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The vaccine developed by Oxford University doesnt have to be stored at ultra cold temperatures as some others, which makes is easier to distribute. The subfreeze by pfizer and partner biontech is one downside. The fda says a committee will meet december 10th to discuss an emergency use authorization which could start the Distribution Process immediately. Moderna is expected to file for an emergency use authorization by the end of the month. Its vaccine is 95 effective and can be stored at regular refrigeration temperatures, developed thanks in part to funding from dolly parton. While the u. S. Military is gearing up for what it calls operation warp speed to distribute one or more vaccines once approved, others are scrambling at the local level to give the series of shots. Abc 7 david louie spoke with a logisti logisti logistics sker logistics expert. It was Pretty Amazing to see how fast the testing ramped up, but vaccinating millions of americans once supplies become available will be an unprecedented challenge. It makes logistic critical at the local level which has been dubbed the last mile. Reporter with our population of 330 Million People, its going to put planning and execution to the test. Every single Testing Center needs to convert into Vaccination Center to be able to support the volume were looking at right now. Reporter the logistics will be mindboggling because of the vaccines ultra low temperature storage requirements. For Companies Like San Franciscos ix the last mile includes the military, government and First Responders, hospitals, Public Health clinics, pharmacies, mobile sites and large employers that will give the vaccinations to priority groups still to be determined. Each site has to comply with patient confidentiality, record keeping, scheduling employments for the second required dose and postvaccination monitoring. The most critical could be handling the vaccine itself. Scan the vaccine to be able to see how long the vaccines been outside of the storage, how long has it been in the cooler, what are the the criteria for the specific vaccine. How long does it take to expire . Reporter each prospective vaccine has differential storage requirements and intervals for the second dose. All of this is far more complex than doing covid testing. Training will also be needed. If i went back in january and asked you, would you be confident in offering covid19 testing in the parking lot . The answer would be no. Reporter a number of Companies Plan to offer Logistical Support for the last mile. The ceo at ix says to set aside competition and just execute. The mission is to curb the pandemic. David louie, abc 7 news. David, i have about a million questions for you, but let me ask you this, if more than one vaccine is approved, who will keep track which vaccine the patient receives so they receive the correct second dose . Thats a really critical question, dan, and you know, in the Electronics World we hope that everyones connected, at least we should be, but we dont know that everyone will be on the system, especially smaller pharmacies or smaller communities where the Health Centers may not be as sophisticated as large cities. It may be a paper trail. That paper would then say what vaccine they took the first time and when they have to return for that second one. Interesting. All right. As weve said, developing the vaccine this quickly was remarkable, but the scramble to distribute it now is another major challenge. David, thank you so much. To stay on top of all the latest vaccine news, weve assembled the abc 7 vaccine team, dr. Patel, reporters kate larsen, luz pena, plus 7 on your sides michael finney. Theyll bring you complete coverage and answer questions about when the vaccine will be available and who will get it first. You can catch up on all of the news and share it with your friends. Go to abc7news. Com coronavirus. Governor newsom held a live briefing to update us on coronavirus in the state. This time the update included news about the governors own quarantine. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman is live with that story. Wayne . Reporter hi, ama. California governor gavin newsom has held dozens of covid19 press conferences this year, but today there was that twist, as a governor in quarantine with his family from sacramento in his house after being exposed to the virus through a chp officer whose job is to protect them. Feel perfectly healthy. I tested negative yesterday. Reporter to summarize the governors message today, it is darkest before dawn and then comes the light. That light will come in the form of vaccine distributions beginning as early as next month for medical professionals. The rest of us will need to wait until midjanuary or perhaps later as those who need the vaccine most will go to the front of the line. As for the dark part, thats our daily case rate. 12,000 cases. Weve simply not seen this since the beginning of the pandemic. Reporter hospitalizations have increased by 77 in 14 days. Percentage of cases in icus are now up to 17 . And who has the most cases . 18 to 49 age cohort, thats now representing 60 of all of our new cases. Reporter inevitable Governor Newsom fielded more questions about his infamous birthday lunch for a friend at the french laundry. Again, he admitted the mistake and based on the tone of this response, it would appear he wants to move on from that subject. I havent made that mistake before, i havent made it since and wont again. Period. Full stop. Warned of more counties moving into the purple as early as tomorrow. Some may elevate to red. He defended the 10 00 p. M. To 5 00 a. M. Restrictions. Quote, were at a point of surge, he says, where we need to take the tools from out of our toolbox and use them. Dan . Ama . Wayne, i have a question for you, though, what about vaccine logistics . How can the state get it to 40 Million People efficiently . It seems daunting. The governor said there were three committees working on it. He also says its not like we havent done this before. They do it every year with the flu vaccine. He said we should be up to scale, those were his words, by april or may or june. All right. Good point. Thank you so much, wayne. Here in the bay area, santa clara is the first county to top 30,000 cases of coronavirus, although Alameda County isnt far behind. We have more than 143,000 total cases in the bay area. That number includes patients who have recovered. For context, the state has more than 1. 1 million total cases. The bay area accounts for about 13 of the states total. Most bay area counties are in the states purple tier now. With the most restrictive rules because coronavirus activity is classified as widespread. Tiers can change at any time, since case counts are rising so rapidly. San francisco has been warning for days, in fact, that it may change from red to purple, which would mean the shutdown of some businesses. Today on our 3 00 p. M. Newscast called getting answers we spoke with San Francisco carmen chu about it. So i think for businesses that are struggling, we know that you have been struggling. We know a lot of our workers have as well. We want to hope that we can all do our part to try to limit the spread of covid so that hopefully we dont get put into a purple tier and have to roll back those activities. And for a broader perspective, listen to abc 7 news contributor and chronicle insider phil matier. He says you can start by looking at San Franciscos hotels which normally would be bustling this time of year. Its a cavein. Its affecting about 100,000 people in the bay area, and its a dropoff in income, not just in the hotels, but in their surrounding stores, in the restaurants, in the convention business, in the Retail Market that they come into. This is a tough, tough season. Usually this would be, you know, a time for getting out there, big time. We would be having office parties and stuff. This time youre lucky if youre going to get, you know, a snack dip at the far end of the room with and you can read phil matiers columns in the San Francisco chronicle every wednesday and sunday. Were taking a live look at San Francisco International Airport for you, as we froech think. Sfo says 75 fewer people came through this weekend than this time last year. This traveller wore a protective jumpsuit along with mask and gloves. Protective measures like this gave most travellers abc 7 news spoke with a sense of safety and security as they headed toward their flights. I think that the airlines have started to do a pretty good job of trying to make sure that, you know, they refilter the air. To try to stay socially distant. Getting tested before and after my flights to make sure i didnt contract anything along the way. However, tests can give you a false sense of security, keep in mind. San Francisco Mayor london breed explained it well in a tweet. Quote, a negative covid19 test does not mean that its safe to gather with others for thanksgiving. It could be a false negative. You could just not yet have enough virus in your system to be detected yet. You can catch it after your test. Please stay home. Our abc 7 news special correspondent dr. Patel brought up another concern. You have to think about the fact that there are so many points of potential exposure to one another, whether it be getting to the airport, the airport itself, the gate, and one thing that we cant miss is that Contact Tracing in this situation would be exceedingly difficult. You just think about how much intersection there is when you travel across the country. More than 3 million americans passed through Airport Security over the past weekend. Thats about half the number from last year. Sunday saw the highest number of tsa screenings since the pandemic hit. Do you know what the riskiest holiday activities are . Test your knowledge with abc 7s exclusive holiday risk calculator. Medical experts weigh in on each common scenario like taking a flight or sharing a meal. Find this tool now on the abc 7 news app. Lot more to come here. Americans have picked the next president and Vice President , which now leaves Governor Newsom the task of picking a New California senator. Kamala harris is going to make history in her new role and her Senate Replacement could as well. And im meteorologist drew tuma. Tracking a clear night tonight. Well look at whats ahead for thanksgiving in the accuweather forecast. Thanks, drew. Plus its been almost three years since this Deadly Police shooting and now the officer who fired his gun faces homicide charges after an unprecedented move by the San Francisco Satchel Paige was still dominating batters at 59. At 52 celia cruz was still winning grammys at 77 john wheeler illuminated our ideas of the universe at 70 and roger crouch was 56 when he first went into space your best is yet to come take a look. The White House Christmas tree arrived today. A horsedrawn carriage delivered it. This years tree is an 18foottall frazier fir from virginia. We are 58 days away from the inauguration of joe biden as the countrys next president. That also means Kamala Harris will become the first black woman to hold the office of Vice President. Shell vacate her u. S. Senate seat, representing california, and its now up to Governor Newsom to name a successor. Abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz joins us from the newsroom with a look at the pressure newsom is facing to make a pick here. Liz, he is under all kinds of pressure. Oh, boy, dan, yes, he is. There are so many different forces at play here as well. People saying newsom should appoint a black woman since harris is the only black woman in the senate. Then you have people saying he should appoint a latino given our states demographics. Whatever happens, www. Someoe kn someone is going to be unhappy. Inside the San Francisco chronicle today, a fullpage ad addressed to Governor Newsom urging him to appoint a woman of color to Kamala Harris u. S. Senate seat. The open letter signed by nearly 150 of californias biggest women donors. With the departure of harris, there will only be three women of color in the entire senate and representation matters. Proceed to indicate how much women of color contributed to the success of the biden harris ticket. Reporter this open letter simply adds to the public pressure newsom is already facing as he makes his senate pick. Former San Francisco mayor willie brown is openly urging his former me former mentee to o woman of color. Weve only had two black women in the senate, carol mosley brown and Kamala Harris. To fill that with someone other than a black woman i think would be inconsistent with really good judgement. Reporter of course not everyone agrees. This morning latino leaders from across the state came together to urge newsom to appoint californias firstever latino senator. They say its time the states 40 million latinos are better represented. Since california joined the union in 1850, we have had 44 u. S. Senators. Not one of them, not one has been latino. Our hardworking agricultural and Service Workers have helped keep this country afloat. They deserve a leader who can speak directly to their needs. Why would you replace the only black woman with somebody other than a black person . Racial minorities should be wise enough to know they should not try to fill each others vacancies. Reporter secretary of state alex padilla, a latino, is rumored to be a frontrunner, but at newsoms press briefing today, he gave few hints on his choice or timeline. That determination has not yet been made, but progress has been made in terms of getting closer to that determination. Theres no timeline that we have advanced or considered. Reporter until then, the lobbying continues. Its like a threelevel game of chess. You have gavin newsom and his personal political interests, then you have the states various groups moving in, but in this case, and this is rather unique, you have National Attention as well. Everybody has a little chip in those mosaic and its up to gavin to figure out how he wants to play it. And Something Else to consider about someone like alex padilla, is that if he chooses someone from a statewide position, newsom will then get to appoint their replacement as well. Its sort of a twofer then which might be appealing. But, again, well see. In the newsroom, liz kreutz, abc 7 news. Well see. Almost no matter who he picks, some will not be happy, looks like hes in a nowin position. Liz, besides alex padilla, who are some of the other names being considered . Overall the lobbying groups have been, its interesting, less focused on advocate for a specific person and really more the representation as a whole, but some of the numbers we are hearing include congresswoman karen bass and barbara lee, San Francisco mayor london breed is on many peoples lists and then there is attorney general alex padilla. We also have congressman adam schiff who made a name for himself during the trump impeachment trial. So long list of possibilities, certainly no shortage of options here in california. Dan . Going to be interesting. Liz, thank you. President trump is finally showing an openness to allowing a transition to the biden presidency to begin. The president sent out a tweet recommending the General Service administration do what thedes to be done to assist the biden transition, adding that hes instructing his team to do the same. Reports say the gsas administrator has now sent a letter to mr. Biden saying the Trump Administration is ready to begin the process. The move came after michigans board of canvassers voted to senioritify the States Election results it there. All but erasing president trumps pathway to try to overturn the results. Meanwhile, reports are filtering in about potential members of a biden cabinet. Reports say longtime district tony blinken will be nominated as secretary of state. Janet yellen as treasury secretary and avril haines as National Security adviser. If confirmed, haines and yellen would be the first women to hold those posts. Biden is expected to announce his nominees as early as tomorrow. Stay here with us. We should have nice weather for thanksgiving, making it easier to get if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame. Looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes overthecounter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. Ha these drops probably wont touch me. Xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. What is that . Xiidra, noooo it can provide lasting relief. Xiidra is the only fda approved treatment specifically for the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. One drop in each eye, twice a day. Dont use if youre allergic to xiidra. 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