SF News Sunday Links: Protesters Rally Outside Tesla Showrooms Discouraging Buyers Protestors gathered outside of Tesla showrooms across the Bay Area calling for a boycott yesterday; a group of activists in Kentucky recently purchased land that was being considered for a new federal prison; and Canadian sports fans are booing the American anthem at international games.
SF News Bay Area Wastewater Shows Rising Levels of COVID, Flu, and RSV After Holidays Yet another new COVID variant called JN.1 is fueling yet another surge in COVID transmission according to wastewater data, while flu and RSV cases are also showing a sharp rise in the wake of holiday gatherings.
SF News Day Around the Bay: First SF Flu Death of the Season Was Person Under Age 65 The SF health department announced the first flu death of the season, Mayor London Breed is being called out in testimony in case about clearing homeless encampments, and the downtown SF Container Store is closing.
SF News Solano County Patient Has COVID-19/Flu Co-Infection, ‘Twin-demic’ Fears Grow A handful of people in the country have contracted coronavirus and the flu simultaneously, one here in the Bay Area, and the double-whammy co-infection threat is real.
SF News Sick Yet? Bay Area Hit With Severe Flu Outbreak I hope you got your flu shot, because the San Francisco Bay Area is dealing with a "widespread" influenza outbreak before flu season has likely even peaked. As local public health officials are
SF News Your Flu Shot Might Not Work This Year (But You Should Still Get One) It's the time of year when you can't go to the grocery store, drug store, or even Target without someone nagging you to get your annual flu shot. But this year, doctors are
SF News Swine Flu Death Toll On The Rise Do you remember swine flu? Swine flu remembers you. And now that we're in the depths of the bowels of the pits of flu season (bizarre weather be damned), the dreaded H1N1 virus
SF News Woman Dies In Bay Area's First Reported Flu-related Death Of The Season A 98-year-old woman died from the flu and pneumonia earlier this month, making her the first flu-related fatality of the season. Obviously, it's not unusual to see someone that age succumb to the
SF News H1N1 Vaccine Recalled KTVU reports that the San Francisco Department of Public Health "estimated that about 9,000 doses of a pediatric H1N1 vaccine recalled by the federal government were distributed within the city." But, we're
SF News Map: Google Flu Shots, Flu Trends Gosh. Everybody seems to be getting a flu shot, getting the flu, or freaking out about something flu-related. So, who are we not to throw fat on fire? We came across Google's new
SF News Swine Flu Watch: Pandemic Following on the heels of yesterday's East Bay flu fatality, making it the third reported H1N1-related casualty in the Bay Area, the World Health Organization upgraded the swine flu to pandemic status today.
SF News Swine Flu Cases Close Bay Area Schools After one confirmed case of swine flu and thee other possible cases, two Bay Area schools have closed. First, San Jose's Branham High School will be shut down for a week after a
SF News Schwarzenegger Declares Swine Flu Emergency in California What with the swine flu breaking out in Sacramento, Marin County, and "the possibility that a California man may have died from the disease" (which, actually, wasn't the case) California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
SF News Newsom Urges Calm as Swine Flu Approaches While the Feds want you to nix your travel plans to Mexico and Governor Schwarzenegger says California is (allegedly) prepared for Influenza Watch 2K9, Mayor Gavin Newsom's team says there's no need to
SF News Australians, Hong Kong-ians Panic About Incoming Swine Flu From San Francisco The insane worldwide panic preceding a potential (though unlikely?) worldwide pandemic of swine flu reached new heights today, with Australian flights from California being screened before deplaning and a woman in Hong Kong
SF News Swine Flu Map View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map Adding to the paranoia that is Swine Flu Tracker 2009, here's a handy map that shows reported cases of the flu throughout the U.S.
SF News Sacramento Co. May Have Swine Flu Case Now that swine flu hysteria is taking root, Sacramento County may have uncovered a case of swine flu, according to the Sacramento County Health Officer Dr. Glennah Trochet. This would make it Northern
SF News U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency for Swine Flu "Much like the government does to prepare for approaching hurricanes," reports AP, the U.S. government officially declared a public health emergency today due to the swine flu. So far, conformed outbreaks are
