Here in california . For the first time today we heard San Francisco city leaders admit that is plausible. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Abc 7 News Reporter is breaking down the latest numbers just coming in you to. A pretty jarring warning. We know cases are skyrocketing here in Southern California but to hear dr. Grant colfax admit we could reach a new york level crisis by late summer early fall is a real wakeup call. In San Francisco more than 5500 covid cases have been diagnosed. Today we learned whats being done to expand Testing Capacity. Wereng mak three marexpa. Reporter in an effort to curb covid testing backlogs across the city mayor london breed announced three main additions including 400 new testing slots at the embarcadero test site, two new mobile pop up testing sites one of which starts this week, and a third test site launching in august in the Southeast Side of the city. All of this will increase the citys Testing Capacity by 45 . Crucial help but getting te
Xfinity. The future of awesome. Half a million College Students here in california will soon be seeing some major changes. Occupational hazards. Underlying Health Conditions and more. Filipino americans face an alarming rate of covid19 death. Stanford just got the okay to do pool testing. How it works and who it could benefit. Im meteorologist sandhya patel. Summer warmth is in the forecast. Ill show you whenomgup. Ld safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Tonight a significant change for nearly 500,000 undergraduate students. The California State University system will require an ethnic studies or social justice course. The action is the first major change for the system in 40 years, and comes at a time of National Discussion over Racial Injustice which is a large part of our efforts in building a better bay area. Abc 7 News Reporter j. R. Stone has more from cal state east bay in hayward. So starting in 2023, csu students will have to take a course in ethnic studies and social j
Remedesavir, the most effective treatment so far. Tonight hospitals are sounding the alarm. So will there be enough if you get sick . Tonight a troubling warning in the bay area about a common treatment for the coronavirus. Its called remedesavir. Its made by Gilead Science in foster city, but now some doctors worry the supply is low. Ian cull has the late details. Reporter its one of the only drugs that is helping Covid Patients survive. But tonight doctors say remedesavir is in short supply. Were seeing that were on the edge. Were about to fall off the cliff, and i dont know when that point will happen yet. across the state in the last month, hospitals in San Francisco are running out of remedesavir. Dr. Peter chin hong is an Infectious Disease specialist at ucsf. Well be soon enough to the point where we have to decide on an ethical basis if five people or ten people come in at the same time, who youre going to give the last course of drugs for. Reporter one of the problems, they ca
University system has made a significant change to the general education requirements. Campuses will determine the learning outcomes to meet this new requirement and then theyll approve courses. Reporter wednesday csu trustees voted to approve the measure. Those we talked to on campus said to them this is a nobrainer. She recently graduated from csu east bay and says she felt like the was already in place. Like i said, i was a Public Health major. I feel like it was built in our curriculum. Of course it could be put into our curriculum a lot more. Reporter dr. Alison wren says some csu schools had requirements in place, but this puts them on place on all 2 and students. Some believe this measure should be taken a step further and put into high schools. I even say in the general ed in the earlier two years they add that type of study in there as a required course. Reporter unclear at this point if that will happen, but this is one of the most widereaching College Requirements of its kin
In the wilderness for 40 hours, a hiker documents his wild ordeal. The new research on people who spend too much time on social media. What it really says about your personality. And from a new warning about a nationwide beer shortage to Martha Stewart like weve never seen her before, all the trending stories for your thursday morning. Good thursday morning, everyone. Dr. Anthony fauci says it is clear we are not winning the battle against covid19. Hes been called to testify next week on capitol hill about the response to this pandemic, and breaking overnight, word from washington that a cafeteria worker on the white house campus has now tested positive. Coronavirus deaths are on the rise in 28 states with record numbers in the south. There is some good news. The percentage of positive test results is leveling off or decrs. The mato of thisaggeri. W di virus. 12 of them in the same month. But we begin our coverage with the breaking news overnight from washington. This morning, a corona