The Chronicle began covering the coronavirus crisis before the first cases in the Bay Area were reported and a pandemic was reported. We reorganized the newsroom to devote the most of all resources to fitness and economic disaster articles. Every day, we release live updates to reflect the maximum local, national and global critical updates on COVID-19, and this news is loose to keep our network informed and informed.
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Updates for Saturday, August 8:
7:11 p.m. Very few San Francisco firefighters have antibodies to coronavirus: only 3 San Francisco firefighters have tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, according to a UCSF test that included more than 1,000 workers. As the first to respond, firefighters are on the front line with respect to other people, so the small number may reflect the special attention paid to the mask and the distance in service. Read JD Morris’s tale of the chronicle here.
5:50 p.m. Trump’s occasion ignores social estrangement: One time at President Trump’s golf club in New Jersey he gathered dozens of others, many of whom did not wear a mask for at least part of the occasion, the Washington Post reported. The shots show other people crammed. The president described it as a “peaceful demonstration.”
4:39 p.m. The University of California will require the flu vaccine: students, the university, and the University of California formula staff will have to be vaccinated until November 1 in a new executive order, as a component of an effort to relieve tension in medical services, the coronavirus pandemic. . Read the story here.
4:10 p.m. Hospitalizations in California continue their downward trend as California hospitals are treating 5,746 COVID-19 patients within a few weeks, state officials said Saturday. Of those recently hospitalized, 1,868 are in intensive care units. Hospitalizations in the Bay Area also showed a downward trend, reaching 663 patients on Friday, up from 815 on July 28.
3:52 p.m. The population of Santa Rita prison includes 10 other people inflamed by coronavirus: 10 inmates out of the population of more than 1,800 people in Santa Rita prison are inflamed with the coronavirus, and 8 of them show no symptoms, Alameda County Sheriff’s officials reported. Eleven workers and subcontractors are inflamed. To date, 207 inmates have tested positive for 33 outstanding results. Fourteen have recovered and are no longer in custody, and 23 who tested positive have been released, authorities said Friday.
3: 40 p.m. A loose check site opens in the Santa Clara Library: A loose coronavirus check site opens at the Central Park Library on Homestead Road, Santa Clara officials said Saturday. People can start making appointments on Sundays for Wednesday checks from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Insurance is not required, but appointments are mandatory. The site is to check “individuals without symptoms of COVID-19,” according to a city official.
3:34 p.m. The Red Cross is creating a network of volunteers for families: American Red Cross officials have created a virtual circle of family assistance center to supply families and communities “who have suffered a loss as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to officials from the San Mateo County Office of Community Affairs. For more information, visit: redcross.org/VFAC.
3:28 p.m. Santa Clara County reports more cases, more deaths: Public fitness on Saturday reported 221 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the county total to 11,687 cases. The county has reported an additional death, with a total of 204 lives lost to date. The new figures are “new diagnoses and deaths in recent days,” Public Fitness said on Twitter.
3:18 p.m. Obesity hampers vaccine promise: With researchers nationwide burning midnight oil to develop a vaccine against the raging coronavirus, another insidious and growing U.S. epidemic threatens to stymie the broad effectiveness of such vaccines: obesity. Kaiser Health News reports that scientists are skeptical a vaccine will deliver immunity tailored to needs of the 107 million American adults who are obese. A little-noticed study from China found that heavier COVID-19 patients were more likely to die than leaner ones.
2:34 p.m. A rally of motorcyclists in South Dakota defies virus protection: hordes of maskless motorcyclists flock to a massive annual motorcycle rally in a small town in western South Dakota, the Associated Press reports. The vroom-vroom scene on the streets was familiar on Saturday at the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, organizers expected to arrive less than a share of a million habits in total. Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has adopted a largely non-interventionist technique to the pandemic, avoiding a mask mandate. She supported the demonstration.
2:17 p.m. Trump files anti-deportation orders for tax deferment: President Trump on an executive order Saturday that says he will protect tenants from eviction and a few others to extend student loan relief until the end of the year. He also called for the force to defer payroll bills with an order to defer them until December for middle- and low-income people. He said that if he was re-elected, he could simply extend the postponement and verify that the tax is “resistant.” The social security and fitness benefits of the tax budget, and we don’t know what would happen to the systems without the money.
1:50 p.m. Trump is calling for executive powers to provide relief: President Trump signed an executive order Saturday in which he says he would make higher unemployment advantage for Americans after a confrontation with Congress over a new stimulus package. At his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump said his order would give Americans $400 a week in unemployment benefits; The advantages of getting the last $600 a week expired last month, however, Trump said the $400 was what other people were looking for and that would be enough. Trump said states will have to pay 25% of the benefits. “If not, it will be your problem,” he said when asked through reporters which states they agreed. It is unclear what the spending mechanism would be or how it would be carried out in the courts. Trump closed the press convention after a few questions, and golf club supporters mocked the problems.
1:40 p.m. Pelosi stands firm on a complicated stimulus strategy: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading a challenging strategy on a new stimulus package, emboldened through Republican divisions and a favorable political landscape, according to a New York Times analysis. On Friday, talks with the White House came to a standstill, with San Francisco’s Democratic president refusing to settle for a restrictive relief measure, disrupted by accusations that it would be an impediment to an agreement. With polls indicating that Republicans are falling under the weight of President Trump’s reaction to the coronavirus, Pelosi and Democrats have been encouraged to assert their advantage.
1:20 p.m. The SF region among the U.S. regions With the biggest commercial loss: more than 2,000 businesses in the Bay Area have been declared permanently closed since March when the pandemic devastated the economy, according to Yelp data. The closures of more than three hundred restaurants and three hundred retailers. Approximately 3,000 other San Francisco companies have been temporarily closed, according to Yelp listings in San Francisco. Only Honolulu and Las Vegas lost a higher percentage of businesses, according to the data. Read the story here.
1:10 p.m. Latin American corporations are at the end at higher rates of the pandemic: Latin American corporations in California have been heavily affected by coronavirus. Before the pandemic, Latinos opened businesses faster than any other demographic, however, a survey now shows that 70% of Latino-owned businesses across the country have had to close since mid-March, if not forever, at least temporarily. close trades. Read the story here.
13:00. An SF researcher focuses on asymptomatic levels: an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco is focusing on the unusually high rate of symptom-free coronavirus cases, approximately 40% of infections according to the Estimated Centers for Disease Control, seeking to perceive the mysterious virus, the Washington Post reports. Scientists hope that perception will keep track of vaccines and treatments.
12:46 p.m. Trump said he planned to use executive forces for stimulus: the media reports that President Trump plans to issue executive orders Saturday to provide additional pandemic relief to Americans, as the White House and Congress block the main points of a new package. The forces that would allow Trump to supply investment are unclear, because the spending force belongs to Congress under the Constitution.
12:21 p.m. The Los Angeles cases continue to skyrocket: Los Angeles County remains the distant leader in the number of coronavirus cases, as California officials say the numbers across the state appear to stabilize. Los Angeles County recorded 204,167 infections Friday, with 4,918 deaths to date, to 60,122 cases in the Bay Area, with 904 deaths. Compared to other areas most affected, Riverside County recorded just over 40,452 cases and San Bernardino County 34,939.
12:01 p.m. The SF posters pay tribute to fitness care workers: a 7-year-old’s motto, “I’d like to give you a 6-foot hug,” has an art poster at Market Street kiosks in S.F. It is one of the posters of the artists commissioned in tribute to the coVID-19 fitness workers, with 40 posters that are on Monday in a series called “Heroes: San Francisco thanks the workers of frontline health care”, an assignment of the San Francisco Arts Commission. Read the story here.
11:48 a.m. How to beat the vacationing park crowds: Due to the pandemic, many California rural areas have never seen so many vacationers as they during this summer when air travel is curtailed and for many people nervewracking. People are packing parks, campgrounds and easily accessible lakes — just about any recreation site that can be reached by 2-wheel-drive. Tom Stienstra has some tips on how to ditch the throngs.
11:24 California frees young prisoners amid epidemics: the coronavirus is expanding in California youth prisons, but the state is releasing young prisoners for protection as it did in its adult dungeons. With nearly 70 cases reported in the state’s 3 youth prisons, or about 9% of the existing population, corrections officers temporarily halted transfers to the Stockton and Ventura county facilities. Read The Chronicle story here.
10:20 a.m. Brazil is approaching 100,000 deaths: Brazil is approaching the bleak milestone of the 100,000 deaths shown through COVID-19, months after the first case reported in a country of 210 million people. Brazil has reported an average of more than 1,000 deaths consistent with the day of the pandemic since late May. The death toll compares to more than 161,000 in the United States, much higher.
10:08 New immediate bus to East Bay: Traffic in the Bay Area has plummeted because other people worry about coronavirus transmission, but in surprising parallel development, immediate bus traffic will begin Sunday in East Oakland. AC Transit’s new “Tempo” line promises ease and speed with bus lanes engaged along a direction of approximately 10 miles and 46 stations between San Leandro BART Station and 20th Street and Broadway in downtown Oakland. This is one of the first immediate transit bus lines in the Bay Area: one is in service in South Bay and two are under structure in S.F. Read the story here.
9:59 am Central Valley staff suffer on the front line as must-have staff: coronavirus shoots in the central valley as “must-have” agricultural staff on production lines and sorting tables who oppose all social distance patterns, while excuse employers look for a co-painter after a colleague stops running , Array reports Vivian Ho of The Guardian. Some staff members reported that they had been exposed to COVID-19. Others felt compelled to paint even when they had viral symptoms.
9:50 a.m. The Mid-American Conference cancels football and other sports for the fall: The Mid-American Conference announced Saturday that it would cancel all fall sports competitions due to the pandemic. The MAC is the first Division 1 college football convention to voluntarily give up all of its games in 2020. The convention said in a statement that the resolution had been taken “with the physical condition and protection of its students-athletes, coaches and communities as the most sensible priority.”
9:25 A grim picture of unemployment than the figures show: knowledge shows that America’s fragile economy. It has created 1.8 million jobs in a month, but the existing scenario is worse, carolyn Said of The Chronicle reports. That’s because government knowledge was gathered in mid-July, before weekly unemployment reports increased for two consecutive weeks, the first increase since its peak last March. Small story: The rebound in reopening is over and more and more Americans are suffering from long-term unemployment.
8:59 a.m. It would probably be too late to save millions of Americans: while Washington talks on a new stimulus package have now failed, it may already be too late to avoid lasting monetary damage to many of the 30 million Americans who depend on unemployment benefits, the New York Times reports. Tackling normal state unemployment, a few hundred dollars a week or less, won’t prevent you from evictions, hunger or rising debt from many people, making it more difficult to get out of the hole.
8:40 a.m. Stanford graduate students concerned with protection: Stanford graduate academics, one of the richest and most prestigious universities in the country, fear that the school will not be able to cope with its coronavirus problems. More than three hundred have signed an open letter to the university asking for periodic tests and isolation functions for academics waiting for results. Read The Chronicle story here.
8:24 am Two-thirds of young people affected do not suffer from any pre-existing illnesses: research by government scientists shows that, as with adults, more than 55% of young people with COVID-19 are men and 40.5% Latino are the highest percentage of any race or ethnic category. The maximum non-unusual underlying condition is obesity, however, two-thirds of young people did not have pre-existing conditions, according to new reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
8:10 a.m. Younger are contracting COVID-19 and fatal inflammation: as President Trump sends an unsubstantiated message that young people are virtually immune to COVID-19, the disease infects an increasing number and more than 200, adding up to 29 in California, suffering from serious, life-threatening inflammatory reactions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On Friday, two CDC reports provided a disturbing perspective on the effect of coronavirus on children under the age of 18. Read the story here.
7:49 a.m. in the United States, deaths exceed 160,000: The United States has lost 161,456 lives for coronavirus, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. At least 10213 of those deaths occurred in California.
7:43 a.m. The fierce season of chimney venues looms amid the pandemic: a season of California wildfire sites looms as COVID-19 changes the way the state and Cal Fire respond. Base camps where firefighters gather to eat, rest and plan now require a mask and have spread to allow social estrangement. Cal Fire is hosting more people in hotels to crowd them in trailers. Crews are combined in groups. Learn more about chimney site arrangements at the time of coronaviruses.
Updates on Friday, August 7:
17:29 The Bay Area exceeds 60,000 instances and reaches 900 deaths: the Bay Area recorded a total of 60,049 cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic on Friday, and the death toll in the Bay Area reached 900 as the insidious virus continued to riot.
5:19 p.m. California hospitalizations remain below 6,000: another 5,932 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Friday in California, state fitness officials said, adding 1,798 in extensive care units. The numbers have been falling in recent weeks.
5:10 p.m. SF Symphony Gives Bones bare: The San Francisco Symphony has a new pandemic-era awareness program, called 1:1, that strips music to the bone: a musician, a listener, in 30 minutes of performances, back to the two outdoor terraces of Davies Symphony Hall. Every Thursday concerts are part of a series of projects the orchestra has presented to keep the arts alive during the pandemic.
5:04 p.m. Contra Costa County sees an increase in the number of cases: Contra Costa County recorded 228 cases of coronavirus on Friday, bringing the total to 8760 cases since the start of the pandemic. The county has also added two deaths to its death toll, for a total of 136 lives lost to date.
4:50 p.m. Delays in control effects in the Bay Area are worsening: delays in the effects of coronavirus control at some Bay Area sites have worsened this week, taking up to 19 days and thwarting officials seeking to involve the summer outbreak. Delays in the effects of processing are more common in advertising laboratories than in public fitness laboratories and are the result of increased demand, limited laboratory capacity and a lack of materials across the country. Read the story of the Chronicle here.
4:44 p.m. SF’s homeless workplace is not ready for a tragic crisis: as the pandemic pushes more and more people into poverty, the San Francisco Office of Homelessness is understaffed and unprepared to deal with the developing crisis, according to a report by Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office. The report released Thursday found that the branch has a vacuum rate of about 26% and a maximum staff turnover rate, insufficient contract supervision and $26.5 million in unsended earnings, despite a growing increase in homeless people. Read the story here.
4:29 p.m. California has a lot at stake as D.C. falters:California had a lot riding on the stimulus relief package that hit a standstill in Washington on Friday. The Democrats’ version would release at least $14 billion that California officials are counting on in the state budget. Without it, steep cuts will hit the UC and Cal State University systems, affordable housing programs, courts and state worker pay. In all, California state coffers stood to get more than $20 billion this year and $26 billion next year from the Democrats’ plan, in addtion to $30 billion this year and $15 billion next year for California cities and counties. Read the story here.
4:15 p.m. Computer problem fixed that led to underreport of cases: A computer problem that caused California to underreport the number of new coronavirus cases has been fixed, but the backlog of tests results could result in thousands more positive cases being added to the state’s total, Mark Ghaly, state health secretary, said Friday. He said the state will need a few days to sort through as many as 300,000 backlogged test results for the coronavirus and other infectious diseases to determine how many came out positive. Read the story here.
3:25 p.m. The number of cases in Alameda County is increasing: Alameda County recorded 313 cases of coronavirus on Friday, as well as 3 more deaths. Figures to date raise the number of county cases to 12,079 and the death toll to 205.
3:14 p.m. The state limits school sports: California higher education sports groups must require masks for coaches, staff, media, and all players who do not participate in the games, in accordance with the new state rules released Friday. “Training can only be resumed if normal COVID-19 tests are performed on athletes and staff.” Inter-group competition, without spectators, can only take place if schools provide COVID-19 testing and effects within 72 hours of the festival in high-risk touch sports. Schools will have to notify other schools if an athlete tests positive within 48 hours of the festival.
3 p.m. California mandates schools to have campus-specific antivirus plans: California higher education facilities must have campus-specific COVID-19 prevention plans and test threats of all paint spaces and student responsibilities and interactions, in accordance with new state rules for schools and students. universities published on Friday. They will have to adhere to state rules on face coverings and the 6-foot social distance, and rigorously investigate any COVID-19 disease and its cause. Indoor conferences are prohibited.
2:38 p.m. The federal government is seeking to reassure the public about vaccine protection: federal fitness officials, involved in fragile confidence in an imaginable coronavirus vaccine, presented a public crusade this week to insist that regulators will not eliminate any vaccines unless their protection and efficacy are verified. But President Trump then injected a political note by predicting Thursday that a vaccine might be available around November 3, Election Day. Senior Food and Drug Administration officials, in published articles and interviews, said they would only approve a vaccine after a rigorous review and consult with an external advisory committee to make certain decisions based “only on smart clinical knowledge and smart knowledge.”
2:24 p.m. There is no new aid program for the unemployed: a supreme effort by Democrats to revive the collapse of the Capitol negotiations on the major cash of the COVID-19 bailout ended in sadness on Friday, press reports have said, so Washington’s stagnation most likely means more difficulties for millions of others who are wasting unemployment benefits and additional damage to a crown-hit economy who is still in anger.
2:18 p.m. State failure on certificate renewal led to delay:California failed to renew a certificate, from July 21 to Aug. 5, for an intermediary that enables Quest Diagnostics, a major coronavirus test provider, to report test results, the state health secretary, Dr. Mark Ghaly, said Friday. That led to delay in test results getting reported to the state. The certificate must be renewed every two years and July 31 was the most recent deadline: It has since been renewed, Ghaly said.
2:10 p.m. California officials confident in the downward trend: Despite the failure of the state’s knowledge system, California officials “feel confident in the trend,” showing a stabilization in the number of coronavirus cases, said Secretary of State for Health and Human Services Mark Ghaly said Friday. “We believe the trend has stabilized and declined,” a validated conclusion through declining hospitalizations over the past two weeks, he said. He added that earlier next week he will report on the precise figures and what the blockade “means in terms of the case and its effect on the broader meaning of transmission across the state.”
1:57 p.m. Communication lapse cited in state’s data foul-up: All state monitoring of county coronavirus data has been frozen as officials investigate a lapse in its technical systems, Dr. Mark Ghaly, California secretary of health, said Friday. “We are currently working to understand the communication of this issue within our organization,” he told reporters. “We are aware individuals there were aware of some of these challenges. We are taking a complete look at how that communication could have been better.” County officials warned in recent days that their case data may be lacking due to reliance on the state’s system.
1:47 p.m. The state said the knowledge formula “failed,” an investigation was launched: in a brutal announcement after the discovery that the number of coronavirus cases in California is disabled due to a technical challenge, the state’s most sensible fitness officer said Friday, “Our knowledge the formula has failed.” Gavin Newsom has ordered an investigation. “We will hold other people accountable,” Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said at a press conference. “We apologize. You deserve more. The governor expects more from us. Authorities learned of the challenge on Monday and the root cause “goes back to a server outage on July 25, he said.
1:21 p.m. Outside Lands is the newest indoor festival: in the absence of concerts at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park this year, developers of the Outside Lands music and art festival hope to convince enthusiasts by bringing joy live to their homes. The virtual Inside Lands from August 28-29 will feature performances beyond Lands and the premiere of new live content, promoter Another Planet Entertainment announced.
1:16 p.m. The stock ended up in a combined light: investors didn’t know exactly what to do with things on Friday, yet they liked those small businesses. The Russell 2000 index rose 1.3%, the Dow Jones rose by just 0.2%, the S.P.500 rose by even 0.1% and the Nasdaq fell 0.9%.
12:45 p.m. Sonoma County is the latest to impose consequences for crimes committed with masks: others who refuse to wear a mask or stay at a distance will now face fines in Sonoma County. On Thursday, the supervisory body approved subpoenas ranging from $100 for others who do not use face coverings or who do not practice social estrangement as needed, up to $10,000 for corporations that violate state and local rules against the pandemic. In addition to police officers, government workers, such as code enforcement officials and park rangers, can factor subpoenas.
12:29 Fauci says voting on the user can be done safely: Dr. Anthony Fauci says Americans can move to the voting booths on the user if they are careful, the Washington Post reports. But when pressured in a later interview about whether mail voting is a safer option, Fauci refused to answer definitively, saying, “Now it’s a game in Washington to oppose the president. Array… Someone will take a quote and a binpass, I will oppose the president, and I don’t need to do that.” President Trump, despite the lack of evidence, called the vote by mail a fraudulent one.
12:17 p.m. Harry Reid calls Trump’s attack on the mailing vote “a stupid” rampage”: Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that President Trump raises considerations that are non-existent “by attacking mail-in voting plans against the pandemic, he added at Reid State Home in Nevada. The attacks are “an effort by Trump and Republicans to prevent other people from voting” and “make a big fuss about nothing,” Reid said in an interview with CNN. Trump’s crusade is suing the Nevada battlefield for his plan to mail the entire electorate in November, a step that California is also taking. Reid predicted that mail-in ballots would improve voter turnout.
11:50 a.m. SF tevery oneers will return to 7 a.m. paintings: San Francisco tevery oneers will resume the days of 7-hour paintings when distance learning for the fall period begins on August 17, according to the tentative agreement concluded by district officials and union tevery oneers. Historically, Tevery oneers painted seven hours a day, but only had to paint 4 hours a day during the closure of the spring pandemic. The new agreement, if approved, requires at least two hours of live instruction or interaction each day, which can come with Zoom calls with all the elegance or small groups. Read Jill Tucker’s story here.
11:39 a.m., Democrats say the White House refuses to split the difference: Democratic leaders said Friday that the White House had turned down an offer for a $2 trillion coronavirus relief program, The Hill reports. House of Commons president Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco said Democrats on Thursday proposed cutting their $3.4 trillion worth by $3.4 trillion if Republicans agreed to increase their package by about $1 trillion with the same amount to help Americans succeed over the pandemic. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told reporters Friday that the accumulation of a trillion dollars is “a failure.”
11:25 a.m. Prison workers sue the state for coronavirus protection: a union representing thousands of California criminal workers is suing the state correctional service and its physical care system, accusing officials of exposing workers to “uncontrolled” coronavirus outbreaks in state offenders. SEIU Local 1000 reported that prison officials had driven a system-wide epidemic through recklessly moving criminals who did not meet fitness and protection guidelines. Read the story here.
11:17 a.m. The postal workplace is racking up monetary unrest as the mailing vote looms: the new post office minister, Louis DeJoy, questioned on Friday reports that his company is slowing down mail or other mail; despite the monetary difficulties, he said he had “sufficient capacity to deliver all mail safely and on time” for the November elections. monetary losses, which officials say can succeed at $20 billion in two years.
11:08 a.m. Fauci talks to parents: Parents of Rhode Island schoolchildren who are concerned about returning to school this fall due to the coronavirus pandemic will be able to have their questions answered through Dr. Anthony Fauci. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is scheduled to enroll in Gov. Gina Raimondo next Thursday in a Facebook Live forum on the state school’s reopening plan.
11 A.M. The approval ruling says inmates will need to be reviewed: a federal approval ruling ordered immigration officials to check all inmates for coronavirus at a Bakersfield facility where COVID-19 exploded and temporarily report the results of the checks. Federal District Judge Vince Chhabria of San Francisco said Thursday that ICE is endangering inmates, staff and the public, and that evidence suggests that ICE has shown “deliberate indifference” to the threat of an outbreak at the Mesa Verde detention center. Read The Chronicle story here.
10:47 a.m. Last effort to rescue a new stimulus package: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi planned to meet Friday afternoon with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows as Democrats presented a definitive effort to revive the collapse of COVID-19 bailout cash talks. Both sides said the long duration of the negotiations is dubious after a combative assembly on Thursday.
9:59 a.m. The death toll in the United States is expected to be 300,000: the United States. COVID-19 deaths are expected to succeed in nearly 300,000 as of December, almost doubling the number of deaths in the next 4 months, according to new knowledge published Friday through the Institute of Metrics and Health Assessment, an independent fitness studies center at the University. Washington. But the institute says that “the constant use of a mask from now on” up to 95% of Americans can save some 70,000 lives.
9:46 a.m. Telemedicine is not a panacea for the elderly: while telemedicine has allowed patients to see their doctors safely during the pandemic, it is not so simple for many older adults. UC San Francisco researchers found that more than a third of people over the age of 65 face potential difficulties seeing their doctor through telemedicine, and low-income men in remote or rural areas have the greatest challenges, especially those with disabilities or poor health. Researchers published the effects this week on JAMA Internal Medicine.
9:38 a.m. Albany High Alum Short is a consultant for the single life of the pandemic: if you sail alone in the coronavirus pandemic, you’re not really alone. The ten-minute animated short film “Going It Alone” is a consultant who explores the unrest other single people face with the pandemic, and do the others know there are tactics to deal with them?
9:27 a.m. New York to allow in-person school: Schools across New York can reopen for in-person instruction this fall, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday, opening the door for millions of students to return to classrooms and solidifying New York’s status as one of the few states with a virus transmission rate low enough to avoid fully remote learning. A few months ago, New York was a global epicenter of the pandemic. School districts and local politicians will decide how and when to return.
9:17 a.m. Sushi chefs forced to commit: the coronavirus pandemic forces the Bay Area’s most serious sushi chefs to make a key philosophical decision: commit to delight or food. The result will replace omakase, a form of high-end Japanese cuisine where the chef skillfully prepares and puts the pieces in front of you, one at a time. A forward-looking result is by no means an omakase. Read the story here.
8:53 A generation of San Francisco exodus: Several primary-generation corporations have told staff that they can continue to paint from home even after the coronavirus has been closed. This has led many employees to flee the Bay Area to live less expensive elsewhere. On the Fifth Mission podcast, Heather Knight talks to Jennifer Stojkovic of sf.citi, a chamber-of-commerce likes organization for generation corporations, who says she expects some of those corporations to live up to it, leaving San Francisco and taking taxes with them. . Click here to listen.
6:44 a.m. Pfizer forms agreement with Gilead to make Remdesivir: Pfizer announced a multi-year agreement Friday with Gilead Sciences, Inc. to manufacture and supply remdesivir, Gilead’s investigational antiviral drug for COVID-19. Under the agreement, Pfizer will provide manufacturing services at its facility in McPherson, Kan., to make and supply remdesivir for Gilead. Read more here.
6:38 a.m. Stocks are falling since July’s unemployment figures, as the Dow and Nasdaq indices fell as investors took stock of new labor market data, which showed a faltering recovery. The inventors of Gilead Sciences have increased following the announcement of an agreement that Pfizer will manufacture a treatment for coronavirus.
6:29 a The SF Teachers Union and the School District reach a precept agreement for distance education: the agreement, if ratified by a vote of union members and the San Francisco Unified School District, will remain in effect until June 30. 2021 “or until academics retrain in person,” according to a summary of the agreement published through Uniteds Educator of San Francisco. Read Lauren Hernandez’s full story.
6:18 a.m. SF’s beloved small businesses say an unhappy and unobtrusive farewell: Small businesses have long been the cornerstone of San Francisco, anchoring our eclectic neighborhoods and giving us a joy that Amazon may never have. But this turns out to be the summer of its demise, as many retailers have closed for good. The Heather Knight Chronicle has history.
6:01 a.m. Unemployment remained in double digits in July: the U.S. economy It added 1.8 million jobs, unemployment was 10.2% in July and more people reported being unemployed for an extended period. The many other people who have been unemployed because of the pandemic will also likely manage without the federal government’s benefits, as Washington talks on a new bailout remain stalled.