An area that has been hit hard by covid. For some Community Members say this site is months too late. Its frustrating. Reporter the Health Committee chairman with the Latino Task Force wants to know why serving the people caring the highest rates of infection in the southeast part of the city took so long. Why is there not more. Thats my other question. And why did we have them six months ago . Weve known since april that the highest rates of infection have been in the bay view, the Mission District and the excelsior. Yet, up until this site, the city had two of its largest facilities at 7 p. M. Brandon. Reporter Health Officials say that they are trying to expand services to areas that needed the most. Julia, who are the wrong kinds of people going to these testing sites . Is there going to be a screening process to determine who should get tested, whose essential and who should go to the private doctor instead . I know we have always been saying get tested and you think that you have
In june of next year. Natural gas is dangerous. Reporter rafael, who sponsored the legislation. Maybe most significantly, natural gas is a potent Greenhouse Gas that contributes to climate change. Reporter since 2010, as hundreds of coalfired power plants have closed, natural gas plants in many cases have replaced them. Natural gas produces about 40 of u. S. Energy needs. Former San Francisco mayoral candidate and activist Richie Greenburg doesnt believe california can make the transition from natural gas to all electric. The state of california does not have the ability to meet the energy needs, electricity needs and home heating through electricity at this point in time. Were not going to be relying on fossil fuels anymore in our buildings. Theres huge Greenhouse Gas savings. Theres Huge Public Health savings. And cost of construction goes down because youre not needing to install a gas pipeline. Reporter groups like earth justice cite the wildfires as a reason to move away. The sky
We are going to go through another test now. I was in the confident. Super mccarthy. The amount of time between now and the vaccine be generally available is either a long time or not to long time. About halfway through this whole thing. What else we tell you about what he might see in the near term. Health we start to see rising cases but we have prepared pick we both thought all that capacity, as talked about the other night. Treatments had improved. That search sort of were off. Without any kind of crisis like we are seeing in the dakotas, wisconsin, right now. So the next big thing, how people behave during the holidays. Does the spread continuous, people mingle and go home. That is what youre going to start hearing all the counties in the bay area begging and pleading for people not to make this. People are still weary they want to see the family, have not seen them in months. The virus versus the fatigue. So true. Always updating kpix. Com the latest on the covid19 crisis, but al
Dipping. Thdr is shrouded in red and labeled and complete data. Dr. Sara cody says what the virus is doing today is a mystery. We dont know if our cases are rising, plateauing or decreasing. Reporter the problem is a glitch in the Electronic Data Systems the state uses calls called a California Reportable Disease Information Exchange or cal ready system. Some data is reportedly getting stuck in the system, which feeds information from the labs to the state and counties. This lack of data doesnt allow us to know where the epidemic is heading, fastest growing, or not. Reporter that is not reassuring news to people whose livelihoods depend on the accuracy and case numbers going down. Im about to protest. Hows that . Some days they say its really high, the cases, and some days they say go lower. So i dont know. I really dont trust anything at all. Im being honest. Reporter the county is watching hospitalization data, which is reliable, and those numbers are leveling off. But dr. Cody says
Released ways from his quarantine room. He knew he was sick and likely contagious when officials dropped him at a bus stop. We felt like we were trying to get rid of him. They didnt follow or handle the protocols like they were supposed to. A firsthand account of exposure to covid19 inside san quentin. This inmate tells us he was tested but got out before getting his results. The concerns he spread it to others. 4 the inmate tells me he is upset that he was released from san quentin and the conditions made it easy for coronavirus to spread. Reporter from his hotel room, he tells me he is relieved that he is finally able to quarantine after being released on monday. He started suffering from a sore throat and was tested for midnight pain. He said he was told he would be taken to a hotel upon release. No hotel and no means of getting test results. Reporter instead he said he was dropped off at the Transit Center where he took a transit bus to San Francisco. With no place to his family ho