Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Dr. Diane Havlir, Dr. Carina Marquez, Dr. Alicia Fernandez, Dr. Kim Rhoads, Dr. Monica Gandhi. Illustration by Molly Oleson

Hello Readers:

I write today about a very cool group of women doctors/researchers who are watching our backs on Covid.

In other news:

Stay safe and enjoy the weather,

— Lydia

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Covid Tracker: 34,463 cases, 440 deaths

As the San Francisco R Number reaches an all-time low, new cases, hospitalizations and positivity […]

A dozen ‘groups’ responsible for a majority of SF homicides in 3.5 years

The key to reducing street violence in San Francisco is to “focus on and invest”

The Covid warriors at UCSF are often female, always fierce and unusually diverse

Insofar as San Francisco’s pandemic year has proved exceptional in any way, it has, in no small part,  been in the individual voices and collective activity of these women. 

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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.

As founder/executive editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.