The meeting for april 14, 2020 is now called to order. Role call, please. Pair role call . It looks like were missing one board member . Miss collins. Do we know why . Here we are in this Virtual World and i hope the public is able to access this meeting and future meetings. Well do our very best to make sure that that happens. I also want to say that meetings by our advisory groups will get started up again, hopefully soon, as well as Many Committee meetings by the board. But we do have capacity issues at the moment, but we want to make sure at the same time that the public is engaged and that we have a transparent process for all of our decisionmaking processes. Board minutes, section b, of the march 24, 2020, we need a motion and a second. So moved. Why dont we just assign two people to do the motions and the second. Anany objections . Seeing none, role call. role call . Good afternoon, everyone. Its great to see you all. I would like to start tonight with a couple of thoughts and t
Requirements. As noticed on the agenda, members of the public may observe the meeting by sfgovtv and they may offer Public Comment by calling the Public Comment phone number. I would like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching us live on sfgovtv. Madam secretary, please call the roll. Directors please respond when i call your name. Director forbes. Spent. Director heavy rai haney. Present. Director luresh. Present. Director lipkin. Present. Director tumlin. Present. Vice chair gee. Spent and chair sesay. Present. Madam chair you hav you have a. The next item is communications. We would like to provide further instructions for Public Comment. Callers dial into the toll flow number and listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comments. They have three minutes on each item. We will announce when Public Comment is opened on each item or for general Public Comment. During each period viewers and callers will be instructed to dial 18883634735 and enter the passc
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] everyone inrnoon, for tuning in and listening to this press briefing. I guess we have a little bit of good news and that is that the case count that we announced today is not as drastic as the one we saw yesterday. But it is still very concerning. Is 1147 ase increase opposed to the one yesterday of 2700. However, we did reach a grim milestone because we now have more than 10,000 cases statewide. 10,297 to be exact. We had an increase of 60 deaths. That increases much more in line with what we expect to see day today, not the 42 we saw yesterday. Thats what im trying to communicate to you. But the rate of spread, the number of cases will always depend upon the degree to which our people are complying with the stayathome order, with all of the social distancing guidelines we are putting out and minimizing social contact. We knew and have been telling people that getting through this crisis would resemble a marathon, not a sprint.
Necessary trip . So theres a lot of work that weve been doing over the last few weeks that feels like a year and a half because weve done a year and a halfs worth of work in the last few weeks. Were very fortunate in the city of San Francisco under the leadership of mayor london breed and especially under the leadership of the department of health, under the leadership of dr. Grant colfax, we knew what was coming, and the city acted quickly as most other places. And as a result, San Francisco is in better condition than so many other places around the world. Here in San Francisco, we watched what was happening in wuhan, and even what was happening in seattle, who was a week ahead of us. San francisco infection rates tracked neatly in response with those other cities in a similar timeline. This allowed us to do scenario planning and get ahead of the crisis before it hit us. We knew that things could get very dire indeed. Wuhan shutdown their entire system. Our city did its efforts for a
Everyone yesterday we launched an alert system that will provide timely updates for covid19 and other critical kindness other guidance from the governors office. Text lacovidease to 67283. Already one heard thousand people across00 the state have signed up for alert. Additional information is available at coronavirus. L. A. Gov. This point i will ask the doctor to come up and explain more about the chart that was up there with the modeling because i know some of you were wanting more information about our modeling. Thank you, governor. Said, since the earliest cases in the state we have been working at the the academic side and with health items and insurers to build a model that would help us understand what to expect and how to reject what covid19 would mean for the state when it comes to our most Important Health resources that need to be there for those most severely affected by covid19. That is hospital beds and ventilators. You have been hearing us talk a lot about those. The gov