From the statio. Youre watching kron 4 news at 6. And really do appreciate the work of th citizens of california and washington state. Because we do see that their curre is different. Eye curve is different from new york, new jersey and connecticut. And we really every citizen is doing in those states is king a difference. That was a major announcement from a Top White House doctotoday t social system saying incalifornia apparently it really is working. Thankyou for joining us everyone tonight at 6 im Catherine Heenan doctor derah birx she says the curve in our state looksa lot the pandemic is much worse. Re good news for those of us in the bay eawho have been under a stay at home order for several weeks now. Also at that news briefing americans being told at they should know more masks or Face Coverings of some kind in public. President trump says all americans should voluntarily wear nomedical grade maks you n buy them online or make them at home. The cdc advising the use of. Nonmedical cloth Face Covering as an additional voluntary Public Health measures soits voluntary you have to do it. They suggested for a period of time. This is voluntary. I dont think im going to be doing it. The but you have a lot of ways you can look atit as follows the cdc. Is recommending tt americans were basic law to a fabric masks. They can be either purchased online osimply madit home probably material that you have at home. Thes Face Coverings can be easily wash or reuse. Again thcdc not recommending the e of medil grade surgical grade masks unle you already have one of course bu that is part of an effort to save them for Health Workers. Breaking news tonht in the st bay, 27 people have tested positive for coronavirus aft an outbreak at a nursing facility in orinda no deaths have been reported the investigation into the yearend a care center began earlr this week. Kron fours michelle kingston joins us live she is outside e Contra Costa County health department. Michelle. A coronavirus outbreakt riddick care center at least 24 residents and 3 Staff Members infected contra sta county Health Officials are still conducting tests in awaiting results from some Staff Members right now 14 tests have come back gative. Were told staff and residents who do not have serious symptoms are medically isolated to people who have tested positi are in the hospitacovid19 is a disease with no proven dication treatment. Weapons against this pandemic virus. Our isolation and quantine of known cases and everyone else in the comunity to strictly follow thstay at home and sociadistancing into the outbreak began on on tuesday the 47 bed facility is still operating but for weeks now that no group eventsthat ha not allowed any visitors county Health Officials say they are rking closely with the Skilled Nursing facility to decrease risk of continue transmission to other staff and residents who have not contracted the virusdoes t come as a rpri this is something weve been worried about d preparing for. For quite some time. And that was michelle kingston reporting. Grocery and supermarket chains across the country. Theyre boosting Safety Measures this week ores like walmart and target. Theyve announce changes aimeat protecting shoppers. Kron fours dan kerman who joins us livand has details dan. Well you know in addition, a Grocery StoresBig Box Stores as you mtioned like walmart target which is the one were in front of also costco are beefing up with their precautions can be many of these steps are alrey in place others are coming in the next seral days. If you think the lines are bad outside your local Grocery Store. Take a look at this line outside the costco in south san francisco. This is the line to get in the li in the parking lot before you get in the store. Its all part of the new social distanci policies limiting those enterg the store at one time. Among costcos new policies no more than 2 people to enter the warehouse with each membership card. Only membs age, 60 or older can shop from 08 00a to 09 00am tuesday rough thursday and costcos asking members to use soci distancing guideline by allowing at least 6 feet of space between each person, though that wasnt always happening for those waing in line at this costco at walmart in san leandro people were pouring into the store and no one appeared to be paying attention to the social distancing signs that likely willchange when new guidelines go into fect walmart says beginning aturday stores will now allow no mo than 5 customers for each 1000 square feet at any given me inside some stores next week walmart will institute Oneway Movement through the sles using floor markers and direction from associat. Additional precautions are hhlighted in this walmart video. You begin to see those floor decals and ores promoting social distancing a 6 fo or more and we also just in our ste hours with both overnig that way we get a ep clean and fog ourselves and spking of eaning you begin to see associates wearg a special backpack and spraying down nitizing are carts and white down the handles and wemang mask d gloves available to any associates now want to wear it. At taet in coma people were keeping their distance in team member was limiting the store. Those limits are among new precautions tart is taking others include stepped upcleaning floors signs to promote social distancing and plexiglass partions that registers and over the next 2 weeks target will provide all distribution centerwith face masks and gloves at the beginning of everyshift. Aga many of these things are already in plce some are its going to mean fewer , ine people in the storand longer lis outside. Live at home a target Dan Kerman Kron 4 news. But have to get used to long linesll right. Dan kerman thanks very much. The coronavirus ndemic it is present in california with the unique opportunity to house the homeless. Capitol Bureau Reporter asey zavala explains. Gornor gavin newse announced the ste secured about 7,000 hotel rooms to help house the meless durg the covid19 crisis at his Daily Briefing friday in frt of a hotel, the governor said the stte is almost halfway to its goal of 1500 hotel rooms in a new program caed project room key, but we want to do is relieve the stress in our shelter system. So we can separate individuals and ultitely medical care Delivery System if left unaddressed we allow our most vuerable sidents. The state of california to be exposedto this virus. The rooms will be provided to homeless who are at high risk of tested positive or have been exposed to covid19 fema ll reimburse the state 75 of the cost newsome says 869 unsheltered californians now have roofs over their heads and Hotels Leader of the states meless task force in sacramento. Mayor darrell steinrg says this effort help speeup a sheltering process that could have taken the state years to do the covid crisis. Has gin us together an unprecedented opportunity to move up that timeline in a most appropriate and aggressive way project ro key builds on the states work that began earlier this year to purchase d provide hundreds of emergency trailers as temporary shelter to this was the crisis we ned to address before. The covid19 crisis and were not walking away from meeting that crisis head on the state aimingto keep homelessness at the p of its priority list in sacramento, hley zavala kron 4 news. The pandemic of course has been creating a lot of upaval in the job Market Companies are also hiring kron fours rob fladeboe has that story. The coronavirus is killing people d jobs. The u. S. Economy lost 700,000 jobs in marcas0s of tusands of nonessential bunesses have shut down. Buemployment enies like ecco report that Many Companies are hiring sa san jose brch manager sean kelly who spoke with me on zoom. There is work a lot of our Distribution Centers are extremely busy e medical office ys the medical field obviously is extremely busy right now your Grocery Stores are very busy for example, the cl networkingpltform. Linkedin reports that intacart is looking hire 300,000 ract orkers over the next 3 mont. Walmart wants to re 00,000 new workers for its Fulfillment Centers. Well amazon is looking tohire a 100,000 people for its Fulfillment Centers and devery network. Job seekers need to think about how skilledthey have are transferable says adecco shawn kelley, so you could have mebody that might bea stock or in a warehouse that its not working right now, but they may be great in a Grocery Store doing some stocking so think about what skills you have that are transferable all that you might t have thought about before Dollar General looking to hire 50,000 employees by thend of april walgreens ys its hiring 25,000 people forboth full and parttime jobs. And the u. S. Postal service says it is looking to add 10 jobs here in the bay area alone. Safeway target costco the list goes on. Its also good time to consider what recruiters call ups if im a chance you are home and ah. Take this opportity to upskill yourselves and go on our agency adecco we offer Virtual Training r all right tackle academy. You can go on and take courses for it so that its and when you get at is that job market you have additional skill set at you can offer your employers in san jose rob adeboe kron 4 coming up we all have a lot of questions about the coronavirus pandemic m gog facts not fear there arnow more than a 100 cases acss the country the coronavirus is here in the u. S. California now under a state of emergency were cutting through e clutter with the praical information you need to know expts recommend washing your hands regularly the precautions you should take to not touch your face and what healthofficials are doing to slow the spad. Fires facts not fear starts now. Everyone, im Catherine Heenan and here at kron 4 we are continuing to try to separate facts from fear when it comes to the coronavirus and joining me today. Hae 3 Bay Area Health experts doctor peter alper and hean internist in private practice in san francisco. It paul an emergency medical phician at northstern and doctor Christopher Wylie a Public Health professor at berkeley. Thank you to all of you for joininus. Let me ask you this is a medical question but the dth toll from this virus really is aggering it is appalling b most pele who become infected. They rvive are we learning anything from those people in the fight against the virus or example doestheir blood contained the antibody is that the rest of s dont half doctor al purnellstart th you. A that a great question. So we are learning wt we a couple thngs that we know is that as you mentioned in yo in your question. That a great number of people wl get better and thats an important thing for everyone to know is that its the small minority of people who end up so sick that they require the hospital where the i c u so the vast majority of people are the ones who will tend to do better and if this will feel like a to like illness. In any kind of a viral infection. One developed an antibody response and those antibodies that are developed are being explored as possible. Treatments r peoplewho are actively battling the coronavirus infection. So those anodys can be taken from one person and through a very complicated process given to someone else um its very experimental at this point an unpven. But those are thats one of the things thats being explored. The other thing trying to determine if the people who have been infected. Are developing the kind of longer term immunity that you see with a lot of our actions. You see different types of of resultant immunity from a different kinds of infections to different durations of different viruses 2 different things. Doctor paul anything to add to that. Yeah, i mean i agree with doctor out front in the short answer to your question is yes and the longer side in the comp getting question is that its still very much a work in we do know some of the things that doctor alfred mention from our outbreaks in just the general study of biology immunology there are proven techniques that have worked in other scenarios that are being experimented with currently with the coronavirus so there are a lot of fans on deck when it comes to Scientific Community looking into this in terms of Clinical Trials of its top institutions that the countries as well as international Clinical Trials are being courted by the World Health Organization so it be more to come on that front and wrote the short order. Doctor wiley i know youre more involved with policy and your part of a a large study youve been involved with tell us about that what do you what do you do thats right so this is an area where theres lots of anecdotes but actually not much actual data what its like on the ground sources and other health care providers. So a couple weeks ago we actually surveyed about 3,000 Health Professionals and positions across the country and asked about some relevant questions around access to testing concern for the patients being able to access testing and then just kind of generally what says issues across country think about the 19 response. So i have to ask doctor wiley what are you hearing one of the major concerns. So a lot of what we hear anecdotally is really actually backed up by data in our study so about 75 of the citys position is that we study actually were concerned that patients were unable to get tested. And over half of positions in our survey actually had patients who experience so the 19 sis symptoms. But were not able to get tested for these patients. Yeah, that whole question of who should get tested and one keeps coming up. Were going to throw in a lot of viewer questions from some of them are very good. One viewer for example asks if we can be really infected. Do we know that kind of flare up again like say a the aids or herpes doctor alper. So that the the absolute answer to that is that we dont know the presumption is that like other viral illnesses as doctor paul mentioned earlier general understands that our allergy immunology. Is that you will some level of immunity. The coronavirus belongs to a family of viruses that caught some of which cause the common cold. The common colds caused by a variety of different viruses. But we all know that we can catch a cold multiple times and thats because number one it could be a different virus thats causing the called each time, but it also could be the same virus that actually comes in im a little bit. You know after your immunity has waned so certain viruses will will cause a certain level of immune response and the persistence of protection is is really unknown. So because the coronavirus is new and we dont have a long experience with it. It is unknown whether the immunity that one develops will persist. So it is probably true that you wont be able to catch it right away, but no one knows if a year from now or 6 months or 18 months or what have you. What that Clinical Experience will be and thats one of the things that im im sure a huge battery of scientists are studying. Coming up we already know that non essential travel is not recommended but what about a quick trip across town personally know a number of people still traveling across town to visit relatives to see grandchildren and there seems to be a feeling of well were all family so we know who are okay, but i mean bottom line they cannot be sure of that correct. Know the answers they so if the current recommendations are that you can you can spend time with the people in your immediate family unit and those are the people that you live west or if you have you know steady roommates if youre in that situation, the people that you live and im with and in a home in which you can go to sleep. They going across town to visit relatives is in somewhat is the same as visiting. A friend which is currently not recommended. You could be asymptomatic ensuring the virus you could have it in a variety of different situations so if youre visiting those relatives you could be putting them at risk. Yeah doctor poll, you agree. I tend to have discussions with my family about exactly the same scenario where it is a false sense of security because the perception is you know alice your family across town might be interacting with doctor out front point. You cant always be sure of that and thats why its really more focused on unit i try and present to life and even my parents at were also having similar trouble out and sees she were receiving yours to surely grapple with what they or cannot do you think about it as we defined the concept of me, one and then also emphasizing the variables that you can control in this kind of circumstance you have to really think about in your day to day life you may not have really thought about whether go to the Grocery Store every single day. Now you need to think about that and try and actually consider limiting your exposure to other people. When it comes down to variables control to doctor out from this point if i were to go across town and visit my cousin. I have no control over his making that same independent decision to do that somebody else and thats how you know it looks how the the jenin certain nationwide control of each independent decision doesnt seem that but a handful of those decisions in concert can actually has a pretty in fact when it comes to exposure and frankly in the case and that of that we do have given the experience that trace there has been good amount of familial spread unfortunately looks home and if you are sick and may get their family members to ground youre able to contain that it was the moment you start making decisions to expand the on the u. S. Unit, you lose that control your introducing another variable thats really how i section the discussions where my immediate family but i love the homeless as well as they might send it back the chinese that doesnt need to consider what we need to everything to me and to house all the time i understand that and and selfquarantining at got to live that life for the last 4 or 5 days an on. But it is what we need you collectively in order to try and tamp down the start. Yeah thats the kind of thing that frustrates Health Professionals and doctor wiley i can ask you if you have either seen that kind of thing or the people that you have worked with in the study have other examples of things they simply find frustrating that people are not get it. Well i will see that in our survey almost 90 of physicians actually agree to take the recommendations that were just men did. Actually either appropriate. Recommendation are actually maybe even under reaction in terms of continue the current fires. Well a lot of people are frustrated and i remember they are right a month ago 2 months ago we had government officials not only saying hey save them for Health Workers they were saying even if you have them dont bother they wont do any good dont use them and now of course the what were hearing is completely different keep your face is covered one way or the other getting a mask know good luck on that. So again come people safely create on their own. Masks is a bandanna a scarf is that enough. Its a great point the this. The simple fact is that the guidelines have changed, but its sort of its very fluid in terms of whats been recommended even the current cdc as of today is that in general if youre not sick, you dont necessarily need to wear a mask, other authorities are saying that its a good from all levels both federal state and local government as well as Health Care Workers. When it comes to mask says it is important to realize that there are different kinds so the n 95 mask that gets discussed quite frequently if properly fitted is the kind of mass that can actually filter out the droplets that the virus rides on to and that when it goes from one person to another through a aircell and respiratory droplets. The n 95 mask is the one that is in extremely short supply and really does need to be preserved for our Health Care Workers who are on the front lines taking care of patients book in the emergency room and the ice you. When it comes to making your own mass really what youll be doing is potentially protecting others not so much yourself so we talked earlier about asymptomatic carriers people who have the illness. But dont know it because theyre not having any symptoms or its before they develop any symptoms yet are still viral positive. And are able to spread the disease to others if youre wearing a mask and you cough or you grieve you then go to prevent those droplets from being you know from your mouth and potentially landing on a door that then someone else touches or youre in the Grocery Store or even if you happen to cough when youre within 6 feet of somebody. So can you make a mask with a bandanna the answer is it will probably do some damage to a perp walk probably provide some benefit in helping protect others, so you are being a Good Samaritan in that case. But i dont want people to think that those homemade masks will necessarily protect them from inhaling the respiratory virus but if were all Good Samaritans and we really are helping over you know Community Members as well. Yet doctor poll. And if you look back around and and i would just add to that. I its a frustrating situation the mediation that youre getting shoes from authorities os you change over time i think all of us the is there a question here today are marking fluid on or in real time. Still have faith that the authorities are providing us the best information that they have at their disposal in order for us all the safety and the and then also prevent the life and they and stay in so as much as a share in that frustration of of your your ah i myself have questions like that from all family that i have my son has literally been bringing us questions over the course of the last few east certainly more frequently over the past few days. I think we just have to have a certain degree of flexibility in the