Mayor london breed and governor gavin newsom have declared that the coronavirus is a Public Health emergency and have extended the order for people to shelter in place. This meeting is being held virtually with all members of staff and commission participating today via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of everyone is well taken care of. The Mayors Office has determined that the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure has an urgent need to take action on the matters before us to ensure Public Health and safety and has authorized the commission to meet for these matters. Madame secretary, please call the first item. The first item of business is role call. Respond when i call your name [roll call] all members of commission are present. The next order of business is item two, announcements. Announcement of Public Comment procedures. Please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Com
Our online data sunny skies sf. Org covid19 for full details. I want to just kind of update all of you on a few things and get to dr. Colfax and some important things that definitely need to be discussed. First of all, this past monday dr. Colfax and i had a monday was yesterday, right . It feels like monday every day, but yesterday dr. Colfax and i, along with dr. Susan phillips, had this great conversation about what it would take to reopen, and we talked about the indicators and the hospitalizations and a number of other things and the various phases. It was a very good conversation, and i think it is needed. What we found from that conversation are, of course, a number of questions, and many questions centered around when will we will able to get child care open, summer camps, schools and other things centered around children because i know many parents are anxious to not just get a break from their children but to get back to work and to get their kids involved in activities, and
Senate is working, and were trying to come up with solutions that will keep america moving. I particularly want to talk about one piece of the package because ive been getting calls from Small Businesses. Small businesses that are saying weve been shut down. Weve been told that we cant do anything with our business right now. Thats not all businesses. I do know the Grocery Stores are doing very well, probably having their best year ever. That will tail off a little later in the year when people are oversupplied, but right now Grocery Stores are probably doing well. Every other part of the economy is doing poorly, whether its restaurants or shoe stores or i think i saw where they even got permission now to deliver liquor. Before you had to buy it from the store. You couldnt get it delivered to your house. As a concession of the definitey were having to keep from shutting down every business, that concession has been made in some places now. But my point is that Small Business employs mo
With questions from carolyn maloney. I want to ask about testing. Why being asked over again the United States is so far behind other countries and why the American People cannot get tested. Our first case of coronavirus was on january 21. The u. S. Has tested 4900 people. In contrast, south korea has tested almost 200,000 people. They can test 15,000 people a day. South korea contest more people in one day then we tested over the past two months. So, dr. Fauci, why are we so far behind korea in testing and reporting this crisis . Dont like to pass the buck. Numbers. Eld has the i dont have that in front of me. Is the worst yet to come . Yes, it is. Can you elaborate . When ever you have an outbreak where you can stop seeing Community Spread, and you dont know when the index case is and how you can approach it is my contact tracing, when you have enough of that, it becomes a situation where you will not be able to effectively and efficiently contain it. Whenever you look at the history
Provider. So nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts held a conference with his response in nebraska. This is an hour. Will thank you all very much for joining us here this afternoon. I am being joined by doctor anton who was a chief medical officer for the state of nebraska. Also jim burke, jim macey for the director for department of environment agency. We are here today to give an update in regard to our coronavirus and Public Health emergency we are having here in our state. We have several announcements, going to talk first and im going to turn it over to the doctor to talk about testing then amended turned over to timber cruising to talk about the steps were taking and finally jim macey will talk about our safe water supply. So, we have a number of things that i want to update you on. First of all, i want to remind people that this is something we need people to take seriously. Youve seen that to the steps weve taken your state, recently, obviously we had our directed Health Measure with