that's with arnot of 1.3. they are saying we have now possibly successfully brought this down to just to show people if you don't completely eradicate it aren't you saying that would immediately go back up if people resumed any semblance of normal life? >> yes. i think that is very true. there are two interesting points here. one is that all these social distancing measures that have been going into effect we've been thinking about them with regard to coronavirus but we also are seeing data that shows it has impacted the flu. so the arnot for flu, you know, the contagiousness or impact of people spreading this has gone down for flu as well as a result of the social distancing. i think the big difference here, erin, is there is a flu vaccine. it's not a hundred percent effective but it does offer a significant benefit to try and, you know, really inoculate people. as it turns out, less than half the country's adults get the flu shot every year and if more people got it, you know, then it would probably bring it

vaccines probably are a whole year away and still very limited resources there on both counts dr bob arnot is a medical doctor and former chief medical correspondent and b c news thanks for joining us on out of there. a day after president trump raised the possibility of injecting disinfectant into patients to fight the coronavirus he held what was the shortest daily press briefing since the pandemic began he walked out after 22 minutes without taking any questions from reporters after trying to walk back the remarks that he'd made on thursday and jordan reports. friday's white house briefing on the covert 19 pandemic started like any other opening or markets could get rosalio donald trump today i signed the paycheck protection program in health care and has been act providing 320000000000 dollars to keep american workers on the pharaoh trial then stood aside to allow updates from members of the pandemic task force but after 21 minutes and left the briefing room without answering anyone's question trump has bragged on twitter about creating must see t.v. by insulting journalists and making

luxury goods tycoon, bernard arnot came third with $76 billion. the magazine put u.s.president at number 1001 with just over $2 billion, down from 715th place last year. it says his net worth plunged by a billion dollars in less than a month. >>> and it's now time for a check on the world weather with our meteorologist jonathan oh. jonathan, we've been closely watching that powerful system that struck vanuatu monday, and you say it's heading to fiji. where's it heading now? >> moving toward tonga. now it's continuing to head over into some nearby islands as well. so we talked about how harold, a tropical cyclone was a category five system when it moved over vanuatu on monday and now it has moved closer and closer to fiji. there it is south of the island. but we are talking about still a lot of strong winds and heavy rainfall with this system and it has left a lot of destruction in its path. these are pictures from tuesday from vanuatu, and you can see from this perspective from the sky the damage this storm left behind. it demolished buildings and homes, took out the p

>>coming up the concern over people who arnot looking for emergency room help during the pandemic who shld be and the unemployment tes, they're still chilling we've got the numbs from just last week and the local health workers some bay area heah re workers on the front lines of the pandemic just got word they are about to get a major pay cut on four's haaziq madyun has that story. >>we as workers rest arwas on a daily basis. and this is how they repay us. >>this week stafford healthcare sent an e-mail to its employees informing them that they are about to experience a major reduction in pay the e-mail readin part quote due to the economic impact of covid-19 rather than implemenng layoffs sh is implementing the temporary workforce adjustment prog this program is a 10 week program tt's created as part of our cost saving measures and initiatives unquote but temporary workforce adjustment theymean a 20% reduction in pay for stephon health care employees li linda core network of the nursing >>with an r yeah on the nursing unit. >>with a job that e has had for the past 40 years. >>i was yo

templatgoing forward of how the dft will be playing out because it was really smooth now as of now the 49 ers arnot scheduled to pick again until the 5th round, but they sure made an impact in round one addressing both the ofnse and defense. les first introduced you to their newest pass rusher javan and watch what a player right near the south carolina defensive tackle drafted 14th overall the cause enough to make his father fall out of his chair by selecting the former a p all american and immediately address the void left by trading pro bowler deforest buckner they also add to an already overwhelming pass rush. nlaw can't wait to jump in the mix with nick bosa and dee ford. >>i think i think they might have been the best defensive line of the waller says. my just saying that ou know that going to play you know. it's a rightay. but i think lee en the gates closed due to a new. >>football league. where everything set up profits us to be successfulone of the ways you can it was the greaest by to get after us that we build a pretty good unit. there and wanted to keep that strong and we though he was

and, we arnot yet to the easter.r me, will not let not yet there. >> reverend, where do you find strength, hope, sustenance, when so many are looking to you to provide it for them? >> i think i find it where we aritall finding in the healthcare workers and the essential workers who are keeping all of us safe and taking ucare i think i find it in the extraordinary beauty of the world, and the thgs that we have right now and all of our courage and staying home and reducing the number of losses at this time. >> vanessa seven, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. >>> as always, you can find more of our coverage at kqed.org /kqed newsroom. i am priya david clements. you can threach me ugh my soda my social media handle, priya d clements. thank you for joining us. stay safe. >> a restless president and nation. president trump: we're going to be opening up very, very, very, very soon, i hope. robert: president trump at odds with his own officials. >> now is no time to back off. now is the time p to your foot o

if the arnot is one they have infected one other person? >> when the virus burned through the city it was over 2. that meant the index person passed the virus on to two people and those two passed it on to two people. that is four people. then you can see how you go from one person infected with the virus in late january to 1 million people infected just a few months later. so, when you employ social distancing. when you start to create these firebreaks when a person that is infected does not encounter someone that he or she can pass the virus on to the reproductivibility drops. once it is below one, that is when you can contain the virus. finally below one in places like new york. in wuhan it is now down to about .3. by social distancing. by doing the things we have done successfully we can continue to drop it and reduce the infective ability of the virus. that is how we get back to more of a normal society by continuing to do what we are doing in places where the virus is still active. >> doctor, take a look at the map of the coronavirus

some time so you know really knew me milpitas to ell you weo i'm comfortable for the around those who arnot wearing their mas absolutely i'm a little bit more cautiouswhen i noticed that no one's wearing a mask or zones close to me. >>you know i team's duryea while we were just hearing notice curry's i turned my e head for pele were turned back bythe manager athe time to go back in their cars and get their mass so it does not look likit's goingto have anything involving police officers. but store managers will be there monitoring the situation telling people you have to wear a mask and if you don't you will not be allowed to go inside if you have children under 6 years old you don't have to put a mask on ur child, but that's probably strongly encouraged and a lot of people already doing that even before this law began and it was mentioned to me by one particular person in line it's almost range these days to see people walk into a store withoua mask. back to you. >>yeah you almost look at the other person like really you ow sort ofin polite yes because the idea is that when i weara mask, i'

we are ramping up our testing we doave these 2 sites open and they arnot being fully utilized. >>so again if you are worki if you're volunteering if arguably a service job that s includes anything having to do th food food delivery restaurant preparation. email coded 19 testing at oakland ca dot because you could get free tesng at our sites that we are flowing cdc guidelines we do expect people to ha some symptoms or have been in contact with someone who had symptoms to take advantage of testing but we have a news capacity right now and i don't want to see that think we should be full he utilizing our testing services, big focus right now because our ability kind of reopen the economy is really gog to better testing better contact tracing the other thing, i'm really excited about is the governor's announcement that fema has agreed for california to reimburse restaurants are going pear and deliver food to seniors are living alone. so we are preparing to europe a major opation to reach out tovote the seniors in our city all of th to see who needs this service because we want to g

that number has not increased due to a covid closures they are seeing more of them because humans arnot around to like our free to roam aund here having a good time out for a walk the. well new this morning bay area base used to has launched set fe tool a w tool to help small businesses with their online presence during the pandemic the free video builr is aimed at helping companies th don't have resources to create their own videos om scratch. so that whole has a variety of lay out some options to make customize videos that are 6 15 seconds long. this is just needa google account and a yoube account and you can sign up that way with fee of video builder very nice seems like a after the break . coming up >>it goes into effect this friday in sonoa county will have everything you need to knowbefore you head out the door. it will take a live look shou have a pretty nice day in stores, ave just and we have light traffic on the approach the bay bridge will ♪ ♪ when you neeit, jack delivers: order on uber eats, postmateand grubhub. when you neeit, jack delivers: and the clock could be tickg t

thely finding out what is arnot? the only way to do this is get the antibody test and get into places that had significant disease. test the health care workers, the first responders, all of the nursing homes for antibody and really get to your question. right now it is theoretic. we understand they are modeling this and we are getting the data to look at that. what others are presenting, they are modeling what is happening with mitigation. their publishing they are not with mitigation and it is approaching 1 -- approaching 1.3 and 1.5. if it was six and then with mitigation we have it into the ones, that really shows the power of the american people. no one has varied r0 like that without a vaccine. this is really the power of the american people. dr. fauci: i could not help thinking, you know what the worst enemy of an r0 is? physical separation. v.p. pence: one more, go ahead. >> could testing in the country reopen in the foreseeable future? the president talked about 2 million test. will we have the testing capac