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28 Dec 2021

CDC Shortens Recommended COVID-19 Isolation Duration, California Responds

The Center for Disease Control recently announced that they’re adjusting their COVID-19 isolation guidelines for people who have tested positive for the virus; shortening it from 10 days to only 5 days, as long as they’re asymptomatic.  You’re probably wondering, what does that mean for the State of California? Well,

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04 Nov 2021

Ages 5-11 Soon Have to Show Vaccine Cards in San Francisco

  San Francisco County will soon require children ages 5-11 to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination to enter certain indoor public spaces like restaurants, entertainment venues and sporting events, just like adults, SF public health officials said this week. The local vaccine mandate already requires children and adults over the

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08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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04 Nov 2021

San Jose Started Vaccinating Children! Other Bay Counties Taking Appointments

The CDC officially recommended the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for use in children ages 5 – 11 this week.  In the Bay Area, Santa Clara County was first to officially begin administering the vaccine to its population of 167,000 children, they already had shots going into arms on Wednesday morning according

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26 Oct 2021

Children Ages 5 to 11 Could Start Getting COVID-19 Vaccinations Next Week

It looks like kids as young as 5 years old could start getting COVID-19 vaccinations as early as next week.  The Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Tuesday voted 17-0 to recommend emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. The decision was based on a smaller,

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23 Jul 2021

How to get your Digital Vaccine QR Code

With some 500 San Franciscan bars looking to screen for vaccine, it can’t hurt to have your “Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record” on your phone.  Most of you probably have a photo somewhere of your actual vaccine card or still have the physical card itself, but the CA Department of Health

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29 Jun 2021

CDC Screwed Up: Don’t Throw Away the Masks

It was a little suspect when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted the mask mandate for fully vaccinated people in indoor public spaces. The decision is now proving to be a wrong turn in the fight against the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. Yes, fully vaccinated people are pretty

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04 May 2021

San Francisco Hits Yellow Tier, Prepares to Reopen Indoor Bars

San Francisco is just one of six counties in California to reach the yellow tier in the state’s reopening blueprint, and is the first in the Bay Area to achieve that goal. The yellow tier is the least restrictive, allowing capacity limits to increase in a myriad of businesses and

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27 Apr 2021

CDC Releases New Mask Guidance and Tucker Carlson Proves to Be the Biggest Maskhole

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fully vaccinated people can pull the mask off in outdoor, and some indoor, settings, even among other unvaccinated people.  But, and this is a big but, the CDC still recommends everyone wear masks when in large crowds of strangers and

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