A look inside the San Francisco lab that is about it deploy a coronavirus Antibody Test. A soerl mode ya movement keeping a doctor on the front line in his driveway. Distancing to keep his family safe. On this upcoming holiday easter weekend. Brighter warmer weather on the way. Tonight a stark milestone as we surpass 20,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in california. 557 deaths. There are encouraging signs. California saw its first daily decrease in intensive care hospitalization. It appears the virus is spreading at a slower pace. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. It is the next front tier of covid19 testing. Looking for antibodies to the virus. We get a look inside a San Francisco lab that is racing to get a test into the hands of doctors. Labs all over the country are developing and evaluating coronavirus Antibody Tests. Right now scientists working inside this building on the San Francisco General Hospital campus could be the first to deploy a test to patients and healthcar
We have at least 119 people who have lost their lives in the pandemic here in the bay area. Santa clara county remains the hot spot in the region with more than 1,400 cases. Both Alameda County and San Francisco both have more than 700 confirmed cases. Further north lake county has three confirmed cases in mendocino county. Three of those patients gratefully have recovered. With less traffic in oakland because of the stayathome o order closing 74 miles of residential streets to cars. Calls the emergency oakland slow streets. Provides 10 of roadway for people to safely ikn freshair. H beus of the shelter in place will unfortunately mean cuts. Ridership is down a ohis week. We know were going to have to cut. We are going to have to cut some things and were going to have to become more lean and nimble and we cant expect taxpayers to fill the whole hole of 246 million to 240 million in revenue lost. B. A. R. T. Is losing 9 million every week. It started running trains only once every 30 mi
Lets check in with our friend mike nicco. I think that rainy weekend really helped us keep away from each other. It really did. It was the first time i got a little stir crazy to be honest with you. I wanted to go outside and every time i did i looked at the radar, but i found plenty of stuff to watch on tv. We still have that wet weather around and not quite as wide spread but just as intense, if not more intense in some areas than it was yesterday. So, one on the storm impact scale for showers, thunderstorms and some small hail and snow level down to 3,000 feet. You can see right now mainly across the monterey bay and creeping northward as an area of low pressure and counterclockwise hurling up some showers and thunderstorms off the Santa Cruz Mountains there to the southwest earlier this morning. So, that gives you an idea of how much energy is in the atmosphere. Heres a look at the quiet sfo this morning and you can see wet weather possible all day today with temperatures well belo
Have been infected already, and to see if that makes them protected enough to work closely with coronavirus patients. Well before Stanford Health care workers were tested themselves, stanford was testing thousands of volunteers including at this los gatos park, not only for the antibody study, but to see how prevalent the disease is in the community. Stanford says testing of Health Care Workers is to find out who might have been infected already, and now might be carrying antibodies that could protect them from getting reinfected. By skype, h. Wesley clark, Public Health professor at santa clara university, called Antibody Research such as at stanford and ucsf a game changer. Ultimately, you cant infect anybody else. And it is a new frontier were dealing with. A new virus were dealing with. So when you have the academy doing and Public Health authorities doing, is trying to capture information about that frontier, so we can help the public. Renowned public disease specialist dr. Peter
For covid19. Out of the 35 residents, six have passed away. There is a surge of people who tested positive for the virus at the east bay post acute facility. We believe that is in castro valley. 17 staff there and 9 residents tested positive. No one at that facility has died. But back here in hayward, we spoke with a man outside who is concerned about his grandmother. She has lived at this facility for two years. I was able to go up to the window. She was there. Shes good. Shes good. But just a little upset that no one called us from the family. We have to find out from a news alert. And evidently theyre still not talking to anybody. You know, i just want to know whats going on, who is in charge here. And make sure that my grandmother and the other residents are will be. Reporter well, some people out there may recognize him. He just happens to be a City Council Member in union city. Information is not complete at this time. We dont know when the residents tested positive. We have no t