Dr. Ethan Weiss making his way to New York in late April to treat Covid-19 patients.Source: Dr. Ethan WeissWhen Dr. Ethan Weiss arrived in New York in late April, he started his first shift almost immediately.Weiss is a cardiologist based in San Francisco, which has had relatively few hospitalizations related to Covid-19. He decided to help out…
43-year-old registered nurse Mike Schultz was one of thousands of gay men who attended the Winter Party in Miami in the first week in March. It was the last circuit party on the global circuit of events that attract fit, shirtless men year round that was not cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic — and…
San Francisco study reveals 90% of people who tested positive for coronavirus had been leaving home to go to workUC San Francisco researchers tested 4,160 residents of the city's Mission District for COVID-19 between April 25 and 28 Of the 62 people who tested positive, 90 percent were essential workers 95 percent of the positive individuals were…
Published on Apr 27, 2020During the 1918 flu, San Francisco lifted its lockdown early — and paid a dire price.» Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe» Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: https://go.nowth.is/KnowThisIn US news and current events today, the coronavirus pandemic, the COVID-19…
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The city of San Francisco released its most granular data to date Monday tracking the spread of novel coronavirus throughout the city.RELATED: Gov. Gavin Newsom teases update on timeline for reopening economyAn interactive map posted by the city shows which zip codes have the highest concentrations of COVID-19 infections per 10,000…
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out