Now they want to know how it will work in teens. So they are enrolling 16 and 17 yearold participants now. My parents have done it, and they only had slight symptoms for a day. 17yearold allison said the shot felt like any others. Now she monitors her temperature each week. Thats part of the point of the study to understand if the vaccines are working well in adolescents. Pfizer and beyond tech requested emergency use from the fda. Someone needs to do it. This is our chance to contribute. Allison wont know if she got the real vaccine or the placebo. If i got the placebo then nothing changed. She thought volunteering was the responsible thing to do to help her peers. As teenagers are one of the most irresponsible people. A decision could come by mid december. Theres the capability to produce 50 million probably in 2020. We are hearing a lot of positive news about the vaccine that could be available in the coming months. Joining us is the former medical officer with health and human serv
Yesterday. In fact, it is going to evaporate much quicker today. Enjoy sunshine just about all day today and slightly milder temperatures from like 68 in fairfield to 58 in Half Moon Bay. Most of us in the low to mid 60s this afternoon. Update on the thanksgiving forecast coming up. Heres reggie with the news. Mike, thank you. Californias Health Secretary is warning that more counties could move into the purple tier. And, of course, thats the states most restrictive. We anticipate there will be some tier movement. Handful of counties likely moving to a more restrictive tier. Here in the bay area, three counties in the red tier right now but they could slide back to purple and that includes San Francisco, san mateo and marin counties. Dr. Mark ghaly defended the curfew restrictions that are already in the purple tier. He said it is necessary to help curve the spread. You can watch him live today at noon on our abc7news. Com. California is pulling back on reopenings as the number of covi
We begin with a flurry of new announcements in the past five hours that affect millions of people here in the bay area. San francisco and san mateo counties slid back into the most restrictive tier. You can see here every county is in the purple tier except for marin county, which is one tier away in red. This is why restrictions are tightening. This shows the average number of cases in the bay area. The newest numbers all the way on the right, nearly as high as our summer surge. But this time hospitals are also dealing with the beginning of the flu season. The situation facing hospitaling in the south bay is so serious, that it led to a rare weekend News Conference from county leaders who announced further restrictions. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro is in san jose with us for more on this serious message from the countys top doctors. Reporter its definitely concerning, at a press conference here, the Public Health officer announced that the covid cases are spiking. There were 760 repor
Everyone, yes, for california standards its frosty out there with temperatures at freeding in some locations, live doppler 7 shows that we are mostly clear, a few high clouds in the view from our roof camera, strong northerly winds in the upper elevations, thats driving the milder air down to Half Moon Bay at 57. 52 in oakland. Low 40s in san jose. The exploratorium camera, and look at these numbers, you know the protected valleys of the north bay, our east bay valleys, low 30s to upper 30s, yes, you certainly are feeling that dry air in place. 41 in livermore. So well look for those offshore winds to warm us up again today with numbers in the upper 50s by noontime, some high clouds, partly cloudy in the afternoon, with upper 60s inland, mid60s around the bay. And about 60 at the shoreline. Increasing clouds, maybe a milder night out there but well talk about the holiday, and if were going to see any rain at all for the upcoming week. Liz . All right, lisa, thank you. Californias new c
Than 984,000 cases in total. We could see a million by this week. And 24 hours after San Franciscos mayor announced a 250 increase in cases since early october, we are getting an idea of what might be a key factor. Tonight the abc 7 iteam reveals 11 bars have been forced to shut down for repeatedly violating the Public Health order. Abc 7 news iteam reporter stephanie sierra is live tonight with more. Steph, we understand some of these bars have since reopened and appear to be violating the same rules. Reporter yes, dan. All 11 have passed the Health Departments reinspection and were able to reopen. Yet a mere week after, complaints of the same problems are happening again. Its a res mooe for rapid spread, and its happening all over San Francisco. Big crowds, no masks, and no social distancing. More than 400 violations were cited to businesses across the city since march. The hot spots include these 11 bars and nightclubs pegged by the Health Department for repeatedly violating the hea