Ucsf believe this is for 3 reasons the first is were only as good as whats around us so if we saw in the country the rest of the country is on fire is like excluding with covid. And so is this because of the hot even with reduce travel, there are people going back and forth second. He says people are getting more comfortable lax in their precautions and probably having more small gatherings number 3 is its getting cold. So we know that these respiratory viruses love call not only because temperature aspect they survived betting cool but michael does is it brings people together you are if you go more likely going to meet somebody and then endure, setting versus outdoors. Something that doctor chan hong is more worried about after seeing celebrations on saturday once a president elect was announced while hundreds of people flooded castro street. Vast majority were Wearing Masks you may remember when we had black lives matter protests. People were also wearing their masks and the city di
All three of them have impeccable credentials. I think we can learn a lot about what Advisory Board can do effectively from what drums Advisory Board didnt do. Reporter to start, we can expect the Incoming Biden Administration to emphasize a mask wearing and other Public Health measures. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable. Or to take away from you. It is to give Something Back to all of us. A normal life. The goal is to get back to normal. As fast as possible. Reporter other measures the president elect promised in his campaign. And asked the pandemic dashboard to keep track of the infections and beds. Increasing the production of tests. Hiring of tens of thousands of Public Health workers to step up Contact Tracing efforts. Health experts said Advisory Board will guide the direction of those efforts. It is a good crosssection. These are big complex questions they will have to have strategies to move on. Reporter over the next several weeks the board or
What we are seeing today is different from march and april. It is extraordinarily widespread, into the rural as equal urban areas and everybody in a rural area you are not immune or protected from this virus. That frank assessment from dr. Birx is now drawing the ire of her boss. President trump tweeting, so crazy nancy pelosi said horrible things about dr. Birx going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing in order to counter Nancy Deborah took the batd and hit us, pathetic. As for the president claiming to have done such a good job heres what that looks like. See how the case numbers rose starkly in july. We could be hitting the 5 million case milestone by the end of this week and then california topping half a million cases alone, more than any other state but there they be good news. On a treatment. As one Company Moves into phase three of a Clinical Trial on an antibody treatment. Eli lilly is focusing the trials in Nursing Homes and facilities. Ha
To the virus. Yesterday alone, 1,133 lives were lost and the cdc is warning that another 20,000 people in the United States could die in the next three weeks. One thing we keep hearing from Top Health Experts is that mask wearing is key, key in stopping the spread of this virus. But the president is contradicting his own top medical experts suggestions to the american people. He held a maskless rally in florida, one of the hardesthit states right now even as his advisers are pleaing with him to start wearing one in public every single day. The president spent his second weekend in a row golfing. Again, even as more than 1,000 american lives have been lost each day for the past six days. While we continue to track those devastating coronavirus numbers, another threat is emerging, were talking about Tropical Storm isaias tracking near floridas east coast, bringing with it strong winds and heavy rain. The Tropical Storm is putting more strain on a state which is nearing 500,000 cases and
Coast and getting stronger. The category 1 storms maximum sustained winds increased to 85 miles an hour this morning. The latest projections show it arriving at floridas Treasure Coast by this evening. Within the last few hours President Trump has approved an Emergency Declaration ahead of the storm. Joining me thousand with the details, january he issa webb. What states are on the watch list right now . All of the east coast sections really need to be watching out for isaias. It continues to be an unhealthy storm. It is disorganized. Right now. But we are watching for it to increase in the next 24 hours. It continues the threaten the florida coastline. Our latest update, just showing you it has shifted to the east. Mostly eastern florida going to see the storm surge, hurricaneforce winds, up to at least 80 miles per hour. It will race across that area going into tonight, all the way into sunday morning. Then you can start to see across the carolinas. We could have land fall for wilmin