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    World Health Organization, CDC, and City of SF Information about COVID-19

    World Health Organization, CDC, and City of SF Information about COVID-19

    By Dr. Marcy Adelman– The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that people with mild cases of COVID-19—the disease caused by a new strain of coronavirus—recover in about two weeks; others…

    HIV Protease Inhibitors Show Promise in Treating COVID-19

    HIV Protease Inhibitors Show Promise in Treating COVID-19

    Since the novel virus that causes COVID-19 was first identified in Wuhan, China, last year, drug companies such as Gilead, AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and more have been racing…

    San Francisco Provides Temporary Housing for Those Needing to Quarantine

    San Francisco Provides Temporary Housing for Those Needing to Quarantine

    As San Francisco continues to strengthen its response to reduce the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), the city is working to provide quarantine locations for individuals who have tested positive for…

    Our Unknown and Anonymous Ancestors

    Our Unknown and Anonymous Ancestors

    By Dr. Bill Lipsky– The passing years have preserved the privacy and buried the secrets that the women and men of earlier generations needed to keep in life, but in…

    Words: Resistance, Identity, and Loss

    Words: Resistance, Identity, and Loss

    By Michele Karlsberg– Michele Karlsberg: A vivid, no holds barred page turner, Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss is a memoir about a lesbian of conscience who became a fugitive who…

    Wahl vs. Trump: Movie Critic Stand Off

    Wahl vs. Trump: Movie Critic Stand Off

    By Jan Wahl– It is so nice to have some competition. Mr. T [President Trump] decided to issue a critique on the movie Parasite while extolling the virtues of Gone…

    Ann Rostow: I’m Blue, No Matter Who

    Ann Rostow:  I’m Blue, No Matter Who

    By Ann Rostow– I’m Blue, No Matter Who As soon as I mentioned to you that I decided to pin my hopes for defeating Trump on megabucks Bloomberg, I was…

    Lift UP SF Empowers Behavioral Health Consumers

    Lift UP SF Empowers Behavioral Health Consumers

    By Brett Andrews– San Francisco has remarkably low unemployment overall at 1.9%. That prosperity and stability are not shared equitably across our community. A high cost of living, driven primarily…

    Now Is the Time to Get a Real ID

    Now Is the Time to Get a Real ID

    By Assemblymember Phil Ting– The number of Real IDs issued by the California Department of Motor Vehicles is lagging behind projected demand. If you anticipate needing one, I advise you…

    Strengthening Youth Voting Will Strengthen Our Democracy

    Strengthening Youth Voting Will Strengthen Our Democracy

    By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– One of the challenges facing our democracy is the underrepresentation of the needs of youth. From the horrors of stop-and-frisk committed against Black…