The announcement. Unprecedented that there should be a rich abundance of approaches, all of which rich abundance of approaches, all of which are rich abundance of approaches, all of which are essential. And new data shows another covid 19 vaccine developed in the us that may only require a single dose is 66 effective. In other news, primary schools in wales could re open to all pupils after half term though the nationwide lockdown will continue. And thousands of volunteers helping the nhs with the Vaccine Roll Out will be prioritised for a jab. Hello, and a very good afternoon. The European Medicines Agency is expected to approve the Oxford Astrazeneca Covid Vaccine for use in the eu this afternoon. The uk has been using the Astrazeneca Jab in its Mass Immunisation Programme for weeks now. Meanwhile, the European Commission has published a redacted version of its contract with the pharmaceutical giant in a continuing row about supplies of the vaccine. A contract was signed in august fo
Good morning, everyone. And welcome to this beautiful monday. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 9th, 2020 of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me on the Video Conference is Catherine Stefani and rules Committee Member supervisor gordon mar. Our id like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 health emergencier and to protect Board Members, City Employees and the public, the board of the supervisor legislative chamber are closed. Members will participate in the meeting remotely. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda on both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org. Theyre streaming the number across the screen. Comments are opportunities to speak are available via phone by calling 415 6550001. Again thats 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 146 344 9722. Press pound and up and down again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discus
Questions were raised over astrazeneca trial results. The ceo telling bloomberg within the last few minutes that it will now likely as a result run a new global trial, saying, now that we have found what looks like a better efficacy, we are going to have to validate this, and we need to do an additional study. It looks like it is going to be half of those full dose that could produce a higher efficacy then maybe a full dose. Europe and the United States continued to struggle with containing the virus resurgence. Germany is seeing a record increase in new cases, while new york cases are approaching 7000, hospitalizations hit their highest since june. Here was more is bloombergs, china here with more is bluebirds emma chandra here with more is bloombergs emma chandra. Emma astrazeneca are going to look to have a no other global trial to test the efficacy of the half dose, which they think will be better, and getting some more troubling figures out of large economies. The likes of new yor
Because we do have some options. We can pass this out of committee, without recommendation, which means that this committee has not given their approval. Or would someone could also make a motion to move this out of committee. So i think Committee Members at this point, let us approve the amendment first, while you think about this for a minute. And with that, madam clerk, id like to make a motion to approve the proposed amendment from our budget legislative analyst. Clerk yes. On the motion yes. On the motion, supervisor walton. Supervisor walton aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman aye. Clerk chair fewer. Chair fewer aye. Clerk there are three ayes. Chair fewer colleagues, what say you . Supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman you know, i share chair fewer, i shared some of the concerns i think you have and other concerns about this contract. I also do take the anxiety that the department of Public Health has about continuing to be working with this company that t
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