Commissioner to see if she needs help. President bernal with the quorum present, we move on to the next item. The approval of the meetings of the minute of september 1st. Wrong date, im looking at the minutes. The minutes of the meeting of september 15. Upon reviewing the minutes and without amendment, do we have a motion to approve or any amendments from the commissioners . So moved. Second. Before you all vote there is nobody on the Public Comment line, so there is no need to take Public Comment. I can take a roll call vote, commissioner. President bernal yes. Commissioner green yes. Commissioner chung yes. Commissioner chow yes. And lets see if okay, i will call her as we move into the next item. That looks like the minutes passed. The next item is the directors report. Director colfax. Good afternoon. The director report, grant cocolfax. One item of note, september 30, state department of Public Health released details regarding a Health Equity metric to help continuing efforts to
Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu
This is Art International thomas certainly glad to have you with us and we start with the deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan on europes southern border with asia hospital has been hit by a large explosion in the disputed province of. There are unconfirmed reports of casualties as well earlier the regions main city was bombed from the air and locals have been hearing the regular sound of air raid sirens. Several buildings were damaged as well including the Emergency Ministry where the windows were shattered and holes blown through the walls d the Armenian Defense ministry has blamed azerbaijan for the airstrikes and put its army units on full combat alert has not confirmed or denied the bombing raids. Reports now from. Step on it has come under probably the heaviest shelling since we arrived here 2 massive explosions in the very center of the city usually what we could hear at which we could see the smoke from the explosions which were on the outskirts in the suburbs this is
Thats right vicki and grant reducing the Positivity Rate in these hardhit communities is very important because this will be a key factor in any further reopening of the economy, heres more. Like this one posted that story and king roads in east, san jose remind residents that their community has been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus after reaching a high of roughly 60 the percentage of coronavirus cases here and in gilroy is now at 57. 1 that continues to trend downward. The failure to meet with the state says are Health Equity benchmarks could be a problem for the county as it works toward further reopenings has led the aisle. Betty is always a problem when you know the impacted segments and members your community. Or are not are not making the same progress as the rest of our commute were not going to thrive and let everybody drives a multicultural populist language barriers in early lack of testing and contact tracing. Contributed to the higher numbers, a door to door
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