From the front lines of the coronavirus fight. She is board member with the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Haddock, you first just described what your days are like these days of the hospital and how you are spending them. Guest it is a busy time around the country, we are seeing the number of Covid Patients we are seeing escalate every day. Harris county currently has 563 cases and its a change in our workflow in this new age the pandemic. Job on theis your front lines . Guest i see anyone who comes in the door for any problem they might be having medically. Whether thats related to covid or the traditional things we would see like abdominal pain or toe infection. In this era of covid one of the challenges we have is trying to sort out those who are more likely to have covid and that requires a high level of protection for those caring for them. Reset the other patients. How do you do that when sorting out. Guest the main thing we do is ask about symptoms. At the beginn
Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be provided to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda. [agenda item read]. Chair mar supervisor fewer, thank you for joining us this morning as the sponsor of this hearing. The floor is yours. Supervisor fewer thank you, committee. I call this hearing today after discussions with ifpte local 21 because i am concerned about the use of Civil Service exclusions and the impact it has on our Civil Service industry. I realize that discussions have been ongoing between the department of Public Health and local 21 regarding a process of conversion for these positions since the last hearing that we called on this issue in april 2019. Since that time, this agenda at the time that this agenda was posted for todays meeting and this morning, an agreement has been confirmed between d.
For the next hour we will be focusing on one aspect of covid19. Its impact on education for teachers for students for parents through preschool through college. If you are a professor or college administrator. 20288 800 o. For all others 2024788002. Send us a tweet at cspan w. J. Or join us on facebook at facebook. Com. Good friday evening. We thought it would be important to talk about the impact on education. But first we want to begin with the numbers. Courtesy of John Hopkins University which has been keeping track of the vie us are. We are now at 1. 1 million cases across the world. Here in the United States quickly approaching 275,000 cases. And now with more than 7,000 confirmed deaths in our country. His is the headline from the wall street journal as u. S. Employers cut off 700,000 jobs. If we continue with these kind of figures it could show the largest ever onemonth decline. Thanks for being with us on this friday evening. These really are stunning numbers. Yes, they are. Th
Missouri, hosted this talk as part of their annual symposium. I do believe that that is my cue to head over to this ourction and give introduction for the next speaker. Beforewould like to say that, here is a little Public Service announcement, stealing person,e from another there is only one thing you can war andom the world that thing would be, dont forget to get your flu shot. Maybe it means you get to june ash enjoy even heart this evenings dinner. Im so pleased to our next speaker, dr. Nancy bristow existing list professor in history at the university of puget sound where she specializes in 20th century American History with an emphasis on race, gender and social change and serves on the Leadership Team of the race and pedagogy institute. Makingthe author of 1996 this world for it social engineering in the great war. And american pandemic, a lost worlds of the 1918 influenza she willwhos content be addressing this afternoon. You might have seen her on the american experience, most
Imperative upon to understand these people that have done these jobs many, many years, actually granting them some expertise that could be a qualifying factor to retaining these jobs. I would love to see a recent analysis, also, about those people in temporary and exempt positions by race and wage levels. Because when we took a good preliminary look at this, we saw that many people in management positions that were exempt were actually white individuals, while we see in the temporary positions, very lower positions that were paid much, much less, they were primarily people of color and African Americans and latino. So i think were in agreement, mr. Ponder, that that is absolutely not acceptable. And i would just want to say that i would suggest to you and also to miss ng from the Civil Service commission, that we are putting people into training positions, that we should be also allocating a pathway to permanent Civil Service. That anyone that comes into a training position, that they