For the love oh. Watching kron 4 news. People wanted to wear them. They can the people wanted to use cards which they have many people have them. They can in many cases the scarf is better. And now a 9 President Trump announcing his administration will soon release nationwide recommendations about wearing face masks. This reversal is coming after federal Health Officials first told us masks were not necessary if you felt healthy, thanks for joining us tonight at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus Vicki Liviakis scientists are also reporting. The new coronavirus sec could possibly be spread not just by sneezing and coughing, but also just by talking and even breathing. And Health Officials in San Francisco, san mateo contra costa. And the only many counties now recommend wearing something to cover your face. Whenever you leave the house for essential travel. So lets go and take a look now at the number of confirmed coronavirus cases here in the bay area. So far there are 2,800 confirmed
Ong joins us now live with why doctor says, although the number of cases is going up theres a glimmer of hope tonight, gayle. Vicki and grant were told Ucsf Medical Center is stable with 15 to 16 patients in the last week and that other bay area hospitals are also seeing relatively low numbers. Thanks to people sheltering in place. Well before other parts of the country. The orders are heated empty streets in San Francisco crossing market street. We found few people appearing to be essential workers and no traffic an example of why Health Experts say the city is showing signs of flattening the curve to slow down the coronavirus we spoke with doctor Robert Wachter chair of ucsf department of medicine people, San Francisco listen i think they they understood the science and they said this is the right thing to do obviously causes hardships. Doctor wachter says even know the number of cases continues to rise, theres been a slow search and City Hospitals at ucsf so we have had and her 16 p
Cases and one death Solano County has 61 cases and one death napa county has 20 cases and one death. I think its going to be coming out with the new regulations on that and if people want to abide by and frankly i dont think you could i dont think theyll be mandatory because some people dont want to do that. President trump says the white house will soon be releasing nationwide recommendations on wearing face masks, this comes as Health Officials across the bay area are now advising everyone to cover their faces when in public. We want to get more on this now from kron 4 Sarah Stinson who is live in San Francisco. Hi sarah good morning. Good morning. Marty thats right Health Officials across the board really in the bay area are recommending that cover your face not only to protect yourself from those who may be infected, but you could be infected in could be asymptomatic meaning youre not showing much those symptoms and what theyre saying is they dont want you to go out and buy these l
Countries that have gone through various phases of their individual outbreaks. And you could learn something from them about where you are in your own outbreak. For example, when china went up, what happened is they just didnt turn around, they went from going to ill just take an arbitrary number 500 new cases a day. The next day 1,000 cases. Then 1,500. Then 2,000. But once the number of new cases each day starts to flatten out, thats when you get to that point where the inflection goes down. So things we want to look for, the things that dr. Birx had mentioned, that doesnt mean you declare victory when it does that, but you know youre at least on the way where you want to go. I think thats really very important. The third and final thing that i think gets back to the question that many of you in the audience have asked of us is about, would this possibly become a seasonal, cyclic thing . Ive always indicated to you that i think it very well might. And the reason i say that is that wh
Counties. Theyre recommending wearing something to cover your face whenever you leave the house for essential travel. Now this comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the bay area had 2800. Heres a breakdown of those numbers county by county take a look at your screen. Santa clara county has. Over 1000 cases now with 36 deaths, 7 tail counties reporting 453 cases and 10 deaths, San Francisco reporting 450 cases, 7 deaths and the east bay Alameda County is up to 396 cases and 9 deaths. Contra costa has 276 cases 3 people have died there moraine county has a 118 cases and 6 staff sonoma counties up to 95 cases with one death Solano County stands at 61 reported cases with one death and that the county has 20 cases and one death. I think the going to be coming out with the new regulations on that and if people want to abide by and frankly i dont think you could i dont think theyll be mandatory because some people dont want to do that. President trump says the white house will