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 San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Monday the city is falling back to the red tier in California's reopening plan. With cases surging, S.F. is temporarily rolling back the reopening of all non-essential offices, which had opened at 25% capacity on Oct. 27. It's also reducing the capacity of fitness centers and gyms to 10%, down from 25%. “We need to make these hard choices now so that we can save lives and keep our healthcare system from becoming overwhelmed,” Breed said in a statement. “In addition to these rollbacks, we need everyone to do their part to get COVID-19 under control, especially as we go into the holiday season. I know that people want to spend time with their family and friends this Thanksgiving, but this year we need to all stay home as much as possible, avoid unnecessary travel, and avoid gathering with people who don’t live with us.” With its new red status, the city fell back two tiers, as it was previously in the least-restrictive yellow tier and...

 SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A sharp rise in COVID-19 cases in San Francisco along with spiking cases and hospitalizations statewide and across the U.S. has prompted the city to roll back a number of reopenings, including indoor dining and indoor instruction at high schools not already reopened. Starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday, the city would temporarily halt all indoor dining, reduce the capacity of fitness centers and movie theaters, and pause the reopening of indoor instruction at high schools that have not already opened, although the Department of Public Health said it would work with high schools that want to reopen in an outdoor setting. Middle and elementary schools will remain open for in-class instruction. San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the city’s Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax announced the changes Tuesday afternoon amid a 250% increase in COVID-19 cases in the city since the beginning of October. “I know this is not the news our residents and businesses wanted to h...

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A vacant Union Square due to San Francisco's shelter in place order. William J Simpson/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones' newsletters. Why has San Francisco thus far been spared the worst of COVID-19’s impact? On Monday, the city reported 374 cases, with six deaths, a fraction of the state’s 7,414 cases. Doctors have yet to see the surge in coronavirus cases that has overwhelmed hospitals in New York City, which has 38,087 confirmed cases and 914 deaths in all. Density might explain some of the discrepancies with New York City. NYC is the densest big city in the country, at 28,000 people per square mile; San Francisco, the second-densest city, has 18,000 per square mile. But there are other factors that may have dampened the  San Francisco News effects of the virus: early, aggressive interventions by political and public health officials to contain the spread of the coronavirus and steel the system a...

Mayor Faulconer on Wednesday announced he is directing all vacant city property to be used to support an expected surge in COVID-19 patients. “Hospitals will need all the help our community can offer,” he said. “We need all hands on deck.” The properties involved could include city recreation centres, libraries, which are all closed, and even city parking lots, he said. They could be used as field hospitals, space  San Francisco News to conduct tests, and anything the state, county or hospitals need, Faulconer said. An example of this is the SDCCU Stadium parking lot being used by the county Health and Human Services as a mobile testing center, the mayor said. Earlier Wednesday, the Convention Center opened as a shelter for people experiencing homelessness. Some 400 people have moved there from the city’s downtown bridge shelters. The next step is to move more homeless individuals downtown from other bridge shelters, Faulconer said. The mayor said he was i...

The coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult for many businesses to operate. But an industry that hasn’t been forced to totally shut its doors is the marijuana industry. When San Francisco Mayor London Breed shut down the city and all non-essential businesses last month, Drakari Donaldson and other dispensary owners fought to remain open. They won that battle. As for the war? It’s still an ongoing battle. “Trying to do this whole transition from a store that was made to give off an in person experience that’s suppose to be warm and welcoming for the novice smoker all the way up to the expert smoker,” Donaldson said. “We are trying to figure out how to transition to San Francisco News people so they can see what we have and learn about stuff without actually being in the store. California Street Cannabis has since updated its pick-up policy to adhere to city rules and make it easier for consumers to enjoy their products. “Our menu is categorized to acces...

 In a January budget proposal of record size, Gov. Gavin Newsom touted a projected multibillion-dollar surplus and new programs to reshape homeless services, boost wildfire prevention and provide health care for immigrant seniors living in the country illegally. That plan has been dashed by the economic turmoil caused by the coronavirus outbreak, which experts say is pushing the U.S. into a recession. Although Newsom does not have to unveil a revised 2020-21 spending plan  San Francisco News until May, it’s clear that the widespread shutdown of California’s economy will take a huge bite out of the personal income, corporate and sales taxes that fund much of the state budget. The governor and lawmakers are facing scaled-back wish lists and the likelihood that they won’t be able to put this budget to rest even for months after it’s due. Newsom has nevertheless expressed confidence about what’s to come. At a news conference last week, he stressed that “nothin...

A pedestrian crosses a nearly empty California Street at Polk as the city began to shut down following an order to shelter in place in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, March 16, 2020. The six Bay Area counties issued a shelter in place order for residents to try and curtail the spread of the Covid-19 virus. 13A pedestrian crosses a nearly empty California Street at Polk as the city began to shut down following an order to shelter in place in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, March 16, 2020. The six Bay Area counties issued a shelter in place order for residents to try and curtail the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle Jennifer Vaughn poses in front of the Starline Social Club she used to attend but now is boarded up due to the lockdown on Monday, March 16, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. 13Jennifer Vaughn poses in front of the Starline Social Club she used to attend but now is boarded up due to the lockdown on Monday, March 16, 2020, in...

How They Are Going  What I’m going to say. Times are difficult right now; there are some families who have no idea how they are going to place dinner on the table because they are out of work. You start by utilizing what you currently have in your cabinetry. You don’t have to go out and spend money unless you actually have to do so. So get creative in the kitchen and utilize those food items you have before they get old or that have just been sitting in the fridge, freezer or cabinet waiting to be used. Don’t go out and spend on things that you don’t need. If you don’t need it, you don’t need to buy it. You don’t know what could happen from today till tomorrow. So you don’t want to San Francisco News  place yourself in a situation where you desperately need money, but you don’t have access to it or you don’t have it because you blew it on a coat you didn’t need, a pair of jeans that you just thought you had to have, but you don’t, or some other materialistic thing t...

First homeless moved to hotels San Francisco’s top officials took to a makeshift stage inside the Moscone Center Thursday to reiterate what they’ve told the public every day since the order to shelter in place was handed down this week: “Stay home.” City officials reported 70 coronavirus cases Thursday in San Francisco News , up from 51 on Wednesday, a 37% increase. Coronavirus: As cases surge in SF They have transformed Moscone Center into the city’s emergency operations centre for San Francisco’s response to the coronavirus. As the number of government workers called in to help manage the growing public health crisis has swelled to more than 250 people, city officials have moved  Press Release Distribution Services In San Francisco their emergency centre to the vast Moscone Center South. Residents comply with shelter-in-place “This is not a vacation. This is not the time for social gatherings. We want to discourage the gathering of large groups as much...

San Francisco Latest Update  On any given weekday, as clocks approach lunch hour, the streets of San Francisco's Nob Hill neighbourhood are bustling with pedestrians strutting to the clanging bells of iconic cable cars packed with wide-eyed tourists. But as Ree Ree Li, 25, peeked out her apartment window on Tuesday, she described a desolate scene punctuated by an eerie silence."I see the street. It's very empty. There are no people," Li told ABC News on the first full day of a citywide lockdown prompted by the global coronavirus pandemic. "It feels kind of apocalyptic. People are really nervous, which is fair."But while Li and others stayed to hold up in their apartments, people elsewhere in the city seemed a bit more cavalier. Footage from news media outlets captured people jogging, biking and Rollerblading along the Embarcadero waterfront, some appearing to be in violation of a chief tenet of the new rules: Stay at least six feet apart Mayor London Bre...