Pandemic began, china reported no new cases today. But as we know, the crisis here in the u. S. And in other parts of the world, it is far from over. John Hopkins University has reported about 9,500 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the u. S. 150 people have died, including a sixth person in santa clara county. It is day three of sheltering in place for much of the bay area. Solano county began its shelter in place order yesterday. Napa county will start its shelter in place tomorrow. With all the kids out of school, more schools are offering meal pickup today. More than a dozen places where kids in San Francisco can get breakfast or lunch while school is closed. Abc 7 News Reporter Julian Glover live for us in San Francisco. Julian. Good morning, reggie. Help is on the way for those families here in San Francisco who may be worried about putting food on the table with the shelter in place order in effect. We know now that Rosa Parks Elementary School is one of the latest schools to co
Solano county began its shelter in place order yesterday. Napa county will start its shelter in place tomorrow. Some people are wondering whether the u. S. Should implement tougher restrictions to stop the spread of the virus. Jobina is live with the gu governments response at the federal level. Were getting more from dr. Jerome adams. Speaking to gma he said most of the power to implement Health Restrictions belongs to individual states. Federal offi issued guidelines like banning nonessential travel and limiting groups to ten people or less and if everyone follows those rules, we should be on track. I want everyone to act as if you have the virus. Whenever youre interacting with someone else, imagine you have the virus and act as if you want to protect them or you have to protect yourself from getting it. Calling on social Media Influencers to get younger adults on board with social distancing. Messages from people like kevin durant and kylie jenner h l or people at home. I find it i
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 can be a Good Public Health hero in this response. That includes not going to work or school if you are sick. Stay at home or seek medical attention. Avoid coughing into your hand. Cough into your elbow or sneeze into our elbow. We recommend to not shake hands, but do an elbow bump instead. A key piece moving forward. And also a reminder to get a flu shot, and a flu shot does not prevent coronavirus infection, but it prevents symptoms similar to a coronavirus infection. Get a flu shot to prevent getting symptoms.
Thats in general protection of the property. There are concerns about how this work is going to be done, given that breaking up the concrete in this particular way is a little bit more invasive, doing it onsite than it would otherwise be for cages where you normally just put rocks into the cages. Do you dispute the design they have come up with is compliant with the building and planning code . Yes. We would not be here otherwise. So what part of the Building Code does it violate . I believe its stated in our brief, and i believe mr. Paul can attest to better. We took issue with some of the engineering calculations and what was submitted in that regard. I dont think thats in the brief, actually. He has a if you would like to hear from our from an engineering standpoint theres no question pending. The design process its okay. I think you have a part in the brief here. I did have a question, ms. Raphael, if you did have a settlement, and you did have this design for five years, why was t
I move to approve the minutes. Is there a second . Are there corrections to the minutes . All in favour say aye. All those opposed . The minutes are approved. Clerk there is no Public Comment for item 2. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners, grant colfax, director of health. 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