As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner

The world has experienced positive environmental effects as people have stayed home due to COVID-19.

BART riders must wear face coverings on trains, inside stations

Starting Wednesday, the Bay Area’s largest transit operator is enforcing mandatory masks inside stations and on board trains. BART said its following county health orders from Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties that require masks in public.

With no audience, gig workers impacted by COVID-19 find aid through nonprofit

There are about 187,000 musicians and singers, mostly so-called 'gig' workers or freelances, employed in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. 

People missing out on stimulus checks because spouses are immigrants

Roughly 1.2 million U.S. citizens did not receive stimulus checks because they are married to immigrants who don’t have social security numbers and joint-filed their taxes.

Santa Clara County had 2 COVID-19 deaths as early as February

Santa Clara County health officials announced that two people died of COVID-19 in February. Those two deaths, along with another on March 6, came before what was previously thought to be the first new coronavirus-associated death in the county on March 9.  

Man says dad was turned away by 3 hospitals while sick with COVID-19, then died at home

Keith says his father should still be alive, but was turned away from receiving care and testing at Beaumont Grosse Pointe, Detroit Receiving and Henry Ford hospitals over the course of three days

San Francisco considers universal vote-by-mail ballots

The head of San Francisco's Democratic Party has called for the city to provide all residents with mail-in ballots for the presidential election in November.

US coronavirus cases top 800,000, according to Johns Hopkins

As of April 21, there were more than 43,000 deaths and 73,000 recoveries in the United States from the novel coronavirus.

Trump announces green card restrictions

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he will be placing a 60-day pause on the issuance of certain immigration green cards in an effort to limit competition for jobs in a U.S. economy wrecked by the coronavirus.