Cases of those who have been diagnosed with covid19. And sadly, we have lost 17 people. There are 17 people who died as a result of this virus as of today. As a reminder, you can visit data sf. Org for the full tracker with information on what who has been diagnosed, the number of tests and other resources that are available or any questions you may have. And i want to just start today by reminding us really how far weve come from the very beginning. Weve made it our mission to slow the spread of this virus, to help those vulnerable populations, to keep people safe and were continuing to do all we can to do just that. Were still dealing with the number of cases in San Francisco and we also know that there will continue to be challenges and we will continue to see increases in the number of cases of the coronavirus as we continue to do testing. You know, it may seem like this will never end, but it will come to an end. And i want to be clear that although you may hear about San Francisc
Convening the closed session. [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, you have a quorum, and so the board will now go into the closed session. So your instructions are to hang up on this call, essentially, click the red button, and then go into the calendar, the closed session, and then separate log into that meeting. Clerk yes, mr. Chair. Thank you very much. Does anyone have questions on that . Roberta, you may need to change the outlook invitation so that we can start the meeting early. Its not scheduled until 4 30. Clerk okay. Very good. Okay. So look for that, folks, and please log in within, lets say, the next five minutes. So to the members of the public watching, thank you for accommodating this unique format and showing the resilient city that we are. All right. Thank you. Well move into closed session. Good afternoon, everyone. Im San Francisco mayor london breed. Im joined today by the director of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax, as well as the director of the department of Emergency M
President yee good afternoon and welcome to the april 28th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the roll. President yee thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer, fewer, present. Supervisor haney. Supervisor haney . Okay. All right. Supervisor mandelman. Present. Clerk mandelman. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor peskin, peskin present. And supervisor preston. Preston, present. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, present. Supervisor safai. Safai present. Supervisor stefani. Stefani, present. Supervisor walton. Present. Can we confirm that it was peskin . Clerk im worried about him. Supervisor walton, walton present. Supervisor yee. Yee present. And supervisor haney, were you able to join us . Okay, haney not present. Can one of my staff check on him, please. Thank you. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. So somebody needs to cut their mike. Its sounding like theres a lot of bass clerk it sounds like supervisor pe
And the commissioner knows our i will say baseline Behavioral Health challenges within the city. Those are only reinforced again by covid19. We are looking to use the hotels now and then we are also working with h. S. And h. S. H. To set people up in a shelter with broader support and more capacity to take care of people who are covid positive who are also lean towards developing capacity and facilities to care for people who are covid recovered. And once people move through the covid positive recovery and it is important to emphasize 80 of people do okay. So in the congregate setting, this percentage will vary depending on the population. The bottom line is we need to also support people who are in the covid19 recovery past the infectious period. And that is something that we have been keeping hard on with the Housing Agency and those are support questions and those questions. I have two questions with the manpower of the Contact Tracing and when you stated that you are hoping to get
And we are also looking at the data. And we feel that, you know, we need to continue to look at the data, its too early to say that this is completely been taken care of and we have accomplished everything that we want to do with the shelter in place, which again, to remind everyone, is to try to decrease the speed at which people are getting infections with covid19. Primarily so that we dont have a lot of people becoming very ill at once and overwhelming our hospital system. So, were measuring the number of hospitalizations, were measuring the number of cases. And we know that those cases will continue to go up, because one of the challenges that im sure people have heard about is that testing is very challenging and getting enough tests in place. So, as we test more, well see more cases. But were going to keep monitoring how or hospitals are doing, how our capacity is doing, and so far in the bay area, weve been able to take care of patients as theyve come in, which is a good sign, a