Commissioner green . Present. Commission chow . Present. Commissioner guillermo, present. Ill note the commissioners. Thank you, mark. Well move on to the next item, which is approval of the minutes from the last Commission Meeting on january 5th. Commissioners, upon reviewing the minutes, are there any amendments . And if not, do we have a motion to approve . Before we go into the vote, i have to make sure there is nothing on the item. Thank you. And this is a general instruction, but you will press star 3 if youd like to raise your hand, and ill say the same introduction over and over again. Okay. So there is no comment at this time. Well vote. Commissioner chow. Yes. Commissioner green . Yes. Commissioner chong . Yes. Commissioner guillermo tkpwhrerpl . guillermo. And. Our next item is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners of health. This report focuses on covid19, and i will be providing an update and as well with regards to the current status of covid19 and our vacci
Fund departments may mead extra Staff Members to do various things. I think people have been doing more with less and that works for a while but after some period of time people cant do more without having more and they are all stressed out. We may need more resources for the clerks office. Perhaps some other general fund departments. I do agree with the clerks recommendations that were on that slide that i cant see right now. Those are the recommendations today. We no, i thinks may change early next year and probably will change several times next year. I understand that the mayors budget instructions are due out next wednesday. I understood that this committee was not meeting next wednesday and perhaps this was the last scheduled meeting for the year. I am wondering when the mayors budget instructions will be up for discussion at the Budget Committee . Perhaps someone can address that question. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments, sir. Next speaker, please. That complete
Health service. This marks the bicentennial of the service founded in 1798. [old time music] and now, let us go back 300 years to london. In a famous diary, we read of a catastrophe that was typical of then and of the preceding ages, an epidemic of plague that have been raging in europe broke out with a fearful frenzy in englands capital in 1665. Hundreds fell ill every day. Many of them died. People were stricken on the streets. Everyone fled from the victims for fear of the dread disease. But, by far the most horrible element of the tragedy was the mystery of its origins. No one knew what or who carried the plague. The solution finally came by way of this odd contraption. Does anyone know what this is . It looks like a can opener. [laughter] no, it is not a can opener. It is the first microscope. It may look like a toy to us but its important to human life is tremendous. It is the connecting link between our science and the distant past, when the world of germs was unknown to man. In
Vaccine. There were a total of 95 cases of symptomatically covid. The vaccine was 94. 5 effective. There were no reports of serious side effects. Other hopeful news, all 11 cases of severe covid illness were in the placebo group. The cofounder and chairman of moderna spoke about the results. We have a number of different other subgroups we are looking actively at. In general, it looks like the vaccine performs broadly across all the population groups that we consider. Moderna expects to have 20 million doses ready to ship by the end of 2020. The Game Changing result comes a week after pfizer announced similar results for its vaccine. Pfizers vaccine is shown to be more than 90 effective. Stocks are up on the Moderna Vaccine news. Right now, the dow is up 337 points. A u. S. Officials as the pentagon is expected to cut the number of u. S. Troops in afghanistan and half by mid january. This, according to the associated press. The pentagon also expects to cut the number of troops in iraq
Touting success in fighting covid19. The news comes as we learn 11 million americans are infected with the coronavirus. Black do not need any device. It will be the same as getting it at cvs. Reporter the moderna ceo took to the airwaves words of comfort for a jittery global community. He says Clinical Trials show shots from the drugmaker vaccine provide strong protection against covid19. Vaccine is being created with the National Institutes of health and is being tested on 30,000 volunteers. Those subjects either received the vaccine or a placebo. So far, the two shot moderna solution to covid which needs to be kept in a cold place appears to be 90 for. 5 effective. Once you have a vaccine shown to be safe and effective, you can go back and do phase one and phase two trials in children. Trucks of a congresswoman anna eshoo sent an email to fox 2 interaction to the recent element thing and part, importantly, the vexing candidate so appear to prevent severe covid19 disease. It is extrem