Points. As the pathogen makes its first appearance in new multiple countries and at this hour, on the canary islands, where 1,000 people are on lockdown at a luxury hotel, the centers for Disease Control saying an outbreak of the deadly virus in america is now quote, inevitable. Health and Human Services secretary alex azar warning we do not have enough masks and ventilators to handle an outbreak. Coming up, medical experts and reporters are at the ready to handle every breaking angle. The surprise chinese stock thats spiking right now, the two u. S. Banks telling their employees to stay away from italy, and talk that the olympics could be canceled. Less than an hour to the closing bell in this final hour. Lets start the claman countdown. Liz we have this breaking news thats not getting enough attention. We are going to give it attention. Even as u. S. Airlines shut down service to china, look at the dow jones transportation average which includes airlines, railroads from norfolk and K
I move to approve the minutes. Is there a second . Are there corrections to the minutes . All in favour say aye. All those opposed . The minutes are approved. Clerk there is no Public Comment for item 2. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners, grant colfax, director of health. You have the directors report in front of you. I am going to highlight our covid19 coronavirus response. Dr. Aragon will have more details. I wanted to acknowledge the Department Staff who have been working for over eight weeks in terms of our preparedness and our response in terms of dealing with the coronavirus. Last tuesday i am pleased to announce that mayor breed declared a state of emergency in the city, which was transformative in our ability to better prepare for the response. It allowed us to activate the department to be more focused on the response, coordinate better with other city departments. This is a shared responsibility in terms of our response doing that. We were able to
Thank you can, heather. I hope that was as powerful to the supervisors as it was me listening to it. The struggle so many nurses have been in so long to get an ear is very moving to me. Its also moving to me that our patients suffer from all the things that youre hearing. Were very dedicated people. Nurses are good people, were short on ego, were long on competence, we do our jobs because we care about people and we dont like suffering. What we see because of these problems is more suffering that could be fixed. So Patient Experience, im not going to spend time on this. Heather really gave you the story, but the Patient Experience due to these problems with staffing is obviously negative. I work in primary care. The worst the worst day of my week is when i have a patient who is decompensating, running out of breath, turning blue, sweating and i have to say, we got to get you to the emergency room. And the patient says, no way. [please stand by] [please stand by] to make my point, i wou
Just off the highs of the session. Lets have a quick look now at the Canadian Dollar and its performance. You see that bounce there by the u. S. Dollar versus the Canadian Dollar. That is after the bank of canada dropped Interest Rates by 50 basis points. It was anticipated the bank of canada would drop. , and manybasis points strategists saying this was to keep up with the Federal Reserve. You can see the Canadian Dollar 1. 3394. T guy today, the European Union coming out in warning of recession risks both for italy and france. Some speculation as well that italy is weighing shutting universities and schools. 600, we of the stoxx are up around 1 . Around decent volume today, which is worth noting. Netting 64 is where we are currently trading on the german tenyear. We continue to see a bid coming into the bond market. We are waiting up to see whether the bank of england is going to follow the fed. We are waiting to see whether the ecb is going to deliver further monetary stimulus as we
President bernal is away this afternoon on some business, so hes asked that i chair the meeting for this evening. The Health Commission will please come to order and the secretary will call the roll. [ roll call ]. Our next item, please clanchts item is the approval of the february 18, 2020, minutes. The minutes are before you for your approval. A motion is in order. I move to approve the minutes. Is there a second . Are there corrections to the minutes . All in favour say aye. All those opposed . The minutes are approved. Clerk there is no Public Comment for item 2. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners, grant colfax, director of health. You have the directors report in front of you. I am going to highlight our covid19 coronavirus response. Dr. Aragon will have more details. I wanted to acknowledge the Department Staff who have been working for over eight weeks in terms of our preparedness and our response in terms of dealing with the coronavirus. Last tuesday