Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an
Have visibility as low as a couple hundred feet around sfo and petaluma. Its going to be here for the entire morning commute. And as you look at the breezes, this will slide slowly south so it could fill in parts of the east bay shoreline also. But i dont think it is going to quite get over to the east bay valleys. This afternoon, a touch of haze behind, but definitely sunglass weather. Above average temperatures. Low to mid 60s. 61 to 65 around the bay. 58 to 66 along the coast. More on this first day of meteor logical winter coming up. Heres reggie. The cdc will meet with the top Health Advisors to discuss a possible covid19 vaccine. The fda could approve pfizers vaccine as early as next week. How the cdc will decide who gets priority. How much good are you going to do . How many lives are you going to save . Second. What is fair. What is the fair way to do it. The third is, how can we do this openly and transparentally so theres no backroom deals. Its clear what is happening. Dr. Fr
Of other couples that were outside the household you can quibble about the guidelines, etcetera etcetera, but the spirit of what im preaching all the time was contradicted and i got to own that and so i want to apologize to you. Because i need to preach and practice not just preach and not practice and ive done my best to do that. The governors claiming that hes going out to dinner only a couple other time since february outdoors and along with his wife on those occasions at the time of the dinner party napa county was in the orange tear the second least restrictive of the pandemic reopening system allowing indoor and Outdoor Dining at restaurants in National News tonight president elect joe biden making pandemic response. A top priority as he transitions to the white house and he says more lives could be lost if the Current Administration keeps interfering with the process Kareen Wynter has more on the president ial power struggle. Mincing no words on the Trump Administrations attempt
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
Scientific community. I think thats a bit of an overreaction. Now at 9 Governor Newsome announcing stricter measures today across the state after a troubling increase in covid cases and hospitalizations also tonight the governor has floated the possibility of a statewide curfew lot of people are talking about that as we say good evening, thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 everybody, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis today Governor Newsom announced that he is pulling the emergency brake on the states efforts to reopen our economy. As coronavirus cases surge more dramatically than they did during the summer spike and this comes as daily covid cases in the state have doubled over the last 10 days, 40 counties today were ordered to take at least one step back in the states tiered economic reopening system prompting businesses to depending on the county, the rain further limit indoor capacities. Take business outside or shut down altogether by tomorrow. My top priority, moving in.