Health director doctor grant colfax says that San Francisco will run out of icu beds in the coming weeks. Right now icu bed capacity here in the bay area is around 24 . A number of Health Leaders across the bay area say they dont want to take any chances. So stay at home orders will also go into effect tonight for people who live in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California because those regions have already fallen below the 15 icu bed capacity in less than an hour the stay at home order will go into effect for 3 bay area counties. Those are San Francisco contra costa and santa clara. Today, restaurants and hair salons and east bay took advantage of a last minute rush of customers before they are forced to shut down. Kron fours dan thorn talked with some of those businesses and some of the customers he is joining us live now from walnut creek good evening. Dan. Well johnson and justine has you mentioned this is the unfortunate reality that these businesses are going to have to dea
Representative Marjorie Taylor greene and the thirdranking house republican, liz cheney, who voted to impeach former president trump. Stand by for new information on that. And the republican infighting continues. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is trying to stay focused on covid relief. The president meeting with fellow democrats today, urging them to go big and stick together as they move ahead on his nearly 2 trillion package without at least for now republican support. In just a moment ill talk with senator Bernie Sanders. Hes the new chairman of the Senate Budget committee. He was in that meeting with the president earlier today. But first lets go up to capitol hill. Our Congressional Correspondent ryan nobles is joining us. Ryan, were standing by to learn the outcome of this really critical meeting of House Republicans. What are you learning so far . Reporter well, wolf, the one thing we know for sure is that that meeting is still ongoing. More than two hours it has been as re
And so that patients low leave the Emergency Department without knowing whether or not theyre positive for coronavirus and thats really a function of how few tests we have. Available to us whether thats here in in the hospital or uncertain clinics. So you really need to get up our game here. With testing as you may have heard the fda recently. A lot of Quest Diagnostics to do some degree cool testing which is really the force was in the same test kit to see whether someone review positive within that group. The theoretically that think stands and testing capacity. Were really struggling with a lack of test today. This interview first ran on kron on which is our 24 7 commercial free new streaming app weve dropped the pay wall during the covid19 pandemic so make she downloaded today for free to stay up to date on the latest developments during the crisis. A new study by the cdc suggests that more people in america may have been infected with covid19 than the official numbers show. Resear
The medical director of Carbon Health says those results are revealing some startling new trends. Earlier today on kronon he told kron fours Jonathan Mccall who is most likely to test positive for covid19. Still so many questions remain about testing of we know that a number of counties across the bay area now expanding their testing sites because of a recent surge. Europe app on the front lines of what are some of the trends that youre seeing in the emergency room where you work. Yeah, absolutely 7 Emergency Department were many people who work at a winery s coming in and testing positive were seeing many Grocery Store workers. Coming in testing positive are actually seeing a large number of children. Testing positive as well. Now urging care for me care clinics around the bay area through carbon. Were actually seeing. Clusters of patients to gather together parties so generally there younger 2020 somethings to may have thought that they could hang out with friends. Frankly really des
Governor gavin, newsome gave the go ahead monday allowing barber shops hair skin and nail salons along with other personal Care Services to work outside is possible some salon owners say reopening comes at a new price we lost 18,000 just in close. And then we had to send more money on ppe things and now were going to have to save more money on a said we are temporarily allow you outside where we get to do with the disappointment after were finished in portable state sen. So long years ago outside the new guidance does not apply to tattoo and piercing shops state Officials Say theyre invasive procedures and require a controlled hi jenna environment to be done safely and those new guidelines are up and hopefully that provides a more clarity if we need to provide even more. Will get the good feedback which i anticipate the update comes a week after the governor ordered these businesses and others to shut down their indoor operations across most of the state newsome said a spike in cases a