SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Levi's Stadium Breaks Single-Day Vaccine Record Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Mission to protest police shootings in Daly City and Minnesota, a bill to restrict use of the Ellis Act has been shelved, and there are lots of vaccine appointments in Contra Costa County and at Levi's Stadium.
SF News Pfizer CEO Suggests Third Vaccine Dose Likely Needed, Might Be Annual Thing Like Flu Shot It's looking more and more likely that ongoing immunization against the mutating coronavirus will be needed, and on Wednesday the CEO of Pfizer suggested that recipients of its vaccine will likely need a third booster dose next year.
SF News 39 Sonoma County Residents Got COVID After Being Vaccinated — But That's OK, Experts Say, and None Were Hospitalized Sonoma County public health officials revealed Tuesday that 39 people in the county have been so-called "breakthrough" COVID cases, meaning that they became infected with the coronavirus more than two weeks after getting their second vaccine shot.
SF News FDA and CDC Recommend Pausing J&J Vaccinations Following Blood Clot Cases Six women came down with a rare blood-clotting disorder within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine, prompting federal authorities to recommend Tuesday that states pause in distributing the vaccine just as broad vaccine eligibility begins.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Extended For One Month, Without FEMA Help Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the Oakland Coliseum — technically now RingCentral Coliseum — mass vaccination site will continue operating for four more weeks past its scheduled sunset date, which was on April 11.
SF News SFMTA and Health Department Use Street Artist Fnnch's Honey Bear for New Vaccination Campaign Local street artist fnnch's masked honey bear mascot of the pandemic is being put to use in an official capacity in a new ad campaign from the SF Department of Public Health (DPH), encouraging the vaccine-hesitant to go get their shots.
SF News San Francisco Expands Eligibility for Drop-In Vaccines to More Zip Codes, All Ages If you're 16 or over and live in one of eight SF zip codes that the city considers "high-impact neighborhoods" in the pandemic, you can go line up for a same-day vaccine at two different drop-in vaccination clinics.
SF News New Vaccination Clinic Opens In SF's Excelsior District, Serving Neighborhood Residents A new vaccination clinic with phone appointments and some drop-in availability has opened to serve the hard-hit Excelsior District, much like neighborhood clinics that have opened in the Mission, Tenderloin, and Bayview.
SF News If You're Not Vaccinated, Stay Home, Order In, Be F**king Patient If you haven't yet received at least one vaccine shot and waited the appropriate two weeks after to resume more normal activities, you should not be resuming those activities as if we're totally out of the woods and you have nothing to fear — I don't care how young or invincible you think you are.
SF News Brace Yourselves For Vaccine Card Fakes, Which the FBI Considers a Federal Crime Next up in our Great American Pandemic Story we are likely to see a wave of stories about vaccination card forgeries — given how easy they are to fake, how many dumb Americans are still avoiding getting vaccinated, and you'll seen need one to go to a concert.
SF News Vaccine Hunters, Rejoice! New App Channel Aggregates Available Bay Area Appointments The MyTurn website is now accepting people ages 50 and up for vaccine appointments, but a new Telegram channel is blasting out available Bay Area vaccination appointments almost non-stop.
Business & Tech SF-Based Dating App Adds Vaccination Status to Profiles An all-important criterion for singles on the prowl in the coming months will likely be whether or not a prospective mate has been vaccinated against COVID-19. And one San Francisco-based dating app has already added vaccination status as a profile item.
SF News Advice For the Newly Almost Vaccine-Eligible: MyTurn Is Buggy, Every Appointment System Has a Quirk Unfortunately, now that we are just over two weeks away from the entire state of California (over the age of 16) trying to get a COVID vaccine appointment, the various systems through which one is expected to get an appointment all remain buggy, flawed, and ill prepared for the onslaught.
Business & Tech Pleasanton-Based Pharma Firm Gritstone Starts Trial For 'Second Generation' COVID Vaccine A Bay Area pharmaceutical company says it is working on a "second generation" COVID vaccine that could work as a booster against virus variants for the already vaccinated, and potentially prevent future coronavirus pandemics.
SF News Oakland Zoo's Great Apes To Receive Modified COVID-19 Vaccines, Among the First in the World Humans aren't the only sentient beings on this planet that are at risk of contracting COVID-19; our closest living relatives, the world's great apes, are especially prone to catching the novel disease from us.
SF News Open Season For Vaccine Eligibility Begins April 15 in CA, and Those Over 50 Can Start April 1 Governor Gavin Newsom made a surprise announcement Thursday, saying that the schedule for vaccine eligibility statewide is moving up faster than expected — with all residents over the age of 50 able to get vaccines starting next week, on April 1.
SF News Two Bay Area Counties Have Expanded Vaccine Eligibility to 50+ Set On Monday, Contra Costa County expanded its COVID vaccine eligibility requirements to everyone age 50 and over, regardless of health conditions. It's the second Bay Area county to do so after Solano County made the same move last week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To Encourage Vaccinations, Krispy Kreme Is Giving Away Free Doughnuts If You Show Your Vaccine Card In a sweet freebie to help encourage doughnut lovers to go get vaccinated, Krispy Kreme is offering a free doughnut if you walk in and show your vaccination card. But it's not just the one doughnut the one time.
SF News Newsom Says All Californians Should Be Vaccine-Eligible By Late April As the vaccine rollout and the availability of appointments continues to be a source of frustration for some Bay Area residents, the governor on Friday indicated that he believes everyone in the state should be eligible to get a vaccine by late April.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Switches to Second Shots Only Before Pivot to Johnson & Johnson Vaccine The mass vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum stopped taking appointments for first shots of the Pfizer vaccine last week as it prepares to switch over to administering only the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
SF News Mayor London Breed Gets Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Shot, Wants to Demonstrate That It's Safe SF Mayor London Breed went to a clinic in her home neighborhood, the Western Addition, to receive her COVID-19 vaccination today.
SF News More of SF Eligible for Vaccine Monday: People With Health Issues, in Homeless Shelters, Incarcerated People with a whole range of medical conditions will be eligible for their vaccine shot effective Monday, March 15, as will anyone in a congregate care facility like a homeless shelter or jail.
SF News Protesters Seeking Shutdown of Golden Gate Fields Racetrack Over Horse Deaths Cause Mass Vaccination Site For Humans to Be Shut Down A group of a few dozen animal rights activists succeeded in preventing some human people from getting their COVID vaccines in the East Bay today.
SF News Cheap Syringes at Oakland Coliseum Vaccination Site Lead to Wasted Vaccine, Accidental Under-dosing Over 4,000 people who received vaccines at the mass-vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum on Monday may have received the wrong dose amount, according to a new report. The under-dosing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Teachers and Restaurant Workers Now Vying for Vaccine Appointments, With Teachers Getting First Dibs Both educators and food-service workers gained eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines last week in San Francisco, alongside emergency services, transit, and grocery store workers. But getting an appointment still has been no easy feat for some.
