Good evening, everybody. Im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. Its especially urgent in santa clara county. New data reveals hospitals could exceed capacity by middecember. The county pleads with the public to follow covid19related rules and restrictions including the new 14day mandatory travel quarantine. Abc 7 News Reporter chris ngueyn has the story. Reporter the coronavirus rages on, a grim assessment this afternoon, hospitals in the areas of the county hit hardist by covid19 are nearing capacity as administrators scramble to ensure they have enough beds. More specifically the hospitals serving East San Jose collectively have less than a dozen icu beds available. Hospitals throughout the county are working together engaging in phone calls at least daily to redistribute patients as needed to ensure that we are continuing to provide safe and high quality care. Reporter with the growing number of patients being admitted to hospitals each day, county leaders are urging the public to
The fda, it will be the most reliable way to beat the virus. Certainly, the vaccine representing both our hopes and our fears and abc 7 News Reporter kris reyes spoke with a doctor about the worries that keep him up at night and kris, im really interested to hear what he had to say. He had a lot to say. The doctor is very confident about the vaccine calling it a bright light in this long, dark tunnel that weve been traveling through but he says distribution is far from a trivial matter and we need to prepare for dealing with plenty of complications. Neither the cdc nor the state of california are likely to get more granular than to say Health Care Workers and people over 65 in Long Term Care facilities are the first two groups. Reporter the question then becomes which Health Care Worker goes first . Take ucsf that is unlikely to get enough vaccines in the first shipment to cover the 30,000 staff. The complicated task deciding which employee gets the vaccine first and then falls on the
Potentially exposed at a private school and has tested negative twice. The governor has three other children that have tested negative as well, as have the governor and first partner. The political reports of the governor will get another test this weekend. Californians that live in a purple tear county are asked to stay home between 10 00 pm and 5 00 a. M. Officials in San Francisco worn they could be moved to the purple tear as soon as sunday. The Santa Clara County Health Officer warned the hospitals could reach full capacity in the next three weeks. California announced a new loan program for Small Businesses to help Business Owners struggling during the pandemic. We have a report tonight with moron who could get help. Reporter the state started accepting applications today to qualify, the Small Business needs 50 or fewer employees. They could be eligible for up to 100,000 in a loan. To make this is the lobby back before covid19. This was thriving. Reporter this is the owner of atg
Been through earlier this year as we first reported in ari battled covid19. After getting infected on a flight from italy in february he was admitted to the icu at Kaiser Modesto placed in a medically induced coma. But he was able to fight through and was wheeled out to a cheering medical staff the infection did affect his kidneys temporarily, but he says hes better now than we stop though that this didnt move the from my chest. Well i am all right. This is great now im ari credits his we gained health to his new perspective and his new lifestyle moon looked healthy diet according to culmination of the doctors and as the holiday our he says he knows that it will be a different type of celebration. But one that is necessary to keep his family and still many other safe, i know it is unusual unique but it is with the help of people. Put in with each other. If we can possibly state kay recede isnt it. This year as you know has been especially difficult for Small Businesses across californi
Going to be looking at conditions today much like yesterday except for one big difference skies will stay clear temperatures remain mild, its beautiful out there now the difference as winds there come down substantially from the same point yesterday we saw windy conditions for your thanksgiving, especially for the north bay. Thats not something youre going to see much at all of today futurecast wind gusts showing wind gusts at 5 Miles Per Hour thats not really calm weather for us in a really quiet picture on radar not just for the bay area. But all across the region now temperatures this morning are the bit of the catch. Were still in the 30s for san mateo morgan hill dublin as well as much of the north bay. Were petaluma and nevado are each at 34 san anselmo at freezing at 30 to all santa rose at 33 degrees little more mild in areas like alameda in oakland at 48. While berkeley are warm so at for sure only spot in the 50s right now much cooler than at the same point yesterday so yeah