Organization practices a Virtual Meeting to discuss recommendations would get the covid19 vaccine first. The two groups likely to receiveposes our healthcare workers and longterm care facilityresidents. This is a portion of the meeting. Today we will revisit the allocation of the covid19 vaccine to answer the following policy questions. Should healthcare personnel and longterm care facility residents be offered vaccination to phase 1 a. After we have reviewed the evidence, then clinical considerations and safety monitoring presented by my colleagues we return to this question. Recalled that during the aca Community Meeting last week reviewed evidence to inform allocation decisions. For the finance, the workgroup examined covid19 Disease Burden as well as the balance of harmony group. Of course details of the phase 3 data will further inform this area when they become available. For implementation, the workgroup took into consideration the values and acceptability of implementation in e
Its devastating news for restaurants. Its a really concern. We have a skeleton staff. And en that staff is in jeopardy. If we cant generate revenue. Rain and cold is not helping. Call to action from a county that had seen improvements. We have an obligation as the leaders of the community and the adults and really fighting back this virus. So we can get kids to school. We can get businesses back open. And get our lives back as normal as we can get them. Looking ahead to next week. If the county goes into the red tier on tuesday. That means theaters and gyms will also be taking a step back. It is happening. Not just the south bay. Contra cost also rolling back reopening. Its a familiar game plan beginning tuesday. Shutting down Indoor Dining. Indoor gyms. Concession stands at movie theaters. Also stopping Indoor Dining. Theyre going further. Moving county into the red tier. The state hasnt told them to do that yet. Tuesday indoor stores and malls have to cut back on the customers allowe
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 also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public about how best to prepare for coronavirus and when coronavirus does arrive in San Francisco. A key part of our message is that everyone
Clerk there is no Public Comment for item 2. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commiser 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 also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public
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 also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public about how best to prepare for coronavirus and when coronavirus does arrive in San Francisco. A key part of our message is that everyone can be a Good Public Health hero in this response. That includes not going to work or school if you are sick. Stay at home or seek medical attention. Avoid coughing into your hand. Cough into your elbow or sneeze into our elbow. We recommend to not shake hands, but do an elbow bump instead. A key piece moving forward. And also a reminder to get a flu shot, and a flu shot does not prevent coronavirus infection, but it prevents symptoms similar to a coronavirus infection. Get a flu shot to prevent getting symptoms.