monica gandhi. if you have questions, not sure if you should get boosters or get your child vaccinated, you can post your questions on our livestream. the boosters will be soon. something the biden administration has been pushing since august and california has been sanctioning it for over a week. some doctors say it was a mistake for the fda and cdc to limit booster eligibility initially. do you agree? dr. gandhi: i don't actually agree with that. i think the process the fda advisory committee went through on september 17 when they deliberated on boosters for all versus selective groups was thoughtful. they have good reasons they put in data slides about why they are only authorizing this for over 65-year-olds, including study showing the two mrna vaccines are very effective, in 74 studies, including in the u.s. i think it is political and there is a lot of back-and-forth. at some point the fda will say yes, but there was a process where they limited the groups for selection. kristen: in the bay ar

gandhi: so the science has not changed. what is the science? so, the fda, when they reviewed the first application for booster shots on september 24, put together 74 studies from around the world. there is just an article today about this, that showed the vaccines were holding up extremely well against severe disease in those under 625. -- those under 65. the new york state data showed over 65 is where we're seeing waning effectiveness and hospitalizations. so i strongly endorse 65 and older getting a booster. the data has not changed. however, what mark gailey is reflecting is what biden said in the middle of august, that all americans should get a booster. the problem is the public dissent, and the dissent among experts is that it's been played out on the public stage. and unless we follow a good study that shows as this, you were looking like you are just making stuff up, actually. so, i think it's more important to follow data. new york data, over six to five, absolutely get a booster. fda says it. and then immunocompromised should have got

monica gandhi shares her insight. and we talk about california lawmakers taking on big oil and gas and how they are having problems with employment agencies in sacramento. les halloween is around the corner. we take in autumn festivities on this week's edition of something beautiful. coming to you from kqed headquarters in san francisco. this friday, october 29th, 2021. welcome to the show i am priya david clemens and this is kqed newsroom. the left catch-up. our pick for some of the top stories in california this week. reservoirs across northern california have slightly higher water levels thanks to last week's drenching storm. a bombcyclone and atmospheric river broke 100 year rain records in parts of northern california, including san francisco, where we had our wettest ever day in october. in order to escape our severe drought, we need a lot more rain. >>> governor newsom received his booster shot this weekend and encouraged all eligible californians to get the boosters, too. the california drug administration has

monica gandhi tonight.he says this could be a case where these guidelines have not been updated yet. she says the big fail is that those in the football program that were asymptomatic and fully vaccinated were tested. >> i have zero panic whatsoever as a public health person as as infectious disease doctor of 44 healthy people who are fully vaccinated who may have a little virus in their nose. it is not an outbreak. does not mean they got six. it does not mean that the vaccines do not work. means the public health strategy in this case was off and they were doing mass testing of people who did not get it. >> reporter: granted athletic elector, and in an .5% of players are vaccinated but everyone had to have a covid's test, whether they should symptoms or not. we had wayne person who is symptomatic we contact tracing one who was asymptomatic and they were tested. >> reporter: that frustrated some players on the team who tweeted university health services told the players they could be arrested for refusing t

doctor gandhi, welcome opback. thank you for your time as always.ompelling data that suggests it's beneficial for parents to wait maybe longer than the recommended 3 weeks to give their 5 to 11 year-old a second dose. >> yes, there are actually pieces of data that have really come this week. we should wait 6 to 8 weeks between doses. one is even a lot. some people wait longer. you can get better and the bodies also better t lell responses. those are long lasting responses. we want kids to have second is data from china that showed us that if you give 3 weeks between doses. there's 82% effectiveness for the pfizer. 92% effective way 8 weeks and you want affect us and then there is that there's more cases of the mild heart inflammation. my in israel 3 weeks for strictly any candidate with 8 weeks to 4 times higher so i personally, if i sing and waiting for my own child for. 68 weeks between doses. >> and you have of so you have an 11 year-old so that that falls into that category i have the kids who just turned 5, 7, got their first doses yesterday. s

doctor gandhi sent me this graph from our world data. it shows just how few people are dying from covid-19. >> in countries where nearly 80% of people are vaccinated. >> living with the virus that under control. he's not a terrible way to live remember when's the last time that you personally thought about pertussis and measles and other pathogens that are under control. doctor gandhi tells me she doesn't believe the mask mandate will be completely lifted in either county. >> until 8 weeks after 5 to 11 year-olds are able to get vaccinated in alameda amanda hari kron 4 news. coming up on the kron 4 morning news are 3 people charged with the murder for the death of a 19 year-old. what police say. >> happened to her when she went missing at a halloween party. and president biden wants to take drastic steps to combat climate change. the latest from washington and a live report. i was injured in a car crash. i had no idea how much my case was worth. i called the barnes firm. when a truck hit my son, i had so many questions about his case. i

. >> commissioner gandhi. absent. commissioner heldfond. >> here. >> commissioner safai. >> here. >> president casciato. >> here. >> we have a quorum. >> we are back in open session. i will entertain a motion to disclose or not. >> move we do not disclose. commissioner heldfond. >> is there a second? >> second safai. >> okay. public comment, please. >> members of the public who wish to provide public comment call 415-655-0001, access code (146)680-4497. pound and pound again. if you have not done so press star 3 to speak. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. wait until you are unmuted to begin your comments. state your name. you have two minutes to provide comments. do we have callers on the line? >> madam secretary, there is one caller on the line. >> thank you, please state your name. your two minutes begin when you speak. >> hello. i am richard halstead calling on behalf of my wife who retired as a nurse at san francisco general hospital and son developmentally disabled. will he end up homeles

gandhi. because, i would like to see the data, for example. before make an informed decision and before i take off my journalism hat and go to the physician at that's the physician hat -- the physician hat, i want to see data. i want to see cases in young healthy adults with no underlying conditions. on the corollary, if we look at data from israel and the fact that this may turn out to be a three series vaccine, like so many vaccines of childhood, polio, hepatitis, 70 vac kids get -- so many vaccines kids get, there is an argument. that robust response might carry us for a much longer time. as for now, i think it is an individual decision. for anyone who feels like they may need one. because, they are around someone who has high risk or they work in a high-risk environment. it is appropriate for them to go get one. >> don't go away. we have another round of two truths and a lie. we are back with abc 7 news special correspondent. before the next round of two truths and ally, can you answer ken's question? i had a breakthrough case in september

gandhi said we're all likely to get exposed to the virus at some point. we won't get rid of the virus. we'll get used to it. >> it's not, unfortunately, going to go away, and and that means we're all lively to see it and get exposed, and that will increase our immunities. >> reporter: july yet, what are restaurants going to do? >> reporter: that's an interesting thing, one restaurant owner told me it's kind of a double-edged sword. if he tells his customer his doesn't they don't have to wear mask anymore, then he has to check vaccination cards when they come through, so he still has that sign on the front. >>> the fda gave the authorization for ages 25 five to 11 last week, and the cdc dulled could give the final green light as soon as tomorrow. while children are less likely to get severe covid, thousands of children have been hospitalized. pfizer's lower vaccine was found to be 91% effective, and no serious side-effects have been detected. >> parents told me they don't know the long-term risk of the vaccine, i would tell them we also don't know the long

gandhi said we are all likely to get exposed to the virus at some point. we won't get rid of the virus, we'll get used to it. >> it's not, unfortunately, going to go away, and that means we're all likely to see it, to get exposed. that will probably increase our immunity. >> we have posted more details on the updated masking requirements on kpix.com. just click the banner at the top of the home page. >> let's take a live look at san francisco. a new side effect of the pandemic tonight. the muni ride home from work or out to dinner may take longer. 100 employees were unable to work today because of the city's new vaccine mandate, causing disruptions to service. muni says some of those transit operators are trying to get exemptions. it? has an extremely negative trickle down in effect the sense that if one operator is not here for whatever reason, then that's one bus. >> and a live look at the commute across our bay area bridges, which will have the next couple of drives to dry out. another gloomy, soggy start to the week, though. >> paul heggen is tracking

doctor monica gandhi with ucsf says on the kron has around 30 mutations compared to the 11 mutations discovered with the delta variant. but that vaccine seem to be effective with those testing positive. anyone who says it's going to be the vaccines. it's not anyone they put a swab up their nose. >> who who had the span of variant and their nose and their vaccinated. they're fine. they're totally fine asymptomatic. according to the cdc around 59% of people in the u.s. are fully vaccinated. >> she says anyone in the bay area who is part of that statistic should not be worried about the new variant hoping the u.s. and other countries can all reach herd immunity the need at least 75%. >> vaccination rate worldwide to stop it. and so this just proves it is going to push us towards getting better vaccine. equity. >> doctor gandhi says that south africa's vaccination rate of only 26% is a big part of why mccrone variant has spread so quickly in that region live in studio. i'm rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. thank you, rob and following the announcement travelers. as you can imagine, packed the ai

. >> around 5.45, will be speaking to ucsf infectious disease expert doctor monica gandhi about kids vaccines that just the covid shot also about how we need to start rethinking how we treat covid cases and masks as the pandemic winds down again, that's in the 5.30 half hour. >> to the south bay. now a san jose man is finally out of the hospital after believe it or not, fighting covid for 9 months now. he has started the long and slow journey of getting his life. a 31 year-old noah davis he returned to the santa clara valley medical center today to begin his physical rehabilitation. he was greeted by the nurses and the doctors who cared for him for 9 months while he fought covid-19 contracted the virus back in february. and at first he tried to fight through from home. but his health deteriorated quickly, his blood oxygen level dropped to a dangerously low level. so he was put into a medically induced coma for 8 weeks. and when he woke up, he couldn't walk couldn't breathe or move his left arm. he says that the ordeal was terrifying. >> waking up not knowing that 2 months passed and.

another gandhi story.bedience, the ties to our own civil rights movement inspired the ability to serve at the white house. i don't think i would run for office which i think was your actual question. but i would love to continue helping out. i've made no secret of the fact that, in retirement, i'd love to maybe be an ambassador, work in the cultural diplomacy space and put my private sector arts to use. >> a lot of competitive congressional seats in new jersey. >> a lot more movies to make, though, too. >> one of the things interesting is you write about your partner josh. you write about your sexuality in a very matter of fact way. you've been together for 11 years. you've been engaged for two years. but i think a lot of people probably didn't know you were gay. why did this feel like the right time to tell the public and write about the decision you did as if we all already knew. >> yeah, thank you. one of the big goals of the book was to make people laugh and, b, feel like you're just having a beer with

joining us live to talk about it is infectious disease expert doctor monica gandhi with ucsf doctor gandhi, thanks so much for joining us here on kron, 4 news at 8 o'clock the sunday night. always appreciate the time. thank you so what do we know on kron what are what are officials doing right now to kind of protect themselves and their countries from. >> so we know i think 3 we know that has more mutations spike routine and the other variants of them seen before and spiked her team is rare is what we call the vaccines work of work. you know, that's essentially code for the spike protein by getting a vaccine. we want to make sure that vaccines work against them. however, it doesn't look like vaccines don't work against them. that was just a report from israel in the last half an hour that their key says in israel. if you're vaccinated or very mild or they don't are asymptomatic. that's a good sign. same is true in south africa. but the key says that they're seeing of disease are among the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated half accident. so hopefully and i'm i think most likely back seat

doctor gandhi sent me this graph from our world data. it shows just how few people are dying from covid-19. >> in countries where nearly 80% of people are vaccinated. >> living with the virus that under control. he's not a terrible way to remember when's the last time that you personally thought about pertussis and measles and other pathogens that are under control. doctor gandhi tells me she doesn't believe the mask mandate will be completely lifted in either county. >> until 8 weeks after 5 to 11 year-olds are able to get vaccinated in alameda amanda hari kron 4 news. >> all san francisco city workers who have been allowed to work remotely. they're now expected to be back in the office at least 2 days a week. today was also the deadline for making them prove either that they've been vaccinated or face the possibility of getting fired. that's unless they've been granted a religious or medical exemption. the biggest group of holdouts in the city's work force. our muni drivers. >> this morning. we had about a 110 transit operators. >> who

doctor gandhi sent me this graph from our world data. it shows just how few people are dying from covid-19. >> in countries where nearly 80% of people are vaccinated. >> living with the virus that under control. he's not a terrible way to live remember when's the last time that you personally thought about pertussis and measles and other pathogens that are under control. >> doctor gandhi tells me she doesn't believe the mask mandate will be completely lifted in either of these 2 counties until 8 weeks after 5 to 11 year-olds are able to get vaccinated live in alameda amanda hari kron 4 news. i'm and are there any doctor don t recommends should still wear their mask see inside, even if they are vaccinated. >> yes, she says anybody who's over the age of 65 or immunocompromised. and if you haven't decided to get that booster yet. and you're one of those in those 2 groups. you should definitely still be wearing your masks in all indoor settings and wherever you just feel that people are getting a little too close. >> thank you for that live

gandhi always appreciate your time. thank you.fficulty that a lot of people are having just just making an appointment to get a booster dose in a moment here but as we head into the holidays. explain to everyone why you believe it is so important to get those boosters before you go to those gatherings with friends and family. well one problem is that people have the fda is not yet approved this for all populations and so absolutely will increase your antibodies. it will probably keep. other people safer because you'll have higher antibodies but without the benefit of proven benefit and transmission or reduction in severe disease. i'm not sure the fda is gonna prove this for everyone. so that's one complication. right? people have a harder time getting appointments their meeting tomorrow, though, to talk about it. um only three states have been pushing boosters for all as opposed to selected populations, which the fda had approved prior to this. so on the other hand, what to do about holidays? it's it is nice that people are they s

doctor gandhi sent me this graph from our world data.it shows just how few people are dying from covid-19. >> in countries where nearly 80% of people are vaccinated. >> living with the virus that under control. he's not a terrible way to live remember when's the last time that you personally thought about pertussis and measles and other pathogens that are under control. doctor gandhi tells me she doesn't believe the mask mandate will be completely lifted in either county. >> until 8 weeks after 5 to 11 year-olds are able to get vaccinated in alameda amanda hari kron 4 news starting today. people who work in small confined businesses in contra, costa county will either have to be fully vaccinated or get tested for covid every week. >> the county has made this rule a part of a requirement to work there as it tries to drive down covid cases. the businesses include gyms dance, studios and yoga studios where people are in close contact one another and breathes heavily. as of today, all san francisco city workers who had previously been able t

over more on this, we're joined by dr monica gandhi, ucsf infectious disease specialist dr gandhi. thanks so much for joining us today, i am a parent myself, and i can just imagine if this happened to my child, so many questions would be running through my head. what do parents do if their child is given an adult dose? do you contact the pediatrician? the pharmacy? the cdc. what appearance do. yes i mean, i'm really sorry this happened for these parents because it does feel really concerning the one thing i will say is that 30 microgram was the dose that we give for adults and 10 micrograms is what we give for children. and hopefully one dose of the wrong type is not going to cause any events or adverse events. but i would absolutely contact the pediatrician and say that this happened but again, u. these doses are somewhat fluid, and this should never happen again because the dose was given as an adult dosage versus the child does. does that mean that the child may not get the second shot? do they wait out for that second shot? do they end up getting the second shot two weeks later

parents, and i hope that this raises awareness and put more quality checks into place, dr monica gandhi, ucsf infectious disease professor explains that pfizer actually studied giving children in the 5 to 11 age group 20 micrograms during trials. money decided to drop the 20 not because it was really dangerous because they wanted to make the smallest dose possible, so it's not. i think getting 20 micrograms just once is not going to hurt anyone better. health explains that pediatric vaccines in question were made with an incorrect amount of delia went meaning they were not properly diluted after being taken out of the vial and put into a syringe. we're told the 14 children may experience more arm soreness, fatigue, headaches or fever, but hospital officials say they should still get the second dose after three weeks, based on cdc guidelines. dr gandhi says it may be better to wait a little longer for the second shot and asks parents not to skip the vaccine altogether. don't let a couple of strength incidents that should not happen again. detroit you from vaccine, ian kid. this is the fi

and gandhi said, i am a pussy. you must be the pussy you wish to see in the world. that is what we need more of. >> you know what's messed up? in a way i feel bad for mike pence because he was living the christian life and being all righteous. it would be like the last four or five years, you're going to hell. do everything perfect and in the ninth inning, oh, i'm going to hell! didn't do nothing life his whole life, even missed all his good jackoff years. your jackoff years is from 14 to about 45, 46, and he didn't do nothing, just a pure man. start hanging with trump, now you go to hell. patriot or pussy. messed up. i feel bad for mike pence, man. he's going to be all right. >> trevor: let's move on to the top story. right now, inflation is the one thing people hate even more than jake gyllenhaal. seems like everything is most expensive these days. groceries are most more expensi, cars are more expensive. tide is $1.50. i can't afford that shit anymore. one price people notice more than anything and that's the price of gas. >> more pain at the pump for drivers as

gandhi, health experts continue to encourage people to get vaccinated. in california, the bay area is leaving the state with vaccination rates. on our vaccine tracker, the darker the color, the higher the rate. in california, more than 67% of the state is vaccinated. nationwide, nearly 60% of every run is vaccinated according to the cdc. if you have questions about covid-19 vaccines you can ask our vaccine team. go to abc7news.com/vaccine, click on the big blue box. reggie: renting hitman.com. it is real website. it is not what you think. spencer: way, more dry weather coming our way. i have the forecast coming up. ama: next, we are live at christmas in the park in san jose. the tree lighting is hap hi, my name is cherrie. i'm 76 and i live on the oregon coast. my husband, sam, we've been married 53 years. we love to walk on the beach. i have two daughters and then two granddaughters. i noticed that memories were not there like they were when i was much younger. since taking prevagen, my memory has gotten better and it's like the puzzle pieces have all b

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equity. >> doctor gandhi says south africa's vaccination rate of 26% is a big part of why mccrone variant has spread so quickly in the region reporting the newsroom. i'm rob nesbitt kron 4 news. >> the variant has prompted several countries, including the u.s. and canada to issue travel bans on at least 6 african nations as a precaution. us restrictions on visitors from the southern part of africa take effect on monday and will not apply to returning us citizens or permanent residents following the announcement travelers the airport in cape town, south africa date today hoping to catch a flight out of there. health experts say the new strands name. mccrone variant is spreading through that part of the now people visiting the area are scrambling to return to their home countries. >> my family live in australia and i'm going back to see them before the kuz country shuts down. i don't know when i'll be able to to leave my job behind and getting on a plane today. >> according to south african officials the new virus is likely responsible for the recent spike in covid infections in the country

tonight, his extraordinary speech likening himself to jesus and gandhi. the judge's reaction.toric sciencure-- congress votes to rebuke a republican lawmaker after he's depicted killing alexandra ocasio-cortez in an animated video posted on his taxpayer account.

monica gandhi says she doesn't think the boosters are necessary if you're otherwise vaccinated. agrees it's an extra layer of protection. >> it will make your nose, a primary entrance point for the virus, less likely to see a virus. it's though we haven't shown this yet, it's possible that you would be less likely to transmit it. >> reporter: and doug says, that's enough to sign him up. >> thank you, scott. tonight, 66% of californians are fully vaccinated. more than 3 million people have received their booster shots. the data is incluing numbers for 5-year-olds to 11-year-olds. and 3% have gotten the first shot. that's 110,000 kids. >>> revealing information about the shooting death of a popular belmont high school football star in january of 2019. robert honka has the exclusive details made public for the first time. it's a story you see only on nbc bay area. >> reporter: there's four defends. one is an adult, in an indiana jail, facing separate charges there. the other adult, antonio valencia, was in court today. it is the start of a legal process that almost didn't happen. i

monica gandhi, nice to have you back on the program. like we're making correct and encouraging steps now we're going in wrong direction. why is this happening? how concerned should we be? >> this is an artifact how we define community transmission. literally. cdc transmission metrics prior to vaccination were based on the fact we were encouraging mask asymptomatic testing because you could pass it on to others. let's pretend that high transmission is 50 over 100,000 cases. line up 100,000 people, 50 have covid in their noses, that's substantial transmission. however, after vaccination in highly vaccinated regions like ours, cdc says don't test if you feel well and you're vaccinated, only go and test if you've been exposed to covid or if you feel like you have covid. so having 50 out of 100,000 people have covid in their nose after vaccination actually just shows the right people are testing. so it is an artifact. unless we change how we define community transmission, highly vaccinated regions are always going to look like they're in the

parents, and i hope that this raises awareness and puts more quality checks into place, dr monica gandhi, ucsf infectious disease professor explains that pfizer actually studied giving children in the 5 to 11 age group 20 micrograms during trials. money decided to drop the 20 not because it was really dangerous because they wanted to make the smallest dose possible, so it's not. i think getting 20 micrograms just once is not going to hurt anyone better. health explains that pediatric vaccines in question were made with an incorrect amount of delia went meaning they were not properly diluted after being taken out of the vial and put into a syringe. we're told the 14 children may experience more arm soreness, fatigue, headaches or fever, but hospital officials say they should still get the second dose after three weeks, based on cdc guidelines. dr gandhi says it may be better to wait a little longer for the second shot and asks parents not to skip the vaccine altogether. don't let a couple of strength incidents that should not happen again. detroit you from vaccine ian kid. this is the fir

dr gandhi says it may be better to wait a little longer for the second shot and asks parents not to skip altogether. don't let a couple of strength incidents that should not happen again. detroit you from vaccine, ian kid. so this is the first report of children here in the bay area receiving incorrect doses of the vaccine. but there have been reports out of virginia and texas last week of children receiving the adult doses of the vaccine by acciden. heather no doubt a lot of frustrated parents out there when you think of your child getting the wrong dose indeed. alright. cristina rendon live force this afternoon. thank you. some new developments today on a promising treatment for covid-1. pfizer has asked fda regulators to authorize its experimental covid-19 pill that reduces deaths and hospitalizations. studies indicate the pill cuts the risk of severe infection by almost 90% and pfizer has also agreed to allow others to manufacture that pill by creating a new licensing agreement allowing generic versions in 95 countries, more cities and states are now bucking fda guidelines and opting

and along those lines, dr gandhi says the problems like what happened at centres antioch clinic this weekend are very rare. so far close to one million children have already seen received their first covid shot nationwide without any problems, clotting and gaussian back to you. all right. thanks ali. well, leaders in california continue to push for more adults to get their covid booster vaccine. this is pfizer makes another major move about an hour ago fighter asked u. s regulators to authorize its covid-19 pill that is shown to reduce deaths and hospitalizations. jonathan sorry, has the latest from atlanta. we got to stay ahead of covid more than 30. million americans have gotten booster shots so far in the fda is expected to expand access to all adults in the coming weeks. but a growing number of officials aren't willing to wait that lon. at least four states in new york city now encouraging anyone over 18 to roll up their sleeves again, even though the fda and cdc safer now. only those over 65 are at high risk should be getting a booster. the push comes as health officials are war

but ucsf infectious disease specialist dr monica gandhi says that same dosage was used in some of the vaccine trials for children. they decided to drop the 20 not because it's really dangerous because they wanted to make the smallest dose possible, so it's not. i think getting 20 micrograms just once is not going to hurt anyone. dr gandhi suggests that parents of the children who received the larger doses wait a little longer than the recommended three weeks before getting the second dose, but she says they should not skip that second dose. thousands of teaching assistants in the university of california system or holding rallies after calling off their plan two day strike. the celebration comes after lecturers at all nine undergraduate campuses had planned to walk off the job at 10 o'clock this morning. the union representing the workers tweeted that the two sides reached a tentative agreement, including what it called groundbreaking improvements in crucial areas, including job stability, workload and compensation. classes are being held as scheduled today. a mother in her young chil

he quoted gandhi and justice karen summers in court today, and he said the hardest part about this ishave to look into the mirror and know that you really messed up -- that's what he said. brent: this is probably the most closely watched trial to come out of the january 6 riots so far. how significant is this sentencing, and what does it tell us about your trials, trials that are still under way -- what does it tell us about future trials? >> quite significant. we know that the sentence is 41 months, and this is exactly the same sentence that another january 6 rioters was given last week for punching a police officer during the riot. even though chansley did not commit a violent act, what he did, meaning walking down the halls of the capitol shirtless and holding that spear, is as grave as punching a police officer, and this sets an example among the january 6 rioters. there are almost 200 cases of people charged with assault reaching the sentencing phase now. according to the justice department, there are also more than 660 people who have been arrested for crimes related to the capi

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doctor monica gandhi says the country's vaccination rate of only 26% in south africa says a lot. believes that anyone in the u.s. was fully vaccinated has less to be concerned about when it comes kron. >> people were asymptomatic and they were fully vaccinated even if they had been there knows that proves the vaccines work against this variant. so the best thing we can do. he's got vaccinated and get the world vaccinated. >> according to the cdc around 59% of americans are fully vaccinated. doctor gandhi says every country needs reach 75% to stop the spread of on the kron and other variants live in the newsroom. i'm rob nesbitt kron 4 news. thanks, robin. stocks sank today amid news of the. >> on the kron variant, the dow tumbled 905 points. the nasdaq and s and p also lost more than 2% of their values travel and energy stocks were among the biggest losers. investors fear that the new variant may lead to lockdowns again. >> they have sold off airline stocks. you not a united airlines delta airlines and american airlines are down 7, 8, 9%, respectively. also, the investors are mov

monica gandhi with ucsf thank you for being with us the >> thank you. >> we have spent so much time honing in on the delta variant variant. but there were a bunch of variants before that, alpha, gamma, how does that st. croix up against those and what do we know about how dangerous this could be. >> you're right only alpha, beta, gamma and delta have taken hold. delta has been the dominant variant in the world since the beginning of march when it arose in india at a 4% vaccination rates. there were others lambda, no one paid attention to because they went away. why are we concerned about omicron? two reasons, one it could be more transmissible than delta. even though we have to wait a while to determine that for sure. because once you look for something you find it. and it's -- i think it's important that the w.h.o. has not said that definitively. the second is that it's spike protein which is the little piece that sticks out. it has 32 mutations on it which is more than the delta variant which has 11 mutations. however, the important thing is vaccinations are going to work against in vari

we have come to the endura gonda children's hospital -- endura gandhi children's hospital.ree, so weak she can barely open her eyes. she is nearly one. [speaking foreign language] >> it is not just patients suffering. health care staff of dump and pa for months. -- staff have not been paid for months. >> they can't pay for their ticket to come here, they can't pay for the food here and she was saying something -- someda the-- someday they may have to commit her as a malnutrition patient because she does not know where she will get her meal next. >> before the taliban can to power, there was a humanitarian crisis. drought, aid cuts and economic collapse have turned prices into catastrophe. >> i spoke to her and she told me more about what the taliban is trying to do to alleviate this crisis. >> that is something this entire nation is wondering and waiting to hear. the entire international community is waiting to hear how the taliban plans to heal -- deal with this crisis to avoid a potential collapse. i was speaking to people from this region who say that whatever happens in

this tit for tat, tit for tat, it is, you know -- i was reading gandhi last night. was upset about some things. you know, an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. we have to start to figure out how we're going to tone down, collectively, this anger, this vitriol in this country. >> i wish more people were reading gandhi, congresswoman. i do want to ask you, pabecause your office in dearborn was vandalized yesterday, broken into. do you know what was behind this? >> i don't. when the police called me, i met them over there at the office. none of my technology was taken. they had taken some paddles, patriotic paddles that had been given to me, taking it and damaged mem porabilia of my husband. police said it was personal. i'm not going to say that it didn't bother me, but i have removed all the important memorabilia, things that have sentimental or historical value to me, from the vaoffice, and i going back out today and doing my job. >> i'm really sorry for that, congresswoman. that must have been very upsetting, to lose some meme b -- memorabilia related to your la

gandhi and other health officials recommend more people take advantage of the protection vaccines offer. and stop waiting for the elusive end of covid, calling the virus endemic, meaning it will remain part of our lives. try to live again with the knowledge that we're never going to have a final day that is done. it's with us. unfortunately. now if you really want the booster shot as soon as possible, a few recommendations from pharmacists try a weekend appointment when there's less demand. be willing to wait around for a cancelation or try your personal doctor. greg liggins, ktvu fox two news. still to come in noon. the holiday travel season is officially underway. we take a closer look at what you can expect. if you have a flight here in the coming days, and why this year's trip could cost you more if you're planning to drive plus a big settlement for doordash drivers in san francisco, what it could mean for those who made deliveries specifically in the city between 2000 and 16, and last year. under mostly sunny skies. another unseasonably warm day around the bay area. we'll check in

people that she is advising and we're talking of the ucsf infectious disease expert doctor monica gandhi has been all over bay area media for a year and a half now advising folks on how to get through this. she says it is better to wait longer. then the cdc's recommendation of 3 weeks before you get your little one that second dose of the pfizer vaccine, which again, remembers a 3rd of the amount per dose of what adults get she told us tonight on kron 4 news at 5. she's telling parents that she is advising to wait 6 up to 8 weeks to get the second dose. >> if you get 3 weeks between doses. there's 82% effectiveness for the pfizer. 92% effective way 8 weeks and you want affect us. so i personally, if i sing and waiting for my own child for set 6 to 8 weeks between doses. >> she has an 11 year-old in that age range and she cited recent studies in canada and israel to support her contention, adding that one of the study suggested that the risk of myocarditis the and large heart that is rare but can happen. the risk more. if you wait less time. so if you do extend the second dose longer she

over more on this, we're joined by dr monica gandhi, ucsf infectious disease specialist dr gandhi.this happened to my child, so many questions would be running through my head. what do parents do if their child is given an adult dose? do you contact the pediatrician? the pharmacy? the cdc. what appearance do. yes i mean, i'm really sorry this happened for these parents because it does feel really concerning the one thing i will say is that 30 microgram was the dose that we give for adults and 10 micrograms is what we give for children.

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