Number of positive cases and hospitalizations and icu patients and the like. We talked about the imperative of taking personal responsibility to wear a face mask and practice physical distancing and social distancing and we dont know how to mitigate the worst effects of this virus and we have to work our way through this first phase. We have reinforced that we are still in the first wave of this pandemic. We are not in the second wave. We have been successful in the state of california of bending that curve and i will get to that in a moment but we have stretched it out and elongated. Thats what we are experiencing here today. The purpose is to update you on our daily tallies as well and give you the latest numbers. As you can see from the slide and the id this slide represtivity rate and the of people you see on the side 41. 8 and 5. 1 represent the first four ddeeco heard positivity. Most of the people in the middle of this pandemic that went to seek testing were symptomatic so its n
The two doctors respond to today. In putting you all together, it was delayed a little bit more than i had hoped for, and i actually just provided these questions to dr. Aragon and dr. Colfax yesterday. I think it was around afternoon when they received it, and so and theres a lot of questions that were submitted. So when i talked to dr. Colfax, i said what id like you to do is if you cannot answer all the questions i think theres a lot of them, about 40 of them today, in the onehour limitation, then you need to come back next week to answer the rest fully. So thats how id like to handle this, is to give them a this hearing about an hour and see how much we can get through. So whod like to start . Dr. Aragon . This is grant colfax. Ill start, and dr. Aragon will continue. Good afternoon. Its a pleasure to present to you an update on the citys covid19 response. In talking with dr. Aragon yesterday, i thought it would be good to provide an overall overview to frame the discussion and als
Mr. President , all members of president. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one makes under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv. The special order is the appearance with the honnable mayor, london breed. There being no questions submitted from supervisors one through four, the mayor may address the board up to five minutes. Ok. First of all, i want to welcome madam mayor breed and there were no topics submitted by supervisors today, but before you get started, i want to take the time to address the public on what we are preparing to announce next week. I want to acknowledge how we are collectively are reevaluating the structures we have in place with the Emergency Response. Communications between the board and Emergency
Mr. President , all members of president. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one makes under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv. The special order is the appearance with the honnable mayor, london breed. There being no questions submitted from supervisors one through four, the mayor may address the board up to five minutes. Ok. First of all, i want to welcome madam mayor breed and there were no topics submitted by supervisors today, but before you get started, i want to take the time to address the public on what we are preparing to announce next week. I want to acknowledge how we are collectively are reevaluating the structures we have in place with the Emergency Response. Communications between the board and Emergency
The United States Public Health service as it exists today is a product of experience extending over a period of nearly 150 years. It was originally created as a Marine Hospital service for the purpose of providing medical care to american seamen. It was established by an act of congress signed by the second president of the United States, john adams, on july 16, 1798. This service was originally supported by a tax on american merchant seamen. This was later abolished. It was collected by the collector of the customs of the treasury department. And the Marine Hospital service came under the jurisdiction of that department where it remains today. The first Marine Hospital located at norfolk, virginia. The second was built in boston, massachusetts. Some of the medical personnel were used by the union and the confederacy for the care of the sick and wounded of the military forces. It frequently happened the medical officers of the early Marine Hospital were the first position to diagnose