Grocery store employees turning up positive for COVID-19 in SoCal, Trump and Bay Area leaders are telling people to stay home through May 1, and Instacart shoppers are staging a virtual strike today for hazard pay and other protections.
Like we’ve said before: you can help buoy many of SF’s restaurants and bars amid the COVID-19 crisis by ordering pickup and delivery from them. An ample amount of those same places also have active GoFundMe fundraisers to help staff that you can extend some digital dollars to, as well.
It was reported this week that six staff members and one resident at Laguna Honda Hospital tested positive for COVID-19. SF Director of Public Health Dr. Grant Colfax is now concerned about a likely outbreak of the novel coronavirus at the facility — which houses hundreds of elderly patients.
In a press conference Saturday, Governor Newsom said California is upping its ventilator output, hoping to now acquire some 10,000 examples. The 52-year-old politician also reiterated the need for Californians to maintain proper social distancing practices amid the current pandemic.
Health experts believe sheltering in place is working in the Bay Area, Chesa Boudin says that San Francisco reduced its jail population by "25%” since the public health emergency was declared, and Dr. Anthony Fauci warns the US may see a death toll as high as 200,000 from the coronavirus.
The City of San Francisco is set to open a new shelter at the Moscone Center next week to help "create more space in [SF's] existing shelters and Navigation Centers," which will allow for proper social distancing in the midst of the ballooning coronavirus pandemic.
As the idiom goes: "When the cat's away, the mice will play." Though, in this specific instance, it looks like we're the overbearing feline and SF's coyotes are the aloof vermin.
On the heels of District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston putting $10K of his own money toward a private fund that will help house unsheltered San Franciscans at the Oasis Inn during the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of SF announced yesterday they’ve now secured leases for around 300 hotel rooms.
SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced Friday that San Francisco police will start enforcing the City's shelter-in-place order this weekend, Contra Costa County reported its second COVID-19-related death, and a new FDA-approved coronavirus test can deliver results in less than five minutes.
Instacart workers are threatening to strike, SFMOMA is laying off or furloughing 300 workers, and there was a double-homicide yesterday on Cyril Magnin near Powell Street BART.
American Conservatory Theater, as promised, is offering theater fans a way to see the most recent two productions of its aborted season from the comfort of their own homes, and Berkeley Rep's two shows will follow.
Governor Newsom has expanded on what was already becoming policy in some cities around California, issuing an executive order Friday that bans landlords from evicting residential tenants for non-payment of rent through May 31.
For those of us who once regularly visited San Francisco's many watering holes, we’ve been reeling during these shut-in times — as have those who work behind those bars. Fortunately, there’s a substantial chance your beloved dive is now selling cocktails for pick-up or delivery, NoLa-style.
City College of San Francisco is officially on the hunt for a new chancellor as the man in the role for the last three years, Mark Rocha, submits his resignation. He was placed on administrative leave by the college's board earlier this week.
Yelp has never exactly been seen as a friend to the Bay Area restaurant community so much as a necessary evil they've begrudgingly had to live with for a decade and a half, so a forced fundraiser effort isn't being taken too kindly by some.
In a caper that could only happen at a Walmart, San Leandro police thwart a Monster heist of energy drinks where the accused scared off security by saying he was a coronavirus carrier.
As our shut-in lives settle into routines, the Bay Area has been responding in its own spirited ways — though not yet in quite as inspired ways as Italians and their balcony choral sessions.
A 27-year-old man in Wichita Falls, Texas was taken into custody Wednesday after making multiple criminal threats on his Facebook page in response to the coronavirus stimulus package negotiations.
A 17-year-old Lancaster boy died of COVID-19 after being refused care for lack of insurance, Laguna Honda Hospital is bracing for a potential outbreak, and three new mobile testing sites are opening in SF next week.
A whistleblower filed a complaint with Cal-OSHA claiming SF General staff isn't being kept adequately safe during the coronavirus pandemic, thieves broke into a closed Half Moon Bay restaurant, and Berkeley is forcing its dispensaries to do delivery only.
Other restaurateurs around the country, facing a bleak outlook potentially lasting months and threatening their businesses, could take a page out of the playbook of chef David Nayfeld.
A 26-year-old social worker was shot just hours before shelter in place went into effect last week, and SFPD now arrested has three suspects.
We don't have demographic information, like ages, on the 223 confirmed COVID-19 in San Francisco, but a surge in cases appears to be happening here and in Alameda County where up until the last few days the daily counts were only modestly rising.
Due to the significant drop in ridership and reported weekly losses of $1 million, the SFMTA announced late Wednesday that Muni Metro train service will shut down indefinitely on March 30, with bus shuttles replacing those train routes.
Tech savvy and drone-loving San Franciscans were bound to resort to this contact-less delivery method, and one friend decided to help another out when there was no TP to be found.
