SF News One Medical Has Vaccines Revoked By SF, San Mateo, and Alameda Counties Over Allegations of Improper Distribution A day after NPR reported that SF-based healthcare startup One Medical had given COVID vaccines to ineligible patients and non-patient-facing staff, three Bay Area health departments are stopping vaccine allocations to the company.
Business & Tech SF-Based One Medical Reportedly Allowed Ineligible Patients and Work-From-Home Staff to Get Vaccines SF-based healthcare startup One Medical is the latest organization being called out for unethical practices in the distribution of still very limited supplies of COVID-19 vaccine — allegedly including giving vaccine shots to friends and family of company leadership, and patients in their 20s.
SF News SF Opens Up Vaccinations to Teachers, Grocery Store and Restaurant Workers — But How Soon Will They Get Them? While vaccine supplies remain inconsistent and insufficient, San Francisco officially moved into Phase 1B of vaccine eligibility on Wednesday, allowing grocery store and food service workers to be next in line alongside educators, childcare workers, and emergency services personnel.
SF News Mayor Breed Announces Free Roundtrip Muni Rides To COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments In a news release from the Office of the Mayor Friday, Breed announced the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) will offer free roundtrip transportation for people traveling to and from their COVID-19 vaccine appointments starting this coming Tuesday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Moscone Center Resumes Vaccinations Monday COVID has decreased U.S. life expectancy by a full year, the Moscone Center vaccination site resumes operations on Monday with a backlog of appointments, and Airbnb is opening a "technical hub" in Atlanta.
SF News Bay Area Epidemiologist Suggests the Last Year of the Pandemic Was Just One Big 'First Wave' Marin County-based epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant, who offered some prescient warnings last April about not letting up the Bay Area's strict lockdowns for fear of subsequent COVID surges, is back with some dour predictions and words of caution.
SF News 4,500 People Were No-Shows For Vaccines In Santa Clara County During First Week of Levi's Stadium Site Over 4,500 Santa Clara County residents didn't show up for vaccine appointments they made last week, during the first week of Levi's Stadium being operational, prompting calls for the county to set up waitlists and make sure that no vaccine doses go to waste.
SF News SF Opens Third Mass-Vaccination Site at Bayview Produce Market, In Partnership With Sutter Health San Francisco is set to be able to vaccinate 10,000 people per day as soon as vaccine supplies catch up, with the city's third mass-vaccination site now open at the SF Market (the wholesale produce market at 901 Rankin Street) in the Bayview.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Plans To Give Restaurant Workers Vaccine Priority; East Bay Grocery Workers Start Getting Vaccinated There has been some confusion over what groups of workers are prioritized under in vaccination Phase 1b, and it turns out that San Francisco is going to move restaurant workers up in the phasing ahead of what the CDC officially recommends.
SF News SF Mass-Vaccination Sites at City College and Moscone Center Closed This Week Due to Lack of Vaccine Supply Much like other counties in California over the past two weeks, San Francisco has had to pause its mass-vaccination effort due to supply issues.
SF News Everyone Over 65 In the Mission, Bernal, and Potrero Can Now Get Drop-In Vaccinations at SF General If you are over 65 and live in the Mission, Bernal Heights, Excelsior, Dogpatch, or Potrero Hill and haven't yet received a COVID vaccine, you can now drop in and get one at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital any day between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
SF News CVS Stores In 18 Bay Area Cities to Begin Vaccinating People Friday Vaccination Nation is finally getting into full swing with both large-scale, mass-vaccination sites like Levi's Stadium and Moscone Center now open, and with CVS stores now taking appointments across the region beginning Friday.
SF News Pandemic Updates: 793,000 Bay Area Residents Already Vaccinated; 307 ICU Beds Available Around Region 10.2% of Bay Area residents have gotten their first vaccine shot, and COVID hospitalizations continue trending downward both locally and statewide.
SF News Moscone Center Prepped For Friday Opening As City's Largest Mass Vaccination Hub Signage has been going up and the streets are being painted this week around the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco as it prepares to open as the city's largest mass-vaccination site.
SF News SF Opens First Drop-In Vaccination Site in Bayview, No Appointments Needed If you are over 65 and live in one of two zip codes in the Bayview, all you need to do is get in line for a vaccine at a new city-run vaccination clinic, starting this week.
SF News SF Opens Community Vaccination Site at 24th and Capp Streets A second outdoor, walk-up vaccination site has opened in San Francisco, this one, in the Mission District, intended to increase equity of vaccine distribution in one of the hardest-hit communities in the pandemic.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Placer County Man's Post-Vaccine Death Being Investigated Bay Area teachers remain in a vaccine limbo, three people were wounded in a shooting outside a Burlingame hotel, and Sacramento is getting more aggressive with building housing than San Francisco.
SF News Mass-Vaccination Site Soft-Opens at City College — No Walk-Ups Allowed The drive-through mass-vaccination site at City College "softly" opened Friday morning at a five-acre parking lot, with a plan to administer 500 doses today to healthcare workers and people over the age of 65.
SF News Mass Vaccination Site at City College Expected to Open This Week Despite Dip In Vaccine Supply A mass-vaccination site at the main campus of City College of San Francisco is still on track to begin doling out vaccine doses by the end of this week, even as the city's health department says it is about to run out of vaccine doses in the next two days.
SF News SF Will Email or Text You When You’re Eligible for the COVID-19 Vaccine Starting Tuesday, you can sign up to receive an automatic notification when you are eligible to receive your vaccine shot. Trouble is, you probably won’t receive that notification for several months.
SF News Part of Moderna Vaccine Distribution to Pause in California Due to Allergic Reactions "A higher-than-usual number of possible allergic reactions were reported with a specific lot of Moderna vaccine administered at one community vaccination clinic," says California State Epidemiologist Dr. Erica S. Pan.
SF News Biden Taps UCSF Prof. David Kessler to Lead Vaccine Distribution Effort UCSF professor of pedriatics, epidemiology, and biostatistics, and former FDA head Dr. David Kessler will be President-elect Joe Biden's chief science officer of COVID response in charge of vaccine science.
SF News After Freezer Fails, One NorCal Town Rushes to Give Out 830 Vaccine Doses Before They Go Bad Up in Mendocino County, there was a close call on Monday after an ultra-cold freezer storing hundreds of vaccine doses failed, and doctors went into emergency-distribution mode.
SF News Teachers, Police, and Food Service Workers Could Be Next to Get COVID Vaccine in California A committee tasked with recommending who will be in the "Tier 1-B" group for COVID vaccinations in California, and they met Wednesday to begin finalizing those recommendation.
SF News Stanford Medical Residents Revolt After Doctors Who Don't Treat COVID Patients Get Priority for Vaccine Before Them Residents working at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto staged a protest Friday to demand that they be given priority in the line for healthcare workers getting the Pfizer COVID vaccine.
