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With the announcement to fight the virus. Of course this is a day after the markets worst drop since 1987. We have full Team Coverage on the latest coronavirus developments. Just in the past 15 minutes, san francisc a moratorium on we started at 1,000, then 500, then 250, now 100. There are several exceptions to the rule including offices in transit. Several businesses including restaurants will be forced to rethink how they operate. Abc 7 reporter kate larsen is in San Francisco digging in to how parents and families are affected by this widespread closure. Klandunified. It chri larry, afternoon. S nye as the number of cases go up, for many bay area businesses, next week will be the first full week with stop the spread of the virus but employees working at home. School closures. To protect our Health Care Parents will be juggling getting system as well as essential work done and keeping an eye on their kids. Joining us, global hr and talent services. For the foreseeable future, life guru it says, steve cat. In Santa Clara County will be did you write that yourself . Different. The Health Department today the irony of this as we sat down banning public or private to talk, you, yourself, are gatherings of more than 100 trying to figure out what to do people. We believe these actions are with your three kids. Like most people in the bay necessary to protect the area, i was notified last night wellbeing of our community during one of the most historic about 11 00 that my kids would Public Health challenges of our be home with me for the next time. Gatherings of 35 to 100 three weeks. People are to be halted i had no plan with that. Every day were facing new immediately unless certain realities, having to work from home and have a Home Day Care or conditions are met. A gathering is defined by the home schooling, as it were. County as any event or convening so it sounds great on paper, that brings together people in a work from home, get your stuff single room or single space at the same time. So this includes arenas, neth nfl just a click away. Theaters, restaurants, bars, or any other confined indoor or how do people have the delphdiscipline to actually work when theyre supposed to be outdoor space. However, airports, fioffices,of working from home . First of all, its not for everybody clearly. The most important thing i would ask people to think about if theyre new to this is think about building some structure. From the order. The number one advice i give there are difficult decisions people is actually get dressed. With difficult tradeoffs that even though youre at home and have to be made. You may think its a jammies reporter the Santa Clara County office of education with all superintendents announced the decision to close schools to students for the next three day, people feel more productive when they get dressed for work. Weeks. Goal is to provide schools with go through your routine. Instead of your commute, maybe the time they need to comply you do a workout and you can with guidance. Students and Community Benefit and get more energy. Members should adhere to the social distancing guidelines and the other thing people forget is we had this chance when we or at avoid congregating in public the office of running into people all the time, in the places. Reporter in the alum rock hallways or on break or at Union School District where 85 lunch. Youre not going to have a of students qualify for free or chance to do that now. I encourage people to reach out reduced launch, superintendent and call people or get on Conference Calls with people to al lar yeah bowers says parents sot of calibrate and help can pick up meals for their kids yourself get focused. Come monday even though classes are canceled. Its easy to get lost if youre i do urge our community to on your own. We have to be more intentional work with the communitybased to find ways to communicate with our colleagues that maybe we organizations that are already didnt have to go out of our way mobilizing to create to do so much when we had the normal reality of going to the office. Otherwise you really drift off into isolation and thats respite for child care. Another problem in terms of poductivity. Reporter classes and public its great we have you here right now. You were doing hr for sysco in schools in Santa Clara County will be canceled for the next sing poor when sars broke out. Three weeks. What did you learn from sars live in san jose, chris nguyen, that we can carry over now . Probably the biggest thing is abc 7 news. Schools in san mateo will were really dealing with two close mekt week. Issues right now. The office of education posting this message today. Were dealing with coronavirus and dealing with panic. The School Operations for businesses to really modification order from county recognize that your workers are not going to be Productive Health director dr. Scott morro. Unless they feel their families are taken care of and that their kids are safe. In this case, that our parents the order requires all schools to dismiss students from regular attendance and encourages are safe. What i think a lot of schools and districts to organizations should do and implement athome learning professionals should do is check in with your coworkers and models if thats feasible. In just about two hours, all employees first on a personal level before you get to the work schools within the oakland stuff. Thats one thing, when i was in unified district will be closed sing poor, it was crazy tunes. Until april 5th, the end of spring break. Laura martinez joining us someone would cough and everyone from outside the District Office where School Officials and the would stand up and say who was that and why are you here . Mayors just finished up a news. It isnt as bad now, but yu just dont know. Working in this arena of lauren. Reporter larry and ama, uncertainty around whats beginning monday, over 36,000 happening can cause people to be very fearful. Students will not be in school clearly, clearly. Until the end of their spring break which will end around so before all this unfolded with april 5th. This morning superintendent dr. Coronavirus, we have had people talking about, okay, whats the kyla johnson said theyll see s workplace of the future ten, 20, 30 years from now with cities getting more and more congested. More covid19 cases. Is this sort of kind of a tryout for work at home on a large two are Community Acquired transmission in the county. Scale . Will this be the new normal even true mel and other school after we get past coronavirus . Officials stressed it is having worked in the bay area imperative kids stay at home for the last 30 years or so, i during this time. It is extremelymp think Tech Companies in general are a bit ahead of the curve in that students should stay home terms of, we felt the squeeze in terms of theres not enough and minimize social contact as much as possible to keep talent here. So organizations have had to themselves and their adult learn how do you grow a team and operate a business with people family members safe. This is the right thing to in different locations. Do. We have an opportunity to i think most Technology Prevent human suffering. Companies have already had a little muscle memory built. If you havent been doing this a reporter three out of four lot, its going to be new and oakland unified students qualify challenging. I think it will be more the for free or discounted meals. Rus, but because of the access the School Nutrition department will provide grabandgo meals to talent. Organizations are having to go for students 18 years or under. Beyond the bay area because of duringerstudts pick up those the affordability of housing being what it is. So organizations having i think the last 10, 15 years are meals ond mondays and thursdays. Starting to learn how to do this well put aabc7news. Com. More effectively. This is not completely an mayor libby schaaf made an unknown area. I think organizations are slowly announcement regarding the city of oakland. Learning and the technology is there. She said starting monday, you can do zoom for no cost or libraries, Senior Centers and Recreation Centers will be some of these webx tools for closed. Reporting live from downtown almost nothing. Steve, thank you for coming oakland, laura martinez, abc 7 in. Good luck the next three weeks news. With your kids. Lauren, thank you. More breaking school news in the youre the expert just because were super hungry. East bay. San ramon unified school. Doesnt mean you got to spend a lot district is informing parents because dennys brought back the super slam™. Schools will be closed through the end of spring break, april with eggs, hash browns, bacon, sausage and pancakes. All for just 6. 99. 10th. Mt. Diablo unified is closing the 6. 99 super slam™ is back schools starting tuesday. See you at dennys west contra costa is closed on medicare. It may come as a surprise. Starting monday. Were keeping the list but medicare doesnt pay for everything. 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They checked bags, operated the 40 are somewhat concerned. X ray and monitored the body scanner. Each had a different last day of 33 are either not so concerned work between february 21st and or not concerned at all, and march 2nd. More than half of the people surveyed said they disapprove the shave Fire Department now with how the president is confirms six of its firefighters handling this situation. Have tested positive for thats interesting. Covid19. Thats two more than yesterday. Its changed so much in a the department has been tracking week. Now we have 66 , almost twothirds saying theyre either about 80 firefighters for very concerned or somewhat possible exposure. Concerned. Some of the fire iters family whereas a week ago when we ran it on midday live, most people members have been tested and tested positive. Were not concerned or not that firefighters must now screen all concerned. Their patients unless its a its interesting that people are not very impressed with how critical case. Fire crews are sending one the president is handling the responder inside on calls with a situation when during his news mask, goggles and gown. Conference he said he was doing a great job. Weve gone from a hoax to now the coronavirus has shut down noorly all major sporting events. Today pro golfs major, the its serious. The moment rudy go bert came worl event. Augusta national announcing it down with coronavirus, the nba shut down and everybody else is postponing the masters golf followed, i think it got very tournament until a later date. Real at that moment. It hadnt been before. It came after the pga tour decided to cancel the three you should cancel events. Events leading up to the masters no, were fine. Scheduled to begin april 9th. President trump after his speech today declaring the national emergency, the stock the master has been played every market did rally. Year since 1934 except during so i think that gave a little the height of world war ii. Comfort to the market. The list of places shutting the 124th Boston Marathon down because of the outbreak grows and grows. Will not take place as planned at least two popular bay area a. On april 20th. They postponed the worlds most the San Francisco and oakland celebrated foot race until zoos are maintaining normal operating hours. September 14th. Both are taking precautions. Officials say theyve become the San Francisco zoo says it increasingly preoccupied with the hejt of the 31,000 registered runners and the will temporarily cancel certain estimated 1 million spectators who line the course. Events including public animal talks. That was going to be me coronavirus myths debunked. Well get to the bot 2078 of a working from home. The oakland zoo is increasing few misconceptions floating the level of deep cleaning and around out there. How do you maximize working from will be wiping down hightouch home . A lot of folks are being asked to stay out of thererhow us wayy areas. Parents are going to be productive. Is this a sign of things to looking for anything to do with their kids. In the kids are at home, you come . Dont want them sitting around the house all day, if tles something to get them outdoors im speser christian. And something relatively safe. Actually in your interview with dr. Patel, you made that point. If you think about zoos, people are more spread out than at other museums. In the last 20 minutes the San Diego Zoo announced they will close monday. Theyre kind of the Gold Standard of zoos. You know how its one domino after the other. Sure. Where the prices make all the dresses yeses. Maybe go hiking. Yeah thats pretty safe. Save 20 to 60 percent off Department Store prices some people are turning to social media to help them get on our best selection of spring dresses. Through this ordeal. Check out the post on instagram the ross spring dress event, on now we spotted offering people suggestions on meals they can make based on whats in their refrigerators and pantries. It is a good time for comfort food. I have some oats and i have some chicken stock. What can i do . I can feed an army. Weve got food forever now. None perishable items and fresher items that will have to be consumed in a few days. I was going to say party at your house except we cant gather. Just a party for you. Keep your distance. I have a good pantry chilly like getting the best everwifi experiencen. With walltowall coveragetheres a win. Using canned beans and canned plus, added protection for your connected devices. Stewed tomatoes. You should bring it into thats a winwin. Work. Thats a good idea. Put it together with Xfinity Mobile this might be a good time to the most reliable wireless network. Suspend whatever diet youre talk about a winning combo. Trying to do . 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This afternoon mayor breed announced a huge move, closing all city libraries to the general public. Starting monday, they will be staying open for the children of health care and disaster workers as well as lowincome families. You need to wash your hands and then grab yourself a spot and line up. Reporter making one last call for hand washing before School Closes for three weeks. Aotf woe, weight on the family situation. Reporter his daughter goes to el dorado. He doesnt know how hes going do you recall, not long ago to juggle child care with a we would walk on the sidewalk fulltime job. My job keeps going. Its nonstop. All around the wind blows if i got to go and i have nowhere to take my kids to, the we would only hold on to let go kids cant come with me to work. Blow a kiss into the sun its going to cause me to lose we need someone to lean on pay, lose wages, lose benefits, in order to stay home and pay blow a kiss into the sun for my kids. Why are people going to work all we needed somebody to lean on when they are sick . What in society is forcing them lease the volvo xc40 to go to work sick . For 329 per month. At your local volvo retailer. Is it theyre low income. Reporter the Science Teacher at burton high school, his last lesson before the closure was how Different Countries around the world are handling the pandemic. Hes worried about his students and their families, how theyll fair without school. There have been volunteer forms handed out to teachers to help with supplying food to those students who may be food insecure. I know we are working currently with our Community School program to get students chrome books so if it comes down to online learning, theyll have the ability to complete work. Reporter beginning monday, sfusd is opening 14 sites at all right. Finally here at 4 00, some people in italy are using their spots across the city, providing voices to help them deal with the countrys nationwide items to children 18 and younger. A child must be present. Families will not need to enter lockdown. The School Buildings to get people in the tuscan city of their food. Sienna were heard singing together from their balconies so how will this emergency youth and windows. People responding to the twitter care work. Video saying the sight and sound for preschoolers, available for is giving them hope at a really difficult time. One person wrote, quote, children grades k through r5, imagine the whole world singing can attend 37 different recreation and parks facilities. Like this from their houses, no hate, no nothing, unified for kids grades 6 through 12 can once. Attend any San Francisco public love this so much. Whatever it takes to get through library location. This time. All the centers will be open thats going to do it for abc monday through friday from 8 00 7 news at 4 00, thanks for to 6 00. 7 news at 4 00, thanks for california phones offers free specialized phones. Like cordless phones, we have all this information on our website, abc7news. Com. You do need to be eligible for phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. This care and you do need to register ahead of time. Get details on this state program. Live in San Francisco, kate call or visit larsen, abc 7 news. With the spread of the coronavirus, also comes a rise in xenophobia and racist incidents weve seen towards the asian community. Dion lim joins us with whats being done to combat the hate. Over the past few weeks, ive seen it and you probably have, too. Stories, images or videos on social media of attacks on the asianamerican community because of coronavirus. But at the very same time, there are many dedicated to making positive change. My adrenaline is going, and when i sat down, it seemed like five, ten minutes for me to calm and accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. Like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. Down. Reporter this Business Owner experienced an unpleasant and phone ringing get details on this state program unexpected interaction with a man next to him while in the call or visit restroom of a San Francisco restaurant this week. He was drying his hands and turned to his right and coughed and said dam cough from china. Reporter incidents like this are the tip of the iceberg as this entire thing is about the world fights with tradeoffs. We do the most and we do the coronavirus which originated in best that we can. China, theyre fighting the we know were not going to prevent every infection. A blunt assessment from santa bigotry. Why are they racist to us. Clara county officials as they reporter in this presentation by San Francisco enact tough new rules to slow states asianamerican studies department, you can see images the spread of coronavirus. Of hate from around the globe. Local schools taking action in the last two weeks the group as well. Reviewed 141 news stories in the classes canceled. Chaos at costco. Lines wraparound the building as u. S. Related to coronavirus people stock up on supplies. Dscrimination. Anxiety levels on the rise globally, 37 cases a day, and thats just the ones that go as the president s european reported. Whenever we see a Public Health response, it often travel ban takes effect tonight. Includes specific measures to make sure bullying in schools is wedding venue address dollar. We see it on social media, but it really does need to be better documented and better tracked. Reporter vincent pam believes there is a key to stopping the fear from turning into hate. It started in china and is now spreading throughout the world. Reporter starting at the top. When the president calls this is a foreign virus when you have members of Congress Calling it the chinese coronavirus. This is a Public Health situation and we know it affects all people. San Francisco States Asian Studies department is launching a reporting center on monday so they can better track incidents when they happen. In the news room, dion lim, abc 7 news. Bay area amusement parks are responding to the coronavirus. Californias Great American in santa clara says it will postpone opening its season until saturday, april 4th. The ceo says theres been no confirmed case of the virus on any of the companys properties. Six flags has decided to suspend operations until the end of the month. The company says it has no confirmed cases there. Disney land is shutting down starting tomorrow, but its food wont be going to waste. Today the park announced that during its closure it will be donating all excess food to the Second Harvest food bank of roun orange county. All disney parks across the globe will be shut down as of monday through the end of the month. Disney is the Parent Company of abc 7 news. Atheres food going to people who need it the most. Absolutely. So important. We have good weather news, foo. Muchneeded rainfall coming our way. Muchneeded snow to the sierra. A look at live doppler 7. In terms of precipitation, it has not arrived yet. What has arrived is strong gusty wind. Look at the current wind gusts in the hills. Higher elevations, 43 miles per hour. Its pretty windy in the Higher Elevations as evidenced by the shaky sutro tower. 59 degrees in the city, 62 in oakland and redwood city. 5 at half moon bay. This is the view above mt. Tam. A bit stormy there already. Well see stormy conditions across the entire region this weekend. Napa 59, low to mid 60s at fairfield, concord and livermore. Here is a nice view from the east bay hills camera. Some sunshine, some clouds. These are our forecast features, cold storm arrives overnight. Periods of rain through the weekend and into next week with heavy snow likely in the sierra. Here is our forecast an mission. The overnight hours, well see pockets of scattered showers moving through. By mid morning, certainly midday, waveso steadier rain sweeping through the bay area. Cold air will accompany that. Going into tomorrow night and into sunday, more showers, more scattered showers and waves or periods of steady erin from time to time continuing through sunday and into early next week. Rainfall totals we project from the first wave of storminess by 11 00 sunday night, well have produced from a third of an inch to threeuas of ach. Topetures 0d aianim sunday ght inturg the three or fourday period. Rainfall totals, additional rainfall totals from the second wave of storminess monday or tuesday, another. 15 inch to about. 50 inch. Here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. Dont be shocked by the appearance of these lightning bolts. Not saying thunderstorms will happen every day. But the cold air will destabilize the atmosphere. Theres a chance of a flash of lightning or crash of u thunder accompanying the rain coming our way. Thats saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday, a pretty steady pattern. On tuesday it will be cold enough that we could see mixed precipitation in the higher levels. Finally, late last week, thursday and friday we get drier and milder weather. This is the storminess weve been hoping for all winter. It comes when schools are out. Parents are like, what are we going to do with our kids. Well, put them in front of the a book. Or abc 7. There you go. Kids read the books. Parents can stay up to date. Well be right back with oh, oh, oh, ozempic® announcer onceweekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like james lower their blood sugar. 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Princess cruises halted operations after two ships confirmed on board outbreaks. Now dealing with a data breach. The company says its detected unauthorized access to a number of email accounts. Some of those accounts contained personal information including Social Security numbers of its employees and guests. Its unclear why it took so long for us to hear about it from last april. If youve opened up twitter, you might have come up with advice about the coronavirus attributed to stanford university. It goes Something Like this, if you can comfortably hold your breath for more than ten seconds, youre probably not infected. It goes on to say, you should sip water every 15 minutes to wash the virus into your stomach where stomach acid kills it. Stanford University Says it did not send these posts. Scientists say there is no evidence to suggest this advice for checking or prevention works. You might be wondering if its safe to go t the movies. Ma of at st. Joe selfs health in new jersey says give it at least two weeks. We dont know how long this thing is going to last. If you do want to go, there are things you can do to reduce your exposure at least a little bit. Bring cleaning wipes and wipe everything down. Good advice. There is little you can do to decontaminate a cloth seat. Theyre using hand sanitizers and instructing employees to wash their hands hourly. Some upcoming set for release are being delayed. Im glad you mentioned that. Im very tired of holding my breath. Thanks, michael. Youve got to laugh at some of this. Still a lot of questions about covid19. We have a lot to get to with our medical expert, dr. Patel. The impact on the economy. What happens to people who you cant outrun it. The pain is coming. I cant believe it. That chad really was raised by wolves . Which one is your mother . Thats her right there. Oh, gosh. No, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my Car Insurance with geico. Its really great. Well, im just so glad to have met your beautiful family. And we better be sitting down now. Believe it geico could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. Here are the very latest coronavirus developments making news at 4 30. Oakland unified is the latest bay area School District to be canceling classes for students in response to this outbreak. Most School Districts have already closed classes for the next few weeks. Three weeks in most cases. Santa clara county reported 13 new confirmed cases, bringing the total there to 79. Thats the most of any bay area county. Meanwhile the president announcing google is working on a website to send americans to the nearest testing site. But the company said that website is in Early Development stages. Here is what the administration said about that site. Start in the screening website up here, facilitated by google where clients and patients and people of interest can go. Fill out a screening questionnaire, move down for symptoms and risk factors, yes. They would move down this and be told where the drivethrough options would be for them to receive this test. The labs will then move to the high throughput automated machines to be able to provide results in 24 to 36 hours. Testing so far has really lagged in the united states. According to the cdc, fewer than 15,000 federal and state tests have been administered so far. For more on this, we depend greatly on our coronavirus experts. One member is medical expert dr. Alok patel, not just a pediatrician, but also a journalist and producer. Thank you for coming in and talking to us about a couple different topics. Im going to get through every question i have. Well do it. Lets start big and kind of get localized. You heard the president talking about google working with the administration to set up these athome tests and drivethroughs. Whats your first thought . My first thought, in theory, if theres a way to screen americans and get them to a testing site, it may keep people out of urgent cares or hospitals where they can potentially get other people infected. We obviously have a lot of questions. Theres some key features missing about this such as data, are they going to be tracking people . Also, what are people going to do if they cant access this . Talking about the homeless, people who dont have a phone, dont have a car that can go wait in line . So i like the overall idea, well have to see if the execution matches it. If you dont have a car, you get a bunch of people standing in line and everybody is not doing the social distancing. Or there are people that wont be able to go. That site is too far, im going to stay home. Yesterday Governor Newsom reiterated concerns about the testing kits and said basically we dont have what we need here in california. Now the president is saying those issues are being resolved. Talk about why its so important to get people tested, although as the president kept pointing out today in his address, not everyone should get tested. Weve been saying were going to have millions of tests for weeks now. We have to have them available for people who may be at risk, people who are traveling or concerned about their level of isolation or what theyre going to be doing, who theyll be around. One thing we have to clear up, when we say tests, its a broad term. Theres a testing kit, chemicals go into the test. Then you need to take out the genetic material from the virus. These are three different supplies. The cdc is sending out one part. State labs, commercial labs have to step up because there is a national shortage. Thats what Governor Newsom was saying, its like having a printer and no ink. We have to make sure we not only have the availability of tests, but all the right chemicals to run the test. People have to have access to them. A lot of things in the supply chain of tracking this disease. Theyre trying to get the turnaround time once tested to getting results to be within 24 hours, whereas right now its several days. Wed love to get it down to a o help s. Public health but help people understand what they need to do in that moment. Lets talk about social distanci distancing. We cant talk about it enough. Is this six feet . Keeps coming down, now down to about 100 people or less. Talk about why this is so important. This is super important. It gives all of us something to take into our hands. Also, it goes back to the spikes we were looking at yesterday in flattening the curve. If we can keep our distance and we look at our individual risk and we do our best to not spread coronavirus, what well do is spread out the amount of new cases over time and not create that huge influx of new cases. What this is going to do, its going to keep our health care h capacity. Thats the bread and butter of social distancing and why its so important. Weve seen today its really hitting the fan. Its hitting. S cas eeing closed. A lot of parents are saying, were closed for three weeks, lets head to tahoe, make an early spring vacation. Does that defeat the purpose . I guess if you can have nice cabin and can quarantine yourself in your cabin. Does it defeat the purpose if everyone is going to these vacation spots . Again, you have to look at what your situation is and what social distancing means for you. Social distancing is a behavioral change. If you were to say, listen, were going to take our own private car to our own destination, wherever it may be, tahoe or somewhere else, and were going to avoid these large gatherings such as a crowded bar or a restaurant, probably wouldnt take your kids to a bar, that may absolutely qualify as social distancing. Again, thats a specific situation. People who have the means to do that. This is going to mean Something Else for a lot of different people. For some families this is a critical period because they have to figure out child care, do i skip work, how am i going to follow social distancing while maintaining my life. How do you keep the kids from hitting the wall . You want to take them outside, its probably going to rain spencer was telling us. What about being outside . Some places are closed, the zoos are going to be open. Can we still take them to the playground . Kids, they need to get out that energy. Whats the effect on just being outside unless youre under a stayathome quarantine, thats different. What about being outside . Youre totally right, being outside is important. Play is important. These are different behaviors and activities that help children cope with stress and fear. It is important that children are not going insane indoors. Again, parents have to think about where is this playground, how many people are going to be at this playground, can i reasonably watch all four of my children and make sure theyre not touching playground equipment and eating something or touching their eyes. Im not saying playgrounds all across america are covered in coronavirus. These are basic things families should think about before taking the kids out in public. Take an evaluation of the playground youre thinking of. Some libraries are closing. If its open, same thing . I would take caution with the library and look at the situation. Again, basic, basic, hand hygiene and protective measures apply everywhere. Those are powerful. You can dip your hands into coronavirus. If you wash properly, youre still good. These are things we need to teach our kids, whether theyre going to a water park, the li o publi park. My last question. Bear with me. The water, im seeing a lot of moms asking, well, swim class is still open. Something a lot of parents take their kids to weekly. Is it still safe . They feel like thats one of the relatively safe places to still take their kids . Does chlorine in the pool kill coronavirus . According to the World Health Organization and the epa from what i was reading, chlorination should actually kill this coronavirus, even our basic filtration and treatment we do for our u. S. Water supply, should keep the water clean and coronavirusfree. With that being said, thats only in the pool environment. That is not including the changing room. Any other wading area. The play lobby. Some public pools are very crowded. Another thing to take into account. I told you i was going to get through all my questions. We did it. Thank you, doctor. We want to make sure you have th ltevelmere prepared and safe. Thats why we have our team of experts including our fabulous dr. Patel. Im not sure if im comforted or more scared now. Covid19s economy, obviously a growing concern. For example, fitness professionals, many of whom will have no income if their gyms or studios happen to close. Abc 7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow has that part of the story. Reporter its especially concerning for some of the smaller studios that wouldnt be able to keep paying their instructors if they have to close their doors. As independent contractors figure out how to stay afloat, one bay area teacher is working on a possible solution that would benefit the studios, the teachers and students alleys kay is a fulltime yoga teacher who leads as many as five to six classes a day seven days a week. I dont have the ability not to go paycheck. Reporter kay says surprisingly her class attendance is up this week with many people working from home. But shes already lost a big portion of her income as a result of covid19. Some studios have begun to limit class size. Its possible at some point they may need to close their doors. People putting memberships on hold. That kills our neighborhood, kills our studios. Reporter one larger studio has committed to financially supporting its teachers. L cap owns indoor rock climbing and fitness gums with four bay area planet granite locations. The safety and wellbeing of everyone who works here is paramount. If you dont have sick time, great, dont come to work. Reach out to us, well figure something out. If you dont have Health Insurance and you want to get a covid19 test, get the test. Reach out to us, well figure out how to pay for it. Reporter its an option that may not be possible for smaller gyms and studios. This youg ga teacher is coordinating an effort to teach classes with students practicing from home and the studios and teachers still getting paid. Doing the Classes Online from home and students can still sign up through whatever system theyre already using to sign up for studio classes. Reporter the idea not just about generating income but also about serving our community. People who are at home really stressed out in these times need yoga and meditation more than ever. Reporter here is another idea if you want to support some of the smaller gyms and studios, buy gift cards now that could be used later. In San Francisco, Melanie Woodrow, abc 7 news. Employees in many businesses are going to be working from home for who knows how long. Well talk to an hr expert on how to maximize productivity from your couch and what businesses can learn from this forced e i didnt choose this exact type of metastatic breast cancer. But i did pick clarity by knowing i have a treatment that goes right at it. Discover piqray, a treatment that specifically targets pik3ca mutations in hr , her2 mbc