Milestone, california is close to the 1 million mark of covid19 cases over 991,000 cases have been reported in the state as of today. The men number keeps going up. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im justine waltman the u. S. Has surpassed 10 million infections and now california will be the second state right behind texas to eclipse a million known cases which is now forcing the state to roll back reopening plans and also new today Alameda County becomes the latest bay area county to pause its reopening plans. Currently alameda is in the states orange tier which allows some indoor businesses to operate with modified Health Orders but Health Officials say theyre expected to move backwards into the red tier really soon so if the county does not curb its infection rate. There is a chance in may have to go back even further into the purple tier which would force many non essential indoor businesses to close kron fours terisa stasio is following the stories. Well
If you had. Money to spend and you wanted to use that money to underwrite isolation of those people who have been in contact with infected people if you want to get on top of the. The current upsurge in new reporting cases they need to support people in isolation if theyre finding it difficult so most people ive spoken to throughout the spectrum are academics to through to politicians appreciate that the only way that were going to really elude or mitigate peak deaths in the secondary wave is to Contact Trace and support people in isolation so there could be many people who just cannot isolate either because they have dependents or they dont have sufficient space in the house so these people need supporting so thats an important aspect of Contact Tracing this is you know i think one of the main messages that know a 3rd lever that the government has yet to pull in order to prevent a 2nd wave of morbidity and mortality is to get out there and empower and enable Public Health teams not ju
Can it really be said that the government is guided by the science one of the worlds most frequently cited neuroscientists prophetical 1st in news modeling has helped to educate the world about the realities of coronavirus and its impacts says were already falling off the knife edge here in britain and he joins me now from london garth thanks so much for coming back on as i said 10 days ago you said were falling off the edge of the knife since then Boris Johnson is in active new policies are closing bars at 10 pm instead of 11 satisfied with his response. Yes i think thats a very understandable response predicted by our modeling studies it reflects one of the 3 leaders that the government has access to. Best described i think in terms of changing or reducing the contact rates through specialists and saying look like the rule of. The curve for you the 2nd kind of leader is clearly. The copulation immunity which hopefully will be substantially augmented by vaccination but thats something
Were already falling off the knifes edge here in britain and he joins me now from london gul thanks so much for coming back on as i said 10 days ago you said were falling off the edge of the knife since then Boris Johnson as an active new policies are closing bars at 10 pm instead of 11 satisfied with his response. Yes i think thats a very understandable response it was predicted by our modeling studies it reflects one of the 3 leaders that the government has access to. As described i think in terms of changing or reducing the contact rates 3 specialists and saying look like the rule of. The curfew and the 2nd kind of leader is clearly the cooperation immunity which hopefully will be substantially augmented by vaccination but thats something for the future but theres a 3rd really. Which is Contact Tracing so when you ask me would i be satisfied with curfew. And censorship absolutely there is another way i do it i think i have to interrupt you there because johnson has claimed in parlia
One of the 3 leaders that the government has access to. Best described i think in terms of changing or reducing the contact rates through specialists and saying like the rule of. The curfew and the 2nd kind of leader is clearly the copulation immunity which hopefully will be substantially augmented by vaccination but thats something for the future but theres a 3rd really which is Contact Tracing so when you ask me would i be satisfied with curfew. Lockdowns and social distancing absolutely there is another way that i do have to say i have to interrupt you there because johnson has claimed in parliament and his stand that the circo socalled n. H. S. Jesson trace has quote very little or nothing to do with the spread of drugs mission of coronavirus compared to what you were just telling me. Back that it yes. That is a lot of it to say testing and surveillance. Clinical management are all intimately related so. If he meant the testing isnt a way of measuring and measuring things does not