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.
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 You Can Soon Get Your COVID-19 Vaccine at a Bay Area Costco Store The wholesale retail company announced Saturday that Costco Pharmacy branches will start offering COVID-19 vaccines (using primarily Moderna units) for qualified recipients. Currently, the Novato Costco location is the only regional store actively enrolled in the program.
SF News California Is Now the Worst State in the Country When it Comes to Giving Out COVID-19 Vaccines We’ve all been bemoaning how sluggish SF and the state have been at administering vaccines. Though usage rates are rising, those upticks aren't enough to stop Alabama from leapfrogging over CA — making us now dead last in the country for the percentage of supplied shots being used.
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 Three Mass Vaccination Sites Opening in San Francisco; Oakland's RingCentral Coliseum to Also Become Vaccination Site With Bay Area ICU capacities now commonly sitting at single-digit percentages, the news of mass vaccination sites soon opening up across the region is a welcome update — and the three planned sites in San Francisco could collectively inoculate thousands a day.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Both in Rush To Offer ‘Free’ Rides to Get Vaccine (Many of Which Won’t Be Free) The two competing rideshare giants announce two different competing plans to offer free rides for vaccine shots, but the fine print shows plenty of these rides will not actually be free.
SF News Bay Area Frontline Workers Could Receive Initial Pfizer Vaccine Doses on Monday Friday night, the FDA greenlit the "emergency use" of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine — the first in the country to get this kind of authorization for battling the pandemic — and, simultaneously, setting up California to receive 327,600 units of it.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Says Facebook Employees Won’t Need Vaccine to Return to Work It’s a prickly topic for any workplace, but Facebook staff will not be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to their pampered workplace.
Business & Tech Sutter Health, Other Bay Area Healthcare Systems Purchase Special Freezers For Storing Pfizer's COVID Vaccine In preparation for what's going to be an unprecedented quick rollout of a vaccine that nearly everyone in the country will want, healthcare organizations around the Bay Area are purchasing low-temperature freezers that are capable of storing Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pfizer Gets $2B Vaccine Contract Twitter is booting all QAnon conspiracists off the platform, BART just gave out raises despite budget woes, and Pfizer just got a federal contract to produce 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, pending approvals.
SF News First Coronavirus Vaccine From Massachusetts Firm Releases Highly Promising Phase 1 Results The first coronavirus vaccine we wrote about back on March 17, developed by Massachusetts-based biotech firm Moderna, is already in its second phase of testing and about to enter its third later this month. And a report on the first phase is being called a "triumph" by one Stanford expert.
SF News H1N1 Vaccine Recalled KTVU reports that the San Francisco Department of Public Health "estimated that about 9,000 doses of a pediatric H1N1 vaccine recalled by the federal government were distributed within the city." But, we're
SF News To Vaccinate Or Not To Vaccinate? So it seems even folks in the more wealthy, educated quarters of our fair city can succumb to superstition. The proprietors at the More Mojo clinic are throwing in their lot with the
SF News New HIV Vaccine Study Shows "Modest" Benefits Conducted by the Thailand Ministry of Public Health, a new vaccine study has shown "modest" benefits in preventing HIV. Said results show that we could have a "safe and effective" preventive vaccine at
