Well, two important aspects of the ongoing pandemic, preventing the spread of the virus and limiting the economic damage continue nobody conflict this afternoon across much of the country, including right here in the bay area. Tom vacar joins us live this afternoon, and this new wave of restrictions threatens the very survivability of the restaurant industry. Well, the whole fact is this cannot go on forever. Some accommodations will have to be made. Covid carnage to patients mirror s the carnage to small businesses, restaurants and their employees. It is a tail of two realities. According to the National Restaurant association, this is their sobering reality. 100,000 restaurants, 1 in 6, closed forever or long term. 40 of the remaining restaurant ours saying theyll be gone in three months without any help. 240 billion in lost sales this year. One Business Owner we spoke with has been able to survive so far. There has to be assistance for businesses and also for individuals. Reporter b
Questions in realtime on Facebook Live and youtube live, so extend us your questions right now and well get chatting. Good afternoon, doctor. Thanks for joining us. My pleasure, liz. Thanks for having me on. So doctor, for people who are just joining us right now, as theyre starting to put their questions in, tell us a little bit about what the fda has announced today regarding hydroxychloroquine. For many of us in the field, its kind of about time, i think we were all surprised that it got an eua designation in the first place. Eua emergency authorization, theres enough evidence the drug actually works. We never really had enough evidence. It was only in the test tube in a petri dish that killed virus but never in a human and i think more than three studies now that havent been rerbuked shows this doesnt work. How much of a change to revoke this emergency use . Are we surprised by it . I think were not surprised by it. A lot of people in the scientific community, actually happy becaus
Contract in santa clara. Weve been fielding calls from customers that want to take their open space environment and divided as much as they can, so that people can work closely but be secluded from the guy next to them. Took the founder started the company focusing on height adjustable desks, moving to full office of manufacturing, there producing thousands of office dividers. The biggest challenge is that some clients are large customers , they want 40,000 dividers , we are trying to respond to all of this. Panels have gone away division of space has gone away , theres more lounges and coffee bars and its all open , and now postpandemic we are starting to see dividers going back up. Reporter Office Architect said that the evolution of the office is something they know well. She said many major names are looking for ways to adjust to the new normal. Trying to provide social distancing by having a staggered workforce, there are so Many Companies that have benches versus cubicles. Report
Pronounce ams the United States did not need the 1 million ventilators thus far that the media said we were in dire need of. In fact, it is encouraging to say that every american who needed a ventilator has received a ventilator. This administration has managed to procure, excuse me, 100,000 ventilators to be manufactured in 100 days. Thats extraordinary. Thats three times the amount produced in the average year. Likewise, was there concern about n95 respirators and the Trump Administration has shipped over 1 million n95 respirators and that is more than three times the industry consumption of n95 respirators in a typical year. The u. S. Now leads the world in testing for weeks. The media cited south korea as being the Gold Standard for testing, but as it stands we are now testing at a higher rate per capita than south korea and as this chart will show you in all 50 states we are now testing at a higher rate per capita than south korea. So a state in this country is testing at a higher
Mist and drizzle. Our good friend, mr. Drizzle court is back in town. Some sunshine. 50s and low to mid 60s on the temps year. San jose, cloudy. 54. A little south wind. The pressure has gone cle. Cloud cover around that low, which is rolling along. Coming in off the sierra and the sacrament, san joaquin valley. 50s for all. First time i have seen that this month. At least on this panel. Palo alto, 54 because of the cloud deck. It just is locking in the temps. Rain is mainly confined to the south. We will see morgan hill, south, for the next 24 hours. Temps are still below average. Lets talk to sal now, see if theres anything new going is g to be mostly good. No, i do want to mention that if youre taking a flight, not a lot of people are taking flights, but if youre getting off on one of the airborne exits, the single lights are malfunctioning there. So be careful. As you look at the live picture of interstate 80, this looks pretty good. All the way down to the san mateo bridge. So mos