We will get the details later this hour with a wall street journal congressional reporter. A leading Public Health expert on what is next as some areas of the country begin to slowly reopen. The impact this virus is having on native American Communities with representative deb haaland of new mexico. Our phone lines are open. We want to hear from you. For those of you out west if you are a medical professional, please dial in. We would love to hear from you. Good tuesday evening. We begin with the official numbers courtesy of john hopkins university. Worldwide the number of cases, 4. 25 million. The death toll in excess of 291,000. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen. She is the visiting professor at George Washington university. Today it was announced the Washington Post new opinion contributor and Baltimore City Health Commissioner from 2014 to 2015. Dr. Wen happy to be with you. Host i want to begin with new projections new 4, the withy august death toll could exceed 147,000.
It looks like were missing one board member . Miss collins. Do we know why . Here we are in this Virtual World and i hope the public is able to access this meeting and future meetings. Well do our very best to make sure that that happens. I also want to say that meetings by our advisory groups will get started up again, hopefully soon, as well as Many Committee meetings by the board. But we do have capacity issues at the moment, but we want to make sure at the same time that the public is engaged and that we have a transparent process for all of our decisionmaking processes. Board minutes, section b, of the march 24, 2020, we need a motion and a second. So moved. Why dont we just assign two people to do the motions and the second. Anany objections . Seeing none, role call. role call . Good afternoon, everyone. Its great to see you all. I would like to start tonight with a couple of thoughts and then im going to show a quick video. So first of all, beginning wednesday, april 15, we are
World even though i was probably going two miles an hour. It was, like, the scariest thing id ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked role call item 2 is pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republican for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and pages are prohibited at this meeting. And be advised the chair may remove anybody using a cell cell phone or Electronic Device and the public has up to three minute to make pertinent comments unless the Port Commissioner dubs a shorter period. The moderator will instruct dialin participants to use touchtone phones to register any desire tor Public Comment. Comments will be taken first from inperson participants and then dialedin participants. Audio prompts will signal to dial in when the input has been enabled for commenting. The comply with the declaration for covid19, that
Call. Actually, first you take Public Comment. Moderator, any Public Comment . Any Public Comment, moderator . No. No, so i will do a role call, commissioners. I will show my face so we can look at that. [role call vote] commissioner, if you want to end this item gore to see if the commissioners have any more comments or do any personally thanking. I would like to offer the opportunity for commissioners to offer comments. First, i would like to begin in addition to acknowledging the people of San Francisco for the sacrifices they have made in order to comply with the orders that have been placed, that are literally saving lives every day. We cannot express in an appropriate depth of gratitude that we feel to the employees of the San Francisco department of Public Health, so many of whom are working 24 hours seven days a week in order to protect all of the people of San Francisco, particularly those who are most vulnerabled a at risk nor pandemic. All the way from director colfax throug
Here we are in this Virtual World and i hope the public is able to access this meeting and future meetings. Well do our very best to make sure that that happens. I also want to say that meetings by our advisory groups will get started up again, hopefully soon, as well as Many Committee meetings by the board. But we do have capacity issues at the moment, but we want to make sure at the same time that the public is engaged and that we have a transparent process for all of our decisionmaking processes. Board minutes, section b, of the march 24, 2020, we need a motion and a second. So moved. Why dont we just assign two people to do the motions and the second. Anany objections . Seeing none, role call. role call . Good afternoon, everyone. Its great to see you all. I would like to start tonight with a couple of thoughts and then im going to show a quick video. So first of all, beginning wednesday, april 15, we are opening two additional meal pickup sites. These sites will be open from 11 00