Facility to treat those who have tested positive instead of moving them. In san francisco. Lili tan, nbc bay area news. Thank you. We have reached a grim milestone. Today the worldwide death toll topped 100,000 people. Thats according to the Johns Hopkins university. Italy has seen the most deaths than any other country, nearly 19,000. In the bay area, more than 45,000 reported cases, 122 people have died, and were going to focus here on Santa Clara County which continues to see the most cases, sant Claire County right now with more than 1400 infected people. Heres a deeper dive in Santa Clara County, which cities have the most infections. The bigger the circle, the more cases and you can see palo alto, top of the screen, top of the peninsula, with a lot of cases, palo alto has 57 people reported infected, and santa clara, with 54, and you can see the in between cities, mountain view, los altos, cupertino and sunnyvale with 65 cases. The big circle, san jose, which is also the biggest
Said are infected. Dan kerman has the latest. The fact is the worst is yet to come for weeks now San Francisco city officials have warned the most vulnerable populations are most at risk for the coronavirus among them the homeless. Now an outbreak at the citys largest homeless shelter Multiservice Center self at 5th and bryant. We have identified. 70 people 68 members of the shelter as well as 2 Staff Members who have tested positive for covid19. Typically this place can house up to 340 people but efforts by the city to increase social distancing by spreading out shelter residents to other locations. Made it so as of thursday shelter Public Health director doctor grant colfax says the first 2 cases were confirmed sunday night. Those 2 were moved to hotels for isolation and then on wednesday all shelter guests were tested. Currently. My department is conducting a mass testing strategy at msc south. Testing all gassed and staff for covid19 whether they are showing symptoms are not. Again
That is mayor london breed talking about the fact there is an outbreak of the coronavirus in San Franciscos biggest homeless shelter. Hello everyone, im Catherine Heenan that shelter his own 5th and bryant to the south of market neighborhood, 68 a Homeless People to Staff Members as the mayor said dan kerman is life and has the latest on this stand. Well the real concern of course here is that they have been worrying about vulnerable populations and talking about it for weeks. And now it has hit this homeless shelter, the largest one in the city and many of those who have tested positive have Chronic Health conditions, none seriously ill at this point, but that is a major concern going forward. The fact is the worst is yet to come for weeks now San Francisco city officials have warned the most vulnerable populations are most at risk for the coronavirus among them the homeless. Now an outbreak at the citys largest homeless shelter Multiservice Center self at 5th and bryant. We have iden
God that its the right decision. I would say without question its the biggest decision ive ever had to make. President trump acknowledging the magnitude of the move is he looked at possibly reopening the country and the economy at the end of the month thanks for joining us tonight at 8 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the president also announced today that there will be another task force focused soley. On reopening the country. But the trump administrations top doctors are raising doubts about returning to normal too soon today, doctor Anthony Fauci said even when things start opening back up that does not mean the coronavirus is completely gone away. Dont let anyone get any force ideas that when we decide. At a proper time when were going to be relaxing some of the restrictions. Theres no doubt youre going to see cases i would be so surprised if we did not see cases. And doctor deborah birx says that the peak of the pandemic is still to come this is the United S
Most 1442 of them 47 people have died in that county, San Mateo County has 638 cases in 21 deaths, San Francisco county with almost 800 cases and 13 deaths Contra Costa County more than 500 cases and 9 deaths. Alameda county 766 cases, 20 people have died there. Were in county as a 154 cases and 10 deaths Solano County 121 cases and 2 deaths. Sonoma county has seen 142 people become infected one person has died there and that the county as 32 cases and 2 deaths. Now for some Silver Lining perhaps a researchers at Stanford Medicine of tested more than 3,000 people for antibodies against covid19. This new test looks at immunity it will show whos been exposed to the virus or not our country is gail ong joins us now live with details scale. The key in this test is different than the swab tests were used to seeing the Antibody Test now that is a blood test that can reveal if you are immune and can also reveal people can return to work. With the prince of a finger this test looks for antibod