Im dion lim. A huge swell of covid19 cases has prompted several counties to implement a new stayathome order. It goes into effect at 10 00 tomorrow night for San Francisco, santa clara, and contra costa county. Monday at midnight in Alameda County, and noon on tuesday in marin. The new rules will stay in effect until at least january 4th. We turn to abc7 News Reporter luz pena now who spoke to people who are out for what may their very last meal out until next year. Luz, as we can imagine, some businesses really concerned here. Dion, i spoke to several Business Owners who tell me these are going to be very challenging weeks. Theyre planning to lay off some of their staff after tomorrow night as they gear up to survive the stayathome order. Unless something changes, this is what the last saturday of Outdoor Dining of 2020 looked like in San Francisco. Packed. Yeah, the last hurrah. Reporter this family heard the news and are going on a food tour. We started at the ferry building, and th
You know what love is on thanksgiving . I love you so much and im so thankful for you that im not going to see you. This year if you love someone, it is smarter and better to stay away. Well be alone physically, but we are spiritually together celebrating in a way that is even deeper. The story is, my mom is going to come up and two of my girls is the current plan. But the plans change. But thats my plan. Sandra and that grabbed a lot of headlines. Laura ingle is tracking it for us. How long for the governor to change his tune about those plans . We crunched the numbers, looked at time codes. It was exactly 1 hour 33 minutes for him to Reverse Course and change his plans. As others plans go forward others move forward. He is letting folks know things are getting so bad in new york he is putting some restrictions in place for some areas where those cases are spiking, limiting the hours of restaurants and exactly how many people can gather for their thanksgiving day meal safely in new yo
Specialist dr. Peter chinhong tells us the hospitals on the list are all Holding Meetings right now to decide how it will be distributed and who exactly is at the front of the lines to get it. So they include those ware working in the department, the intensive care unit, specialist like Infectious Disease doctors, pulmonologists, stock members of therapists, like occupational therapists. Reporter dr. Chinhong explains it has to be stored in really cold temperatures and that ucsf already has the special freezers it needs ready to go. He says the military will be involved in the process to ship the vaccine to each facility but that those plans are still a work in progress. Even though it may not get into the arms of most of ours until the end of late spring, early summer. You know, it is something to hold on to as a metaphor or symbol of how far weve come. Reporter once the vaccine is available to the general public, dr. Chinhong kong expects it will be free for everyone and could be ava
That we saw over the summer in july. Weve talked so much about the twindemic, that covid surge combined with flu season. This could overwhelm hospitals in a matter of weeks, and despite the gloomy outlook, many local Health Leaders are feeling much more confident this time around. Here is nbc bay areas anousha rasta. Reporter if the latest surge in covid19 cases wasnt bad enough, now hospital workers and Health Care Workers need to worry about the looming flu season as well. We have been preparing for capacity. Making sure that we have equipment and supplies and just making sure that our protocols are in place to keep our patients safe as well as our Health Care Workers. Reporter dr. Sam shen is an emergency medicine doctor at Stanford Health cares palo alto campus and tells me he thinks the team and the hospital are ready to face a surge in covid patients. Should we hit a surge scenario, you know, we have prepared different backup plans. We have a scenario to manage surges and then we
But there is still a path to victory for both biden and President Trump as Battle Ground states continue to tally votes. Here is where we stand. Vice President Biden has 253 electoral votes. President trump has 214. 270 is needed to win. Were waiting on alaska, arizona, nevada, pennsylvania, North Carolina and georgia. Voter turnout is expected to be high in this unusual Election Year but how high in comparison to past president ial elections . Abc 7 news Leslie Brinkley looked into that question today in Contra Costa County that could be a micro cost m for the rest of the bay area. Reporter here in the east bay, there was a big push to register new voters. They received more on the roster than four years ago but no so much the sheer number of voters but the percent of those voters who actually vote. This machine takes pictures of signatures on ballots. First step in the process of counselling a vote. There are ballots dropped off at the polls and those that arrived in the mail today.