says her district can get by until the end of the year but in the fall, she's asking the public health department to step in and do the public health work in schools so schools can go back to focusing on math and history, not health orders. in the south bay, damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. >> get a booster or get another job. that is the bottom line and a new vaccine mandate that went into effect today in santa clara county. it will require nearly all health-care workers, including firefighters, to get that covid booster. county public health department announced the deadline last month as covid cases and hospitalizations surge. and unlike some other mandates, the county does not plan to allow exemptions. that has been an issue for dozens of south bay firefighters in all but 42 firefighters are vaccinated. the union says if all were to be let go, it would create a public health safety threat with fire season approaching. >> it is very hard to try to bring back that amount of a workforce in time for fire season that's right around the corner. >> county leaders did meet with union leaders this

we've reached out to most of the county health departments.nt rules are expiring on february 15. others have no plans to lift the rules saying cases and hospitalizations are higher than they were when the rules were put in place. we asked the state health department if the mask mandate will in fact expire on february 15. staff responded saying it will be update as they continue to assess. the doctor says cases will be low enough where it should be lifted. >> where people will choose to wear a mask if they want to ensure that they're not around respiratory passages. in the u.k. and almost every country in europe, exempt for germany and poland, have gone through this approach of mask optional. >>> it's on pause. the east bay's biggest school school district delaying the enforcement of the covid mask mandate. the school board waited to vote until fall to enforce vaccine rules so for now, those unvaccinated will still be able to attend classes. however come fall, unvaccinated students will not be allowed on campus. our nbc bay area streaming act,

around, he says he was referred to the california state department, then the san diego public health department, to the harbor police, to the department of transportation, the coast guard, then back to the cdc, which this time told him to call the public health department of the destination site, san francisco. >> he finally found something that was called a mega event. that's where he was able to take a report and give me a tracking number. that's the only thing i have is that tracking number, now that the ship is denying that anything ever happened. >> reporter: we did not hear back from princess cruises or the san francisco department of public health, and he says he doesn't think princess cruises is taking enough action. >> we're not getting tested. so the bay area is getting us as-is with no information after the dancers and singers and everybody had to quarantine. >> reporter: the casillos plan to go directly home and quarantine until they can take a covid test. the earliest appointment is at stanford next week. robert handa, nbc bay area news. >> that is frustrating for sure. the cdc is

director of health in san francisco, doctor grant colfax gave an update tuesday on the city's record breaking numbers. and right now. >> nearly one in 5 tests positive. the san francisco department of public health, along with mayor london breed's office will now require large health care providers to help administer tests to minimize the surge in omicron cases, health department to shoulder on the bass purdue of the of this testing. >> and so as we learn to live with this virus has a testing on demand. absence was we need to make sure that everybody is doing their part if hospitals and hospital affiliated systems don't show proof of providing tests for patients who are symptomatic or who are close contact with someone who has tested positive. they'll face fines of up to $10,000 per day. getting that test within 24 hours of that request and that they are then getting results from that testing within 48 hours. and that happening 90% of the time schools are also getting more help. the city is sending more kn 95 mask and rapid antigen test of the san francisco unified school district. and this week we're distributing the 56,000 at home test kits from the california department of pu

david agus, want to start with news that came out of california this weekend where the state health department said health care workers who test positive but are asymptomatic can return back to twork. what is that about and what implications do you think that has for health departments across this country? >> thanks jericka, good evening. what california did actually is say only at last resort, so there is no other option, you have no workers, you can bring bck those workers. and if you are covid positive du only care for people who are covid positive. certainly we hope it doesn't get to that situation but we have to tir ca for people in the hospital. and this is a last-ditch effort to enable them to get the best care, to it to give a chance to trillion get through it. >> i want to turn to a word freding flu rhona the idea that you could flu and coronavirus virus, is there such a thing. >> it sounds like a disney character. but yes, we've seen a handful of cases where people infected both with influenza virus and covid-19. the virus, the coronavirus that causes this syndrome. so it it happens,

and that's according to the health department. if you're inside and it gets more than 50 people don't, you can go to work if it's a small workplace like kron 4, we only have a handful of people that work. they suggest that you do. zoom calls, if you can work from home for the next month, just to slow it down. why is it so important now? rate right now at last month? why not next month? well, according to the health department, time is of the essence. >> just by pure volume, we're seeing increases in our hospitalizations. we're really concerned about the next 30 days. heat. >> helping stop the rapid spread of the highly contagious variant in our community. our case rates have never been higher and begin decline. >> and james is not just hospitalizations. we've done this story for the last several weeks, months or so. >> staffing levels. a lot of the staff members either have covid there quarantining or let's face it. some people might even be calling sickouts. so that is why with the number of beds are that are limited and staffing

the health department said several sites set to close on monday because of a nationwide software glitch that suspended the testing providers service. the department said they were working to reschedule appointments for the people out appointment scheduled on monday and tuesday. the test provider says people can make an appointment or walk in for a test today. and the south bay san jose has approved a booster mandate for city workers and city owned properties. that includes safety center, which is city owned proffers camila barco is live with the details this morning. good morning. >> good morning. rain us like you said this means if you work for the city of san jose, you need to have a booster shot. and this also goes for anyone attending an event at a city on property. like you also said rain and this includes the sep center. so if you're planning on attending sharks game or a concert at the center. you need to have your booster shot. that booster shot is also going to be necessary. if you want to step inside the convention center, the center for performing arts and historic theaters.

the health department tweeted that unauthorized sites have been found throughout the city. the department says even though demand is high, they are urging people to only go to official sites or use tests approved by the fda. that means you should check with your provider or go to the health department's website to find official testing sites and schedule an appointment. >>> it's a scene we are too familiar with. a rush to get the test. sky ranger was overhead this morning in san mateo. you can see cars heading into the parking lot as more people try to get a covid test. there have been more than a half a million tests reported. that's resulted in more than 100,000 new casescases, a 2% ine from the previous 24 hours. >>> bart says the surge in covid cases hasn't affected service. 40 employees have tested positive since mid december. many shifts were covered with overtime and standby staff. they have been able to put out 92% of service. >>> let's go to sfo. a spice of cases is reported tsa agents. today, they are up to at least 95. oakland has 52 cases. san jose airport has 5

a lot of police officers, firefighters, muni drivers, department of public health workers and those at san francisco general are out with omicron. we are going to continue to experience this challenge for some time. we ask for people to be very patient with us, to know we are doing our best, working to backfill those positions when they are out with over time and the number of other resources. these are the times we are living in. as a result we just have to adjust to our environment. to talk more specifically about where we are with omicron, what to expect for the future and you know the hopefulness when doctor colfax is smiling and excited and hopeful and giving an indication things are going to get better. i know that is what is going to happen. we get to come outside and play, right, dr. colfax? please welcome for an update on the covid-19 omicron variant and what is happening in san francisco here is dr. grant colfax. >> good morning everybody. thank you, mayor breed for your leadership as we enter the third year of the pandemic. third year. we are seeing covid-19 cases drop relat

health officer and dr. baba and all of the staff at the department of public health. i have been particularly focused in a very dense area of the city where there's a lot of congregate settings of shared bathrooms and shared kitchens namely s.r.o.s and i know others of you have and thank you for your support over the last two years and i know that d.p.h. as well has taken that very seriously and last week when my staff and i met with dr. baba and we were talking about the omicron surge, the good news of course is that you are much less likely to die and much less likely to get it if you are twice or thrice vaxed and have the entire series, but given that it is extremely more transmissive, if you end up with a much higher transmission rate, you end up with the same number of people in the hospital and in acute care as you did when there was a much more veer hasn't virus and less vaccinated population relative to the number of people who were showing up in acute care and in i.c.u. and the reason i bring that up is because as we seem to be turning another page and that's

the health department said that several sites had to be shut down on monday because of a nationwide software glitch that it suspended the testing providers service. the department says that they were working to reschedule appointments for the people who had their appointments on monday and tuesday canceled. we're going to try to get them fit in elsewhere. the test providers says that people can make an appointment or they can also walk in for a test today. so long as supplies last. in the south bay, san jose has approved a booster mandate for city workers and city own properties which includes the s ap center. again, that's owned by the city and kron four's. camila barco is live with details and what that's going to mean for everybody. good morning, camilla. >> good morning, james c s an jose is the first city in the state to require shots for its employees and city own phineas and air possibly the first city in the country to do this. now, like you said, booster shots are going to be required for san jose city employees and for anyone who steps inside one of the then use that the so the c a

the health department shared shows the extreme spike in covid cases. worse than any before in the city. and here is a look at the city. staffers in covid isolating. 132 membersst pd, 140 employees from the fire department. 167mta workers and about 250 staffers from sf general all out of commission. city officials asking people not to call 911, just to report that you are having covid symptoms the that its been putting the extra strain on an already difficult situation for our emergency system. back to you. >>> if you need help finding a covid test, vaccine or booster you can check out the resource guide. >>> a live look at the state capitol. the governor wants to make california the first state to offer medicaid to every low income resident. the coverage in the budget would be available regardless of a person's immigration status. medicated in california already covers younger and older resident who are undocumented. now the governor wants state lawmakers to cover the rest. >>> and the governor also said that changes necessary for our plan to reduce in

today we are going to have presentations by the department of public health. children youth and families, department of emergency management school kiss kiss option district and a special guest will join us later during this meeting. i don't know if there is anything that you want to add, chair ronen. if not, i guess we can start the presentations and reserve questions after the presentations are heard. i do think that chair safai wanted to say something and supervisor melgar would you mind running the hearing. >> thank you chair ronen. to you, vice chair safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you supervisor melgar for calling this hearing. you and i have had conversations. one thing i think the city could benefit from right now and the school district in particular as you pointed out. we have resources, know how track record of really dealing with this crisis. i think up until this most recent surge we have done a phenomenal job as a country. as you said this caught us off guard in some ways our kids in our classrooms and not just limited to there but the entire ci

california san francisco has been working very closely over the past year with the san francisco department of public health, the california department of public health and color genomics on genome basics of the virus. by that, we identify covid positive cases in the city and county, we make an attempt to sequence all cases that we are able to identify. this particular sample, i heard about it yesterday at about 3:00 p.m. and we were able to receive the sample in the laboratory by 8:00 p.m. we ran a very fast molecular test which looks for psychgene drop-out. we were able to get the results of that test within two hours showing that potentially this sample was an omicron variant sample l. to concur this finding, we needed the viral genome of this virus and we used a pocket size sequencer made by oxford technologies. this is a sequencing technology in which we can go from detecting the virus to being able to detect the entire genome within a few hours. we were able to confirm the detection of omicron within five hours and we had most of the genome within eight hours. so 4:00 a.m. last night we were able to d

we asked the state health department if the mask mandate will, in fact, expire on february 15th. staff responded to us saying it will be updated as they continue to assess. >> where people will choose to wear masks if they want to just ensure they're not around respiratory pathogens, but the uk and almost every country in europe, except for germany and poland, have gone to this approach of mask optional. >>> moderna is testing an omicron-specific booster shot. the company announced the phase two trial underway. early data shows it has improved effectiveness against the omicron variant. >> what we see is that people are still protected, there are still good antibody levels at the six-month time point, but they have begun to wane also against, in particular, the omicron strain, which we would predict because omicron, we would expect to see over levels. we imagine over time if you carry that out, perhaps by the fall of this year, levels will be low of antibodies in people and there will be a need for a boosting. >> dr. paul burton also reveals more about the progress the company is

we've expanded our booster availability within the health department and are working with other health care systems to support increasing booster availability as well. thank you, commissioners, that's my update. happy to take any additional questions. >> president bernal: thank you, director colfax. commissioners, before we go into comments or questions on this item, we need to go to public comment. >> secretary: anyone who would like to make public comment, press star three. caller, you're unmuted. please let us know that you're there. >> caller: hi. this is michael petrellis again. and the issue i am calling about today is the lack of discussion from dr. colfax and the commissioners about mailing everyone in san francisco a home test for covid. we also need to discuss mailing everyone n95 masks. i don't believe in year three of covid we are going to see it under control if we do not make masks and tests widely available. and we need to follow the example of washington, d.c. where they've made the tests available for free and all municipal government buildings. without widespread test

the health department said that several sites had to be shut down monday because of a nationwide software glitch that prevented the test sites providers from doing their work. the department says that they were working right now to reschedule all the appointments that had to be canceled yesterday and on monday. hopefully they get them rescheduled soon. the test provider at that site says that anybody can make an appointment or if supplies are there, you can actually walk in and get tested that day. in the south bay, san jose has approved a booster mandate for city workers and city owned properties. that includes the s ap center owned by san jose and crawford's camila. barco is live for us now with what this means for all of us. coming up. >> san jose mayor sam liccardo and council members spend a majority of the meeting talking about the effectiveness of the booster shot. the cargo says that this is going to avoid having. hospitals from being overwhelmed and what local health expert tells me that the 3rd dose is the sweet spot for the ultimate protection. so booster shots are going to be

to help alleviate the stress the health department is facing they're asking health clinics to step up and expand testing. "nbc bay area news". >>> what started as a fun new year's eve party turned into a nightmare for more than a dozen people in the south bay. the party was put on by moose lodge 401 in "snl." they had food there, a live band. it was a great time, but now many are worried that gathering has become a super spreading event and some attendees say nobody is tracking it. damion trujillo joins us live with a story you will only see on nbc bay area. damian. >> reporter: terry, the social quarters here at the moose lodge opens at 3:00 on weekdays but it is closed for the foreseeable future. tonight the executive board is meeting in emergency session to find out what exactly happened here on new year's eve. did pictures show a lot of smiling faces at the moose lodge's new year's eve dinner dance, but today there are no smiles on the face of martha jiminez. >> still sick. not feeling too good still. >> reporter: jiminez says she contracted covid for the second time and believes

the new rules will be in effect for one month and then on february 7th, the public health department will decide whether to extend them or not. robert handa, nbc bay area news. >> thanks. >>> the big storms that swept through marin county last year brought the area more than 200% of its normal rainfall. the munition pal water district is considering a roll back of water use restrictions. not a repeal. water officials don't want to eliminate all guidelines. a gradual lifting of drought rules is favored. a repeal of those penalties. >>> the snowy streak continues up in the sierra with fresh snow coming down this morning. video taken. check out the video we shot. the region saw 214 inches of new snow. researchers say it's the snoesyest december since 1970. check out the images. what a difference a month makes. the image on the left taken december 2 before the storm. the one on the right is how lake tahoe looked on new year's day. great skiing, snowboarding weather. a lot of people will head there this weekend since they couldn't ski last weekend. everybody was snowed in. how are we look

we reached out to princess and the san francisco public health department but have not heard back. they say once they get off the ship, they will go home directly and they have a scheduled covid test at stanford. >>> san jose is on track to be the first city in the state to pan date all city workers not only be vaccinated but also have that booster shot as well. the city's rules committee discussed the proposal this afternoon during a virtual meeting. they agreed to discuss the issue further next tuesday. if the mayor's proposal is approved, as expected, all city employees would have to get a booster in addition to anyone visiting large city-owned buildings like the convention center would have to show proof of a booster as well. if you have questioquestions, w here to help. we are hosting a phone bank tomorrow in conjunction with the santa clara county health department from 5:00 to 7:00 tomorrow night. the number is on your screen. we have this phone number on our website. >>> let's bring in rob. super clear outside today. it felt warmer than what we have seen the last couple of

we have reached out to the san francisco health department as well as princess cruise lines to gain more information. so far we have not heard back. in the distance, you see that ship has docked. this ship, according to that couple from mountain view, they believe some of the ship workers, the entertainers did need to quarantine after shows were cancelled. we're working to speak with the individuals coming off of that ship and we will keep you onlin. live at the embarcadero. >>> we're holding a phone bank tonight with the santa clara county public health department from 5:00 to 7:00 tonight. the number is on your screen and on our website and social media pages as well. >>> time to get a look at the forecast with kari. how is it going? >> it's going well. we've seen some patches of fog starting to clear out and we will see partly to mostly cloudy skies for today,our temperatures in the upper 50s. we will see a chance of rain by late tomorrow morning. once that clears out, we're headed into a stretch of dry weather. that looks to bring us a tenth of an inch of rain to a quarter of an inch

health officer and dr. baba and all of the staff at the department of public health. i have been particularly focused in a very dense area of the city where there's a lot of congregate settings of shared bathrooms and shared kitchens namely s.r.o.s and i know others of you have and thank you for your support over the last two years and i know that d.p.h. as well has taken that very seriously and last week when my staff and i met with dr. baba and we were talking about the omicron surge, the good news of course is that you are much less likely to die and much less likely to get it if you are twice or thrice vaxed and have the entire series, but given that it is extremely more transmissive, if you end up with a much higher transmission rate, you end up with the same number of people in the hospital and in acute care as you did when there was a much more veer hasn't virus and less vaccinated population relative to the number of people who were showing up in acute care and in i.c.u. and the reason i bring that up is because as we seem to be turning another page and that's

>> well, i know that the san francisco public health department is basically in charge of taking care of complaints and anything going on there. as you might have heard in my story earlier, he went through many agencies before he finally ended up at the san francisco health department who did do the mega event listing for him so it got recorded and he got a number so co-find out what was going on. but it shows how hard it is for agencies to figure out the unique circumstances of cruise ships. and that was why he ended up getting essentially the run-around. >> this is how it all started two years ago when we had the cruise ship dock in oakland as well. we should add, the princess cruise, we've reached out to them. no call back from them. >>> still to come, the biggest game of the season. will jimmy g be ready? >> the winter olympics, one month away. less than a month away. will it happen this february? we're back in a moment. you're watching nbc bay area news tonight. - hi mommy! - hi honey! oh i missed you! you just want to video call the kids. ok. ♪ hush little baby...♪ ♪...don't say

to take into consideration for the health and safety of communities across the entire state of florida. i was really surprised when stell was talking about the department of health reaction. i mean they defined themselves as a department that is there to prevent disease of environmental origin. so i decided to take the water test we had done and go visit the department of health myself. i wanted to see what they thought about the water test results. talk about the geiger counter results. see what test protections are available for citizens and what the state is do with all these cancer diagnosis. and it turns out the department of health is on a park property where mosaic had paid for other innovations. ah, and although phosphate is natural for bodies too much of it, like the levels we found in the test that we ran, can cause kidney damage and osteoporosis. ah, and finding out more about the wire service. do you guys have anything that tests for radiation? we haven't had that and i try a fussy person in thank you. appreciate you taking water samples. you found incredible one phosphate because a lot of people love sincere concern, especially to so you k

they came out here to the health department, some experts. now here they see that it's high levels of radiation, yet they don't, they just kind of like, you know, ignore it. mm. ah, let check it out. is the geiger counter? these rocks come from the phosphate mining company and they dump them here. then again, we can this, we're already up 280100 is anything over 100 dangerous, prolonged exposure? how are you doing? that's great if we wanted to bring it down and test this area cuz everyone keeps here. i mean, it wasn't like like long and it's almost a form under, in, in, in wow, yes and here the whole rock. yeah. and the kids play it. right. yeah. yeah, yeah. you know, we just went to the rock pilot measured over 450. he's always playing. yeah, i always the kids in there. mm. could not believe what i've seen every single place we went and put a geiger counter down or every place. so we took a water sample from had cancer causing levels. the people in florida are actually fighting a few cancers, the 1st being the disease which still remains the

the data from the health department shows the 7 day positivity rate is now at 22.9% , a slight decrease from yesterday. meanwhile my health officials in santa clara county are trying to ease the crunch on cobra testing. they are clarifying when and when not to get a test. they say if you already have covid tt try to confirm using an the result by going in for a pcr test. the county says to save those tests for others who have a more urgent need. also, if you had covid and are trying to exit from quarantine, do not take a pcr test as it is too sensitive and may give you a false positive. >> every general recommendation, not a mandate, but a recommendation is to avoid large gatherings. storming the county also threatened to find two of the regis largest healthcare providers, kaiser and palatal medical foundation, for not providing a fair share of covid tests. healthcare providers are required by law to provide tests, and the county want you to report violators. >> if you have symptoms or close contact, and you have tried to get access to testing from your healthcare provider, but were tol

i've never missed a game now i'm being told by the health department. i have to miss a game center in high parent. paul farbstein says families are being locked out from seeing their kids play. he argues the omicron variant is less severe and parents should be allowed to assess the risk more adults. we should all they want told not to go. >> is is i think, you about the county's recommendations were set to go into effect. wednesday. but the novato unified school district adopted the rules tuesday night. keeping parents out from a series of games. we do not want to be apple. find transmission at this point in our khon surge. we need to be be doing the opposite. marin county public health officer doctor matt willis says about 3 out of every 100 residents is currently infected with covid-19. he's concerned that a room full of parents at indoor sports games can contribute to the spread doctor willis says this is a temporary sacrifice as a parent of high school athlete. you know, i know that it hurts not to be able attend those and even i can't go. heard eno

departments equal? or is this -- or does public health lead beneath you? like, what is the command structure here for the emergency response? >> so we -- the department of emergency management is the lead. so our role is to coordinate the overall effort for this. our planning -- we are doing -- you know, a lot of what we're doing right now is in planning so we're working with a lead from the department of public health, dr. andy tenor, and we have moved from human services agency and then other support departments. >> supervisor preston: and -- >> go ahead. >> supervisor preston: sorry. director carol, i'm trying to understand, do all of the departments then -- their leads report to you? and just let me be more specific. for example, the police department, within the context of this emergency order, do they take their direction from the department of public health, some other entity or dem directly? >> so i don't have the ability to direct the police -- the police department as far as their tactics, but they are part of our overall incident management team.

the city health department said the glitch shut down test sites yesterday as well. here's a list of the affected locations on your screen. officials are asking people to not go to the sites for testing at this time. the working with the vendors to try to accommodate people had an appointment yesterday. in the east bay. the elsa rio police department is mourning one of its own this morning. the department confirms officer jared bernstein was killed in a car crash sunday morning on interstate 80 near san pablo dam road. authorities say a van and fun of the officer lost control and collided with the center median bernstein's car and 2 others hit that van and he was pronounced dead at the scene. chp is still investigating the cause of this accident. it was a procession yesterday afternoon as the officers body was exported from the contra costa county coroner's office. in a statement the department says officer bernstein was, quote, everything a person could hope for in a police officer, a citizen that he made his son, a brother and a friend. he was just 26 years old. sa

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health department officials say it's too early to make that conclusion. a new wave of the virus is likely not only to stream the country's health care system. it could exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in regents, still suffering and the impact of super typhoon ride as it is. there are already outbreaks of diarrhea and gastro enteritis in those areas. forced hit by the store . we have nbc of the showman and sample or increase of h as in the urea, half encode but, but you know, kaufman calling i among the ceiling dumps, you know, seem, wanted, aren't offered that i know offered the shiny vision in the evaporation center. so i, oh, there is an air going, i'm the see. since i just nbc or so, i spent 8 workers hope an increase in coven. 19 cases would be the last thing they would have to deal with, as they're still struggling to provide basic needs like food and clean drinking water to the millions affected by the typhoon. barn below al jazeera manila. argentina is feeling the impact of the new corona virus very and reporting a record 50000 daily cases. peop

health. in the south bay today, the tech interactive teamed up with the santa clara department of health to offer a free walk-up covid vaccination clinic. anyone who got their shot was rented free admission to the museum. one mother told us she was anxious to get her son boosted. >> so excited because he is the one person in my family i felt least protected because he had his first two shots this summer. with the uptick in omicron in schools, they have had cases across every grade level this week. as soon i heard we were doing this, i brought him in. >> the fda expanded booster shot eligibility for 12 to 15-year-olds earlier this week. for more information on testing sites or if you have questions about the vaccine, you can head to abc7news.com/coronavirus. happening right now, it is the biggest bay area sports day of 2022 so far. the 49ers entered the day with a chance to make the nfl playoffs. warrior superstar klay thompson is making his return after two and a half years away due to injury. chris alvarez joins us live at the two center with a look at all the excitement, a day you have been loo

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arnob lahirji, the chair of the health department at cal north bay. thank you for joining us.have heard about breakthrough cases, being vaccinated is not good enough. what else should we be doing, like social distancing again or just hanging out with our household? >> so i think every social interaction has to take into account a risk/reward relationship. so, of course, right now with the omicron variant we know factually that it is much more transmissible, which means that public gatherings, primarily outdoors, have heightened level of risk associated with them. that being said, we also have to take into account that for the population the omicron variant is much less severe. in other words much more mild in its disease transmission. so i think any individual, any family member, any community has to take into account the value of the interaction and the risks associated with that, understanding that for most people who are vaccinated and boosted and masked that the risk of severe disease and hospitalization and anything worse is not very high. >> doctor, like more people are

department of health and human services has donated money for testing for uninsured americans. according to government records, kpix5 found community wellness america at two southern california locations. thneof $1,159,833. and made the irs a tax exempt status as a public charity. >> community wellness america and crestview have not responded to our request for comment. >>> a car chase and walnut creek was inches away from ending in disaster. officers chase a stolen car and found the park their offense. the suspect hit the patrol car and hit the gas unaware of the 40 foot drop. the car revving the engine. to stop the car, officers got his attention by firing of beanbag shot into the window. they were booked into the detention facility. >>> is santa rosa pharmacy worker is recovering after she was beaten during a violent robbery. it happened on mendocino avenue. two men jumped over a partition and demanded cash and pills. when one of those workers cannot open the safe quickly enough, the robber attacked her . here are the photos. about 18 years old and nearly 6 feet tall. both r

the department of public health behavioral health director dr. hillary kunis and we are also joined by our police chief bill scott. i am here with our various leaders in san francisco to officially declare a state of emergency in the tenderloin community of the city and county of san francisco. we know that there have been a number of challenges that have happened in this community and have persisted over the years. but if we take a step back, when this pandemic first hit san francisco, of course, we immediately in light of what we knew was inevitable declared a state of emergency to deal with the global pandemic of covid-19 and, in fact, what we saw over the last almost two years was san francisco step up, remove the bureaucratic layers and the opticals that get in the way of actually being effective and collaborating with our various city agencies and what we were able to do to deal with the pandemic was extraordinary. we are one of the densest cities in the country and with less than 700 people who lost their lives throughout the entire pandem

>> if you have health care workers covid positive caring for vulnerable patients we can spread the covid virus inside the hospital as well. >> reporter: we reached out to state department of public health. issued statement saying the department is providing temporary flexibility to help hospitals respond to unprecedented surge in staffing services. hospitals have to exhaust all over options before resorting to this tool. facilities and providers should have asymptomatic workers only interact with covid-19 positive patients to the extent possible. and state says covid positive workers with no symptoms will need to wear n95 press separator. dr. george rutherford, professor of epidemiology said it's surprising. >> this is about cohorting, people already infected taking care of infected people. did it for ebola in west africa, have done it before, it's in the playbook, not early in the playbook, towards the end. i think the staffing issues are such it led the state to put the guidance out. >> loosening the precautions makes spread easier. >> reporter: instead of increasing the workers, lifting isolation will only increase the chances of nurses getting other nurses sick, sh

kron on's rob nesbitt digging into mask recommendations from san francisco's health department and the cdc. you can watch his report tonight on kron. 4 news at 5. now headed down to the south bay where san jose has implemented a new health order. that's the first of its kind in the country as kron on's camila barco reports. if you're planning to attend a sharks game or another large event down in san jose should be prepared. show proof of your covid booster or a negative test result. so if you want to go to a sharks game or a concert at the sep center. >>you must now have your booster shot. san jose city council members voted unanimously on this booster mandate and they say it's for the long haul. >>it's important for the city of san jose to take a leadership role because we know that the only way we're going to get out his command of the site is pandemic is by working together. >>the city of san jose has become the first city in the state and the country to implement a booster mandate. booster shots are now required for people who step inside city owned venues for any indoor event wit