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Kissli. President yee all right. Good afternoon and welcome to the august 11, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. I hope my supervisors had a full week off last week and was able to get some rest. As you know, were going to be doing a lot of work in august. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, and will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance . [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, who record the meetings and make them available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 pandemic, members of the board are participating to the same extent as if they were present in their chamber. The board knows that the Novel Coronavirus has made participation is more acute. Your w
Kissli. President yee all right. Good afternoon and welcome to the august 11, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. I hope my supervisors had a full week off last week and was able to get some rest. As you know, were going to be doing a lot of work in august. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, and will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance . [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, who record the meetings and make them available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 pandemic, members of the board are participating to the same extent as if they were present in their chamber. The board knows that the Novel Coronavirus has made participation is more acute. Your w
Hospital, some getting intensive care, some getting intubated, some getting ventilated, and some dying. So depending on where you are in that spectrum, you have a different attitude for this particular thing. But anyone who gets infected or is at risk of getting affected, to a greater degree, is part of the dynamic of the dynamic process of the outbreak. Susan that is dr. Anthony fauci describing the various outcomes so far of covid19. Dr. Siddhartha mukherjee, you won the Pulitzer Prize for a book on cancer. How is covid19 shaping up as a biological foe . Prof. Mukherjee as dr. Fauci described it, it is a protean protean foe. In the long span of Human History we have just basically encountered this novel coronavirus. And we are still learning things about it which are really fascinating, somewhat counterintuitive, things we have not thought about before. Im an oncologist but really my training is an viral immunology. So the features of virology are very familiar to me. I would echo dr