SF News California Becomes One of Only Three States to Exit the CDC's Worst Category for COVID Transmission In this summer's Delta variant surge, California has succeeded in being one of just three states to no longer be in the "high" transmission category for COVID-19, along with Vermont and Connecticut.
SF Politics Original Organizer of Newsom Recall Effort Now Has COVID One of the original proponents of recalling Gavin Newsom as governor, Orrin Heatlie, has been sidelined in the final weeks of the recall campaign because he is sick with COVID-19.
SF News Horse Deworming Drug Ivermectin Flying Off Shelves at Bay Area Tack and Feed Stores Joe Rogan’s wholly unqualified endorsement will likely only increase demand for the roundworm medication for horses that has become the Covidiots’ latest perceived miracle drug.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Level Off In Bay Area, California The Delta variant surge appears to have crested — for now — in the Bay Area, and that can be seen in falling daily case numbers as well as hospitalizations.
SF News California Has Quietly Paid $4.4 Million to Settle COVID-19 Shutdown Lawsuits An oddball assortment of churches, strip clubs, and tattoo parlors have squeezed $4.4 million out of the state to settle their lawsuits related to COVID closures, and the state spent $9.5 million on attorneys to defend the shutdowns.
SF News Marin Health Officer Addresses Report On School COVID Outbreak: 'Everyone Makes Mistakes' The report that the CDC released late last week pertaining to a May COVID outbreak at a Marin County school continues to have a ripple effect nationwide — showing how classrooms, even with windows open and kids masked, can be vulnerable to the Delta variant.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock to Be the Bay Area's First Big Test for Festival Safety During the Ongoing Pandemic Tens of thousands of football fans have crowded into Levi's Stadium in recent weeks for the first couple 49ers preseason games with no vaccine mandate, but BottleRock will be the region's first test of a non-seated, large-scale outdoor event.
SF News Cargo Ship Anchored In San Francisco Bay Has 19 COVID-Positive Crew Members A cargo ship is quarantining in San Francisco Bay with a dozen COVID-positive crew members onboard, and six others who were feeling ill have been taken to San Francisco hospitals for medical treatment.
SF News CVS Is Putting Limit On Number of At-Home COVID Tests You Can Buy at Once Amid a nationwide run on at-home COVID tests and a shortage stemming from the tests' producers scaling back production a few months ago, CVS pharmacies are putting a limit on the number of test boxes customers can purchase at a time, online or in person.
SF News One Unvaccinated Teacher In Marin School Seeded COVID Outbreak That Infected Over a Dozen Students, Their Siblings, and Parents The CDC has just released a study focused on how one unvaccinated teacher infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19, in a mostly masked Marin County classroom, managed to infect half their students and seeded an outbreak that hit another classroom and students' families as well.
SF News Coroners Confirm That at Least Six Americans Died From COVID Prior to San Jose Woman In February 2020 57-year-old Patricia Dowd, whose early February 2020 was later determined to have been caused by an undiagnosed COVID-19 infection, becoming the first recorded American death in the pandemic, was actually not the first COVID death in the U.S. after all.
SF News Everyone Has to Show Proof of Vaccination To Go Inside Bars and Restaurants In SF Starting Today San Francisco's new rule requiring proof of full vaccination to enter bars, nightclubs, theaters, gyms, and restaurants takes effect today, and some restaurants are expecting some awkward situations to arise.
SF News Top UCSF Doctors Say ‘San Francisco has Clearly Turned the Corner’ on Delta Variant San Francisco case rates are down and hospitalizations have plateaued, meaning the Delta variant appears to be on the wane, but no one’s spiking the football lest we see another case spike
Arts & Entertainment Zion I Rapper Baba Zumbi Dies In Berkeley Hospital After 'Altercation' During Treatment for COVID Baba Zumbi, whose real name was Stephen Gaines, died early Friday at Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley at the age of 49, possibly from complications related to COVID-19 — though police are also investigating an altercation he was allegedly involved in with hospital staff just before he died.
SF News SF Delta Surge May Have Already Peaked, But City Reopens Mass-Testing Site In SoMa Months after the city closed several mass-testing locations in favor of neighborhood-based sites, the Delta variant surge of COVID has prompted SF's Department of Public Health to reopen one of its former drive-through/
SF News Santa Clara Approves Additional Dose of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines for Immunocompromised Patients Now that the FDA and CDC have authorized the use of third doses of COVID-19 vaccines for certain at-risk individuals, Santa Clara will start giving these extra shots for qualifying people — among those being transplant recipients and cancer patients.
SF News SF Hospital CEO Suggests This 4th Wave of COVID-19 Might've Peaked — at Least in San Francisco Based on the most recent City data that shows hospitalizations are leveling off, as well as cases slowly coming down, the CEO of Zuckerberg SF General Hospital has said SF may have seen the worst of this wave of COVID-19.
SF News San Francisco Makes Vaccination Mandatory for Entering All Restaurants, Bars, and Gyms San Francisco issued a new public health order Thursday that makes proof of full vaccination mandatory for entering a variety of indoor businesses, becoming the first major U.S. city to institute such a rule.
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac's 'Joy and Pandemic' Premiere Postponed at Magic Theatre; Berkeley Rep Delays Reopening Two Bay Area theaters announced surge-related postponements today, joining a parade of events and performers that are moving dates further into the future due to the ongoing pandemic.
SF News Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Top 1,000 For First Time Since February Hospitalizations from COVID-19 continue climbing across California, and in the Bay Area, the number of hospitalized patients with serious cases rose above 1,000 for the first time since mid-February.
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Nicks Is Canceling Her BottleRock Appearance, Citing COVID Concerns Iconic singer and songwriter Stevie Nicks, whose upcoming appearance at BottleRock Napa Valley was likely a major draw for many ticket holders, announced Tuesday that she is bowing out of the festival and all of her remaining scheduled shows this year.
SF News Study: Moderna Vaccine Significantly Better Against Delta Than Pfizer If you're going to get a "supplemental" or "booster" shot in the coming weeks or months and you didn't originally get Moderna's mRNA vaccine, you may want to consider topping up with Moderna, according to a new study.
SF News Number of Bay Area Restaurants and Bars Temporarily Close Over Staff Testing Positive for COVID-19 Citing recent breakthrough infections among staff, a growing list of Bay Area restaurants and bars have now closed (for a bit) out of caution — though many of them plan on reopening soon.
SF News Dr. Grant Colfax Does Not Want You Calling New Supplemental mRNA Vaccine Program a 'Booster' On Thursday, patients who previously received the single-shot J&J COVID-19 vaccine could request an mRNA vaccine dose through Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFGH). But again: The shot, itself, isn't exactly a "booster," per se.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Many Essential Workers Died In California During the Pandemic? A full accounting of death demographics in the coronavirus pandemic won't likely be done for years. But we already know that a significant number of essential workers have been among the dead, and in California that is likely contributing to the much-discussed labor shortage.
