Although the deaths in San Francisco have been lower than other cities, each person who has passed away is one too many. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Across the nation we are seeing tens of thousands of lives lost to this virus. In the last two weeks alone, death in the United States increased by 64 . More than 257,000 people have died. Hospitalization rates are increasing dramatically. 50 in the last two weeks across the country, 55 in california. Consistent with these increases across the nation and state, we are seeing the local cases in hospitalizations continually decline. Many cases deaths and hospitalizations can be prevented if we follow the basic measures that we know prevent the virus. Now, lets look at some data. Slide one, please. This slide shows how the surge is in relation to prior increases in San Francisco. Today 14,600 people are diagnosed in San Francisco and resulting in 158 deaths since the onset of the pandemic. As you can see from this slide,
Will see and hear details of an officerinvolved shooting incident that resulted in lifethreatening injuries to mr. We recognize the impact on the members of our community at large. With that said, to any of our viewers or members of the community who are experiencing trauma from this incident or from the information or the images presented here during this town hall you can contact the San Francisco department of Public Health crisis line at 4 sa9703800 for trauma services. With that said, here is what we hope to accomplish today. First and foremost tonight is about transparency. It is our intention to release the known facts involved in the incident in a nonjudgmental way and id like to emphasize that this is an Ongoing Investigation and as such that there are some facts that we cannot release today because we either do not have the answers at this point and or the release of certain information is prohibited by law or could compromise this investigation. Next there was Body Worn Came
Die. Lets do everything we can this winter, this Holiday Season to prevent this scenario. Today the state test San Francisco in the red tier of the reopening blueprint. We remain one tier down from the most restricted tier purple, which triggers roll back of additional activity and abiding by the state and requires abiding by the state limited stayathome order. As this slide shows, we are fast approaching the case count to be reassigned to the purple tier. Tier reassignments may occur more than once a week when the department of Public Health, California Department of Public Health determines immediate action is needed. We expect to be placed in that purple tier sometime soon, perhaps later this week. Now, i want to focus on testing. As we prepared for the ongoing surge. We have taken action to try to slow the spread of the virus. But we need everyone in San Francisco to recommit to protecting themselves, loved ones and our community. Part of that is our collective use of city resource
They are affiliated and seven to three minutes. Members of the public have up to three minutes each to address the board. For jurisdiction there is no rebuttal. Given that the board has a vacancy three votes are required to grant an appeal or jurisdiction request. If you have a question send us an email. Public access and participation is paramount to the board and makes the hearing process. To enable participation its it broadcasting and streaming live. To watch the hearing on tv go to sf. Gov. It will be rebroadcast on channel 26. A link to the live stream is found on our webpage. Public comment can be provided in two ways. Join the zoom meeting by computer. Head to our website sf. Gov. Org or callin by telephone. Call 16698900. Again, sf. Gov is broadcasting the phone number and access instructions across the bottom of the screen dial star nine which is similar to raising your hands. You will have three minutes and our legal clerk will provide you with a warning. There is a delay be
Died. Hospitalization rates are increasing dramatically. 50 in the last two weeks across the country, 55 in california. Consistent with these increases across the nation and state, we are seeing the local cases in hospitalizations continually decline. Many cases deaths and hospitalizations can be prevented if we follow the basic measures that we know prevent the virus. Now, lets look at some data. Slide one, please. This slide shows how the surge is in relation to prior increases in San Francisco. Today 14,600 people are diagnosed in San Francisco and resulting in 158 deaths since the onset of the pandemic. As you can see from this slide, we see an aggressive increase in cases week over week. For the weekending november 18, we averaged 118 new cases per day. Compare that to the prior week, november 11, when we averaged 95 cases per day. At the beginning of the month, the weekending november 4th, we averaged 73 new cases per day. As the slide shows, we are approaching the surge case rat