1,000 cases in ten days and a new peak in hospitalizations. Tonight San Francisco is taking new steps to prepare for worstcase scenarios. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. City Health Director dr. Grant colfax says the virus is moving fast and more people are getting seriously ill. 107 coronavirus patients are currently hospitalized, the highest number since the pandemic began. 25 of those are in intensive care. The city is opening a new hospital site that would be used to accommodate noncovid patients if necessary. We are creating a care site in the presidio that we hope we will not need. This site is designated for hospitalized patients without covid19 who no longer need acute medical care but arent quite ready to go home. The facility will eventually have the capacity for 93 patients. Dr. Colfax really emphasized today that we need to commit and recommit to being careful. Part of doing that is Wearing Masks. But what about face shields or eye gogg
Cindy is glad to have help from chris. She is a threetime cancer survivor. In the age of covid19, shes doing everything she can to rehab at home. I feel so heart heart heart t those people in the Nursing Homes that are stuck there. Reporter now more than ever, theres new demand for inHome Health Care. In fact, it is creating a brand new job market. When you walk with a cane, the patient should walk and look out toward the front and not hunched over. She teach as free weekly online class at the adult school on how to become a home care it a. It is now the most popular course being offered. So it is in great demand now. Because of covid, a lot of people dont want to put their loved ones in a facility and they want to keep them at home. Reporter Nursing Homes have become hot spots in the bay area and across the country. It is increasing our business and we are in higher demand than weve been before. Reporter he says hes recruiting new caregivers daily, often straight from deborahs class a
Today address as number of important issues related to ovid19 testing. One issue we examined in this work, i hope we talk about today, is how we can make sure that we are best prepared for potential overlap of covid19 and influenza cases in the fall. Im looking forward to the conversation we are going to have today. I greatly appreciate all three of our witnesses and governors for taking time from their extremely busy schedules to be here. Made a lot of improvement over the last few months, our work is not done and as we continue to work on drafting more legislation responding to covid19 pandemic, it is especially important to hear state perspectives. I thank you. Yield back. Ms. Degette i thank the gentleman for yielding back. I would advise members in case you are unaware of this, there is a window on your screen that says one, two, three clock. This will count down from five minutes for each other statements or questioning. And then it will start going over. If thats not working for
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Committee on the impact of wildfires on the electric grid. Atmakers are looking wildfire mitigation technology, Forest Management, and power system reliability. Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. A lot going on this morning so i think we will have people popping in and out but we do have a pretty hard stop at 11 00 this morning with a series of votes. We are going to observe an actual 10 minute clock. This is the goal. To be able to hear from everyone this morning and have an opportunity for the very, very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric rate and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase grid resiliency. In recent years, devastating wildfires and electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the challenge of maintaining grid resiliency in the face of extreme conditions. Tragically, we remember last years camp fire, the deadliest and most