Glimmers of hope in San Francisco and across California, even amid strain on hospitals
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Health care workers prepare coronavirus tests at the Alemany Farmer s Market site in December. Coronavirus infection rates may be leveling out in the city, but the situation remains worrisome.Jeff Chiu / Associated Press 2020Show MoreShow Less
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Richard Elizares self-administers a coronavirus test in San Francisco, which is averaging 280 new cases per day.Paul Kuroda / Special to The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
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Even as the coronavirus surge continued to severely strain hospitals, signs of hope appeared statewide and in the Bay Area Tuesday.
Pick a site - officials seeking large Bay Area sites to set up COVID-19 vaccination centers
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The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
The San Francisco 49ers have offered Levi’s Stadium and its parking lot to Santa Clara officials as a possible vaccination site. The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority is considering offering its parking lot to local hospitals.
“Given the urgent need to vaccinate as many people as possible as soon as possible, I would recommend that we act proactively with medical providers” Coliseum Executive Director
Henry L. Gardner said.
The loans will be very low and zero-interest loans, ranging up to $250,000. These have been long, hard months on so many of us, but in particular our small business owners and workers have really struggled, Mayor London Breed said in a statement. We have lost too many of our small businesses already during this pandemic, and this relief plan will help many businesses get through these next challenging months as the vaccine is distributed and we can begin our recovery.
“With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, we are finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel, but we are not there yet, and these resources will make sure some of our favorite neighborhood businesses will still be around when we get there, San Francisco Assessor and Co-chair of the Economic Recovery Task Force said Carmen Chu said. San Francisco will rise again and we can do this together.
East Bay community college district pulls back on security plan; companies lack licenses
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1of2Tur-Ha Ak, founder of Oakland’s Community Ready Corp, poses for a portrait near a tree where a fake body effigy was found hanging near Lakeshore and Wayne avenues along Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif. Thursday, June 18, 2020. He calls for community members to join their lake patrol efforts and is unsure how this incident got past last night’s patrols.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of2Students and faculty walk by the stairs at the administration building at Laney College in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Millions of dollars of parcel tax money intended for faculty salaries in the Peralta Community College District in Alameda County may have been misspent on vacation, sick leave and other fringe benefits for non-academic staff, says a public watchdog group.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
The Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest has announced that it is hosting a first-of-its-kind virtual tour in collaboration with the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, the Haifa Museum of Art, the Haifa City Museum, and the San Francisco-Haifa Sister City Committee Sunday, January 17, at 10 a.m. Pacific Time.
The Zoom event will visit exhibits presented by three museums. CJM will provide a tour of its Levi Strauss: The History of American Style exhibit, while the Haifa Museum of Art will present its exhibit Spaces in Turmoil and the Haifa City Museum will show its What Will the Neighbors Say? that tells the story of the city s LGBTQ community.