Weve seen significant spikes in demand. Weve seen reductions in supply, and right when people need it the most. Host typically what does your organization do . How broad to you reach and what types of places do you provide food . Guest our network is a network of 200 food banks around the United States and in normal times, over 60,000 pantries, kitchens, meal programs, two million volunteers. So we often have said that we are serving every community where there is Food Insecurity and that means every single county and parish in the u. S. In normal times we serve every parish and county in the whole United States. Host over the last month or so during the pandemic, whats been harder or tougher to get, the need of people who need food or the ability of your organization and similar organizations to get that food . Guest those are equally difficult challenges. Im sure your audience has seen how these retail outlets we have historically relied upon for donated food, they have empty shelves
The meeting for april 14, 2020 is now called to order. Role call, please. Pair role call . 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 t
That i wake up to that i am most focused on as governor of the state of california. The number of people in icu and the number of people hospitalized in california. Those numbers represent our most urgent need in terms of keeping people alive and keeping people healthy and safe in california. It is incumbent that we prepare for a surge in the number of hospitalizations and icu patients. That 774 may be deceiving. Many of you think it sounds modest compared with what is happening in other parts of the country. That may be true but it is important to impress upon you that that number represents a quadrupling compared to where we were just six days ago. The number of people hospitalized in california, 1855 represents a tripling of where we were six days ago. It gives you a sense of the nature of the spread and the nature of the attack of this virus and the nature of our focus as it relates to preparing for this surge. I will remind you that we are preparing for a two thirds increase in ou
And people love it i wonder if you can get a bucket of coffee too. Anyway, this is what its come to. Breakfast in a bucket. We are all eating like the president now. One of my coworkers received what i can only assume is a belated april fools day prank in the mail this weekend. She got one of those coupon packs with the discounts on charmin toilet paper and bounty paper towels. But i guess you could wipe with the coupon in a pinch, right . You know, i thought wed heard all the bad amenities this coronavirus has to offer already, but now it turns out its not just for humans anymore. A tiger at the bronx zoo has tested positive for coronavirus. Researchers think she caught it from a human zookeeper. Health Officials Say that people who have the virus should avoid contact with their pets. Jimmy great. Just when you thought things couldnt get worse for joe exotic. By the way, how did a tiger get a coronavirus test . Must be a hell of a basketball player. Nadia the tiger is believed to be t
Lockdown, it remains particularly emotional for families with older relatives in isolation. More than 400 u. S. Facilities now have residents infected with the virus. And texas remains one of the biggest states to not yet impose a statewide stay at home order. Why dont i start with the number 794. That is the number im most focused on. The number of people in icu and the number of people hospitalized in the state of california. Those numbers represent our most urgent need in terms of keeping people alive and keeping people healthy and safe in the state of california. It is incumbent that we prepare for a surge in the number of hospitalizations and the number of icu patients. That 774 may be deceiving. Many of you may think, that sounds relatively modest what is happening in other parts of this country. And that may be true. But its incredibly important to impress upon you that, that number represents a quadrupling compared to where we were just six days ago. The number of people hospit