Extensive research and worked to prevent, diagnose, and treat Infectious Diseases. He has advised 16 president s on everything from hivaids, tuberculosis, malaria, to ebola, zika, and now covid19. He is the winner of the president ial medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. We are grateful for his lifetime of Public Service and particularly for his candor and expertise during this critical time. Lets get right to this. Dr. Fauci, let me ask you for a broad overview of the pandemic, where are we now . Dr. Fauci we are in a difficult situation. We have a large outbreak, there have been close to 140,000 deaths and several million infections. That is sobering news. There are some bright spots we need to capitalize on. Areas of the country like the new york metropolitan area which has been through a difficult time, probably worse than any other regional area but turned it around and come down but as we see now if you follow the news carefully which is pretty obvio
Dr. Anthony fauci e, a member of the White House Coronavirus task force, was asked about the use of masks and reopening schools and businesses. This was hosted by the u. S. Chamber of commerce. Good morning, everyone. I hope it is a happy friday in your home. Welcome to a special edition of our path forward series. We are thrilled to welcome dr. Anthony fauchi. He has conducted Extensive Research and worked to diagnose and treat infective diseases. Advised 16 president s. He is the winner of the National Medal of science and the president ial medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. We are grateful for his lifetime of a and particularly thankful for his candor and expertise and during this time here let me ask you for a broad overview of the pandemic. Where are we now . Dr. Fauci we are in a difficult situation. We have a large outbreak. As you probably know, there has been close to 140,000 deaths and we have several million infections. That is sobering news.
He is the winner of the National Medal of science and the president ial medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. We are grateful for his lifetime of a and particularly thankful for his candor and expertise and during this time here let me ask you for a broad overview of the pandemic. Where are we now . Dr. Fauci we are in a difficult situation. We have a large outbreak. As you probably know, there has been close to 140,000 deaths and we have several million infections. That is sobering news. There are some bright spots we need to capitalize on, namely areas of the country like the new york metropolitan area, which had been through a difficult time, probably worse than any other regional area of a big city in the world, but have turned it around and come down. As we are seeing now, if you follow the news carefully, it is obvious there are sections of the country, particular group of southern states, particularly california, florida, texas and arizona, as well a
Thank you all again for joining us this afternoon. As of today, w we have a total f 1,332 cases coronavirus in our city. If you want more information, specific data around zip code and race and the number of people tested, you can check out our website, data sf. Org covid19. Whenever we have Accurate Information and can provide it to the public, we provide it on our tracker and we made a number of announcements about the expansion of our tracker to include a zip code and to look at some of the despairties that exist in our city. The tracker is helpful in that regard and helpful in making sure that we are allocating resources in the places that need it the most. I want to be clear from the very beginning in our Emergency Operations center, we have embedded the office of equity, which is focused on making sure that all of the decisions that we make are looked at through a lense of equity in the communities disadvantaged or left out the larger citywide response, they get the resources and
Good afternoon and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for monday, april 27, 2020. I am the chair of the committee i aaron peskin joined by vice chair staff fieand dean preston. Ms. Major, do you have any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency to protect board members, the board of Supervisors Chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating in the meeting room only as if they were physically present. Public comment is available for each item on channel 26 and sfgovtv are sharing the number on the screen. Each member is allowed two minutes to speak. Comments to speak are available via phone by calling 888 2045984. The access code 3501008. Then press pound and press pound again. Dial one and 0 to be added to the queue to speak. While waiting the system will be silent. It will notify you when you are in line and waiting. All callers remain on mute until their line is open. Everyone