Health officials in Contra Costa County are stepping up free covid testing. Now even though they say mixing with those outside someones household is still a risky idea. Rob roth heard from Public Health officers today and gins us now with more. Rob . Reporter yeah, heather, on one hand Health Officials are urging people to stay home over thanksgiving, but theyre also saying if youre going to visit, get tested first. Cars lined up in this parking lot in concord Tuesday Morning for what the Contra Costa Health department calls testing for turkey. This family recently lost their grandfather to covid and know too well the horrors of the virus. We just want to be safe. Were going to meet some family over the holidays, and we want to protect ourselves and protect them, as well. Reporter this is one of 13 sites in Contra Costa County offering free covid testing. The push now is to get people tested before thanksgiving, and possibly exposing others. While inviting everyone that you gather with
Super super super cold and the other is just really cold. To stay stable pfizers needs to be stored at 94 degrees. But during us at 4 what that means is that we cant just put it amazon box or put it take it to the post office and mail it out to walgreens or cvs or pharmacies to distribute right now only certain facilities are equipped with Proper Storage like hospitals or Research Facilities so keeping these vaccines extremely cold while transporting them to far away places like oklahomas rule communities poses a real challenge the last thing you would want to do is get all this effort to make vaccines and then have it be natured not working because something in shipping storage but doctor shocker of art he says other vaccines in the pipeline may not require such special storage and those could be promising for those rural areas there going to be other available hopefully that dont state and federal leaders have a lot of details to work out identifying facilities that have the storage
Now they want to know how it will work in teens. So they are enrolling 16 and 17 yearold participants now. My parents have done it, and they only had slight symptoms for a day. 17yearold allison said the shot felt like any others. Now she monitors her temperature each week. Thats part of the point of the study to understand if the vaccines are working well in adolescents. Pfizer and beyond tech requested emergency use from the fda. Someone needs to do it. This is our chance to contribute. Allison wont know if she got the real vaccine or the placebo. If i got the placebo then nothing changed. She thought volunteering was the responsible thing to do to help her peers. As teenagers are one of the most irresponsible people. A decision could come by mid december. Theres the capability to produce 50 million probably in 2020. We are hearing a lot of positive news about the vaccine that could be available in the coming months. Joining us is the former medical officer with health and human serv
Abuse claims against boy scouts of america. We speak with one of the more than 82,000 accusers about what allegedly happened and what needs to change. And a miraculous recovery of a hiker found unconscious on mt. Rainier. How he lived to tell us the story after he was on the brink of death for 45 minutes and doctors revived him. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. We really are in a critical situation today. You must physically distance when you cannot physically distance, Everybody Needs to wear a mask. The u. S. Has now passed 11 million coronavirus cases. You think it would be a good idea if your team would be able to work with the Biden Harris Transition Team . Thats obvious. Of course, it would be better if we could start working with them. Ill help them in any ways that i can. Now, im not planning to suddenly work around the white house. No cabinet position for you . Probably some things i would not be doing because michelle would leave me. Shed be like,
A running into various forms and finally burst. Shes very scary as she was in the. Shooting. People running and screaming. Hello welcome glad you joined us here on our international weve got lots for you busy couple of hours and day. Amounts all because ballots are now being cost all across the u. S. And arguably the most divisive president ial battle in the countrys modern history its the most expensive election of all time thats for sure and its happening in the midst of a pandemic thats claimed almost a quarter of a 1000000 american lives well these are the latest pictures from polling stations in 2 of the key swings. State wisconsin and North Carolina 4 years ago donald trump won both on taking wisconsin was considered a Tipping Point for the president that basically gave him a crucial need in the Electoral College count but things could be a bit different this time around with the polls pointing to like conviction for joe biden in the state. And a sign of growing anxiety businesse