A grim coronavirus milestone as the number of covert 19 deaths exceeds 100000. Outrage over tuesdays explosion in lebanons capital has spilled on to the streets of beirut thousands of people have rallied furious at the government the protests descended into hours the street battles between demonstrators and Security Forces one policeman is dead dozens of people have been injured hes in a hot reports from beirut. They stood their ground in the face of power. Relentless tear gas by Security Forces at times live ammunition. But protesters didnt leave too angry at a Political Class they blame for tuesdays blast that killed dozens and destroyed and damaged many neighborhoods in the lebanese capital the authorities were aware that thousands of tons of highly explosive material was stored at the beirut port for years we have survived explosion but part of. I am one of the fortunate ones who can leave and establish myself outside but all the people. I know so what can we do what they did was r
[cheering]. All right. Mike woods standing by. What was that michael . Efntle having a weather computer issue over here. Doesnt want to play the game but now it may want to play. Checked out on this wednesday. We have issues here gremlins around the studio. Tuesday like. Or monday even. But its happy tile to get you up and running but showers wont hang out too long. Rain over the next hour, hour and a half or so and then a chance to breathe at least here in the city and points to the west. To the east it will take longer for you. But clearing out for everyone later on this afternoon along then Colder Weather followup. Tomorrow lows back town into the 20s yeps thats a shock to the system and we could see snow coming in tomorrow night into friday. Heres the rain as it stands right now. Esp radar showing actually last of the heavier had stuff is coming through city as we speak so yeah by about 7 00 looks like showers and thats it for you here in the city. But out in long island or connect
So their effectiveness is probably 80 in preventing hiv transmission. And so the next slide is really about paying for prep because it could be expensive. The great news is the cdc made the recommendation that its provided. Medical covers this in california and medicaid nationally. Most employee sponsored programs pay for it and we have patient assistance programs outlined here but its a complex situation and people seeking prep need a lot of assistance because each plan within a Given Program pays for a different amount and may cover one component but not visits or lab tests, and so we really need what we found is most successful in getting people prep is having the navigators that help them arrange the appropriate insurance and find providers willing to provide it, so we have a three pronged approach for what is needed for prep. We need assistance from providers. There are providers not comfortable providing prep so support for the new prep clinics and training on line tools and assi
Successful in getting people prep is having the navigators that help them arrange the appropriate insurance and find providers willing to provide it, so we have a three pronged approach for what is needed for prep. We need assistance from providers. There are providers not comfortable providing prep so support for the new prep clinics and training on line tools and assistance for the users and we still have the disparities and we need the information about availability into the communities most impacted by hiv. We would like to set up a user hot line so people can call and get information. Theres a lot of questions that individuals have about prep and we need to address affordability and then we want to measure the impact of prep, both theup take of prep, the benefits of prep but also any negative consequences and in particular we know of one case Life Insurance denied to a person initiated prep and we want to make sure those discriminatory practices for people caring for their health
Country to teach other people what were doing. Now we will hear from the department of Public Health. Greg wagner is here to present, and i hope you have really good news for us about the money. I will do my best. Good morning supervisors. Greg wagner chief Financial Officer with the department of Public Health. I dont have good news for you, but i dont have the bad news that we have had in some years past. Unfortunately as you pointed out at the beginning of this hearing it has been an annual ritual for many years for us to have this discussion in the board chambers about what the funding picture for our programs looks like and the change in the grants that we received from the state and federal governments for these programs. We are early in our budget cycle. Were still in our deliberations and awaiting information about what the funding picture will look like for this year, so we dont have as much information as we often do when we hold this discussion a little bit later, but i will