Dr. Diane Havlir and Jon Jacobo from the Latino Task Force at the BART testing site. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Hello Readers:

It’s science and service at 24th Street with the Unidos campaign.

In other news:

  • A young man at the skateboard park was fatally stabbed.
  • Over the weekend, outreach workers signed up eligible locals for vaccination appointments.
  • The tracker continues to look good.

Stay safe,

— Lydia

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A 24-year-old man stabbed to death on Monday night at Duboce skatepark

A 24-year-old man stabbed to death on Monday night at Duboce skatepark

It’s ‘service and science’ at the community research hub in San Francisco’s Mission District

Now in its 11th month, Unidos en Salud continues to produce research as relentless as the virus.

Covid Tracker: 33,663 cases, 394 deaths

Hospitalizations, positivity rates and the R Number remain basically unchanged.

Ahead of expanded vaccine eligibility, volunteers go door-to-door to sign up Mission residents

Midway into their shift, Ysel and her coworker Vlade had already climbed scores of stairs, conversed with apartment dwellers through open windows, and helped an elderly Latina woman who had locked her keys in her car (and then registered her elderly husband). They registered about 15 people, including a 91-year-old who was unable to get an appointment elsewhere.

Just a snap.

The right way to get rid of a mattress

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