Committee. I am joined be i vice chair he is, kin and thank you to the clerk and sfgov tv for hosting this meeting. Do you have any announcements mr. Chair . Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members to the employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members of the committee will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were physically present in the meeting. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfg tv. Org are streaming the number across the 2013. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are available via phone by dialling 882045984, and once you are connected to that phone number, use access code which is 3501008. After entering the access code, you will be prompted to press the pound symbol. Then press it a second time. If you wish to add yourself to the queue to speak on a particular agenda item, dia
Further presentations. Lets address this question. The Division Circle site is some of what you are saying and it is sort of a yes and, supervisor ronen. From a design perspective, this is a site that is shared and im going to tap dr. Boren in a little bit who is also on the line to speak to some of the medical questions. Its a site that is being kind of jointly set up, not kind of. Is being jointly set up by hsa as responsible for mass care and shelter. The traditional shelter operator and the department of publichealth as the medical Behavioural Health provider for the city. I would prefer having a sight for people with covid19 and we no the capacity of the inq site that stan talked about is a challenge so, we want to make sure were maximizing every resource in the city. From the staffing operational staffing the site, they asked to find a provider who is willing and able to operate that site alongside the department of publichealth. Staff will be do the medical and Behavioural Healt
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President pence and the Coronavirus Task force. The briefing was supposed to start at 5 00, but is running late. Kevin mccarthy also held a Weekly Briefing by phone. Good morning. Thank you all for joining me. I hope you are safe. Before i begin, i want to pause for one moment and use this opportunity to extend my deepest condolences to every family in this country who is morning a loved one right now. Almost all of them are not even able to be with them in their passing. And to grieve now and have a different burial time is something. That is why we need to continue to work on the policy and the path to the other side. I think all of us see now how awful this virus has become. It is not just statistics. It is lives being lost. The lives are being lost, and as today, 6. 6 Million People have lost their jobs. I look at the cares act and i looked at what happened today and i am very disappointed. I do not think people should play politics and the time of a pandemic as Speaker Pelosi did.
Across japan there have been more than 2,600 cases excluding 712 from the diamond princess cruise ship. 82 people have died including 11 from the ship. The head of the World Health Organization says the coronavirus pandemic is set to cross some grim milestones as it takes a growing toll across the globe. The number of deaths has more than doubled in the past week. In the next few days, we will reach one million confirmed cases and 50,000 deaths. He says he is concerned about the rapid escalation of infection. There are already more than 800,000 confirmed cases and over 40,500 deaths globally. Hes also calling on governments to ensure Vulnerable People have food and other necessities as more countries issue lockdowns. Meanwhile, china has begun releasing the number of people who have tested positive but show no symptoms. However it has not disclosed how many of these socalled silent carriers have been confirmed since the start of the outbreak. During the news conference, w. H. O. Offici