Deaths remain high, 113, the death toll overall stands at 9500. The new case increase is the lowest it has been in nearly a month. The number might be skewed because county Health Officials say technical issues leading to underreporting across the state. Greg lee is joining us with the impact this might be having with numbers. Greg . Several counties have placed disclaimers on there covid19 numbers over the last few days. One doctor says the reason for the issues might be just how much data these labs are trying to process at once. For the past few days, the state system, we have discovered some discrepancies. Reporter a recent drop in covid19 cases could be due, at issues. Dr. Mark galli acknowledged problems with cal ready, the acknowledged reporting system, resulting in underreporting positive cases. They are concerned, just like we are. We have been in communication about what these discrepancies are, how we might improve them. Reporter he did not say how many days had been impacte
We cannot continue to do what we have done for the last number of weeks. There is counties continue to reopen, the governor pleaded with californians to take covid 19 seriously. There is a surgeon hospitalizations and icu patients. The state performed a record 96,000 tests with the positivity road rose to 5. 1 . We have seen increased numbers and a lot of those numbers reflected in the bay area. That is part of the state that has moved into this new phase. Reporter the governor appointed to memorial day and statewide protest. The state remains confident in its preparation. We crushed the curve. We made it Crystal Clear when we did that. We never experienced the big spike where we were not prepared for an increase. Reporter the governor threatened to withhold relief funding for counties that would not comply with the reopening criteria including a new face mask order. We are going to attach consequences to that. It simply will not flow to those counties. Reporter the message is not sitt
Come. After closing doors seven cisco businesses have a timeline and can strategize how they will reopen. The good news were going to talk about businesses i can resume. Reporter the mayor laying out a timeline for reopening. Businesses already are starting curbside service. San francisco chamber of commerce said that the dates are critical, giving us owners a chance to rehire workers and stock up. Its good for businesses because it gives them a timeline and a level of certainty to be prepared to reopen. Reporter San Francisco is allowing businesses to reopen for curbside service, and today apple stores reopened. An important step since those stores are anchors for nearby businesses. Is still important for the foot traffic in the vitality. I think as we see them reopen we will see people drawn back into union square and shopping there. Reporter in phase 4 thats where we would see thousands of people coming together for concerts and sporting events. At this point no date has been set. W
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From the university of maryland. We will look at the threat with harvard Professor Joseph allen. If you live in the eastern or tral time zones, host time zones, 202 7488000. In the mountain or western, 202 7488001. If you are a nurse or doctor, we would like to hear u. S. We would like to hear you at 202 7488002. Lastw york city, over the 36 hours, over a thousand deaths. U. S. 13,500 deaths in the across the world, now 1. 5 million cases of coronavirus and approaching 89,000 deaths. Joining us from bethesda, maryland, dr. Wilber chen, a disease expert at the university of Maryland School of global medicine and health. Let me begin with the vaccine. There are three phases to incorporate a vaccine. Where are we with covid19 . Respect touest with vaccines, we are just at the beginning. About two weeks ago, we started the first of hopefully many vaccine trials that will be initiated this year. This first vaccine trial is what we call a phase one trial. Have to govaccines through three dif