Heres a look at where cases stand in the bay area. There are now about 3200 confirmed cases and 86 people have died. Santa clara leads the bay area in confirmed cases with more than 1,000 and Contra Costa County with the Skilled Nursing facility outbreak is at 307 cases. Farther north, Mendocino County reports at least four confirmed cases. Lake county is unchanged. Still no positive cases. Were plotting the case numbers on to a graph so we can really get a good picture of where we stand. This trend includes data for 14 counties. The bay area and surrounding areas. As you can see, were still on an upward curve. Federal, state and local Health Departments are now recommending people wear some kind of mask for Face Covering when out in public. Cdc recommends and the Task Force Recommends wearing cloth Face Coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain. San Francisco Mayor london breed says there are two points to remember. Number one, this is a recommendation from our county health officers. And number two, this does not take the place of physical distancing. Abc 7 News Reporter kris reyes is live with more information about masks. Great information. Kris . Reporter good evening. This weekend you might want to go for a walk, go to the grocery store. What are you going to wear . Ill show you what ive been doing. This ski scarf, ill tell you why a doctor told me it works. It covers my nose, my mouth and it stays on. Us a few other tip. We took a drive through downtown San Francisco in chinatown and saw all kinds of Face Coverings, including a scarf and a tshirt. Many people asking what should i be using . We put our viewer questions to epidemiologist, dr. George rutte r ford. Do i need a face mask in my yard . If youre not doing something, i dont think. Is it okay to wear a scarf over my nose and mouth . Yes. Were trying to cut down on you expelling, cough, sneeze, respiratory particles. The goal is to protect others from you. How should the cloth masks be laundered . Any special instructions. I would wash them in hot water. What would be the best protection if youre going for a run or a bike . You have to experiment. Try tshirt or Something Like that. Just a bandana. Experiment for comfort and fit but also how we tried to spray through different materials from a thick to a thin scarf. A towel and a thin tshirt. The thinner the material, the lest effective at holding the spray. Online on et cetera i and amazon, the choices are endless. Fashionable to high tech. This one boasts breathability and filter technology. But the doctor says keep it simple. Cover your nose and mouth and save the professional stuff for the people who need it. Remember the masks from are just for when you go out. An adequate mask covers your nose and mouth and cuts down on respiratory particles. Cloth is fine. Cotton is fine. Fabric is fine. Theres no way it will be perfect. We have to reserve the perfect solutions, all the surgical masks and the n95 masks for the hospitals for now. Reporter again, it cant be emphasized enough. The mayor said as well. It doesnt replace social distancing and the best advice of all, stay home as much as you can. Keep us all safe. Live in foster city, im kris reyes for abc 7 news. Kris, thank you. To boost supplies ofas a personal protective equipment, ford is producing face shields for Health Care Workers. The automaker shipped thousands of them to hospitals here. Ucsf, San Francisco general, Valley Medical Center and regional Medical Center of san jose. A lot of you have kbes about masks. We know because youve been asking us for answers. To get your questions answered, reach out to us on facebook, look for our abc 7 news page. There is a new coronavirus hotspot in the bay area. Health officials in Contra Costa County is at the Orinda Care Center. Its a Senior Living center where half the patients are over the age of 80. Its a highrisk group. Leslie brinkley is live with the story. Leslie . Reporter well, this is Orinda Care Center behind me. They now have 27 confirmed covid positive patients or people affiliated with the care Center Testing positive. The county Just Announced all this today. They started an investigation here just three days ago as youll hear. Our initial investigation revealed five cases of covid19. Two of those persons were residents of the facility. And theyre hospitalized. Were not aware of their Current Situation or their current condition, rather. Three additional persons are staff of the facility and they are now on home isolation. The county tested all 45 residents of the 47bed facility and revealed today another 22 tested positive for covid19. For a total of 27 in Orinda Care Center alone. Half of them are over 80 years old. In this facility, residents who are positive will be isolated and separated from the residents who have tested negative and are asymptomatic. We have advised that the staff do not intermingle between these two groups, rather that dedicated staff are assigned to work with one group only. So what we do know is that he Staff Members here at esting Orinda Care Center. Those test results arent completely back in yet and they are also, they say, investigating two other senior care facilities in the county right now. They wont say where they are or what names they are. But they are on top of it, they said. Theyre urging people to take great care. The social distancing and really strict visitation standards at many of these senior facilities if you have a loved one who is older. Reporting live in orinda, im leslie brinkley. Abc 7 news. Leslie, thank you. Alhambra high school in martinez will not be used as a makeshift medical facility after superinl says it was just getting too complicated to make that happen. A crew member from the grand at the port of oakland died of coronavirus. The person passed away in a San Francisco hospital after being transferred off the ship last month. Hundreds of workers still remain on board. Their 14day quarantine ends tomorrow. For the first time, were getting a look at death certificate data from people who died after the coronavirus. Cdc made that information public today. Most of the deaths were people over the age of 75. About a quarter were people in their late 60s and early 70s. Almost one in five of those people who died were adults in mid40s to mid60s. One child has died. Coronavirus is changing a lot of businesses. That includes the people who do a job that you dont want to think about. Crime scene cleanup. How theyre dealing with the crisis can provide important clues for all of us. I Team Reporter dan joins us with the story. How they keep their spirits up during a difficult job. Theyve had to make adjustments for covid19. The team from Crime Scene Cleaners gathers at a diner. To eat breakfast and to receive their marching orders. Mcguire facility first for a van thats a corona van. They tackle the job few of us want to do. Clean up after homicides, suicides and accidental death. I kind of put it out of my mind and dont think about it too much. Im just there for the mess. I clean it. They count on dark humor to help deal with what they encounter. See the blood drip design below the door handle. They keep an instagram account. I wont show the crime scene pictures they show. They take after shots what theyve done. The shelter in place, less crime, fewer conflicts. We are heavy duty with corona calls. Smithers getting calls from an employee with coronavirus and police stations and jails who want deep cleaning. If you have an intake area, a hundred. If you have a cell, a hundred. If you have a bathroom, a hundred. We stack hundreds. Hes running 12 employees 24 hours a day. A call came from a San Jose Hotel being used to isolate covid patients. A man in his 50s with preexisting conditions passed away. They must fully suit up before entering any building. Hazmat suit, puncture proof boots, all seams tape. We assume that youre disease filled and hes diseasefilled and we dont want to get it. Business is booming here and around the state as our sister station kabc found this week at the Culver City Police department. I believe it has to be done right now. I think just to give the officers peace of mind when theyre in the field. Theyre the ones that are contacting people on a daily basis. Theyre out in the field every day. From the frontlines, you can see the coronavirus does not discriminate and it targets all ages. When one of my guys went last night to kaiser and got tested and tested positive. Hes out for two weeks. Hes 24. Reporter thats the message i want to get across. Even to my own sons. Youre young but not invincible. By the way, that diner is open but the owner keeps only three customers in there at a time to try to protect everyone. Dan, ama. Dan, thank you. The bay area has been sheltering in place for 18 days as of today. Next some perspective on how were doing and what its doing to us. From abc 7 news contributor and insider phil ma tier. Im meteorologist stocks fell today following bad news about the job market. It closed slightly above 21,000. The nasdaq dropped 114 points. The s p went down by 38. The market reacted to a report released today showing a loss of more than 700,000 jobs in the month of march, ending nearly a decade of uninterrupted job growth. Americas Unemployment Rate last month jumped from 3. 4 to 4. 4 . Economists say it could reach 15 in april. The stimulus checks americans will be getting as part of the 2 trillion federal relief act may not fulfill their purpose of stimulating the economy. Californias legislative analysis office, analyst office, excuse me, says that because so many businesses are closed due to the shelter in place order, people may not be able to go out and spend the money in the way the government hoped. Today the white house launched a nearly 350 billion lending programhe busiaflo. Eytrugglg sobadl protection program. But as abc 7 news eye Team Reporter explains, this rollout comes with a lot of complications. It was really a decision of do we want to keep our doors open . Small Business Owner josh kiz letter tearing up as he comes to terms with a difficult decision. Whose hours on his staff will have to be cut. Its incredibly difficult to cut peoples livelihood. A tough reality facing thousands of small Business Owners like him who are struggling to make ends meet. It was one of the hardest decisions and the hardest decisions that i made in a matter of minutes. Like anyone in his position right now, he wants help. But as he was trying to apply for a loan which hes eligible for under the paycheck protection program, he received this email from Jpmorgan Chase stating, Financial Institutions like ours are still awaiting guidance from the sba and the u. S. Treasury. As a result, chase will most likely not be able to start accepting applications on friday, april 3rd as we had hoped. The delays affecting customers banking with wells fargo. The company posting this update on their website saying we are working as quickly as possible to be ready. But those with bank of america have had success. Just before noon friday, staffers received this letter reporting more than 60,000 clients were assisted with a loan, receiving over 6 billion in applications. Leaving kizzler hopeful hell be a part of that soon. I hope to keep the team together. There are different types of assistance in this program. Two of them are loans. A loan, wont need be to be paid back if you keep paying employees. We have more information on abc7news. Com. In theom ernnha money from me will hel pay rmsor homeless during the pandemic. Its all around making sure that we address the most vulnerable californians with kind of acute and focus required at this moment. The person at this Navigation Center has tested positive for coronavirus and is now being isolated at a hotel room. Today protesters held a car parade to demand more rooms for the homeless. Mayor breed says the city doesnt have the resources to put every homeless person in a hotel room. Its awfully eerie out there. Lets bring in abc 7 news contributor phil ma tier for perspective. Remember the of movie, the omega man. Eerie to see the streets like this. The longterm consequences of this are scarier. Ive been out and around San Francisco and the rest of the bay area. I have to tell you one of the most visually impacted statements about where we are is union square in San Francisco. They did a survey of businesses and out of 340 locations checked, 284 had closed. 90 had boarded up. Were talking about everything from Louie Vuitton to gucci to sergio armani. A host of what were once high end stores that attracted tourists and conventioneers and high dollars are boarded up plywood. Its not just the highend. Old navy, gap, the front of the westfield mall in San Francisco boarded up. Its not just in downtown. I took a walk through the mission. Eight boarded up stores. One block between 16th and 17th on valencia. Much the same story in the castro. What were seeing here is something unprecedented, dan. Were seeing the virtual shutdown of the economy overnight and the repercussions of that are being told could last for years to come. A big question is how do we get back on our feet . As you just explained, we might be getting checks. Is anybody going to have a place to spend them . I think once life starts to return back to normal, once the shelter in place is lifted, i dont think people are going to be rushing out and hitting the stores. I think everyone will be more cautious, phil. I was talking with a leader consumer this morning, former mayor willie brown. He was a regular at union square. He said, you know, staying indoors is going to have everybody reevaluating what they eat, what they wear, where they go. They might not need as much as they did before. I was also talking with joe dell sandro, the head of the tourist and Convention Bureau in San Francisco. They are taking a huge hit with the closed hotels and conventions. Hes saying, weve never seen anything like this before. People might actually want to get out. They might want to go to disneyland and might out and spend some money because theyve been cooped up for so long. Look, its going to be tough. Weve got to stay in place. Its going to be a downturn. How we turn back up. Some people are saying were in a recession. When you press the people, they say yes we are, but we dont know how its going to go because we quote again, never been in a situation like this before. There will no doubt be some rebound. But i think people will readjust. Ive talked to so many people who are saying working from home will be more common. You can read phils columns every wednesday and sunday in the chronicle. Well take a twominute break on tv and get out your phone and go to abc7news. Com to read our most popular story on the home page. Its the grim forecast that stanford researchers are predicting. Our shelter in place may las i of metastatic breast cancer. E but i did pick clarity by knowing i have a treatment that goes right at it. Discover piqray, a treatment that specifically targets matios in hr , her2 mbc. Piqray is taken with fulvestrant after progression on hormone therapy and helps people live longer without disease progression. 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It seems like weve been getting storms. We need them. Lets take them while we can. It is april and our stormy season will be winding down soon. As we look at a live picture from our exploratorium camera, were seeing plenty of sun right now, brightness in our lives looking towards the transamerica pyramid. Temperatures 56. In oakland, 60 degrees. Upper 50s in san jose and gilroy. A lovely view from the Golden Gate Bridge camera and you can see the flag just blowing in the breeze there. We do have sunshine with 66 in santa rosa. Currently, 64 in fairfield and 59 in livermore. All right. On live doppler 7, we have pretty much clear skies. But that will be changing come tomorrow. San jose camera showing you sunshine as well. Backtoback storms for the weekend. Heavier and windier on sunday. We have two storms coming in. Its going to be unsettled into the middle of next week. Its a 1 on the storm impact scale. Tomorrow through sunday, expecting the wet weather. It begins with just a teaser. Light rain tomorrow. Then it gets heavier for sunday.