That they agreed to speak with me tonight about the book. Back. Host we were introduced a media local writer, years ago and ron, is been very encouraging and have a quite a bit with this book in terms of background and research and so forth. And of course with a vietnam veteran, most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just want to give you a little background before we start speaking. Before world war ii, if you are paralyzed, you are. Much a dead no hope for as they were called. Because the average lifespan was 18 months for somebody would do in world war i. World war ii was a game changer. The advent of penicillin, and other drugs. They had surgical units right behind the battlefield. Behind the frontlines. And they had evacuation back to the mainland. And so by the end of world war ii, you had a cohort of about 2500 u. S. Veterans who return home and there are paralyzed they had a chance at a normal life span. And this was the first cohort was quite have t
Treat those with coronavirus. We are going to reroute our medical Health Experts and people, our nurses, and other Health Support to help manage and maintain and support the people who have tested positive. Reporter for weeks, supervisors have been pushing the mayor to move the homeless into the largely vacant hotel rooms. They say the outbreak was tragically predictable. Nobody should be living in those environments, and so, what i am saying is, move these people now, and we should have moved them a month ago, and the people that you could not move, for whatever reason, should have been sleeping 6 feet apart, should have had temperature checks, should have had masks and gloves. They did not do that, and so now we have an outbreak. Reporter that can house up to 340 people at a time, the supervisor says many of the residents inside the shelter are waiting on the results of coronavirus tests for themselves. Live in San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. As we get further out,
The doctor had mentioned, but it is important to remember that this is not the time to feel that, since we have made such an important advance in the sense that, in the success of the medication, that we need to be pulling back at all. The u. S. Has climbed in deaths and sadly, the death toll is now topping 18,000 across the country. That is up from 6800 just a week ago. Here in california there are more than 21,000 cases, and 583 deaths. That is more than double the death toll this time last week when 264 people have died of the virus. Reporter gov. Newsom urged californians to stay the course. He says the social distancing is helping to slow the spread of the virus and counties across the state, he also talked about the recent spike in cases at Senior Nursing homes. The state is now monitoring nearly 300 nursing facilities for people who had tested positive for covid19. What we have done in addition to broadening those supports over the last number of weeks is we have put out specifi
Warnings no more on the eve of this holiday weekend, officials stepping up at the trailheads. Many people are wanting to get out this easter weekend but officials will issue parking tickets in hopes of keeping people closer to home. Thanks for joining us today. The enforcement comes as the number of coronavirus cases reaches a grim milestone. The worldwide death toll reached 100,000 and cases here in the United States surpassed 500,000 today. In the u. S. Nearly 19,000 people have died. The chief of the Health Organization said lifting the stayathome orders to early could bring a deadly resurgence of covid19. This morning as the Trump Administration creates a task force to look into how to reopen the countrys economy. Bay Area Health Officials are urging people to stay home this weekend and resist the urge to go out for a hike or even just leave their homes. This comes in some areas where enforcement is already stepping up. Debora villalon joins us live tonight from marin where tickets
Im married to evanston welcome to the program. Angry protests have erupted in iran after the government at mid its forces accidentally shot down a ukrainian passenger plane killing 176. 00 people in tehran thousands of demonstrators many of them students denounce the government for initially denying it was behind the disaster protesters say changes are needed to address peoples grief and frustration i down with the lawyers whom im a must step down the words of angry students gathered in front of the Polytechnic University in tehran when they heard the news that it was the Iranian Military who shot down the ukrainian air. Tempers boiled after days of denial. That it is a peaceful protest we want to show that we disagree with what has happened in the past few days. Because if the things that support the. People are tired of this we cant handle this anymore. In the morning the head of the force of the brave aleutian re god admitted in a Live Press Conference what could no longer be kept s