our conference dan kerman is live for us said ucsf with more on that >>that's right ucsf and son are both allowing those 65 and older to schedule but don't get the feeling that this is because they have just discovered a whole slew of extra vaccine. supply that is not the reason but they are still expanding those 65 plus can make an appointment. >>sutter health expanding the group it's giving covid-19 vaccinations to instead of just those 75 and up right now center patients, 65 and up can schedule an appointment through sutter health's website or by phone. and it's not just senator that's expanding the rollout still 75 year-old patients coming in, but now we also are mixing in. >>patients who are 65 doctor josh adler is overseeing the vaccine rollout ucsf health. he says the decision to expand vaccine access at ucsf. >>to those 65 and over is not due to an increase in vaccine supply. >>we still don't have an effect in the and instead he says the decision to expand access is so ucsf will fall in line with ball state and federal recommendations and alleviate confusion among patients. w

always be there just to give you an idea of how limited the supply is here ucsf. >>they estimate there's about 200,000 patients who are 65 years of age and older. >>and they're getting about 5 to 6,000 doses of the vaccine each week. at ucsf dan kerman kron 4 happening tomorrow, san francisco is opening a second mass vaccination clinic at the moscow, nice enter the large convention halls have been converted into medical facilities. >>the plan supply permitting is to vaccinate up to 10,000 people every day right now the site only has about 1500 doses per day you must be at least 65 years old or a medical professional who qualifies under phase. one a. >>a drive-thru vaccination site will also open tomorrow this one for alameda county residents 75 and older, but if you haven't signed up yet it's already too late to do that within 24 hours of allowing registration. all the spots were booked as more sites and vaccines become available you want to know when you can get your dose we have several links on our way website to all of the bay area county vaccination clinics j

so is ucsf health. >>we knew we needed to open it up to be consistent with the national and statewide doctor josh adler is overseeing the vaccine. rollut a ucsf health. >>he says the cision to expand vaccine access to those 65 and older, we'll hopefully put patients at ease there was so much between what we were doing. >>and limiting to 75 and over and what the state was saying what the cdc was saying about his knowledge of all. that was causing our patients to be really confused and frustrated. and not understanding why why are we providing a back seat but adler cautions the expanded access does not mean supply has increased. >>it has not there's nothing about our supply that has changed that means it will still take quite some time to get those most at risk vaccinated we have over 200,000. patients who who are over 65. so that's that's the combined number. and we don't have nearly not nearly that much traction. >>and again to put this in perspective again over 200,000 people 65 plus patience ear ucsf

at ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news. >>well in the east bay, antioch is among the bay area communities hit hardest by the covid-19 pandemic and now there's a new testing option available. the new site is located outside of antioch community centers, one of 4 testing sites offered in the county run by the state. well in addition to the 10 testing sites operated by county health services. >>and it's right here and all these people are so willing and just taking out time out of their day to make sure everyone's safe a blessing. >>love that could come here and just be tested immediately. and the fox often find out. >>the new testing site is open thursdays through mondays from 7 in the morning until 7 at night appointments are required. coming up on the kron 4 morning news oakland tds taken action despite budget cuts after yet another disturbing attack. >>and one neighborhood will explain. after billions of dollars were lost a fraudulent claims lawmakers are ready for the plan to reform california is in battle, an employment

>>in the meantime another ucsf study on the same west coast ferry. it finds having it increases the odds of being admitted to the icu and dying. the study suggests it should be designated of areas of concern warranting urgent follow-up investigation. >>researchers all agree that not enough study is being done into those positive tests to determine variance they're hopeful that will continue to ramp up so they can learn more going forward live ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news. >>thank you california's new system of deliver rain tracking as scheduling coronavirus vaccines as being rolled out in select counties starting today last month you might remember governor newsom announced his administration tapped insurance giant blue shield to design and manage a centralized system to get doses out quickly and equitably 10 counties are included in the initial group making the transition to the new system this week including santas last summer said san francisco is among the county's being added in mid-march it is not clear how the blue shield format will affect the

researchers from ucsf have found the covid variants are more dangerous and more contagious. but some experts say they should not be a major cause for concern doctor monica gandhi is an infectious disease specialist at ucsf she says that we should be focusing more attention on slowing down the spread of the virus through mask wearing and social distancing and improving the vaccine rollout. >>we can leave this turning

>>in the meantime another ucsf study on the same west coast ferry.finds having it increases the odds of being admitted to the icu and dying. the study suggests this period should be designated of areas of concern. oren ting urging follow-up investigation. >>again more study needed on both and now you see ss say what this really points to is the need to be studying these positive cases more in determining where these variants are and what these variants are doing, but again the key here is doubling down on those protective measures so we don't see another surge live at ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news. thank you dan and now to the south bay where santa clara county has announced that it will now allow a limited return of outdoor youth sports that decision means the county is on board with the updated state guidelines announced last friday kron four's rob fladeboe has some reaction to the long-awaited news and he joins us now live from sonny bill rob. >>well it's right ken and by the governor's announcement last week youth sports will be coming back on a li

at ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news. >>all 9 bay area counties remain in the state's most restrictive purple tier, when it comes to businesses and activities that are allowed to be open. the governor newsome believe some counties across california could enter and less restrictive tier as soon as today, 3 bay area counties that appear poised to do so far, san francisco, san the tale and lorain counties and the red tier capacity and retail and grocery stores could increase to 50%. museums and zoos can open indoors at 25% capacity gyms can open at 10% capacity indoor dining could resume at 25% capacity and movie theaters can reopen at 25% capacity. coming up on the kron 00:00am morning news state lawmakers are. >>putting off voting on a plan to reopen schools across the state. details on the opposition they were met with. plus the mayor of antioch is announcing plans to reform the city's police department policies looking to put in place. and after the break president biden's nearly 2 trillion dollar covid relief bill clear

at ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news. >>and the east bay antioch is among the bay area communities now that's been hardest hit at least hard hit by the pandemic and now a new testing option is available a new site has been located outside the antioch community center and it's one of 4 testing sites being offered by the county now and run by the state. in addition to the 10 testing sites operated by county health hopefully that will help you out. >>and it's right here and all these people are so willing and just taking out time out of their day to make sure everyone's safe a blessing. >>love that come here and just be tested immediately. and the fox often find out. >>that's right and the new testing site is open thursdays through mondays from 7 in the morning until 7 at night. appointments are required to make >>british scientists are going to test to see whether covid vaccines can safely be mixed and matched so that you wouldn't have to stick with the same one that you got for your first dose in a study participants are g

the large sights at masconi and ucsf, have set up in their parking lots, and we're working with them. and we have one in the mission, the bayview hunter's point, the places where the case rates are higher. our goal is to try to meet people where they are, and to try to get to, of course, our health care workers, our in-home support service workers, and those 65 and older, who are, sadly, the most likely to die if they contract covid. so i want to go to a slide just to give you a little bit of information about where we are, increasing as supply -- the vaccines that we have administered, we're now average about 4,000 vaccines per day. and yesterday we basically reached a new high: 5,542 vaccines yesterday, which is pretty remarkable. it gives me hope we're getting there, and we're moving as fastly as we can. the next slide, vaccinating health care workers and people over 65 has really been our focus, making good on progress. so what we see here is more than 30% of s.f. residents 65 and older have received their first dose. and we still, of course, have more to do because about 2.5% hav

today we're tall about covid-19 and vaccines with a chair of the ucsf department of medicine dr. bob walker. but first there is a lot to cover in the political world both in the state and in the nation. so let's begin with lonni chen, a fellow and he served as a senior adviser on policy to the national republican senatorial committee. good to see you again. >> hi, kristen. >> before we get to the imt and the politics of the covid-19 relief package, let's talk about state politics and the fate of governor newsom. the new approval rating out today, done by the berkeley igs. what does it show. >> it shows that governor newsom could be if trouble. what voters in california are expressing frustration over how the pandemic has been handled in california. we've heard stories about the slow rollout of the vaccines, the lack of transparency in decision making, some of the challenges in the unemployment insurance program. so i think a lot of this stuff is very additive and voters are questioning whether governor is the right person for california and the poll reflects that. >> and to dive

until then we'll begin with ucsf infectious disease specialist dr.chin-hong. >> thanks for having me on. >>> absolutely of course the big headline is 500,000 covid-19 deaths in the u.s. now a year ago, if somebody told you that waç going to be the number we would be at today, what would you have thought? >> i would say they were joking. and i wouldn't believe it. it's a good 12 months to get to 100,000 and we thought it couldn't get worse than that. by the summer we were projecting. scientists were projecting a lot of people were not believing it. from 400,000 to 500,000 it took a matter of weeks. >> dr. peter chin-hong we got the 1.5 minute warning from the biden folks. that's how much time we have. and then we'll carry the biden ceremony. afterwards if there is time to talk we will do that we are the third most populous nation in the world behind china and india. we are number one in covid-19 deaths and per capita we are number 7 in terms of covid deaths. the only other g-7 nation with more deaths is britain. >> why. >> it's baups of two main thing

this ucsf panel says not exactly i think set a difficult question to answer because that's out there younger children that versus of has been somewhat conflicted in fact before rushing young athletes back with the field these doctors prescribe. >>another dose of patients i think we have a lot of good things to look for it to you right in the opportunity to be active and healthy and get back to those things that we tremendously enjoyed. >>is coming very shortly. >>has it made you kron 4 news. >>the director of the cdc says schools can open safely even if teachers are not vaccinated from the coronavirus doctor rochelle walensky cited cdc data showing that social distancing and wearing masks significantly reduces the spread of the virus in school setting. so a lot of questions about this. we're joined now by noble the director of the covid response at ucsf medical emergency department thanks for joining us with a lot of questions not enough time as usual, but what does this study say then about the ability to open up schools and as a doctor how do you feel about it. >>yeah, i 100% agree

coming up next on the kron 4 morning news doctors from ucsf are discussing the state of play for you sports, what they have to say about getting students back on to the court. >>and welcome back to the kron 00:00am morning news and there is no rain in sight and i'm happy about that john. >>the hack and a nice to be seeing a little break from the rain for sure and this more than a little break from it we're going to be looking at skies like the remaining dry through the weekend and next week. potential in your longer range forecast of dry conditions over the next 10 days so this is definitely a drier pattern that we're working our way into make sure thankful for the rain that we did see though looking outside at sfo right here, nice and calm morning, no rainfall over the past few days means that conditions are very dry as you venture out on the roadways and without any fog at the coast north for inland areas, we've also got really smooth sailing conditions on your way into work, no visibility issues. no slick spots all that sounds pretty solid to be kicking off the morning. it is chil

at ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news. >>coming up on kron 4 news at 8 imagine getting this in the mail driver's license with a picture of your face covered by a mask. we're hearing from the california was surprised with this face mask family. >>small business support a new grant program that's providing access to resources for recovery. >>basically i was every school board member in one east bay district resigning after a virtual meeting of them lasting parents went public. so what happens next as students await word on a return to the classroom. and the weather outside going to be getting a little windy but very very warm to break down >>a temporary school board is now in place for the oakley union elementary school district after its former board members all resigned you may remember just last week they were all caught on tape blasting parents during a virtual meeting when they thought no one was airing them don't want thought they were being recorded kron four's michelle kingston explains what now happens. >>basically

the large sights at masconi and ucsf, have set up in their parking lots, and we're working with them. and we have one in the mission, the bayview hunter's point, the places where the case rates are higher. our goal is to try to meet people where they are, and to try to get to, of course, our health care workers, our in-home support service workers, and those 65 and older, who are, sadly, the most likely to die if they contract covid. so i want to go to a slide just to give you a little bit of information about where we are, increasing as supply -- the vaccines that we have administered, we're now average about 4,000 vaccines per day. and yesterday we basically reached a new high: 5,542 vaccines yesterday, which is pretty remarkable. it gives me hope we're getting there, and we're moving as fastly as we can. the next slide, vaccinating health care workers and people over 65 has really been our focus, making good on progress. so what we see here is more than 30% of s.f. residents 65 and older have received their first dose. and we still, of course, have more to do because about 2.5% hav

next we'll hear from ucsf about the impact they see on public health. and d.p.h., who again, has been doing a tremendous job working with us to implement this program. with that, if there is no other comments from my colleagues, i'll turn it over to joshua or say. >> i need to make a quick comment. our budget and appropriations committee will begin after this budget and finance committee is adjourned. it was supposed to begin at 1:00, but we'll begin after this and we may take a brief recess in between. so we can now turn it over to mr. arsay. >> thank you, supervisor ronen, chair haney, thank you for the opportunity to share what is absolutely correct and essential about the program that supervisor ronen created that we've been proud to support and implement together at the mayor's office. madame clerk, if i can have sharing capabilities? thank you. i'll share brief slides and information that supervisor ronen asked us to share. on behalf of our director and our previous director who was supportive -- [indiscernible] -- work is with us here today. if t

>>in the meantime another ucsf study on the same west coast ferry. it finds having it increases the odds of being admitted to the icu and dying. the study suggests this period should be designated of areas of concern. oren ting urgent follow-up investigation. >>and this west coast period is believed to be spreading across california but researchers agree more study is needed. at ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news covid-19 continuing to impact the latino community disproportionately. >>and with the so-called california variant now appearing in more than half a positive test in the mission district. the latino task force as its community must remain vigilant kron 4 sailors sackey has more now on how they're preparing that community. >>now more than ever residents here need to keep their guard up the latino task force says that they're doubling down on education about this variant and how people can protect themselves. >>this story is not always equal when you look at the communities that are hardest hit as giangiacomo of the latino task force explains. >>the

ucsf did this, this is a ucsf thing. the more systems you bring together, the branding kind of gets murky and then who pays for it. >> the kind of prescription covid patients need. >> every other industry i can think of uses information on what have they done in the past to make their services better and i think it's time that health care be able to do that. >> in order for doctors to rely on big data to make daily treatment decisions for covid patients, stanford estimates it would need to plug in a lot more information into its database. just how much is difficult to say but likely we're talking about adding health records from thousands if not millions of patients. well, tonight, there are new allegations of sexual abuse against two priests from the oakland diocese. following this story since 2019 and learned about the repressed memories coming to light from earlier alleged victim. tries to get answers from that man as well as the diocesedioce. >> accused a local priest of tying him up and raping him as an adult but af

it launched with ucsf last friday with 500 doses because that's the amount we have now, but as vaccines in at a more robust rate, we'll be able to increase the number of people that get vaccinated there. all these sites, we're looking at drive-thru as well as walk-in so people can get to the sites. >> mayor breed: i'm understanding that the city college site basically, based on the number of doses that they have left, so that the appointments are through tomorrow, is that correct? >> that is correct. they are through tomorrow. and that's, again, based on the vaccine allocation. we will hopefully get more news about allocation in the next 24-48 hours and we can start planning ahead. >> mayor breed: so tell us about who can get vaccinated at these high-volume distribution sites? i think -- are they open to anyone regardless of who their insurer is? >> so, mayor, again, the limiting factor as you've both said, it is limited to health care workers and people that are 65 years of age and older. but as you pointed out, we really want to do all the complicated work on the back end and build t

this ucsf panel says not exactly i think set a difficult question to answer because that's out younger children versus old in has been somewhat conflicted i think we have a lot of good things to look for it to you right >>opportunity to be active and healthy and get back to those things that we tremendously enjoyed. is coming very shortly. >>has it made you kron 4 news. >>time for sports. >>all righty we have a score for you out in dallas the warriors are feeding the mavericks. one 19 to one o one kelly oubre a has a season high. 34 points. steph curry has 28 points. we'll have those full highlights for you once that game goes final of course. they are out there in dallas texas. all righty some other nba news, the first round of nba, all-star fan voting was released today and steph curry is still at popular as ever. he has the 3rd most votes in the nba behind his former teammate kevin durant and lebron james the all-star game here is supposed to be on march 7th in atlanta. that hasn't been confirmed yet by the nba, but all reports indicate that it will happen. the nhl have revised its

ucsf has been a great partner for the city of san francisco for more than 150 years. they have been there through te good years and more importantly through our toughest challenges. >> ucsf will add another 1.5 million square feet in housing offices in the new hospital in the area. the university will build more than 1200 housing units for its workforce. thousands of permanent jobs will be created over the project five-time. some critics of the project have expressed concerns over a lack of affordable housing. >> president joe biden has nominated the california's latest labor secretary to be second in command of the u.s. labor department. if confirmed, julie sue would help leave the department that oversees laws regulating worker standards and pay, workplace safety and family and medical leave. denomination comes as the edd deals with an ongoing unemployment fraud scandal. the department has delayed approving and employment benefits while paying out billions of dollars in fraudulent claims. we have been reporting on the fallout from months. you can find our reports at

today we talk to a ucsf doctor about reopening schools. and and we'll discuss rush limbaugh who died earlier today. but first the massive swarm crippling a large swath of the question, especially texas where millions have been without power or water door for day ps. spencer christian joins us to explain this and what other phenomenon may be headed our way in the future. but first let's explore this story with a woman who lived in the bay area, a chef and mother of three joins us live from plano about 20 mills outside of dallas. do i have that right, kristina. >> got it all right. >> it's great to see you. i can see you have the big turtle neck switer there. i can only imagine you must be cold. you were worshipping at a chef instructor in san mateo before moving to texas, right? >> yes, that's correct. i moved in 2008. i was there a few months. and then family emergency, i had to move to texas. i've been here ever since. >> the weather in texas quite different from here but you didn't expect anything like this certainly. it's been three lon

parts of the community that have been hardest hit by the virus in san francisco sutter health and ucsf health or expanding vaccine access to those 65 and older the 2 major providers were previously vaccinating those 75 and up the decision to expand access is so that ucsf will fall in line with the state and the cdc recommendations and alleviate confusion among patients doctors say even though they are expanding access they still do not have enough vaccine supply to meet all of the demand and for more information on signing yourself up or a loved one for the vaccine. we have several links on our web site to all of the bay area counties vaccination clinics. you can find it all at kron 4 dot com. just one day after saying they could not increase patrols in oakland's chinatown because of budget cuts tonight the city of oakland is changing course opd announced today its reallocating resources so more officers can try putting an end to the recent spike in attacks and robberies in opens chinatown kron four's dan thorn is talking with local business leaders in that community and he has the sto

at ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news. >>a 26 the time coming up next on the kron 00:00am morning news state lawmakers are putting off voting on the plan to reopen schools across the state will explain what opposition. they came up against. >>james i cleaned micron water and now the water one not smell the sponge now it's totally good. you guys are right. it was moldy. so happy for your is so good now you're drinking water that doesn't smell like the you're going to want like get all hydrated today. yes, is going to be hot. it is itself and make sure you keep that water with you this job yet time to clean the water bottles out that the umbrellas away and get out there enjoy it definitely stay hydrated because we haven't seen temperatures like this in a while so might actually take you by surprise how warm it actually feels outside this afternoon warmer than yesterday. >>and easily breaking a few records across the bay looking outside from mount tam down at the north bay right here you can see the skies are overall nice and

researchers from ucsf found the covid variance a more dangerous and more contagious. some experts say they should not be a cause for concern. a doctor monica down and get gandhi she's an infectious disease specialist at ucsf now she argues that we should instead be focusing on slowing the spread of the virus through mask and wearing and social distancing and improving the vaccine rollout. we leaves this turning around that we're seeing the cases and hospitalizations going down and it's a little bit of a focus let me think about something bad because i know life is going to be good again. it is. >>it is vaccines are working and they're going to park. >>doctor gandhi says the vaccine rollout needs to go faster so that we can eventually obtain herd immunity meaning the different covid-19 variants will be a non-factor. despite san francisco being in the red tier most bars and nightclubs remain closed. one of the last standing dedicated lgbtq entertainment venues is on the brink of closing for good oasis a popular drag club along 11th and folsom street is now putting on a

that was mary beth mcdade reporting for us tonight coming up at 1030 we're going to be speaking >>ucsf a sports orthopedic. specialist on the severity of tiger's injury and what it could mean for his career here on out. developing story now out of the east bay tonight emergency landing forcing a road closure police closing isabel avenue between east airway boulevard and portola avenue they say the plane was having engine troubles when it came down on isabel avenue and it crashed into a car. police say the plane took off from the livermore municipal airport before touching down just after 05:00pm you can see the aftermath here. 2 people were inside and miraculously nobody was hurt. investigators believe that one of the engines was faulty the road that will remain closed until the investigation is completed. >>developing story tonight from force confirms that famed bay area based company fry's electronics is closing the doors to its stores permanently it is unclear exactly why the company a shattering but it is expected to announce more information. early tomorrow morning for customers t

>>in the meantime another ucsf study on the same west coast ferry. it finds having it increases the odds of being admitted to the icu and dying. the study suggests this period should be designated of areas of concern. oren ting urging follow-up investigation. >>and this west coast period is believed to be spreading across california but researchers agree more study is needed. at ucsf dan kerman kron 4 news. >>6.22 is the time coming up on the kron 4 morning news 2 bay area women were detained in hawaii for violating covid travel rules are going to have their side of the story coming up. covid's still a threat. and on reopening schools, we know what happens when we don't put safety first. ignore proper ventilation or rates of community spread, and the virus worsens. fail to provide masks or class sizes that allow for social distancing, and classrooms close back down. a successful reopening requires real safety and accountability measures. including prioritizing vaccines for educators. parents and educators agree: reopen schools. putting safety first.

>>a focus on vaccines not covid variant why ucsf doctor believes we are panicking too much about coronavirus mutations. >>just kept running with pushing pulling. >>yikes a trip to target takes a terrifying turn in the east bay families forced to take cover when bullets start flying good evening, everybody. thanks for being with us on kron 4 news at 8 o'clock tonight, i'm grant lotus and i'm vicki liviakis tonight. we have learned the san francisco board of education. >>has reached an agreement with the teachers union on the health and safety of reopening schools. the school district says an updated plan has also been discussed for in person learning the health and safety standards agreement says of san francisco is in the red tier than staff, hu will be teaching in person must have the opportunity to be vaccinated but if san francisco keeps improving and is able to move to the orange tier staff will not need to be vaccinated for in person instruction. and here's some additional health and safety standards included in this new agreement covid screenings will occur before anybody is allowed to

. >> a new test validated by ucsf is giving doctors and some patients reason to celebrate. in tonight's original report, the technology that may lead to better and more efficient and precise care. >> reporter: the problem with prostate cancer cells, once they escape and hide inside the body it could leave doctors and patients in the dark. but now a new to light them up and find them wherever they are. meet dennis, husband, father and grandfather. in 2014 this retired attorney got some bad news. >> i was diagnosed with a very severe case of prostate cancer. >> reporter: dennis chose surgery, after the operation, no evidence the cancer spread. >> the medical team was anticipating a cure. >> reporter: but a year later something in his blood revealed a different story. the cancer cells were hiding somewhere in his body. >> my question was, where are the tumors. >> reporter: cases like these, doctors don't know. >> because we don't know where the disease is, it's hard to treat. >> i describe it as a game changer. >> reporter: through infusion doctors inject patients with a drug

next we'll hear from ucsf about the impact they see on public health. and d.p.h., who again, has been doing a tremendous job working with us to implement this program. with that, if there is no other comments from my colleagues, i'll turn it over to joshua or say. >> i need to make a quick comment. our budget and appropriations committee will begin after this budget and finance committee is adjourned. it was supposed to begin at 1:00, but we'll begin after this and we may take a brief recess in between. so we can now turn it over to mr. arsay. >> thank you, supervisor ronen, chair haney, thank you for the opportunity to share what is absolutely correct and essential about the program that supervisor ronen created that we've been proud to support and implement together at the mayor's office. madame clerk, if i can have sharing capabilities? thank you. i'll share brief slides and information that supervisor ronen asked us to share. on behalf of our director and our previous director who was supportive -- [indiscernible] -- work is with us here today. if t

next we'll hear from ucsf about the impact they see on public health. and d.p.h., who again, has been doing a tremendous job working with us to implement this program. with that, if there is no other comments from my colleagues, i'll turn it over to joshua or say. >> i need to make a quick comment. our budget and appropriations committee will begin after this budget and finance committee is adjourned. it was supposed to begin at 1:00, but we'll begin after this and we may take a brief recess in between. so we can now turn it over to mr. arsay. >> thank you, supervisor ronen, chair haney, thank you for the opportunity to share what is absolutely correct and essential about the program that supervisor ronen created that we've been proud to support and implement together at the mayor's office. madame clerk, if i can have sharing capabilities? thank you. i'll share brief slides and information that supervisor ronen asked us to share. on behalf of our director and our previous director who was supportive -- [indiscernible] -- work is with us here today. if t

then january 11th through the 27th, it was fully 53%. >> reporter: according to ucsf, the california variant is one of four major ones circulating in the state. >> we'll keep seeing variants forever from this virus. viruses mutate all the time. >> reporter: it's not uncommon for them to increase transmission or make vaccines less effective. >> the cdc believes the uk strain will become the dominant strain in the united states by april. what does that mean? largely nothing. >> reporter: as scientists keep tabs on the virus, dr. anthony fauci appeared in a lecture series tonight. he says the best way to beat the pandemic is with a unified approach. >> we still will have challenges with the variants coming in, and we still need to get the overwhelming majority of the population vaccinated. >> reporter: scientists say that this variant has been detected in 45 states, but 90% of the cases are here in california. liz, back to you. >> all right, thank you. >>> >>> >>> a live look at the state capitol where governor newsom will sign a bill tomorrow to provide $600 relief payments for almost

>>doctor gandhi with ucsf thank you.onight at 6 as more covid vaccine appointments are becoming available cybersecurity experts say companies should take steps to protect protect against cyber attacks, courtney spinelli tells us how the extra security could stop scalpers from stockpiling vaccine appointments. >>they will stoop to the lowest of the low by they were talking about so-called scalper bots that there's someone out there on this planet that one something that you have something that you know or something that you are these attackers used automated methods to cut digital lines and secure things in bulk take for example, the stockpiling of the latest playstation consoles during holiday shopping season. there was a massive attack against various retailers, buying out inventory that inventory was turned around and marked up online auction sites. security experts that track this type of activity. warren retailers and pharmacies vaccine appointments could be the next target there is absolutely someone out there that

so joining us now to talk about this and other latest news with regard to covid-19 is ucsf infectious disease specialist dr. peter chin-hong. dr. chin-hong thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me on, kristen. >> absolutely. before we get to masks, i want to ask you about the finding of the south african variant in the bay area now confirmed new news today in two separate counties, two cases. tell us about that. >> so i think it's a bit chilling, you know i was okay with the uk variant -- well relatively okay, meaning that it just had one superpower, which was increasing in transmissibility by as much as 50%. but the south african variant, which actually has two superpowers, which is not only to increase transmissibility but potentially to decrease vaccine efficacy. not so much pfizer and but others down the road, like astrazenica and nova vaks. johnsonance john. >> so far it's just the one in case in alameda and but i imagine the true case is higher than that and growing quickly, too. >> yes, we only do less than 1% geno typing of all isolates. is. so to find these two it the t

i asked at that time whether ucsf would be willing to amend that agreement to make it enforceable the response was it was not. and told by the chancellor quote, the reason it's not a legally binding agreement with california. i asked for clarity from the u.c. regents whether they needed more information because my understanding is ucsf can enter into contracts with the city and decided not to when it came to the parnasis development and told by the chancellor at that hearing he already had conversations with the council and struck as not possible for the university to enter into such an. and the autonomy of u.c. prevents it entering into an agreement with the city and never got a response to that inquiry either. just looking at the contract before us and again and we have a contract that requires ucsf to pay to the city we can't have a legally enforceable contract and a contract that comes before the board of supervisors for approval and when it comes tie contract that will increase our obligation to $44 million to ucsf apparently it's not problematic to have binding enforceable agree

a study by ucsf found it's prevalent and raising questions about how well current vaccines will work against it. researchers looked at cases in san francisco's mission district and the christmas outbreak at kaiser san jose. they found that cases of the variant first discovered in denmark have spiked significantly in california over the past few weeks. the study also found that while it is not as contagious as other variants, it may be more resistant to current vaccines. the doctor at ucsf says stay the course with your precautions. >> it's something to sort of pay attention to make sure we practice, you know, all the interventions that we know about, exclamation point, but not to let our guard down, but not to get panicked about it either. >> dr. chin-hong says there isn't enough information to determine how well the current vaccines will work but he does think they will offer some level of protection. as new variants emerge vaccinations are becoming more critical. we want to get you that shot. nbc has launched a new website called plan your vaccine. you enter your state, occupation

ucsf did this. this is a ucsf thing. more systems you bring together, the branding kind of gets murky and then gets who pays for it. >> reporter: but dr. shah says nationwide or even a statewide partnership is the very kind of prescription covid patients need. >> pretty much every other industry that i can think of uses information on what have they done in the past to make their services better. and i think it's time that health care be able to do that. >> reporter: in order for doctors to start relying on big data to make dr. treatment decisions for covid patients, stanford say it's would need to plug in a lot more information into its database. just how much is difficult to say, but it's likely we're talking about adding health records from thousands if not millions of patients. with the investigative unit, i'm bigad shaban. >> if you have a story for bigad or anyone in our investigative unit you can give us a call at 1-888-966-tips or visit our website nbcbayarea.com/investigations. >>> a local couple celebrated this

pundya with ucsf thank you for your time and insight today. we really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> take kir. >>> all right. coming up next we have a local football coach to kind of continue the conversation about youth sports. we'll take a short break on the ntacebook live.vers and remember in the third segment we have my colleague julian glover to talk about his let us take you to a place you've been craving. where the aroma of authenticity turns into the scent of home. and the warmth of friends and family is in every bite. here, there's a story behind every meal. with cacique, you'll be inspired to add your own flair. so you can tell a story of your own. cacique.your auténtico awaits. wh l it comes to youth sports. now let's hear from a coach. joining us is is the head football coach of riordan high school in san francisco. mark modest. thanks for joining us. >> i'm good, kristen thank you for having me. i'm doing well thank you. >> the governor has given the greenlight to outdoor contact sports like football. but that doesn

currently the city and private providers such as kaiser and ucsf our ministry in about 4,000 doses of vaccine every day. and san francisco's now among the 6 bay area counties vaccinating people under the state's tier, one b. the other 5 hour alameda contra costa solano and sonoma counties, santa clara county will officially expand its vaccine eligibility to the next year this coming sunday. so far moran and napa are the only 2 counties without a set date. >>there is some progress to report in a dilemma facing hundreds of teachers. you can't access the covid vaccine because of eligibility requirements vary from one county to the next as kron four's rob fladeboe tells us that dilemma has now been solved for santa clara county teachers up until now had not been eligible for the vaccine because they live in neighboring santa cruz county. >>we keep hearing the terminology like no wrong door you can go anywhere to get vaccinated well there's no right door for us right now teaching remotely from her school office in san jose willow glen high school music teacher kelly walker says she has not

i currently work at ucsf, leveraging ucsf resources to help get at both health and economic equity leveraging, or economic and science resources to support getting equity in san francisco. that has included work on reducing diabetes and chronic disease disparities. but i've worked as a street outreach worker for the mayor's gang prevention program, at the real alternative's program "rap," and primarily served folks in the commission district and bayview hunter's point my entire life. i lived half of my life in bayview hunter's point before getting displaced there several years ago. so i would need a residency waiver. and i still have family members living in poverty, still have family members living in homelessness in san francisco, and family members recently out of homelessness by way of support through navigation centers, thankfully. so, you know, i would be happy to serve in any way i could serve san francisco. including in this capacity. to bring to bear evidence, whenever possible, but mostly to bring a voice of advocacy and support for low-income communities in san francisco, poor folk

the large sights at masconi and ucsf, have set up in their parking lots, and we're working with them.nd we have one in the mission, the bayview hunter's point, the places where the case rates are higher. our goal is to try to meet people where they are, and to try to get to, of course, our health care workers, our in-home support service workers, and those 65 and older, who are, sadly, the most likely to die if they contract covid. so i want to go to a slide just to give you a little bit of information about where we are, increasing as supply -- the vaccines that we have administered, we're now average about 4,000 vaccines per day. and yesterday we basically reached a new high: 5,542 vaccines yesterday, which is pretty remarkable. it gives me hope we're getting there, and we're moving as fastly as we can. the next slide, vaccinating health care workers and people over 65 has really been our focus, making good on progress. so what we see here is more than 30% of s.f. residents 65 and older have received their first dose. and we still, of course, have more to do because about 2.5% have

and that was dr bob walked her chair of ucsf's department of medicine. well, president biden announced some adjustments today to federal covid-19 relief. the administration is now changing the rules for the paycheck protection program, including a two week window exclusively for the smallest small businesses to apply for a loan of the goal is to reach mormon, no minority owned and mom and pop shops after many were previously shut out our political reporter greg lee joins us now live this afternoon after talking to a small business owner about what these changes mean for that. greg. hi there. good afternoon. many small business owners have described these ppe p loans as a lifeline, while many others have told us it's disappointing and frustrating to apply on lee to get turned down. these new changes are designed with the goal of expanding access. a lot of these mom and pop business because got muscled out of the way by bigger companies who jumped in front of the line. president biden announced changes to the paycheck protection program rules in hopes of r