Company says its phase 3 trial in the u. S. Found its 72 effective in preventing moderate to severe symptoms and says it will file for Emergency Authorization in the coming week, that could mean approval by the end of february. Heres whats key, the vaccine does not require Ultra Cold Temperatures for storage and Shelf Life Is Good for up to two years, huge win. The other breaking story were following, scientists warning the u. S. Is in a race against time with the new Coronavirus Variants popping up across the country and one of those strains, the South African Variant, is now officially here. Two cases have been confirmed in the state of south carolina. Even more concerning, the state departments Public Health warning says that two infected adults had no recent travel history and no connection to one another. And its raising concerns the strain may already be circulating within the community as new data indicates the vaccines we have may be less effective against this one. That said,
To public benefits, so i am sad we wont have a huge future at all working together, but i enjoyed my small time. You made a major contribution to the organization and i wish you very well. The very best in your future endeavours. Thank you so much, director. Its been a pleasure working with you. Thank you, director. Do i have any other members . Madam secretary . Vice chair gee. Thank you, chair. Mark, im going to go a little bit different and stay away from the engineering terms. But one of the things in the business that were all in of delivering projects, particularly projects of the magnitude youve been a part of, is what i tell my staff and my teams. Every project that you do you leave a part of you in that project because youre passionate, youre committed, youre delivering. You cannot be passionate and deliver a project without dedicating yourself to it, whether its saturday, sundays, going to cac meetings at night. You give of yourself. So i want to thank you, especially i want
Line as we give a pause for call tim hortoncallers to call in. We have two callers on the phone line and zero callers vented the Public Comment queue at this time. The final reminder to all callers on the line, dial star 3 now if you want to join specific comment. We will wait three more seconds and close Public Comment. Im seeing one caller with a hand raised and you hear a moment of silence as that caller is elevated. Hello, commissioners, my name is inaudible . Welcome, caller. My name is Richard Rothman and i dont know if you remember me but last year i had a lot of trouble with delta dental telling me different stories of what is covered under the smile program and what is not. How do we know this information is correct from delta dental . You know, when i dealt with them, the representative kept telling me different stories. Its covered, its not covered. Its covered. Its not covered. So how do we know for sure that what they say is accurate. They put me through a lot of trouble,
Commissioner chow is supposed to be here. I thought he was on but he is not. Mikaela, can you share that slide right now . Im going to pop up the Public Comments slide so that everyone on can see how to make Public Comment. Theres a few people on and i want to make sure everyone knows. Give me one second and ill pass you to ball. So, the phone number for Public Comment is 415 6550003. The access code is 133 1902636 and press pound twice to get on the line. When you are on, if you would like to raise your hand for a specific item, please press star 3. When you get on the line, you press pound twice and then star 3 if you would like to raise your hand for an item and well talk about the comments for each item. Commissioner bernal, would you like to move forward with the approval of the minutes or wait for commissioner chow . Commissioner ball do we have a quorum . We do. Is he dialing in now . I will call. And i apologize. No problem. Well give him 30 more seconds. Thank you to dph staff
Commission meeting for tuesday august 18th. We will call this meeting to order. Will you please call the roll. Yes, commissioner bernal. [roll call] commissioner chow is supposed to be here. I thought he was on but he is not. Mikaela, can you share that slide right now . Im going to pop up the Public Comments slide so that everyone on can see how to make Public Comment. Theres a few people on and i want to make sure everyone knows. Give me one second and ill pass you to ball. So, the phone number for Public Comment is 415 6550003. The access code is 133 1902636 and press pound twice to get on the line. When you are on, if you would like to raise your hand for a specific item, please press star 3. When you get on the line, you press pound twice and then star 3 if you would like to raise your hand for an item and well talk about the comments for each item. Commissioner bernal, would you like to move forward with the approval of the minutes or wait for commissioner chow . Commissioner bal