Need a precise plan when it comes to handling, storing and distributing the vaccine. So joining us to talk about it is ucsf Infectious Disease specialist, good to see you again. Thank you for having me on. Cdc Robert Redfield was incorrect when he said a vaccine wouldnt be available until next summer. Which timeline to be trusted or all just a guessing game . The name of the game here is uncertainty. One, kind of the dogmatic about a timeline when you have to wait for the data to be thoroughly analyzed and right, not based on political. You heard dr. Redfield saying to congress saying this kind of mask protects him more than a vaccine. Why . I think its stopgap measure. Ideally, we want to have a vaccine but dont know how many people will take it. Up to 50 are of getting a vaccine. We have seen those numbers going up. Which i want to address in a little bit and ask you why you think that is but i do want to ask, a vaccine, would it have an immune response in everyone, right . Typically
About. Joining us is mask expert and university of San Francisco scientist Jeremy Howard. Good to see you. Hi, there. Lets start with the headlines. I know youre wachg stories out of several different countries. Take us through some of the examples and what they mean for us he about the impact of schools on covid19 transmission is super complicated. Heres the problem. Normally we figure out what is going on with transmission, using contact tracing, and go and see if they have covid19. The problem s kids almost never get significant enough symptoms that they end up as a recorded case. So theres a huge amount of unrecorded transmission in kids. And sweden, they did not close down the School System and they went around and surveyed lots and lots of people at random and tested them. And it turned out, kids 4 about as much covid19 as adults did. It turned out the transmission was just as bad. We have no reason to believe the kids cant go pass it on to their teaches and parents and grandpare
Symptomatic but now for the first time were hearing you should also wear a mask because it protects the wearer. So this is interesting information coming from right here at ucsf. So happy to have dr. Monica gandhi joining us and mention that among other things, shes director of the Ucsf Gladstone Center for aids research. Thank you for the time. Thank you very much for hving me. So tell me about this paper that youre putting together and what the takeaway is for all of us when it comes to wearing our masks. Yes, so we basically put together evidence from both virology and epidemiology and whats going on with this virus and put together the theory. We think viral determines whether you get the infection or get sick with the infection. The oldest we could find from 1938 that how much virus you get in the system makes you either very sick if you get a lot of virus or not very sick if you dont get hardly any virus. And what a mask does is for you as an individual is it protects you from ge
The official start of summer. As we look at live doppler 7 youll notice the fog hugging the shoreline making its way across the bay. 5 46 is the sunrise and you can see from our east bay its clear. 52 in gilroy, 53 santa rosa, 57 in concord and looking at the visibility reduced to just over 2 miles around Half Moon Bay. But well talk about the summer spread today, and that temperature were going to change that. Its going to be in the upper 80s later on this thanks n vo enewsom just over t countless fireworks overnight. One of them exploding over ove merritt. Check out that car that even drove onto the grass to get around other cars and street trash as fireworks wept off. Hundreds of people had been there celebrating juneteenth. A similar scene in San Francisco. Thats at hunters point. People in several bay area cities said they heard plenty overnight. There had been lots of fireworks in the past couple of weeks but there seemed to be a significant increase lastatt n stu being ton docou
So to start, we heard governor gavin newsom with updates from pittsburgh. More than 6300 new cases in the past 24 hours. This comes just after yesterday when california broke the record with more than 8,000 hospitalizations and icu numbers continued to climb. Masks and face coverings. Theres heated discussions about masks and their efficacy. University of San Francisco researcher and founder of masks for all, by the way, viewers if you have questions for jeremy, regarding masks, what type of mask might work best, if you see data that confuses you, post them now on facebook and well try to get to some of them. Jeremy, this morning, dr. Anthony fauci and the cdc director robert redd field and warned america is going in the wrong direction. They both urged everyone to wear masks, any idea whats the percentage of the public thats complying . There is a lot state to state. The states that have mask mandates which now covers more than half of the country in terms of population, most people a