Health officials in Contra Costa County are stepping up free covid testing. Now even though they say mixing with those outside someones household is still a risky idea. Rob roth heard from Public Health officers today and gins us now with more. Rob . Reporter yeah, heather, on one hand Health Officials are urging people to stay home over thanksgiving, but theyre also saying if youre going to visit, get tested first. Cars lined up in this parking lot in concord Tuesday Morning for what the Contra Costa Health department calls testing for turkey. This family recently lost their grandfather to covid and know too well the horrors of the virus. We just want to be safe. Were going to meet some family over the holidays, and we want to protect ourselves and protect them, as well. Reporter this is one of 13 sites in Contra Costa County offering free covid testing. The push now is to get people tested before thanksgiving, and possibly exposing others. While inviting everyone that you gather with
Tonight, the White House Coronavirus Task Force Says the spread of the virus is aggressive, unrelenting, and aggressive, unr expanding nationwide. In a series of private reports obtained by cbs news, the president s advisers warn not enough is being done to stop it. As we come on the air tonight, one out of every 10 americans now being tested for covid19 has it, and in many cities, just getting a test takes hours. Hospitals say they are now on the brink, treating 73,000 coronavirus patients tonight. That is a sobering new record. And with the situation now at a breaking point, more states and cities are cracking down, issuing new restrictions as new infections skyrocket. Rocket. Governor has just issued ohios governor has just issued a threeweek, statewide curfew. A threeweek, sta few. And north dakota are iowa and mandating masks. And in new orleans, the famed mardi gras parades are already being canceled tonight,three months before theyre set to start. Still, the nations top Infectio
Of homes destroyed, hurricane iotas trail of destruction. We sold all of our turkeys in two hours. Plus, downsizing thanksgiving, the demand for small turkeys and the extreme measures farmers took to deliver. Live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening, we have new covid19 reporting on two fronts, one, more Covid Patients are dying, a doctor raising a red flag about Vaccine Distribution his point, rampant covid spread will make getting the vaccine administered very difficult. That from dr. Ashish ja, who will join us live shortly. The death rate is rising, Public Health officials call it alarming, 2,015 people died yesterday from covid, the day before, it was 1848, the day before that, 1,707 rapid alarming death rate. And look at this, the third week of july, right at the peak of the second wave, 863 people died on average per day this third week of november with cases still rising, an average of 1,335 people die on an average per
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Of homes destroyed, hurricane iotas trail of destruction. We sold all of our turkeys in two hours. Plus, downsizing thanksgiving, the demand for small turkeys and the extreme measures farmers took to deliver. Live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening, we have new covid19 reporting on two fronts, one, more Covid Patients are dying, a doctor raising a red flag about Vaccine Distribution his point, rampant covid spread will make getting the vaccine administered very difficult. That from dr. Ashish ja, who will join us live shortly. The death rate is rising, Public Health officials call it alarming, 2,015 people died yesterday from covid, the day before, it was 1848, the day before that, 1,707 rapid alarming death rate. And look at this, the third week of july, right at the peak of the second wave, 863 people died on average per day this third week of november with cases still rising, an average of 1,335 people die on an average per