And, commissioners, Public Comment . Clerk those of you on the Public Comment line press star, 3, to make a comment on the minutes. Star, 3. All right, no hands raised. So we can move on. President bernal upon review of the minutes, commissioners, a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Clerk i will do roll call vote. [roll call] great, the item passes. Next is the report. Im sorry . Is it okay if i call out . President bernal yes. On the minutes. Clerk okay. So the next item, number 3, the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. The director of health, and i will summarize and take any additional questions. Theres a lot going on in the world of Public Health. Some good news, september 9th the Supreme Court upheld proposition c, which will free up hundreds of millions of dollars for funding for homeless services, including a significant amount that will be dedicated to the Behavioral Health services for homeless individuals. So we are looking forward to hearing more on the lega
Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu
This was six times higher and then two. One times that of imwhite americans. Unfortunately this information of the distrust played a significant role in theseca adoutcomes with the emergency physician a visiting professor of Health Policy management at the George Washington University Institute for Public Health previously served as the Health Commissioner at the city of baltimore the oldest continuously operating Health Department with the Opioid Epidemic to improve maternal and child health and the Public Health issue. A leading voice on the call for science based policies and on monday talk about the impact of covid 19 on communities of color in the us. We have video to play here. Thank you so much for joining us a way to start off with disparity of covid19 and those outcomes for people of color around the United States. First of all im glad to join you thank you for focusing on this topic because this disease does not affect people equally communities of color. The front of this pa
Mnuchin again today and we will hear from the treasury secretary in a few minutes at delivering alpha. Plus palantirs public debut, backed by peter thiel, it will be a direct listing at the New York Stock Exchange, lots to discuss there. And covid optimism, regeneron saying its treatment cocktail helps in the early stages of the virus and we will talk with the companys cofounder and chief science officer polarity on this hour jim, of course, you have to get the debate out of the way, everybody is talking about that and were going to hear the argument that if you look at futures and even some of the Prediction Markets today, theres an argument that the debate really didnt change the broad contours of the race. Before we got pmi, before we got this little squib from speaker pelosi, the futures were down very big. I was watching dom this morning, it looked like the market would be very ugly and i think that was because of arecognition that there was no way you could possibly have any sort
Includes obama and it includes biden. With just three weeks to go, how does President Trump change the trajectory of this race . My guests this morning, senator dig durkin of illinois and senator ted cruz of texas. Plus, bill gates one on one. Were running the worst testing system in terms of who gets access to it of any country. Of his efforts to make Vaccines Available to low and middleincome countries around the world. Plus, the plot to capture Governor Whitmer. They hear the president not as a rebuke but a rallying cry. Does pret bear 1307b89 for encouraging hate groups . Joining me is nbc chief correspondent hallie jackson, hugh hewitt, teresa maria kumar, president of voto latino, and jake sherman, Senior Writer for politico. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, the longestrunning show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. From his fist day in office, donald trump has been the shauk and awe president. Bu