Present. Commissioner chow. Present. Commissioner chung. Present. Commissioner sanchez. Present. Commissioner karshmer. Present. The second item is approval of the minutes of the Health Commission meeting of august 19, 2014. So commissioners were prepared for a motion for acceptance of the minutes. So moved. Is there a second . Is there further discussion . Seeing none were prepared for the vote. All in favor say aye. All those opposed . The minutes are passed. Next item please. Item three is the director report. Good afternoon commissioners. On friday dr. Chow i attended the new commissioners swearing in. Our new Health Commissioner will be dr. David pating. Dr. David pating i have known for over almost 30 years since working with the federal government in samhsa he was a well known expert in that field and sought after many times for his expertise for that scheduled agency. He works for kaiser, a psychiatrist specializing in addiction psychiatry. Hes also he has a long cv so i will b
There further discussion . Seeing none were prepared for the vote. All in favor say aye. All those opposed . The minutes are passed. Next item please. Item three is the director report. Good afternoon commissioners. On friday dr. Chow i attended the new commissioners swearing in. Our new Health Commissioner will be dr. David pating. Dr. David pating i have known for over almost 30 years since working with the federal government in samhsa he was a well known expert in that field and sought after many times for his expertise for that scheduled agency. He works for kaiser, a psychiatrist specializing in addiction psychiatry. Hes also he has a long cv so i will be short and a professor at San Francisco school of medicine. He is past medicine much the california addiction of medicine and a member of the medical society here and currently and probably will not continue in this role once he starts with the commission he is vice chair of the californias Mental Illness oversight and Accountabil
Prepared for a motion for acceptance of the minutes. So moved. Is there a second . Is there further discussion . Seeing none were prepared for the vote. All in favor say aye. All those opposed . The minutes are passed. Next item please. Item three is the director report. Good afternoon commissioners. On friday dr. Chow i attended the new commissioners swearing in. Our new Health Commissioner will be dr. David pating. Dr. David pating i have known for over almost 30 years since working with the federal government in samhsa he was a well known expert in that field and sought after many times for his expertise for that scheduled agency. He works for kaiser, a psychiatrist specializing in addiction psychiatry. Hes also he has a long cv so i will be short and a professor at San Francisco school of medicine. He is past medicine much the california addiction of medicine and a member of the medical society here and currently and probably will not continue in this role once he starts with the c
There further discussion . Seeing none were prepared for the vote. All in favor say aye. All those opposed . The minutes are passed. Next item please. Item three is the director report. Good afternoon commissioners. On friday dr. Chow i attended the new commissioners swearing in. Our new Health Commissioner will be dr. David pating. Dr. David pating i have known for over almost 30 years since working with the federal government in samhsa he was a well known expert in that field and sought after many times for his expertise for that scheduled agency. He works for kaiser, a psychiatrist specializing in addiction psychiatry. Hes also he has a long cv so i will be short and a professor at San Francisco school of medicine. He is past medicine much the california addiction of medicine and a member of the medical society here and currently and probably will not continue in this role once he starts with the commission he is vice chair of the californias Mental Illness oversight and Accountabil
The president s strategy, covid . What covid . You know why we have so many cases . All we do are test f we cut our testing down in half, they well, they wouldnt say that, but cases would go down. Now we have the best test. Were rounding the turn. We have the vaccines. We have everything. Thats despite more than 8 million cases and more than 226,000 american lives lost. And then the president going beyond that at another rally, suggesting that americas Front Line Health Care workers have been lying about covid deaths. If somebody is terminally ill with cancer and they have covid, we report them. Doctors and hospitals get more money. Think of this incentive. Some countries do it differently. If somebody is very sick with a bad heart they die of covid, they dont get reported as covid. Then you wonder, geez i wonder why the cases are so low. Mike pence refusing to altl the er his Campaign Schedule one bit after his chief of staff and other aides test positive for covid. This in comparison