promote ethical behavior. i have some ideas about how you do that. how you change the culture, how you improve the protection from whistleblowers, how you expand. that is what i was talking about the contracting community. if you can expand the universe of people capable of acting as whistleblowers because they see something and know specifically that is not okay, then you also help protect city employees who want to be whistleblowers but are too afraid because they can t believe they won t be retaliated against because they are the only ones inside the city who would have known about that bad behavior. i can attest that is the motivation on the contracting staff. if they are the only ones that know they are afraid to tell. there is a lot of things that hopefully we can engage in. i want to point out that we have a lot of work to be done in order to understand what the ethics obligations are because as it stands now it is not at all clear. for example, who enforces statemen
for anyone who tests positive? and this is a big one from our arts, culture, and entertainment group was entertaining the barriers to clean and safe streets because without having clean areas around venues and our tourism industry, we re not going to be recovering as soon as we could, so creating a systematic public health cleanliness approach that integrates public and private services so that all parties can work as one team, developing a campaign in partnership with tourism, business, and arts orgs to promote safe streets and working with groups to identify homelessness and behavioral health disorders. so that s it, but before i wrap up, we re still working to find stages for venue relief funding? we re working with federal partners to make sure we get the funds distributed quickly, and oewd and the entertainment commission are going to be working together to make sure that our venues now how to apply for that relief as soon as possible. so that s a summary of my recommend
sadly, that s true throughout the country, so sadly, we are going to have to make sure we take care of san francisco residents on our own. this slide shows how changing our behavior collectively has had and can have a tremtds impact on the spread of this virus. on september 6 tremendous impact on the spread of this virus. on december 6, the day of our preemptive local stay at home order, our reproductive rate was 1.6. that means for every person that had covid, they were infecting almost 1.5 other persons, and that means that covid was spreading exponentially in san francisco. additional deaths that were projected decreased by 330, from 544 to 214. that is 330 people that were projected to have died from the best models that we have from covid that now would not die. that s what we ve done together as a city in just two weeks. by limiting our mobility, by wearing a mask, but not gathering and continuing to social distance, we ve kept people safe and saves lived. now looking
arts, culture, and entertainment group was entertaining the barriers to clean and safe streets because without having clean areas around venues and our tourism industry, we re not going to be recovering as soon as we could, so creating a systematic public health cleanliness approach that integrates public and private services so that all parties can work as one team, developing a campaign in partnership with tourism, business, and arts orgs to promote safe streets and working with groups to identify homelessness and behavioral health disorders. so that s it, but before i wrap up, we re still working to find stages for venue relief funding? we re working with federal partners to make sure we get the funds distributed quickly, and oewd and the entertainment commission are going to be working together to make sure that our venues now how to apply for that relief as soon as possible. so that s a summary of my recommendations. both my colleagues are here to assist director torres
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