Transportation Authority Meeting for today, november 17th, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Britney milton. Ms. Millton, can you please make any announcements and then call the roll. Clerk yes. I will call the roll and then follow it up with my Public Comment announcement. Commissioner. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer present. Clerk commissioner present. Absent. Commissioner mar . Mar absent. Commissioner peskin. Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk commissioner stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk commissioner walton . Supervisor walton present. Clerk commissioner yee. Supervisor yee present. Clerk im sorry . Ill now make an announcement oh, thank you. Commissioner haney present. I will now make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment will be available for each item on the this agenda, via telephone by calling 415 655000 41
And she called on germans to reduce social contacts to an absolute minimum theres been another breakthrough in the race for a vaccine against covert 19 u. S. Biotech firm says its vaccine is nearly 95 percent effective and has been tested in a late stage trial involving 30000 volunteers, but are not expected to have enough safety data for us regulators to approve and roll out the vaccine this year. The European Union is facing a fresh political crisis after poland and hungary blocked the blocks, new long term budget and coronavirus rescue package. The 2 countries objected to a new mechanism that would tie funding to respect for the rule of law. This is the news from berlin, follow us on twitter and instagram at state of the news, or visit our website or in the span of just one week, 2, promising coronavirus back seeds. The 1st trials showed both work very well and preventing covert 19 without serious side effects and theyll arrive not a moment too soon. In europe, partial lockdown zone
Is called spectrum. If you would like in the information on the crown of virus or any other science topic, you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you get your podcast. You can also find us at science the worst possible choice for doctors tree arch when they have to decide which critical patients to admit to an intensive care unit. And which to turn away to most probably die. It happened in the 1st wave in back. Other countries may be faced with the same situation in a 2nd wave intensive care units and nearing capacity and some Health Care Workers are at their limits. When too many people get sick, all of once getting the right care maybe out of reach for the hospitals, better prepared this time. Well this next belgian hospital, the c h u has reached its limit. Its transferred at least 40 patients to other hospitals within the country and abroad. The hope is that other european nations remain in a position to help out and that Healthcare Systems suddenly over
A wake up call this morning from the Berlin Police. Now the search is on for their 1000000000. 00 home from the break in the president s state museum. Hello, im terry martin. Good to have you with us. A strict nationwide lockdown begins today in austria, which is battling with a surge in corona virus cases. Authorities warned the Health System there was on the verge of being overwhelmed. Choppers were out in vienna yesterday, visiting stores ahead of the 3 week law down from today. People are by and from leaving their homes unless for work exercise or buying supplies. Schools and nonessential shops have been ordered to shut off from police of war and they will conduct random checks of people supposed to be in coron teen home. Along down is due to last until december 6th, which will journalist carry sky ring is in vienna and joins us now. Kerry, tell us more about the new measures. Austria is taking to fight the pandemic. This is very similar to what we had back in march when the hand d
Commissioner peskin. Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk commissioner stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk commissioner walton . Supervisor walton present. Clerk commissioner yee. Supervisor yee present. Clerk im sorry . Ill now make an announcement oh, thank you. Commissioner haney present. I will now make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment will be available for each item on the this agenda, via telephone by calling 415 655000 415 6550001, and d entering access code 146 423 1359. Then pound and pound again. To make Public Comment, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. When it is your turn to speak, your line will be unmuted and the operator will advise youre allowed two minutes to speak. When your two minutes are up, well move on to the next caller. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly and turn d