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And then you have other counties, as well. San mateo in orange, and you have Alameda County in the da darker blue. But theyre still on the upper trajectory in all the counties. But i want to point to the last couple of days. Lets take santa clara. Lets go to the purple one in santa clara. They havent reported the numbers yet for today, so it looks flat there, but even if you look at the past few days, it looks like the climb is a little less steep, at least thats what im hoping thats suggesting and im hoping it suggests our growth is a little flatter in some of the counties. Of course, we need more data, somebody that can make sense of the data. Joining us today is dr. George rutherford. He is at ucsf as head of disease and global epidemiology. Welcome, dr. Rutherford. Thank you very much. Really glad stof you. Ive been trying to get you on for a couple of weeks. You worked with the cdc, helped San Francisco set up an Hiv Aids Program in the 80s. Youve been the States Health officer an
Vicks sinex. Breathe on. Very close to the peak. The race of new coronavirus cases and hospitalization stabilizing across the country but the white house responding to new evidence top officials ignored repeated warnings and failed to act earlier at a high cost. If you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Just ahead our live one on one with the director of the cdc. Direct deposit. The first wave of that badly needed stimulus money starts arriving in Bank Accounts this week and the governments potential new plan to restart the economy in some parts of the country in a matter of weeks. All that plus keeping the faith. Church services streamed online, family gettogethers over zoom and facetime. An unusual easter around the globe while millions tune in to see this aweinspiring performance outside a cathedral welcome back time for pop start extra special because guess who is bringing it to us . Amazing grace how sweet the sound, toda
Hayward gateway care and Rehabilitation Center and atria burlingame to car cte andfrciscsaguna hondaital asovernoravin newsom plan to place coronavirus patients in Nursing Homes is drawing new criticism. We are also looking to get some one thousand Skilled Nursing facility units up and running. Is that a good idea . No. Dr. Michael wasserman is president of the California Association of longterm care medicine. Moving a person who has covid into a facility that doesnt have covid will ultimately result in some people dying. Thats just its medically wrong and its ethically wasse send his plan for what california needs to do to protect its nursing home population. Among the ideas, split the populations to the covid19 populations are either in completely separate facilities or separate wings of the same binge and the coronavirus patients must be served by completely different Staff Members. If he were able, he would bring a family home from most Skilled Nursing facilities because of covid19
Again. So youre not looking at a bounce back. At least not in the early trade. After you have such rough seas like that its not unusual to see it the next morning. But right now at least it looks like the dow is indicated to open down another 77 points. Yesterday closing below 17,000 for the First Time Since october. The s p 500 is down another 8 points after closing down by 2 yesterday. Check this out, though, the dow negative on the year. S p is negative on the year as well. This is decline of 2 yesterday for the dow. 16990 is where it closed at the end. Its at risk of the annual winning streak for six years in a row. We should point out the five dow components hitting 52 week lows yesterday includes utx, conoco, exxon and Procter Gamble an intel. Japan was down by 3 as well. Shanghai composite down and hang seng composite down by 1. 5. Chinas august flash factor pmi. Thats a key Manufacturing Index. It dropped to a 77 month low. Do the math on that, thats more than six years. Domest