Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Thank you all for coming im tom oconnor im a San Francisco firefighter im a member of the Cancer Prevention center today, we stand before a memorial to honor the firefighters who have died in hospitals and hospice today, we staples before a sea of by boats to honor those folks a number that is growing every year. Every time firefighters enter a burning building we have chemicals and car gins that are interour bodies and for years the deviating effects and recent studies by control of Disease Control have demonstrated that firefighters are sxhooum to cancer and now its time to push back. It is the for that us to let the memorial serve a purpose are that it is time to let san franciscans and the world know that long arrest the fires are put out the firefighters are fighting against cancer were indicating is to ban toxic chemicals in first one and clothing. Chemicals like deadly flammable retardant for Childrens Clothing and known car gins that were band
Working themselves sick because this is a monday umental task and so many years it is a hurtle that we cannot overcome, and i do not believe that. And so, please communicate that, so that we are supporting you adequately, and to do this work. I want to say that, and president , fewer, i dont, and as soon as i was the chair of curriculum i had no idea that it dropped off and you have so much to present to us, maybe on a monthly basis, updates would be really helpful and then we can figure out when it should come back to the board of education with all of the information so that gives you a time span as you develop the work and find out new information to present it to curriculum. And the committee and then we can decide that all of the Board Members who are responsible with the Curriculum Committee members. And can hear the update and what is really imperative for them to know at the appropriate time and of course, the Board Members could come to the meeting and so you should not hesita
Southern california, the situation there is dire. There are zero icu beds available there right now. Zero. The institute of Health Metrics and evaluation at the university of washington is warning that 49 states will have high or extreme stress on icu capacity for the rest of december all the way through april. They are now projecting 562,000 deaths here in the u. S. By april 1st. That is up 60,000 from last weeks forecast. We are also learning today that president elect joe biden and dr. Jill biden will receive their first Covid Vaccine doses in delaware on monday. Vice president pence just got his coronavirus shot this morning, there he is. And dr. Fauci was watching and urged every single american to do the same. We want virtually everyone eligible to get this vaccine ultimately. And we all hope, and i think this is doable, that by the time we get to several months into this year, we will have enough people protected that we can start thinking seriously about the return to normality
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