Emergencies and crises that take place across the community. Number of people who serve in the same capacity . I think there is a great example of who is on the ground in this community, and it is replicated across the country. Even those places without confirmed cases are doing the same work, so from the basic answering questions, there is a ton of concern in the community, working with schools, deciding what others who are doing large gatherings, what are the what should they be doing and what shouldnt they be doing, working with health care, how to get people in line for testing. They are also monitoring folks who may have symptoms while they are waiting for their tests to get back, and they are tracking down who they are in contact with, making sure they are ok. Seeing if they need to be tested. Host what is the Public Health infrastructure looking like at this point . Publicpeople who are Health Professionals are dedicated to this work and they do spend time not just making sure t
President yee okay. Good afternoon. Welcome to the march 17, 2020 regular meet ongoing meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors, even though its not regular. Madame clerk, the roll . Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that
Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that given the stayhome order issued yesterday by the mayor to reduce the spread of covid19, the board of supervisors will continue to meet and deliberate on essential action items during this time. Members of the public are ad
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