Was begging everyone to cancel their thanksgiving travel plans. Now they would like to see everyone canceling their travel plans for the foreseeable future. I traveled a lot during the pandemic. Tons of safety measures. Many passengers drifting through the Oakland Airport were not traveling for pleasure. Im traveling for work. Well airport staff was busy hanging stockings the cdc was, again, asking everyone to cancel their Winter Holiday season travel plans. Given the state of things i can understand limiting travel for Recreational Purposes or leisure purposes. So what exactly does that Winter Holiday travel mean . Listen to how Robert Redfield describes the nearterm. The reality is that december, january and februar will be rough times. I actually believe they will be the most difficult time in the publichealth history of this nation. Largely because of the stress it will put on the healthcare system. I dont think people will go for it. I think it has gone the complete opposite way.
Specialist dr. Peter chinhong tells us the hospitals on the list are all Holding Meetings right now to decide how it will be distributed and who exactly is at the front of the lines to get it. So they include those ware working in the department, the intensive care unit, specialist like Infectious Disease doctors, pulmonologists, stock members of therapists, like occupational therapists. Reporter dr. Chinhong explains it has to be stored in really cold temperatures and that ucsf already has the special freezers it needs ready to go. He says the military will be involved in the process to ship the vaccine to each facility but that those plans are still a work in progress. Even though it may not get into the arms of most of ours until the end of late spring, early summer. You know, it is something to hold on to as a metaphor or symbol of how far weve come. Reporter once the vaccine is available to the general public, dr. Chinhong kong expects it will be free for everyone and could be ava
Restaurants. All kinds of places they just got people inside and now theyre shutting down this must be a shock wave. A shock wave, vicki and katherine also stunning and devastating for the Restaurant Industry were here in San Francisco and restaurants were hoping that they can just keep going, but this is really going to make them roll back and the effects are going to be stunning they are telling us lets take a look at some video of the restaurants here in San Francisco. They were offering 50 of their indoor space to guess and now theyre told to pull back services mayor london breed that you heard and director of Health Doctor grant colfax announcing tuesday that the city is turning back on reopening. Now theyre pointing to the significant a rapid increase in covid19 cases plus hospitalization rates climb. For the Restaurant Industry that means Indoor Dining will halt affective friday night at midnight kron 4 spoke with the president of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and owner
Same thing people have to wear masks as these did your shots or do a thing you have to maintain socialdistancing distancing any happy really careful about going indoors. And you know for thanksgiving i went on people to have it outdoors. So its you know, its just more of same frankly. Yeah. And barbecue doctor theres still a lot were learning and theres a lot we do not know have there been for you any surprises along the way. Well the vaccine advice that the vaccine news from yesterday i thought was really quite the to have a vaccine. That with no side effects. Is just remarkable and to have it in this period of time. And i would imagine were going to be able to start seeing back seen available for so people who are either highly exposed like an intensive care units or who highly highly likely to develop complications like nursing home patients. By mid or or you know late december. And you know the general public by the spring. So doctor very quickly because were running out of time fo
County remains in the yellow tier tonight but that may be changing soon meantime Contra Costa County has moved from the orange tier to the more restrictive red tier an increase in cases and hospitalizations is the cause for both instances for the first time in weeks not a single california county is moving forward in the states reopening system. Contra costa counties actually moved from the orange here back to the more restrictive red tier kron fours dan kerman has more on the restrictions there everything from Retail Stores to Fitness Centers will be impacted by contra costa. Countys latest round of rollbacks and its all due to an increase in covid19 weve seen or cases go up about 25 over the last couple weeks and our test go up as well and most concerning weve seen our hospital numbers of patients in the hospital due to covid. More than double from less than 20 patients to more than 40 the move from orange back to red means beginning this friday Retail Stores will be limited to 50 ca