Revelers at Sunday's Folsom Street Market fair who wanted a drink had to show something more than an ID to the doorman at many of the bars — proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
Scott Richard Peterson, the general manager of the Powerhouse in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, said the leather bar instituted the policy last week in response to rising cases in the city and the rise of the Delta variant that is ripping through the nation.
"We practiced with it Wednesday [July 21] and by Thursday [July 22] we were just doing it," Peterson told the Bay Area Reporter. "There were a few people who didn't have access to it, and I expected that."