Business & Tech Alaska and American Airlines Announce Bay Area Layoffs Joining the series of layoff notices sent to airline employees at multiple companies in the last month, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines have given the heads-up to hundreds of local staff that their jobs could be on the line.
Arts & Entertainment The 21 Best Socially Distant Hikes to Take in the Bay Area With the Bay Area now firmly in summer's grip — and still very much held hostage by the pandemic, as well — taking some time to go on a walk on the wild side is one of the safest, least risky activities one can partake in currently.
SF News Pandemic Updates: Bay Area Hits 49,000 Cases A few updates for this pandemic Monday: a study suggests that there are six "types" of COVID infections, UCSF has a paper about everything doctors have learned so far about treating COVID-19, and the Bay Area added over 700 new cases today.
SF News Bay Area Has Its Worst Week Yet With 170 New COVID Hospitalizations, 54 Deaths, Over 5,600 New Cases With most of the data in for the nine counties in the Bay Area, this has officially been the worst week to date in this pandemic for COVID hospitalizations in the region, and likely the deadliest.
SF News California Sees 12,800 New COVID Cases In One Day, 10 Percent Positivity Rate; 500 New Cases In East Bay Alone The state of California just overtook New York for the most cumulative coronavirus cases, and broke its one-day record for new cases with 12,807 in one 24-hour period. And over 500 new cases were just added in two East Bay counties.
SF News UCSF Med School Chair Suggests Hope For San Francisco In Avoiding Explosive COVID Surge While surging cases in the Bay Area concern Dr. Bob Wachter somewhat, he strikes a hopeful note here in mid-July that San Francisco will escape the high mortality rate and overwhelmed healthcare system being seen elsewhere in the country.
SF News Local TV Journalist Suggests Media Should Not Publish Every 'Karen' Video Without Adequate Context "My world has become consumed with 'Karens' and their male equivalents," says KGO-TV/ABC7 anchor-reporter Dion Lim in a new opinion piece, but she questions whether every video needs to become news just because social media amplifies it.
SF News 170 People Possibly Infected With COVID in Yosemite Valley After Virus Found in Sewage The great outdoors is hailed as a recreational safe haven amid the pandemic. But after Mariposa County health officials shipped samples of untreated local wastewater to a Massachusetts lab for analysis, the yielded results show 170 people might have been infected in Yosemite Valley.
SF News Trump Administration To Bypass CDC With COVID-19 Data, Raising Alarm Bells About Distortion of Numbers The Trump administration has issued an order to hospitals to begin reporting their COVID-19 patient data directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), bypassing the politically neutral Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
SF News East Bay Cities Push Back Against Outdoor Dining Suspension; Alameda County Now Placed on State’s County Monitoring List Announced Friday night, the Alameda County Public Health Department suspended outdoor dining in all of its cities — yet another harmful blow to the Bay Area’s already crippled gastronomic scene. But at least four cities in the region are now pushing back on that hiatus.
SF News San Francisco Public Library To Reopen With Contact-Free 'SFPL To Go' Service Next Month All of SF's libraries have remained shut for months now, leaving bibliophiles to live with just SFPL's online services and catalogs. But starting next month, San Franciscans can again start checking out physical books and other tangible media via the newly proposed "SFPL To Go" service.
SF News San Francisco's Iconic Cable Cars Likely To Stay Off the Streets Well Into 2021 Chalk it up to another — albeit temporary — casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. SF's beloved cable cars are going to remain offline indefinitely, likely until a vaccine puts a final end to the spread of the virus, and both operators and riders can be assured of safety.
SF News Pandemic Updates: East Bay Counties Rack Up Hundreds Of New Cases Cases continue to surge in Alameda and Contra Costa counties; the CDC is cowing to President Trump's anger over guidelines around the reopening of schools; and a new study out of the UK points to serious, lasting brain disorders in recovered COVID-19 patients.
SF News San Franciscans Continue Leaving for More 'Comfortable Lives' Elsewhere as Rental Prices Plunge A recent real estate report showed one-bedroom rent prices in SF have fallen 11.8 percent — eclipsing last month's record-breaking 9 percent drop — as more locals pack their bags. We decided to catch up with a few of them to ask why they're leaving (or have already left) the City by the Bay.
SF News Pandemic Updates: Bay Area Case Uptick, E.U. Likely to Ban Americans As the president continues his campaign to try to get as many of his ardent supporters infected as possible, one rally at a time, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage in the U.S. this week.
SF News Dolores Park Gets Dotted With Social-Distance Guidance Circles For all those looking to squeeze in to an already crowded Dolores Park this spring and summer, Rec & Parks has done us the solid of painting circles on the grass to show people how far apart they need to be to maintain pandemic-resilient social distance.
SF News History Lesson: SF Had an Anti-Mask League During the 1918 Flu Pandemic Who Rallied Against Face Masks It turns out that, a century ago, San Francisco was home to a movement akin to the "liberate" protests that have been going on around the country, in which city residents formed an Anti-Mask League as the 1918 influenza pandemic extended into January 1919.
SF News Santa Clara County Declares Swine Flu Emergency Santa Clara County declared a local emergency yesterday, setting aside $500k for free clinics, which will administer the swine flu vaccine to thousands of uninsured residents when the vaccine becomes available in mid-October.
SF News Five Bay Area Pregnant Women Contract Swine Flu CBS5 reports that at least five Bay Area pregnant women in their early third trimesters have been admitted to intensive care units due to complications with the H1N1 swine flu. Two of the
SF News Swine Flu Watch: Pandemic Following on the heels of yesterday's East Bay flu fatality, making it the third reported H1N1-related casualty in the Bay Area, the World Health Organization upgraded the swine flu to pandemic status today.
SF News Swine Flu Update: Triage Tents, Number Counts, & Threat Levels Cabo San Lucas turns into a ghost town, more schools close in the East Bay, WHO raises pandemic threat level to 5, hand sanitizer flying off shelves -- Swine Flu Watch 2K9 is
SF News U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency for Swine Flu "Much like the government does to prepare for approaching hurricanes," reports AP, the U.S. government officially declared a public health emergency today due to the swine flu. So far, conformed outbreaks are
