COVID-19 Updates
SF Building Temporary Hospital to Free Up Beds for COVID Patients
COVID-19 Updates Thanks to KRON4 for letting us know that San Francisco is building a temporary hospital in The Presidio to free up beds for COVID patients. City officials are predicting a large surge in coronavirus cases. So to get ahead of the curve, San Francisco announced it was building a new temporary more...
This Bay Area Rapper Is Working on a COVID Vaccine
COVID-19 Updates, Uplifting, Vaccines Thanks to SF Gate for letting us know about Ruby Ibarra, a Filipino American rapper whose day job is as a scientist for a Bay Area tech company working in quality assurance on COVID-19 test kits and a possible vaccine. That’s her day job. For her “night” job, Ibarra is a more...
San Francisco Priest Claims COVID News is “Largely Unreal”
COVID-19 Updates Thanks to SF Gate for letting us know that a San Francisco pastor has claimed that “news reports on COVID are largely unreal.” The Rev. Joseph Illo of Star of the Sea Catholic Church on Geary and 8th Ave. in the Inner Richmond wrote in a church website bulletin (which has more...
SF’s First African American Small Business Loan is Now Open
Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Only in San Francisco Are you a Black business owner impacted by COVID-19? The City’s African American Small Business Revolving Loan Fund will deploy loans up to $50,000 at 0% interest to support San Francisco Black-owned businesses. There are no fees and no collateral requirements. Long-standing Black-owned businesses and those most severely impacted by the more...
SF Announces New Community Learning Hubs
Brand New, COVID-19 Updates Mayor London N. Breed announced on Thursday, July 23rd that San Francisco will transform facilities around the city into supervised Community Learning Hubs to support distance learning for high need San Francisco Unified School District students starting this fall. Additionally, the city will extend its emergency child and youth care more...
Oakland Curbs Lake Merritt’s Huge Parties As COVID Cases Spike
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates Thanks to CBS Bay Area for letting us know that health officials are saying that large gatherings at Lake Merritt have led to spiking COVID-19 cases in Oakland. UPDATE: Roots Community Health Center says that while cases are spiking due to large gatherings and parties, they have not connected the spike more...
SF Expands Face Mask Rules to Address COVID-19 Surge
COVID-19 Updates Effective July 24, 2020, the City of San Francisco has issued new face covering rules to address the recent rise of infections and hospitalizations in SF. Failure to comply with any of the provisions of the public health order, “constitutes an imminent threat and immediate menace to public health, constitutes a public more...
No Face Mask in Public? Napa Can Now Fine You Up to $500
COVID-19 Updates Thanks to SF Gate for letting us know that Napa County has now officially instituted a fine of up to $500 for people who violate public health orders. Napa County released the Urgency Enforcement Ordinance on July 20, which states that people who violate a Public Health Order such has hosting large more...
Free COVID-19 Testing in Santa Clara County July 21-25
COVID Testing, COVID-19 Updates, What's Closed / What's Open The County of Santa Clara will offer COVID-19 diagnostic testing from July 21-25 at two additional pop-up locations in San Jose and one in Gilroy. No appointments are needed for a free and easy nasal swab test at any of these pop-up locations. Read the full press release. See the full more...
10 Free COVID Testing Sites in Alameda County
COVID Testing, COVID-19 Updates Any resident of Alameda County can now get tested for COVID-19, free of charge, at any community testing site. Related: Find free testing sites in San Francisco You do not need a doctor’s note or medical insurance to get tested, you will not be asked about your immigration status, and most test more...
The Current State of COVID-19 in San Francisco
COVID-19 Updates Thanks to ABC7 for letting us know that the Mayor of San Francisco and the Director of Public Heath shared a “bleak” outlook for the state of COVID-19 in the city. As of yesterday, San Francisco had 4,950 confirmed coronovirus cases and 50 deaths. Nearly 1,000 of those cases were diagnosed more...
New Free COVID-19 Testing Site in SF’s Mission
COVID Testing, COVID-19 Updates, What's Closed / What's Open Mayor London Breed Announces New Mobile Testing Site in the Mission and Right to Recover Program to Provide Financial Support for Residents Who Test Positive for COVID-19 Thursday, July 9, 2020 Testing site will operate on Thursdays from 10:00am – 3:00pm in coordination with services provided at the Latino Task Force Resource more...
SF Mayor Breed Exposed, Tests Negative for COVID-19
COVID-19 Updates UPDATE: San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Thursday afternoon that she has tested negative for COVID-19 after a possible exposure. She’ll take another test next week as an extra precaution since it sometimes takes time between being exposed and testing positive. San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced on Twitter yesterday that more...
Swamped SoCal Sending COVID-19 Patients to Bay Area Hospitals
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates The Mercury News reported that hospitals in Imperial County in Southern California are so overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients that they’re being transferred to Bay Area hospitals. More than 15 patients have been flown to local hospitals including Stanford and UCSF, which received 3 patients this week. Imperial County, located east of San more...
UCSF Tested 4,000 in Mission for COVID: Here Are the Results
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates Thanks to the SF Chronicle for letting us know that UCSF released the final results from the mass testing of nearly 4,000 people in a Mission District in late April – testing both residents of the Mission as well non-resident people who work in the Mission. According to UCSF, test results more...
