So far of the season. I am sure you have felt it. Here is a live look at our Treasure Island camera with mostly sunny skies. Mid50s for many of us across our region. As we look to the rest of our afternoon, the daytime highs, mid to upper 60s to about 60 degrees. Cool, below average by 10 degrees. As we take you hour by hour, you can see the sunshine as we head through the rest of the afternoon. For tomorrow, a coldstart for the day. We have a freeze warning that will be in effect for the north bay and interior valleys. The Positivity Rates in many, many states, in most cases we are seeing a Record Number of cases and transmission in this country and we are seeing states with transmission and Positivity Rates that put them in the high teens, 20, 30, some cases, 40 positivity races. It has raised some alarm. I want to jump in and give you the latest here in our state. As you can see, our case numbers have been trending up as well. The seven day average of 5889, the number of tested posi
Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu
Prompting new efforts to better deal with the new realities. Michele miller reports. Reporter hospitals were always designed to treat the ill. But battling covid19 over the last seven months pushed many to their limits. The assumption if you get sick we willor you is a false assumption. Reporter hospitals like chicagos Rush Medical Center have began to spring into action. We created a command center to bring together all of the people in the organization that represent all of the potential landmines and unmet needs that we may have. Reporter president and ceo at rush. Then we just took a giant board and we wrote down how do we physically change the hospital to take care of larger numbers of people. The process started eight years ago, long before the pandemic when rush added a new wing to their hospital. When you build something for the future of health care, you try to add something with flexibility or agility in it and we built an 830,000 square foot building in the city that has the
Orders amidst new highs in covid19 case counts and hospitalization rates. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the warning. Reporter as the bay area prepares for a thanksgiving unlike any other, Santa Clara County has another urgent warning for the public. Do not have gatherings and do not travel. Period. Reporter today, 512 new cases of covid19 were reported county wide. A new record for the highest daily case count since the start of the pandemic. Perhaps up to 60 of the time when people are infecting others or infectious themselves, they have absolutely no symptoms. Reporter the county also saw its highest daily number of covid19 hospitalizations at just under 200 patients. Troubling numbers at a time of year when most hospitals are already busy because of the cold and flu season. Were extremely concerned about what this means for our hospitals ability to care for not only people with covid19 but for other people who need access to care in our hospitals. Reporter stanford hospital i
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