Is another data point that would be interesting against the other data points against more geographically based studies. You have to see how study is agreeing. Policymakers easing social distancing, others have used Antibody Test studies arguing that if the infection rate is higher than mortality rate is lower. Others have called into question the accuracy of fingerprint test using studies that have not been approved by the fda. He the test are good in concept, but difficult in execution and interpreting the studies depends on which community you are looking at the results in. A false positive rate is Something Like one percent, and you test 50 percent of people in your population are positive for maybe one percent of those 15 percent might be false positives but you have a good idea of whats going on so it really depends on the actual numbers. The doctor leading this mlb study tells me that all the data from the 10,000 employees has been analyzed right now as we speak they are working
Bay area. Crude oil futures turned negative for the first time in history. Plunging to a 37 a barrel. Good evening. The negative price Oil Producers are willing to pay people to take the stuff off of their hands. Gasoline demand is so low and east bay refinery is shutting down. From mill valley to san jose the average price for a gallon of gas is about two dollars 29. A price we havent seen in the bay area since 2016. Lynn ramirez is in the south bay with a huge impact. You talk about the draspth of shutting down a re rewhy. Pumps ve be mostly side for con that prices are dropping. 2. 85. 2. 69. 2. 59. And now even 2. 29 for a gallon of regular unleaded. Prices are dropping fast. It is the one bright spot for people hit hard in the pocketbook by the covid 19 crisis. I think it is a good thing for us. This quarantine. All of us not working. Is not good for gas stations and the companies that run refineries. The Marathon Petroleum Company Announced it is shutting down its massive martine
Like retail and manufacturing. But gyms, entertainment, and inperson religious services are higher risk and fall under stage three. And finally, stage four will be the end of the stayathome order. The governor also mentioned the possibility of starting the next school year in late july or early august to make up for the learning lost. As for testing, we are currently at 20,000 per day with a goal of 60,000 to 80,000. Californias total number of confirmed cases just went up by more than 1500. Hospitalizations went up 2. 5 . But icu numbers are down. And relief is finally on the way for californias struggling gig workers. Today was the first day that they could file for unemployment benefits. Kpix 5s Wilson Walker spoke with one bay area woman who was among the first to take her place in a very long line, wilson. Yeah, ken, more than 3 million californians have filed unemployment claims over the thats five weeks and as of today, millions more californians are eligible to file those claim
We are seeing every single day. Reporter there are any number of ways to chart the spread of the virus. San francisco like california as a whole is seeing a relatively slower growth. Other parts of the country are seeing rates of spread nearly twice as high if not more. While that is good news even successful social distancing might only biased time. It is plausible that despite all these efforts we could have a scenario similar to the one that is playing out in new york this very day. Where we are today you will be in three weeks. Or 4 weeks or 5 weeks. Or six weeks. We are your future. Reporter new york is racing into a spike of cases that is not expected toat least another 2 to 3 weeks. But while we may have avoided that for now softening the front end of our curve is no guarantee for what the rest of it will look like. You can get an initial to flatten the curve initially. If things go back to normal that curve could easily go back up. Reporter talk about time we had the governor t
Depend on school for childcare. Emergency room doctor nurse Nurse Practitioner and you have kids you have no capacity to have those kids at home without your own presence being there. We will be setting up ways to continue to provide meals for our students who rely on them. We are considering what if any Childcare Options we can extend to families during this unplanned closure. Reporter the decision has been made and as for what comes next. We will come out with more information. If you are asking if we have all the answers at this point we dont. Our goal is to get more and more answers out. Reporter the decision made the last couple hours. This just getting out the parents will have to figure out what to do for two weeks. Spring break is the third week of that break. It is built in for them. What changed their mind . There were the students at lakeshore elementary that were reported to have a respiratory illness last night. That is why that School Campus specific closure happened. Tho