Virus which has claimed more than 207,000 american lives now reaches into the most powerful office in the world. Good morning, america. We want to get right to the major breaking news overnight. At 12 54 a. M. President trump announced he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for covid19. The Stunning Development raises significant questions about the president s health, the stability of the country, our standing in the world and the state of the race for the white house just 32 days before the final votes. We will cover it all this morning, and we begin by wishing the president and the first lady a speedy and full recovery. We certainly do, and with that, we want to show you a live look right now at the white house where the president and first lady are in isolation at this moment. And there are so many Big Questions this morning after the president s jampacked schedule this week. We want to know who else in the white house inner circle could potentially be infected and wh
Bookstore and other independent sellers. Also the incredible Boston Review and the editors all of us have been proud by what has been curated by Boston Review but in this moment before the countrys more famous publications were willing to run racial capitalism and the ethics of resistance Boston Review provided one of the major forums for these ideas to be debated and it still does theres not many publications who can match the commitment to get space to debate across the political spectrum or insisting on the significance of race as a broader question of justice and democracy and citizenship. Its a real honor to be here at a panel cohosted by Boston Review. As a reminder the contributions all go to three important organizations critical resistance National Bailout devoted to attending mass incarceration with pretrial detention or one womans love to empower black women and girls in stockton california. The format today is 40 or 45 minutes of discussion i will moderate before he take qu
But this lack of data doesnt allow us to know where the epidemic is heading. The state department of Public Health has deployed a tech team to figure out what happened. Until it is fixed, labs are being told to manually report all positive cases to local health departments. Heres a new program, getting paid to stay at home. Alameda county will pay people who cant afford to selfisolate. The goal is to slow the spread of the virus. Melissa colorado is in oakland with the details. It was not like a cold. People go to work with a cold. This will affect the whole community. Reporter its the coronavirus conundrum impacting low income people who test positive for covid19. Go to work and expos others or stay at home and lose your paycheck and maybe even your job . These are individuals that work in construction, work in restaurants, work in grocery stores. Reporter ceo jane garcia treats uninsured and undocumented patients in oakland. Their employer is asking them to provide documentation that
Plan after that. Were supposed to participate in citywide training and that is yet to be developed and there will be goals, achievement of our goals will be tied to budgeting and hiring approval from the board of supervisors and that has not been delineated about what that means, but that is the broad statement that was made. So what is the mission of this office . Its Health Equity, work castfoe and Workplace Equity and direct force and it will be clearly leading with race but not stopping there and leading with race for lots of reasons. We talked about racism as a key driver for health and p w we knw from our data, and in particular, ourace gives usa br. Its an original organizing principle and its baked into policies and procedures and when we go which correct those, rewere correcting inequities for other groups. Theres huge intersectioy between policies and practises that uphold racism and those that uphold the other isms that oppress people or keep them from having Health Equity.
Saying aye . Thank you, commissioners and item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Im the director of health and just highlighting a few of the items in your directors report. On november 20th, i was really pleased to accompany marilyn and breed in the leadership to announce 72 new residential stepdown beds on Treasure Island for people who are continuing outpatient Substance Abuse patient and who are at risk for hom homelessness. They will be operated by health right 360. They are onetype of Behavioral Health bed to help people on their journey of recovery and people can stay here in these units for up to 24 months so its really a key intervention and the hybrid, crossing over from the intensive behavioral treatment to permanent Supportive Housing and this is a key part of the puzzle that we continue to work on solving in our system and just to reiterate that we contract for Service Providers like health right 360 to operate facilities at various levels of care i