area have bounced back into the CDC's yellow tier indicating "moderate" COVID transmission, down from the orange tier — and following a number of weeks when San Francisco County has bounced between the two.
SF News Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Hit Lowest Count Since Early July While much of the country is bracing for a winter surge in new COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, the Bay Area has seen only the slightest hints of an uptick in new cases, and local hospitals are not yet seeing a rise in severe cases either.
SF News Biden Administration Plans to Spend $5B on Pfizer's COVID Treatment Pill to Keep Unvaccinated Out of Hospitals The federal government is planning to spend $5 billion on Pfizer's COVID antiviral treatment pills, and will begin making these available to vulnerable populations as soon as the FDA grants emergency approval of the drug.
SF News Op-Ed: We've Learned Nothing Since the 1918 Pandemic About Collective Duty The right wing has convinced itself that vaccine mandates are fascist, and because no one can agree on the same facts, America is going to stay trapped in this cycle of pandemic denial well into the next public health crisis.
SF News Anti-Vaxx Protest on Golden Gate Bridge Snarls Traffic, Leads to Five Injuries Two California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers and three Golden Gate Bridge workers were injured by a vehicle during a chaotic protest scene Thursday evening relating to vaccine mandates in the workplace.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Cal Football Outbreak Maybe Not a Real Outbreak, Says Expert An SF educator was killed in a pedestrian collision in Cow Hollow, the UC Berkeley football outbreak might not be a real COVID outbreak, and an original Apple-1 computer just sold for $500K at auction.
SF News Winter COVID Surge Already Starting In California, But Bay Area Could Be Spared COVID cases and hospitalizations are ticking up in parts of California, and while there doesn't seem to be evidence of a winter surge starting in the Bay Area, there could be one taking shape around us.
SF News Unvaccinated SFPD Officer Dies of COVID at Age 46 A San Francisco police officer who had been on the force 17 years died over the weekend, less than a week after testing positive for COVID-19.
SF News San Francisco and San Mateo Counties Back In CDC's Yellow Tier for COVID Transmission If you're getting a little confused and dizzy by the back-and-forth with the CDC's color tiers and the COVID status of Bay Area counties, you're not alone. But rest assured that while cases seem to be leveling off, transmission of the virus remains fairly low in San Francisco.
SF News 26 States Sue the Federal Government Over Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Last week, OSHA handed down a new rule that every company with 100 or more employees must require everyone to be vaccinated. Within eight hours, 26 states sued.
SF News Only About One-Fifth of Eligible San Francisco Seniors Have Received a COVID-19 Booster Shot The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) shared this week that just 23,000 San Franciscans who are 65 years or older — roughly 20% of the city's entire eligible senior population — have received their COVID-19 booster shot ahead of the holiday season.
SF News 31-Year-Old San Jose Man Who Spent 9 Months Hospitalized for COVID Finally Comes Home It's been a long and harrowing road for Noah Davis, who at 31 years old became one of the hardest-won success stories in the COVID unit at San Jose's Valley Medical Center this year.
SF News San Francisco Wastes No Time In Saying Five-Year-Olds Will Soon Need to Show Vaccination Cards to Get Into Restaurants The CDC just approved COVID vaccinations for younger children aged 5 and up like yesterday, but San Francisco's health officer is already saying that the vaccine mandate for dining indoors and attending indoor events will extend to those kids pretty soon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco In Orange Tier, CA Back to Red, Per CDC San Francisco and other Bay Area counties slipped backwards again in the CDC's tier system for COVID spread, Tesla is recalling 12,000 cars that got a bad software update, and Zillow is exiting the home-buying market.
SF News Marin, Alameda, and Contra Costa Counties Drop More Indoor Mask Rules Marin County on Monday becomes the first in the Bay Area to drop the broad indoor mask mandate that went back into effect across the region in early August, as case rates drop and the county's vaccination rate outpaces other counties.
SF News COVID Cases Level Off, Hospitalizations Depressingly Tick Upward In California The steady decline in COVID numbers in California has stopped, and state health officials are somewhat worried that people are tired of vigilance, and we could be headed for a winter surge that no one wants.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Temporarily Shuts Down In-N-Out After Company Comes Out Against Vaccine Mandates You know that In-N-Out is owned by evangelical Christians, right? Well, the unfortunate crossover between religion and anti-vaccine stances has come to roost at the only San Francisco location of the beloved burger chain.
SF News Three Bay Area Counties Now In CDC's 'Moderate' Tier for COVID Transmission; California Now Only State In That Tier California has returned to the CDC's yellow or "moderate" tier for COVID transmission after a brief return to the orange zone, and now it's the only state in yellow status this week.
SF News If It's Safe Taking Masks Off at the Gym, Why Are We Still Staying Masked at Restaurants? We've come to another one of those rule-change days in the pandemic, at least in San Francisco and Marin, and it's a change that again raises the question of how these specific public-health decisions are being made.
SF News Marin County Becomes First In California to Have 'Moderate' COVID Transmission In CDC Framework Marin County just became the first in the Bay Area and in the state to enter the yellow or "moderate" tier of COVID transmission, setting it up to potentially be the first county in the Bay Area to reach the new regional criteria for dropping the indoor mask mandate.
