More than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430,000 deaths across this country. Accounting for 25 of of the confirmed cases and 20 of deaths worldwide. While cases hospitalizations and deaths at have slightly decrd in the last few weeks, the numbers continued to be staggering. Now there is great concern of varied and more transmissible strains of the virus may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an aggressive effort to combat the pandemic and Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the Public Health response and jumpstart the economy. The future of Health Care Initiative released its first report of bipartisan prescription for Americas Health care in february 2020 Offering Practical Solutions designed to make healthcare coverage more affordable without adding a growing Systemwide Health expenditures. Todays report was led by a Bipartisan Group of heal
Centers event on the nations response to the coronavirus pandemic. I serve as the chief medical advisor. Today the Bipartisan Policy Centers future is releasing a new report. You can find this report at bipartisanpolicy. Org. That is bipartisanpolicy. Org. Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago, there has been more than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430 cases deaths across the country, accounting for 25 of deaths worldwide. While cases, hospitalizations and deaths have slightly decreased, the numbers continue to be staggering and there is great concern variants, more transmissible strains of the virus, may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an effort to combat the pandemic in Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the response and jumpstart the economy. The initiative released its first report, bipartisan subscription for health care in
Given access to voting locations. A review of ballots counted while his team were not president. The president saying he would sue to prevent the election from being stolen. The u. S. Has officially left the Paris Climate Accord, even with the full Election Results still unclear. President trump initiating the process a year ago. The exit took effect wednesday. Trump would be likely to spend a second term promoting fossil fuels and rolling back environmental regulations. Joe biden will rejoin the Paris Agreement immediately if he wins. In the u. K. , the house of commons voted in favor for a new lockdown in england. That as reported Coronavirus Infections continue to search. All nonessential businesses, venues, and stores will close until the second of december. The u. K. Has europes highest number of deaths at more than 47,000. Boris johnson warned of a mortality on a previous scale. Thats a look at the first word headlines. No problem, equity markets are on the up. Asia tracking the
Then pound appound again. You will hear the meeting discussion but yo you will be md ied listening mode only. Call from quiet location and turndown your television and radio use or submit by email to marrtotothe committee. Please note this meeting is recorded will be available at sfgovtv. Org. Would you like me to call roll . Yes, please call the roll. roll call . All are present. We have a quorum. Welcome everyone to day one of our city, our home oversight committee. We will move to item 2. Do we have any Public Comment at this time . Members of the public who wish to comment should call 4156550001 access code 1460283650 and pound and pound. If you havent done so please dial star three to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until you have been unmuted. You have three minutes. Checking the list now. There are no callers. Thank you. We will move to item 3. Approval, with possible modification of the minutes of the october 20 meeting. Is there a motion to
And we lead the program with the latest development in the treatment of copa 19 in the u. S. Food and Drug Administration on monday authorized emergency use of eli lillys experiment mental antibody treatment. Thats balm let me be mocked the f. D. A. Said the emergency use authorization was given based on Clinical Trials showing the drug reduced the need for hospitalization or emergency room visits and high risk tobit 1000 patients now the regulator added that it can be used now for treating patients over the age of 12 with mild to moderate symptoms but cannot be used for patients who have been hospitalized due to cope at 19 lilly is hoping to supply as many as 1000000 doses of the treatment in the 4th quarter of this year now the u. S. Government previously made an agreement with the drug maker for the early supply of the medication on the news lately stock was up as much as 4 percent throughout the day. And following the news that pfizer bio and texaco but 1000 vaccine candidate showe