Commissioner green . Present. Commission chow . Present. Commissioner guillermo, present. Ill note the commissioners. Thank you, mark. Well move on to the next item, which is approval of the minutes from the last Commission Meeting on january 5th. Commissioners, upon reviewing the minutes, are there any amendments . And if not, do we have a motion to approve . Before we go into the vote, i have to make sure there is nothing on the item. Thank you. And this is a general instruction, but you will press star 3 if youd like to raise your hand, and ill say the same introduction over and over again. Okay. So there is no comment at this time. Well vote. Commissioner chow. Yes. Commissioner green . Yes. Commissioner chong . Yes. Commissioner guillermo tkpwhrerpl . guillermo. And. Our next item is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners of health. This report focuses on covid19, and i will be providing an update and as well with regards to the current status of covid19 and our vacci
When you can soon line up with one. We begin with mike tobin at pfizers factory up in michigan. Reporter we saw that historic first shipment leave here yesterday carrying doses of the vaccine. The followup today is more trucks, more boxes nilled with vaccine leaving the pfizer plant in michigan. Yesterday, 189 boxes left here. That works out to little more than 920,000 shots in the arm. Today, 400 boxes or 1. 9 million doses of vaccine ship from here. Within hours of the first shipment leaving here, ups landed its first plane with 38,000 doses of vaccine at its World Distribution facility in louisville, kentucky, where the doses are sorted. Planes and trucks take it from there. It is humbling, you know, being part of this vaccine process. Its going to take a lot of lives. Reporter three kentucky hospitals got 975 doses of vaccine each as the priority has been to get the vaccine to Health Care Workers. Dr. Jason smith got the First Vaccination in kentucky. The vaccine is going to 636 di
Live coverage on cspan2. Celebration is always december 7, in a year where we have new members of the california legislature. I will jump right in the tightest briefest possible and get to a number of the issues of the day. Particularly as relates to some of the regional orders that now are in effect in california but also wanted just to provide some context and some information about some new technology that will bring to bear. To slow the spread of covid19. Its been a lot of discussion around apps, a lot of discussion about how technology can advance our efforts to notify individuals can mitigate the spread of covid19 and address this pandemic headon. Two of californias bestknown headquarter technology companies, google and apple, have joined together in an effort to provide for exposure notification. Not Contact Tracing, right exposure notification. I want to provide you with a bit of information about what california is doing today to help support their efforts come a little bit ab
Tonight in both counties. This means nonessential illnesses and social gatherings with stop between the hours of 10 00 at night and 5 00 in the morning. Flock it is absolutely essential and it is important people live by the rules and if more people to, we would have a lot shorter time period, and significantly fewer death. Meriden county is the only bay area county still in the red tear. The second most restrictive tear although that could soon change. Moderna is now the Second Company to apply for emergency use use authorization from the fda for the coronavirus vaccine. As casey reports with cases and hospitalizations on the rise across the country, plans are being made to get the vaccines distributed as quickly as possible. Reporter the numbers are staggering. The u. S. Adding more than for million new covid cases in the month of november. Help could be just around the corner corner with moderna announcing the have applied for emergency use use authorization from the fda for their v
Vaccine. There were a total of 95 cases of symptomatically covid. The vaccine was 94. 5 effective. There were no reports of serious side effects. Other hopeful news, all 11 cases of severe covid illness were in the placebo group. The cofounder and chairman of moderna spoke about the results. We have a number of different other subgroups we are looking actively at. In general, it looks like the vaccine performs broadly across all the population groups that we consider. Moderna expects to have 20 million doses ready to ship by the end of 2020. The Game Changing result comes a week after pfizer announced similar results for its vaccine. Pfizers vaccine is shown to be more than 90 effective. Stocks are up on the Moderna Vaccine news. Right now, the dow is up 337 points. A u. S. Officials as the pentagon is expected to cut the number of u. S. Troops in afghanistan and half by mid january. This, according to the associated press. The pentagon also expects to cut the number of troops in iraq