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join the millions of people taking back their privacy >>we're seeing this wave about one month earlier than last year >>even olympians can't outrun covid during this summertime surge, >>our body's immune system don't quite recognize it. so quickly. >>what you should know about your next booster and the family of new variant >>there. now, the children and grandchildren of omicron. >>plus how a bay area doctor who guided us through the pandemic got hit with the love bug. >>to me moving on to this brave new world was just as scary and uncertain as covid. so i was living these two different, uncertain lives

>>and elizabeth has off today i'm anne makovec. we know that by now a lot of people are pretty sick about hearing about covid, but we can't ignore the fact that cases are spiking and the virus continues to evolve. today, a bay area doctor is joining us to explain what we should know about this summertime surge. if it's any different or any more serious than before, we're going to have all of that coming up in just a few minutes. but first, a look at your news headlines. bart service through much of the east bay is still shut down right now because of a computer problem that includes all stations between hayward and fremont. bart is providing a bus bridge between bayfair and warm springs. riders have been dealing with various closures and delays throughout the system since about 1015 this morning. police there say there is no longer a threat at the campus of uc berkeley. that comes hours after officers responded to a report of gunfire at the clark kerr campus. no injuries were reported, but police still haven't found any suspects that lockdown has been lifted the fbi raided a san francisco

towing company today, video shows agents and fbi jackets converging on specialty towing that is on oakdale avenue. the feds told us this raid is tied to an ongoing federal investigation. the tow yard was previously linked to a probe by the city attorney's office into illegal towing tickets are sold out for the a's final game at the oakland coliseum. that is coming up september 26th. the a's leaving sacramento for next season before they plan to move to vegas in 2028. the a's reached a deal to share sell their share of the coliseum to the african american sports and entertainment group. fans at the final game at the coliseum will get a replica of the stadium. >>first >>alert weather now cooler conditions across the bay area. chief meteorologist paul hagan here. now, with how long that heat might hold off, paul >>and it looks like we are going to be seeing close to normal or even below normal temperatures through the duration of the seven day forecast. looking outside right now and you see all that fog as we look

to the west from the mark hopkins hotel a little bit of sunshine glimmering through over twin peaks. at the moment we are going to see the sun being in pretty short supply over the course of the next several days right along the coast, but basically back to just a typical august weather pattern over the course of the next several days, which means a persistent onshore breeze and a persistent marine layer. fairly deep marine layer allowing that fog to make its way farther inland every night, temperatures are going to be running pretty close to normal. a little bit of a cool down for the second half of the weekend, and then very few day to day changes as we head through next week. the one part of the day to day that hasn't been great is an intrusion of smoke into inland parts of the east bay, east of the oakland hills this is the view from the top of mount diablo. right now. you can see all of that smoke and that's closer to ground level compared to the smoke that's been elevated in the atmosphere for much of the summer. and it's reflected on the current air quality map from purple air. all of these sensors, they are the official ones from the epa. but there are many more of them and they update much more frequently. and you can see that bull's eye of unhealthy air quality up and down 680 and points farther to the east, even into the delta

the persistent onshore breeze. and it's an onshore breeze to the depth of the atmosphere should push that farther away from us. kind of a mystery where this smoke came from. no direct plumes feeding into the bay area and the winds are onshore. should have been getting that stuff out of here, but it doesn't change the fact that the air quality is not great. through much of the tri-valley and the delta right now switching back to our perspective, looking out to the west, and we're looking at temperatures that are well all over the place 61 degrees right now in san francisco, upper 60s across the bay in oakland with temperatures inland, a mix of 70s and 80s, a little step down from where we were yesterday, still slightly above average inland but we are going to be back to almost exactly normal temperatures over the next couple of days, including for overnight lows, dropping down mostly to the 50s tonight, just the warmest spot staying around or just barely above 60 degrees, including san jose at 61. high temperatures tomorrow. exactly normal around the bay 67 and 72 degrees in san francisco and oakland. well temperatures farther inland still running a few degrees above average. so you could call it warm, even hot for some of those spots in the 90s, but appropriately hot for the

middle of august 60s along the coast. no change there. mostly 80s down the peninsula. once you get south of san mateo, with temperatures in the tri-valley reaching up mostly to the 80s, as you go farther inland, better odds of getting up into the 90s. same thing east of the oakland hills. temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s for the tri-valley, closer to the mid 90s. as you get into the delta with temperatures around the bay, 60s and 70s in san francisco, as i mentioned, mostly 80s for the north bay. a little more fog to start the day means that your warm up is going to be a little slower to kick in, unless you live farther north farther inland, where temperatures are more likely to get up to the upper 90s, even around 100 degrees in clear lake by tomorrow. so temperatures will use livermore as kind of a representative of inland parts of the bay area. and you can see still warm, even hot, for the next couple of days, but then a drop in temperatures a few below average days as we head through the first half of next week, and even once we warm up a little bit, we're only going to return to close to normal temperatures all the way through next week and even into the following weekend. so let's take a look at the seven day forecast, and we'll start with inland parts of the bay area there we go. temperatures are

going to reach up into the 80s on a day by day basis. but again that's normal for this time of year. some of the warmest days approaching 90 degrees. and these are averages inland temperatures are going to range from 80 to 92 degrees. basically over the course of the next seven days, temperatures around the bay not as much variation. the coolest day sunday, monday and tuesday. highs only in the upper 60s. even around the bay, even down the peninsula. you're going to be in the 70s. no real changes right along the coast either to your temperatures in the low 60s or to what the sky looks like, or how much of the sky you can see. the fog, the low cloud cover, and the intermittent drizzle not going anywhere. through the second full week of august, >>an all right sounds about typical thanks paul. well, meantime, a summer spike in covid cases getting a lot of attention here in the bay area and around the world. american track star noah lyles just took home bronze in the 200 meter race at the olympic games, while fighting covid. he got medical care after the race and after that we learned he had tested positive on tuesday but

had still decided to compete. look at he's struggling there. lyles won gold in the 100m on sunday here in the u.s.. california, one of nearly 40 states reporting high covid activity levels, according to the cdc. levels in our wastewater are at very high levels, carra saint-cyr looks at what's driving the surge and how it's leading people to mask up and take precautions once again >>covid has complicated brant portman's life in ways he couldn't have predicted he's immunocompromised and in remission from hodgkin's lymphoma. his condition makes it difficult for him and his dog to leave his home without proper ppe. i wear my mask every day, but when i'm here at the airport, i wear my face shield because i know how easily it is to catch covid. at the airport, portman volunteers at the united service organization at the airport, but he can't travel, at least not right now covid levels in california's wastewater have reached a very

high level for the first time since last winter, with the bay area experiencing a significant jump in cases. wastewater measurements are an even more accurate representation of the positivity rate. portman's doctor won't clear him to see his family until cases dip back to normal. i know how bad covid is right now, and my immunologist won't let my. i have family in florida and illinois and my immunologist won't let me fly to go see him and more transmissible variants of the virus are driving the increase right now. doctor peter chin-hong, an infectious disease expert at ucsf, says cp 321 and elbe, one account for majority of the cases reported they're all relatives of jn one, which was circulating in the winter. but they are different enough so that our body's immune system don't quite recognize it so quickly. so that's why people get infected. doctor chin-hong says the summertime heat and travel are also perpetuating the spread. the recent heat wave forced

more people indoors, and some are traveling means more opportunities to spread the virus nationally. but doctor chin-hong says we may see this wave clear up soon. we are seeing this wave about one month earlier than last year, and last year we were still pretty much seeing high levels at the end of august, september, back to school this year. i'm hopeful that we will see it drop off a month earlier so maybe the beginning of august. but whether you're flying out for vacation or riding out the summer at home, make sure to take precaution. mask if you feel sick and keep your distance. >>the contra costa county health department is once again recommending wearing masks in crowded indoor spaces because of the surge. an updated covid vaccine that will target the new strains is expected to be available by this fall. well still ahead. symptoms of covid lasting years after the tests turned negative, we asked a ucsf expert about long covid and asked her to break down this latest surge should we

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easy prep. easy cook. easy clean. >>while covid cases surge again this summer some patients who had the virus as far back as two years ago say they've still never fully recovered. >>brain fog, shortness of breath, feeling weak. you know the answer to it. but when you get ready to say it, it's like, wait a minute, >>ish, now there is a national effort to examine the impact that long covid is having on underserved communities. nine clinics, including mount sinai in new york and ucsf here at home being funded by the federal government for five years as they meet monthly to share their case studies. all right. joining me now, ucsf infectious disease specialist doctor monica gandhi. thanks for being here today >>thank >>you. so we know a lot of people are just really over covid at this point. i'm hearing i'm not worried about it. it's just a cold anyway. who cares if you get it. and for many people that seems to be true

>>yes. so i mean, essentially what causes mild disease and covid is immunity. and so the variants also, since omicron came about, which was november 26th, 2021, is a little less virulent than the delta and alpha before. but it's really our immunity that leads to so many people having mild illness when they get covid. that's from vaccines and that's from prior natural infection. so it is true we have a lot of cases, but most of those cases are mild >>okay. so i just want to put my own situation out there as an example. you know i'm thinking about visiting my parents. should i get on a plane and visit them. they don't have any extreme health problems, but they're elderly obviously. am i taking a significant risk >>so you're absolutely right that there are three groups that we still worry about in terms of being more at risk for covid, older people those who are immunocompromised and those who have multiple medical conditions. now i'm going to see my 90 year old father for

his 90th birthday this weekend, and i am not worried about it because he's been vaccinated. so he's been vaccinated boosted, and he had the infection all of that together has given him good immunity despite his age. why we worry about older people is usually when they haven't had their boosters and be boosted up to date. which reminds me, i think it is time for older people to think about a booster while we're even waiting for this new one, because there are so many cases right now, the prevalence is so high. we want older people's immunity to be nicely boosted. >>right? okay, so somebody who should get the booster now, when would have their last booster have been. >>so the thing is they're saying that we're going to get the new variant booster in fall. but when we say that it's the cape 311 or the flirt variant, say that's it's called that because of these amino acid changes, i don't know when it's going to come and i don't know if it's going to be end of september, october. so for example, my parents being 90

and 82, they had been six months since their last booster. we're going to have a big party for his 90th birthday. went ahead and got them boosted. so just because the cases are so high so if you are older, immunocompromised, i would go ahead and get that booster. even now it's going to provide you with protection >>okay. so probably don't go longer than six months if >>we're six >>surge like this >>right because because we have such a high surge >>and i'm assuming that we're going to have even more of a surge as we see kids go back to school >>well, the thing about surges is they are often because the variant is more transmissible versus everyone being together. yes, of course people have been together. people have been together for two years, as you say people are tired of covid. people have not had their whole life go around covid and people have been hanging out for two years. so yes, there'll be more people together when kids go back to school. but the thing about the reason we've had such a surge is likely because this cape 311 variant is so transmissible we didn't used to see surges of respiratory

viruses in the summer. we didn't see influenza in the summer. we saw that in the winter. the reason we see covid surges. so often is because we've had such all these new variants that are more transmissible, that lead people to get ill >>okay. now moving forward i'm sure you've heard a lot of talk about the bird flu, right now, how that is jumping from factory farms to humans. what are the chances of that turning into the next pandemic that we're dealing with? is there anything that we learned from the last one that we can take into a lesson in preventing this? >>it's a really good question. so the thing the reason that we're watching bird flu carefully is, though, we've always seen influenza in a lot of animals, and this is in avians. this went to cows. and that's unusual. we see it in pigs, but we haven't seen it in cows before. and so the people who have gotten sick have been dairy cow workers because they're closely exposed to the cows. now, it is not yet pandemic potential, because what takes it into a pandemic form is efficient human to

human transmission. we have not seen that as cows to humans. so because of that lack of efficient, we're not there. but what do we need to be prepared for? we have a vaccine. there are two candidate vaccines. and what i'm worried about is that there's some vaccine hesitancy these days, and i hope that we can get over that. covid was a hard time, and if we need to have h5n1 be in our yearly influenza vaccine, then i hope people will take >>it. okay, hopefully it does not turn into that. doctor monica gandhi from ucsf. we appreciate it and big happy birthday to your dad >>i know. thank you >>well, at the height of the pandemic, schools, businesses and government organizations were offering lots of free covid tests. and now some of those tests that we've all stockpiled, maybe i've several in my closet. there may be past the expiration date. so can you still use them >>you know, these tests really have a longer lifespan than is indicated on the box in which they come, but i'm a little bit

worried about how people have stored them. some of them have gotten very, very hot for example, and that could reduce their sensitivity better to use a test that's not expired in order for you to have confidence in the results. the last thing you want is to have covid and have the test turn out negative, and then you'll spread it to other people. you don't want that. >>good point. still ahead, a unique look into the life of another bay area doctor. how he managed to find love in the time of covid

well, during the covid pandemic, a lot of bay area doctors became household names as they helped make sense of that very uncertain time. our elizabeth cook reports while one of them was helping us navigate the global health crisis, he was also navigating the complete transformation of his own life. >>less than 24 hours until one of the biggest days of peter chin hong's life and needless to say, there are a few butterflies, both exciting but a little bit terrifying in a good way. like terrifying like you want to go on a roller coaster and the roller coaster is gonna go down. and you know, you're

gonna have fun, but it's that anticipation. doctor peter chin-hong is joining us now in our. you probably recognize doctor peter from the covid days every night, journalists, including myself would turn to him for the latest information on the virus. he became a celebrity overnight. it was really important for me to be as calm and measured as possible. but inside i was on fire and all these explosions going off. it all began a few years before the pandemic at a ucsf medical conference in reno, and the elevator door open, and there was sam and i just totally, platonically and spontaneously i didn't have dinner plans. i was like, you want to get dinner? doctor sam bromfield is an oncologist at ucsf. he and peter had known each other for years. they were colleagues and friends, but at that moment, something changed. it was just like a truck hit me and i didn't know what happened. and time stood still.

but back home, life was complicated. thanks so much and as the world grappled with covid, peter's life sexuality and vision of the future were completely upended. you think about covid as being scary. but to me, moving on to this brave new world was just as scary and uncertain as covid. so i was living these two different, uncertain lives. peter was also dealing with a barrage of online hate for speaking out about the virus, because it wasn't only hate about being a medical professional, it was hate about things, about me, about my heritage, about being asian, about going back to china. doctor bob wachter is the chief of medicine at ucsf. i think his feeling was, this is hard doing this, but i got to do it. it's i'm making a contribution. a lot of people are depending on me for information about what's going on and what, how they should live their lives and so i think

it was it was a sacrifice that he was willing to stay out there and be in the public view. but that's just the kind of person he is. on saturday, june 20th, 2024 at the asian art museum, escorted by his brother and sister, peter, chin-hong walked down the aisle to his love, sam bromfield. he always serenaded by the gay men's chorus, a perfect ending to a love story that didn't have the fairytale beginning. for me, the pandemic was really the thing that catapulted me to this period of joy and inspiration and finding my true self and opening the door to the rest of my life in a way that i never thought or imagine i would be but the best love stories, the ones that last, are often the ones that rarely go according to plan

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