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In one of the Fastest Growing jobs categories, we created a certification program. You can earn one of these certificates and build a consortium of Companies Including walmart, bank of america, intel, hulu, and others, so that once you earn this, it is basically a light degree. For us, one of the very important things is each of us has a responsibly to address these issues in society. I think our view is that if we come together and work cross through and ideally private partnerships, we can magnify the impact we have. You will continue to see more of our efforts there. Ian you heard kristalin...

Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to a...

Good morning. The committee has come to order. One thing, i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony. Those appearing in person, traveling to d. C. To give it orally, and, also, answer our questions. The title of this hearing now is, i guess, examining the u. S. Approach to early covid19 treatments. I thought it was i originally set out a title of early treatments for covid, a essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic to be politicized into the tragedy it was. From the start, i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response. We were facin...

The states response and said the pandemic is worsening throughout california. The average daily number of cases has tripled in the last month to more than 11,500. However, there is some good news on the vaccine front. Three companies now say they have a highly effective vaccine ready to go or in latestage trials. They are pfizer, moderna, and astoria denver. Today the governor talked about how they plan to roll out those vaccines. Those that are medically vulnerable, assisted living facilities, and, of course, our first responders, and other critical infrastructure, were making sure were prote...

Yeah. Ill just add to that, and ill channel kristin marshall, maybe, from the d. O. P. E. Project, that its connected to income inequality, its connected to homelessness, its connected to racism, its connected to sort of our punitive system around substance use, so i think if we can make advancements in those areas, as well, that well see reductions in Overdose Deaths. Supervisor haney thank you. Again, i dont want to take this out all on you, but the frustration, i hope you can understand my frustration. These are people who i represent largely. Theyre dying, theyre dying at rates weve seneve...