For you. Mark, can we back up to the slides on the reproduction number. One second. Oh no, its okay. Give me just one second to back up to that. Those are very concerning numbers. We see if we reduce the reproductive number by a third, we hold steady at the same number of hospitalizations, but wed still see as many as four times of deaths here in San Francisco. But if we continue on this same scale, we could see deaths up to 800, and number of hospitalizations, 1,000 to over 3,000. That could clearly overwhelm our Hospital Systems. I know weve seen footage of people gathering in dolores park this weekend, and the possible impact that could have. Could you just speak to what kind of effect that behavior could have, not just on our people, but our ability to serve the health care needs. Yes [inaudible] i thi. Dr. Colfax i think its really important that we stay vigilant and do what we know works to stop the spread of the virus. That includes not going to large gatherings, and on beautifu
There are other parts that have access indie indiscernible . Operator you have three questions remaining. Speaker i would like to commend the sfmta on the slowstreets program. I think its great and particularly, i have frequently used the one on sanchez and if anything, thats to be extended even further and the slow street on 20th can be extended west, as well. I think that would be a great idea. I want to reiterate what everybody else said regarding the tenderloin, an equity standpoint in ten in terms of mg everyones lives better, its unfair they dont have slow streets. And people should take a step back and remember 30 of people in San Francisco dont even own a car and yet up until now, almost 100 of the streets where dedicated largely to cars and even now, 95 , so i think thats important perspective to keep in mind and just remember as we go forward, i think that this would be great to implement, especially after the pandemic and hopefully, make the city a better place to live in. T
And promotions staff within Population Health, and those folks are under this yellow block under operations, but that means that theyre also overseeing the Human Services, which is doing housing and feeding. [inaudible] within Population Health, and that modelling that theyre doing is both our normal work of taking in public results of Infectious Disease tests, but its also new work that i think is really an advancement of what we normally do in the department, working with outside assistance for modelling and making sure that we are able to project into the future. And that is led by jim marks, who is an anesthesiologist and many others in that structure. Go forward. Ill let you know that all of the guidance that comes out is part of the information and Guidance Group that is headed by reeta nguyen, dr. Rita nguyen, and she is part of Population Health and leads a team of doctors and physicians and they write all the research about what the current recommendations are. That group had
Plan after that. Were supposed to participate in citywide training and that is yet to be developed and there will be goals, achievement of our goals will be tied to budgeting and hiring approval from the board of supervisors and that has not been delineated about what that means, but that is the broad statement that was made. So what is the mission of this office . Its Health Equity, work castfoe and Workplace Equity and direct force and it will be clearly leading with race but not stopping there and leading with race for lots of reasons. We talked about racism as a key driver for health and p w we knw from our data, and in particular, ourace gives usa br. Its an original organizing principle and its baked into policies and procedures and when we go which correct those, rewere correcting inequities for other groups. Theres huge intersectioy between policies and practises that uphold racism and those that uphold the other isms that oppress people or keep them from having Health Equity.
Saying aye . Thank you, commissioners and item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Im the director of health and just highlighting a few of the items in your directors report. On november 20th, i was really pleased to accompany marilyn and breed in the leadership to announce 72 new residential stepdown beds on Treasure Island for people who are continuing outpatient Substance Abuse patient and who are at risk for hom homelessness. They will be operated by health right 360. They are onetype of Behavioral Health bed to help people on their journey of recovery and people can stay here in these units for up to 24 months so its really a key intervention and the hybrid, crossing over from the intensive behavioral treatment to permanent Supportive Housing and this is a key part of the puzzle that we continue to work on solving in our system and just to reiterate that we contract for Service Providers like health right 360 to operate facilities at various levels of care i