Reporter San Francisco needs more testing so three sites will open next week, however the city says an ongoing shortage of testing resources means priorities must be given to First Responders and healthcare workers. We know that so many of them are very concerned, that they are doing this work in the community, they are trying their best to help save lives and serve the public. They are living in fear as to whether or not they have the virus. We have issued instruction to all labs and clinicians, that they must prioritize their tests. Next week we will bring the deployment of largescale sheltering in the first part means moving people out of traditional shelters. Starting next week, muskogee west will open up and supplies are being delivered this weekend, people are being coordinated, we are going to use muscone west as the place for shelters. Reporter today, as we have been showing you, the sidewalks are packed with people, many of them living off the street, and the mayor acknowledge
Got, and it really as a colleague it was heartbreaking to hear. These are individuals who sacrifice their life for others. They take an oath, and theyre telling me they feel like theyre in a war and they dont have the armor they need. They are using words like scared, in despair, power powerless like theyre sacrificial lambs, and essentially, theyre screaming out to be heard and helped. One of the things you heard was the lack of protective personal equipment. They dont have it. Theyre being asked to reuse things, use them all day. Theyre going out on their own, spending their own money to find it. Somebody said its like being a fireman and running into a burning building with flipflops and a bikini on. This is how they feel they need help. Another issue is that they are afraid for their own health, for their Families Health saying i signed up for this job. My family did not sign up to take this risk. Theyre building makeshift places to stay at home in the garage. They dont infect thei
In santa clara, makeshift hospitals are set up for coronavirus patients. Its one of the measures they are taking to prepare for a surge in cases. A new wave of closures for many bay area parks and beaches to prevent a repeat of last weekends crowds with insufficient social distancing. A lifeline for california renters with a statewide eviction ban and why some worry that is only a bandaid. Its just about 6 00 a. M. On the saturday, march 28. Another weekend morning and that means ive got rain to look at on my doppler radar. There is a pattern. Scattered but occasionally heavy and that is a way to describe what it will be for just about anybody who is out early on this saturday morning. On hidef doppler, there is light rain and heavy rain like devon was talking about, you will have not a lot of yellow but there are some in the east bay and some approaching the peninsula and thats what the radar looks like, more impressive than the rain that is out there and fairly light for most of us.
Hard Core Public Health measures of case finding Contact Tracing quarantine isolation so in some senses we need to slow down the virus then we need to suppress the virus and then we need to go after the virus and that takes different combinations of different measures. Of social or physical distancing measures and Movement Restriction measures are very hard socially and theyre very hard economically and we need to use whatever time those measures are in place to put him place the Public Health architecture can then go after the virus because lifting those measures may result in the disease returning if you dont have in place the Public Health measures to do you. Yeah i think if he thinks just very simply about what physical distance you know he think of think of a large gathering or you think of a crowded space and people are very close to one another if you had acted in the video. In that clustering of people the opportunity for the virus to pass between people is much greater because
Results and the negative but what about tastes for the rest of the country. Im anthony how to welcome to the program while authorities around the world take even more drastic measures to try and slow the spread of the corona virus the number of cases is rising a tally by Johns Hopkins University Counts more than 156400 cases will wide and over 5800 deaths at the same time at least 73900 people have recovered from the virus and some good news particularly from south korea with 76 new khurana new coronavirus cases reported today the country therefore has seen a fold in numbers to double digits for the 1st time in over 3 weeks a sign its tough quarantine measure is working. Oh joining me now is the elfish a professor of Infectious Diseases at the university of singapore and the chair of the World Health Organization global outbreak and Response Network professor south korea and china have seen the number of new cases for only does that offer some hope. Yet most most definitely it does the