SF News SFDPH Is Handing Out Anti-Psychotic Drugs to Meth Users to Keep Them Out of the Emergency Room For the last two years, SF General Hospital has been proactively trying to limit ER visits and public episodes among meth users by providing them with an anti-psychotic drug called Olanzapine that’s being called “the next Narcan” for stimulant addiction.
SF News SF DPH Busting Out Drag Queens In Latest Drug Overdose Prevention Campaign The SF Department of Public Health’s latest effort to prevent drug overdoses is employing local drag queens Kochina Rude and Nicki Jizz to lead a month-long outreach campaign to distribute fentanyl testing strips and teach people how to administer Narcan.
SF News [Update] Castro Mollie Stone’s Reopens After Shutdown Over Rodent Infestation It’s not a Happy Pride for the Castro’s Mollie Stone’s grocery store, as the SF Department of Health shut them down over a rodent infestation Thursday, but the store blames nearby construction and says they’ll reopen Friday afternoon.
SF News SF to Receive 1,600 More Monkeypox Vaccine Units; Clinics Will Switch to Intradermal Injection Technique San Francisco is expected to get 1,600 more monkeypox vaccines in the next distribution from the federal supply. To get this allotment, clinics will be using a transdermal injection technique, which requires only a fifth of the vaccine dose used in the subcutaneous method.
SF News Nancy Pelosi Hosting a Phone-In Town Hall on Monkeypox at 5 p.m. Tuesday Nearly 30% of all California monkeypox cases are right here in the City and County of San Francisco, and so our congressional rep and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doing a phone town hall with a who’s-who of local public health figures tonight.
SF News Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Opens Its First Weekend Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic To vaccinate as many people against monkeypox as possible, the walk-in vaccine clinic at 1001 Potrero Avenue opened Saturday for its first weekend to immunize patients.
SF News Report: SF Has Largely Stopped Doing Contract Tracing for Monkeypox As the city now has nearly 450 confirmed monkeypox cases, we learn that the SFDPH is only contact tracing for a fraction of those cases, with one department email saying “Don’t want to say too much, or beg more questions.”
SF News New Data Shows Monkeypox Outbreak Disproportionately Impacts Latinx Communities in SF There are currently 197 recorded or suspected cases of monkeypox in San Francisco. And the most recent data about the spread of monkeypox shows that even though members of Latinx communities make up some 15% of SF's population, over 30% of all current monkeypox cases are within this group.
SF News SFDPH Prioritizing First-Dose Monkeypox Vaccinations; City Department Expected to Offer Second Doses After Supply Increases There are an estimated 197 cases of either confirmed or suspected monkeypox infections in SF. Thus far, the City has received 7,700 units of the two-dose Jynneos vaccine from the federal stockpile via CDPH — though some 35,000 doses have been requested to meet the need.
