Clerk on a motion to not disclose the closed session deliberations [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Is there any further business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Chair mar great. We are adjourned. Take care. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. The december 3rd meeting. I am joined by Committee Member peskin. Committee member haney will be joining us. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this. Do you have announcements. In order to protect the public and City Employees during the Health Emergency the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to local state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through video and participate to the same extent as if physically present. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Both cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the call in number on your screen. Your opportunity to spea
Months. I was proud. We were doing well. Almost everyone in the city did what they asked you to do we are seeing how fast it could move the governor laid out a warning and we are seeing what is happening in San Francisco. Let me be clear, as clear as i can be, its not good. Cases are spiking. Hospitalizations are increasing quickly. Our infection rate is higher than the summer. This is not just about San Francisco but the entire region, state, and country the dangerous winter has arrived. We will have to take more action. We are still working out the details we are working out the details in Santa Santa Clara county. They have limited gatherings. Theres are things you have consider as well as other ideas to stop the spread. No one would like to be here. We spoke about worrying about doing well but having everyone relax and the cases spike like they did during the spanish flu. Im not saying thats what happened but there have been a lot of challenges including lack of national leadership
Now at 9 as most of the bay area transitions into phase 2 of reopening the number of covid19 related fatalities in the nation has now surpassed 90,000 raising concerns about a second wave. Good evening, everybody, im paying more and im ken wayne, the first known us coronavirus related fatality was back on february 6th. Since then 10s of thousands of americans have died and tonight there are more than 1. 5 million cases in the United States this as state after state relaxes a social distance, the rules and restrictions today experts say only 18 say showed a downward trend of new cases last february it was im sorry last friday it was 28 states. It is not clear if the increase in cases is because of more testing whether the virus is just spreading more now that so many places are back open. Heres a look at the numbers globally there is close to 5 there are close to 5 million cases more than 318,000 deaths in california more than 81,000 cases more than 3,000 deaths in the bay area more tha
Its efficacy and its safety. Good morning. Thank you 05 00am today is tuesday may 19th im James Fletcher and im darya folsom in our big story this morning is california relaxing more areas, the rules are going to be loosening. In a majority of counties now in the state that are starting to reopen governor newson estimates all but 5 of californias 58 counties are likely eligible to start offering in restaurant dining ys in the coming weeks. Counties that meet the new criteria can also begin opening schools with modifications criteria requires counties to have a stable covid19 related hospitalizations and with no more than 20 covid hospitalizations in the past 2 weeks of this is an ongoing thing theyre going to be monitoring counties must also have fewer than 25 cases per 100,000 residents. In the last 2 weeks for less than 8 of tests coming back positive in the last 7 days a lot of requirements. Governor newsome is painting a brighter outlook though for june. Expect if we hold the rate.
And in his shall we say week group has but hes more visibly of these 6. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responding to President Trumps revelation that hes been taking hydroxychloroquine despite an fda warning about the drugs safety and efficacy of the covid19. Thank you for joining us on this tuesday may 19th im James Fletcher and im darya folsom in our big story is california relaxing the rules in more counties. Allowing some businesses to reopen governor newsome estimates all but 5 of the 58 counties across the state are likely eligible to begin offering in restaurant dining in just the coming weeks. Counties that meet the new criteria can also begin opening schools with modification yeah, the new criteria requires counties to have a stable covid19 related hospitalizations with no more than 20. Covid hospitalizations in the past 2 weeks counties must also have fewer than 25 cases per 100,000 in the last 2 weeks or less than 8 of tests coming back positive in the last 7 days so some pretty