Plainfield, illinois. Towe take you live now california, where governor gavin newsom is updating the state on coronavirus. Governor newsom we are experiencing all across the united states. To put this in perspective, our ofen day average is north 14,000, 14,600 seven, to be precise. Day case number is roughly in line with that sevenday average, 14,034. To put that in perspective, when you look back at the peak we experienced at the beginning of this pandemic, the seven day previous week was to1, compared to the close 15,000 cases we are now experiencing over seven days. We anticipate, based on what occurred over the course of the last number of days, that within a number of weeks, onetwo weeks based on thanksgiving activity and all the efforts to educate people against activities and anherings, that we will see increase in cases. It is important to put in perspective california as a state visavis other states just for purposes of comparison. People have inquired and asked how we are do
Tonight in both counties. This means nonessential illnesses and social gatherings with stop between the hours of 10 00 at night and 5 00 in the morning. Flock it is absolutely essential and it is important people live by the rules and if more people to, we would have a lot shorter time period, and significantly fewer death. Meriden county is the only bay area county still in the red tear. The second most restrictive tear although that could soon change. Moderna is now the Second Company to apply for emergency use use authorization from the fda for the coronavirus vaccine. As casey reports with cases and hospitalizations on the rise across the country, plans are being made to get the vaccines distributed as quickly as possible. Reporter the numbers are staggering. The u. S. Adding more than for million new covid cases in the month of november. Help could be just around the corner corner with moderna announcing the have applied for emergency use use authorization from the fda for their v
Vaccine. There were a total of 95 cases of symptomatically covid. The vaccine was 94. 5 effective. There were no reports of serious side effects. Other hopeful news, all 11 cases of severe covid illness were in the placebo group. The cofounder and chairman of moderna spoke about the results. We have a number of different other subgroups we are looking actively at. In general, it looks like the vaccine performs broadly across all the population groups that we consider. Moderna expects to have 20 million doses ready to ship by the end of 2020. The Game Changing result comes a week after pfizer announced similar results for its vaccine. Pfizers vaccine is shown to be more than 90 effective. Stocks are up on the Moderna Vaccine news. Right now, the dow is up 337 points. A u. S. Officials as the pentagon is expected to cut the number of u. S. Troops in afghanistan and half by mid january. This, according to the associated press. The pentagon also expects to cut the number of troops in iraq
Touting success in fighting covid19. The news comes as we learn 11 million americans are infected with the coronavirus. Black do not need any device. It will be the same as getting it at cvs. Reporter the moderna ceo took to the airwaves words of comfort for a jittery global community. He says Clinical Trials show shots from the drugmaker vaccine provide strong protection against covid19. Vaccine is being created with the National Institutes of health and is being tested on 30,000 volunteers. Those subjects either received the vaccine or a placebo. So far, the two shot moderna solution to covid which needs to be kept in a cold place appears to be 90 for. 5 effective. Once you have a vaccine shown to be safe and effective, you can go back and do phase one and phase two trials in children. Trucks of a congresswoman anna eshoo sent an email to fox 2 interaction to the recent element thing and part, importantly, the vexing candidate so appear to prevent severe covid19 disease. It is extrem
Discovery, one that if true, could turn the whole pandemic around. This missouri woman, her name is patricia durgess, was licensed in missouri as an assistant physician. She had done med school at a school in the caribbean but she hadnt been accepted into a residency. She wasnt a full doctor. The rules say a person with midlevel professional accreditation like hers can only do so if they do it in collaboration with a fully accredited doctor. Theres nothing wrong with being a physician assistant, theres lots of room in our system for lots of different licensed professionals. But i think its safe to say that april 11, just about a month into the coronavirus pandemic, this is not the person you would expect to be announcing that in fact she had discovered a cure for covid19. But there she was, april 11, on facebook, quote, this amazing treatment stands to provide a potential cure for covid19 patients that is safe and natural. And wouldnt you know it, she would be happy to sell it you to.