We are segregated and i suspect most of those people also will be 1st. If youre born into a 4 family if youre born into a minority family if youre born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people that i wish 15 years younger that youre born into generational poverty. Its a tough fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family. Greeting and salutation. If there is one thing that the powers that be in government can stand more than you know term limits honesty and fiscal responsibility its an informed organized and protesting public and after a summer of organized protests and revolt sometimes in the name of good light pushing back against Police Violence and by the against Racial Injustice and other times not so good like bringing assault weapons into a state capital because you were told to wear a mask and wash your hands this to mulch a season of protest has left many in the positions of power nervously looking over their
Yourself a hole. Seem wrong but. Just dont hold. Any gold yet to stamp out these days to come to advocate and engage me because the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. Greetings and salutations. If there is one thing that the powers that be in government can stand more than you know term limits honesty and fiscal responsibility its an informed organized and protesting public and after a summer of organized protests and revolt sometimes in the name of good light pushing back against Police Violence and by the against Racial Injustice and other times not so good leg bringing assault weapons into a state capital because you were told to wear a mask and wash your hands this to mulch a season of protest has left many in the positions of power nervously looking over their shoulders wondering if the pitchforks and torches are coming for them next well thankfully it appears the powers that be. Can breathe easy thanks to the u. S. Air forces researc
Good morning. The committee has come to order. One thing, i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony. Those appearing in person, traveling to d. C. To give it orally, and, also, answer our questions. The title of this hearing now is, i guess, examining the u. S. Approach to early covid19 treatments. I thought it was i originally set out a title of early treatments for covid, a essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic to be politicized into the tragedy it was. From the start, i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response. We were facing a new virus. No one wanted to underreact, and as a result i feared the tendency would be overreact. The challenges facing us were daunting. Our National Strategic stockpile had been reduced during the h1n 1 pandemic. It took time to develop a test. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibit no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I
Four weeks, so through december 21st. First lets bring in the Public Health officer for Alameda County, dr. Nicholas moss to talk about some of these. Dr. Moss, i want to congratulate you. I know you have been in this role on an interim basis but made permanent this week. Thank you. Thank you very much. Its a big job ahead. I want to ask you, what do you think of the statewide curfew . Is it a good idea . Were still waiting to hear the secretarys remarks and get a sense of the details of what the state has in mind, but i would say more broadly were supportive of everything that the state of california is trying to do to keep californians safe, and we think its good for our residents here in Alameda County and across the region to really take a cautious approach to covid, especially with this surge. But again, still waiting to hear the details about this latest set of restrictions. Yeah, still waiting for the details. We know based on what we were able to learn its not as severe and all
I have the pleasure of chairing the committee today. Many of you know that chair bernal serves as representative pelosis chief of staff. I also want to thank the commissioners. We have a fairly full agenda, but everyone submitted questions on many of the presentations, and weve gotten very thorough and thoughtful answers from staff, so hopefully that means we can go through our agenda in a very efficient way and we can go to our different activities of the evening. First item is the minutes. Are there any additions or corrections on the part of the commissioners . Okay. Any comments from the public . Clerk if youre on the Public Comment line, please press star, three if youd like to make a comment on the minutes. No comments, commissioners. Okay. So is there a motion to approve the october 20, 2020, minutes of the commission . So moved. Second. Can we have a roll call vote . Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk just for everyone to know, if the if youre not speaking, then please mute yourselve