Clerk on a motion to not disclose the closed session deliberations [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Is there any further business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Chair mar great. We are adjourned. Take care. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. The december 3rd meeting. I am joined by Committee Member peskin. Committee member haney will be joining us. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this. Do you have announcements. In order to protect the public and City Employees during the Health Emergency the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to local state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through video and participate to the same extent as if physically present. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Both cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the call in number on your screen. Your opportunity to spea
The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
A 2nd day of record high corona virus infections more than a 1000 new cases were confirmed on sunday many in seoul the government has warned that may have to increase restrictions to the highest level. Hundreds of students in nigeria are feared missing after gunmen stormed a school and kidnapped a number of children about 800 students attend a school in Katsina State many flooded during the attack police say 200 have returned safely because. You know a child is a child regardless of his parent children were kidnapped and we didnt sleep throughout the night since 10 pm and were just hearing gunshots some of my relatives children were also taken i have been at the school since dawn and when im sincerely speaking we here in Katsina State are in a terrifying condition we dont see the value of the government in fact i have a younger brother and a child taken along by the kidnappers i am from down jack Katsina State and i have been in this school since dawn and yet there is no update. Ive fo
Ahead because with low temperatures this virus responds differently than what is on it ive just come out of the corona cabinet where we have again had a look at the situation we have in a moment we are concerned by that 12700 new cases reported by the robert carr institute which is traveling in 2 weeks 5 times the amount it made october. So this is exponential growth and we are heading straight for an acute emergency in our hospitals if we do not do anything and we see this when we look at the number of covered 1000 patients in our i. C. U. Nurse again theres been a doubling the rate from 1030 beds on the 22nd of october weve covered patients to 2000. 61 ice you bet occupied by 1000 patients on the 1st of november and we know that the number of patients in our i. C. U. Is always. Downstream its a bit later so that means that the cases who are reported now as in fact it will only end up in our i. C. U. Patients is just 6 in 2 weeks it takes a while for new cases to be in i. C. U. So wha
Unfortunately, disinformation about and distrust in our medical system plays a significant role. Last monday i had the pleasure of speaking with dr. Lena wen, a visiting professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health. She previously served as the Health Commissioner for baltimore, where she led the nations oldest continuously operating Health Department to fight the weed epidemic, improve maternal fight the opioid epidemic, improve maternal and child health. She has been a leading voice for sciencebased policy during the pandemic. We spoke at length about the impacts of covid19 on communities of color in the u. S. [no audio] video to playave here. Thank you so much for joining us. I would like to start off by asking you about data we are seeing in terms of disparities in covid19 infection rates and outcomes for people of color in the United States. First of all, i am glad to join you and thank you for focusing on this critical topic. We know this disease is not a