Of californians and bay area residents were hoping to hear was Governor Newsom saying we may see some of those things opening in a few weeks, things previously labeled a stage three, i think. So how do you feel about that . Well, im hopeful, but i want to be clear that we are, although coordinating with the governors office, we have to use the data here locally in San Francisco to make a determination as to whether or not we can move in any of those phases. In fact, i did a talk with the doctor at the department of Public Health really explaining the five criteria were going to be looking at to determine what phase we can go in. Right now, effective today, were in 2a. This allows us to open nonessential businesses for retail and manufacturing and warehouses with our social distancing. But 2b is a part of allowing people to go into some of those retail locations, and were not there yet. Phase three is the hair salons and churches and other places. And everything that we do has is contro
Facebook page, abc 7 newss Facebook Page and put in your question and i will definitely try to get to that, if we can, during our program. Weve already gotten some really good ones and we just want to see more of them coming so we can address that with dr. Patel. Theres so many interesting new medical developments to cover right now. We want to talk about herd immunity with dr. Patel. We also want to talk about reinfection. We want to talk about just how far the droplets from covid19 can travel and whether thats influencing your decision to wear a mask or not. As you know, theres been a lot of back and forth on that. And now that there are a lot of tests, more people doing tests, there are also people getting false negatives and what is the impact of that, as face our overall, you know, immunity and how safe we are as we start to think about reopening. So, with all that in mind, we want to welcome dr. Alok patel. Hey, alok. Thank you. Great to be here to answer all these questions. Tha
Now, the pandemic is stressful enough for a lot of us. Adding to that is the fact that we seem to be seeing a lot of hacks and scams, as a result of everybody, suddenly, working from home or going to school from home. Can you talk to us about what youve noticed out there . Absolutely. So weve seen cybercriminals really take advantage of the fears, as well as all of the situations that are a result of the current Global Health crisis. Every day, we see thousands of domains created for the purpose ohere. Ing aac against so, sding o emails that point them to coronavirus or covid19 domains to give information purportedly about healthcare, but its actually a trick to have them click on a link, download malware, and then very often hold them for ransom or attempt to steal sensitive information. And were seeing this, both from the health side but, also, a lot of scams are really focused on the stimulus. Trying to entice people to click on things related to the the monetary aspects, as well. I
Has ordered people to wear face masks in public if they cannot social distance. One of the big focuses right now is on Contact Tracing, trying to identify who may have come in contact with an infected person. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes is live in San Francisco with this important part of the investigation and how it can help reduce infections. Chris . Good afternoon, liz. For people who are hearing this term for the first time, it simply means the ability of Public Health officials to track down every Single Person that a covid19 positive patient came into contact with. And you can imagine as cases have grown how complicated this task is. Well, today mayor london breed announced the citys ability to do widespread Contact Tracing investigations and how it will help reopen the economy. Have a listen. Our goal is to chase down all of those people and to either help them if they are covid and get them into quarantine, or to basically give them the relief that they are not infeblged. It
So let me introduce you. Joining us today to help you get answers is right now employment attorney Angela Wright and dr. Peter hong, an Infectious Disease specialist at ucsf here in San Francisco. Good to see you both back with us. Great to be back. Thank you. Let me start with you becaus this is very timely. Protesters in big cities this past weekend gathered to demand that their governors open up the economy. Some states like georgia saying today some limited openings will happen this weekend, but i read a New York Times article saying that testing needs to triple before we can do that safely. So, what are your thoughts on that . Kristen, weve been talking about this on and off on this show and you know, we still havent been at the levels of testing that we really need. And again, its like were operating in a black box all with waxen eyes. I mean, i cant tell you if our if we relax shelter in place how we would be doing because we dont have sensitive measures of whats going on in the