Sutter Health will require staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 – KCRA Sacramento

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PL FANOR A SLOWDN.OW BACK TO YOU. TEO: WE BEGIN WITH TODAY’S CORONAVIRUS HEADLINES. DEIRDRE:HE T JAPANESE GOVERNMENT SAYS ONLY PEOPLE WITH SEVERE SYMPTOMS ARE BEING ALLOWED IN HOSPITALS. THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS THERE WERE MORE TNHA 4 MILLION CESAS GLOBALLY LAST WEEK, BUT CASES ARE STARTING TO DROP IN EUROPE. AND INDONESIA HAS BECOME THE 12TH NATION TO SURPASS 100,000 DEATHS. TEO: HE’E’S A LOOK AT THE NUMBERS. CALIFORNIA’S COVID-19 CASE RATE CONTINUES TOO GUP. THIS GRAPH SHOWS THE NUMBER OF INFECTIONS PER 100,000 PEOPLE. THIS IS SINCE JUNE 15. YOU CASEN E THE STEADY CLIMB. WE ARE NOW IN A CASE RATE OF 17.5%. THE NUMBER HASN’T BEEN THAT HIGH SINCE MID FEBRUARY, WHEN VACCINES STILL WEREN’T WIDELY AVAILABLE. DEIRDRE: RIGHT NOW, 63% OF CALIFORNIANS ARE FULLY VACCINATED. THAT’S MORE THAN 21.3 MILLION PEOPLE. ANOTHER 9.5% STILL NEED THEIR SECOND DOSE. MEANWHE,IL A 6-WEEK-LONG FREE VACCINE CLINIC OPENS AND IS TRYING TO GET THOSE NUMBERS UP. TEO: KCRA 3’S ERIN HEFT IS LIV FROM DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO WITH WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW. GOOD MORNING. ER:IN AS COVID CASES RISE ACROSS OUR REGION AGAIN, A NEW VACCINE CLINIC IS OPENING UP HERE AT THE RESTORE FOR HABITAT FOR HUMATYNI IN THE DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO AREA. IT BEGINS AT 10:00 THIS MORNING AND WILL BE HELD EVERY WEDNESYDA MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING 6 WEEKS. ANYONE CAN COME 8TO19 NTHOR 10TH STREET AND GRAB EITHER A PFIZER OR JOHNSON & JOHNSO COVID VACCINE UNTIL 4:00 P.M. EVERY WEDNESDAY. COVID CASES RISING ACROSS ETH REGION. SOMEAY S THIS IS JUST IN TIME. AT LAST CHECK, SACRAMENTO COUNTY IS SURGING IN CODVI CASES AND HOSPITALIZATION RAT,ES WITH OVER 250 PEOPLE AT THE START OF THIS MONTH. THAT’S OVER 4 TIMES THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE IN THE HOSPITAL WITH COVID COMPAREDO TTHE BEGINNING OF JULY. THIS NEW VACCINE CLINIC, HOSTED BY HABITAT FOR HANUMITY GREATER SACRAMENTO, IS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SACRAMENTO COUNTY AND COR.LO RAN BY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, NO APPOINTMENT IS NEEDED, NOR DO YOU NEED TO SHOW AN I.D. OR PROVIDE AN ADDRE. LITERALLY EVERYONE IS WELCOME. JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINES WILL BE PROVIDED TO THE PEOPLE OWH CAN’T COMMIT TO THE NECESSARY SECOND DOSE. THAT’S NEEDDE WITH THE PFIZER VACCINE. THE OTHER BRENDA VACCINE AVAILABLE AT THIS CLINIC. IT STARTS WEDNESDAY, 10:00 A.M. AND WILLE B AVAILABLE EVERY WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING SIX WES. IN DOWNTOWN, ERIN HEFT, KCRA 3 NEWS. TEO: A BIG RELIEF THIS MORNGNI FOR PEOPLE STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET DURING THE PANDEMIC. THE CDC IS EXTENDING AN EVICTIONS MORATORIUM AS ETH NATION CONTINUES TO TRY TO GET MORE PEOPLE VACCINAT.ED KCRA 3’S JARRED HILL IS LIVINE OUR WASHINGTON MOVES- – WASHINGTON NEWSROOM THIS MORNING. JARRED, HERE IN CALIFORNIA THE DEADLINE WAS ALREADY EXTENDED THROUGH THE END OF SEPTEMBER, THIS TAKES THAT OUT NATIONALLY? JARRED: THIS COULD IMPACT ABOUT 11 MILLION OR SO PEOPLE ARODUN THE COUNTRY WHO COULD POTENTIALLY COULD BE LEFT HOMELE IN A FEW MONTHS. THE PUSH FOR THIS WAS SPEARHEADED BY A HANDFUL OF PROGRESSIVES ON CAPITOL HILL. THEY WERE PUSHING FOR THE WHITE HOUSE TO EXTEND THE EVICTION MORATORIUM, INITIALLY CREATEDO T KEEP PEOPLE OFF ETH STREETS AS A WAY TO SLOW THE SPREAD OF COVID. THE CDC ANNOUNCED A 60-DAY EXTENSION IN PARTS OF THE COUNTRY WITH HIGH TRANSMISSI RATES, WHICH MAKES UP MOST OF THE NATION. THE WHITE HOUSE HAD BEEN ARGUING THAT THEY NOR THE CDC DID NOT HAVE THE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO EXTEND THE BAN, INSTEAD PREFERRING TO FOCUS ON GETTING STATES TO DISTRIBUTE TENS OF BILLIONS IN RENTAL ASSISTANCE ALREADY ALLOCATED BY CONGRESS. NOW, PRESIDENT BIDEN STILL ISN’T SURE THAT ISTH IS GOING TO PASS LEGAL MUST,ER SO WHY THE ABOUT FA?CE HERE’S WHAT HE SAID. >> AT A MIMUNIM, BY THE TIME IT GETS LITIGATED, IT WILL PROBABLY GIVE SOME ADDITIONAL TIME WHILE WE’RE GETTING THAT $45 BILLNIO OUT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE IN FTAC BEHIND IN THEIR RENT AND DON’T HAVE THE MEYON JARRED: THERE ARE SOME OTHER EFFORT TO GET MORE PEOEPL VACCINATED. SOME NEW REPORTING FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES SAYS THE FDISA LOOKING AT LABOR DAY OR SOONER TO GIVE FINAL APPROVAL FOR THE PFIZER VACCINE. ALL OF THAT PONTTEIALLY IN AN EFFORT TO BOOST THE CONFIDEENC AROUND THE INOCULATION. BACK TO YOU. TEO: THANK Y, OUJARED. TODAY, PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL MEET WITH HIS SCIENCE ADVISOR, DR. ERIC LANDER, WHO IS ALSO THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF SCIENCANE D TECHNOLOGY POLICY. THEY WILL TALK ABOUT PREPANGRI FOR FUTURE PANDEMI