Certainly not the most common forms of mild to moderate. Reporter with asthma, the airways that caughtary to the lungs are imflamed with with covid19, its more of a disease of the air sacs where oxygen gets into your blood and causes a very severe pneumonia. Really asthma should not put you at risk for getting a severe pneumonia like that. Reporter even so, dr. Fahey advising any respiratory infection can make your asthma worse. People need to be aware that their asthma could exacerbate, as we say, if they get covid 19. Reporter however, an intended impact of the pandemic, the availability of inhalers. As a matter of fact, i have been carrying around an inhaler asthma attack. Reporter in hospitals, larger doses are usually given through a machine that uses a nebulizer mask. Now hospitals are using albuterol inhalers inside. They dont tend to generate the droplets these machines do, just a mist that you enhail into your own body. Reporter some areas of the country were now experiencing
Fo really called our church this. From sky 7, you can see hundreds of drivers lined up patiently waiting their turn for pickup. Pastor kenny foreman says he has never seen anything like this before. Were going to be here for the long haul until we goat the other side. Second harvest of Silicon Valley distributes food through sites in santa clara and san mateo counties. The church is just one of them. We have so many people feeling so much anxiety right now, and so many people finding themselves for the first time in need of help. Across town at the san jose armory, Real Estate Developer urban community has brought together a network of business and Community Leaders to help form a new nonprofit called san jose ship kits. There is a lot of good people throughout that really want to make a difference. And weve got a lot of already. The group is distributing free medical, food and wellness supply kits by those in shelter in place mandate. Theyre really going through it. And to be able to
The virus. Its saturday, april 11th. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. A closer look at those new and growing concerns in the coronavirus outbreak in a minute is lisargen wit hey, liz, it will get warme and sunnier not just for the weekend but the week ahead. Live doppler 7 looking at the cloud cover along the east bay and burn back to the coast throughout the day today for partly cloudy conditions for those of you closer to the shoreline. 52 innnnnn looking outside, well look for the clouds to stay with us for the morning hours. And partly cloudy. It has been muggy out there. Well change that today. Fewer clouds throughout the later afternoon hours. Mid 60s about 4 00 for you inland and around the bay. And well see partly to mostly cloudy skies ta tonight. Looking at a sunnier and warmer Easter Sunday that. Outlook is coming up in a few minutes. Liz . Thanks, lisa. This morning, alarming questions being raised about one particular coronavirus outbreak in San Francisco. 70 new p
Look at the weather on this holiday weekend. Heres lisa argen. Good morning to you. Were looking at some of the cloud cover being scoured out in the north bay this morning but elsewhere, its still pretty cloudy in the east bay, peninsula, and south bay. Santa cruz, temperatures today will be under 60 degrees for afternoon highs. Right now it is 54 in san jose, 51 in the city, and as we look out toward the gray sky there and the bay bridge, we have mid50s by the delta, but we will have a breeze there and a breeze at the coast today. So if youre headed outside, the sun will be with us in the next few hours from the north bay to the east bay, and then by the afternoon, fewer clouds, warmer temperatures, but not by much. Well save that warming trend for Easter Sunday and the week ahead. Your forecast for the seven day outlook is in a few minutes. Developing news overnight. A magnitude 5. 3 earthquake hit about an hour outside of Yosemite National park. The usgs says this one struck shortly
Hayward gateway care and Rehabilitation Center and atria burlingame to car cte andfrciscsaguna hondaital asovernoravin newsom plan to place coronavirus patients in Nursing Homes is drawing new criticism. We are also looking to get some one thousand Skilled Nursing facility units up and running. Is that a good idea . No. Dr. Michael wasserman is president of the California Association of longterm care medicine. Moving a person who has covid into a facility that doesnt have covid will ultimately result in some people dying. Thats just its medically wrong and its ethically wasse send his plan for what california needs to do to protect its nursing home population. Among the ideas, split the populations to the covid19 populations are either in completely separate facilities or separate wings of the same binge and the coronavirus patients must be served by completely different Staff Members. If he were able, he would bring a family home from most Skilled Nursing facilities because of covid19