Bay Area Sports Unvaccinated Warriors Players May Have to Sit Home Games Out The Golden State Warriors are among three NBA teams whose local vaccination mandates dictate that individual players cannot play games at their own home arena unless they are fully vaccinated.
Business & Tech Reddit Moderators Revolt Over Company’s Lax Misinformation Policy Some of the most popular subreddits on Reddit have “gone dark” this week in protest of the company’s hand-off policy with misinformation and anti-vaxxer online bullying, and Wednesday, Reddit did at least ban one of the worst offenders.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Level Off In Bay Area, California The Delta variant surge appears to have crested — for now — in the Bay Area, and that can be seen in falling daily case numbers as well as hospitalizations.
SF News One Unvaccinated Teacher In Marin School Seeded COVID Outbreak That Infected Over a Dozen Students, Their Siblings, and Parents The CDC has just released a study focused on how one unvaccinated teacher infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19, in a mostly masked Marin County classroom, managed to infect half their students and seeded an outbreak that hit another classroom and students' families as well.
SF News Everyone Has to Show Proof of Vaccination To Go Inside Bars and Restaurants In SF Starting Today San Francisco's new rule requiring proof of full vaccination to enter bars, nightclubs, theaters, gyms, and restaurants takes effect today, and some restaurants are expecting some awkward situations to arise.
Business & Tech Eight Months Into National Vaccine Effort, Facebook Says It's Removed Anti-Vaxx Misinformation Superspreaders After being on the receiving end of stern words from President Biden last month, Facebook says it has removed three-dozen pages and accounts associated with a dozen previously identified superspreaders of vaccine misinformation.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: FDA Expected to Recommend Boosters at 8 Months The FDA is expected to announce this week that Americans should get a booster vaccine dose 8 months after their second dose, there's some weird and threatening union drama among Golden Gate Transit bus drivers, and the Caldor Fire exploded in size overnight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OpenTable Adds Tool to Help Restaurants Verify Customers' Vaccination Status Reservation-booking platform OpenTable says it is rolling out a new feature for restaurants by the end of the month that will allow them to flag repeat customers as "Verified for Entry" once they have shown their vaccination proof once.
SF News Santa Clara Approves Additional Dose of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines for Immunocompromised Patients Now that the FDA and CDC have authorized the use of third doses of COVID-19 vaccines for certain at-risk individuals, Santa Clara will start giving these extra shots for qualifying people — among those being transplant recipients and cancer patients.
SF News San Francisco Makes Vaccination Mandatory for Entering All Restaurants, Bars, and Gyms San Francisco issued a new public health order Thursday that makes proof of full vaccination mandatory for entering a variety of indoor businesses, becoming the first major U.S. city to institute such a rule.
SF News Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Top 1,000 For First Time Since February Hospitalizations from COVID-19 continue climbing across California, and in the Bay Area, the number of hospitalized patients with serious cases rose above 1,000 for the first time since mid-February.
SF News SF Unified Reverses Course, Will Now Require Vaccines for Teachers and Staff In a flip-flop likely to be celebrated with eyerolls by parents across the city, San Francisco Unified School District announced Tuesday that on second thought, they will be requiring mandatory vaccination for teachers and staff.
SF News Study: Moderna Vaccine Significantly Better Against Delta Than Pfizer If you're going to get a "supplemental" or "booster" shot in the coming weeks or months and you didn't originally get Moderna's mRNA vaccine, you may want to consider topping up with Moderna, according to a new study.
SF News SF Unified Won't Require Teachers to Be Vaccinated After months and months of delaying the reopening of San Francisco schools out of concerns for teachers' safety, the SF Unified School District has decided they won't be forcing teachers or staff to be vaccinated against COVID.
SF News SF DPH Will Now Come to Your House and Vaccinate You for Free The SF Department of Public Health is now making house calls, and offering to come by your place and vaccinate you for free, provided you have a group of 5-12 people on hand for the shots.
SF News If You Got the Johnson & Johnson Shot, SF General Will Give You a 'Supplemental' Pfizer or Moderna Shot Starting later this week, if you received the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, you're eligible to drop into the vaccination clinic at SF General and get a "supplemental" mRNA vaccine dose — but don't call it a booster.
SF News Provincetown Outbreak Partly Prompted CDC's Latest Mask Guidance; Internal Documents Raise Alarms Over Delta The Delta variant is likely causing more severe infections, even though experts have not been saying this up until now, and the ease with which it spreads even among the vaccinated has the CDC raising internal alarms.
Bay Area Sports Eyeroll: 49er Nick Bosa Says He's Not Vaccinated, Still Weighing the Decision When faced with the moral and medical choice of whether or not to get vaccinated, the 23-year-old defensive end from Fort Lauderdale is really looking to test your patience.
SF News Is An Indoor Mask Mandate Next For Bay Area? Probably. But This Surge May Not Last Long Bay Area health officers likely don't want to order any more restrictions that will impact recovering businesses, but the pressure seems to be on to make a mask recommendation more of a mandate.
SF News CDC Confirms That Viral Loads In Vaccinated People With Delta May Be Infectious, So Masks Are Necessary The CDC reversed course Monday, citing new data, and said it now recommends indoor masks for the vaccinated in all areas of the country where COVID infections are surging.
SF News Debate About Vaccines Shifts to Individual Freedoms vs. Civic Duty, As Anger About New Surge Rises Is the question about getting or not getting a vaccine one of civil liberties and relative freedom of choice? Or does our duty to each other and to tamping down a pandemic trump everything else?
SF News More Vaxx Mandates: Newsom Requires All State Employees to be Vaccinated, Breed Expands Mandate California will be the first state to require all state employees to be vaccinated, while Mayor London Breed doubles down and expands the SF vaxx mandate, and you see where this is all going.
SF News Experts: Delta Not Likely Causing More 'Breakthrough' COVID Cases, and Maybe Asymptomatic Cases Shouldn't Count There has been a lot of talk, both amongst friends and in the media, in the last two weeks as panic spreads about the Delta variant, mask guidance, and the possibility of yet another lockdown. But infectious disease experts are not the ones sounding alarm bells.
Business & Tech Biden Backs Down Slightly From Saying Facebook Is 'Killing People' With Vaccine Misinformation President Joe Biden attempted to de-escalate a war of words he started last week with Facebook, walking back a statement he made about the platform "killing people" due to its failure to curb misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.
SF News SF COVID-19 Infections Rising Again, Breed Pleads for Vaccinations in Bayview San Francisco has been the ‘poster city’ for vaccination rates, but since the June 15 reopening, we’ve gone from 10 new cases a day to around 40.
