Thats how unconventional all these polls are right now. Were also going to follow more as the markets sort of i digesting the news we got out of the likes of alphabet, amazon and apple. By and large, the numbers were pretty solid, they just werent solid enough, and its weighing on the techheavy nasdaq as a result. Much more on that in a second. Now back to the cases at hand that are getting a lot of attention. 12 states now are reporting record oneday increases including illinois, indiana, maine, michigan, minnesota, missouri, nebraska, new mexico, North Carolina, north dakota, oklahoma, ohio, oregon. These are not just with oneday blips. These are new causes, the highest cases, the highest ever recorded since the pandemic began. Furthermore, 91,248 americans, more americans just tested positive for the virus. It is the highest of the pandemic period. Thats whats weighing more on the markets than anything else, the idea that these expanded cases and the kind that were seeing in europe
Quarantines already in place people are required to stay at home until they have a negative test but that is something thats the government wants to monitor a lot closer 3 than they have done in the past also the bottom line really is that under the macro is once again trying to get Something Like National Control over the next step of measures taken rather than leaving it to the individual states which she has done and which also legally is the case in germany over the last couple of weeks she says she takes it seriously that the numbers are rising and thats where the need for more coordination comes from. At this press conference did you get a sense the details or was winning this push for National Guidelines and leaving behind what weve had and told now subsidiarity having the individual states decide whats the best thing to do in their individual areas regions. Yes and no she wasnt able to get an exact figure on the family gatherings for instance that should be allowed also a commo
I see the red box. Good morning and welcome to the county Transportation Authority meemeeting. Could you please call the role. role call . We have a quorum. Can we have our next item, please. May i make an announcement about Public Comment . Yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045987 and enter access code 2858465 as seen on the screen and follow the system prompts. Once you join, you can listen to the meeting as a participant. Dial 10 to be added to the queue to speak. Each caller will be allowed two minutes to speak. When your two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Calls will be taken in the order which they are received. Best practises are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. Please allow for audio visual delays and a 30second lag time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 2, Citizens Advisory Committee report and this is a
Over 7,000 new cases yesterday. The day before, over 5,000 new cases. The day before that, over 4,000 new daily cases. Were talking about a trend in the past week of many, many more new cases than we saw in april or may, so that is disturbing. And part of the governors message is that if we dont reverse this, he may have to shut down the economy again. So walk us back, just as the bay area economies are starting to reopen, in fact, the governor pointed to california during the News Conference in the bay area in particular saying that we were later to reopen, but now were starting to see the impact just in the last few days and the past week of numbers starting to go up. Not just the number one cases, that can be attributed to testing but also the test Positivity Rate is over 5 . That is bad. Tat means not just more people are getting tested but the people getting tested more are turning up positive. So we will talk with Alameda Countys Public Health officer about the implications of al
Commissioner anderson. Here. Commissioner harrison. Here. Commissioner mcdonald. Here. Okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the may 21st commission meeting. Just a few notes before we get started for the public. Can you hear me, stacy. She is in a different system. Okay. Somebody commented in chat andrew perry. He thinks stacy is on mute. I think she is while she is talking on a separate system to the public. I can see the mute button there. We are now on item 2. The president s report. Thank you very much. The president s report will be very brief. I want to congratulate all commissioners on Technology Skills and being able to get on the call and i want to thank the public for participating remotely. We are trying our best under these circumstances. I want to congratulate all staff and general manager for all of the work getting done during these challenging times, particularly in the broader sense of assisting the mayor and community in trying to solve the broader problems. That