Staff and short of resources to need in a normal time to have responded to quickly and to work so closely in coordinating with all of the different departments under the leadership of mayor breed. And i think across the country of all of the different places and the tragedies that many of our vulnerable population and community are experiencing, i just wish that there was a way to transport the kind of leadership in community and sense of common good that we have here in San Francisco. Even with all the questions and all the kind of wanting to be better sentiments that are expressed by many of our advocates. I do feel that San Francisco is most fortunate. Words cant quite express, but again, justice want to express thanks and gratitude, respect, and i know that we have a lot more to go. A lot more road to go and we will be there. We are all in this together. A commissioner green. Yes. It was said so eloquently by all of you. I am on the front line. I am in the hospital every day. And t
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Call. Actually, first you take Public Comment. Moderator, any Public Comment . Any Public Comment, moderator . No. No, so i will do a role call, commissioners. I will show my face so we can look at that. [role call vote] commissioner, if you want to end this item gore to see if the commissioners have any more comments or do any personally thanking. I would like to offer the opportunity for commissioners to offer comments. First, i would like to begin in addition to acknowledging the people of San Francisco for the sacrifices they have made in order to comply with the orders that have been placed, that are literally saving lives every day. We cannot express in an appropriate depth of gratitude that we feel to the employees of the San Francisco department of Public Health, so many of whom are working 24 hours seven days a week in order to protect all of the people of San Francisco, particularly those who are most vulnerabled a at risk nor pandemic. All the way from director colfax throug
And the commissioner knows our i will say baseline Behavioral Health challenges within the city. Those are only reinforced again by covid19. We are looking to use the hotels now and then we are also working with h. S. And h. S. H. To set people up in a shelter with broader support and more capacity to take care of people who are covid positive who are also lean towards developing capacity and facilities to care for people who are covid recovered. And once people move through the covid positive recovery and it is important to emphasize 80 of people do okay. So in the congregate setting, this percentage will vary depending on the population. The bottom line is we need to also support people who are in the covid19 recovery past the infectious period. And that is something that we have been keeping hard on with the Housing Agency and those are support questions and those questions. I have two questions with the manpower of the Contact Tracing and when you stated that you are hoping to get
Sen. Hatch we are getting some interesting testimony, but it is not going to the problems that we have here in the senate. We will just have to see what happens. Senator wyden has a few more questions to ask and then that will be it. Sen. Wyden mr. Chairman, i will and again,id man these are the kinds of questions that you and i agree should be asked at this hearing. Sen. Hatch sure you reared sen. Wyden let us talk about flexibility, put into context of the nation nationss Senior Citizens to read i watched all of these older people as a director of the center raise their families, build our communities, but growing old in america costs a lot of money so today, Senior Citizens have a guarantee that medicaid is going to cover the cost of nursing home care. This is hugely important because medicaid picks up the bill for two out of three Senior Citizens in Nursing Homes in america. That is a guarantee for nearly millions of older people. This proposal, that Graham Cassidy proposal, i call