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Chair fewer this is the november 18, 2020 rescheduled budget and finance committee meeting. I am sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. I am joined by supervisors Shamann Walton and raphael mandelman. Madam clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item number one. Clerk yes. Item one, retroactive hearing on updates related to the economic landscape f [inaudible] on march 1, 2021 through february 28, 2022. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415455...

For you. Mark, can we back up to the slides on the reproduction number. One second. Oh no, its okay. Give me just one second to back up to that. Those are very concerning numbers. We see if we reduce the reproductive number by a third, we hold steady at the same number of hospitalizations, but wed still see as many as four times of deaths here in San Francisco. But if we continue on this same scale, we could see deaths up to 800, and number of hospitalizations, 1,000 to over 3,000. That could clearly overwhelm our Hospital Systems. I know weve seen footage of people gathering in dolores park t...

They can maintain operations as best possible while also people going to the command center to do this operation. Well, very clearly, it is a really challenging, and as other commissioners have indicated, really grateful that people like yourself have really stepped up and continue to do, as you say, the work that has to be done, along with the very key work, and congratulations on being head of this program. One question which is more technical has to do with the testing strategies. And your chart was great and sexu certainly keynoted on some of the areas that were concerned. On the other han...

And promotions staff within Population Health, and those folks are under this yellow block under operations, but that means that theyre also overseeing the Human Services, which is doing housing and feeding. [inaudible] within Population Health, and that modelling that theyre doing is both our normal work of taking in public results of Infectious Disease tests, but its also new work that i think is really an advancement of what we normally do in the department, working with outside assistance for modelling and making sure that we are able to project into the future. And that is led by jim mark...

Something that is own the list of trying to expand our relationship so i mean that is great idea and think that we should move forward with trying to expand the relationship with the Fire Department and other first responders. Do clinics have these too or not . Clinics are disposal sites and that is listed on a flier for the clients, but we didnt put disposal boxes on that in particular. Do we know exactly why people dont use the Disposal Services and is there a reason maybe they need an incentive like we do with refundable cans or what not . That is a good question and one wree discussing int...