Contact tracers are struggling to keep up with the surge of covid cases and calls. The patterns theyve noticed in cases and when cooperation gets complicated. Love is in the air and you can see the tents are up as we approach thanksgiving. Ill let you know the best time for dining outdoors. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. The range of reactions are theyre really sick. Others are just, oh, i got it, and im still going to go back to that allinclusive place in mexico. Tonight the explosion in covid cases has made it nearly impossible for contact tracers to keep up. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larson spoke to a bay area Contact Tracing team about the unprecedented challenges theyre facing on a daily basis. In the last few weeks weve been slammed. Reporter prepandemic was a library. Now she leads a team of contact tracers in the city whos work load has increased to nine or ten calls a day. Some of whic
Or your phone, our app on the phone to see the temperature, subtract about 3 to 6 degrees from that. Thats what the windchill will feel like. This afternoon, how about low to mid 60s from the coast to our inland neighborhoods. Lets get the news on this thanksgiving. Heres kumasi. Good morning, by day for staff and volunteers here at glide. Volunteers are busy setting up tables and putting up signs. The tables are set up to allow for social distancing, aside from those few changes it will be the same glide thanksgiving meal that thousands demand on each year. Glide has continued to serve food three meals a day since the start of the pandemic. That has not stopped. Organizers say there was never a doubt they would do thanksgiving, the issue was how. So moving the event outdoors solved that problem. Thankfully no rain. They plan to serve 2,300 meals. One of the organizers says because of covid19 this years thanksgiving brunch is even more necessary. Covid is affecting all of us, but its a
Overwhelmed employment departments, that state money plus 600 a week and cares act funding was put on a debit card and working with someone on the outside, that money was accessed what we learned over the last seven weeks is repeatedly, individuals would go to atms with a stack of these debit cards, removing up to 1000 at a time. Reporter it is described as the largest fraud in california history. Fraud honestly staggering. And the types are shocking quite frankly. Its exist in every cdc prison. It encompasses every type of inmate. Its encompasses death row inmates. The names on the list include several serial killers. Was that doing it using and stealing his identity . If so, that is an additional felony for Identity Theft. Reporter the District Attorney inmate records 35 other states used to make sure this doesnt happen again. Speaking from the county, we cut off Welfare Benefits to those in the county jail because we have a system in place. I do not want to say its a simple process,
Another troubling day for the state with more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases, the Positivity Rate is jumping and checkout hospitalizations, they are of 81 . We show you why the state believes the search right now could be the worst one yet. Reporter generally speaking counties are doing a lot better than the rest of the state, hospitals in Northern California are not experiencing that crisis level where there are not enough icu beds but we dont know when that surge will and thats why Health Officials are still concerned and preparing for the worst. Hospitalizations have spiked by more than 81 over the last 14 days. My parents definitely have a high risk so i would be terrified and scared if they got sick. I talked to Hospital System leaders many times per day to hear how things are going on the ground. Reporter the numbers arent as bad in the bay area compared to counties like los angeles where even Outdoor Dining has been shut down. For example there are 53 patients in intensive ca
States and because you know just very recently the u. S. Has passed the grim milestone of 200000 deaths to the coronavirus so he has every incentive just a few weeks now before an election of aiming fire at china. And he did that on many different subjects not just talking about the coronavirus but still you know we are at a moment geopolitically where chinas rise is really challenging the United States is previously the sole superpower we happened to have affectively to nationalists at the peak of both of those countries donald trump and she jinping so how these 2 powers and these 2 leaders play off each other is incredibly important for the rest of the world but im wondering so its very provocative theyre already locking horns when it comes to trade and tech but is this kind of business is usual with this administration and the chinese leadership. Well yeah i mean weve been on this path for some time now with donald trump but dont forget its not so long ago that he was trying to nego