As far as the current state of play, these past three weeks we have seen three crucial positive readouts of data from leading programs. The first came from pfizer, the second came from moderna, and the third one this morning just came from astrazeneca and the team at oxford. These are three leading vaccine front runners, all three in late stage studies appear to be effective, the first to 95 effective in preventing covid19. Thatnity is expected to do late november, early december. That will set up an fda decision, all eyes turning to the agency to see how quickly they can approve it and for what subgroups of the population. Vaccineing on in the phase, but there is a lot going on and muchneeded positive news when you think about the surge that we have seen in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. The fda approval, how quickly could they approve it, and what could keep them from being approved, and how is the fda ensuring confidence in the public in the safety of these vaccines . Guest i
Good morning, everyone. And welcome to this beautiful monday. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 9th, 2020 of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me on the Video Conference is Catherine Stefani and rules Committee Member supervisor gordon mar. Our id like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 health emergencier and to protect Board Members, City Employees and the public, the board of the supervisor legislative chamber are closed. Members will participate in the meeting remotely. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda on both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org. Theyre streaming the number across the screen. Comments are opportunities to speak are available via phone by calling 415 6550001. Again thats 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 146 344 9722. Press pound and up and down again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discus
Phone lines split up as usual this morning. Democrats, 202 7488000 is the number to call in. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text. That number, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. You can catch up with us on social media, twitter and facebook. A very good monday morning to you. You can start calling in now. Theheadlines on this topic, first use of the vaccine maybe december 13. 40 million doses said to be available by the end of the month. That from the front page of usa today. Frontline gets the first vaccine doses, but then who . Thats the question we are asking this morning, asking you to be in the position of setting the priority, how would you do it . Turning to the cdc webpage there, i q a on how the cdc is making its covid19 vaccine recommendations. Making those disease vaccine recommendations based on the input from the Advisory Committee on immunization practices. Its a federal Advisory Committee
Coasttocoast. This is amazing. Im so happy. Hey, hey, hey, goodbye its pretty incredible. Biden already making plans for his first order of business. Our work begins with getting covid under control. But trump and his supporters vow its not over yet. Many cases are going to be filed. Some big, some small. And with that, we say good evening and thank you for joining us. It was pennsylvania that put biden and harris over the threshold today, surpassing the 270 Electoral College votes needed. Nevada was called shortly after, giving biden 279 over President Trumps 214. Biden also surpassed the record for popular votes with more than 74 million cast. And it will go beyond pennsylvania. Harris would be the first woman and first woman of color to serve in the secondhighest office in the United States. But President Trumps team is vowing to move forward with legal challenges disputing the results. The next chapter in u. S. History starting off with a bang. The crowd at the biden election headq
From uclas school of Public Affairs. This runs an hour and a half. Understand theo deep connection that the issue of guns and gun violence has with the work of the school of Public Affairs. Is a the other focuses focus on Mental Health. Guns are the single biggest killer of women. They are the single biggest. Ause of successful suicide it turns out people may try to take their own life more often than we would like, and its a tragedy, but we are not very good at it unless there is a gun present. If there is a gun present, the possibility of fatalities skyrocket. Guns tear at the fabric of american society, but as you will hear in tonights lecture, you can argue they are written into the fabric of american their advocates and manufacturers would tell us. We will talk a bit more about that. Its also important to understand that guns are a racial issue. Puts a simply, puts succinctly, as the Second Amendment is made up for white people. As more than 100 armed men descend on the kentucky s