62,000 patients admitted with serious cases of covid19 that breaks the record of 60,000 patients that was set back in april. The u. S. Recorded an 8th straight day of more than 100,000 new cases and texas became the first state to top 1 million coronavirus cases surpassing all of italy. Governors across the country are urging people to stay home and limits, socializing. California could surpass 1 million confirmed cases by tomorrow. There were 7400 new cases today and 69 people died. While here in the bay area there were 300 new cases and one new death. Contra costa and santa cruz counties were forced to roll back their reopening plans due to a rise in covid cases and San Francisco has also halted reopening plants other bay area counties are on track to do the same. If they are unable to slow the spread. How about this if everybody wore a mask, the lockdowns might go away sooner and the pandemics impact on the economy might not be as bad yeah well thats the upshot of revised recommenda
News at 6. One person is Wearing Masks said quote people Wearing Masks that helps even more. Now its 6 a major update from the cdc on mask guidance this time, giving americans yet another reason that why everyone should wear a Face Covering to try to prevent the spread of covid19 thank you for joining us at 6 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis Infectious Disease experts from Stanford University and elsewhere. Our police that their counterparts at the cdc are finally getting behind the idea of universal maskwearing kron fours rob fladeboe reports on the newly revised mask recommendations and what universal use could be in for our economy and the need for lock doubts. The center for Disease Control and prevention now says masks benefit the wearer the announcement is in line with the data that has been available all along so Stanford University Infectious Disease expert doctor Robert Siegel and basically you know maskwearing makes sense from a logical standpoint it mak