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Neighborhood Notes: Firepie, climate art, Giving Tuesday
Happy Thanksgiving from Mission Local! We have compiled a few events, happenings, and opportunities for the community as the holiday season descends. Latino Task Force and Unidos en Salud testing, […]...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: So far omicron appears contagious, but mild
Dr. Bob Wachter speaks to two experts about two new antiviral medications as well as the panic around the new Omicron variant. UCSF Grand Rounds: So far omicron appears contagious, but mild
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Public Defender plans to offer ‘Clean Slate’ services at Mission resource hub
The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and Latino Task Force launched a partnership Thursday to more readily help Mission residents access the office’s Clean Slate program to “clean up” prior […]...
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UCSF researcher says panic around omicron variant unwarranted
Diane Havlir, the chief of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine Division for UCSF, gave local leaders an update on the Covid-19 omicron variant today, saying “there’s absolutely no reason […]...
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Chan Zuckerberg bid to end ‘all disease’ brings high-level science into the...
“It’s a general tenet of our work across Biohub and CZI that we tend to approach things from a bottom-up level … going to the frontline with those local groups." Chan Zuckerberg bid to end ‘all...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: navigating omicron mid-December
This Thursday’s UCSF Grand Rounds focused on the “firehose of new data related to Omicron,” with a presentation on what we know about the variant followed by a discussion on “what we should be doing...
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Definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ in flux amid boosters, omicron
You know the drill. You show up for the comedy club gig, and the doorman/woman asks not only for your ticket, but your Covid-19 vaccine card and probably your ID, […] Definition of ‘fully vaccinated’...
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Local restaurant workers continue to wear least-effective masks
The majority are using a cloth or a surgical mask – neither layered, as recommended by city health officials, nor the more effective N95 types or its equivalent. Local restaurant workers continue to...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: ‘naming racism, and moving to action’
UCSF Chair of Medicine Dr. Bob Wachter welcomed Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, physician and 2021-2022 UCSF presidential chair, on Grand Rounds Thursday to spark an ongoing conversation about the impacts...
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SFUSD failed the Covid-19 testing test
It’s painful to admit it, but it’s true: The last time Oakland kicked San Francisco’s ass this thoroughly was the ’89 World Series. To wit: On the cusp of winter […] SFUSD failed the Covid-19 testing...
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Covid-19 test site introduces ‘fast-track’ to encourage retesting
Love turned away a flow of people without the magic pass. Rejects looked longingly once, bowed their heads, then trudged across Lilac Street to the “normal line” entry at the other end of Capp Street....
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Eric Topol damns the ‘inevitability camp’
Dr. Eric Topol sits down with UCSF Department of Medicine Chair Dr. Bob Wachter to discuss the current Omicron surge in the United States, and challenges the idea that everyone will get covid, instead...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: omicron updates and current As to your Qs
As Omicron continues to retreat, UCSF Chair of the Department of Medicine Dr. Bob Wachter conducted a rapid-fire questions session with Dr. George Rutherford, Dr. Peter Chin-Hong and Dr. Sarah...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: The endemic phase, and examining vaccine data
Navigating what is safe or not safe as covid-19 becomes endemic is a hard line to toe. Dr. Bob Wachter spoke with three experts about mandates, vaccines among children, and other long-term questions...
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Most SF teens are vaccinated, but haven’t had boosters
Only one-third of youth ages 12 to 17 received a booster shot. Most SF teens are vaccinated, but haven’t had boosters
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Covid data, second boosters, investing in future health
Dr. Bob Wachter held Grand Rounds today with Dr. Caitlin Rivers, the founding associate director at the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, co-director of the...
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UCSF Grand Rounds: Vaccines, variants, mandates and preparing for the future
Dr. Bob Wachter hosted a conversation with Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, and a panel of UCSF Grand Rounds veterans to discuss the current surge of Omicron...
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Test for Covid-19, RSV, and flu all at once at 24th and Capp
A local lab will determine the biological source through a catch-all test called “metagenomic sequencing.” Test for Covid-19, RSV, and flu all at once at 24th and Capp
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‘Housing is medicine:’ Housing effect on Latinx health laid bare in new report
"Housing is medicine," Dr. Carina Marquez said. ‘Housing is medicine:’ Housing effect on Latinx health laid bare in new report
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Why docs worry about low bivalent Covid-19 vaccine rate
“We clearly haven’t found a way to communicate to the public how important it is, and we have to keep trying,” said Diane Jones. Why docs worry about low bivalent Covid-19 vaccine rate
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Uncommon test solved a Mission medical mystery
A mystery disease wound its way through the Mission this January, wreaking runny noses and headaches upon its victims. But when doctors had patients test for likely diseases — Covid-19, […] Uncommon...
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Where to get fentanyl test strips and Narcan in the Mission
Read in spanish / Leer en español The Mission is one of the top neighborhoods where accidental overdoses occur. While accidental overdoses can happen in the street or in people’s […] Where to get...
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In the ’80s, bars stocked condoms. Now, it’s strips to test for fentanyl.
Inside Mothership’s darkened, otherworldly bar, some life-saving tools can be found just behind the LED-lit counter. If you ask, there’s Narcan, generically known as naloxone, which reverses a...
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The doctors bringing abortion care from SF General to Wichita
A 19-year-old girl walks up to the clinic’s front desk, a couple of her friends trailing behind. Everyone is yawning after the eight-hour overnight drive from eastern Arkansas to Wichita, […] The...
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Mission Covid-19 site will increase hours during mini-surge
As Covid-19 cases ramp up nationwide, so will the response from one Mission community health site. Amid the surge and increased local demand, Unidos en Salud, the organization behind the […] Mission...
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How Covid-19 turned Bay Area residents into community-health workers
“It's definitely not something that I was thinking about before,” Shalom Bandi said. How Covid-19 turned Bay Area residents into community-health workers
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Researchers find link between Covid-19 and post-covid childhood illness
Scientists have uncovere a link between Covid-19 and post-Covid childhood illness. Their work may improve treatments for similar conditions. Researchers find link between Covid-19 and post-covid...
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UCSF ‘borders on panic’ facing potential Trump funding slash
As the lead of the Center for AIDS Research at UCSF, Dr. Monica Gandhi is spending the month in a world of devastating “what-ifs.” UCSF ‘borders on panic’ facing potential Trump funding slash
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Forcibly sterilized in California prisons, victims stitch together memorial...
Survivors stitched a quilt honoring the nearly 600 victims of forced sterilization in state prisons who are still alive today. Forcibly sterilized in California prisons, victims stitch together...
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UCSF doctors warn: Abstinence-only approach to drug use can kill
As San Francisco politicians increasingly embrace abstinence-first approaches to substance abuse, four UCSF doctors issued a note of caution. UCSF doctors warn: Abstinence-only approach to drug use...
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Trump funding cuts derail Tenderloin’s roving nurse program
A team of roving nurses doing outreach work in the Tenderloin has an uncertain future amid slashed federal grants. Trump funding cuts derail Tenderloin’s roving nurse program
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