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Today, is additional worker safeguards to protect this workforce, to focus again always on preventive measures, to focus on helping support our employers. The governors plan includes expanding employer Education Resources and Protection Measures for workers who are sick or have been exposed to the virus. San jose has been added to a federal coronavirus watch list. Now, on that list, are cities from across the country. But leaders in the south bay say they didnt know this list didnt even exist the first place. Ann rubin joins us now live to explain why city and county officials arent sure what factors got them on that list. Still waiting to see what this all means. Reporter yeah, local leaders say they werent on the call when it was announced, nor have they heard from federal officials about, but still say they are concerned about cases on the way. The white housest he has a watch list on it, cities lagging behind in slowing the spread, among them san jose. Dr. Deborah birx, a Coronavir
Quadrupled since may. The study finds that th of infections per 100,000 people is 60 higher in oakland than it is in the rest of Alameda County, but within oakland, what has Health Officials november concerned is economically disadvantaged event oakland. When we look at east oakland, the case rates are double and triple the rest of oakland, and they are doubling at a rapid rate. So things are heading in the wrong direction. Reporter health and political leaders are hoping to increase Community Education and drive home that the public is not out of the woods from covid19. I see folks not Wearing Masks at all, sharing food, sharing drinks, sharing smokes. Oakland, weve got to do better than this. Reporter at the lake, reports of thousands of people crowding into one block. The city has banned vendors on weekend, but vendors still come. If they continue to do the vending, then we will start to take enforcement action. Reporter Health Officials urge people to stay, what they call their own
Latinos are carrying much of the covid burden. Reporter latinos make up 39 of californias population, but 55 of confirmed covid cases. And in some counties its even higher. My family, im the only one able to work from home. Reporter helen says her family is careful, because in her neighborhood coronavirus is close. A friend of our family passed away from covid. We have neighbors up the street who their whole families have had covid and they have had to quarantine themselves. We had another neighbor across the street. Reporter Latino Business owners are not surprised on the foothold in their communities. High rents make families share a home or apartment, making it hard to stay separate. And infects the whole family. This is where we are seeing new at 11 00, cloverleaf the spread, essential workforce. Reporter Governor Newsom is pledging to protect drivers, farmworkers, cashiers and other Service Workers with expanded thickly and workers comp and if family bull is closing after more tha
Organizati organization, china as well as investigations of practices of Chinese Companies that are listed here in the u. S. So were up 0. 4 . 3 for the week as a whole sara straight to kayla in washington to recap what we just heard from the president including that significant announcement that the u. S. Would be terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization and sara, the president prevud that a few weeks ago saying it would be reviewing the funding it sends to the w. H. O. In the wake of what it sees as shortcomings by the World Health Organization to alert the u. S. Of some of the risks of the coronavirus. Sources tell me that one of the ways the u. S. Feels most wronged is that there was no information about asymptomatic transmission of this virus until late in the game when the u. S. Population and economy was at risk. He announced the administration would be suspending the entry of foreign nationals from china to the u. S. , that the u. S. Finds at risk to the