Check out this video from a San Francisco restaurant. The woman in red there is grandma doris campos. She flips over a table to defend herself against a customer who threw a container of Hand Sanitizer at camposs daughter and grandson. Yep, grandma in action. The woman felt her order was taking too long. Thankfully, no one was hurt. A company is now selling the first blood test to diagnose alzheimers disease. The test is designed for people over 60 who are experiencing symptoms of dementia. Its considerably cheaper than the 5,000 brain scan normally used to detect alzheimers which is often not covered by insurance. The blood test is currently being sold without fda approval. Turning now to the race for a vaccine for covid19 and that cdc meeting today that will determine who gets the vaccine first. I spoke earlier with dr. Maldonado. Who will be participating in that meeting today. Dr. Maldonado, heres one dilemma surrounding distribution of the covid vaccines. California is getting 326
Appointments. Covid19 is very serious. We want to ensure they understand that. We will do whatever it takes to ensure that they feel safe in our space. Retail stores must limit capacity to 25 . Grocery stores are at 50 . Code enforcement will go through sunday, could be extended. Restaurants got a welcome boost from lastminute shoppers. We have live coverage with a look at how people are preparing amid the pandemic. Reporter some of the restrictions that you were talking about were seen today. Many stores said that the usual rush was replaced by a week of people trickling in. Many people say that tomorrow, the meal will be served up within extra helping of gratitude. The thanksgiving eve rush took on a different tone this year for smoke berkeley. Had to turn away more than 100 orders for thanksgiving dinner. People found that their travel plans changed right at the last minute. They were trying to find someplace to find dinner. Reporter chef tina found of the barbecue restaurant now ru
Organization practices a Virtual Meeting to discuss recommendations would get the covid19 vaccine first. The two groups likely to receiveposes our healthcare workers and longterm care facilityresidents. This is a portion of the meeting. Today we will revisit the allocation of the covid19 vaccine to answer the following policy questions. Should healthcare personnel and longterm care facility residents be offered vaccination to phase 1 a. After we have reviewed the evidence, then clinical considerations and safety monitoring presented by my colleagues we return to this question. Recalled that during the aca Community Meeting last week reviewed evidence to inform allocation decisions. For the finance, the workgroup examined covid19 Disease Burden as well as the balance of harmony group. Of course details of the phase 3 data will further inform this area when they become available. For implementation, the workgroup took into consideration the values and acceptability of implementation in e
Live coverage on cspan2. Celebration is always december 7, in a year where we have new members of the california legislature. I will jump right in the tightest briefest possible and get to a number of the issues of the day. Particularly as relates to some of the regional orders that now are in effect in california but also wanted just to provide some context and some information about some new technology that will bring to bear. To slow the spread of covid19. Its been a lot of discussion around apps, a lot of discussion about how technology can advance our efforts to notify individuals can mitigate the spread of covid19 and address this pandemic headon. Two of californias bestknown headquarter technology companies, google and apple, have joined together in an effort to provide for exposure notification. Not Contact Tracing, right exposure notification. I want to provide you with a bit of information about what california is doing today to help support their efforts come a little bit ab
The pandemic. Marine county is the only other in the red tier as of right now. And there has been no mention so far about marin county going into the purple tier. At this point right now, health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark ghaly is giving an update on the states response to covid19. Well monitor the briefing and bring you an update coming up at 12 30. Governor newsome gave his update yesterday afternoon while quarantining at home with his family. This is after his children were exposed to someone who tested positive for the coronavirus. He talked about vaccines yesterday, specifically how the state would store the keys and how they would distribute them as well. And his plan focuses on having people most at risk to receive the batch of vaccines, which might be available next month. Skilled nursing facilities, Residential Care facilities. Assisted living facilities. Of course, our First Responders and other critical infrastructure. Were making sure were protecting those that a