Centers main hall. Its part of the plan to handle the expected onslaught of patients suffering from covid 19. We will separate males and females, adults only. Reporter the Santa Clara County hospital surge planner working with the office of Emergency Services and the California International guards 146th airlift wing out of the channel islands. They are setting up what is a map type of unit for less severe and recovering patients who could be homeless or dont have a safe place to stay until they get better. This mission of the medical station is to ensure hospitals have the capacity to take care of the sickest patients. The medical centers and hospitals have been gearing up for weeks to handle their own expected surge of the critical cases with specialized equipment like ventilators. The patients who are covid 19 positive and are well enough to leave the hospital but dont have otherwise a safe place to return, they could come here for ongoing care. The unit will be staffed with a volun
Contact investigations are underway including testing. Those units have been quarantined. Reporter the city quarantine laguna honda hoping to keep the virus away from the 750 residents inside and now all residents and Staff Members are being tested to determine who else might be infected. We have begun bringing in Additional Resources including staff and expertise on long term care, infection control, and infectious disease. Reporter across town the city is investigating a positive test at San Francisco general hospital, an er worker. Health officials arent sure how they contracted the virus. This person provides patient care in the emergency department. They are now self isolating a home. We are conducting a thorough contact investigation. Reporter protecting the frontline healthcare workers from exposure has been a chief concern. Officials hope that the sf general case will be an isolated one. The situation at laguna honda is expected to worsen. I must say and im sad to say this, we
Death. Good evening im ken bastida. Im juliette goodrich. The man who died was in his 70s and was a passenger on the grand princess cruise ship when it sailed to mexico late last month. The Health Department says he has been hospitalized 43 weeks before passing away this afternoon. The Santa Rosa Police chief announcing two more employees have coronavirus. That is on top of the three officers who tested positive earlier this week. A high school has transformed into a care site for people who do not have coronavirus. This is from people who need care but also need to be kept away from hospitals that are filled with coronavirus patients. Beds, medical equipment, and other supplies are scheduled to arrive over the next few days. The same situation underway at a location in the south bay. Len ramirez is there. Reporter the Santa Clara Convention center normally hosting a lot of hightech business meetings and things like that but now for the foreseeable future it will be a hospital were man
Good morning. Good morning everybody. Thank you so much for joining us and good morning to our viewers on cspan im sarah and president of the alliance for Health Policy, and really pleased to be here today with phil pearce and worldwide, and to introduce the admiral brett who is the assistant secretary for Health Opinion hes our 16th assistant secretary for health in the the United States department of health an Human Services and as i understand it its now two Year Anniversary in the role he serves as a secretarys Principal Public Health and science advisor, and hes responsible for coordinating efforts across the administration to fight americas Opioid Crisis. He also oversees the the office of the Surgeon General and u. S. Public Health Service Commission Core. His office leads many Critical National initiatives including a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic in america the physical afnght tbliens for americans, National Vaccine plan, with and across Agency Effort to improve th
Oversees the office of Surgeon General and u. S. Public Service Health commission core. And theres a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic, the National Vaccines plan and across Agency Effort to improve the outcome of patients with Sickle Cell Disease. The doctor brings patient han handson to his work and leading americans to healthier lives. I want to thank again bill pierce and worldwide for partnering on this breakfast perspective on Health Policy and with that im pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Well, thank you very much and im going to stand up if thats okay with everyone. Good morning and its great to be here joining you. Again, it has been two years now as they say in d. C. , the days are long, but the years are short and i can certainly agree with that. Its abouten quite an amazing two years with a lot of accomplishments and understanding of what we need to do. If i can get my slides up, please. Well, when we get our slides up, thats okay. So i am the 16th assistan