Undocumented workers have suffered severe income losses and are shut out of many types of government support. A mutual aid effort called Undocufund has raised and distributed more than $3 million. But thousands of applicants are still on a waitlist. Alejo, a co-director with Trabajadores Unidos Workers United, one of the organizations that run Undocufund, recounts the story of how the collaboration began and what impact the grants can have.

The Mission District, and the city’s Latino population, have been among those hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, so the Latino Task Force has been working to help bring testing and the vaccine to where those most affected live and work. On Monday afternoon, after a new Mission vaccination center opened, Latino Task Force Health Committee Chair Jon Jacobo reflected on the effort.

San Francisco has a new poet laureate, city native and child of local organizers Tongo Eisen-Martin. He reflects on national politics in the wake of the summer uprisings against police brutality and racism, the Jan. 6 capitol riot, and the presidential inauguration and talks about the role of poetry in political organizing.

Millions of Californians have gotten a push notification on their phones asking them to opt in to get warnings from their phones if they have been in close proximity to someone who later tests positive for the coronavirus, all while keeping everyone involved anonymous. We wanted to know more about how exposure notifications work and exactly how well privacy is protected. Gennie Gebhart with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties nonprofit, explains how the system works and what information is exchanged.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Monday that the state’s decision to lift an emergency lockdown order to contain the COVID-19 surge is “good news’’ and a “cause for celebration” with the city expected to lift restrictions on outdoor dining and other restrictions on Thursday.

San Francisco health officials have set an ambitious goal of vaccinating all 900,000 people who live and work in the city by the end of June, and took a step toward that goal Friday by opening a mass vaccination center at City College of San Francisco. The opening followed a hearing called by Supervisor Matt Haney earlier this week to answer outstanding questions about the city’s vaccination plan, where health officials and several representatives of private health care providers presented their plans to the supervisors. The main problem, they said, was not having access to enough supply of the vaccines.