Treat the most severely ill patients. Our kron fours gayle ong joins us now live bill you spoke with a doctorate stanford has been studying this drug is it is it all that. They can grant a stanford has 2 Clinical Trials of from disappear the focus is on the safety account actually safety accountability and efficacy and this was passed in record time. He tells us that. The pandemic is affecting all of us and we really needed something that will work doctor runa superman, ian is leading one of stanfords Clinical Trials does of air the drug that can help treat covid19 specifically the drug blocks an enzyme. The virus needs to replicate friday. The food and Drug Administration approved the drug on an emergency basis. It is not the same as a full fda approval, but assigned the fda believes the benefits far outweigh its risks. In certain patients even if its not perfect even if its not a magic bullet, its nice to have something that improves the overall situation since midmarch stanford has
The reporters we will update you with the latest numbers in and when this is over, the state. 39,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 96 we will all, continue, to thrive. Have died just yesterday bringing the total death toll in california now to more than 1500. The deadliest day so far came is so irresistible, youll wanna eat them anywhere, wednesday when there were 115 so dont resist pop em outside, or on the go, who died in one day. Or on the way home pop my 100 allwhitemeat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just 5. 99. Right here in the bay area there are currently more than 7000 confirmed cases of covid 19 with 243 deaths. Half 1 Million People have been tested for coronavirus here in the state and for the first time california has cleared its backlog of tests. That backlog reached 60,000 earlier this month and some people waited nearly 2 weeks or results of the test which slow down treatment. The forecast for warm weather is attracting more and more people back outside
Even socially distancing practices, hes been at least 6 feet of space in between you and others at the beach so. Heres images of the beach this morning you can see. The Service Looking there are lot of people out there enjoying the water but heres what you should do if you are going decide to go out to the beach you want to make sure that youre keeping at 6 feet of space you want to avoid large crowds. So if you arrive at a beach and its too many people getting your car turn around go home now remember Health Officials also say because of those really coastal winds. Its one of the more high risk places that you can be since you just cant control the flow of the wind as youre out so you want to keep that in mind before you leave your house. Now last weekend a police on here pacifica issue hundreds of violations for people. Leaving their homes and be more than 5 miles away from their houses to frequent the beach so again if you are going to come out just people out here are doing a good
California advocates for nursing home reform says its difficult to get a handle on the problem without testing i think one reason we may not be saying that kind of language yet is because testing is so still so hard to get California Public Health Officials released the number of deaths of Nursing Homes earlier this week for the first time. The numbers show one 3rd of confirmed covid19 deaths have come from these facilities. The numbers, however, could actually be much higher really surprising. Actually how little we know how that many of those numbers actually are. Thursdays Nursing Homes announcement came as President Trump declared may Older Americans month. The president says the commission on safety for Nursing Homes will be meeting soon and issuing recommendations to further protect seniors. Reporting in walnut creek dan thorn kron 4 news. Life on the streets during this pandemic is especially dangerous for people who are homeless in alameda on the state has donated trailers to h
Deaths are linked to nursing facilities. 10 residence at a redwood city nursing home have died from the coronavirus or its complications. The virus also infected other residents and employees. The facility typically causes about 65 people. The director says she is close to all of them. Its been a really hard two weeks or three weeks, or a month, that weve been under lockdown, and my main concern is for my residents. They are my friends, you know. Is working with healfur infection. You might think with vulnerable residents Nursing Homes would lead the way in testing, but it is spotty at best and only done only after people get sick or have died. Debora villalon is the here now with more. Roma quarantined for almost 2 months, elderly residents cant leave their facilities and families cannot come inside. And the lack of testing keeps everyone in limbo. Gail stephani visits her mother each day from outside her assisted living facility in novato, checking on 86yearold beverly on the second