Icu beds. A new study shows frontline positions across the country are feeling stressed and anxious pose at work and at home. The study conducted by ucsf is the first known study to assess stress levels of physicians in the u. S. During this pandemic kron fours michelle kingston spoke to a local emergency room doctor about how shes handling it all. I think i think it really does have a lot to do with the unknown and the anticipation and just not knowing what lies ahead emergency medicine physicians in 7 cities across the country say theyre experiencing rising levels of anxiety and emotional exhaustion none of this is necessarily surprising as doctors continue to work tirelessly through the coronavirus pandemic it interesting that i think is Emergency Physicians we are used to dealing with a lot of uncertainty and stress all the time, but this is a new and different level according to a new analysis led by ucsf frontline physicians are feeling moderate to severe levels of stress and anx
Homes the way to their set up. Are just tender boxes for this kind of Infectious Disease that mcguinness with california advocates for nursing home reform. Says its a tragic but all too common story. How you can isolate and quarantine people is beyond comprehension when youve got staff coming in and out the city sometimes working at another facility because they dont make a living wage and the one. In a statement manorcare says earlier this year they began monitoring for symptoms at the walnut Creek Facility and in march they eliminated Group Activities had universal masking for employees and eliminated most visitors except for end of life reasons Going Forward theyre restricting new admissions taking regular symptom and temperature checks and increasing sanitizing and cleaning. Theyve also created an airborne Isolation Unit to better treat highrisk patients and to protect other residents and employees. Those here at the facility tell us that employees who are testing positive or self
Now theyre saying goodbye to one of their own. The nurses here say that ponders death could have been avoided. They were given the proper ppe for dozens of these nurses at Summit Medical center in oakland janine paste a punter was more than just a coworker i mention i stay ponder was devoted to her patients here at Summit Medical center for more than 25 years. But unfortunately she wont be returning to work. Family and coworkers say she died on friday after contracting the coronavirus from the hospital which they blame for its lack of proper ppe is very sad. This in need to happen. We if the hospital the Medical Center here had provided the proper ppe that the mass the council we were at went through a period of reusing masking gallons even now some of the floors nurses have trouble getting there n 95, which is the maximum protection fellow nurses at some of the Medical Center held a vigil on tuesday to honor pastry ponder. In demand proper protection of its employees angry because the
Centered about 65 miles southeast of parryville alaska. Its the blue circle that you see there just off the Alaska Peninsula coastline. A depth of about 17 miles o is pretty far down luckily all tsunami warnings have been called off the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says there are no threats currently to the u. S. Or the canadian coast lines. According to the usgs since 1900 theyve actually been about 6 other earthquakes of this magnitude or stronger within about a 200 mile radius of last nights quake. The largest of it was about an 8. 2 that was way back in 1938. Now this map here shows you the severity of the shaking that was felt right at the epicenter of course major shaking was occurring but as the waves propagated out and finally reached the peninsula coastline. Those waves were more of a moderate to weak sensation which means that damage probably on the very light side if any at all no reports of any injury or damage, but well let you know if we find out anything different. Dow
Oakland 56 in San Francisco and 59 in san jose. Im looking at mild to warm temperatures around the bay area. Well have those coming up in just a bit back to the news. Thanks a lot. Lets start with the coronavirus the cdc is sounding the alarm that the number of cases in the u. S. Might be much greater than we know there was show you map which illustrates now the rise in cases. In the past week compared to the week before and you can see actually california has improved. It has been in the orange and even in the red indicating anywhere from 10 to 50 . Increase from week to week now were just in the yellow which indicates a steady rise but not an alarming one. But if you look at the total numbers across the country weve got now more than a 142,000 recorded deaths with more than 3. 9 million infections reported so far to our area. In the wake of the rising number of cases and the dropping poll numbers for the president he appears to be changing his tune. During his first covid19 briefing