But first, an Alarming Health headline. The u. S. Could be facing a potential triple demo of flu, rsv and covid. How concerned should we be . Joining us to answer the question and so many more, abc special correspondent, you are a triple threat of your own, but in a much more positive way. I dont know what the trifecta would be, but any comment from you is a complement well received. I love it, this will be great. Right away lets talk about what to expect this winter because i read a headline today saying these covid debts are predicted to flatline for the season, but we do have that triple threat of the flu, covid and rsv to contend with. How bad do you think this is going to get . As of right now, things are pretty bad in terms of Childrens Hospital capacity and what is happening with emissions. Secondary this surge of respiratory viruses and young kids, there are some unknowns about what could happen regarding covid19 and the variant we are keeping a close eye on. The fact of the matter is, covid19 still has 300 americans dying every day and that has been normalized. Its important we remind ourselves that covid19 is still out there and if you havent gotten vaccinated and boosted, do so immediately. Influenza, we are seeing an uptick earlier than usual in some parts of the country, so its important that people all get their flu shots, if you havent already we will try to get those as early as possible. And based on what weve seen so far in the summer southern hemisphere, it could be a bad flu season. There are unknowns. Possibly an issue in every single cold virus that kids are getting is what they really are and you have to be vigilant and you know when to call a doctor. I think theres a lot of confusion and nowadays when people sneeze your brain automatically thinks its one of those three things. Speaking of, what about rsv, is there a vaccine available . We havent heard anything about it. After just one thing you said. You said when people sneeze, you dont know what it is. I cant tell you how may times ive heard people say, dont worry, its not covid. Guess what, we dont want you discipline influenza or anything else at all. So if you are sick and have symptoms, stay home for the good of your community. Going back to the rsv vaccine question, one thing for sure is rsv is not a new virus. We see this every civil year, with rsv we would love to see a vaccine, it would save hundreds of childrens lives every year, thousands of hospitalizations, billions of dollars in health care savings. There was a trial that did not go well. Since then there has been multiple attempts to get in rsv vaccine. A little bit trickier of a vaccine. The protein rsv uses to attack people mutates similar to what we saw in the spike of the coronavirus. The two recent clinical trials, one from pfizer, do show some promise in early studies show an 80 activity rates in older adults. Fingers crossed we will see it probably in the next few years. In the meantime, give us your guidance on all of these vaccines because i further there are people who get the flu shot in the covid booster on the same day, is there anything to the timing, is there anything to the efficacy of getting them both at the same time, is it beneficial . Like nothing weve seen regarding a change of efficacy. Its totally safe to get both vaccines at the same time. Its convenient for some people, it is absolutely convenient to just get your shots done, its one trip periods one thing you may want to consider is there are studies where you could have slightly increased adverse effects. These are things where you could be feeling tired and maybe a lowgrade fever. You want to plan and say my traveling around the country the next day, maybe i should get my vaccines a different day. Its good advice for when you want to schedule vaccines. If you have a series of tweets that youd like to share, and i think there might be semirolling when you read them off. There might be, lets show some tweets, shows what people are thinking and we will respond in realtime. Rsv is not a problem, neither is the fact that it doesnt prioritize kids. We see these problems collide. Dr. Gamble is a friend of mine practicing in texas. This is true. As we move forwards is important to advocate for Childrens Health not only in terms of equity, but awareness because a lot of parents are learning about the warning signs of rsv at home and realizing that its been around for years, for decades. Its finally now seeming like its getting the Media Coverage it deserves to save lives and keep kids healthy. And you have a couple of other tweets you would like to share, is that correct . I have two more. Omicron subvariants are in Treatment Options are bearing because congress failed to pass funding. White house covid19 task force. I think this is an important one because people need to Pay Attention to the fact that with congressional funding drying up, this bivalent booster may be the last free booster, so remember, mass, ventilation, handwashing and these preventative tools still work if you cant stay home and you have to go out, those masks are still a great tool. As part of the season we are experiencing now with halloween. Lets take a look at that, i think we have it pulled up for everyone out there. This is from rookie city sergeant. Take it away. Take it from me, a reallife Police Officer, no one is giving out free on halloween. You can still check your kids candy, not because of drugs, but for gross candies. So heres the thing, i am a fan of licorice, but it is very important that we are evidencebased when it comes to the opioid crisis, but we have not seen reports of people handing out opioids and trickortreat bags. People want to make sure they are cognizant about their childrens safety on halloween night and paying attention to what kind of candies kids are bringing home and anyone out there with food allergies. We hear about this every year. Even candies you dont think would have allergens may continue like milk, soy, wheat and eggs may be processed in a facility that processes peanut products. For parents who have little trickortreaters and food allergies, Pay Attention to ingredients and if kids are going trickortreating in a group, they are cap separate separate and not passed around. Some people like to hand out homebaked goods, id be worried about those because you dont know whats in them. I love that reminder and also what you mentioned about putting the context and what kind of drugs could potentially be in the candy. How many cases truly have there been that we have seen . Now freaking anyone out, remembering that context is really important when it comes to these halloween stories. I want to move on because you had touched upon this with the government because the timing of covid, midterm elections has been interesting, we have seen all of these messages amplifying abortion access, not so much covid plan, covid strategy, i read the Biden Administration is acknowledging covid fatigue. What have you seen and how has this been detrimental going into the holiday season. Holiday season . Its hard for people to get seriously with the same fervor. People do have fatigue. There is also this point where there is a lot of distrust and politicization. It almost feels like a political signaling to talk to someone about the booster shot and people are taking sides, which is not the way it should be. Public health should not be related to identity politics. Its important we stick to the facts and evidence when it comes to covid19. Cognizant of the facts we dont know what will happen and we Pay Attention. We want people to be healthy and be able to gather around during the holidays. We want to make sure everyone knows what to do to protect themselves against all three viruses and more that we talked about. If we have time we get quickly run through what i like to call the home treatments for rsv. We have less than a minute and i really want to get to this last question because im hearing it a lot from people who follow me on facebook, asking about a new variant on the horizon because already weve seen so many and talking about that fatigue, what is your forecast for what could potentially happen the next several months . My forecast has to be based on what the forecast is with the who and the forecast does look like we are seeing this current domination by omicron and subvariant which the bivalent vaccine is targeting. Booster shots and clinical trials. Even if you just had your primary series, you are very well protected. Beginning the maximum amount of protection is important. We dont know whats going to happen if and when it comes to the country and starts to try to compete against the other variant circulating now. Still so many questions but we will try to get them to you next week we are preparing for the unknown, thats what we do. Thanks so much, coming up next, your voice, your vote, date controller candidate will be here we are now less than two weeks away from election day and this november 1 of californias highest ranking positions is on the ballot. It is one that doesnt give very much attention, it is for state controller. With no incumbent in the running the two candidates who made it to the general election are democrat melia in republican she was a San Francisco supervisor and now chair of the california state board of equalization. Chen was an advisor to republican politicians, including mitt romney and as a fellow at stanfords hoover institution. Many experts predict a tight race, so what weve done is invited both candidates to the show. Chen joined us on tuesday. Today, we welcome his opponent to the show. Welcome. This first question we asked your opponent as well, so we want your take. A state comptroller is the chief Financial Officer who oversees the state budget. What in your background has prepared you for this job . Thank, so as you heard in the introduction i spent eight years on the San Francisco board of supervisors and in that role i chaired the Budget Committee for a number of years and at that time it was a 12 million budget. I also chaired the government audit and oversight committee, and thats important to note, i did that for a couple of years aired one of the key functions of the state controller is to perform an audit. I have in my background im a policymaker, so i have experience with understanding the budget, understanding how audits work, but also taking those audits and putting them into action. Often times an audit will reveal shortcomings, gaps, gaps in services, a problem, so you need a skilled tactician to be able to understand that, interpreted, and work with Key Stakeholders to close the gaps and solve a problem. I served on the San Francisco pension fund and the controller sits on the calpers and cal stirrers, the Worlds Largest engines fun. I sit on the board of equalization in their franchise task board. As controller you chair the franchise task board. Those are three examples of huge overlap where i had experience that is absolutely relevant to the job and to the role of state controller. We appreciate you sharing those insights with us. We do want to take a moment to show an ad that your opponent has been running. Lets take a look. The l. A. Times reports she did not pay her business taxes, her license revoked, defaulted on her mortgage and walked away. She cant finance her handle her own finances. Quick something we have to bring up as you told the times you did not recall what happened when the suspension happened in your taxes were unpaid, this is for the area of the time of march 2020 one. A spokesperson later decided that an address change was the region, but shouldnt someone in the position of comptroller, someone who oversees spending and auditing iq just mentioned of some 100 billion of receipts, no where exactly every single penny is going. Quite sure, absolutely, you are right, someone should and someone needs to have that level of experience. And the added talks a little bit about a foreclosure that have been 13 years ago, which has not had any impact on my Public Service as chair of the budget or government audit and oversight committee. And also my opponent fails to conveniently neglect that im in good standing, i am not in default or owed taxes in any way , personally as well as many of the businesses i am affiliated with. But going back to 2019, i just want to make sure we address this headon, i do recall the further question. It was an administrative error. We moved, and when you move we moved right at the right before the beginning of the pandemic. Signals got crossed when this error was brought to my Business Partners attention, she made the corrections. When was that error brought to her attention and was at something on your radar at the time . No, it was not on my radar, it was not my particular role. Im not sure when it was brought to her attention, but i do know it has been corrected. You did mention the ads and your opponent, but i do want to circle back till one thing about your opponent. Your camp essentially said that womens rights are at risk, implying that chans antichoice. What i want to point out is that he came on our show and said flat out that was not his stance, he is a prochoice republican. What happened with your ad, how do you translate what he said on tuesday . My translation is certainly based on an entire career that mr. Chen has produced. Working for marco rubio, working for donald trump, working with mitt romney, these are all career republicans that are in favor of a band. Mitch mcconnell is putting forward a universal statewide ban. And also i want voters to realize that whats unfortunate is that mr. Chen has apparently flipflopped in his positions. Hes been noted on the record applauding the Supreme Court justices in their efforts to dismantle roe v. Wade. Why would you applaud Something Like that if you are not in favor of it . So i dont believe that hes being completely honest about his positions when it comes to proposition one. Ethic its a matter of convenience. I do want to get to this, i know we only have 30 seconds so we will have to be quick during we asked them this question this week, what would you changing your role as controller . I would change the way we i would modernize our payroll tax system. I would modernize how we access information making it more accessible language accessibility to the website, and also ensure that theres a transparency. So please audits that we perform, that they are transparent and easy to understand and that we are not just taking these audits but leaving them on the website but putting them into action and actually solving the problems. We appreciate your time, weve got to go. Many thanks to you. Thank you. Coming up, a halloween house that is the talk of the town in San Francisco. Our Media Partners will be here to tell us all about if youre looking to get into the halloween spirit, we have an idea. Check out a home in San Franciscos Corona Heights district. Its drawing crowds with an elaborate halloween display. Excuse me, could you help a sweet old lady find her cauldron, i cant seem to find it anywhere. That is horrifying. Our media politics partners have written an article about the house in the history behind the decorations, which have become a yearly tradition. Joining us live now with more on this is julie. The arts and culture reporter for the standard. The homeowners are hardcore about the decorations and this is not a onetime thing. For sure. So they have been decorating their house in Corona Heights for years, and its not just halloween that they get all decked out for, but other holidays as well. Although halloween really takes the cake in terms of decoration. The quality of these are amazing, lets roll some video because you sent some to us so that way our viewers can take a look at how elaborate this display is. Tell us what we are seeing with some of these traditions are. My favorite is the graveyard because they love to bury politicians, particularly unpopular politicians, in their backyard, and some past burials have included Kellyanne Conway and rudy giuliani, and this year i believe steve bannon is on tap to be buried. So they are having a lot of fun in their decorating and getting in some laughs. They must have other inspiration as well, because it seems as though there are ghouls, and i see pumpkins, can you tell us a little bit more about how they decide whats going to go in their yard . Its a collection that theyve added to slowly over the years and theyve ordered from catalogs and each year they pick Something Else and its really a tradition that wade is carrying on from his own father, who was a huge decorator for halloween, and really inspired wade to decorate his own house and draw kids and neighbors all around to come check out their elaborate display. I just got a chuckle, the antivaxer tombstone. There is so much to see with this house. We are also hearing that its the place to go if trickortreaters want to score some scan want to score some candy among other things. For sure. Its become such a tradition in the neighborhood that wade and his husband actually started inviting kids and neighbors into their home for pizza and to hang out because some in a people love going to the house and just enjoying all the fun decorations there. It has really become a landmark in the Corona Heights neighborhood. I know this wasnt necessarily a planned question, but these people seem like they are so young at heart. What was your take when you met with this family and with their spirit must be like, also what they do for their day jobs . Yeah, they are definitely young at heart and definitely maybe not young themselves, but young at heart, which i think is very important for decorating. I think they also just really love their home, that something that really came across to me that they saw this house in this house just called out to be decorated. It looks almost like a spooky, haunted manner and i think they really took that idea and ran with it. Its definitely a stately house. Anybody in the neighborhood has probably seen it, even when its not decorated, so it probably stands out as it is. We appreciate you being with us, really looking forward