Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority board for todays meeting of tuesday october 20, 2020. Im the chair, aaron peskin and our clerk is ms. Brittany milton. Please call the roll. [roll call] supervisor ronen this is commissioner ronen, im here, i might have to jump off. Clerk thank you commissioner ronen present. Commissioner yee . We have a quorum. Supervisor peskin Commission Er ronen when you need to leave, just let me know. Well excuse you until you come back. Well go to our Citizens Advisory Committee report. Mr. Larson, the floor is yours. Good morning chair peskin. Vice chair mandelman im reporting on our september 23rd c. A. C. Meeting. There was extensive discussion among c. A. C. Members regarding Program Guidelines, programming and allocation request concerning the Traffic Congestion mitigation tax or t. N. C. Tax. Given it was the first time a request related to this new source of funds, this come before the committee, c. A. C. Member
Distribute a vaccine. This is 30 minutes. All yours. All mine . Great. Good afternoon. And thank you, secretary azar, for joining us today at cdc headquarters. It is a privilege to have you with us and we appreciate your leadership throughout this unprecedented response. Covid19 is the most significant Public Health challenge our country has faced in more than a century. And the pandemic is not over. And the pandemic is not over. Earlier this week, covid virus cases reached over 40 million globally. Here in the United States, we are approaching a critical phase. In a few moments, dr. Jay butler, cdc director for Infectious Disease and the former Incident Manager of the cdcs covid19 response will provide you a brief update on our current situation. I know it has been a difficult year for americans, but we are going to come through this on the other side. I am also optimistic that we will have a limited supply of one or more covid Vaccines Available for distribution before the end of thi
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Good afternoon. And thank you, secretary azar, for joining us today at cdc headquarters. It is a privilege to have you with us and we appreciate your leadership throughout this unprecedented response. Covid19 is the most significant Public Health challenge our country has faced in more than a century. And the pandemic is not over. Earlier this week, covid virus cases reached over 40 million globally. Here in the United States, we are approaching a critical phase. In a few moments, dr. Jay butler, cdc director for Infectious Disease and the former Incident Manager of the cdcs covid19 response will provide you a brief update on our current situation. I know it has been a difficult year for americans, but we are going to come through this on the other side. I am also optimistic that we will have a limited supply of one or more covid Vaccines Available for distribution before the end of this year, but were not quite there yet. That is why it is so important that all of us remain diligent i