doctor abrar kerr from stanford health. >> have a good rick, which is bart muni ac transit and the vta. >> all at least right now still requiring their passengers to keep their masks on. so we'll keep you posted on where things stand there. other news tonight, oakland, unified students and teachers return to class today after spring break. they were told to keep their masks on for another week, at least district leaders say they have concerns about a surge in cases after spring break starting next monday, though, april 25th, they have announced indoor masking will be strongly recommended, but no longer mandatory. nurses from 15 different sutter health facilities took to the picket line today. a 24 hour strike. they say enough is enough. the california nurses association is calling for improved health and safety standards. the health care workers say they have been in negotiations since june for a new contract. but there's been little to no movement. union workers hope to strike urges management to sign a fair contract as soon as possible. >> safe staffing is our number one priority wit

abrar caran. nice to have you on the program. doctor, is it time we drop the mask mandate on public transportation? is it helping us, or is it just a nuisance? >> well, you know, masking in very close quarters like this, particularly where you're very cramped. you can't get up, the ventilation is very different in planes when the plane is on and running. it's much, much better than it is in other forms of public transportation. but obviously, you know, when you're very close to someone else, if they're infected and if both parties aren't masked, even if you have one-way masking, there was someone behind me eating and coughing the whole flight, i had an n95 mask on. i had omicron earlier. i had symptoms, and many patients we know do get reinfected. so i am concerned, but i'm an infectious disease doctor, so i should be. >> good analysis there. we talked to you on this program a few weeks ago about how covid rules were fueling tension between flight crews and passengers. we've been seeing it for a couple years now u the majority of

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abrar. koran says with more transmissions come more mut and more mutations mean more chances of a deadly variant and with the next variant, it's hard to say and this is the problem. this is why we need to focus on prevention because we don't know what we're going to be dealt with later this year. and while the virus can be unpredictable. he says this surge wasn't so hard to see coming pulling back on mask mandates and indoor settings that are like transportation. you'll have more transmission, you know more people kind of socializing feeling safe going to more indoor kind of set. you'll have more transmission and while cases are going up hospitalizations are going down the latest numbers show in san francisco 35 people are hospitalized with covid the city of 1 million. those are very low levels. definitely seen an increase in cases, but not seen a surgeon hospitalizations at all, dr. gene noble is an emergency care doctor at ucsf and she says those are the numbers we should be focusing on we

we're joined now by doctor abrar occur on from stanford. health care was his take on this east coast. serve as doctor. thank you for joining us. not only is philadelphia bringing the mask back, but we've seen in china. they've had outbreaks of covid with some cities are back on lockdown. the u.s. is all ordering one of the consular offices to bring bring staff out of shanghai because of the covid outbreak. are we far behind? are we likely to be next to bring back some of the mandate? >> i do think that that mask mandates are going to come they've already started, as you mentioned in philadelphia. other cities will follow soon. you know, the problem is that we often get blindsided by the cases, right? so a lot of people are testing at home and so we're not going to able to detect cases as well. there are other metrics that we use like wastewater surveillance to give us a hand that cases are starting to before they're being detected by the health system. so that is a problem. and as we know, you know, when you have a surge, the issue is that