Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. We brought you the news of pfizers vaccine as it was breaking today in the bay. We have team coverage. Scott mcgrew is telling us wall street is celebrating that news and so is the president. First lets start with cierra johnson. She is live for us the ucsf and president elect biden found new members of his task force and you have information about the new vaccine as well . Reporter yes. A lot to cover. Days after president elect joe biden already moving forward with some of his paths he would knock out while he was campaigning. He is assembling a Pandemic Task force. This morning, biden laid out his covid plan announcing an Advisory Board would help him moving forward with treatment and new vaccines. An announcement from pfizer there were promising results in the covid19 vaccine and that is what we are going to start. Pfizer has been working on a vaccine that early results revealed it could be a
Icu admissions up more than 27 . He suggested some counties are poised to move backward in the states fourtiered reopening system. Take seriously how deadly this disease continues to be. Averaging 44 deaths every single day in the state of california over a sevenday period. This disease continues to be deadly. And a vaccine will come, but its not going to come soon enough. Health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley says that private household gatherings are a major source of spread. Health officials urging the public not to let their guard down at this point. Businesses that dont follow the proper safety protocols to help reduce the spread could also be in for a rather rude awakening. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen with the story from the south bay. Reporter with the holidays fast approaching, Santa Clara County Health Officials are on high alert after seeing a sharp uptick in covid19 cases. The rate of change has been very steep, and that is a certain. Weve seen this before
Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra is live with some battleground on each of those doctors. And stephanie what they bring to the table. Reporter yes, dan, its a big deal to see not one but three highly respected doctors from ucsf represented on this board. All of them bring a wide range of expertise to this team, highlighting the bay areas success responding to the pandemic. The Biden Administration making a strong first step to building a National Strategy to fight the pandemic. Appointing a 13member covid19 Advisory Board comprised of Public Health experts across the country. Theres so much good work happening at state and local levels across the country, governors, mayors, theyre stepping up. The Advisory Board will listen and learn lessons from their experience. Reporter the experience coming from the bay area, includes ucsf david kessler, dr. Robert rodriguez and eric goosby. Bob wachter has worked with each of them personally. The three people that have been chosen bring very d
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Our Public Health so we said today were going a little bit about now the build of ems. Now todays lecture i will say a little bit a hodgepodge of Different Things coming at you. Right. So were going to talk not only about obviously the upbringing and start of, but were going to really talk about also advances in medicine a little bit. And of talk about some of those other things to really kind of set the picture in regards to what that Public Health issue right because we said the Public Health issue essentially last class was what when it came to ems creation, remember what we said. Yeah, i thats okay. So we get like accidents on the road and stuff like that. Exactly right. So again, were going to build on that, talk a little bit more about, you know, essentially how all that stuff started. And so a few things i want to talk about today, right . So obviously going to define ems. What is actual emergency medical . Right. What do we do in basic terms . And then also summarize some of th