SF News Six Former BART Employees Win $7.8 Million Ruling After Getting Fired for Refusing to Get Vaccinated A half-dozen holdout BART employees who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and lost their jobs because of it, just won a $7.8 million in federal court on the claim that BART did not honor their religious exemptions.
SF News Six Former BART Employees Sue in Federal Court Over Being Fired for Refusing to Get Vaccinated A few holdout BART employees who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and lost their jobs because of it, have taken their case to a federal court, claiming BART did not honor their religious exemptions.
SF News Current COVID Uptick Appears to Be Coming With New Symptoms, Like Stomach Issues California is experiencing much the same summer COVID upturn as the rest of the nation, and there’s some evidence that the symptoms of the new virus variants now include gastrointestinal issues too.
SF News Bay Area Wastewater Shows Rising Levels of COVID, Flu, and RSV After Holidays Yet another new COVID variant called JN.1 is fueling yet another surge in COVID transmission according to wastewater data, while flu and RSV cases are also showing a sharp rise in the wake of holiday gatherings.
SF News SF Health Officials Put Out Call For Mpox Vaccinations Again Ahead of Pride If you're among the group of people most likely to be exposed to the mpox virus — formerly known as monkeypox — in the event of a new summer surge in cases, the SF Department of Public Health would like you to please consider seeking out your second dose if you never got that.
SF News Napa Natural Medicine Quack Who Sold Fake COVID-Fighting Pellets and Vaccination Cards Gets Three Years Juli Mazi, the non-MD naturopath who misled patients during the pandemic into believing that vaccines are "toxic" and she'd made her own natural pellet versions, has been sentenced to three years.
SF News Next Omicron Subvariant Arrives In Bay Area; Not Enough People Are Getting Updated Boosters It is high time for people to get their bivalent COVID booster shots, with widespread availability and a looming potential winter surge of a new Omicron subvariant.
SF News SF Now Averaging 10 Monkeypox Cases Per Week; Vaccines Available at Folsom Street Fair We are now in the fourth month of the local monkeypox outbreak — now officially being referred to as MPX or "em-pox" — and the case numbers have leveled off considerably.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: There Are More Pfizer Booster Shots Out There Than Moderna There were two shootings Thursday during impromptu Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Oakland, supplies of the updated Moderna booster appear delayed around the Bay, and a woman is suing Meta over her Instagram addiction.
SF News San Francisco to Go Full Steam Ahead With Second Monkeypox Shots The San Francisco Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that everyone who got their first monkeypox shots more than 28 days prior can start getting their second doses next week.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Moderna Now Suing Pfizer and BioNTech For Copying Vaccine Technology New and updated COVID vaccine boosters are coming in September, Moderna is now suing Pfizer for stealing its mRNA vaccine technology, and protesters continue to fight a plan to cull 100 geese from a flock in Foster City.
SF News Napa Quack Set to Be Sentenced In Case Involving Phony COVID Pills and Vax Cards, But First She Tried to Vacate Her Plea Napa-based naturopathic doctor Juli A. Mazi, the loon who was nabbed by the feds last year for prescribing bogus COVID-19 immunization pills and handing out fraudulent vaccination cards, just tried to vacate her plea agreement after firing her lawyers. But the judge wasn't having it.
SF News [Updated] SF to Get 10,000 More Monkeypox Vaccine Doses; Available Doses at SF General Out on Wednesday You can still get a monkeypox vaccine if you want or need one this week, either through a clinic appointment or at the drop-in clinic at SF General, but the doses from the latest federal allotment are likely to run out again before the end of the week.
SF News Monkeypox Vaccine In Short Supply In SF as Hundreds of Potentially Exposed Pride Party-Goers Clamor For Shots San Francisco's queer community is following a trajectory similar to what unfolded a month ago in Berlin, with experts fearing that a wider outbreak of monkeypox could be afoot. But where are the vaccine supplies?
SF News Naturopathic Quack In Napa Takes Plea In Federal Case Involving Fake Vaccine Cards and Fake Vaccine 'Pellets' A Napa-based naturopathic doctor took matters a little too far in her homeopathic advice to patients about COVID-19, both discouraging them from getting "toxic" vaccines and duping them into taking pellets she claimed would provide lifelong immunity from the virus.
Arts & Entertainment No Need for Vaxx Cards at Chase Center Starting Next Month, But You Still Need Your Mask If You're Unvaxxed The lifting of mandates has come at a very fast pace in California in recent weeks, and now we officially have word from the Chase Center that they will stop checking vaccination status as of April 1.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Is Dropping Vaccine Requirement for Bars and Restaurants Starting Friday For the first time in six months, you'll be able to enter a bar or restaurant in San Francisco without showing your vaccination card starting on Friday, March 11.
SF News SF Unified Backtracks, Says Masks Will Be Optional at Many City Schools Starting March 12 Just four days after suggesting it would be extending the mask mandate for San Francisco students beyond the state's recommended date, San Francisco Unified School District announced Friday that the masks will, in fact, be optional starting March 12 at middle and high schools.
SF News East Bay Assemblymember Proposes Mandatory Vaccination For All California Employees Nobody tell the truckers, but Oakland state assemblymember Buffy Wicks just unveiled a bill that would require every single employee in the state of California to be fully vaccinated.
SF News Moderna CEO Says Second Booster Will Be Needed Come Fall; SF Doctors Suggest Creating More 'Targeted' Vaccines First Supplemental doses of COVID-19 vaccines — a.k.a. "booster shots" — slowly lose their efficacy over time. But, instead of just getting another jab of the same inoculation, medical professionals are suggesting newer, more variant-specific COVID-19 vaccines should be developed first.
SF News A Whole Lot of December's COVID Cases In SF Are In the Marina San Francisco's whitest neighborhood, the Marina, is experiencing its highest COVID case rate of the pandemic this month — and in a turnaround from last year's trends, it's currently seeing the city's lion's share of new cases.
SF News San Francisco Offering Drop-In Booster Shots at Four Locations As Omicron appears to be driving a spike in daily new cases in the city and across the country, the San Francisco Department of Public Health is shouting from the rooftops to get everyone a booster shot.
SF News San Francisco Remains the Safest Large City In the U.S. — When Comes to COVID Mortality Despite hysterical headlines about shoplifting and overdoses, San Francisco has suffered hundreds, sometimes even thousands fewer COVID-19 deaths than other major U.S. cities, relative to population size.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pfizer Booster Protects Against Omicron The state has again warned the SF school board that it's in danger of a takeover, Marin's COVID spike is not due to Omicron, and a swarm of offshore earthquakes is rattling northern Oregon.
SF News Predictably, SF's Infuriating Catholic Archbishop Is Not Vaccinated Color me unsurprised. San Francisco's homophobic gem of a Catholic Archbishop, who's more concerned with making abortion and gay marriage illegal again than with a silly pandemic, claims that his personal physician has told him he doesn't need a COVID vaccine.
