Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Friday, May 15, and you’re not imagining higher meat prices in some grocery stores. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
In case of emergency, break budget glass
California would cancel billions of dollars in program expansions, temporarily limit tax credits and drain part of the rainy-day fund to close a $54 billion deficit that has opened up during the coronavirus pandemic, under a revised budget plan Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled Thursday.
The proposal follows the opening budget volley made by state senators earlier in the week. Negotiations will take place over the next month with legislators, who must pass a balanced budget by June 15, Alexei Koseff reports.
In brief: The main points of Newsom’s budget proposal.
R-what?
As the Bay Area inches toward reopening the economy, a single number that defines the state of the coronavirus outbreak is gaining new status: the R0.
R0 (pronounced R-naught) is what’s known as the reproduction value. It’s an epidemiological number that, in simplest terms, represents how many people an infected individual will transmit the virus to. An R0 of 2 means that every infected person will infect two others, and those two people will each infect two more, and so on.
But the R0 depends on factors inherent to the virus as well as on human behavior and the environment in which the virus is transmitting, so the R0 often varies from country to country, and even city to city.
Read more from reporter Erin Allday.
Kawasaki disease: CDC alerts doctors of syndrome in children that might be linked to the coronavirus.
Community’s elders hit hard
When the coronavirus came to San Francisco’s Bayview, it attacked the heart of the historically black neighborhood: the elders.
Writer Lizzie Johnson and photographer Gabrielle Lurie first learned of the interconnected series of deaths in the Bayview after reporting on the funeral of Tessie Henry in early April. Over the next month, they interviewed more than 30 people, including Bayview residents, family members of the deceased, church parishioners, Department of Public Health officials, and members of the coronavirus contact tracing team.
They tell the story of some of the first COVID-19 victims in the city — and one who survived.
$50 restaurant rib eye?
Have you noticed higher meat prices in Bay Area grocery stores? That’s in part because of supply-chain delays after coronavirus outbreaks in meatpacking plants. While there’s no long-term threat to the nation’s meat supply, prices are rising, about 10% to 20% on average.
Esther Mobley reports on why and how long those increases are expected to last.
More coronavirus resources:
• What’s reopening and what’s not. What are the face mask rules for the Bay Area?
• Bay Area coronavirus tests: Where can I get one?
• What Bay Area renters and landlords need to know. What should I do if I can’t pay my mortgage?
• Financial questions for individuals. Plus: How to help.
Untested
A sweeping statewide audit by the California attorney general found nearly 1,200 untested rape kits at the Oakland Police Department, accounting for about 9% of the nearly 14,000 untested kits throughout law enforcement agencies in California.
Oakland police said their own internal review found that 957 of the 1,197 cases had “legitimate, articulated, and documented reasons as to why the kit was not tested.”
However, the total number of untested kits came as a shock Thursday to Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who spearheaded a major effort in 2014 to tally, collect and test all backlogged rape kits from all 19 law enforcement agencies in the county, including Oakland.
When reporter Megan Cassidy asked why Oakland police have so many untested kits, O’Malley responded: “That’s a good question.”
Around the Bay
• ‘Slow streets’ changes: Oakland and S.F.’s “slow streets” aren’t going away — and that’s a good thing, John King writes. More: Berkeley to introduce proposal to allow outdoor dining on city streets, plazas, parks.
• Looser guidelines: Sonoma, Napa, Solano counties seek waivers to reopen to go to Phase 2.
• Bay Area jobs lost: YMCA, SFMOMA, tech startups add to unemployment rolls. More: Bay Area Layoff Tracker — more than 110,000 jobs lost.
• Not covered by financial aid: Rising fees at CSU campuses questioned by state audit.
• Insider trading inquiry: Sen. Dianne Feinstein questioned about husband’s stock trades amid coronavirus pandemic.
• First time in its history: Monterey Jazz Festival on hold until 2021 because of coronavirus pandemic.
• ‘A casualty of war’: Power struggle in City Hall reduces SFMTA board to four members.
• Highway 85: Vehicle crash on San Jose freeway results in four deaths, driver’s arrest.
In case you missed It: The future of sports
This week, The Chronicle’s Sporting Green team is taking stock on how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted professional sports and what the near- and long-term future could look like for teams, fans and athletes themselves.
Rare precedent: Major-league baseball has the benefit of being one of the oldest professional leagues in America, but looking back at the 1918 season hit hard by a flu pandemic is only so helpful. More: How do leagues plan to protect athletes when they start playing again?
A very different show: The pandemic might be an impetus for changes in how fans experience sports that were already coming. Plus: Virtual reality has been on the margins of the sports world for years — that might change now.
Cash flow worries: No one is particularly worried about the behemoth of the NFL surviving, even in a prolonged downturn, Ann Killion writes. But not all sports are as well positioned to ride out rough times. Plus: The growing momentum in women’s professional sports has been stopped in its tracks.
Bay Briefing is written by Taylor Kate Brown and sent to readers’ email inboxes on weekday mornings. Sign up for the newsletter here, and contact Brown at taylor.brown@sfchronicle.com.
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