Well im terry martin and welcome to the program governments across the world are intensifying their efforts to contain the coronavirus many countries are closing borders and shutting down all public life saying thats the only way to slow the spread of the disease stock markets have sustained the biggest losses in decades more on that the moment but 1st a look at how Many Americans in europe are scrambling to return home before a ban on travel to the u. S. Comes into force in a few hours time. A rude awakening for Many Americans in europe departure halls were packed as travelers scramble to get home after hearing that the u. S. Is restricting travel from the European Union starting at midnight Eastern Standard Time on friday it was pretty crazy because it sounded like 2 am we were on a. Train to the airport 3 flights were on a fly by like 9 am yeah i thought a little bit more heads up would have been nice because we freaked out and we found out so i guess communication wasnt great the b
Clerk there is no Public Comment for item 2. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commiser grant colfax, director of health. You have the directors report in front of you. I am going to highlight our covid19 coronavirus response. Dr. Aragon will have more details. I wanted to acknowledge the Department Staff who have been working for over eight weeks in terms of our preparedness and our response in terms of dealing with the coronavirus. Last tuesday i am pleased to announce that mayor breed declared a state of emergency in the city, which was transformative in our ability to better prepare for the response. It allowed us to activate the department to be more focused on the response, coordinate better with other city departments. This is a shared responsibility in terms of our response doing that. We were able to also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public
Department to be more focused on the response, coordinate better with other city departments. This is a shared responsibility in terms of our response doing that. We were able to also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public about how best to prepare for coronavirus and when coronavirus does arrive in San Francisco. A key part of our message is that everyone can be a Good Public Health hero in this response. That includes not going to work or school if you are sick. Stay at home or seek medical attention. Avoid coughing into your hand. Cough into your elbow or sneeze into our elbow. We recommend to not shake hands, but do an elbow bump instead. A key piece moving forward. And also a reminder to get a flu shot, and a flu shot does not prevent coronavirus infection, but it prevents symptoms similar to a coronavirus infection. Get a flu shot to prevent getting symptoms.
Have to radically change within the last 24 to 48 hours this has gone from something that weve been talking about that affected a relatively small number of people in this. Country but now what weve seen with the stock market were now in bear territory. For the first time in 8 plus years and that has had a huge effect on the economy and a lot of volatility there so were starting see whitening affects weve had the bands in San Francisco plan in Santa Clara County on large gatherings of people over brooks of 1000 are banned in both those cities now oakland joining making that announcement today as well as San Francisco. It was we reported last night there was an elderly patients at a nursing home a Sacramento County who passed away in california. Lets check in now see if the president is at the podium ready to speak. My fellow americans. One to speak with you about our nations unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak. That started in china and is now spreading throughout the wo
Thats in general protection of the property. There are concerns about how this work is going to be done, given that breaking up the concrete in this particular way is a little bit more invasive, doing it onsite than it would otherwise be for cages where you normally just put rocks into the cages. Do you dispute the design they have come up with is compliant with the building and planning code . Yes. We would not be here otherwise. So what part of the Building Code does it violate . I believe its stated in our brief, and i believe mr. Paul can attest to better. We took issue with some of the engineering calculations and what was submitted in that regard. I dont think thats in the brief, actually. He has a if you would like to hear from our from an engineering standpoint theres no question pending. The design process its okay. I think you have a part in the brief here. I did have a question, ms. Raphael, if you did have a settlement, and you did have this design for five years, why was t