In the bay area our analysis found that sites serving mostly hispanic neighborhoods were 20 busier than those serving white neighborhoods. Its not too surprising. Reporter hes professor of Public Health at uc berkeley. This country has a long history of disparities in health care and access to health care with poor people and communities of people of color having less access. Reporter he said one factor driving longer wait times in hispanic neighborhoods is that they a rates of infection and presumably eager to get testing. But two cities buck that national trend, we found. In San Francisco and oakland, testing locations near mostly black census blacks were an estimate 21 less busy. In the mostly hispanic neighborhoods, they were about 4 less busy. The San Francisco department of Public Health emailed a statement that reads in part the results dont square with our perception of the situation or what we are hearing from the community. I am afraid it is pre mature to declare victory. I a
Oakland 56 in San Francisco and 59 in san jose. Im looking at mild to warm temperatures around the bay area. Well have those coming up in just a bit back to the news. Thanks a lot. Lets start with the coronavirus the cdc is sounding the alarm that the number of cases in the u. S. Might be much greater than we know there was show you map which illustrates now the rise in cases. In the past week compared to the week before and you can see actually california has improved. It has been in the orange and even in the red indicating anywhere from 10 to 50 . Increase from week to week now were just in the yellow which indicates a steady rise but not an alarming one. But if you look at the total numbers across the country weve got now more than a 142,000 recorded deaths with more than 3. 9 million infections reported so far to our area. In the wake of the rising number of cases and the dropping poll numbers for the president he appears to be changing his tune. During his first covid19 briefing
Anyone who knows her, knows that she is never afraid to fight for what she believes in. She has done so much to empower and support especially young people across my district, our city and the entire state. Crea is a Second Generation san franciscan and currently lived with six beautiful children. Her grandfather immigrated from his home in mexico. He was an activist working alongside sister chavez and willie brown. In his footsteps she is a Community Organizer and advocate in the city. She was a part of the anti Displacement Coalition and later served as director of the Homeless Prenatal Program where she supported 200 pregnant women. She is the director at the young Womens Freedom Center. The organization which is headquartered in district six that worked within cancer rated women cancer rated women and girl, heal from trauma, advocate on behalf of themselves and sister and transform the conditions, systems and policies that lead to intergenerational cycles of poverty. At 16 she was
People are getting access to our system of care. Things have changed, evolved. So i would say its not the same. Its not the same now as it was a year ago. Even though the contract hasnt been approved, theyre operating under some of these same expectations that we have developed for them over the past six months. Supervisor haney thank you. I guess, i hope that i can learn more about what our plans are. I have sort of questions and concerns about our broader outreach approach, which is partly hot, partly hsoc, but what i see in my neighborhood in the tenderloin is often folks out there, who may get woken up and moved in the morning by police, but rarely am i getting a sense theyre getting effective outreach from folks who are trying to get them support and help and off the street. Maybe a capacity issue. Obviously then, the nighttime and emergency situation response is a concern for me as well. So i hope that we can look at their outcomes and supporting them to be as effective as possib
Stop the criminalization of all people in the country. Lastly i celebrate this as long as we continue to work for a World Without cages and to abolish ice. Thank you also much. [applause. ] next up is supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you for organizing this. Today i am so proud and excited to honor the committed, brilliant, activist activist Community Mother ms. Gomez. Anyone who knows her, knows that she is never afraid to fight for what she believes in. She has done so much to empower and support especially young people across my district, our city and the entire state. Crea is a Second Generation san franciscan and currently lived with six beautiful children. Her grandfather immigrated from his home in mexico. He was an activist working alongside sister chavez and willie brown. In his footsteps she is a Community Organizer and advocate in the city. She was a part of the anti Displacement Coalition and later served as director of the Homeless Prenatal Program where she suppor