Our commitment to help build a better bay area. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes explains that california is expecting its first shipment next month. We are anticipating 327,000 doses of the vaccine, pfizer, to come in the next few weeks. Reporter Governor Newsom says he even knows roughly when the vaccines arrive but didnt want to reveal the date until he had the exact day. Were going to be seeing hundreds of thousands of people in california and millions of people in the United States get vaccinated in december. Its actually breathtaking. Reporter so here is what we can expect in the next few days. The vaccines exact date of arrival and the plan outlining who will get the shot first. The vaccines implementation will happen at the speed of trust, and that is part of the reason why we have built a set of committees. We have to start with Health Care Workers and probably people in nursing homes. And then ultimately, we will get to people over 65, people with preexisting conditions. Reporte
System will be overwhelmed. We dont act now, well continue to see a death rate climb more lives lost. With that Governor Newsom said hes pulling the emergency brake issuing a stayathome order for three weeks with any region with icu capacity falling below 15 . Its all part of a regional strategy well defined within the hospital and Health Care Delivery system. Weve defined these five regions, northern california, greater sacramento, bay area, San Joaquin Valley and the larger region in southern california. For the bay area, the stay at home coorder could come soon to late december. Hair salons, gyms, nail salons could shut down again. They are asking californians not to gather with anyone outside the household. The governor made the case with californias surging covid19 numbers. With spikes in the sevenday positivity rates, hospitalizations and deaths. Just in the last 14 days, close to 1,000 californians have lost their lives due to covid19. What can stay open, critical infrastructure
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Covid curfew now in effect, affecting nearly every corner of california and the bay area as San Francisco may be right behind. Questions still linger over whether these silent streets do enough to stop the spread of covid19. Good morning, everyone, its sunday, november 22. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Well get right to those curfews taking effect overnight and new Holiday Travel concerns this morning. But first, as always, lets start with a quick look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Liz, good morning to you. If you were with us early this morning, temperatures dropped below freezing. Were beginning to recover. If youre just weiaking up, it might be hard to believe. Its a chilly sky out there. Its 47 downtown, balmy 53 in oakland. As we look at the north bay, mt. Tam. Inland valleys, upper 30s from santa rosa to novato. The fog has cleared. Low 40s, youre below freezing in danville thi
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
Away. Most laws in our society rely on us to do the right thing and do our part on a daily basis. Thats true of every law that we have out there. Reporter as tough as this may be, there are signs of encouragement. This week the county submitted its covid19 vaccination plan to the state detailing its plans for Community Engagement and Vaccine Distribution and management. Facility haves been constructed throughout the county to properly store the vaccines upon arrival that will be made available to Health Care Workers on the front lines with a high risk of contracting the disease. The decision doesnt begin and end with the first decision, we will continue to review the data on the effectiveness and safety of all vaccines coming through. Reporter dr. Grace lee from Stanford School of medicine serves on the Cdc Advisory Committee responsible for making vaccine recrecommendations. Well continue to reevaluate the vaccines in the population to ensure were protecting everybody. Reporter steps