We are always at threat for the next pandemic. These viruses exist out in nature. As people go out in nature they get infected and then move their way back into humans. If we were to imagine the origins of covid19 as a movie, it would begin at the end of the contagion movie. Exactly that process of bulldozing down the forest, bats flying off infecting livestock that then we get infected. That happens every day, every week. Thats how these things begin. With yuhaith you wuhan is a majn the wildlife trade pathway. Its close to hot spot areas for new coronaviruses. Ever since the covid pandemic hit, weve been trying to determine if anybody knew anything about a contagion sweeping through wuhan last fall and when did they know it. Researchers looked at Satellite Photos of wuhan hospitals in october of 2019. And what they show are packed parking lots. All those red dots are cars. And we took those photos and we put em next to october of 2018. Mirror images. And you can clearly see in some t
With byron pitts. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Tonight the wide ranging abc news investigation into this countrys response to covid19. Now some of the nations top doctors and experts on why they say a series of missteps and ignored warnings created the crisis were facing we are always at threat for the next pandemic. A mysterious new virus appearing in china. Chinese Health Authorities are still working to identify the virus behind a pneumonia outbreak in the central city of wuhan. You have a brandnew virus that jumped species from animal to human. Concern rising. There were a number of people raising red flags. As covid19 rapidly spread around the world and arrived in the u. S. It is the perfect storm and my worst nightmare. Tonight we go in ic catastro puic health flure in our naon history. How did we get ever t covid pandemic hit were trying to determine if any one knew anything about a contagion sweeping through wuhan last year. Everybody at the state, local, theres a lo
Sister communities to be doing the same kinds of work and we know that they are. We talk with them twice a week and we know that hotels are a part of the plan for all of the surrounding areas. And so, if youre experiencing unsheltered homelessness in San Francisco and youre not from here or known to our system of care, you are not going to be able to move in quickly to a hotel room in San Francisco. Thats part of the honest city thahonesty thati need to provid. Its not that we dont want to help you. It will take a tremendous amount of time and we need you to return to your Home Communities and get the resources there. So we will be placing people in our system who are known to our system who are vulnerable. To the specific question around gegeography. Are they in our system and have San Francisco roots and where are they located . This is similar and we know where people are experiencing homelessness and know where its increasing. Its increasing in the bayview, and increasing in the te
Unsheltered homelessness in San Francisco and youre not from here or known to our system of care, you are not going to be able to move in quickly to a hotel room in San Francisco. Thats part of the honest city thahonesty thati need to provid. Its not that we dont want to help you. It will take a tremendous amount of time and we need you to return to your Home Communities and get the resources there. So we will be placing people in our system who are known to our system who are vulnerable. To the specific question around gegeography. Are they in our system and have San Francisco roots and where are they located . This is similar and we know where people are experiencing homelessness and know where its increasing. Its increasing in the bayview, and increasing in the tenderloin and hence our focus on the tenderloin to move people from that community who have been unsheltered in that community historically into hotel rooms and we will be looking at impacted neighbors across the city with t
United play as a violence prevention and use Development Group based in soma lives by each day. And over the last 2 weeks. They focus their efforts on delivering supplies to communities that have been hit hard by the coronavirus we feel that we love giving back to the community were trying to bring everybody getting keep everybody safe it follows ferguson is a volunteer at united plans on monday they handed out Hand Sanitizer and face masks to those in the bayview Hunters Point area of the city. The group joined by San Francisco supervisor matt haney also distributed supplies to the tenor line when we get the gear to hand and face masks and attend a lawn on it or not governor rock yesterday look 1000 people showed up in a town one area. Receiving senate adding base pets. In a tweet on monday supervisor haney again address the needs of his district and others that are underserved in the city. A new map of covid19 cases by zip code shows those testing positive are more likely to be peopl