San francisco, san mateo and santa clara. Health Officials Say that theyll release more details when the orders are officially updated later on in the week and today, San Francisco Health Officials said the bay area has slow the spread of the virus, but it is important not to lose the progress that we have made so far Health Director and San Francisco doctor grant colfax says while the rate of hospitalizations are relatively steady now. We still need to see those numbers go down significantly for 2 weeks before the shelter order can be lifted. Hes also calling for more testing. In general we need to increase our testing 2, 2, 2, or 3 times what it currently is. Theres new shelter order will come with some changes most of which will be announced later this week. But mayor breed announced the jfk drive in Golden Gate Park and shelley drive in mclaren park will be closed to cars. Starting tomorrow to allow people to have more space to get outside and exercise. In this is about protecting
Finally sampled fruit bats and found the viruses that killed the animals and they called it hendren a virus. It hasnt killed many people, doesnt pass from human to human but it is a knock on the door. A reminder to us of where these things come from, how they emerge, why they spillover some of the fact that they are not called independent cases that are part of a pattern in the pattern reflects things we humans are doing on the planet and they get into humans and in some cases because a local outbreak which is easily controlled or comes to a end on its own and in other cases they cause widespread suffering and death. Is the coronavirus continues to affect the country we are taking a look at author programs about pandemics we have had in our archives. Up next john barry discusses his book the great influenza which discusses the 1918 influenza outbreak. Heres a portion of his book from 2004. Now you have the enemy, the enemy of course is a virus. All influenza viruses are bird viruses. E
Washingtons effort to address job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Is next. N journal one month ago today, President Trump declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. With wyoming over the weekend, all 50 states have been declared Disaster Response areas. Good morning, its monday, april 13, 2020. This first hour we will ask about your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic so far and how your state governor is handling the crisis. We will look at joe bidens just published plan to reopen america. Heres how to be a part of the discussion this morning. In the eastern and central time zones, but linus 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, that line is 202 7488001. We welcome medical professionals, to hear from you. That live is 202 7488002 that line is. Is 202 7488002 you can text us at 202 7488003. We have facebook posts ready, we will show you those. As we begin the program yesterday, the New York Times had published a lengthy story on the lead up
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Order. Last hearing of the year there is a lot going on this morning so i think we will have people popping in and out but we do have a pretty hard to sto stop 0 this morning a series of votes beginning at 11 and we are going to observe an actual ten minute clock. We are going to be able to have an opportunity for the very, very important conversations this issue. We are here to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of the electric grid iand efforts to mitigate the rik and the grid recently and see. In recent years devastating wildfires and relate tobaccorelated hadron National Attention to the great idsiliency in the face of extreme conditions. Weve remember last yearss campfireem at the deadliest andt destructive in california hstory whichir incinerated the town of paradise and killed 85 inpeople. They determined it was caused by degraded 97yearold powerlines and the strong wind winds, low humidity, drive vegetation and heat. If it is a wakeup call on the inherent risk o