Right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by phone at my request. Caroline and others in the room here to assist with our City Attorney deputy City Attorney, susan cleavelandknowles. We will say, at the end, get through this together. I will ask Board Members to mute their phones. It sounds great right now, but if you want to speak, unmute the phones and let us know. For this meeting, we would like public to participate remotely about writing a question and contacting us electronically. Thank you for honoring this request. Going forward, we urge the public to write the board at mtaboard sfmta. Gov or calling 4154464470. That information is also on our website if you need that. We usually ask for speaker cards, but today, we are no
They discussed best practices to protect against spreading and contracting the virus, as well as the database built to track outbreaks in realtime. Experts at the forefront of the response. Expertar from a is recognized in the field of Public Health preparedness, pandemic, and Infectious Disease and prevention of and response to biological threats. We will hear from a researcher who created the outbreak being used worldwide to track the virus. We will talk to an expert in influenza and other emerging infections. A health hear from systems epidemiologist and control expert. Finally, we talked to a nurse epidemiologist Whose Research speaks to streamline care options that optimize navigation, and retention and care for persons with Infectious Diseases. As the outbreak evolves, we hear from a distinguished panel of experts from across Johns Hopkins university who shed light on the understanding of the virus, its progression, and our response effort. Our goal today is to bring their knowle
Infectious disease, and Emergency Preparedness from Johns Hopkins University Held a briefing on capitol hill regarding the coronavirus. Best practices against contracting the virus as well as a database built to track worldwide covid19 outbreaks in real time. Welcome to this special briefing from the Johns Hopkins university of medicine. Think you for joining us. Im the director of operations for the Johns Hopkins critical events preparedness and emergency response. We are here to talk about the outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus known as covid19 with five john hopkins experts who have been at the forefront of the response. First, we will hear from the Infectious Disease expert. And prevention of and response to biolo second, a researcher who created the output map being used to track the virus. Third, an expert of virology and influenza and other emerging infections. Fourth, we will hear from a Health Systems epidemiologist. Finally, we talked to a nurse epidemiologist Whose Research
Directors . I am hearing on tow you are comfortable with option two. There are three of us to speak here. That is what i was getting from that group moving in that direction. I am getting on the fare policy you are in the middle. Well maybe the director was on one side and director themingger was on the other. What i heard from the four was there was except acceptance of the premise and which option to use to fill it. One point to clarify with regard to the fare policy and indexes is the board has always had certain goals, equity being one of them, ease of access to the system. Those goals have always existed with regard to the fare policy. With regard to indexing the question is from all of our transit fares, are we increasing the revenues to match the cost of the labor and cpi . Within the proposals before you, you are meeting the spirit of the fare policy and hitting the revenue mark. The trigger of the cost is resulting in the need to collect more revenue from the fare media, diffe
Countries. For the first time, there are more ncases outside of china where it originated then inside the country. On wednesday trump held a news nference. He appointed Vice President mike pence to direct efforts to contain the spread and downplayed the risk to americans. San francisco is on hialert. There are new cases in the city. The mayor caed a state of emergency to mobilize resources and to prepare for outbreaks. There appears to be a second person in the United States who contracted the virus through unknown origins. Both are from the arbay. Joining me, doctor charles fech and ious rtdisease ex thank you for being with us. Theris fear in the community. How much concern should people have. What level is appropriate. We should be worried. We should be concerned. We are seeing cases of the virus circulatg in the communit cases of infection where we dont know where came from. We dont know how this one individual became infected. We also did not know how the second case in Santa Clar