Of people across the bay area and how you can help if youre able. Plus bright and blue. The usually red levis stadium changing its colors to Honor Health Care workers. Good thursday evening. Thanks for joining us. Im janelle wang. And im raj mathai. They will call you, text you and track you for good reason. Ucsf is now contract tracing. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana is in San Francisco with the details. Sergio . Reporter Contact Tracing is what Public Health officials do to try to gauge just how widespread coronavirus may be within the community. But ucsf researchers are actually working on a few ways of figuring out just how widespread coronavirus is. Ucsf is partnering withople. The plan is to also track down everyone they have come into contact with. The department of Public Health has already been doing this to a certain extent but theyre about to get more help. Because Public Health in general has been defunded in the united states, so to do all these major initiatives, i think t
You know body consists off 37. 2 trillion cells and each cell contains our Genetic Information and if just one single gene is not working right it can have men disappear cations on our health how genes control all life this is what im going to talk about with professor. Whos the director of the institute of human and medical genetics of the britain and who is a researcher here at the Mechanics Institute for molecular genetics welcome to get checked. For the tick tests going to far reaching consequences so before you do a genetic test get informed what it really means and. Talk to your doctor. Some diseases can actually be caused by genes take colon cancer or Breast Cancer for example some special forms can be inherited is simple blood test can tell you if youre affected. And i go to is a retired physician for a long time he didnt know that he has an unusually high risk of getting a certain kind of cancer. Its a genetic risk he was born way of. The 21st moment or when i was 20 my mother
As a city remains americas kovi 1000 hotspots were now conducting well over 100000 corona virus test per day over at that 100000. 00 test a day and these are accurate tests and theyre moving rapidly which is more than any other country in the world both in terms of the raw number and also on a per capita basis the most the f. D. A. Is also authorized the 1st coronavirus Antibody Test developed a cell execute step that will help identify people who have recovered and to understand their immune response and their immune system. And the economic fallout continues to deepen with an unprecedented 10000000 americans losing their jobs in the past 2 weeks the u. S. Has a quarter of the worlds 1000000 cases of the virus concern about a reserve of infections in the epicenter of the corner Virus Outbreak in china has prompted a warning to people in the city of one to stay indoors sarah clarke has more from hong kong latest figures weve got coming from Chinas Health commission we have 31 new cases
Continued coverage of the coronavirus outbreak begins now. Good morning and welcome breaking news, the Senate Passing an historic Coronavirus Relief package last night with a unanimous 960 vote. Chris joins us from new york what are the next steps for this bill reporter after days of partisan disagreement, the Senate Finally reached Common Ground on this vote, the yays are 96 the nays are zero. Reporter hopes to help the people blindsided by the coronavirus outbreak we are going through a crisis unprecedented. Im damn proud of the work weve done reporter sending 1,200 checks to individuals, 2,400 for families and 500 per child. Relief for the nations hospitals. Expanded Unemployment Benefits which means four months of payments for workers that will give them a sense of security they dont have right now. Think of the size of the bill you are asking members to vote on they should have the ability to have their voice be heard whether they are for it or against it passing within hours. The
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