Visionary. And a pragmatist, a diplomat, who always gets straight to the point that good to institutes outgoing director, close to tell a man will look at his final year in office and his in tress of career name on the last cultural diplomat starts nov 16th on d, w. Over 30000000, people have contracted, covert and recovered, then up a leaf to have Natural Immunity. That typically offers better protection than a vaccine, but the price is higher with so many unknown long term effects. Vaccines may not be quite as effective, but theyre also not as dangerous. I mean, not only, not an influenza, and i was very well one, even in some compare it to a hangover. Human trials of several vaccines now show positive results. But that doesnt mean life will go back to normal just yet. Here in an old peoples home in italy, the vulnerable can once again get close to their loved ones. But in a different way. Were making progress. The Serum Institute of india, the Worlds Largest vaccine producer, says i
Yes, it would probably require a procurement process. But funding first. We will be as ready as we can be when eget the green we get the green light to go in terms of initiating a procurement process. So readiness is what we get from this. I think maybe to add to that, john, in terms of readiness, we also have a partnership established with m. T. C. , who is very invested in helping us get this funded and implemented. We realize this is a time where no one has any extra money and it also says we need to have done, because when the economy comes back and the people come back, they can navigate easily. So we will have it ready and continue to work with m. T. C. And anyone else we might be able to coordinate or partner with to get funds for that. I actually had an idea ill run by john after as we were going to a presentation on who we might seek for additional sponsorship on in implementing more wayfinding. And again, my last question. I mentioned this was designed 10 years ago, but is th
A michael welcome to the program while many countries are shutting down their economies as they face troubling increases in covert 900 cases slovakia is trying Something Different on saturday it started a nationwide effort aimed at testing its entire Adult Population the authorities have warned the only alternative would be a total lockdown this approach could reveal much about how the virus spreads and how many hidden cases there may be but it also comes with its own set of challenges. Long queues outside this coronavirus testing station and. It just one of thousands that opened on saturday to screen slovakians entire population of over 5000000 testing is voluntary but any. Not participating has to self isolate for 10 days. But it was very interesting i am here because i believe we will find out who has the virus it will go away and eventually we will live a normal life again but in the past 3 weeks slovakia has seen thousands of new infections each day mass screening is hope to contr
Compliance with the allowable outdoor activities. Were monitoring and adhering to all guidance from the citys Health Officer and were working closely with our transit agencies and tenants to reduce the Community Spread of covid19. Commuters and visitors to the Transit Center are provided the most up to date information about maskwearing and social distancing through multilingual signage, displays, throughout the Transit Center including the park and routine announcements. Enhanced cleaning protocol remain in place. On august 19, we were glad to support the bay area transit agencys press conference and john updike will speak about that more. Our role under the facility. And not to steal too much of his thunder, but im excited to announce weve had positive progress for lease negotiations which contributes to our health for the second floor of the Transit Center. As youre aware, christines tenure as director of communications has come to an end. With her departure back to the city fulltim
Roll. [laughter]. Thank you, madame chair. Prior to calling roll, i would like to note that julie chang is sitting in as director. With that i will now proceed to call roll. Directors, please respond when i call your name. Chang present. E. Forbes present. M. Hursh present. B. Lipkin present. J. Tumlin present. Vice chair gee present. Chair sesay present. Secretary directors, we have a quorum. Chair sesay and secretary, if i may just a point of clarification, this is a regular meeting, not a special meeting, just a point of clarification for the record. Chair sesay thank you, i appreciate that. Secretary thank you. Directors, the next item, item 3, is communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. To provide Public Comment, callers should dial into the published number, 18552826330, and enter access code, 126 729 5295. Then pound and pound again and listen to the meeting. As they wait for Public Comment to be announced, members of the public ha