Thanks very much for joining us and my guests here in the studio in the burlington are professor Susanna Schreiber from the german Ethics Council, who says, in theory, we know how best to distribute limited supplies of the vaccine. The real challenge is putting these ideas into practice. Also with us is yunior fischer, a former doctor, now a journalist and she believes the vaccine is a ray of hope. But tough times she says, still lie ahead for all of us, and a very warm welcome to try to be as quote, professor for Public Health at the d. B. Ology of Berlin Charity hospital. Who argues that the news of an effective vaccine is good. But it shouldnt distract from the many problems posed by the pandemic. Thank you all 3 for being here. I would like to begin with you. Theres so much to talk about. Some people are talking about a shimmer of hope. Light, the end of the tunnel. I saw though one commentator saying, we find ourselves in the midst of an all to him of resignation. Stuff. Is it too
See moraine county is the only bay area county outside the purple tier and still in the red there is a flurry of speculation about what the new stay at home order restrictions will look like ground force dan kerman talk to medical experts tonight about that as well as how it might help slow the surge that were dealing with an joins us now dan. Well medical experts seem to agree that some sort of a rollback is necessary, especially to put off that overcrowding of hospitals to the point where there might not be any hospital beds left in 2 weeks in the bay area. They also talk about various levels of a stay at home order it does not necessarily have to be the draconian one we saw in spring, but it could be something more limited like what were seeing now in Santa Clara County. One version of a stay at home order could look like this abandoned streets like we saw back in the spring. But while affective on slowing the spread of covid19 his Economic Impacts could prevent the state from repea
Counties, including the purple counties here in the bay area in terms of restriction. And at some point throughout this week, hes mentioned those efforts going on in l. A. County. So, what exactly is being done there . Well, on top of ending Indoor Dining last week, the city of los angeles issued a modified stayathome order wednesday that echoed what the county issued on monday. That city order bans gatherings of people outside of immediate households with some exceptions such as religious service and protest. Governor gavin newsom hosted a Conference Call with members of various cabinets yesterday to work out a restriction and on that call representative with National Federation of independent businesses. He said they should expect that announcement within a day or two from the governor. So, some businesses working to adapt to changes since reinnei t reinterring the purple. One Business Owner we spoke with has kept his gym open after being ordered to close simply to make a stand. He s
Thanks for that you know traffic is looking great out there, but you can see the bay bridge. A lot of backup there the maze to fremont street 13 minutes and you see traffic starting to build here in the Richmond Bridge traffic steadily moving along near the tulsa the one o one about 11 minutes. For your drive so make sure now is the time you want to give yourself more time to get out on the roads because were no longer in the green everybodys out there trying to get to work, san mateo bridge 92 you can to one o one a 17 minute drive for you can see everyone kind of stepping on those lights there you see the brake people making their way across but its going to definitely be a drive and thankfully, no accidents to tell you about no hot spots to get to but lets get a check at our drive times for you filling a out to conquer 21 minutes of steadily increasing there but take danville 40 minutes, san leandro to milpitas 27, san jose youre at a 35 plus drive the air and one more look out at t
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