SF News Naturopathic Doctor In Napa Allegedly Sold Fake Vaccine Cards to Go With Her Fake COVID Immunization Pills A Napa woman who told patients at her naturopathic and homeopathic medicine practice that the available COVID-19 vaccines had "toxic" ingredients in them now faces federal charges for falsifying vaccination cards. And she's the first person in the country to face federal charges for such a scheme.
SF News More Animals at Oakland Zoo Have Started Receiving Modified COVID-19 Vaccines There's strong evidence to support that SARS-CoV-2 — the pathogen which causes COVID-19 — has a zoonotic source, meaning it's naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. And this is exactly why animals at the Oakland Zoo have begun getting inoculated against the disease it causes.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Rise 10% In Bay Area; Sonoma County Seeing About 60 New Cases Per Day Among Unvaccinated The pandemic picture in the Bay Area hasn't entirely cleared up and turned sunny, and there continue to be pockets of new infection in multiple local counties, as well as an unsettling uptick in new COVID hospitalizations.
SF News Data Finds 'Breakthrough' COVID Cases Exceedingly Rare Among Vaccinated Californians Despite the ongoing presence of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19, and an average of 950 new daily cases around the state in the last several weeks, so-called "breakthrough" cases of the disease in vaccinated Californians continue to be very rare.
SF News 70% of Latinx People In SF Have Had at Least One Vaccine Dose; 81% Vaccinated Citywide San Francisco announced what it said was an "important milestone" on Tuesday, saying that 70% of eligible Latinx residents, i.e. those over the age of 12, have received at least one vaccine dose as of today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Will Require All City Employees to Get Vaccinated SF will make all city workers get vaccines once the FDA gives full approval to one, the Oakland City Council may be diverting $17M of the police budget, and Gavin Newsom may have overstated how many fire breaks have been cleared around the state — by a lot.
SF News You Can Now Show a Digital Vaccine Card on Your Phone With California's New Online System Don't call it a vaccine passport! But California now has made vaccination records available digitally through an online portal, which creates a scannable QR code that you can show to get into stadiums, concert venues, and the like.
SF News Newsom Announces $1.5M Vaccine Lottery Winners at Universal Studios, With Minions, Transformers, and Trolls It was a cartoony pony show Tuesday morning befitting our big and baffling state, and our showboat Governor Gavin Newsom was greeted as he arrived on stage by a weird voiceover of Optimus Prime saying "It is a privilege to be by your side."
SF News Most of Santa Clara's Mass Vaccination Sites Are Closing Soon (But That's a Good Thing) With 80% of eligible county residents vaccinated against COVID-19, four of the five mass vaccination sites in Santa Clara County will shutter in the coming weeks. Remaining vaccine appointments in the county will be handled through mobile efforts, pop-up locations, retail pharmacies, and clinics.
SF News Workforce Nonprofit and UCSF Canvas Tenderloin Offering J&J Vaccines to Residents Saturday afternoon, Code Tenderloin — a local non-profit organization dedicated to helping employ disadvantaged San Franciscans in long-term positions — and UCSF staffers went around the Tenderloin, inoculating those wanting a single-dose shot against COVID-19.
SF News Five Bay Area Residents Win $50,000 Prizes In Second Vaccine Lottery Drawing California's vaccine lottery continued with its second drawing on Friday, awarding 15 more Californians with $50K for getting a COVID vaccine — including one more from San Francisco.
SF News Herd Immunity For San Francisco May Be Just Three Weeks Away There are still a few unknowns, and it would be unwise to declare ourselves definitively out of the woods, but some often-quoted experts at UCSF are sounding pretty bullish about San Francisco's shot at herd immunity.
SF News You May Want to Answer Unknown Calls For a Couple Weeks As CA's Vaccine Lotto Kicks Off How will you know if you've won $50,000 or one of the $1.5 million grand prizes in California's vaccine lottery drawings? State health officials are going to try to call you on the phone, so you may want to answer unknown calls on your cell for the next couple of weeks.
SF News Forget Free Pizza — California Now Offering $116.5 Million In Cash and Prizes for People to Get Vaccines California is now offering the largest sum total in vaccine incentives of anywhere in the nation, in a bid to raise the percentage of state residents who are vaccinated against COVID-19.
SF News SF Is Throwing Free Vaccine ‘Family Events’ with Food, Prizes, and Ferris Wheel Tickets to Encourage More Shots Now the Department of Public Health is throwing around free Skystar Wheel tickets, Clipper fare, zoo and museum tickets, and free food at family vaccination parties the next three weekends.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Offers Second Pfizer Shots For Anyone Who Missed Theirs (For Limited Time) The Oakland Coliseum mass-vaccination site is winding down on May 23, and Alameda County is putting out a last call for anyone who received a first Pfizer dose and may have missed their second appointment.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Homicide Rate Trending Double the 2020 Rate California health officials are getting set to approve giving Pfizer shots to kids 12-15 starting Thursday, a Richmond school has shut back down due to a van with threatening graffiti, and Oakland just had its 49th homicide of the year.
SF News Levi’s Stadium Throwing Teen Vaccination Parties With DJs and Oodles of Goodies The vaccine machine that is Levi’s Stadium is offering teens a “Vaxstage Pass” — vaccine shots, with chasers of 49ers swag, locker room tours, and live DJs several nights this week.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Mass-Vaccination Site to Close May 23; Moscone Center to Close May 28 One of the Bay Area's biggest mass-vaccination sites will shut down for good on May 23, in yet another sign of ongoing progress in the pandemic fight — and signaling the shift in focus for the vaccine campaign.
SF News Humpday Headlines: CVS Now Doing Walk-In Vaccinations A family dog caused a fiery crash at a Concord gas station, CVS is now taking vaccine walk-ins nationwide, and the SFPD is seeking a teen suspect seen setting a woman's hair on fire on a Muni bus.
SF News California Has Had 1,380 'Breakthrough' COVID Cases Among Vaccinated Since January As better news arrives about mask mandates and such, we get other news that California has recorded 1,379 cases of COVID among people who are considered fully vaccinated, underscoring the need for ongoing caution.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cut Back Drinking for a While After Being Vaccinated, Some Experts Say The medical advice about drinking alcohol after getting a vaccine shot has been mixed so far, with the general advice seeming to be "don't overdo it." But some experts have cautioned that heavy drinking may seriously inhibit your immune reponse in the weeks after your shots.
SF News Two-Thirds of San Franciscans Now Have At Least One COVID Vaccine Shot In Them As of Thursday, a full two-thirds of the city (67%) has received at least one shot in the arm of a two-dose vaccine, and 40% are fully vaccinated. Appointments at the Moscone Center are also readily available right now for next week.
Arts & Entertainment Sorry, Anti-Vaxx Burners: Burning Man May Require COVID Vaccine For Entry Very soon there are going to be a lot of disadvantages to not having a COVID-19 vaccine, besides the danger of getting and/or dying from COVID-19. The latest potential downside: You won't be allowed into Burning Man.
SF News One UCSF Doc Says Outdoor Mask Mandate Should Be Lifted; Another Says He Still Won't Dine Indoors It's getting to where infectious disease experts may start diverging in their levels of relative caution when it comes to public safety mandates. And while two UCSF doctors don't necessarily disagree in some recent statements, one is urging a lifting of SF's mandate on wearing masks outdoors.
