Busy today in Santa Clara County, especially at the fairgrounds. They had 2500 testing slots today which were all taken. And that is where we find da lin at the fairgrounds in san jose right now. Reporter all is quiet now because they close down 3 00 but ill tell you, earlier, a lot of folks, as you mentioned, coming home from their thanksgiving trip, also some essential workers as well as folks who are saying they have symptoms and want to get tested. 18 testing booth at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. Each one with the short line of cars. Some cars contain families of up to five people. All getting tested at the same time. That is a lot of people. The line has gone so fast. Some just came back from a trip and somewhere required by work. If we are positive for covid 19 we are not allowed to work. Health Officials Say Santa Clara County has no single day covid cases in the bay area and they are seen troubling trends. We are definitely seeing our people with symptoms or have a house
One passenger told us it was a bit nerveracking considering the current covid surge and how close everybody is sitting next to those on the plane. I was nervous sitting next to each other as people are walking past you shoulder to shoulder. Im so sweaty, i cant wait. Waiting as far just to get here. Reporter so remember Health Officials are recommending against traveling at all for thanksgiving, but they are saying if you did travel, theyre hoping youll be able to quarantine. But they are asking you to stay inside as much as possible for the next two weeks. Brian, theyre just desperately worried here that people are coming back from these travels. They are going to infect more people in a time when we already have a major surge going on. I dont know what your senses are, but all the implications to just stay at home during thanksgiving. Why are they going to obey the suggestion that they quarantine for two weeks . Reporter yeah, well, i mean look, information is very important right no
Shopping is low risk, as long as everyone wears a mask and stands x feet apart. His concern is when people take off their masks to snack while waiting in lines. But many shoppers say that they are not too worried. It is more of an outdoor environment,s so absolutely, i am willing to brave that. It is a very different experience at San Francisco union square. Here is how it looked this morning. Very quite compared to previous black fridays. There is the picket line outside of macys, so not too many people inside. There is a short line at louis vuitton, no lines at the other stores this morning. Some stores are still boarded up from previous protests. This is a different black friday, 2020 is a different black friday. Reporter he runs a shop half a block away from union square. He is disappointed no lines outside of his story this year but he understands the fear of covid. We are living in a Virtual World and that is how we are going to get it. It is really busy in spots, how are stores
In person. Nothing was going to stop us. These players deserve support and that is why we are here. Right now, Health Officials in San Francisco tonight are launching a new strategy to keep cases under control, and like many other things these days, it involves your phone. Good evening. Andria borba is live in San Francisco, with the hope behind this new plan. It takes advantage of the fact that people are used to doing things via text message. Perhaps the readiness to answer a phone call but they can still get the Contact Tracing done to help spread the help control the spread of this disease. The fight to trace the spread of covid19 is moving to text message. The more people that answer the call or text the better our chances of getting control of the spread of covid19 in San Francisco and beating up the reopening of our city. Reporter it is called a Virtual Assistant and after a positive test you could get a text message to your cell phone, where you fill in the blanks for contact t