In the bay area our analysis found that sites serving mostly hispanic neighborhoods were 20 busier than those serving white neighborhoods. Its not too surprising. Reporter hes professor of Public Health at uc berkeley. This country has a long history of disparities in health care and access to health care with poor people and communities of people of color having less access. Reporter he said one factor driving longer wait times in hispanic neighborhoods is that they a rates of infection and presumably eager to get testing. But two cities buck that national trend, we found. In San Francisco and oakland, testing locations near mostly black census blacks were an estimate 21 less busy. In the mostly hispanic neighborhoods, they were about 4 less busy. The San Francisco department of Public Health emailed a statement that reads in part the results dont square with our perception of the situation or what we are hearing from the community. I am afraid it is pre mature to declare victory. I a
Xfinity. The future of awesome. Half a million College Students here in california will soon be seeing some major changes. Occupational hazards. Underlying Health Conditions and more. Filipino americans face an alarming rate of covid19 death. Stanford just got the okay to do pool testing. How it works and who it could benefit. Im meteorologist sandhya patel. Summer warmth is in the forecast. Ill show you whenomgup. Ld safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Tonight a significant change for nearly 500,000 undergraduate students. The California State University system will require an ethnic studies or social justice course. The action is the first major change for the system in 40 years, and comes at a time of National Discussion over Racial Injustice which is a large part of our efforts in building a better bay area. Abc 7 News Reporter j. R. Stone has more from cal state east bay in hayward. So starting in 2023, csu students will have to take a course in ethnic studies and social j
University system has made a significant change to the general education requirements. Campuses will determine the learning outcomes to meet this new requirement and then theyll approve courses. Reporter wednesday csu trustees voted to approve the measure. Those we talked to on campus said to them this is a nobrainer. She recently graduated from csu east bay and says she felt like the was already in place. Like i said, i was a Public Health major. I feel like it was built in our curriculum. Of course it could be put into our curriculum a lot more. Reporter dr. Alison wren says some csu schools had requirements in place, but this puts them on place on all 2 and students. Some believe this measure should be taken a step further and put into high schools. I even say in the general ed in the earlier two years they add that type of study in there as a required course. Reporter unclear at this point if that will happen, but this is one of the most widereaching College Requirements of its kin
Coast today. Breezy by noon for the bay and inland neighborhoods where well hang out 70 to 77. 77 to 84s as we head to 4 00. And a comfortable evening on the way. There is a rush going on right now throughout the bay area to get students the items they need to go back to school. Tony thurma will be talking about will Digital Divide later this afternoon. There is some good news, you can actually do something to help out if you have some electronics laying around the house you dont use. Julian glover has more on that. Reporter good morning. Yeah, the Digital Divide, the difference between those students who have a computer and stable Internet Connection at home and those who dont, such a critical issue with a majority of those k through 12 schools opting for Distance Learning for the start of the school year. Well be hearing from the states superintendent of schools tony thurman on what the state will be doing about it and well talk about what you can do about it in a second. But i want
Really are ramping up our testing efforts. But we also saw an increase in hospitalizations and ive talked with our heart Health Officer doctor erica, hahn and shes quite concerned by this increase in cost for patients, shes not at this time planning to roll back the recent loosening of restrictions but she is going to proceed very cautiously before see allows any additional or new activities so please the current restrictions to be in place remember that the most recent shelterinplace order from Alameda County does not have an Expiration Date was just let weve got to hunker their continue to sacrifice the way that weve been sacrificing for the health of ourselves our families and our community. Mayor you mentioned that that Alameda County seems to be a new covid19 hot spot in the in the bay area. What is the Health Department and the city doing to try and bring that back into a into some type of a form that everyone can deal with now. Well listen we are painfully the impacts of Health