Nerve racking. Its still very unclear about how colleges will be treating testing. A lot of schools are going test optional. Im not sure what that means in terms of how they weigh other aspects of their student. What is your advice for the high schools right now in quarantine . What should we be focusing on . And what is the most important thing that youd recommend us anxious and confused High Schoolers to do to stay on track . And welcome to this special edition of our 3 00 p. M. Show, getting answers. Today were devoting our time to a topic thats extremely impactful and stressful to High School Students and their families, the College Admissions process, which has been thrown into chaos. As you just saw, High School Students have lots of questions. So today were going to get some clarity and guidance from a bay area leading Bay Area College counselor and none other than the director of undergraduate admissions for the entire university of california system. Thank you so much for join
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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
Californias shelterinplace ord order. This will go to the obvious questions and queries that all of us are asking, when. Well, when is the big question. Abc7 news news anchor liz kreutz gives you some insight. Its the question were all asking, when will california reopen. There is a lot of anxiety and a lot of need to know. Under public pressure, some states are already beginning to ease their shelter in place orders. In south carolina, some department and Retail Stores opened today, with 20 capacity. Public beaches opened as well. In georgia, starting friday, gyms, barber shopping, bowling alleys, some restaurant and some theaters will open. Next week in colorado residents will be recommended to stay home but not required to. And in tennessee and ohio, a majority of businesses will be allowed to reopen may 1st, if not sooner. We need several things to unwind the current lockdown if you will and get people back into the public arena. As much as possible. One of those things that expert
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