President yee good afternoon welcome to the november 10th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, can you call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk all members of present, mr. President. President yee thank you. Please plays your righthand over your heart. Join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. President yee thank you. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv. Who coordinates our meetings and makes the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. During the Current Health emergency, the Meeting Minutes will reflect that the Board Members participated in this proceeding remotely through Video Conferencing to the same extent as though physically present.
All right, this meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 13th, regularly scheduled meeting of the joint city, School District, and city college select committee. Im supervisor haney, chair of the committee. Our clerk today is erica major. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 health emergency, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and room are closed. Members will be participating in the meeting reportedly. This is taken pure pursuant to the state and local directives. Members will participate in the committee as in the same extent as physically present. Depending on your provider, cable channel 26 or 78 or 99 or sfgov. Org are streaming the call in number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed 2 minutes to speak. You can call the number 4156550001, access code 1464148285. Press pound and pound after you enter the meeting i. D. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions and you will be muted in listening mode only. Whe
An area that has been hit hard by covid. For some Community Members say this site is months too late. Its frustrating. Reporter the Health Committee chairman with the Latino Task Force wants to know why serving the people caring the highest rates of infection in the southeast part of the city took so long. Why is there not more. Thats my other question. And why did we have them six months ago . Weve known since april that the highest rates of infection have been in the bay view, the Mission District and the excelsior. Yet, up until this site, the city had two of its largest facilities at 7 p. M. Brandon. Reporter Health Officials say that they are trying to expand services to areas that needed the most. Julia, who are the wrong kinds of people going to these testing sites . Is there going to be a screening process to determine who should get tested, whose essential and who should go to the private doctor instead . I know we have always been saying get tested and you think that you have
Uneventful and it looks like for the week ahead as well theres a live shot coming in from the golden gate as you will notice not much the way of fog going on this morning live shot to from u c berkeley, heres the east bay shoreline as well. Nice you as you can see of the bay itself as well now stormtracker 4 notice some of that cloud cover the southwest of us from our perspective that will be this afternoons for some variable clouds will call attempts for you still chilly up there in the north bay just graduated before your eyes at 34 31 for santa rosa and napa meanwhile east bay shoreline is in the middle 40s, although fremont a chilly 3940 san jose and we are but colder this morning that we were just 24 hours ago, well catch up a little bit this afternoon look ahead noting those afternoon clouds temperatures somewhat controlled in the lower 60s but well see probably some upper 60s for highs getting into your highs and checking and the rest your weekend forecast in a bit party, ok, da
And also Johnson Johnson, just releasing the results from its phase three trials. Saying in its announcement it is 66 Efficacy Rate overall. 85 against severe disease. Still notably lessective than the vaccines from pfizer and moderna. What does the biden team say about that . The White House Press secretary just said this morning that President Biden is encouraged by the data coming out from j j but also said that the politicians will leave it to the scientists who we should hear from any moment. While were standing by. Lets bring in Elizabeth Cohen following the latest developments. So on this announcement from Johnson Johnson, what are they saying . Basically the bottom line here, kate, is that this vaccine does work well against covid 19, this j j vaccine. Im going to jump in. Andy slavic, one of the members of the Covid Response team is beginning the briefing now. On both the successes and the hurdles we face. I hope on these calls, that the public will get a regular and consisten