Vulnerable populations reexposed. Tonight the abc 7 news iteam is digging into the number of covid19 patients released from the hospital returning back to Skilled Nursing facilities and the problems that can cause. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. And imam ma dates. Lets get right to stephanie eera who is track the numbers. Reporter we just learned 78 positive covid19 cases in San Mateo County are from assisted living and Skilled Nursing facilities. Dozens of those patients required hospitalization, likely returned back to care facilities running the risk of exposing others. Thats what san mateo supervisors are working to prevent. Permanent dying in n homes. Reporter this is eric love, a residet that the Skilled Nursing facility in burlingame. Our conversation via face time as slough selfisolating in his room. According to love and a current staff member, one drents and one Health Care Provider tested positive for covid19. We just wanted to confirm the yes, somebo
Dress for temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. Reggie . Mike, thank you. Cover your face. This morning for the first time, residents in some north bay communities will have to wear some sort of mask. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live for us in Sonoma County. Good morning, amy. Good morning, r as of today it is in effect in Sonoma County you have to cover your face and this order is coming to more bay area counties very soon. Not just counties that are putting this into play, the city of fremont just put an order in place and the fine there to not wear one could go as high as 100. The mayor says it isnt about punishing people. The focus really is more peoplee seem ready to comply. You dont it is something that is very simple and that could make a big difference. Ma, are irx to n countys Health Officer said some other bay area counties will be announcing today that they will start requiring masks. The counties were not named and well have to wait and see which ones are joining i
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Ill take you through the timing of that and what to expect in 15 minutes. All right. We look forward to that. Well see you in 15. Federal Health Officials now are recommending everyone cover their mouth and nose when leaving their house. The centers for Disease Control made that announcement yesterday, one day after bay area counties rolled out similar guidance. Let me take you to joanne fabrics where in concord the store is giving away patterns and fabrics so customers can make their own. This federal announcement coming after some debate within the Coronavirus Task force. But ultimately they have come to the consensus it is best to be covered because there are more people than they expected who are a symptomatic and can be unknowingly contagious. This means that the virus can spread between people acting in close proximity. Coughing, speaking or sneezing even if those people were not exhibiting ri a Face Covering, the cdc also says wash it on. Dont touch your face while its on. Leave
People are being tested for covid19 as well as a number of open hospital beds and ventilators. Santa clara county, the bay area hot zone with more than 1,000 cases and 36 deaths so far. A south bay company is very busy making equipment to help save lives. They are making sensors for ventilators. They are hiring. Damian trujillo with more. Reporter with the censers in high demand, they are working round the clock here. The company all sensors okay this video for us showing manufacturing operation. This is what they are taking, tiny ga tiny gadgets. They measure the inlet pressure to mainly what we specialize in, the breath of the patient and the monitoring on of of breath of the patient. Covid19 put ventilators in high demand. Now the company is on all censers to crank out as many pieces as they can. On a typical year, we could ship out about 700,000 censers. In the last three weeks, we received orders for that many censers. That means the company is looking for workers with manufacturi