A study out of the Harvard School of Public Health in april noted some strains were harder to locate out of a rapid test than others. The Delta Variant was more difficult to detect. It had a higher detection than omicron. And so this may relate to the omicron subvariants because some of the strains of the omicron subvariant do have mutations. Reporter dr. Kirby says like vaccines are getting new strain updates, so should tests. If we look at a lot of the antigen tests out there, they just have information in terms of how well they work for sort of original reporter its a sentiment echoed by a doctor of uc berkeley. We have to be constantly relooking at the rapid tests to make sure this virus spins off new variants and subvariants. Reporter dont be surprised if the rapid test comes up negative when you have symptoms. Oftentimes, early in the course of the illness the rapid test is negative when you actually have that disease. Reporter do what karl and his wife did. We knew that we were
Noelle bellow, our top story this afternoon. Another disturbance at San Francisco international airport. This time a man was stabbed in the baggage claim area early this morning. One person has been detained. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson was there. She has details on what happened. A man in his 40s has been arrested for stabbing another man right here in the terminal. 3 baggage claim. Now the scene has been cleared. It is back to normal with people flying out the starbucks opened. They can still see where that scene was. They had to clean it up and sanitize it. The man stabbed has been taken to the hospital with stab wounds and is expected to be okay. Video shows care. So for all wrapped up in crime tape, San Francisco police say the call came in just before 5 this morning. Officers found a man with stab wounds in baggage claim and helped him until paramedics took him to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. Officers quickly located a man nearby detained and questioned him and later a
Disease disease like covid, or wed be in another scary scenario that we saw in the early covid days. Fortunately, as yet it is not as of friday. Just 1469 monkeypox cases nationwide. San francisco , its foundation held an appointment only monkeypox clinic to administer 500 vaccinations to Community Members in its San Franciscos Castro District health center. With Vaccine Supplies still way behind demand. People were chosen from a waiting list of some 3400 people wanting the shot, many at high risk over pride weekend. A lot of folks in the community has started to become symptomatic, meaning theyre showing some symptoms of monkeypox. Theyre concerned and theyre going into a clinic to get screened. Monkey pox is transmitted by infected bodily fluids by small droplets by contaminated objects and possibly airborne. The vaccine is 85 effective in preventing infection. And in lessening the severity of the disease. But only if theres enough of it, and it doesnt have a lot of telltale pre symp
Sometimes it kind of goes down when they move people along. But there are always Homeless People on the trail. Reporter a group of cyclists rallied in front of the county op t trail. They say its unfair to pit them against the homeless when they never asked for it to be closed in the first place. The county is consumed with fears about liability for everything. So i have to assume that that was in the forefront of their mind. Reporter out on the trail, about a dozen tents occupy the side of the paved roadway. The rest of the space is compressed within the portable fencing. I met erlin todd playing a game of dice. They too think it is ironic that it is the public being shut out. But both remember three years ago when an encampment swelled to more than 100 tents and 250 people. Because they let everybody wait until everybody in town moved into the same place. You know, it looks bad. They had to. Could clean it up. But now everybody is kind of spread out. Reporter so do you think they put
Their signs tug at your heart: They need money for the funeral of a little girl, or a little boy, depending on which street corner they're standing on. But police say it's likely a scam.