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Thanksgiving. I believe we are going to have to make many of those same arrangements into the christmas holidays. Why dont we go to the first slide . Ok. Today, we have 1684 new cases. That brings us really to a startling yearly 100,000 cases statewide. 97,095 total cases. Today, we have an additional 28 deaths. That brings our total to 1568 total deaths statewide. This is really the grimmest part of these updates for everyone on the state of new mexico team and i know for all new mexicans, i gave personal condolences to some families who shared their information with me this morning in this incredibly painful, of course, these are unnecessary deaths and we all must do better. I do want to alert folks that in the details of the emails we send out about the new mexicans we lose to covid, we lost two individuals in their 30s with no underlying conditions. And i dont report this, and we dont put it in our daily updates that go out via email or on our websites and in the media, to provide ....
Today, we have an additional 28 deaths. That brings our total to 1568 total deaths statewide. This is really the grimmest part of these updates for everyone on the state of new mexico team. And i know for all new mexicans, i gave personal condolences to some families who shared their information with me this morning in this incredibly painful, of course, these are unnecessary deaths. And we all must do better. I do want to alert folks that in the details of the emails we sent out about the new mexicans we lose to covid, we lost two individuals in their 30s with no underlying conditions. And i dont report this, and we dont put it in our daily updates that go out via email or on our websites and in the media, to provide any more gruesome details about this deadly virus. But to remind everyone, again, it does not care how old you are. What politicale party you are. It does not care what gender you are. This virus can be deadly for anyone. And while we know that it is particularly precario ....
Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to par ....
That we saw over the summer in july. Weve talked so much about the twindemic, that covid surge combined with flu season. This could overwhelm hospitals in a matter of weeks, and despite the gloomy outlook, many local Health Leaders are feeling much more confident this time around. Here is nbc bay areas anousha rasta. Reporter if the latest surge in covid19 cases wasnt bad enough, now hospital workers and Health Care Workers need to worry about the looming flu season as well. We have been preparing for capacity. Making sure that we have equipment and supplies and just making sure that our protocols are in place to keep our patients safe as well as our Health Care Workers. Reporter dr. Sam shen is an emergency medicine doctor at Stanford Health cares palo a ....
Motion to approve. Second. Second. Theres no one on the Public Comment line so far today. President bernal all right. Clerk [roll call] thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more ....