Coronavirus was declared a pandemic, you were on capitol hill testifying about preparedness for biodefense. Guest what we were talking about, we issued a report back in february. We started over a year ago. Looking at the administration 2018 bioDefense Strategy. What we found in that report is the strategy [indiscernible] to coordinate the fragmented effort, there are over two dozen president ial appointees. We found it was a pretty well put together effort but there were another of challenges we saw. One of those things was setting priorities across all of the different agencies with their different budgets. Frankly, we are seeing a lot of these challenges come to fruition. In 2007, we issued a report that hhs needed to better clarify their roles for what is going to happen in the case of a large domestic pandemic. The one we are seeing now. Fast forward to today, a month ago, we are seeing some of these questions about who was responsible for what, what mechanisms do we need to set u
Take stock to get the right people around the table not just a narrow segment of science and to look and say what was likely to be coming down the track if they dont or they would have put systematic testing in place they would have ordered all the stuff that were not sure of and they would have realised that in order to take the public with you our list journey into the unknown were this rich real restrictions on freedom in a liberal democracy that they would have to be open and transparent and all these things they failed to do so were in a really bad place as the numbers of deaths are now climbing very steeply and will continue to do so over the next few weeks what you say are all that bad or a stronger offices briefing that the reason maybe we didnt get the information was that china was getting us disinfo mation that china has been there. Big factor here and will face a reckoning they could be concerned a pariah state is nothing about your ventilator numbers and lack of oxygen tod
Sanitizer and also how Global Financial shock is threatening to under half a century of Economic Growth and stability in latin america. Everyone accusing it of failing its basic duty u. S. President on trampas halted his countrys financial contributions to the World Health Organization he says the w. H. O. Not only mishandled the outbreak but even covered up how it was spreading out of china the un though says it is the worst possible moment for money to be withheld and drums critics insist he is attempting to shift blame away from himself well start with this from mike hanna in washington. In what has become a pattern President Trump used his podium to break reporters if you keep talking ill leave and you can have it out with the rest of these people if you keep talking im going to leave and you could have it out with that. Just allowed me to introduce a number of prominent members of big business the Construction Labor Workforce International union of operating engineers Jim Callagha
The bloomberg terminal. A grim milestone. One Million People have now tested positive for the coronavirus with more than 50,000 deaths worldwide. The Asian Development bank estimates the cost of the pandemic at 4. 1 trillion. We will get through this, you was Vice President mike pence tells bloomberg that the economy will rebound from mounting unemployment as the government ramps up virus testing. We are testing over 100,000 americans a day. We literally are tracking every single day the number of cases that are coming out, where they are coming out. Pullback, oil markets reassess President Trumps tweet on output cuts with brent and of uti giving up some of yesterdays gains. We will double big into that story. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading here in europe. Lets take a look at futures right now. They are down in terms of european futures. Downed arrows with futures 6 10 of 1 . Euro stoxx, ftse, dax futures also down. Lets take a look at u. S. Futures. We a
Am the president of the commission. If you want to speak on Public Comment, you need to fill out a speaker card or you can just come to the podium when its Public Comment. I want to thank sfgovtv and Media Services for sharing this media with the public, and well start with roll call. [roll call] president bleiman all right. Thank you. The first order of business is general Public Comment. This is comment on any item that is not on our regular agenda tonight. Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. President bleiman next agenda item is number two, which is approval of our minutes for the february 18, 2020 meeting, and ill ask if we have a motion for the approval of the minutes from the february 8, 2020 meeting. I move to approve. Second. President bleiman is there any Public Comment on our minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] [roll call] president bleiman all right. The minutes have been approved. Next item on the agenda is a report from our director