The centers for Disease Control 7,038 casest least 97 people have died. The virus has been detected in all 50 states, as well as the district of columbia. Puerto rico, guam, and the virgin islands. New york, Washington State and california have the most cases at 2,6930. The Trump Administration invoked Emergency Powers while lawmakers consider several measures to help workers. Were going to defeat the invisible enemy. I think were gonna do it even faster than we thought. Reporter President Trump along with his Coronavirus Task force announcing new steps the federal government is taking. Well be invoking the defense reduction act. Just in case we need it. Reporter the defense production act am boost production ofcal medical supplies hospitals need. Like n95 facemasks, hand sanitizers and ventilators. The availability and speed of testing is starting to ramp up, which will likely mean somewhere around the number of confirmed coronavirus cases. We will see the number of people diagnosed d
That will be provided, absolutely. Are you short equipment right now . Every local jurisdiction needs more personal protective equipment. I cannot emphasize how important that is. Given the need to protect our Healthcare Work force. We asked at the federal level for more in terms of what is availability. All local jurisdictions that i have talked to and i am aware of are working under a short supply. This is a key gap in our ability to collectively respond to the epidemic. We are working locally, regionally and state level to develop more uptodate guidelines with regard to what is the necessary protective equipment and also to make sure that we have a clear sense of what is available Going Forward. Personal protective equipment is a vital part of this response, and i want to ensure we are able to keep our Healthcare Workers protected with the best evidence possible so they can do their job. Under the order, take out will continue and coffee take out as long as social distances is maint
Good afternoon, and thank you everyone for joining us here today. I am london breed. I am the mayor of San Francisco. I am joined by the president of the board of supervisors, norman yee along with other members of the board of supervisors. The director of the department of Public Health, our police chief, bill scott, and the department of Emergency Management director mary ellen care ron. I want to thank everyone for joining us today. As you know. The city has been working to prepare for what we know would be a significant Public Health challenge here in the city, and we are seeing it play it out all over the bay area and all over the world. As the city prepared its response, we explained to the public we would be year every step of the way what the challenges are and the steps we need to take to protect Public Health. Some of the challenges we have, of course, faced from an economic standpoint as well. Every step of the way i want be to thank not only members of puckly for your under
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I had few injuries, and i couldnt pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. When i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. The good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to we have kids from every area. Facebook and google. Kids from everywhere. They are all over the bay area, and theyre thriving. My name is jeff, and im a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in San Francisco. I attended city college of San Francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90s. Nopalito on broderick street, its based on no specific region in mexico. All our masa is hand made. We cook our own corn in house. Everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, were making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. A lot of love put into this. [ ] used to be very easy to define casual dining, fi