To 15 , yet they are still opting to shut down. On the other hand, Santa Clara County is down to 15 , which equals 31 empty icu beds remaining in the south bay. Marianne favro is in san jose to see how hospitals are handling the covid surge. Reporter Regional Medical center of san jose is now at capacity, but it continues to accept new patients here in the emergency department. There are at least 66 Covid Patients at Regional Medical center, and the surge is straining hospital resources. We are at capacity. Theres essentially no more beds in the hospital to rapidly put the patients into their inpatient unit. Reporter the hospital continues to perform surgery and accept emergency patients. But elective surgeries have been put on hold. The Medical Center is also using beds in the postacute care unit to accommodate additional patients. But it wont be using the pandemic tents set up in the parking lot back in april. We think its going to be better to circle the wagon, have our Team Togethe
Can see from our east bay hills camera. Expect this light wind to keep pulling that fog to the west as we head through the morning commute. It will turn to hazy conditions and high clouds this afternoon. Temperatures pretty close to average with upper 50s along the coast and about 60 to 63 degrees for the rest of us. Reggie . Thank you. This morning another major announcement about a covid19 vaccine. Oxford university and a astrazeneca revealing the vaccine theyre developing shows a strong immune response in older people. Jobina, this is important since these are the people so vulnerable to the virus. Older people are more likely to have Underlying Health conditions that make coronavirus more dangerous. Having a vaccine just as effective in older and younger patients is significant here. Participants also showed few side effects. The last steps of oxfords phase three trial are under way now so they could be seeking approval for the vaccine in a matter of weeks. This comes as americas d
About the north bay coming up. Two coronavirus vaccines appear to be getting close to a fullscale production and some breaking news this morning a third player just announcing promising results with its vaccine. Bob redell is joining live with a covid test in pleasanton with those developments. Good morning, marcus. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford Just Announced that its vaccine is safe and triggering a similar immune response in all adults. This is according to preliminary data from a phase two trial that was just published. Pfizer say a final Data Analysis of their vaccines have found that it is 95 effective. Thats higher than initial results suggested. The companys plan to submit an application for emergency use in days and how to ship tens of millions of doses across the country and what would be well below zero temperatures for the vaccine to be effective. Also, how to convince skeptical citizens to get the vaccine. A vast majority would have to be vaccinated to achieve,
He missed last season following an acl tear to his left knee. I am anne makovec, to the warning from the cdc which is rare but not unexpected in this case. Lets go live to sfo where the cdc is recommending people across the country dont travel during the thanksgiving holiday to mitigate spread of covid19 as cases spike around the country, cdc coming this a strong recommendation not a requirement at this point. The cdc is recommending only celebrating with people in your household. If you are joining others, wear a mask when not eating. Stay six feet apart. If you are inside, keep the windows open. Theyre telling people to mask up and social distance. Sjc is expecting roughly 125,000 passengers to travel during this 11day period. Last year the number was four and a half times that. It certainly will be reduced capacity. Health experts are recommending this two week quarantine if you go to a place thats having a real spike in covid cases. Some countries are requiring that to visitors fro
We have some issues on the road. Lets turn it over to jobina right now. In San Francisco an intersection is closed after a crash involving a police car. We have new video right now. Police tape surrounding fillmore and waller streets. The police are seeing that theres a damaged cruiser there on the scene and also it appears theres a muni bus involved. It is believed that this was a Police Pursuit that ended in a crash injuring the suspect and the officer. A call is in to sfpd to confirm that. We want to take a live picture of the scene. Officers are still there investigating. The intersection of fillmore and waller is closed now. Well bring you an update on this as soon as we hear back from police. Now to the pandemic. Can cases spiking across the country and bay area counties moving into more restrictive tee tiers, one east bay county is cracking down to make sure businesses not only know the rules but are obeying them. Amy hollyfield is live in walnut creek with how this will work. Y