Governor cuomo good morning. Good to see all of you. Smiling faces. Mostly smiling faces. Ill just give you an update as to where we are today. The number of cases continues to increase. Were up to 7,917. The number of people tested, again, is the highest rate in the country. And per capita higher than china, per capita higher than south korea. We tested 18,000 people, total tested 238,000, which is a lot of people but remember new york, youre talking on a base of 19 million. Number of positive cases up to 8,669, 92,000 total in the state. Predominantly in new york city, but you see westchester nd nassau, which, by percentage, is a troubling number. Remember new york city, so much larger than westchester or nassau or suffolk. So those numbers are concerning and were watching those. You look to see in nassau county, 1,000 new cases, suffolk county, 1,141 new cases, that is roubling news. Number of counties, you see the entire state. Every county in the state now has reported a coronavir
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
That will be provided, absolutely. Are you short equipment right now . Every local jurisdiction needs more personal protective equipment. I cannot emphasize how important that is. Given the need to protect our Healthcare Work force. We asked at the federal level for more in terms of what is availability. All local jurisdictions that i have talked to and i am aware of are working under a short supply. This is a key gap in our ability to collectively respond to the epidemic. We are working locally, regionally and state level to develop more uptodate guidelines with regard to what is the necessary protective equipment and also to make sure that we have a clear sense of what is available Going Forward. Personal protective equipment is a vital part of this response, and i want to ensure we are able to keep our Healthcare Workers protected with the best evidence possible so they can do their job. Under the order, take out will continue and coffee take out as long as social distances is maint
Good afternoon, and thank you everyone for joining us here today. I am london breed. I am the mayor of San Francisco. I am joined by the president of the board of supervisors, norman yee along with other members of the board of supervisors. The director of the department of Public Health, our police chief, bill scott, and the department of Emergency Management director mary ellen care ron. I want to thank everyone for joining us today. As you know. The city has been working to prepare for what we know would be a significant Public Health challenge here in the city, and we are seeing it play it out all over the bay area and all over the world. As the city prepared its response, we explained to the public we would be year every step of the way what the challenges are and the steps we need to take to protect Public Health. Some of the challenges we have, of course, faced from an economic standpoint as well. Every step of the way i want be to thank not only members of puckly for your under
Billion in a targeted way somehow, but none of that has been deployed yet. There seems to be a willingness to wait and see, and wait for Pharma Companies to come up with solutions to the coronavirus testing and so on. Meantime, markets are selling off in terms of equities, and all that money seems to be flowing into bonds. Then we have the opec story as well on the side. ,ight now we are off our lows but down on the s p 500. No solace in the fact that we seem to be seeing deaths and cases decrease in china, and lots of fear out there. Airlines canceling more flights, and just continued, i dont want to say panic, but it feels like a tinge of panic in the air. The 10 year yield down to 64 basis points earlier on. Right now we are at 75 basis points. It seems like it was only the other day, because it was only the other day, that we were at 1. 30 , and been completely taken by surprise that this was below the alltime previous low. We were already at an alltime low. We are now at 75 basis