The top public health official in Marin County, Dr. Matt Willis, announced two weeks ago that he was self-quarantining at home with a case of the novel coronavirus, and now he's emerged out the other side to describe the first-hand experience.
News of new clusters of COVID-19 cases at senior care facilities throughout the Bay Area continues to roll in, and as of Wednesday, the unsettling tallies of cases among both staff members and elderly residents is swiftly rising.
Two ex-convicts have been charged in a December 3 murder in East Oakland, Santa Cruz has closed its beaches and banned surfing, and 100 American Airlines flight attendants have tested positive for COVID-19.
The Grand Princess cruise ship returned to the SF Bay today and docked at Pier 35 to refuel and gather more supplies, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey pledged $1B of his wealth to coronavirus relief efforts, and three inmates at the Santa Rita Jail have tested positive for COVID-19.
As city officials continue to debate the feasibility and prudence of trying to provide hotel rooms as shelter for San Francisco's approximately 8,000 homeless people, a doctor at UCSF has a personal tale of having to discharge a homeless patient who tested negative for COVID-19.
A shipful of doctors and lawyers hit a medical conference in the remote icy continent, and still came back testing positive.
Because shelter-in-place orders are still, technically, only extended until May 3 in San Francisco, SF Pride has yet to make any moves to change or cancel the LGBTQ Pride celebrations here — even though Los Angeles has canceled their Pride, which happens just weeks before ours
For the first time since the coronavirus outbreak began in the Bay Area, San Francisco's Department of Public Health has released some demographic information about the 622 cases in the city to date.
Facebook has pledged to give $100 million in small-business grants to help struggling businesses emerge from this pandemic — and $15 million in grants will be reserved for the Bay Area.
A 79-year-old woman was terrorized and robbed Monday afternoon when three suspects allegedly broke into her home in San Francisco's Bayview District.
As the Bay Area appears to be successfully "flattening the curve," a Marin County-based epidemiologist is saying that we should not just be focused on mitigation efforts — which could go on for an extended period — but we can return to active containment strategies.
A Sausalito-based sailing crew just sailed back under the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time since December, and the Bay Area they are returning to is a whole lot quieter and weirder than the one they last saw.
California's flattening of the curve means our COVID-19 peak will likely come sooner and possibly 4,300 fewer will die than earlier projected, and San Jose police just served search warrants in a home drug-making operation and seized weapons and lots of drugs.
The Moscone Center homeless shelter will pivot to become smaller, BART is decreasing weekday service further to every 30 minutes, and a North Bay congressman has come to the defense of the Santa Rosa-born Navy captain who's been dismissed for publicizing the COVID situation on his aircraft carrier.
Since Zoom-bombing is all the rage, actor John Krasinski decided to use the privacy-invading fad to surprise one nine-year-old girl who had a disappointing birthday last week and missed her chance to see Hamilton in her hometown of Jacksonville, Florida.
With the goal of raising $1 million to buy masks and hand sanitizer for underserved communities, “Masks for the People” goes live on Instagram at 6 p.m. tonight.
A nursing facility in Orinda has become the latest hot spot for COVID-19 cases, with a total of 27 residents and 22 staffers now having tested positive. The Orinda Care Center first made headlines Friday when a total of 27 people — 24 residents and three staffers — turned up positive.
For the first time on Monday, San Francisco's Department of Public Health released some extra data on the current hospitalized population of coronavirus cases in the city — something that other Bay Area counties have been doing for weeks.
Over the weekend, a pair of nurses at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose posted a video to Facebook of them performing "The Prayer" before starting their latest shift amid a pandemic.
The Moscone Center and the Palace of Fine Arts have been transformed into ersatz homeless shelters with bed mats on the floor and minimal social distance. After some photos came out of the grim Moscone setup, several supervisors are making more noise about the potentially unsafe situation.
The SFMTA sent out an alert late Sunday telling all those who are still commuting by bus and anyone needing bus transportation to expect major delays Monday and Tuesday due to staffing shortages. And starting Wednesday, the entire system will be reduced to just 17 core lines.
The Santa Clara Convention Center has been turned into a recovery space for previously hospitalized COVID-19 patients, SF's inmate population is down by half since late January, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo apparently caught the virus from a human caretaker.
Ever since San Francisco enacted its shelter-in-place order, the SF SPCA Pet Adoption Center has effectively remained closed with no adoptable animals on site. Though many of the shelter’s cats and dogs have since been taken in by foster families, more temporary homes are needed.
A security camera in the Presidio managed to capture a territorial fight between three coyotes for dominion over the 1,500-acre park a few months prior. Sure, it’s no David Attenborough-narrated nature documentary – but the footage is certainly welcomed respite from this dystopian news cycle.
Newsom announced California will soon create "a minimum" of five to seven new coronavirus testing hubs, a Marin County high-speed police chase ended up in a foot race Saturday night, and yesterday was Golden Gate Park's 150th birthday — which you can still celebrate, online.
