Commissioner sass . Present. We have a quorum oh, im so sorry, commissioner breslin, im so sorry. Were not trying to write anyone help. We need all the help we can get [laughter ]. That is exactly right. Thank you, secretary. With that, well go to discussion item 1. Item 1 discussion item opening remarks. President scott. Yes, would i like i would like to be sure that we all understand what this meeting is about today. There are a couple of features that are not customerary for meetings of this board. There will be no Public Comment unless after the closed session which is scheduled later for today. We have a hard stop on the forum at 4 00. At which time the board will go into closed session to her member appeal. After that well reconvene and go through protocol of whether we disclose or dont disclose and if those of you who are familiar with the sunshine ordinance understand why we do all of that. So that will be the time if there were any general comments on matters under the boards
Now ill ask our board secretary to please call the roll. Roll call, employees [pr ez ] scott. Present. Vice president lim. Present. Supervisor farrell excused. Commissioner ferrigno excused. Commissioner follansbee. Present. Commissioner sass . Present. We have a quorum oh, im so sorry, commissioner breslin, im so sorry. Were not trying to write anyone help. We need all the help we can get [laughter ]. That is exactly right. Thank you, secretary. With that, well go to discussion item 1. Item 1 discussion item opening remarks. President scott. Yes, would i like i would like to be sure that we all understand what this meeting is about today. There are a couple of features that are not customerary for meetings of this board. There will be no Public Comment unless after the closed session which is scheduled later for today. We have a hard stop on the forum at 4 00. At which time the board will go into closed session to her member appeal. After that well reconvene and go through protocol of
Make decisions that might put them at increased risk for stds because its not their priority at the time. We are hoping as we might understand this that we might learn from the people themselves what maybe helpful to them and their friends. We are having to go back and look at Sexual Health in a different way and understand that hiv prevention and std prevention cant be packaged together. Condoms certainly prevent both but condom use is going down in San Francisco. What can we do but to make them available and make sure they are effective and for people who do not use them what we can do to prevent them from contracting stds. We need to try to figure out the help of people we are working with and for. Thank you. Commissioner . Thank you for your presentation. As you unroll these interventions over time, i suspect well be get anger update an update on which ones worked. This comes from the Community Public health committee. So i know im not part of that anymore, but just the idea of get
Low on a national bases or on a state bases so i can get that out of my mind and consider that thats sort of normal std management and there is a level that we will always have and therefore i can ignore it and maybe i cant ignore it. I cant tell from the data. This lack of aggregation and the data that you are presenting and im sure that you do have it. Also doesnt allow whether to focus on, in chlamydia was it in, lets say the African American population for the sake of argument versus an older group of hiv or lesser. In other words i think we are not understanding the targets as well. And i think that goes to some of the Public Comment maybe some of our campaigns or not hitting the right people for the right disorders. But its hard to tell from the way that the data is aggregated now because then when we get to the African American slide, its just a lump of stds and i dont know if its actually perhaps chlamydia is a higher problem or its within youth and we know that we are talking
But first, an Alarming Health headline. The u. S. Could be facing a potential triple demo of flu, rsv and covid. How concerned should we be . Joining us to answer the question and so many more, abc special correspondent, you are a triple threat of your own, but in a much more positive way. I dont know what the trifecta would be, but any comment from you is a complement well received. I love it, this will be great. Right away lets talk about what to expect this winter because i read a headline today saying these covid debts are predicted to flatline for the season, but we do have that triple threat of the flu, covid and rsv to contend with. How bad do you think this is going to get . As of right now, things are pretty bad in terms of Childrens Hospital capacity and what is happening with emissions. Secondary this surge of respiratory viruses and young kids, there are some unknowns about what could happen regarding covid19 and the variant we are keeping a close eye on. The fact of the ma