SF News California State Law Won't Let In-N-Out Ban on Workers Wearing Masks Go Through The burger chain said in a memo earlier this month that it wants to "emphasize the importance of customer service” and “smiles," but the ban on employee masking won't happen in California.
SF News Some Bay Area Counties Ending Mask Requirements In Healthcare Settings, Unclear Whether SF Will Too Today’s the day that California is ending its mask and vaccine requirements for healthcare workers, but Alameda and Contra Costa counties will continue requiring masks, while SF public health officials have not made an announcement.
SF News BART Reinstates Mask Mandate — Effective Immediately One Bay Area transit agency is acknowledging that COVID-19 is still very much with us, as the BART board voted Thursday night to reinstate the mask mandate until at least October 1.
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 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 Tuesday Morning Topline: Marin Schoolkids Being Told They Should Mask Up Again Around 20 Marin County schools are having COVID outbreaks, Chesa Boudin did a prime-time interview with KRON4, and there was a Roe v. Wade town hall at Manny's on Monday night.
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.
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 News Day Around the Bay: California Says You Don't Need a Mask on the Bus or Train The California Dept. of Public Health said Wednesday that Californians don't need to wear masks on transit, the Dept. of Justice is meanwhile appealing that Florida judge's ruling on masks, and Mike Tyson is over at Hippie Hill for 4/20 promoting something.
SF News [Update] BART Says Hold Up, You Still Need to Wear Masks, Then Reverses Following that federal judge's ruling on Monday that abruptly ended mask mandates on planes and public transit, BART reportedly told its police not to enforce mask-wearing on Tuesday. But now, they've issued a statement similar to the SFMTA's saying masks are still required, for now.
SF News Masks Come Off on BART, Airplanes, and In Uber and Lyft Cars — But Not Muni — Following Ruling By Trump-Appointed Judge A Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida issued a ruling Monday that denied the authority of the CDC to continue its federal mask mandate on planes and public transit — a mandate that was set to expire in two weeks anyway.
SF News Masks to Only Be Required on Planes and Public Transit Until May 3 The CDC just extended its federal mask mandate for airplanes and public transit another two weeks, until May 3, amid rising cases of the BA.2 Omicron subvariant, particularly on the East Coast.
SF News Masks Will Remain Required on Planes and Public Transit Until April 18, TSA Says The federal Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday morning that Americans will need to keep wearing masks through at least April 18 on public transit, on planes, and in transit hubs.
SF News SF Unified Backtracks, Says Masks Will Be Optional at Many City Schools Starting March 12 Just four days after suggesting it would be extending the mask mandate for San Francisco students beyond the state's recommended date, San Francisco Unified School District announced Friday that the masks will, in fact, be optional starting March 12 at middle and high schools.
SF News California to Lift School Mask Mandate In Two Weeks; Unvaccinated People Can Go Maskless Indoors This Week The long-awaited lifting of the state's mask mandate for schoolchildren arrives in two weeks — though individual school districts may still decide to keep it in place longer.
SF News Santa Clara County Will Follow Rest of Region and Lift Mask Order Next Week Two weeks behind San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area, Santa Clara County will be lifting its indoor public mask mandate next week — though, like the rest of the region, unvaccinated people are still on the honor system and supposed to be masking up.
SF News A Few NorCal School Districts Are Now Just Flat-Out Defying the Mask Mandate Kids walked out of class in one school district near Sacramento to protest the mask mandate, while other districts are just refusing to enforce mask-wearing, as tension grows over California dropping mask mandates in general — but not for schools.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Schoolkids May Get to Drop Masks In March, Not Before CA officials leave mask mandate in place for schoolchildren for at least two more weeks, an Alameda sheriff's deputy suddenly died on duty of an aneurysm on Saturday, and West Contra County teachers might strike.
SF News San Francisco and Seven Other Bay Area Counties Will Drop Indoor Mask Rules Next Week The masks come off on February 16 in Bay Area grocery stores, bars, restaurants, museums, and everywhere else whether you like it or not — but Santa Clara County will still be playing it safer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Is Again Lifting Its Mask Mandate Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the statewide mask mandate for indoor settings is lifting again on Feb. 15, a right-wing pundit scaled a fence to get into SF's Tenderloin Linkage Center, and a rescue happened Monday at Muir Beach with one person still missing.
SF News Parents Who Hate California's School Mask Mandates Jump All Over Newsom's Masklessness at 49ers Game Governor Gavin Newsom's legion of Twitter critics have come out with their virtual pitchforks again after he was photographed maskless at SoFi Stadium on Sunday.
SF News Mask Mandate Exceptions for Offices and Gyms Return Next Week In SF As Omicron Surge Dissipates There still seems to be plenty of Omicron to go around, but starting February 1, San Franciscans will again be able to take their face masks off at the gym and in vaccinated and boosted offices.
SF News Chronicle Republishes Outdated, Unreliable Chart On How Long Different Masks Work The SF Chronicle today published what attempts to be the umpteenth definitive guide on different mask types. But the information is based on earlier variants and should not be taken as gospel.
SF News [Update] SF and Other Bay Area Counties Begin Rescinding Mask-Order Exceptions Amid Omicron Surge You'll need to put your masks back on in gyms, offices, and places of worship in San Francisco and Contra Costa counties, and other counties with similar exceptions in place since October are signaling similar moves.
