Intensive care unit around the state your capacity. Good evening im julie haener. I am frank somerville. This new three week stay at home order would be triggered if hospital intensive Care Capacity drops below 15 in any of the five regions of california. Right now, none of the regions is affected. The governor says he expects it could happen for all regions except the bay area within days. The governor also says the bay area could see the order by the middle of the month. Governor newsom tried to reassure people in california that there is hope ahead as vaccines are rolled out. We do not anticipate having to do this once again. We really only to step up. We need to meet this moment had on. We need to do everything we can to stem the tide, bend the curve. Under the order, schools could stay open but ours, wineries, and hair salons would close. Is an retail and Grocery Stores would be limited to 20 capacity. Restaurants would only be able to offer takeout or delivery. The Team Coverage
Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an
Recommended that the vaccine be available for folks older than the age of 16. And this all comes as the Pfizer Vaccine just now hours away from being shipped out shipments as you just heard are expected to arrive in states as early as monday trucks, carrying those vaccines will roll out starting tomorrow to nearly 150 Distribution Centers across america. The head of the fda says that science and data guided the fdas decision to approve the vaccine. It comes despite concerns that the vaccine was rushed along with pressure from the white house. Now here in the bay area we can expect about 75,000 doses of the vaccine at local hospitals are getting ready. Kron fours gayle ong is live tonight in freeman with that part of the story gayle. Jonathan justine the initial shipments are expected some time next week and that will be intended for Health Care Workers and first responders. It could store hundreds of thousands of vaccines. Right now at ucsf without without an issue doctor desi kotis ch
Since the pandemic began with more than 10,000 cases reported since yesterday. More than 18,000 people with the virus have now died in our state. Including 94 deaths in the past 24 hours. In the last week or so, a lot of items sold out early in the pandemic are selling out again amide this new second wave and rise in cases and the holiday rush. Ktvu has been looking into the increased demand and tells us what Grocery Stores are doing in the face of this second surge in sales. When the pandemic began, toilet paper, paper towels, disinfectants, sugar, rice, flour, and other items were swept from the shelves. Consumer Brands Association executive, katie denis says though actual pandemic sales went up only 21 above normal, that was enough to create months of shortages that forced rationing. Ultimately, putting in some of those restrictions is responsible in that people buy what they need and not more than what they need. Some over buyers bought massive amounts of items then resold them on
Years. Welcoming everyone together as americans. Good morning, everyone. Its sunday, november 8th. Im jovina fordson. We wake up to a message of healing as they look to build their vision for the next four years. Everyone will be watching, speaking from wilmington, delaware, last night. President elect biden laid out his hopes for his presidency, he was introduced by the woman whose story you know well here, Vice President elect Kamala Harris, daughter of indian jamaican immigrants, the highest ranking woman in the nations 244year history. As you wake up, here are some pages, front pages of sunday morning papers, from around the country. Were starting here at home, in San Francisco, we have the San Francisco chronicle saying biden wins. Subtext notes the victory for bay area native senator Kamala Harris saying harris to backgroundbreaking vp. The Washington Post reads biden defeats trump. Gives a nod to the Vice President elect saying with haar rilg harris he rebls the blue wall. It wa