Fresh produce, which is a wonderful contribution. Fresh produce is something that low income people and people in need often dont buy because its expensive and they have to decide how to spend their funds. However, it is some of the most nutritious food we provide. So the 15,000 allowed us to contribute about 60,000 worth of produce by the way in which were able to make a dollar stretch. And you can also help toys for to the. Now through december 134th visit shop disney. Com toys for to the and disney will donate 1 for each toy. Find out more about how to help any organizations we support. Go to abc7news. Com take action. Another great local organization. We want to talk about. The organization is known as alas. Helping latinos to dreams. Joining us to talk more about this, the executive director Belinda Hernandez and an eighth grade volunteer, el kin lopez. Good afternoon to both of you. Good afternoon. I like your tshirts. Dont think i dont notice that. Your organization is based on
Committee. Good to see you. Thank you. Finally happened after some three dozen dismissed lawsuits the president allowed the formal transition to begin. We got word the white house has given formal approval for biden to start getting the daily briefing. Let me just ask you, is this trumps way of conceding . I think its as close as well get at this point. This is a very important moment, its a very important opportunity for the new administration, for the transition to formally get underway. Some of these things are important, office space and funding, as well as more importantly some of this National Security information thats conveyed in the president s daily brief, you no noted. Its very important for the continue newity of government to ensure that the Incoming Administration has it. Planning the vaccine distribution, so much to ham, the economy, the coronavirus. How is biden doing so far do you think in terms of the two weeks since the election in the way of cabinet members hes name
15 in early december. Maybe in a couple of days. The bay area is projected to be mid to late december. Now, once in affect, bars, wineries, personal services, hair salons, barber shops must close. These things will stay open. Schools with a waiver. Critical infrastructure, retail 20 capacity, and restaurants can can be own for takeout and delivery. Meaning no more Outdoor Dining. The governor encouraged everyone to get outdoors for Mental Health and all nonessential travel is banned statewide, right now, no matter the region. A whole lot to unpack with our doctor who keeps us informed on the latest covid information on twitter. Thanks for joining us on this big day. Nice to be here. I want to do start with the governors stayathome order. How quickly do you see the bay area to reach the point. If we continue the surge, we may get there in the next couple of weeks. The hope is of course that we all turn this around. That people begin restricting some of their i have at thes even in advan
From particulates we may be breathing out into the air. Your Research Says its effective on the masked wearer sthems. What did you find . What we were looking at actually was to take a step back, the cdc when they told the public to wear a mask, they said do this to protect others. They made that announcement on april 3rd. What our study shows and what other studies have show is actually, the masks have a beneficial effect on the wearer as well. There are science studies that show if you wear a mask lock virus getting in. If you block the majority of virus that gets in, you either dont get transmission or if youre unluckily enough to get infected, youre more likely to get a mild disease. Thats based on what wie seen over time with this infection. Over time in places that mask, we see milder symptoms of infection if you do get infected and weve seen lots of studies that mask it. Why is it that its a milder case . Is it because of the amount of particulates or the percentage of the virus
From uc berkeley, dr. Lee riley. Dr. Riley, thank you for joining us. Thank you for inviting me. We are facing rising numbers of cases. What is driving this idea, this curfew in california . Well, i think for one thing, you know, everybodys really concerned about this resurgence, so something needs to be done and i guess this is one intervention that i think the state decided could be made. Whether or not this is going to work or not, time will tell. Yeah. Mean, after all, this is one tool at their disposal, as you said, but of all the tools available, do you think this is one that will be most effective based on what we know about what happens between 10 00 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. . Right. This is a time frame where not many people are going to be going out having big parties. Ok, theres some bars may be open and some people might congregate, but bars dont really contribute significantly to the kind of surge were seeing right now. Most of these transmissions were seeing right now are hap