Thanks for joining us on kron 4 news at 3 im noelle bellow just over 6 months since shelterinplace orders began california is seeing widespread improvement. An infection levels at the same time the nation and california are about to mark some grim milestones in the pandemic the United States is on the brink of reaching 200,000 deaths in the coronavirus pandemic right now there are little more than 199,743 deaths and more than 6 million cases have been reported across the country here at home that grim nationwide milestone comes as california and statewide covid19 numbers continue to improve governor Gavin Newsome provided an update this afternoon. He says the state has averaged about 3400 cases over a sevenday period. The latest numbers showing the low that with just under 3300 cases reported yesterday. Now the governor says on average theyre conducting more than 100,000 tests a day and with the number of testing going up the Positivity Rate is going down over the last 7 days weve have
Shorter isolation Period Health experts are no longer encouraging testing. Before you go back to work on fortune well bellow spoke to a doctor about the changes. Almost as if testing. Means everything but also after certain points Means Nothing testing isnt one tool among many. And its a very good tool, but it needs to be interpreted properly. 6 months into the covid19 fight here in the u. S. And Health Experts are revising previous recommendations to help stop the spread. In an article published tuesday the centers for Disease Control states and those who have tested positive can be around others 10 days after the positive test 8 as long as you have no fever and your symptoms have improved we started off with 14 days because we really didnt understand much about the virus. Stanford Infectious Disease expert doctor Yvonne Maldonado says Health Experts were right to be cautious in the beginning but now theres no real evidence of transmission that occurs. 10 days after somebody is infect
Is out of dock and back onto the high seas. And lots of business are all waiting for that queue up and theres a v. A. Is the 1st drug shown to work against the corona virus but its success could cause an International Round the us has bought up most of the world stock europe is considering issuing compulsory licensing of the antiviral drug. Deaths of years no wonder drug but it has shown promising effects in the treatment of people who fall in severely ill with covert 19th originally developed to treat a bola its attracted interest from countries around the world. Last week the European Commission gave conditional approval for deaths of your to be used to treat seriously ill covert 900 patients it follows similar moves in india in the United States. The company that makes the drug is an American Firm that has faced criticism for agreeing to sell the vast majority of its output to the United States get told e. W. That its space difficulty meeting demand and that its planning to increase
To see it lifting on the east bay shoreline as the sun is coming over the east bay hills and heres the top were mixing what the dry air so its thinning out. And well stretch turn clear across the bay this morning lower 60s line up the east bay shoreline for now some upper 50s up there the north bay 54 for San Francisco, 59 meanwhile for san jose. Were a couple degrees ahead of where we were this time from yesterday will be building on that for the afternoon highs noting the fog depletion as we go into the later Morning Hours. It may hug the coast a little bit to the late Morning Hours but then clear later, were looking at a heat advisory is a heat watch at this stage of the game here Solano County wednesday through monday through wednesday, rather thats for also the Central Valley, 2 of those high temperatures start racing and pop pockets of the east bay into the 90s it looks like the coast meanwhile, be looking at some 70s was kind of hot early part of the week coming up for today, 76
Fireworks morning, noon and night, and they had enough. The sound of fireworks going off has made a good nights sleep nearly impossible for People Living in the Roosevelt Park neighborhoods of san jose. Jeff levin has been documenting the intrusion day and night with his security cameras. Some say the explosions are so powerful they rattle their windows. Yeah. It keeps me up, keeps my kids up. My dog tries to jump on the bed. Reporter becky says some of her neighbors have even had to give their frightened dogs tranquilizers to calm them down. We have a lot of neighbors that have ptsd, and it really sets them off. Reporter the fireworks are frightening. I thought it was gunshots because it sounds like shotguns. Illegal fireworks have been a problem for years in san jose. Its not just a problem in the south bay, but one echoed from oakland to San Francisco. Posing a risk of fires. The Santa Clara County Fire Department issued this statement saying fireworks are illegal, dangerous and cou