Bay Area Updates
1 Million Vaccines by July 4: Contra Costa County’s Goal
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates, Uplifting, Vaccines Contra Costa County has set lofty vaccination goal to vaccinate nearly the entire county’s population (of those 16+) by the 4th of July.* Similar to San Francisco’s goal of vaccinated the entire city by June 30 (and President Biden’s goal of 100 million doses during the first 100 days of his more...
Alameda County Opens Outdoor Dining “Immediately”
Bay Area Updates, Outdoor Dining, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Due to long-term projections for ICU bed availability and with the state’s Stay-at-Home order rescinded and the county being placed in the purple tier, Alameda County today said that activities and businesses may “resume operation immediately.” Read the full press release. That means outdoor dining is back throughout Alameda County effective today. @AlamedaCounty more...
California Ends 10pm Curfew, But SF Keeps It
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Reopening In big news this morning, Monday, January 25, California has announced that its lifting the regional Stay at Home Order for all regions across the state. Along with this news, California has also ended its 10 pm curfew. UPDATE: According to Eater SF, San Francisco will keep the 10pm curfew for more...
Bay Area ICU Capacity Tops 23%
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates Some positive news to start the week, the Bay Area has had a massive upswing in ICU capacity. Thanks to CBS Bay Area and KRON4 for sharing the uplifting news. As of Saturday, Bay Area’s ICU availability has reportedly experienced a significant increase in the past several weeks, jumping from just more...
San Francisco Reopening Outdoor Dining
Bay Area Updates, Outdoor Dining, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Following the news that the statewide “Stay-at-Home” order has been lifted, San Francisco Mayor London Breen tweeted that San Francisco will be moving forward with limited re-openings including outdoor dining and personal services (such has salons and barbers) as soon as San Francisco enters the “Purple” tier. UPDATE: San Francisco Will more...
California Lifts Stay-at-Home Order: What’s Next?
Bay Area Updates, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open As new cases and hospitalizations decline, the state of California announced on Monday morning that the stay-at-home orders for all regions across the state have been lifted. Read the Press Release This means the easing of restrictions will no longer be based strictly on regional ICU capacity or projected 4-week ICU capacity, more...
Contra Costa County Has Vaccinated 6.7% of Population So Far
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines Contra Costa County has launched a brand new COVID vaccine dashboard so you can track how many people have been vaccinated. Thanks to KRON4 for sharing the new of the new live dashboard for the county. So far (as of January 22), 62,594 residents in the county have received their first dose more...
East Bay City Gives $1 Million to Its Restaurants & Bars
Bay Area Updates, Getting Help, Support the Bay The pandemic has hit restaurants hard, but one East Bay city is trying to help. Walnut Creek has just announced their new Restaurant Grant Program which will give $1 million to its local bars and restaurants who are struggling to stay afloat. Thanks to KRON4 for sharing the news and the details more...
Oakland’s Drive-in Warriors Watch Party
Bay Area Updates, Drive-In Movies, Support the Bay We love this. So, when’s the next one? Warriors fans came together on Wednesday, January 20 for a socially-distanced drive-in watch party at Oakland’s Liberation Park. Oakland Forever#DubNation came together tonight for watch party at Liberation Park. pic.twitter.com/IfotNp5LDv — Warriors In The Community (@DubsCommunity) January 21, 2021
SF’s Pop-up Waterfront Drive-in Movie Theater is Back
Bay Area Updates, Drive-In Movies, Only in San Francisco, Things to Do, What's Closed / What's Open San Francisco’s first drive-in movie theater, Fort Mason Flix, returns in February. Fort Mason Flix is a pop-up drive-in theater on the waterfront showing hit movies six days a week, from family favorites and cult classics to blockbusters and art house cinema. The theater features an oversized 40’ x 20’ high definition more...
New Cherry Blossoms Coming to Japantown
Bay Area Updates, Uplifting Thankfully, it looks like progress is being made to bring in new cherry blossom trees to Japantown after two of the trees were vandalized earlier this year. Thanks to Reddit user gamefem for sharing the recent photo outside of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California. At the start of more...
CCSF Opens Friday as SF’s First “Mass” COVID Vaccine Site
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines San Francisco’s Department of Health and Supervisor Matt Haney announced that San Francisco’s first “mass” vaccine distribution site will be opening on Friday, January 22, 2021 at CCSF’s Ocean Campus on Frida Kahlo Way in partnership with UCSF, Dignity Health and One Medical. Read more from the Mayor’s office – San more...
San Francisco Won’t Run Out of Vaccines This Week
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines Thanks to KRON4 for letting us know that San Francisco Mayor London Breed has announced that the city’s health department is no longer projected to run out of vaccines this week. Earlier this week it was announced that San Francisco had already allocated all of its 31,655 vaccines and was scheduled more...
SF Sets Lofty Goal: Vaccinate Every Resident by June 30th
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates, Only in San Francisco, Uplifting, Vaccines San Francisco just set an ambitious goal: vaccinate every San Francisco resident by June 30, 2021. District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney took to Twitter to announce the big news that SF Department of Public Health just announced their vaccination goal in a recent COVID-19 vaccine rollout hearing held on January 20. SF more...
Warriors Give VP Kamala Harris “Madame VP” Jersey
Bay Area Updates, Election, Uplifting Thanks to KRON4 for letting us know that Vice President Kamala Harris received a very special gift from her hometown team. The Golden State Warriors gave her a signed team jersey which says Madame VP. The framed jersey has a plague that states “Vice President Kamala Harris for representing the spirit of more...
