Marin county will begin restrictions tomorrow. Joining us to talk about its effectiveness, Infectious Disease specialist dr. Monica gandhi and ash coalrod. Thank you for joining me today. Thank you. Thank you. I want to dive into whether the new restrictions make sense. Bmp we do that, the governor announced alarming new numbers. Dr. Gandhi, when numbers caught your attention . You know, its aptly true that were in a surge, we have increased cases and many areas in the state have increased hospitalizations. This is not true we havent reached yet in the bay area. This is a prophylactic move to prevent us from getting into the kind of criteria that the governor explained. They were not there. Its a prophylactic move. We have to restrict activities, and so now the question becomes what makes sense, what gets restricted and what doesnt make sense. Thats absolutely true. Many things are closing down again. Indoor entertainment, outdoor playgrounds, that caught a lot of people by surprise. A
Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu
Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike is keeping an eye on the roads this morning. First lets start with a look at the forecast, kari. It looks great for today. Were starting out with some chilly temperatures, but we are going to see a nice little warmup as we go throughout the day with a touch warmer afternoon. Were going to see more weather like this going into the weekend with lots of sunshine, but with that sunshine comes more dry weather. Lets get a look at what were expecting around the bay. Napa reaching 66. San francisco reaching 62 and 66 in concord this afternoon. So all quiet weather here. How is it looking for the commute, mike . Well, that quiet weather obviously helps with the conditions for the commute as the map will show you green sensors everywhere. I am watching oakland, unusual not unusual but about once a week chp assists with Traffic Control around the construction zone. This morning theyve been called to southbound 880 aro
A bit on may 19th a professor of law and taxation at the university of virginia law school, and a former chief of staff of the joint committee on ten sanction will speak about his research and that committees records and history of the joint committee. And on may 26, we host another professor of Political Science science he will discuss her research on a book manuscript about the politics of National Identification documents in the United States, in the 20th century. An Important Mission of the center is promoting Scholar Research in the records of the senate, the house of representatives, and advancing the stony of the history of congress. This researcher top series helps us gauge fully that mission is being met, and we do so by regularly hosting scholars who have conducted research in the house of the senate record, or who have written significant books in the history of congress. And todays a much anticipated talk, we hear about one of those very significant looks on the history of
Motion to approve. Second. Second. Theres no one on the Public Comment line so far today. President bernal all right. Clerk [roll call] thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduc