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KRON KRON 4 News At 6pm July 13, 2024

From station. News at 6. Deaths went up 5 yesterday. Hospitalizations went up 3. 3 yesterday. I see you numbers went up 3. 8 percent yesterday total number of positives went up 7. 4 yesterday. Governor newsom says california is not out of the woods yet and that officials are still waiting for key numbers to start trending downwards before the state can consider reopening. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im justine waltman Governor Newsom says while physical distancing is working pulling back too quickly could backfire however tomorrow the governor is expected to update. Us on the states progress on relaxing restrictions. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala explains. Governor Gavin Newsome wednesday will give the first update on how far california is getting on its road map to lifting stay at home orders when a when you see a little bit of release in the so we can lay out some little is pressure that we i know were all feeling around the stay at home order and the like governor, newsome is using 6 factors to determine how soon the state can ease its restrictions he says wednesdays update will be specific to one of the key pieces of evidence his administration wants to see which requires expanded testing and tracking of the infection more tests will be made available we are seeing a significant increase in our Testing Capacity will go into this in great detail tomorrow and be much more prescriptive in terms of subpopulations and geographic distribution of tests and test sites also well talk more specifically about different types of tests well as statewide timeline for health soon californians can get back to work is still unclear the governor acknowledging in a state as large as this one local jurisdictions might have different timelines some counties in Southern California have started lifting some restrictions on beaches and golf courses they had the ability to make those decisions as long as they dont contravene or conflict with the state guidance if they do they dont not have the authority to do that other factors in the governors road map to returning to work include preparing the states hospitals to handle the workload once the order lifts more protections for vulnerable populations more therapeutics to meet the demand and making sure schools and businesses can handle physical distancing. Newsome says hell give updates on this road map every wednesday moving forward in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. In the bay area 150 new cases of covid19 reported today there are now more than 6700 confirmed cases and then this killed more than 200 people. Lets take a look now at the county by county breakdown. Santa clara county continues to be the hardest hit with more than 1900 cases and 88 s you can find a complete list of cases by city on our website kron 4 dot com. And there is an Alarming Number of covid19 infections at another bay area nursing facility. Kron fours Haaziq Madyun spoke to one of the Health Care Workers to learn how the situation is being handled there. Bp in fact Health Care Workers and residents combined for a total of 62 positive covid19 cases here at the central guarded Skilled Nursing facility in San Francisco certified nursing assistants oil of work to is among those whose tests came back negative. According to the California Department of Public Health there are 1224 Skilled Nursing facilities here in the state. 254 of those facilities reported having one or more cases of covid19 Central Gardens being among the facilities with the highest number of positive cases of one location, the situation has landed on the radar of San Francisco department of Public Health director doctor grant colfax. When we became aware when we were notified of the other the initial cases on march 30th. We immediately started collaborating with the facility and with the state in terms of ensuring as much was being done as possible to both the residents and the staff the question of why there are so many positive covid19 cases at Central Gardens, the midst of a citywide shelterinplace order remains a mystery so right now everybody is negative. But this i know the site invalid. The i reached out to Central Gardens management to hear what they have to say about all of this. I received no reply in San Francisco Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. Testing for the coronavirus is starting to ramp up and so is the Antibody Testing but there still some uncertainties surrounding Antibody Testing as far as what it can and cannot tell us kron fours dan kerman joins us now live in San Francisco with more on this part of the story. Well were starting to see a lot of universities as well as a private institutions flood the market with these Antibody Tests ideally but people are hoping to find out is if youve had the virus with you your arm immune to get it the next time that this point that question remains. For 2 weeks now stanfords new coronavirus Antibody Test has been in use for patients and healthcare workers. Weve been able to understand better how long it takes stand with us to develop in different people one these are affected with the search could be 2 verse. Is giving us an indication of what fraction of the Health Care Workers are the people working for us to system. Evidence that we were exposed to the virus. And of course were checking was to make sure that you dont know why most of them are started that she and while stanford researchers are learning a lot they and others developing similar tests dont know yet. If having coronavirus antibodies gives you immunity, its not a jet jenna jail free card, which means that you now know you cant buy your safe to serve do anything. Stanford university virology Professor Robert siegel says with certain viruses like measles antibodies to give you immunity but with others they dont. So given to buy so one of the proteins that that is the the surface protein than your meal. If you have any advice to that caps and protein, a core protein than you may you or you may still be infectious so so its so were still trying to figure out what the posit Antibody Test for coronavirus me siegel says well Antibody Tests are starting to flood the market not all are equal in reliability. 40 degrees and says challenges on the testing front are being worked out in real time. It was challenging certain be symptomatic when the community because it seems like these they will probably have to listen to the locals. So that to know. Jones that many of us are still trump rolls. And in terms of whether those antibodies provide immunity stanford is now working on a second test to help determine that answer live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. A globally there are now more than 2. 5 million reported cases of the coronavirus the United States leads the world with more than 800,000 cases and nearly 45,000 people have died from the virus. Here in california theyre more than 35,000 cases and it has claimed the lives of over 1200 people. There was a major deal announced today in washington the senate has approved a billion virus aid package. It will now go to the house then to the president who is expected to sign it kron fours terisa stasio has more for us. A short time ago the Senate Passed a Paycheck Protection Program and healthcare enhancement act. And President Trump along with secretary of the treasury Steve Mnuchin on what the new aid package means for the country. We reached a deal that includes billion in crucial Small Business support to keep workers on the payroll this also gives us billion for disaster loans i to loans that will allow the sba to make billion of disaster was all for Small Businesses. Also allows us is the president said more money to hospitals and in unprecedented amount of money for testing. This coming as the president mentioned in his daily Coronavirus Briefing with at Harvard University will be giving back more than million. It took the first round of relief the president saying that harvard and others with access to funding will face scrutiny however to pay that money back i want to harvard to pay the money back shake shack has already announced that it will be returning funding it received the president also dove into his executive order. He plans to sign wednesday putting a halt to immigration. Right now the last thing we want to do is take American Workers jobs. Its one thing when we were essentially used to call it full employment. And its another thing right now right now we have people that have lost their jobs and we hope theyre going to come back and come back fast and that we can have an even deeper discussion, but right now we have to have jobs for americans looking at all of the information across the United States. We do see improvement across all the large metros hype. As Health Officials say in some parts of the country data it shows some leveling off of cases and deaths. Doctor birx also had a warning, especially as some states look to re open businesses and the pop population states is were still seeing outbreaks in longterm care facilities. As the briefing touched on test the fda secretary highlighted companies attempting to manufacture Antibody Tests earlier in the day the president met with new York Governor Andrew Cuomo who has been critical of the federal government about helping states out with testing. The president mister cuomo said that the meeting was very beneficial. And that the Trump Administration Going Forward will be helping the state get more tests that it needs. Theresa kron 4 news. Coming up tonight at 6 a new data showing that some San Francisco neighborhoods are being hit harder by coronavirus than others. Tonight, a city supervisor talks with us live here on kron 4 about whats being done to help. While overall crime is down in san jose thieves are still targeting local schools, find out which schools been targeted 3 separate times and next a stark warning from the head of the cdc about the were all in this fight, all the way. From the 7,000 cigna clinicians, supporting front line doctors and nurses, to everyone staying home to protect others. Find answers to your most pressing questions at cigna. Com covid19 that could mean an increase byin energy bills. You can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower. Unplugging and turning off devices when not in use. Or just letting the sun light your home. Stay well and keep it golden. Second and more severe coronavirus outbreak could happen next winter, this is a dire warning coming from the director of the cdc. Robert redfield says the nation could see a second wave of covid19 and right at the same time as flu season red feel says looking ahead it will be important to emphasize the important of flu shots to reduce flu. Hospitalizations he says getting a flu vaccine could mean. Saving a hospital bed for a loved one. San francisco has rolled out a new tool to let residents track covid19 cases by zip code and heres what that site looks like the zip code tracker is also shedding some light on which areas of the city have been hit the hardest by coronavirus and it shows that the Mission District has the highest number of cases. Joining us now via zoom as the aid from the office of San Francisco supervisor Hillary Ronen. Sunrise around and oversees some of the hardest hit areas. Thank you for joining us on tiago lerma we appreciate you being with us here on kron 4 news at 6. Tell us how this data that the city is collecting is helping to shape the actions of the Supervisors Office for the people that she represents. S out thank you for having us so we begin to suspect that the Latinx Community was being particularly hit hard. A few weeks ago out with some of the preliminary data we didnt have any doubt about the geography of as you may know, let you know families are split a spread across 7 cisco. So once we did get the data regarding the Mission Districts, nice for 1, 1, 0 zip code. It was very so did you know we had to move was rated action. To try to figure out whats going on. Why was this community being hit harder. Far about why why it is that way. What have you figured out so far about why the numbers are so high in the Mission District. Well, im right now theres just theres only anecdotal kids say that. And given extreme cost of living and some cisco a lot of a lot next families live in close quarters. They live in single room occupancies so their ability to social distance is made more difficult if not impossible in many situations. But also we were really looking forward to the results of ucsf department of public polls. Testing study that will hopefully shed some light on some of uh some of the root causes of a of the high numbers in the lab mix community. Yes, its definitely a privilege to be able to stay home and work from home, its definitely a privilege to be able to easley order Hand Sanitizer or so far have masks delivered to your door and have those resources. So with this information we see that there is a problem is testing the solution. The part of the study that several the circumference to it. So im one of the components is also tracking. The behavior and the a and the context of the people that are test. So goes beyond that so we can see what kinds of where are our people being exposed what kinds of situations are creating more vulnerable. Situations is there are clusters of this is this information will help us identify a lot more than just who has it who has had it before. And are there more resources that this District Needs in order to keep cases down keep people healthy keep them out of the hospital keep them safe. Well, im one biggest things that im able to supervisor ron in spirit. It was the opposite to require the city to acquire several more 1000 hotel rooms. This allows this allows the city to relieve some of the pressures of the car but settings into also provide for places to score in teen it for folks that are they do test positive for that are exposed in the arm in the district and throughout the city. So theres theres a theres several approaches that were taking but first we just one of her first want to get those 6 were unable to serve 14 in total rooms, its been number one priority. The supervisor. And then now we once we get the information back from the study we can really get down to see where we need to focus their resources. And we look forward to following up with you to see how it goes santiago lerma from supervisor Hillary Ronen is office. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6. Thank you very much. Were going to things along now and check in with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow to get a look at our forecast. Justine look outside right now gorgeous out toward the golden gate bridge. Nice evening around the bay area and hate it looks like it is going to be spectacular for the days ahead as the temperatures going start to warm up and be very very nice in fact. In overnight tonight were going to see some changes coming our way weve got some patchy fog along the coastline and thats about all were going to see is right out for the immediate coast. Clear skies for the most part inland the breeze certainly within around the bay area bit today and well see more of that again tomorrow but probably not as strong were still seeing those winds 15 20 mile an hour gusts plus around the bay area this evening tomorrow, we wake up sabbatical to fog by the middle of a sunny skies temperatures up in the 60s even some 70s inland by the afternoon 70s and 80s in the valleys lot of 70s inside the bay and some cooler 60s with a couple of patches of fog moving along the coastline in the afternoon looks like some beautiful weather ahead, weve got more sunshine on the way well talk about that plus your chance of some showers explain that coming up in a few years. Got to take a shower i mean rain is good. All right coming up tonight at 6. 25 learn some tips on how to shop during the pandemic if you have food allergies. And just ahead the San Francisco 49 ers have enjoyed a ton of recent success with their draft picks youll hear from the general manager john lynch on the teams quest to find another group of young so even though there is no live sports happening football fans have quite the event to look forward to this week with the nfl draft which begins on thursday night and the 49 of 49 or face far eagle to see. Could the nfc champs will add to their

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