SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Mission District and SoMa Have High COVID-19 Rates Muni will restore the 5-Fulton and several other bus routes next week, protesters of stay-at-home order descended on Sacramento today sans masks, and the Mission, Dogpatch, Bayview, and SoMa appear to be San Francisco's hotspots for COVID-19 so far.
SF News Laid-Off Alioto's Restaurant Server Turned Uber Eats Driver Has Car Stolen In the Mission Yusuf Soylemez had only been driving for Uber Eats for about 10 days, trying to make ends meet after getting laid off from his job at a popular Fisherman's Wharf restaurant. And on Friday afternoon he had left his car idling when it got stolen on Mission Street.
SF News SFPD Patrols Dolores Park, Tells Sunbathers and Picnickers To Spread Out A sunny Sunday in San Francisco would typically have drawn 10,000 or so people to the outdoor party of Dolores Park. But on April 19, one of the warmest days so far this spring, the scene was relatively mellow but nonetheless dotted with small gatherings and sunbathers.
Business & Tech Facebook Launches County-by-County Coronavirus Symptom Reporting Tool In an effort to help get ahead of potential hot spots, Facebook has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to produce a county-by-county map of the U.S. showing the percent of the population reporting coronavirus symptoms.
SF News UCSF Study Will Give Free COVID-19 and Antibody Tests to Mission District Residents, Bolinas Residents Researchers at UCSF are conducting a study that will test nearly every resident in Bolinas as well as a group of 5,700 residents of the Mission District in San Francisco, to determine who has COVID-19, or who might have already had it and not known it.
SF News Photos: Hippie Hill Is Indeed Gated Off and Locked Up for 4/20 The City made good on its vow to proactively smoke out any attempt at 4/20 gatherings in Robin Williams Meadow, as six-foot chain link fences are bolted together and barricading the area.
SF News San Leandro Police Shoot and Kill Bat-Swinging Man in Walmart Police were called to the scene at a San Leandro Walmart on Sunday afternoon following reports of a robbery and found a man just inside the store entrance wielding a baseball bat.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 51 Infected At Safeway Distribution Hub A total of 51 people have been infected at Safeway's massive distribution center in Tracy, a freight train derailed in Emeryville yesterday, and experts are questioning the conclusions of that Stanford anitbody prevalence study.
Arts & Entertainment Mary Vice and Mohawk Jesus Rise As This Year's Foxy Mary and Hunky Jesus Winners During Sunday's Quaran-Tea Dance party, live-streamed on Twitch and Zoom, Sister Roma and Sister Dana announced this year's Foxy Mary and Hunky Jesus winners — Mary Vice and Mohawk Jesus.
SF News New CDPH Report Shows 34 Nursing Homes in the Bay Area Have Confirmed COVID-19 Cases The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) — after weeks of pressure from healthcare providers and the general public — published a partial list of nursing homes that have recorded COVID-19 cases. The report included 258 affected facilities; 34 of those listed are in the Bay Area.
SF News Sunday Links: Motel 6 Partners With California To House Homeless Newsom announced the State of California struck a deal with Motel 6 to help house thousands of homeless people, the Bay Area’s own organic ice cream company Three Twins closed after 15 years of business, and a large COVID-19 testing effort is set to go underway in the Mission District next week.
SF News Mayor Breed Extends Paid Leave For Over 200,000 Eligible San Franciscans Mayor Breed signed into law District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar’s Public Health Emergency Leave ordinance Friday, instantly making some 200,000 San Franciscans eligible to receive two additional weeks of paid leave.
SF News Coyotes Carry On Roaming San Francisco's Empty Beaches and Streets Amid Shelter-In-Place Though habitually reclusive, a lack of both vehicle and foot traffic continues to embolden coyotes to take to San Francisco's desolate streets and beaches — occasionally howling and cackling into the night
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco Artists Continue To Make 'Plywood Look Pretty' Street artist Spencer Keeton Cunningham painted murals on plywood lining the windows at a boutique clothing store in Pacific Heights, Walmart associates are now required to wear face masks at work, and the IRS deposited a coronavirus stimulus check — into the bank account of a deceased SF woman.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco To Require Face Masks as of Midnight SF will require facial coverings in public starting Saturday but not enforce the rule until next week, Kamala Harris said she'd "be honored" to be Biden's running mate, and UC Berkeley researchers are conducting a broad study of East Bay residents to track the asymptomatic spread of COVID-19.
SF News Large-Scale Antibody Test Suggests As Many As 80,000 Santa Clara County Residents Have Already Had COVID-19 Preliminary results of a large-scale antibody testing effort by Stanford researchers show that the vast majority of COVID-19 cases in Santa Clara County have likely gone uncounted.
Arts & Entertainment Dispensaries and Stoner Celebs Say Stay Away from the Park on 4/20, Offer Livestreams Instead The SFPD vows “the consequences probably won’t be favorable” for would-be Hippie Hill 4/20 crashers, and local cannabis bigwigs are making efforts to keep stoners staying at home.
SF News The Next Clusters of COVID-19 Cases Will Probably Be Among Right-Wing Protesters Who Hate Sheltering Orders Hardcore Trump supporters, rural Republicans, and right-wing activists who enjoy bringing assault weapons to their demonstrations seem destined to be the next demographics to seal their own fates with this pandemic as protests against social-distancing orders ramp up.
SF News Study: COVID-19 Most Contagious Before Symptoms Appear A study published this week that examined the cases of coronavirus patients in China during different points in their infections provides evidence that — as has been suspected — the virus is highly contagious in asymptomatic or presymptomatic people, moreso than after symptoms set in.
SF News Oakland Murder Suspect Killed By Police After Allegedly Leaving Beaten Woman On Roadside A police pursuit that began in Oakland ended Thursday night in Richmond with an officer-involved shooting that left a kidnapping and murder suspect dead.
SF News Marin and Contra Costa Counties Make Face Masks Mandatory; Sonoma Order Takes Effect Today Starting at midnight last night, it became illegal for anyone to be in a public space in Sonoma County without a facial covering. And now starting on Wednesday, a similar order is taking effect in both Marin and Contra Costa counties.
SF News BART's Morning Rush Hour Is Now 5:30 to 7 a.m., Because Nurses The only people riding BART these days, for the most part, are essential workers like grocery store clerks and healthcare personnel, and they go to work earlier than most of us.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: A Second Remdesivir Trial Shows Promise Oakland police warn that the new 'Slow Streets' program could encourage more sideshows, Marin County residents complain about PG&E maintenance shutoffs, and China has revised its COVID death toll by 50 percent.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Outbreak At Safeway Distribution Center Kills One Nancy Pelosi will be put to the test in negotiating more stimulus funds, a team at UCSF is now using CRISPR technology to make a next-generation coronavirus test, and an outbreak of COVID-19 and one worker death at a Safeway facility in Tracy could lead to supply-chain issues.
Business & Tech Facebook Cancels Company Gatherings of 50 or More Until Next Summer, Plans To Hire 10,000 Employees This Year In a post published earlier today by Mark Zuckerberg himself, Facebook announced that company gatherings of 50 or more people are officially canceled until June of 2021.
