Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome the Health Protection agency with Accurate Information when those threats arrive. As the head of the agency, doctor redfield has been one of the leading voices in this pandemic sharing and issuing publichealth guidance and about how to safely return to work, school and daily life. Cases are spiking across the country and as a result we are seeing some states resort to different types of lockdowns like we saw in the initial and americans everywhere are hungry forer information and guidance about how to navigate the Holiday Season and an uncertain winter. We will address all of these issues and more and take questions from the audience as well. Without further ado, doctor redfield, welcome. What can we tell the audience about the state . G thank you for having me. We are at a very pivotal time in this pandemic. We have a significant number of jurisdictions in the stas that are in what we call the red zone and lasted a lot longer than say the spring and s
Here in the bay area that means every county except for moran. San francisco and san mateo counties this curfew could go into effect in San Francisco tomorrow night more on that in a minute. So heres exactly what will happen in less than an hour all non essential workers. Movement and gatherings will be banned, however restaurants will be allowed to offer takeout after 10 oclock the central businesses like Grocery Stores and drugstores can stay open after hours. Folks will also be allowed to go for a walk in other routine activities the curfew will be lifted at 5 oclock tomorrow morning. But it will run every night from 10 oclock at night until 5 in the morning up until december 21st in San Francisco could jump to the purple tier as soon as tomorrow meanwhile, the coronavirus is reaching unprecedented levels of spread across our state. And the u. S. California Health Officials reporting a record breaking 15,000 new cases of covid19 on friday as well as 86 new deaths. There have been mo
Great question. I wanted to write a book that would be a first draft of the history of the long epidemics for the year of covid and beyond but that would speak to an interested reader, not just a specialist in the field. There are lots of specialists in the field and i thought my valueadded might be to translate from specialists in the field to reader who are fascinate by the blizzard of legal issues that werent really on most peoples anda until now. We never thought about pt epidemics but think about them now, particularly what we can learn from them andhat do we know when its going to be over. I want to begin, john, if i can, really at the end of your book, and then ill pivot book at the end of our interview to ask you more but this question. You write, america has two histories, one ugly,he other far more appealing. In the months and years ahead, americans will hold the power between them. Lets hope the make the right choice. Im going to be asking you more but what that right choice
Afternoon. We do have the entire north a from the coast, valleys, as well as the hells last until 5 00 this afternoon. Associate to the east bay, the wind advisory expires for the bay area but the red flag warning continues for east bay hills as well as the valley locations until 5 00. One more shift along areas are the Santa Cruz Mountains stretching along the san mateo coastline in parts of the peninsula there. Also going until 5 00 this afternoon. We will check in with the winds briefly, we have lost almost road in the north reporting 21 relative humidity. The winds are sustained at 22. Not quite as gusty as early on, 65 degrees no. Santa rosa, take a look at that number, 27 degrees, 27 Miles Per Hour for the winds, relative committees 21 . Very warm, very dry and as we know, the winds are still blowing. Better details in what you can expect for today, the red flag warning set to expire later this afternoon and your extended forecast, coming up just a little bit. Millions of people
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