Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county 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 th
The much talked about surge in covid19 cases appears to be happening in california. New numbers show a shocking rise in infections hitting numbers not seen in months. With that, we say good evening and thank you for joining us. Im dion lim. Certainly not a good day at all for california with the coronavirus. The state reported nearly 11,000 diagnosed cases today, the highest since early august. The Positivity Rate continues to rise with the 14day rate jumping to 4. 4 . It was 4 on friday. That number is a strong indicator of the transmission rate of the virus. Nearly 3700 people are in the hospital getting treated for covid19 and about 1000 of them are in the icu. Now, the spike in covid cases is increasing the demand for testing right here in the bay area. But some testing sites are reaching capacity. According to abc 7 News Reporter cornell bernard, some advocates are calling for more testing sites to handle the load. Reporter across california, the need for covid testing is in high
This one, here at pier 30 on the embarcadero. With the surge in covid cases, many are reaching capacity. The lines are getting longer and longer. Reporter the Health Committee chairman from the Latino Task Force says demand is unbelievably high at this test site in the mission. Recently 500 people are getting tested every day. We are here to service the Latino Community but not exclusive to and so we take care of the folks that show up that need that test. Reporter he believes the city needs more testing sites. We need a vast amount of low barrier testing sites throughout San Francisco, easy access, sameday walkup in all the neighborhoods, where we know that there is an increase in cases. San francisco currently does more testing than any other city in the nation. Deputy Health Director dr. Navina baba says the city is doing more than 5,000 tests per day. Many who are lining up are not high priority. People exposed or have symptoms or essential workers. If people have other reasons to
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