Here in california . For the first time today we heard San Francisco city leaders admit that is plausible. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Abc 7 News Reporter is breaking down the latest numbers just coming in you to. A pretty jarring warning. We know cases are skyrocketing here in Southern California but to hear dr. Grant colfax admit we could reach a new york level crisis by late summer early fall is a real wakeup call. In San Francisco more than 5500 covid cases have been diagnosed. Today we learned whats being done to expand Testing Capacity. Wereng mak three marexpa. Reporter in an effort to curb covid testing backlogs across the city mayor london breed announced three main additions including 400 new testing slots at the embarcadero test site, two new mobile pop up testing sites one of which starts this week, and a third test site launching in august in the Southeast Side of the city. All of this will increase the citys Testing Capacity by 45 . Crucial help but getting te
It highlights the urgency with which supplies are needed to protect essential workers on the front lines treating those who have fallen victim. The governor said that higher numbers show that Health Care Workers are churning through supplies on hand. But when youre burning through 46 Million Masks monthly. Even having 100 million of the n95 masks and inventory you can go through those pretty quickly. Reporter going big is the name of the game. He announced the state is extending an agreement with a chinabased manufacturer to purchase 120 million n95 masks. In 300 million surgical masks. A big number for a big order which Governor Newsom says is far from over. We really get the price down significantly. We are in a different environment. And we will demand more competitive pricing. Not only in this environment going forward. Reporter is the name of the manufacturer sounds familiar be whitey. Thats because the governor inked a deal to pay the company 1 billion for masks. The federal gove
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
More coming up. Get your tickets in advance lets go above the cloud. Back to you, laura. Looking at cupertino this online. We want to make sure that we morning checking out the south thank you very much, mike. Breaking news this morning dont have too many people bay. Our temperature trend still in San Francisco. There. As we look at our spread in the fbi says a former college looks very much like yesterdays temperatures across the bay area, were in the mid 60s in with some clouds to start researcher who lied about her clearing out and some upper 70s connections to the chinese today. San francisco and then you head well get a look at all of our military is seeking refuge at across the bay to oakland and in the chinese consulate in the the low 70s and up to 90 in mic microclimates in the forecast coming up. Antioch and reaching as high as 90 degrees in clear lake. Kari, a little progress on city. Last fall tang juan received to the Traffic Alert into san mateo and foster city. West 92 ha
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