>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. >> i am kristen sze. you are watching getting answers. everyday, we talk with experts about issues important to year, to the bay area, and get answers in real time. lottery fever is at an all-time high with the powerball jackpot reaching 1.5 billion dollars. how much of that money is actually getting two area schools? a lottery official will join us to show us a new tool that will show us exactly how much. election day next tuesday, we will take a closer look at the most expensive ballot battles in san francisco with our media partner, the san francisco standard. the cdc is about to hand over new data to the white house on the effectiveness of the

bivalent covid booster that the administration is urging all eligible americans to get. joining us now is u.s. eff -- uc sf dr. peter. nice to have you on the show. >> thank you for having me on. kristen: what percentage of americans have gotten the second-generation booster, the bivalent one that targets omicron? >> it depends on the region but in general, it is about 10% which is much lower than the administration thought. we are hoping that it picks up. of note, it is still very low in even the above 65-year-old age group which is a group that we really should be worried about. kristen: right. i hear some people are hesitant especially after a few studies came out in the past couple of weeks. do they suggest the bivalent shot is no more effective than the original booster? what do they really say? >> these are two studies. they were very good labs.

the studies are very small so one looked at 18 patients, one looked at 20 and what they showed is that when somebody got a fourth shot of the old vaccine, versus their fourth shot being the bivalent booster, that the antibody levels against ba.5 were about 1.2 times 1.3 times the regular shot, meaning it was not looking great in terms of antibody response in the lab but of course, pfizer and moderna are doing bigger studies so we want to wait for that data, but the way i look at this really is that they are all really good and i am just really worried that the most vulnerable folks in our community get that booster shot, regardless of which booster shot. kristen: we talked about the data that is about to be handed over to the white house. pfizer seems to be hinting that the bivalent booster is more effective or quite effective. do you get a sense for what they are going to report there?

peter: they are going to ensure that, again, it is really hard -- right now, there is not a lot of virus going around but it's going to hint that there is more efficacy in the new and improved version 2.0 version of the vaccine or booster for the variants circulating. kristen: that will be interesting to see. also today, pfizer announced it is going to start a trial that is a combo of flu and coded. is that right? can you tell us more? peter: this all hinges on mixing the same kind of vaccine together. in other words, the regular flu shot that we have is kind of an old-fashioned technology, it's based on the protein, but the mrna technology is new. we have it for covid so you have to make that into a flu shot and then you put the two types of the same type of vaccine together so both pfizer and moderna are going to look at that.

pfizer has already looked at mrna vaccine for flu so we know that it has a good -- it works well, so you know, myself -- i will be psyched if i can get just one shot with two vaccines in it rather than getting two separate shots. kristen: i understand this is phase one of the trial. how long before they know if it is effective before they can give it out to everybody? peter: i think it won't be ready this year but next winter, you will be seeing i think vaccine strategies like this will be more frequent. after all, in the pediatric population, we use combination shots a lot so it's not like a new kind of thing and even when people get a tetanus shot, it is often combined with diphtheria or whooping cough so the idea of combining vaccines is not new. we will probably have it next year. kristen: isn't there also an rsv vaccine trial underway now? peter: the rsv vaccine trial is

a bigger studies so it's a phase three study by pfizer. they looked at about 7000 people. it was an interesting strategy because instead of vaccinating somebody to only protect themselves, they vaccinated pregnant persons and you know, found that it reduced serious disease because the most vulnerable folks to rsv is kids under six months of age. reduced hospitalizations by 80%, reduced outpatient visits by 50%, so it looks really good. again, for next year. kristen: all right. how bad is rsv right now? i'm going to take this opportunity to try and say are right. respiratory -- virus? did i say that right? peter: that's right. kristen: how bad is it right now? peter: it's bad across the country. orange county issued an

emergency, you know, state of alert yesterday, and what it means is that they just want to be flexible and take care of kids. it's meant for adults with flex ability of staff. at ucsf, we have seen three to four times the amount of rsv in the last few weeks so it's really hot in the outpatient setting. kristen: luck, with -- look, with so much going around, how can parents or people tell what they were their kids -- or their kids have? what is it, when what i need to go to the hospital? peter: it's really tough without a test. right now, we have pcr tests for all three but we cannot do the testing at home apart from covid antigen tests. if you are worried about what you have, it's really important

to go and get diagnosed because even an adult, if you know you have flu, you can get early therapy. if you get covid of course, for some folks, particularly older, you can get paxlovid. if you don't have that and you have rsv or your kid has rsv, we know we would have to watch that kid more closely because they can get into problems with breathing or dehydration and poor feeding. so it's really watching out. we don't have great therapy for rsv at this moment unfortunately. kristen: i want to ask you -- we have been hearing a lot about the amoxicillin shortage. how concerned are you about that? when is the supply going to get better? what is the update there? peter: the shortage of amoxicillin is actually linked with the rsv surge. that is because people are used to getting antibiotics in the outpatient setting.

rsv is a virus. you don't treat a virus with a bacterial drug like amoxicillin but because people are coming in with this, people are using up a lot of amoxicillin so when we need to use amoxicillin, like for real bacteria i'll in -- bacterial infections, we need that. hopefully, this will be ramped up soon in terms of production but again, we are worried because you don't have to use strong antibiotics. you don't want to use things you don't need. at the end of the day, getting that diagnostic test is important so you know you will need a bacterial drug for what is a virus. kristen: exactly. what covid variants are dominant right now? peter: in the old days, meaning a month ago, ba.5 was the main game in town, 90%. now, ba.5 is only about 60% and the descendants of ba.5, bq

.1, that's about one third now. there is a new kid on the block which is another descendant of ba.5. that is creeping up. it is about 3%. if you look at new england, it's about 5%. if you look at europe, it's about 30%. a lot of things to look around for. at the end of the day, you know, you do the best you can and you know when to access early therapy. but you know, we cannot all live in fear. just act responsibly. kristen: that gets me to my final question, which is should people get their covid booster now? should they get their flu shot now? should they wait? what do you think people should do? peter: now is the time. it's the beginning of november. your antibodies will definitely peak by the holiday period, definitely by thanksgiving. it will still be high for christmas, hanukkah.

we want to have as normal as possible holiday seasons as we can so you want to make sure that roof is intact and you don't get a lot of leakage so you disrupt your holiday plans. kristen: no, we don't want leaky roofs. dr. peter chin-hong, thank you so much he always great talking with you. thanks for the info. coming up next, lotto fever and who benefits. it's more than just the big winner. they're all those california lottery dollars

kristen: do you have -- 1.5 billion dollars after last night's drawing when nobody

picked all six numbers. that is the highest parable prize in -- powerball prize in history. our bay area school districts -- are bay area school districts benefiting? joining us is caroline becker, a spokesperson for the california lottery. thank you for coming on our show. curious, how are sales for powerball was such a huge jackpot? caroline: the sales right now are gangbusters and we actually saw a lot of evidence in that last night. in order to get in on the draw at any given night at 8:00 for powerball, you have to have your tickets by 7:00 so 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. last night, just that one hour, we sold over $5 million worth of powerball tickets in one hour. kristen: look, all that money came a -- money, the original motivation is to help schools, so let's look at how much money has gone to schools in

california since we began taking part in these lotteries. caroline: the lottery was created by voters, as you mentioned, the 1985 instance. we have raised $40 billion for california public schools. you have a breakdown on the screen for the bay area. i did a little looking around for san francisco county, for example. there was one quarter last year where we raise 5.5 million dollars just in one quarter for san francisco counties, public schools. in total in san francisco county , the california louder he is responsible for about $490 million so there's lots of different ways to slice and dice but big jackpots like the one we are talking about this weekend always help. kristen: the previous graphic shows that 80% goes to the k-12 level and some goes to the college level. there it is real quick. let's bring you back to that interactive tool you were talking about because you were talking about san francisco county and how much went to them in the third quarter.

let's take a look at another county for fun. it may be santa clara county or contra costa county. let's just see and you can walk us through this, for folks at home who want to see just how much has gone to your county. santa clara county. carolyn: i actually cannot see it on my screen. you have it there. i can see you showing our interactive map. anyone who can log onto the internet can check out this map on calottery.com. kristen: it's like $22 million in the last quarter and that is a lot of money just in the last quarter and as we look around here, i'm going to ask you, for every dollar spent on a ticket, a one dollar ticket, what percentage of that dollar goes to the schools? not administrative, not marketing, but the schools? carolyn: for powerball, those tickets are two dollars. about $.40 goes to public schools. we have a number of buckets. mostly, the money goes to the prizes. $.40 per every powerball ticket

goes to public schools. it does vary for scratchers games. a little harder to break down, but for our draw games like powerball, mega millions, super lotto plus, for powerball, it's about $.40 for that ticket. kristen: who decides where the money goes and who decides how that money is spent once he gets there? -- once it gets there? carolyn: for the public school pot, the revenue we raise for schools, which is the whole reason we exist, it is the state comptroller's office who distributes that money. the lottery, we are the fundraisers. they do it based on average daily attendance formulas, the same formulas state budgets use, federal budgets use, same formula, so it depends on the attendance at any given school district and that is how the money is divided up over 58 counties. kristen: interesting. i know on your website you had a video done at one of the schools that benefited from lottery money. i think it was pleasant hill. carolyn: that's right.

kristen: they showed us the things that they purchased with the money. while we run this, i'm going to ask you the question. what types of things are allowed to be purchased with the lottery money? carolyn: one of the great parts about lottery money is it is largely discretionary. those decisions are made at the local level. they are in contra costa county, pleasant hill. in pleasant hill, in the case of the video you're showing, the use it to find all kinds of things in their science lab, textbooks. the superintendent told us it pays to the best bells and whistles on top of the programs they already had, that keep kids more engaged, which is an important part of learning. in other districts, it may go towards band equipment or computers in the library, that sort of thing. our dollars are designed to be supplemental. by no stretch of the imagination are they designed to replace the school budgets needed in california so we want to be very clear about that. we are pennies on the dollar when it comes to what we raise.

but the local decision-makers have a lot of flexibility with that money and it does pay for programs and tools and services that kids might not otherwise have. kristen: all right, we have about 1.5 minutes left so i have to ask you, what are your odds if you are going to play powerball and get in on the saturday draw? carolyn: the odds of the jackpot are pretty low. i think everybody knows that. you are competing with a lot of players in other states but the odds don't change no matter how many people play or how much the jackpot is. i think they are about one in 302 million. but there's multiple ways to win powerball. that is about one in 24, so the chances that you will win something are much better than the chances of winning the jackpot. as we always like to say, schools win. those odds are 100%. schools are winning a matter what. jackpot, pretty slim. kristen: do the retailers get a cut if they sell the winning ticket? carolyn: yes.

every large ticket sold, the retailer gets a bonus. there is a formula for some of our lower jackpot levels but for these big ones, if somebody in the bay area sells the only winning jackpot ticket for this weekend, which would be super exciting, that retail location, one of our partners, would at a $1 million bonus just for selling it. kristen: ok, so saturdays drawing, people need to purchase their ticket by what time again? carolyn: 7:00 p.m. the draw is that 7:59. if you buy it after it will just be good for monday straw. kristen: we have to figure out 1.5 right now, but could it be even higher than that by saturday? carolyn: if nobody hits it on saturday, we are looking at a record jackpot in all of u.s. history, the third-largest, but the second and first are also 1.5 something so really close to the record already. i am 100% confident if nobody hits it on saturday night

anywhere in the u.s., it's going to be the top jack bought -- jackpot we will ever see. kristen: thank you for coming on with all the information. carolyn: good luck if you play. thank you. kristen: coming up next, election day showdowns in san francisco. in some races, it is all about the money. we will dig into that

kristen: -- election day if you are inundated with tv ads and flyers, you know big money is being spent to influence your vote. our media partners at the san francisco standard have put together a voter guide breaking down all the top issues affecting your neighborhood. they also have details on some of the most hotly contested and most extensive races in san francisco. joining us to talk about those is the standard's data editor, anna. thanks for coming on the show. you are following the money trail in san francisco.

you have races for da, school board seats. which races are the most expensive battles? anna: probably the most money in terms of a race involving people , involving elected officials, is district four, which is the sunset race which is featuring gordon lahr elected incumbent, versus his challenger. there's a lot of money being spent in that race right now. kristen: a lot of attack ads, if you well. what are they saying about each other and what is this central issue in the race? anna: totally, it's a really interesting race. district four is primarily chinese people and primarily asian district and gordon mar is the elected incumbent and he's also asian and that district has been led by asians and for at least 20 years. however, there is a really interesting challenger right now. he has run for supervisor three times in district seven but he

was recently redistricted into district four. in addition to that, he was one of the leaders of both the school board and the district attorney recalls. the reason why it is so interesting is because he is banking on the fact that he can convince voters that their current elected official does not reflect the interest of those voters because the residents are some of the strongest supporters of both recalls so now super pac's which are political committees that can spend an unlimited amount of money that are backing mar are going hard and attacking joel engardio. they are saying he has connections to trump. they are attacking him hard. kristen: rent control. i want to talk about housing related propositions d and e. who is money -- who is putting money into this fight? anna: there's two housing ballot

measures as you said. there's proposition d which is mainly funded by wealthy tech folks, the yelp ceo, ripple labs, a cryptocurrency company, and a slew of other wealthy individuals who back the mayor, they are putting money into proposition d which is a measure supported by y theimby's, where the yes in my backyard -- the yimby's. kristen: there is a fight over cars on jfk drive in golden gate park. tell us about this one. anna: this is also a battle of rich folks. there's proposition j, which is a measure to keep jfk car free so a lot of the same wealthy tech folks that are backing measure d, which is the yimby sponsored measure, they are also backing this measure.

the yelp ceo is backing this measure to keep jfk car free. there is another wealthy individual, a socialite in san francisco, she is backing the opposing measure which is measure i, or proposition i, and she is trying to reopen jfk drive to cars. kristen: can i just ask you, how does the spending this midterm election compared to years past? it seems like it's up big time. anna: from a super pac front, it's been a lot lower than previous years so it is kind of interesting because you would expect that they would be a lot of super pac spent a lot of -- but a lot of political insiders are saying it's not too much compared to past years. you know, really the only place we are seeing attack ads is district four and also a little bit in district six and a little bit in the district attorney's race as well. and then also just in terms of money being contributed, it's not -- for the politician races -- it's not a ton compared to

past years. kristen: interesting p or that is why we need the data that you got. i'm just going by mailers and the things people are saying on social media. anna tong, great information. folks, we want you to check out the sf standard website. also on election night, we will be livestreaming results and expert analysis as soon as the polls close for three hours straight from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. so you can watch that with our abc 7 bay area streaming app, on your smartphone, or

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