You can also send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, and otherwise catch up with us on social media. That is facebook. Com cspan and cspanwj. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now if you are an essential worker in this country. As you are calling in, we show you this map from abc news of the 46 states and washington, d. C. That have enacted policies to close nonessential businesses in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The exact number of essential by. Oyees, hard to come there is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. Atut 7 million employees Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force is employed in essential operations. The standard
Television companies, as a public service, and brought to you by your television provider. Lance robertson is the assistant secretary for aging in the department of health and Human Services and head of the administration for community leave living. Secretary, we all know that older adults are most at risk when it comes to coronavirus. Where have you focus your efforts as secretary for aging . Good morning, great to be with you, happy saturday lance within the department of health and Human Services, we are very proud to have the mission of caring for older adults and people with disabilities. Twoe know, those are our vulnerable and targeted populations of this virus so the work we do has never been more important. Is the programming we offer to help people stay safely at home in their community and that work has been compounded with virus impact. We are able to serve them in a variety of ways and we are honored. What theind People Administration for Community Living does. Guest we hav
Where have you focus your efforts as secretary for aging . Guest good morning, great to be with you, happy saturday morning. Hhs are one of the operating divisions and very proud to have the mission of caring for older adults and people with disabilities. Those are vulnerable and targeted populations with this virus so the work we do has never been more important. Is the programming we offer to help people stay safely at home in their community and that work has been compounded with virus impact. We are able to serve them in a variety of ways and we are honored. What theind People Administration for Community Living does. Guest we have three dozen programs, research institute, we offer a number of Community Support services that offer ways people can remain healthy and vital in their communities. For us, we are talking things like meals, transportation, legal services, independent living assistance, transition out of facilities. A range of things. Thankfully, our website is easy to nav
Im chair of the committee and to my right and supervisor stephani and supervisor walton and were joined by supervisor hainey and i want to thank corwin coolee for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Please make your you have silenced your stones and cell p. Items acted upon will appear on the march 10, 2020 agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, are clerk. Please all our first item. An ordinance to require the medical examiner to report information to the mayor, the board of supervisors and the director of health each month regarding deaths from Drug Overdoses. Thank you, supervisor hainey, this item is yours. Yes, thank you, chair. Im here, again, with you, committee to again discuss what we can t do to take action on te most deadly epidemic facing our city which is the Drug Overdose epidemic. Drug use and drug overuse deaths in San Francisco and across california, as we all know have been increasing at a terrifying rate and today, people in our cities are dying
You have the directors report in front of you. I am going to highlight our covid19 coronavirus response. Dr. Aragon will have more details. I wanted to acknowledge the Department Staff who have been working for over eight weeks in terms of our preparedness and our response in terms of dealing with the coronavirus. Last tuesday i am pleased to announce that mayor breed declared a state of emergency in the city, which was transformative in our ability to better prepare for the response. It allowed us to activate the department to be more focused on the response, coordinate better with other city departments. This is a shared responsibility in terms of our response doing that. We were able to also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public about how best to prepare for coronavirus and when coronavirus does arrive in San Francisco. A key part of our message is that everyone