Commissioner green . Present. Commission chow . Present. Commissioner guillermo, present. Ill note the commissioners. Thank you, mark. Well move on to the next item, which is approval of the minutes from the last Commission Meeting on january 5th. Commissioners, upon reviewing the minutes, are there any amendments . And if not, do we have a motion to approve . Before we go into the vote, i have to make sure there is nothing on the item. Thank you. And this is a general instruction, but you will press star 3 if youd like to raise your hand, and ill say the same introduction over and over again. Okay. So there is no comment at this time. Well vote. Commissioner chow. Yes. Commissioner green . Yes. Commissioner chong . Yes. Commissioner guillermo tkpwhrerpl . guillermo. And. Our next item is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners of health. This report focuses on covid19, and i will be providing an update and as well with regards to the current status of covid19 and our vacci
[roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Madam president , i want to make a couple of announcements. First, i want to let everybody know that closed session will not be heard today. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendation issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted on teleconference, this meeting is being televised on sfgovtv. Please note that there is a delay between live and what is being viewed on sfgtv. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. 1467101398, pound, pound. To raise your hand to speak, press star, three. Please limit your Public Comment to the item that is under consideration. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones if they have not already done so. Madam president , your first order of business is to approve the minutes of the meeting of october 27, 2020. Commissioners, do i have any questions or discussion
More on all of this massive stock market volatility with 59 minutes left of trade. Coming up in the show, were down 2. 5 on the s p 500 and we have a big show coming up for you today were going to talk about all of those things that you just mentioned. We have former cisco ceo John Chambers coming up were going to talk about the comments from President Trump about potential decoupling between the u. S. And china and you will not want to miss what he has to say he previously used to run major Multinational Organization that operated both in the u. S. And had a small part of the business in china and then on todays selloff, you want to hear from Mike Novogratz the ceo and founder of galaxy digital. He said there was a frenzy in stocks he called for major selloff and what do we have on our hands now . Well hear what novogratz has to say now. Lets get to the big stories that were watching. Mike santoli is tracking another rough session for the market phil lebeau is following major moves in
Thats what we are trying to achieve. Roche sees profits and sales fall in the first half but a turnaround has already begun helping with the full year outlook. Since june and now july, hospitals have opened again and patients are returning to hospitals. We see our sales recovering. Thats why we returned our initialo initial outlook. Sales of unilever as sales of ben and jerrys and more in north american sales the outbreak continues to weigh in many markets. I would say latin america is in the throws of it. We are seeing significant increase in africa and south asian continents topping the stoxx 600 sending shares in the french ad firm and the british rival wpp higher a very warm welcome to strooinz lets kick off what we heard from roche maintaining the full year outlook. Blaming the 4 slide in sales and 5 contraction on the decline of net hospital visits due to the coronavirus pandemic. Telling cnbc earlier that company has started to see hospital visits recover. You had seen a strong
Supposed to deal with all of that . Thank you, mayor. I appreciate this, and again, this is such a challenging time, i would say the risks the downsides to the shelter in place and the slow reopening are very real and very concerning from a health standpoint and an economic standpoint. I think the Counter Point is no one has said, were going to go ahead and open quickly. As you see across the country, the Mental Health consequences of opening and having a surge, many people are struggling in San Francisco, but if we have a surge like we saw in new york or unfortunately like we saw in houston and parts of florida, we would have all of those concerns that youre talking about on top of the overwhelming the Hospital Systems due to covid19 plus the covid19 pandemic and everything that were dealing with and managing today. Unfortunately, theres downsides to where we are today, but theyre even worse. And we just want people to understand that these times are hard, but we have a pandemic in ou