Prompting new efforts to better deal with the new realities. Michele miller reports. Reporter hospitals were always designed to treat the ill. But battling covid19 over the last seven months pushed many to their limits. The assumption if you get sick we willor you is a false assumption. Reporter hospitals like chicagos Rush Medical Center have began to spring into action. We created a command center to bring together all of the people in the organization that represent all of the potential landmines and unmet needs that we may have. Reporter president and ceo at rush. Then we just took a giant board and we wrote down how do we physically change the hospital to take care of larger numbers of people. The process started eight years ago, long before the pandemic when rush added a new wing to their hospital. When you build something for the future of health care, you try to add something with flexibility or agility in it and we built an 830,000 square foot building in the city that has the
Orders amidst new highs in covid19 case counts and hospitalization rates. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the warning. Reporter as the bay area prepares for a thanksgiving unlike any other, Santa Clara County has another urgent warning for the public. Do not have gatherings and do not travel. Period. Reporter today, 512 new cases of covid19 were reported county wide. A new record for the highest daily case count since the start of the pandemic. Perhaps up to 60 of the time when people are infecting others or infectious themselves, they have absolutely no symptoms. Reporter the county also saw its highest daily number of covid19 hospitalizations at just under 200 patients. Troubling numbers at a time of year when most hospitals are already busy because of the cold and flu season. Were extremely concerned about what this means for our hospitals ability to care for not only people with covid19 but for other people who need access to care in our hospitals. Reporter stanford hospital i
Or your phone, our app on the phone to see the temperature, subtract about 3 to 6 degrees from that. Thats what the windchill will feel like. This afternoon, how about low to mid 60s from the coast to our inland neighborhoods. Lets get the news on this thanksgiving. Heres kumasi. Good morning, by day for staff and volunteers here at glide. Volunteers are busy setting up tables and putting up signs. The tables are set up to allow for social distancing, aside from those few changes it will be the same glide thanksgiving meal that thousands demand on each year. Glide has continued to serve food three meals a day since the start of the pandemic. That has not stopped. Organizers say there was never a doubt they would do thanksgiving, the issue was how. So moving the event outdoors solved that problem. Thankfully no rain. They plan to serve 2,300 meals. One of the organizers says because of covid19 this years thanksgiving brunch is even more necessary. Covid is affecting all of us, but its a
With the plea before the novembd election i am proud to support judging me Coney Barrett as the nominee for social justice of the United States Supreme Court. You are not the only one that is proud to weeks ago i join concerned women for america in marietta georgia to kick off the nationwide tour in support of judge barretts confirmation. Doesnt attended including men and women from every walk of life, families, business owners, policymakers and students. Judge barrett has inspired millions across the country and then while holding the Christian Faith and values and then to become the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court with the schoolage children. And as i travel around the peach state that admiration is very clear President Trump has a highly qualified candidates for the bench and was transparent and wellprepared for the moment this made better nomination she is a woman of remarkable intellect and character with a judicial philosophynd and is a contextual list and understands a
This is shaping the United States its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on aljazeera. Alone welcome again to remind im elizabeth purana since we launched aljazeera english over a decade ago we havent been afraid of tackling difficult and sensitive stories through powerful Award Winning documentary us to day we rewind into 2010 and a film that examines an unintended consequence of the continuing israeli blockade of gaza is growing opioid problem the gaza strip at points just 10 kilometers wide is an hour piece of land along the Eastern Mediterranean coast thats palestinian population a sealed behind a separation barrier and tightly controlled checkpoints gaza is home to more than 1500000 palestinians maybe half of them under 15 unemployment is among the highest in the world and every day is a struggle to survive. Its not surprising therefore the thousands of young people risk their lives by protesting against the occupation by israel