A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses has stalled in the Senate and seemed all but certainly sidetracked for weeks.
A leading UC-San Francisco infectious disease expert believes the delay will have a ripple effect in the local efforts to keep the virus at bay. Hospitalizations have fallen, but new cases in several Bay Area counties are among the highest in California.UPDATE: 3-Alarm Vallejo Hillside Blaze Quickly Halted; High Winds, Plunging Humidity Raise Fire Threat
Mask requirements across the Bay Area have been lifted. It was hard to spot a mask among the 40,853 fans who gathered at Oracle Park for Friday’s San Francisco Giant season opener or among the hundreds who milled about the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for its Art Bash fundraiser. While there are concerns of another wave of coronavirus infections due to the BA.2 sub variant, short of another mandate, the push to get vaccinated maybe ending.
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