Public Health

Pandemic Cuts Fuel Protest at Historic Chinatown Hospital: ‘A Really Big Hit’

Pandemic supply and labor shortages have come down especially hard on San Francisco’s century-old Chinese Hospital, where dozens of staffers and union activists walked...

Supes Spar Over How to Get Every Homeless San Franciscan into a Shelter: ‘The Streets Cannot be a Waiting Room’

Supervisors are sparring over how to get every unhoused San Franciscan into a shelter bed, with a proposal that one lawmaker says will undermine...

As Booster Shots Lag, Community Groups Get Creative in Closing Vaccination Gaps 

As San Francisco heads into yet another wave of the pandemic driven in part by a new strain of the virus, community groups are...

Much-Touted ‘Tenderloin Linkage Center’ Morphs into a Safe Consumption Site for Drug Use, Despite Legal Risks

When Mayor London Breed announced the opening of the Tenderloin Linkage Center in January, she touted it as “a safe, welcoming space for those...

Dorsey Seeks to Unify Opposing Sides of the Hotly-Contested Addiction Debate

When the newly appointed District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey shuffled into the crowded courtyard on Monday at Delancey Street Foundation, an abstinence-based rehabilitation nonprofit...

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