>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is kgo news. >> you are watching "getting answers," where we ask experts your questions every day at 3:00 to get answers in real-time. today, we are getting in the holiday spirit with a netflix film that was shot right here in northern california. we talked to the producer from "a california christmas" later in the show, but first, there are always headlines about covid to cover. the cdc has signed off on covid booster shots for older teens, and one county is tightening masked rules as cases climb even among those who are vaccinated. joining us now to discuss all

this and answer your covid questions is our abc 7 correspondent, dr. patel. happy friday to you. >> happy friday to you as well. it is good to digitally see you. >> what we always want to know. >> this is maggie simpson wearing her snowsuit that looks like an orange's and are. yes, i am a nerdy, diehard "simpsons" fan. >> we sure -- you sure are. we love that. our facebook viewers, please get ready and help me out. >> let's ge's ge's ge's ge's g't always gets these right. tell me which of these is not true -- a, the fda approved astrazeneca's vaccine to better protect immunocompromised people, b, a study showed

efficacy dropped 40% with omicron. which of these is not true? i hope you miss it. >> i would like to miss as well because i like to learn new things. contemplate which one is the lie. i can tell you i know a is true. i have more questions about that to see exactly how that works, but that is true. see -- c sounds very true to me. i don't know what if it is on hundred 39 cases, but the fact they were mild cases with quick recovery seems to be true as well. antibody potency dropping nearly 1/40, i'm not sure about that figure, so i think that is the lie. i'm checking with the viewers.

seems like world two/3 saying b, and -- seems like 2/3 saying and 1/3 saying a, and i know a is true. >> we will get to that later. it is not a scary as it sounds. c, this is important. it was myocarditis. we constantly try to reassure people, especially parents, about these cases up myocarditis, these rare cases not to be linked to the covid-19 vaccine. a specific study looked at 26 corso pediatric care centers, found 139 cases -- 26 or so. there were no deaths or serious complications with a hospital

time of two days. b is a big talking point, but when we look at these and just look at antibody potency, that is not telling the complete story to the immune system. there's another arm of the immune system that can still protect us. the vaccine still boosts, and what is important is that the booster is ramping up those antibody levels to get us to a better place against not just the omicron variant but also delta, which is still raging. >> that was tricky. can i just give a shout out to merrill rojas for being the only one to get it right out of the first 20 answers that came in? you're always on my team. i'm just going to ask you, right, who should use it, and is it better or worse than a vaccine? would it make sense for anyone to say i'm going to go for that

as opposed to a vaccine? >> it would not make sense for someone to say they will get this monoclonal antibody instead of the vaccine unless this person is immunosuppressed and getting this recommendation of a physician. their body may not be able to generate antibodies from the vaccine. this is a known thing that happens with immunocompromised patients, so prior, we were saying they might need for shots of the vaccine, but in this case, this is a long acting antibody, so it will theoretically provide protection for many months to protect immunocompromised people, which is just one group of high risk people we should all be protecting by getting the shot and doing what we can this winter. >> barbara has a follow-up. she wants to know in the recently vaccinated five to 12-year-old group, has there

been any reports of myocarditis there? >> oh, my gosh, i want to give a virtual high five to barbara because i was hoping to bring this point up, but we have about 5 million doses given out in the ages of five to 11 and i have not seen a single case of myocarditis in that age group. this is important because even in the study of older children that we just mentioned, 100 39 cases, that is still out of millions of children. when you see the phrase "the vaccine causes myocarditis," it is simply not true because millions of doses have been given out and we are simply not seeing high incidence of myocarditis. i can confidently say is it's a very rare side effect and as we pointed out earlier, people are showing recovery pretty rapidly. >> great to know that. carol shilts has a good question. she had the j&j in april. she says she wants a booster, but she is a little afraid of the other two, i think she means pfizer and madrona -- maybe

because of mrna -- she did not specify. would boosting with j&j be effective? >> it would actually be better to boost with one of the mrna vaccines. this was proven in studies about the hybrid immunization and getting your second shot from the other ones. johnson & johnson, great protection against severe illness or death, but to get that mrna one, there is no reason to be afraid. the safety profile looks excellent. if you need us to debunk any myths, just send those to kristin and we will do it right now. >> debunking myths is what we are about here, which is great. i want to ask you about the pfizer booster for 16 to 17-year-olds. the fda just said yes to that. of course, the cdc has to approve it. when will those shots go into arms? >> they theoretically are available immediately. i anticipate we will start hearing the first reports of

people getting those shots this weekend if not early next week. that was a big landmark move that happened yesterday, and i think it speaks to a few things. the fact that we are seeing evidence of that waning immunity after about six months and wanting to rev up that antibody level, and you know what? we are still in the middle of a delta surge, and there's the fact that scientists like other officials want to get ahead of what could potentially happen with the omicron variant. a lot of headlines yesterday were saying we need a booster to protect against the omicron variant. that is part of it, but we also have to realize that 99% of the strains right now and possibly worldwide are still delta. >> absolutely. can we talk about if the 16 to 17-year-olds really need the booster? we have heard a lot about how younger people have had -- have better immunity and take to the vaccines more readily. let's talk about that -- do they actually need it? >> that is an excellent question. to be completely honest, being completely transparent, it is hard for me to go out and say look at all the real-world data

right now showing teens who have had just two doses of vaccine versus those who are being boosted and the ones who are being boosted have a lower rate -- we just don't have the data get to say that. we have the data to show this in older age groups between 18 and 55, and i think it is important to recognize the fact that antibody levels are going down and we potentially have more cases surging. teams are going back to school. we have enough of that real-world evidence in older age groups, and labs are saying it is a good idea, but i encourage parents to ask these questions and ask if your teen actually needs this booster based on his or her individual situation, and i would recommend it to anyone out there, especially anyone who's teens are potentially being exposed for teens with underlying medical conditions, but the other thing we can get into later is the fact that it is probably time to drop the term booster and just call this the third shot. >> right. there's a lot of talk right now about three shots actually becoming the definition of fully vaccinated, right? you expect that to become the

case soon officially? >> i do. i think it is important to still consider two doses to be fully vaccinated because that prevents early severe illness, but this might fall into a lot of other vaccines we give out to everyone in the world that is actually a three-dose series. >> right. before we take a short break, if you get the pfizer booster as a 16 or 17-year-old, it is the same dose, right, and again, 16 -- six months after your original shot was administered. >> right. that timing is important. >> when

coming back in 30 seconds. we have some breaking news. all right, we have some breaking

news out of antioch. one of you on facebook asked about why there is a helicopter overhead. this is why. we are getting a live look from sky seven where mn is barricaded inside a house. a witness reports hearing multiple gunshots. we see the fbi on the scene as well as antioch police and the contra costa county sheriff's office out there. the same witness says law enforcement showed him a drone. you can probably tell their, police are being told -- they are telling people, that is, to stay in their homes and lock their doors and windows. we will bring you updates online as well as on abc 7 news at 4:00. meantime, we are back with special correspondent, dr. patel, who has another round of two truths and a lie for us. >> yes, i do. everyone, tell us which one is not true. hey, two hippos at a zoo in

hamburg, germany, recently tested positive for covid-19, first reported cases in the species. b, 60% of respondents in a recent survey think too many people use religion as an excuse to avoid vaccine mandates. or c, genomic surveillance has ramped up and now 50,000 to 60,000 samples are sequenced each week in the united states. >> all right, folks, i need a little help. keep this up. i know b is true. i was going to ask about that. which one do you think it is, a or c? i think this comes down to numbers. i'm not sure about 50,000 to 60,000. that sounds on the low side to me, but i don't know. and i don't know if it is the first cases of the hippo. folks, i'm totally calling the lifeline friends thing. let's see what you've got on facebook. at least three people said c, and at least a couple names are

recognized as being well read viewers, so let's just say c is the life -- the life -- the lie. >> c is actually true. >> weight, stop -- robert, randy, philip, you disappoint me -- no, i'm just kidding. that was my inclination, too. >> listen, you are going to learn that i got really mean with these answers because i was trying to finally stump our audience. these hippos were in a zoom in antwerp, belgium. yes, that is a dumb thing that i changed, but that's ok. someone might say to me that's a funny fact and kind of random, but it is important to recognize that this virus is able to infect certain animals, and there is a theory out there -- again, this is a theory and there's not yet evidence behind it -- there is a theory that omicron may have mutated by jumping into an animal and then re-infecting a human, so animals or some animals can still catch

coronavirus. b is based on a recent survey. 10% of people said they believed that their religion was a reason to avoid a vaccine mandate where 60% of people said an and at least we are talking about this, it is ramping up, to get a sense of how contagious it is. >> i want you to kidding. i'm never disappointed in you. i'm disappointed in myself. that was important and interesting. >> i'm mean. >> no, i'm sorry, that's cool. this is new this week. alameda county reverting back to indoor mask mandates even in gyms or offices where they can ascertain that everyone is vaccinated. they did not cite omicron. they cited rising delta cases. does this make sense or is this an overreaction? >> off the first glance, it kind

of did strike me as an overreaction or an abundance of caution. you know me, that i would like to err on the side of caution, especially as we head into winter, but i think it is important that we show some evidence, and that there's some contact tracing to show where these cases really were rising in alameda county. is it people that were going to gyms that were vaccinated or was it a super-spreader event for people at home? i think it is important to make that distinction before we just have blanket messages saying we just don't need masks if you show proof of vaccination. one thing that can happen or that has happened is you will misinterpret this and say the vaccines don't work if i still have to wear a mask after. that is important to address. >> especially when different metrics are used where one county uses hospitalizations and another uses infections or cases, so uniformity would make it more clear to people. i want to move on and talk about

omicron. 43 infections of omicron apparently is there any suggestion that it causes milder infections? >> there is evidence and i have some of it written right here. what is important to understand is that people will see this as clearly it is is spreading. there is a thought it is more contagious, as we mentioned, but there is a lot of evidence not only in the united states but also south africa that these cases are presenting with more mild symptoms, not causing more disease than delta. important to recognize that a lot of these cases are in people who are young, people who also work previously vaccinated, so it is possible that is adding some protective benefit, so we cannot jump the gun and say that altogether because we just do not know what would happen if older or other high risk individuals were to be infected. it is also a better strategy for the virus to be for contagious and cause less severe illness because it makes it easier for

the virus to spread. >> oh, right, it's got more staying power that way, too. you have said if you are vaccinated and boosted, you don't really need to change your holiday plans. do you still think that? >> if everyone around you is as well. that's the asterisk. you yourself if you are vaccinated, i'm like, great. you have all the reason in the world temp feel well protected against severe illness, but i would have a conversation with people around you as well. that is just something for you to do. i cannot tell you there's a 0% chance that someone who is vaccinated could potentially spread this. it is a lot more rare, but it is important that you have that dialogue or get some antigen test if you need to. just be considerate about it, but, yes, around the holiday paid -- the holiday table this year, we will be partying like it's 2019. >> yes, definitely. thank you so very much. you know you are a big star to

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hello, colonial penn? >> sonoma county is starring on the small screen in a new netflix holiday film. "a california christmas: city lights" was shot in northern california and the producer is here to talk about the project. thanks for your time. >> thank you for having me. nice to meet you. >> oh, my gosh, congratulations. this is the sequel, right? >> it is. it is. did the first one, one of the first movies during the pandemic to be shot in california, and we shot it on my ranch. we took a lot of precautions, shot it. it became the number one movie in the world for netflix for

almost two weeks straight, so they asked for a sequel, and we made it. >> i want to ask quickly, for those who did not see the first one, what is this about, and what is the central story? >> the central story is about a billionaire family and this rich kind of playboy guy that gets the task to have to go and buy this last piece of land from this ranch from this family, by their ranch, so it's going to be a huge piece. he gets there, and he just realizes, the family, the mother is dying of cancer, and he falls in love with the farmer's daughter. it is a story that has been told before, but she really shows him what he can do. he kind of acts like a ranch hand, and the sequel is the flipside. he has to go back to san francisco, and she joins him.

we shot in fairmont, helicopters and for aris. she is now this country girl moving to the life of the rich and famous. >> not a lot of movies are shot in petaluma, but you grew up there. how did you decide this was the right setting for the story? >> a lot of our movies have been shot in petaluma. we have had 17 movies shot in petaluma since 2015. we have had oscar winners, some really fun movies out there. when we moved to america back in 1970, 19 80 -- i'm from iran. during the iran hostage crisis, we moved to the small town of petaluma. back then, it was really small. we made a movie about it. start oscar winner jon voight. i played my uncle in it. really great movie we did. it was the movie that landed us here at warner bros.. i'm actually at my office here

in warner bros.. they saw that movie and thought the first one was good enough we did another one. the community is great. the whole area. we shot a bunch of movies. we've got everything from the coast to the hills, and we are just 40 minutes from the city, so you can get a lot of different geography. it works for me, and i just love hanging out with my family and rents, too, so it is a little selfish, but also, we built a little studio there, so we have been lucky to have that as a backdrop. >> that's great. going back to shooting this during the pandemic, both parts 1 and 2, what precautions did you take? >> it was a lot. you have the state and county guidelines but also the union guidelines and just common sense guidelines if you will, so you can only have, like, 10 people

on set at a time. everyone was getting tested every two to three days. we were getting temperature taken when you come to set, when you leave. we call them covid medic teams. we had a former police officer that became our onset monitor to make sure you walk in one way, walk out the other way, and if you have to reset the stage, everybody leaves, the set decorators come on. they move stuff, wipe down, they leave, they go back on. actors did their own makeup kind of stuff. we actually got a scare and had to shut down for four days. one of the batches came back positive, but then we retested and it was actually a false positive. for four days, we were like, we are shutting down. back in june and 2020, it was very scary. but the sequel was a lot easier to do. >> i know in your films, you have sought to bring what you

know and love about petaluma to the audience. how would you describe two people what the charm of that town is? >> you know, it is small town america, but it is still connected. you are not in the middle of nowhere. i love my friends and family in the midwest, but it is like you are in another very small, charming, everybody knows each other, it is salt of the earth, very blue-collar, but you are, like, an hour away from silicon valley. >> we will get to see petaluma featured front and center in "california christmas: city lights." don't go away.

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