Well as the department of Public Health director, dr. Grant coal fashion. Colfax. We are joined by police chief scott as well as our sheriff and the director of homelessness and housing services, abigail kahn. Today we want to provide a few updates of where we are and and some very serious challenges that we face. So far as of today, we have confirmed 797 cases and sadly 13 people have lost their lives due to the virus. The covid19 virus. And we had said all along that this would be very challenging, and in fact, in the past week or so, dr. Colfax and i continued to make it clear that it is of course important to stay at home as much as possible. Because the fact is the worst is yet to come. And today, unfortunately, we have a situation that we knew could potentially happen in one of our congregate living settings. An outbreak occurred at msc south, one of our shelters. And the real challenging situation that we know could have been worse will be a little bit better because of the work
Really using science in terms of how best to trace and when Contact Tracing is needed a followup question to that from mr. King. Given the turnover at shelters from night tonight, how are you finding people to test if they are no longer sleeping at the shelter . So, again, we are working with the experts on that shelter system. Our colleagues at the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing are colleagues at the Human Services agency, as you know, they run the shelters and the support systems for those shelter across the city along with our contact investigation teams. We are literally going through, case by case contact by contact to take sure that we are doing everything we can to find people who are at high risk to ensure people who are at high risk for bad outcomes are placed in hotels and to ensure people who had a high risk exposure for covid19 are receiving testing. The final question for you from Wilson Walker at kpix. With the outbreak in the shelter does that give you
Welcome to the april 13, 2020 meeting. I am joined by Video Conference with vice chair supervisor stephanie and supervisor gordon mar and id like to thank sf gov tv for staffing this meeting. Any announcements . To protect members, City Employees and the public, the legislative chamber and k Committee Rooms are closed. However, members will be participating remotely at the same extent as if they were present. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, both the channel 26 and sfgov. Org are streaming across the screen. Call 888 2045504. When you are connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the key. You will be lined up in the system that you dial 1 and 0. While youre waiting, the system will be silent and notify you when youre in line and waiting. All will remain online. Everyone must account for the time delay between live coverage and streaming. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways, email me at victor young. If you submit
Government stimulus program. We stay at work. For you. You stay at home for us. Jerome powell believes the of t for the weekend which is good news but still some rain around the santa clara valley. The ever persistent pesky low on Southern California does not just know were all with you. Want to go but it is showing under control the businesses will reopen and people come back to work. Thank you, thank you so much. There is every reason to believe the economic rebound when it comes can be robust. Thank you doctors nurses. Signs of moving. A little warmer the next week and a little overcast with the Senate Democrats blocked afternoon sunshine and bumping a republican bill to add an up the highs a little and on monday we had a lot of 50s but now we are all 50s. San jose is 56 and the line additional hundred 50 billion in relief for Small Businesses stretches across nevada and the and Democratic Leaders say any valley and about san jose south bill providing money for small towards watsonv
While this Technology Allows us to hold these meetings via teleconference, it may not be as seamless as we would like it to be. There will be some gaps and dead air, so we beg everyones indulgence, but we think its important that muni go about its business and hold the meeting, and well have to go ahead and cope with the limitations that Technology Presents us. Sounds like everybody has done this before, but if youre participating via remote technology, please keep your microphone on mute so we dont get feedback on everything. Id like to thank people who made this meeting possible. Our secretary, roberta boomer, along with shawn, art, jack from sfgtv, the staff at the board of supervisors, carolyn and sophia. A lot of people worked to make this happen at this unprecedented time. I will say to our staff, from jeff tumlin down through the ranks, the response has been remarkable, and well talk more about this as the meeting goes on, but i just want to say thank you. You guys are emblemati