That remdesivir showing the risk of death in severely sick patients is very very promising and now the ceo had to couch that with, you know, that fine print, but these latest findings require some confirmation, so again thats just in keeping with the requirements that all of these biotech giants face in coming up with potential cures and or vaccines for this virus, but a lot of fastmoving developments are keeping track of the president , and hell be in florida very soon and speaking there raising money there, and hes got a busy weekend coming up with both duties of the job, duties for the campaign, raising money, also the back and forth whose better for wall street, the president says he is, joe biden says that hes not vowing to investors or Shareholder Capitalism, and im not quite sure what other capitalism there is, but anyway, were going to explore that back and forth with the likes of Bernie Marcus who of course came to fame and built a billion dollar empire with home depot when no
County reason. Professor of epidemiology says we clearly have Community Transmission and he says testing remains a key way to monitor and manage the growth rate of infection. You dont achieve Public Health goals by not testing the people who are infected, you find the people who are infected, diagnosing them and putting them into isolation and tracing their contacts. Southern california has seen the largest increase. He believes that early bay area stayathome orders may have saved thousands of lives. Today, the governor declared a budget emergency to support the state response to the covid19 outbreak. This allows legislators to dip into the rainy day fund. Reporter monitored the News Conference and has more. It is something to worry about. The governor has always said that we reopen the economy, we will see a rise in cases and that is because the virus is, was and continues to be out there. The rate of positive test for coronavirus has been 5. 1 for the previous two weeks and now has c
Help were clear. Let them go [ applause ] reporter and now Governor Newsom has responded. A plan to battle the virus that is wreaking havoc inside california prisons, now up to 8,000 inmates could be eligible for Early Release by the end of august. I think its a good step. Reporter former inmates and advocates have been worried, especially surrounding san quentin, the site of the states largest covid19 outbreak. 7 prisoners have died. We cant afford the luxury of a slow roll out and continuing to make incremental changes in the state prison populations. We need a large scale release. We need to follow the Public Health experts leadership on this. Health experts agree. Large packed settings are a prime place for the disease to spread. Its really a chicken coop of risks for covid. Reporter ucfs doctor peter plods the governors decision to then the prison population, but remains fearful. It may not be enough. The devil is in the details. Because 8,000 inmate six only 7 of the states count
We expect things to clear up a lot of fog along the coast over the last few days, but hopefully as youve been telling us, we pull back on the fog with sunshine across the bay area. We are in the middle of summer, so what are your travel plans, im want to fly, but i think this time cover can be jumping in the car and going on the road a little bit more. Many Summer Travel plans are being delayed or canceled because of the pandemic. Aaa predicting 150 million fewer trips will be taken the summer, but, other people who plan to travel, 96 percent actually plan to drive instead of going by plane or train, aaa estimates air travel would drop but no travel is dropped by 3 and if the mic is up and running, let me know. Weve already taking a road trip, road trip later this summer up to tahoe so, are you flying or not . I jump in here because, i love a road trip from way back, and especially so these days. We did a road trip down the california coast, several years ago. We did a road trip up int
Number of positive cases and hospitalizations and icu patients and the like. We talked about the imperative of taking personal responsibility to wear a face mask and practice physical distancing and social distancing and we dont know how to mitigate the worst effects of this virus and we have to work our way through this first phase. We have reinforced that we are still in the first wave of this pandemic. We are not in the second wave. We have been successful in the state of california of bending that curve and i will get to that in a moment but we have stretched it out and elongated. Thats what we are experiencing here today. The purpose is to update you on our daily tallies as well and give you the latest numbers. As you can see from the slide and the id this slide represtivity rate and the of people you see on the side 41. 8 and 5. 1 represent the first four ddeeco heard positivity. Most of the people in the middle of this pandemic that went to seek testing were symptomatic so its n