pharmacies, children's hospitals, community health centers. rural health clinics in other locations. more doses will be packed and shipped and delivered, each and every day, over the next week or so. more and more sites will come online as we ramp up. since fda's authorization last friday, there has not been a moment that teams have not been shipping and packing vaccines. they have been working 24/7 and will continue to do so. i want to be clear about what this means for parents and guardians. we know many families will turn to their pediatricians and family doctors and in addition, thousands of other trusted providers will also offer vaccinations for kids. including local pharmacies, health centers and children's hospitals. this will give parents a broad range of options to get their kids vaccinated and ensure all children, including those without primary care doctors, those most at risk have easy and convenient access to vaccines. following the cdc's decision, parents will be able to visit vaccines.gov and filter for locations offering vaccin

communities, with over 100 clinics scheduled and hundreds more to come. maine is working with local leaders to bring vaccination to schools across the state. state and local health department's are planning to launch thousands of community-based clinics. including at youth sporting events, fairs, zoos, and community centers. across the country, schools will partner with vaccine providers to host vaccination clinics, with more than 6000 clinics at schools being planned before the winter holiday break. later today, we will be meeting with governors offices,, community health centers and disease about their vaccination operations. altogether starting next week, parents will have approximately 20,000 trusted and convenient locations to get their kids vaccinated, with more and more sites coming online in weeks ahead. importantly, by the end of this week, parents and guardians can go to vaccines.gov to search for locations near them offering vaccinations for kids ages five to 11. as we get full strength next week, finding a site nearby, and scheduling an appointment will become easier. bottom line, starting the week of november 8, the kids' vaccination program will be

including establishing a new innovative apprenticeship program to train thousands of our covid-19 community healthkers and prepare them for high skilled, long-term careers in public health spirit today's announcement are directly responsive to the task force's recommendation and they also build on the historic investments we have already awarded for equity focused programs and initiatives. -- requires full partition -- i want to extend my deep appreciation to the remarkable task force members that includes the 12 members appointed by the president to the contributions they made to their communities as well as the eight federal members designated to represent their agencies across the federal government. it takes an entire team to support a presidential task force. thank you to the federal task team that worked to elevate our vision and to the foundation for its support. i want to express my appreciation to the more than 100 subject matter experts that droid the countless number of stakeholders who provided public comments, and attended reefs. we could not have walked this journey without you. it i

it's the right thing to do for your own health and safety and for everyone around you in your community. the significant progress we've made on vaccinations and boosters puts us in a much stronger position to face omicron. we believe the current vaccines provide some protection against this variant and that boosters strengthen that protection significantly. in the event that additional measures are needed, we will be prepared. we're working with pfizer, moderna, and j avsh j -- j avsh j -- j&j to develop modifications to boosters if needed. and we'll make sure that c.d.c. reviews them as fast as possible while maintaining the rigorous protocols. the president has been clear that we will spare no effort to protect people. we have significant testing capacity to detect cases and based on their preliminary review, the f.d.a. believes the high-volume p.c.r. and widely antigen test will be widely effective in detecting the variant. we also have therapeutics to treat those who do get covid and our medical team is actively evaluating the efficacy of these against the new variant so we are prep

this involves multiple stakeholders, brings together school nurses, community health workers, the childa -- a caregiver, and all that comes together in an overlay of health records and immunization records and data. leverage this -- leveraging this model, it is possible to connect families to appropriate behavioral health support needs the address not just mental health issues but address asthma and other medical needs. this provides the child with well-child visits, intervention for urgent care and development screenings. this is an impressive model. >> how will this improve access in the city and what makes this unique? dr. rhodes: there are several components involved in this partnership and we are so grateful to the united health foundation for the investment. there are committee health workers, there is data, sharing of information, involvement of community partners. all of those different pieces collaborate in a very innovative way in order to improve health outcomes for children regardless of where they access the initiative. there is a specific aspect called the cares initiative

to protect the community's healthlluted highway. we became scientists. we took to the streets to survey our neighbors in english, spanish, filipino and chinese, and organized several summits to bring the community together. we became the planners. >> [speaking spanish] >> our youth demanded that the city release this land where we are and dedicate it to affordable housing. as you can see we've won. [applause] we became organizers. and i can say that it is a community that hired the developer, mission housing. to realize our vision, not the other way around. so mission housing, you can't forget. >> [speaking spanish] spanish] speakingspanish] gracias. >> our community -- our community -- we are the experts in conditions that impact us. i was one of the participants who attended the series of public meetings with mission housing. the solutions we need to build are affordable housing has to be truly accessible. without too many barriers to best serve the people who need it. we should also include the community in plannin

i was actually active in communities united for health and justice, which is, you know, the communityossible. i was actually active in the alliance after, you know, securing this land and this project, but in the work that i have done, i really want to highlight and lift up the role that our communities have played. and the community movement that really ensured this victory and i want to continue to highlight that this wouldn't be possible without our community members who were active every step of the way to come together and to have alternatives to harmful development in our neighborhood. and continue to highlight the actual hard work that went into, you know, making this possible. and so when i was active in cuhj, we we collaborated with many stakeholders in our community. so i was able to see the development of the housing action team that met monthly and we were able to bring together our multilingual and multi-generational community every month to talk about what was happening in the community. and really to think about how we could make sure that we were engaging folks in the

additional doses as i said each and every week the federal government is sending vaccines directly to community health and this is the best way to manage the supply chain of the pfizer vaccine was states to see where the demand is strongest and with those going forward we're in great shape in the whole plan is based on pfizer vaccine we have more than enough for every child age five to 11 specifically. and with authority parents having good afternoon on —- opportunity to vaccinate their kids thank you for today's briefing and we will see everybody later in the week. thank you

she knew then the voices of public health experts, practitioners and community leaders together could be a powerful driver for health equity in this pandemic. the president also saw the critical importance of this focus on equity, just as jeff mentioned, that very principle -- very first day in office, he issued an order that called for government efforts to reduce inequity in covid-19 prevention, treatment and across the board as a whole. it is that leadership at the top that makes it possible that this task force has done something that is surely powerful. the administration fully recognized the most effective groups -- neglected groups are the most first to be forgotten. covid-19 made it clear in this country a person -- so we start out to finally acknowledge and address those social and structural drivers rooted in what is what is fair. this group systematically advanced 313 recommendations, 55 of those are prioritized and highlighted in the body of the final report along with five proposed priority actions with what accelerate that vision for change. investing community led solut

this includes pediatricians and family doctors offices, pharmacies, odorant hospitals, community health centers, rural health clinics, and school-based clinics. while the program is just fully up and running this week, by the end of the day today, we estimate that over 900,000 kids age five through 11 will have already gotten their first shot. through pharmacies alone, 700,000 additional appointments are already on the calendar at local pharmacies. parents and families across the country are breathing giant size of relief. we are just getting started. we will continue to work with governors, local leaders, health care providers and others to build on this progress. minnesota has stood up more than 1100 locations for parents to get their kids vaccinated including at the mall of america , which is the biggest mall and -- in the country and it can now vaccinate 1500 children per day. across the country, children's hospitals are offering vaccinations and engaging their communities with many hosting family events including stickers, pets, and stuffed animals. we are helping states meet paren

people 2030, health places index and then things that had been most heavily done in our own community health needs assessment. there's chronic disease there, asthma, diabetes. there's infectious disease which the health department has to be there. there's some social determinants not the same number we had before. but the important one, general health well-being is about mortality and wellness activity and cancer mental health are special areas. the racial equity action plan is going very well. i won't go through the specific of every area. in general, we're at about 82% done. i expect we'll hit 90% just about by the end of the year. there's some that cannot be done for various reasons. for the most part, we've been able to make good inroads particular on the things around leadership, culture that we wanted to do in retention, yours will be at 100% by the end of the year. that will move things forward. discipline and mobility and hiring. all are hampered by the need for data to move those effectively. there has not yet been the data analyst or i.t. support for that data yet. it is happening.

i'm a strong supporter of our federally qualified community health centers, our rural health centers, and the program hrsa runs to support both. we've seen the sqhcs play a significant role in distributing vaccine. we're also running a pilot program right now which allows them to distribute free at-home rapid tests to families. and i think that's another important way in which they can contribute to this response. we're hoping to scale that up by thanksgiving. right now it's in eight states. we've also been able, through the sqhcs and rural health centers, to distribute masks to families that might need them, high quality masks. and of course they continue to provide clinical care to families that seek their care there. so we continue to see them play a significant role. and we're always looking for opportunities to increase the impact they can have in this pandemic. >> i thank you for that answer. and i want my community health centers to know how valuable they are not just in the time of a pandemic but throughout. i visited one in kansas city last week, again reminded that they serv

the vaccines will be available to a 100 different sites and doctors offices pharmacies, community health clinics as well as neighborhood and school vaccine clinics. the san francisco unified school district will host 4 of those clinics, the dates and times and locations are there on your screen also have them posted on our website. kron 4 dot com. we've also learned that walgreens will start getting the covid vaccine to children, starting saturday. you can start scheduling an appointment today. more appointment times will be made available in the coming weeks as the stores receive more doses of the vaccine for children and cbs says it will begin giving out the shots on sunday at more than 200 locations in california. cbs is accepting appointments right now. the pharmacy says that all children must be accompanied by an adult in the south bay santa clara county public health officials among the first in the bay area to open vaccination sites today. well, for us, rob fladeboe witness some of the first shots in san jose. >> a day after the covid-19 vaccine was officially approved for kids ag

. >> i found a good bargain on an abandoned community health clinic in a small town in texas so it's got all these little exam rooms perfect for filling up. it is a very unusual living arrangement, toal put it mildly. >> how many of those books have you read? >> i actually don't read books. or with limit. so i have a method. it's in the book we are talking about today. i call it a digesting. and what im is an information junkie. i started collecting world atlases and maps when i was like 7-years-old. just trying to figure out how the world works and my goal was to have a personal reference library where i could look up anything in a book and a lot of things you cannot answer in a d book that anything in the book and began to build this nonfiction reference library. and so there is very little fiction, but it covers almost every subject imaginable as far as nonfiction books and people are surprised when i say 70% of my library is not available online. so to say to young people i look it up online and there's so much great stuff. old stuff that hadn't been scanned or other stuff on cop

manufacturers and for timbers sprayers the far as service had been unwilling to do any kind of community health survey after the spring to see if anybody wasn't fact being harm. it was simply saying our chemicals aren't harming anybody, but it wasn't looking to see if they were harmed. and it was very stunning. you know, that they would spray him area and within a month that miscarried drape. and what they call spontaneous abortion rate. when sky rotten according to the hospital datum mm ah. between my husband and i and our nurse practitioner, we delivered between a 100 and a 150 children a year seeing a larger number of birth defects than we would've expected. we saw a number of congenital hearts and i think it was 1978. i delivered and, and the phallic child, that's a child that doesn't have basically the normal brain. in my lifetime of delivering babies, i would not expect ever to see one. and about a year later, we delivered a 2nd. allen's appellate child. those odds were just astronomical. that a small practice like ours would have to allen's fellow children. it made me realize that there

. >> it's about our community health. it's about their social health.s about their nutritional health. you know, it's about just really, what can you do to make someone's day better, someone's week better? >> it really makes a difference. i'm really happy today. liz: in marin county -- >> thank you, thank you. liz: liz kreutz, abc 7 news. dion: spreading that holiday cheer. today, the salvation army is delivering 4000 traditional thanksgiving meals to people who need them in san francisco. for over six decades, the salvation army has held a thanksgiving meal event in the city. people usually gather together. but for the second year in a row, it looks a little different because of the pandemic. salvation army has partnered with a catering company to help prepare meals and distribute them safely. >> right now with the urgency and importance of serving people in need, the salvation army is taking this day, not only in san francisco, but throughout the nation and possibly throughout the world, to do the most important thing, sir people in -- serve people in

and build back better to strengthen our public health infrastructure increase their testing and tracing capacity communicate with the public and address misinformation would also help our federal federal health agencies like the fda cdc assistant secretary to increase lab capacity new treatments and tests and vaccine improve the supply chain legislators and personal protective equipment. it has hurt our economy our community andur our families and take steps to keep ourselves we will get through this. we finally end the cycle make sure were never in a situation like this deal with that i'll turn over to ranking member for his opening statement. >> drug witnesses welcome back to the health committee i'm not sure we could have gotten further away from us, we are grateful to you and we thank you for your service to the american people. each time you have all come before the committee i charged you to look ahead and figure out where we needed to be keep up with this virus. i i will say it again, you are the adults in the room. you need to look around the corner to anticipate what we will need. more than 90 days

frames its community mental health service providers -- community mental health providers, increase the number of specialists in v.a. medical centers, expand the v.a. safety, honorable service members suffering during the transition process, strengthening and adding resources for the veterans crisis fund, increase the number of that centers around the country and in short suicide prevention outreach and care reaches traditionally underserved veteran communities. i just introduced a bill with congresswoman porter and plunkett, the v.a. governors challenge act. our bill treats drives equal to states, and gives v.a. authority to use authority to help states and tribes develop and implement promising proposals tailored what veterans and their communities need. in 2019, the most recent year for which the cdc and v.a. have reliable suicide data, the rate of suicide among all u.s. adults, but especially veterans, the number and rate of suicide among veterans decreased for the first time in many, many years. while this is wonderful, it doesn't pause our commitment and our work for one second. w

>> guest: yeah, well, i found a good bargain on an abandoned community health clinic in a small town it's got all these little exam rooms and they're just perfect for filling up. so each room is a different subject and it's a very unusual living arrangement, to putut it mildly. >> host: how many of those 60,000 books have you read? >> guest: i actually don't read books, or with a limit. so i have method. it's in the book were talking about today. i call it digesting a book. what i really am is i'm an information junkie. i started collecting world atlases and maps when i was like seven years old and just try to figure out how the world works, and myld goal was to have a personal reference library where i could lookk up anything that was in a book and a lot of questions youan can answer from book butca anything was in the book and began to build this nonfiction reference library. and so there's very little fiction in their but it covers almost every subject imaginable as far as nonfiction books. people are surprised when i say like 70% of what's in my library is not available online be

the country are currently providing shots for young children, including schools, hospitals and community health. the white house says about 700,000 appointments have been made at pharmacies for the coming days. to the south bay now where santa clara county health officials are urging residents to get their booster shots before turkey day. officials also want to clarify who's eligible for a booster. our coffers. rob fladeboe joins us now live from san jose with some of those details erupt. >> that's right. health officials here in santa clara county say the somewhat disappointing number of people have received the covid-19 vaccine booster shots so far. maybe the result of some confusion over exactly who is eligible today. as you say, they offered some clarification on that. well, the same time encouraging pretty much everybody to get the shot. let's take a look. pretty much everybody is eligible for a booster. santa clara county public health officer doctor sara cody on wednesday urging people to get the covid-19 vaccine booster. the holidays are coming. our case rates are flat to increasing. pe

health programs, about a 1.2 billion dollar increase, including more resources for investing in community healthorkers and fortifying systems around the world. it's not just about doing the right thing, but it helps to keep people in school and contribute into the global economy. one last point -- u.s. funding has helped lead to the first ever malaria vaccine, just approved last month by the world health organization for widespread use. as you know, malaria kills over 400,000 people every year in the world. i will never forget my first exposure to a family impacted tragically by malaria in kenya 40 years ago. this vaccine could save more lives than any other single u.s. government intervention in infectious disease and i am thrilled we are continuing to invest in things like the global fight against malaria. liz: you have had a front row seat on the global health response on so many issues. one of the most enduring and bipartisan examples saved over 20 million lives. is there anything you think about the successes you are looking at the full array of global price around the world. any lessons le

for months, we've been working with governors, pharmacies, community health centers, and other partners to plan for this moment. all ready, the strong start to our boosters program has gotten enhanced protections to 36 millan americans -- protection to 36 million americans, including more than half of eligible seniors, the most vulnerable population. we are prepared to give boosters to all adults, if they are eligible, six months after the pfizer or magenta or two months after the j&j. we have secured enough supply of all three vaccines for booster shots for every adult, as well as for the half-million first and second shots we continue to get into arms each and every day. boosters are free and readily available at 80,000 locations across the country. including more than 40,000 local pharmacies. as we have done throughout our vaccination program, we have equity at the center of our work. ensuring boosters are available at the hardest hit -- in the hardest hit communities and deploying mobile clinics to bring boosters to meet people where they are. so we are ready for more boosters and o

the country are currently providing shots for young children, including schools hospitals and community health centers. the white house has about 700,000 appointments have been made at pharmacies for the upcoming days. meantime, state health officials say that they are gearing up for a possible covid. 19 surge this winter force, ashley zavala explains what the governor and those state health officials say they're doing to get ready. >> the governor and the state's top health officials say they want to do everything they can to avoid what happened last winter. when hospital and icu space dwindled and covid-19 cases climbed. >> winter is coming. state leaders warning yet another potential covid-19 spike could be on the way soon visiting a va facility in los angeles wednesday. the governor pointing to rising case rates and other parts of the country and plateauing hospitalizations cases and positivity rates in california. vaccines our way through this pandemic. we are concerned about the winter. we're concerned about rising case numbers pressure on our hospitals from a number of other issues on t

a doctor's offices pharmacies community health clinics as well as neighborhoods and school vaccine clinics. the san francisco unified school district will host 4 clinics. the dates and times and locations are on your screen. we also have them over on our website. kron 4 dot com. and just like adults. kids may soon have to show proof that they've been vaccinated to go indoors and spaces here in san francisco. the county health officer says they're probably going to have 8 weeks from when their vaccines are available for. that may be mandated. and the east bay contra. costa county health officials say they'll hold a town hall this thursday to discuss the county's plan for vaccinating children. they say vaccines could be available as early as saturday at county run clinics. but they at parents to check with their child's doctor or local pharmacy ahead of that. the new a wife or to sub variant of covid has been detected in california. health experts say the variant may spread faster than the more common delta variant, although there's no evidence of it causing more severe illness tests are now

and finally adequately investing in community health. sir, a mental health services. the city of oakland has seen more than a 120 homicides as we just reported so far in 2021. >> we are also following breaking news out of hercules where a man has been hospitalized after a shooting at a mall parking lot. police say it happened about noon at the willow shopping grand avenue center. just off. i 80 officers found a man who'd been shot several times. he was airlifted to a local hospital. police did find a gun at the scene. no arrests have been made and police are not yet releasing and the details on a possible suspect or a getaway car. kron four's. dan thorn is following the story will have the latest developments tonight. and kron 4 news at 9. >> new at 6. the spate of stories are investigating investigating rather a human trafficking case involving a 17 year-old girl from honduras. police have arrested 2 sam lee and are residents who are accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting the girl forcing her into prostitution. >> kron four's. dan kerman has been following thi

. >> it's about our community health. it's about their social health.out their nutritional health. it's about really, what can you do to make someone's day better, someone's week better? >> it really makes a difference. i'm really happy today. liz: in marin county -- >> thank you, thank you. liz: liz kreutz, abc 7 news. dion: that is precious, small gestures making big impacts. thanks giving is not only about giving thanks, but also giving to others when you can. tonight, you'll meet a nonprofit that could use your help to help people like the family of this pediatric cancer patient. meteorologist: nothing but sunshine today. i will let you know if this will continue along with war the classic hollywood story. we meet the hero, the all-new nissan frontier hero faces seemingly impossible challenge. tension builds... the plot twist the hero prevails in hollywood, this would be the end. but our here, we are just getting started. introducing the all-new nissan frontier. your eyes. beautiful on the outside, but if you have diabetes, there can be some not-so-

be more funding for the nhs, particularly mournful facilities, new hospitals, equipment and community healthsking whether plans were for extra staff to work in the facilities. there was no detail on the spending plans last week about training and workforce budgets. the mp said the nhs is facing a workforce crisis now, there are more than 90,000 vacancies, 7% of posts are unfilled and the fear is that could get worse as large numbers of staff reach retirement age. sajid javid promised two things, firstly by the end of the 93v things, firstly by the end of the gay short—term plan to help tackle the backlog in hospital treatment, and then by the spring a long—term 15 year plan —— firstly, by the edge of the year. as he was reminded by mps on the committee, making promises is one thing and delivering is another, the government has already promised 6000 extra gps in this parliament and is the health secretary himself admitted, they are not on track to meet that. hick not on track to meet that. nick triu ule, not on track to meet that. nick triggle. many _ not on track to meet that. nick triggle,

though the world health organization is saying that the variant is a very high risk to the global community health experts that we spoke with today say that level of concern remains in a holding pattern at least until some key questions are answered proper stand kerman explains. >> we didn't want to hear this news right now. none of the state. it's it's really terribly. disappointing. >> very infectious disease specialist speaking about the latest covid-19 threat. kron variant. they had to mean red flags. that make me pretty concerned that is a rate of increase. >> that happened really overnight inside africa from going to from you. know, a few 100 cases. so few 1000 cases. and that, of course, is driven by the predominance of this very and whether or not it was the cause of it was is being associated with it. i remains to be seen. the second red flag for me was just a vast amount of mutations. and this new variant still infectious disease. experts say we still don't have enough data. >> to answer a key series of questions. >> transmissible a t how will it responds unity and how they're doing is t