SF News Photos: The Mission District on the Eve of Sheltering in Place Hours before San Francisco's shelter-in-place order was enacted, a nonchalant stroll through the Mission District proved eerily quiet, void of heavy foot traffic, and peppered with signs explaining why various restaurants or businesses were closed amid city-wide coronavirus concerns.
Business & Tech Coronavirus Vaccine Begins Testing On Volunteers In Seattle An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by a Massachusetts-based biotech company along with the National Institutes for Health has officially begun being tested in humans.
SF News UCSF Doctor With COVID-19: 'I Felt Just a Little Sick' An emergency room physician at UCSF tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Saturday, and he's now opening up about his symptoms, anxieties, and general state of mind on Medium.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: The DMV Is Still Open All federal courthouses in Northern California are closing until May, wineries and breweries in Sonoma County are hoping for more online sales, and Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been discharged from an Australian hospital.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Announces Sick-Leave Fund For Minimum-Wage Workers People in SF are panic-shopping and they shouldn't be, Safeway is hiring 2,000 new employees in the face of all this shopping, a young girl was gravely wounded by a car in the Tenderloin, and the Census Bureau has a new task force to make sure the virus doesn't lead to an under-count.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Most Farmers' Markets to Remain Open as Essential Services During Lockdown Period During the upcoming shelter-in-place period, it appears that, like grocery stores, most or all the Bay Area's farmers' markets will keep running on their usual schedules in San Francisco and elsewhere, albeit with some extra protocols in place.
SF News BART Will Keep Running During Shelter-In-Place Period As of today, BART is committing to keeping its trains running during the three-week mandatory shelter-in-place order in the Bay Area in order to help residents to do essential travel.
Arts & Entertainment Mel Brooks and Son Max Offer Up Some Levity In PSA About Social Distancing This is another turning-point day in the unfolding pandemic crisis in the U.S., but hopefully there will be more of this in the coming weeks to help keep us sane.
SF News Lockdown is Here: Bay Areawide ‘Shelter in Place’ Orders Go Into Effect at Midnight Bay Area residents are officially being urged not to leave their homes, with very few exceptions “for essential outings,” in San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, and San Mateo Counties, starting at midnight tonight.
SF News Judge Issues Directed Verdict In Oakland Murder Trial, Declares Cowell Sane After convicting John Lee Cowell in the 2018 murder of Nia Wilson, an Alameda County jury had returned to deliberations in the "sanity phase" of the trial.
SF News California to Use Hotels and Motels to Shelter Homeless During Pandemic Without offering many specifics about the plan, Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday said that private hotels and motels were being "procured" in order to provide emergency shelter and isolation space for the homeless amid the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Sonoma County and Others Begin Imagining Fire Season With Coronavirus Given that we do not know how long the coronavirus pandemic will remain a threat in the Bay Area — or if it may decelerate and resurge later in the year the way influenzas do — cities and counties have to begin planning for fire season in an entirely new way.
SF News Monday Morning Coronavirus Headlines: Nancy Pelosi Is Still on the Hill The CDC is now saying all gatherings of 50+ people should be canceled for 8 weeks, longshoremen in Oakland are nervous about the Grand Princess's trash, and Nancy Pelosi is saying that her half of Congress is staying open and will be the "last to leave."
SF News Inbound SFO Passengers Not Facing Any Special Screening After stories Sunday of extremely long lines at a number of U.S. airports as international travelers waited for special Customs screenings, Customs at SFO was apparently business as usual today.
SF News Grand Princess Cruise Ship Expected to Leave Port of Oakland Tonight, Will Temporarily Anchor in SF Bay After docking for nearly a week at Port of Oakland's Outer Harbor Terminal, the coronavirus-stricken cruise ship is set to leave the boatyard tonight and temporarily anchor in the San Francisco Bay.
SF News SF Suspends All Power and Water Shutoffs, Dismisses Late Fees on Overdue Payments To shield San Franciscans from having their lights and water turned off during these worrisome times, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) won’t cut-off power and water services due to non-payment. Also, both SFPUC and SF Muni will waive late fees on overdue payments.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Governor Newsom Orders All Bars and Nightclubs in CA to Close, Restaurants Can Operate at 50 Percent Capacity In an unprecedented statewide move, Governor Gavin Newsom announced in a press conference Sunday that he's ordering all bars, breweries, and wineries in the state to close, regardless of their size, in order to create "deep social distancing."
SF News Two UCSF Healthcare Workers Test Positive for COVID-19 University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) officials confirmed that two healthcare employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, prompting exposure concerns over the novel respiratory virus.
SF News Esteemed Pleasanton Architect Allegedly Assaults On-Duty Officer Over Stock Market Troubles 58-year-old Paul Powers, a well-known and affluent Bay Area architect — who was reportedly unsettled about losing money amid current stock market declines — was arrested for allegedly attacking an on-duty Alameda County Sheriff's Office deputy after he was pulled over for careless driving.
SF News Sunday Links: Nine New COVID-19 Cases Reported in SF; Concord Declares State of Emergency Nine new coronavirus cases were reported in SF, the City of Concord declared a state of emergency over COVID-19, and Sonoma County confirmed its first case of "community spread" for the novel respiratory disease.
SF News Alaska Airlines Gate Agent at SFO Tests Positive For Coronavirus An employee of Alaska Airlines, reportedly a ticketing or gate agent for the airline at San Francisco International Airport, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
SF News Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts Shutting Down Sunday The next shoe to drop in the coronavirus pandemic is the early end to ski season in the Sierra — though the resorts say they will reassess the situation in a week.
SF News How You Can Support San Francisco's Queer Elders and LGBTQ+ Nightlife Workers in the Age of Coronavirus Public health emergencies tend to expose the cracks in our society — this time, particularly, around our ability to help SF’s queer elders and those who make a living in the city’s gay nightlife scene amidst times of crisis. In the age of COVID-19, here’s how you can support those two local cohorts.
SF News Stanford Tells Students to 'Leave Campus' After Undergrad Tests Positive for Coronavirus In a statement issued by the hallowed academic institution Friday night, Stanford University announced a student tested positive for COVID-19. As a means of precaution, college officials have asked that "as many students as possible" vacate the campus by Wednesday, March 18th.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bars With Capacity Over 100 Ordered to Close For Seven Weeks; Restaurants Told To Limit Capacity An order went out late Friday from San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomas Aragon that forces the closure of bars and nightclubs with official maximum occupant loads of 100 people or more, and this led to the immediate closure of at least two Castro nightclubs.
