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
Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra is live with some battleground on each of those doctors. And stephanie what they bring to the table. Reporter yes, dan, its a big deal to see not one but three highly respected doctors from ucsf represented on this board. All of them bring a wide range of expertise to this team, highlighting the bay areas success responding to the pandemic. The Biden Administration making a strong first step to building a National Strategy to fight the pandemic. Appointing a 13member covid19 Advisory Board comprised of Public Health experts across the country. Theres so much good work happening at state and local levels across the country, governors, mayors, theyre stepping up. The Advisory Board will listen and learn lessons from their experience. Reporter the experience coming from the bay area, includes ucsf david kessler, dr. Robert rodriguez and eric goosby. Bob wachter has worked with each of them personally. The three people that have been chosen bring very d
Going out now. All vote by mail ballots in california come with prepaid postage and you can return your ballot at any time to and including election day. November 3rd. The envelope must be sealed, signed and dated. It can be turned into your county elections office, a ballot drop box, a vote center or any polling place. And if youre mailing it back, there is more time this year for it to arrive because of the concerns about the u. S. Postal service. Now, a ballot with a postmark no later than northern 3rd can be received as late as november 20th and it will still count. You can track your ballot online through the secretary of states website. And earlier today on abc 7 news at 4 00, we spoke live with the secretary of the state alex padilla about the benefits of voting by mail. Its convenient. You get to vote from the comfort and safety of your own home and it is proven to be secure. So any suggestion otherwise is, frankly, not true, and only seeks to undermine confidence in our electi
For sure heartbreaking. But as a shop owner, i mean its devastating. Honestly i felt like throwing up yesterday. The uncertain future facing so many bay Area Businesses as the surge in cases continues to grow, forcing a new round of shutdowns. All of this is not only disheartening but for many businesses, its backbreaking. Theyve got to close at midnight. This comes after they reopened just yesterday. Nbc bay areas ian cull shows us whats happening tonight in Santa Clara County. Reporter it is reclosing time in the south bay, just two days after businesses like the barbers inc. Barbershop rejoiced in reopening. Then to have that rug pulled from underneath my feet again reporter owner dave diggs says he spent 30,000 last week paying four months of bills to get here, and now since Santa Clara County has been on the governors monitoring list for three days, barbers, hair and nail salons, places of worship, Shopping Malls and gyms must all close. Just trying to take a deep breath. Were goi
And eventually making their way onto the city streets for a march kron 4 dan thorn was there he joins us live now here in the studio to really explain that people want to stress their commitment to make their point but to do so peacefully thats ripe and these protesters really wanting to show solidarity today by. Coming together and let it be known that Police Brutality and racism will not be accepted in their city. They want to spread the message of diversity and positivity not anger and violence. The families and civil Rights Groups makes its way past the fox theater in oakland the peaceful protest for victims of Police Brutality is one of many taking place across the bay area and the country you know most biggest stand up and show out that this was going to take for the political people in choice to Pay Attention thursdays gathering began at city hall the coalitions by any means necessary and east bay black lives matter rally for equality and defending affirmative action very few dr