Commissioner green . Present. Commission chow . Present. Commissioner guillermo, present. Ill note the commissioners. Thank you, mark. Well move on to the next item, which is approval of the minutes from the last Commission Meeting on january 5th. Commissioners, upon reviewing the minutes, are there any amendments . And if not, do we have a motion to approve . Before we go into the vote, i have to make sure there is nothing on the item. Thank you. And this is a general instruction, but you will press star 3 if youd like to raise your hand, and ill say the same introduction over and over again. Okay. So there is no comment at this time. Well vote. Commissioner chow. Yes. Commissioner green . Yes. Commissioner chong . Yes. Commissioner guillermo tkpwhrerpl . guillermo. And. Our next item is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners of health. This report focuses on covid19, and i will be providing an update and as well with regards to the current status of covid19 and our vacci
Vaccine. There were a total of 95 cases of symptomatically covid. The vaccine was 94. 5 effective. There were no reports of serious side effects. Other hopeful news, all 11 cases of severe covid illness were in the placebo group. The cofounder and chairman of moderna spoke about the results. We have a number of different other subgroups we are looking actively at. In general, it looks like the vaccine performs broadly across all the population groups that we consider. Moderna expects to have 20 million doses ready to ship by the end of 2020. The Game Changing result comes a week after pfizer announced similar results for its vaccine. Pfizers vaccine is shown to be more than 90 effective. Stocks are up on the Moderna Vaccine news. Right now, the dow is up 337 points. A u. S. Officials as the pentagon is expected to cut the number of u. S. Troops in afghanistan and half by mid january. This, according to the associated press. The pentagon also expects to cut the number of troops in iraq
Touting success in fighting covid19. The news comes as we learn 11 million americans are infected with the coronavirus. Black do not need any device. It will be the same as getting it at cvs. Reporter the moderna ceo took to the airwaves words of comfort for a jittery global community. He says Clinical Trials show shots from the drugmaker vaccine provide strong protection against covid19. Vaccine is being created with the National Institutes of health and is being tested on 30,000 volunteers. Those subjects either received the vaccine or a placebo. So far, the two shot moderna solution to covid which needs to be kept in a cold place appears to be 90 for. 5 effective. Once you have a vaccine shown to be safe and effective, you can go back and do phase one and phase two trials in children. Trucks of a congresswoman anna eshoo sent an email to fox 2 interaction to the recent element thing and part, importantly, the vexing candidate so appear to prevent severe covid19 disease. It is extrem
To fight covid so we can open our businesses safely resume our lives and put this pandemic behind us biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris met virtually with ceos and president s of Top Companies like gm microsoft target and various labor unions biden said those Business Leaders agree we need a National Covid strategy to help the economy recover biden and harris also laid out the incoming administrations broader Economic Strategy were going to buy american. No government contract will be given to companies that dont make their products here in america bidens plans include raising the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour and creating jobs by investing in Clean Energy Infrastructure and high Speed Broadband access. The Biden Administration also wants to invest in historically black colleges and universities and communities of color hit especially hard by the pandemic now is when the real work begins. The necessary work. The good work. Of getting this virus under control biden said o
Streaming cbsn bay area, we are looking live from exclusive sales force camera as we look east at the bay bridge. I was driving over. Its windy. It is windy and cool. Good morning. It is friday. Thats cool. November 6. I am michelle griego. I am len kiese. Good morning. Vote counts are trickling in as we edge closer to a final result. While you were sleeping, big developments. Joe biden over took President Trump in georgia. He is now up just 1,096 votes. President trumps lead in pennsylvania is just over 18,000 votes and joe biden leads arizona by 47,000 votes. But the president has narrowed the gap. We are expecting new results from nevada this morning where mr. Biden held 11,000 vote lead there. All the margins are still too close to call with thousands more ballots to count but we are expecting updates in the coming hours. Looking at the white house where President Trump is making claims without evidence about the ballot counting process. Meanwhile former Vice President joe biden is