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
Live coverage on cspan2. Celebration is always december 7, in a year where we have new members of the california legislature. I will jump right in the tightest briefest possible and get to a number of the issues of the day. Particularly as relates to some of the regional orders that now are in effect in california but also wanted just to provide some context and some information about some new technology that will bring to bear. To slow the spread of covid19. Its been a lot of discussion around apps, a lot of discussion about how technology can advance our efforts to notify individuals can mitigate the spread of covid19 and address this pandemic headon. Two of californias bestknown headquarter technology companies, google and apple, have joined together in an effort to provide for exposure notification. Not Contact Tracing, right exposure notification. I want to provide you with a bit of information about what california is doing today to help support their efforts come a little bit ab
Battling coronavirus in mexico where exhausted medical workers are getting infected at record rates. Close think you for joining us a crew of virus is of racing through the african continent infections have doubled to 200000 in less than 3 weeks and the outbreak is now spreading from urban centers into the hinterlands where medical Services Already stretched the World Health Organization is warning that cases will continue to rise until a vaccine is filed the agency says 75 percent of the continents infections have been recorded in just 10 days a quarter of those infections are in south africa but the western cape region including cape town the hardest hit overall more than 5000. 00 people have died across the continent the u. N. Says a lack of testing kits remains a big problem al jazeera has admitted wrists has our report it took 90 days for africa to reach 100000 corona virus infections and only 90 to pass the 200000 mark. The World Health Organization says infections in africa and
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
They reached the deal if everything is meant that Safety Measures are in place that theres no spike in Health Indicators like coronavirus cases then they can resume full operations as early as next week. This all started when Ceo Tesla Elon musk he was very frustrated with shelter in place hes been politicking for a while now to get his tesla factory up and running again and that did not happen which is why last saturday actually filed a lawsuit in federal court saying shelter in place was unconstitutional and then on monday he openly told the world through a tweet that he planned to defy shelter in place and get the employees back to work and sure enough we were here yesterday when we saw so many people coming and going from the tesla facility. He even said if arrests were made he would be on the Assembly Line and do not arrest as employees. But arrest him ultimately no one was arrested they all work things out. And again Alameda County says if they meet everything that theyre looking