Good evening, everybody. Im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. Its especially urgent in santa clara county. New data reveals hospitals could exceed capacity by middecember. The county pleads with the public to follow covid19related rules and restrictions including the new 14day mandatory travel quarantine. Abc 7 News Reporter chris ngueyn has the story. Reporter the coronavirus rages on, a grim assessment this afternoon, hospitals in the areas of the county hit hardist by covid19 are nearing capacity as administrators scramble to ensure they have enough beds. More specifically the hospitals serving East San Jose collectively have less than a dozen icu beds available. Hospitals throughout the county are working together engaging in phone calls at least daily to redistribute patients as needed to ensure that we are continuing to provide safe and high quality care. Reporter with the growing number of patients being admitted to hospitals each day, county leaders are urging the public to
The fda, it will be the most reliable way to beat the virus. Certainly, the vaccine representing both our hopes and our fears and abc 7 News Reporter kris reyes spoke with a doctor about the worries that keep him up at night and kris, im really interested to hear what he had to say. He had a lot to say. The doctor is very confident about the vaccine calling it a bright light in this long, dark tunnel that weve been traveling through but he says distribution is far from a trivial matter and we need to prepare for dealing with plenty of complications. Neither the cdc nor the state of california are likely to get more granular than to say Health Care Workers and people over 65 in Long Term Care facilities are the first two groups. Reporter the question then becomes which Health Care Worker goes first . Take ucsf that is unlikely to get enough vaccines in the first shipment to cover the 30,000 staff. The complicated task deciding which employee gets the vaccine first and then falls on the
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Yellow. The way dph has been approaching it in the past when weve been reopening because our numbers looked good is were being more conservative and instead of opening everything in the yellow, we were beginning to open everything all the way up to the orange for now. And the reason is because from an epidemiological perspective with the discount that the state gives us for the above testing, it was good we got that and it gives us plex ability to open more but we were not there from a disease perspective so as a result, they really were opening up giving up until where we were which is really in orange zone. So, your question about if we get moved back to if the state moves us back to orange at some point in time, does that mean that San Francisco is going to move to red, right. So basically only allow for purple and red so one tier off. I dont believe thats going to be the direction that were going to go. So were not going to be as blunt as that. Because remember, when we started to
Good afternoon and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, february 24, im the chair of the committee, aaron peskin joined to my right by vicechair safai and to my left by supervisor dean preston. Our clerk is ms. Erica major. Ms. Major, do you have any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the march 3 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Can you please read the first item . Item 1 is a resolution authorizing assets from the office of Community Investment and infrastructure to the city and county of San Francisco. Placing parcels under jurisdiction of public works and Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and adopting appropriate findings. Thank you, ms. Major. As you will remember, for many decades in San Francisco, w