Icu admissions up more than 27 . He suggested some counties are poised to move backward in the states fourtiered reopening system. Take seriously how deadly this disease continues to be. Averaging 44 deaths every single day in the state of california over a sevenday period. This disease continues to be deadly. And a vaccine will come, but its not going to come soon enough. Health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley says that private household gatherings are a major source of spread. Health officials urging the public not to let their guard down at this point. Businesses that dont follow the proper safety protocols to help reduce the spread could also be in for a rather rude awakening. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen with the story from the south bay. Reporter with the holidays fast approaching, Santa Clara County Health Officials are on high alert after seeing a sharp uptick in covid19 cases. The rate of change has been very steep, and that is a certain. Weve seen this before
Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra is live with some battleground on each of those doctors. And stephanie what they bring to the table. Reporter yes, dan, its a big deal to see not one but three highly respected doctors from ucsf represented on this board. All of them bring a wide range of expertise to this team, highlighting the bay areas success responding to the pandemic. The Biden Administration making a strong first step to building a National Strategy to fight the pandemic. Appointing a 13member covid19 Advisory Board comprised of Public Health experts across the country. Theres so much good work happening at state and local levels across the country, governors, mayors, theyre stepping up. The Advisory Board will listen and learn lessons from their experience. Reporter the experience coming from the bay area, includes ucsf david kessler, dr. Robert rodriguez and eric goosby. Bob wachter has worked with each of them personally. The three people that have been chosen bring very d
All, lets start off with one big news, piece of news for the bay area. Three ucsf doctors have been named to president elect bidens Advisory Council for covid pandemic policies. There are hundreds of jobs that the president elect will need to fill, but the Trump Administration said today that they are not ready to acknowledge him as the winner. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris go straight to work with the transition team. They met by videoconference with the transition covid19 advisory board. Focusing on a key campaign promise. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once we are sworn in on january 20. Reporter the bay area doctors from ucsf are part of the board. Dr. David kessler, an epidemiologist and former fda commissioner is one of the cochairs. Dr. Robert you guess, are also board members. Typically, they were closely with Outgoing Administration according to eric schindler, codirector of uc berkeleys institute of governmental studies
Coming back, so Howard Street between 3rd and 4th street will be closed. That started november 12th at 6 00 a. M. It will be closed through november 24th at 8 00 p. M. So, just be aware of that. The advice here is to take Public Transit if you can. Walk, bike, scooter in that area. But dont take your car down there. We are looking now live at our emeryville camera. Everything is flowing this morning which is great news for everyone around the bay area. Same thing down in the south bay. Live look at 280 as our morning gets started. Reggie and kumasi . The Vice President continues his California Tour today in the bay area. The nasa Ames Research facility is hosting an event for mike pence. Lauren martinez is live in Mountain View with more. Good morning, lauren. Good morning. Vice president mike pence along with nasa administrator jim brinstein will discuss the role the center will play in returning astronauts to the moon within the next five years. Last night the vp landed with his wife
Bridges for a handful of counties. Farther north. And lets bring in abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel. She is tracking everything we need to know tonight. Sandhya. Yeah, and larry and alma right now the air quality has deteriorated for parts of the bay area as the smoke has settled. Take a look at the air quality right now in santa rosa. It is unhealthy. Its red. Many parts of the bay area in the orange, which is poor for sensitive groups, there are a few spots that are good to moderate. The smoke forecast will show you smoky conditions fans, not just at midnight tonight, but tomorrow morning as well as the day goes on, the smoke will get a little less concerned. Traited across the area tomorrow. A live view from our mount tam cam. We do have that. Spare the air alert up through tomorrow. Poor air quality is expected for the bay area. That smoke is coming from wildfires burning up around oregon and northern california. And this is just taking you back in time. Now just at 11 p. M,