Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is september 24, 2020, regular meeting, the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. I am supervisor rafael mandelman. We are joined by our vice chair, catherine stefani, and shaman walton. I want to thank s. F. Gov. Tv for staffing this meeting, and for your support today and every day. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Thank you, mr. Chair. In order to protect the public, Board Members and City Employees, the board of supervisors and the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This precaution is taken pursuant to all local and state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. Both channels are streaming a Public Comment callin number across the screen. Your opportunity to speak during the Public Comme
Studentcam. Org. Host we are joined by dr. William moss. He is the executive director of the National Vaccine center and also a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Thank you for joining us. Guest thank you for having me. Thank you for having me. Host a little bit about your work at the Vaccine Access center, talk about that and in the international aspect. Guest yes, so the interNational Vaccine access center, we celebrated our 10th anniversary just last year. And our main focus has been to increase access to lifesaving vaccines throughout the world. Traditionally, we have focused on childhood vaccines, particularly making sure that there is access in africa and asia, and that the vaccines are reaching the most vulnerable children, but then we have been very involved in thinking about covid19 vaccines, particularly how such a vaccine might be distributed, how we will ensure its safety and efficacy, and how we will get equitable distribution of the vaccine arou
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Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Doctor moss thank you for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Host a little bit about your work on the Vaccine Access center. Talk about your international aspect. Guest International Vaccine axes center we celebrated our tenth anniversary just last year and our main focus has been to ouincrease access to lifesaving vaccines throughout the world. Traditionally we have been focused on childhood vaccines particularly making sure that those acts as in africa and asia and that the vaccines are reaching the most Vulnerable Children but weve also been very involved in thinking about covid19 vaccine and particularly how such a vaccine might be distributed, how we will ensureow its safety and efficacy and how we will get equitable distribution of a vaccine around the world. Host with that in mind how does that apply to the current efforts going on with coronavirus . Guest there are a number of initiatives both at National Lev
A disputed border with china and fired warning shots in the air earlier china made the accusations and said that troops took countermeasures in the disputed western himalayas region but india says it was Chinese Forces that fired shots from the base side usually avoid using firearms in the area tensions have been high since clashes in june left 20 indian soldiers dead katrina you has more from beijing. Both sides india and china have had decades of this kind of tension because they fail to agree to agree over the line of actual control the delineation of the territory between both sides and over the past few months starting about from last year weve seen a build up of troops both on the chinese side and the indian side and according to some analysts we see a situation of quite literally troops from either side staring out staring down each other eyeball to eyeball and there have been some skirmishes although up until recently up until these last few months in june there were no actual