Over 7,000 new cases yesterday. The day before, over 5,000 new cases. The day before that, over 4,000 new daily cases. Were talking about a trend in the past week of many, many more new cases than we saw in april or may, so that is disturbing. And part of the governors message is that if we dont reverse this, he may have to shut down the economy again. So walk us back, just as the bay area economies are starting to reopen, in fact, the governor pointed to california during the News Conference in the bay area in particular saying that we were later to reopen, but now were starting to see the impact just in the last few days and the past week of numbers starting to go up. Not just the number one cases, that can be attributed to testing but also the test Positivity Rate is over 5 . That is bad. Tat means not just more people are getting tested but the people getting tested more are turning up positive. So we will talk with Alameda Countys Public Health officer about the implications of al
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