The areas of the city with the most cases so far match up with these factors. Let me give two examples. The 94107 zip code currently is one of the highest rates of cases in the city. That makes sense from what we know because the m. S. C. South shelter is in that zip code, which is the location of the citys largest outbreak, with 96 cases among guests to date. The 94110 zip code has among the highest number of cases in the city. This likely reflects crowded housing conditions, including multifamily and multigenerational homes, which makes it more difficult to practice social distancing and quarantine and selfisolation. This is the mission, the heart of San Franciscos Latino Community. Citywide 25 of positive covid19 cases are among latinos, although they make up only 15 of the San Francisco population. Now i would like to talk about our ongoing strategy at the Health Department to focus on equity in our coronavirus response. These maps reinforce our need to continue to do this. We are committed to addressing Health Disparities in our city, and this is a major focus of our work in normal times. It is made all the more urgent in todays emergency. During this pandemic we have from the beginning know that existing inequity exists that exists in our system would be amplified. We have been working with Community Leaders and supporting outreach to community in multiple ways. We remain committed to listening and collaborating and taking action with the mostaffected communities and communitybased organizations. In our response we have an equity officer, as does the city as a whole, and a Community Branch that develops strategy to ensure that communities that are affected by structures of racism and other discrimination are getting the information and services needed. We know it is critical to have trusted messengers as we engage with communities, in order to improve health and wellbeing in the most vulnerable populations. I am, the department is, the city is committed to working with our frontline providers, communitybased organizations, and neighborhood leaders to address this pandemic. As we are seeing more cases in the Latino Community, we have been working with Community Leaders to ensure people have the information they need, that they are aware of available resources, and that they receive outreach in their own language. We need to do everything we can to support them and we see People Living in crowded households who have to work and make several trips a week to get food and other essential supplies. They cannot do one big grocery shop due to income limitations and other potential limitations. People in these circumstances are going to be more at risk. We are seeing that play out, unfortunately, with a disproportionate number of cases in the Latino Community. At zuckerberg hospital, we have seen more than 85 of the coronavirus patients there are latino, which is a much higher rate of the patient population, which is about 30 of latino representation. We have also learned that some members of the Latino Community are reluctant to work with contact tracers and case investigators. This is certainly understanda e understandable. It is possible that they are fearful of local government, concerned about immigration, or simply dont have all the information they need to be comfortable. Therefore we are providing language support in spanish and in other languages about the Contact Tracing program and public materials about the stayathome order and also with regard to face coverings and other ways people can protect themselves. In addition, we are being responsive to Community Needs for more inclusive messaging and materials to create a wide range of Spanish Language and yucatan Mayan Community outreach information, including posters, fact sheets, and community posts. Community organizations have stayed in close contact through phone and email with their latino clients and many are doing community outreach. These are key partners in our collective response, especially given the xenophobia and antiimmigration aspects of how this pandemic is being played out at the national level. After learning that some members of the community are reluctant to work with contact tracers, we held a webinar geared toward spanishlanguage media. We conducted an example in spanish and said that this has no bearing on the work and whether people will receive care here in San Francisco. We are, after all, a sanctuary city. Our Health Branch along with community organizations, supports essential businesses in the community to maintain social distancing as part of their operati operations. We have opened covid19 symptom screening and testing sites in the community, including at the Castro MissionHealth Center and at zuckerberg San FranciscoGeneral Hospital in the heart of the mission. And we are coordinating with a new ucsf Research Study based in the mission to learn more about the spread of the virus in the Latino Community. We will continue to do outreach to inform the Latino Community about the coronavirus and the Resources Available to them. In addition to the Latino Community, we are looking closely at all the neighborhoods and Community Members that may need more access to care, information, and resources. That is why the Health Department opened the first field care clinic in San Francisco in the bayview. This clinic will ensure that neighborhood residents have access to coronavirus testing, urgent and primary care for the duration of the pandemic, no matter how full the hospitals get. In another community collaboration, the Health Department works closely with the San Francisco africanamerican faithbased coalition to inform and educate Community Members through their congregation. We are currently working with them on Food Distribution so that Community Members continue to have access to foods close to their homes. We have also been supporting the health of the community in soma and in the chinatown areas for mandated s. R. O. S, including mandated cleaning and other outreach for these diverse neighborhoods. In the Homeless Community we have increased social distancing and food access in shelters and have been moving people from shelters into hotels for their safety. To date, nearly 750 people experiencing homelessness have been placed in hotels in collaboration with the Human Services agency. We have responded aggressively to an outbreak at m. S. C. South, conducting contact investigations, mass testing, moving everyone out, and deep cleaning the building. James from the Health Department and the community continue to provide outreach outside and on the streets, providing food, water, and information about hand washing stations and linking them to support and care. These are a few examples and we must continue to listen to Community Partners and prove our response and use data to take action and guide our decision. I am committed to the health and wellbeing of all san franciscans and doing everything we can to support health and full recovery for all communities in our city during and after this pandemic. Thank you. Director sheryl davis of the Human Rights Commission will now make some remarks with regard to Additional Support within the community. Good afternoon. My name is sheryl davis. I serve as the director of the Human Rights Commission here in San Francisco. The Human Rights Commission is tasked with identifying and disrupting racism and discrimination trends in government and private Business Practices here in San Francisco. I want to thank mayor breed and dr. Colfax for the information theyve shared today, this afternoon. Nationally, this virus has woven an exceptionally cruel path through our most vulnerable populations. We are working to ensure that this Health Emergency does not further exacerbate the existing Health Disparities we struggled to address before the coronavirus appeared. To also make the connection that these public Health Disparities are connected to economic and poverty and to homelessness and to geographic areas where people are living in difficult situations. We knew this would be a challenge long before we had any data. They have been addressing these things long before we had the data. People in these areas experience Structural Racism in ways that are affecting their health and their income, which makes contracting the coronavirus more likely and more lethal. Beyond the physical health, the Economic Impacts of covid19 are yet to be realized. Nationally, people of color and lowincome communities are being hardest hit by the coronavirus. Communities of color are more likely to work in essential jobs such as janitors, home health aids, delivery people, grocery, and farm workers, all serve industry positions with strong opportunities for exposure. The existing disparities of low income, the academic achievement gap, opportunity gap, contribute to these disparities that we are seeing. We need to shift how our systems partner and collaborate with those most impacted to change outcomes, not just during this crisis, but moving forward. Were excited that we have had the ability to really leverage relationships and work that was already happening in community to address this. I want to acknowledge as we work to address food insecurity, as we talk about Public Health and health and wellness, a lot of people in community that were already struggling were doing this work. I want to make sure as we move forward that we recognize this. As this has been heightened and as awareness comes up, people want to remind us that they already knew this, were living with this, experienced this, and they appreciate there is a heightened awareness and attention to them, but lets not forget the work that was being done before this pandemic. We are trusting the resilient communities most exposed to guide a community response, for those people to remain safe, prepared and healthy. Working with groups like the Latino Task Force or the samoan Development Center or communities as one, we have found a way to leverage and come together to build partnerships. Mayor breed directed the partnership to work with stakeholders to explore how our systems contribute to the inequities that we see. And to develop strategies to improve outcomes for lowincome people and communities of color. Outside the shelter in place order in early march, we launched our Community Roundtable meeting, to bring together Community Stakeholders and to address these issues. Again, people were doing this work and working to address these challenges. This approach means ensuring essential needs, including providing over 1,500 hot meals each day to 20 housing sites throughout San Francisco in partnership with sfnewdeal and our hope s. F. Sites. We have been working along with the s. F. P. D. To distribute face coverings and information about social distancing. Working in partnership with our communities, our street Violence Prevention Program and our faithbased leaders. Today we delivered over a thousand face coverings in the tenderloin and the western edition. This week we will work in partnership with s. F. P. D. To do some caravans, to distribute face coverings, to share information about social distancing, and working with trusted messengers to share that message. We have been supplying essential household needs directly to community to minimize the time they have to spend outside. As the mayor mentioned, weve been giving gift cards out to families and working with seniors so they can purchase things online using those cards. Weve been developing Distance Learning materials and distributing thousands of books, computers, and activity sheets throughout communities that have not only been hit by coronavirus, but prior to this pandemic and having this shelter in place were struggling with the achievement and opportunity gap. We are trying to work with our partners that ensure that after this is over those gaps are not wider. We have been partnering with the equity studies task force to develop strategies to allow us not only to address what is happening now but to be more intentional moving forward. Closing the Digital Divide by providing equipment for students. We were able to purchase hundreds of computers in partnership with the Housing Authority and hope s. F. As well as with rafiki, Young Community developers and collective impacts. We are working with them to distribute the equipment. We have been supporting trusted Community Care ambassadors. Really working to make sure that we recognize the people who have existing relationships that have the ability to go into communities and ask people to social distance, to see what their needs are, and to meet those needs. They have helped to distribute flyers. We have been able to also offer gift cards and personal protective equipment for them as they go out and do that work. We have been launching successful webinars focused on our africanamerican asianpacific islander, and Latino Community and also by focus areas working with our faithbased communities, lgbtq communities, and working with education and doing some work around geography. Organizing a Community Care event, as i mentioned earlier, where we are working with the police department, the faithbased groups and our local Community Stakeholders to make sure folks are aware of the new rules around face coverings and to make sure they have what they need to follow that order. We have been working with blackled Media Outlets and developing a Communications Strategy to email, text, and post on social media, targeting our most vulnerable population. Again, in partnership with communities that already have those relationships. People who are already posting on social media maybe their friends and their family would be more inclined to work with them and listen to them than they would be to sfpd. We have been able to build and develop our relationships. Centering strategic partnership. We have developed a partnership with schools, schools like hilltop for the pregnant parenting teens. To be intentional and think about how those people can help others. Working with the Mayors Office on the implementation of the Family Relief Fund and what it looks like for us to be very intentional and make sure that we are not leaving out any families. Our Civil Rights Division at the Human Rights Commission is continuing to process complaints of discrimination and manage inquiries that people may have about what their rights are during this time. We were grateful to work with the Emergency Operations center and to be able to embed an equity officer at the Emergency Operations center, focusing on ensuring our Disaster Response is intersectional and doesnt exacerbate preexisting structural issues. At the Human Rights Commission we have allocated nearly 1 million for emergency funding and to address many of the needs that have been identified earlier. We are working with our lgbtq2 communities around housing and food security. We are working with our nonprofits, and again to thank the nonprofits who have been leading that work to provide housing, food security, and to provide gift cards. And to think about our youth and transitional age group, they are concerned with what happens through this process. As we are thinking about employment and economic recovery, a lot of our young people are very concerned. They have been contributing through the years to their families household income. Last but not least, i want to than