Some Bay Area restaurant owners, however, don’t think it’s safe yet to reopen for outdoor dining. Yuka Ioroi temporarily closed her Outer Richmond restaurant, Cassava, in early January because of soaring coronavirus cases and concerns about more contagious variants spreading around the world. She pointed to California’s slow vaccine rollout and lack of new guidance around masks. Multiple European countries now ban the use of cloth masks, requiring everyone to wear medical-grade masks instead. In the U.S. public health officials have begun recommending people wear two masks — yet some diners still refuse to wear any kind of mask. … [Read more...] about When restaurants can reopen outdoor dining in San Francisco and each Bay Area county
