City administers 1,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccines, but supply remains lowMartha Harding, 21, receives her Johnson & Johnsin vaccine hours before her first shift as a bartender at Richmond Republic Draught House on Friday. Photo by Juan Carlos Lara.

Hello Readers:

Can city and state officials convince the leery that the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine is as good a vaccine as the others? I think so. They seem willing to stake their own protection on doing so.

In other news:

Stay safe and enjoy the weather,

— Lydia

Stories

Covid Tracker: 34,527 cases and 445 deaths

SF hospitalizations of confirmed Covid patients have declined 85 percent since January 11.

People We Meet: Alejandra Solis

Alejandra Solis moved from Yucatán, Mexico, to San Francisco four years ago with her family and she would like to return in four years.

Hundreds virtually protest CCSF layoffs that will affect nearly 200 faculty

The union representing City College of San Francisco instructors and Supervisor Hillary Ronen held an online protest on cuts that impact a resource that has long been important for low-income and immigrant students.

Neighborhood Notes: Free Covid testing, a dance studio fundraiser and a new animal shelter

Free Covid testing  Residents can access free Covid-19 testing at the corner of 18th and Mission Streets. Sign up for vaccination appointments as well.

City administers 1,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccines, but supply remains low

More than a dozen drive-through vaccination tents opened simultaneously Friday morning at City College of San Francisco.

Just a snap.

Okay, but where?

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.

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