The America Health Care Association is with us this morning to talk about the impact of covid19 and health care facilities, Nursing Homes across the country. Good morning, dr. Gifford. Good morning, bill. Since the pandemic began first of all, how many give us numbers on how many facilities, assisted living facilities, Nursing Homes, your organization represents. Theres about 15 now Nursing Homes in the country and about 35,000 assisted living and we represent about 10,000 of the 15,000 Nursing Homes. What has your organization done since the beginning of the pandemic, the changes you have made to address the issues, the spread of the virus, the deaths in those facilities . Well, i think the challenge has really been learning about the virus. Early on, no one new about the virus. It was really hard to control. We didnt know so many people who didnt have symptoms could spread it. We didnt have availability of testing. We didnt know what the right practices were. And so it was very hard
This, as President Trump remains silent about the alarming surge in covid cases as he pursues false claims on voter fraud. Thanksgiving crackdowns. The states now ordering families not to gather in large groups for the holidays. The furious backlash and the big question, how will police enforce the rules . Plus, the couple behind that superspreader wedding speaking out. Nearly half their guests infected with covid including three of their grandparents. Why they are blaming the dance floor. Prince william breaks his silence about the investigation into that infamous interview with his mother, Princess Diana. Was she tricked . And the blockbuster news out of hollywood. Get used to it. Now how hollywood is planning to lasso in audiences. The highly anticipated hits going straight to your living room, just in time for christmas. Yes whoohoo good morning, america. Good to be with you on this thursday. We have some encouraging news on the vaccine front this morning. And well have more on tha
Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, well feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin outside of cleveland. Well learn how the canal plays a major role in western expansion. The ohio canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832. And basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a large idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obstacle. The appalachian mountains. Our first president , george washington, happened to be a canal engineer, had an idea. That idea was to create a transcontinental water
Days this is simply the fastest increase. California has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. The move today forces businesses in most california counties to either further limit indoor capacity take business outside or shut down altogether by tomorrow night so here locally all 9 bay area counties are either in the purple or red tears on the states covid and san Mateo San Francisco counties have increased as well but theyre not in that worst purple tier. Theyre now just a stalled out in the red tier, sonoma napa contra costa alameda and santa clara counties are in the most restrictive widespread. Purple state here. Sonoma county was the only county to not move today because it was already in that purple tier alameda napa and santa clara counties actually moved to tears from orange to purple due to rising cases and hospitalizations and they bypassed orange here and theresa is where we go next. She is live in. Dublin tonight to receive this is just so people to yet again be going s
Be a scene from an action movie. A car goes airborne after veering off a highway in mow modesto, california. A Police Camera capturing the incident. A cop says, the driver who suffered only minor injuries, lost control while not paying attention to the road. Turning to the race for a covid19 vaccine and the developments i spoke earlier with dr. Ryan rivera. Moderna is the latest to show its Covid Vaccine as more than 90 effective and it does not need to be stored at the extreme temperatures that the Pfizer Vaccine requires. What do we need to know about how to get vaccinated when theyre available . This is promising news, a second vaccine showing high efficacy. Theres a lot of similarities between the two vaccines, actually. Theyre both mrna vaccines, which is a new and exciting vaccine type. Theyre both two dose vaccines and theyre both over 90 effective. Which is really exciting as well. Now, when it comes to receiving the vaccine, i think, you know, the excitement of this news is, t