a new medical director dr. berry he's been with the department over 23 years expert in the health care and his credentialed as an hiv specialist under his great leadership during the budget process this year there was dollars 3r0i9d for h-3 medical team the team will be joining forces with the fire department to reduce the 9-1-1 calls to make sure we're doing pro-active work in san francisco. cover california relieve to the hospital association there are a list that top producers. endorsement production refers to the number even if enforcement for the certified under the california covered system we placed in 34 statewide and 3 as government eligibility i want to acknowledge the staff that worked to make sure that people got coverage i'll leave my director's report there at the if there's questions thank you, commissioners. >> questions to the director? and there is an addendum that the director had >> yes. i thought we could get our h.r. director this week we tried to get a increase in the number of people hired i w

. >> honorable commissioners i'm ruben goodman i wanted to extend my congratulations to dr. berry for his motion to director i was fortunate to have him as my physician during the time i was homeless in a severe crack co- cane position he was my primary physician dr. dead man was kind has a tremendous heart and the first physician to recognition systems of bipolar are disorder and encouraged me to make contract with the mental health clinic and feinstein get the treatment i needed. i just wanted to extend my congratulations to dr. barry and he's a true man >> thank you and i'm sure dr. sdef vin is most appreciative of our had appreciation. >> i have no other - >> is there any public comment? >> i may mention to the public we appreciate the comments we actually take the subject at hand and will be reviewing with a you have told. next item, please. >> next item is the report from the community and public health community. >> the community and public health community heard a transformation initiative how it's integrated into the health improvement plan, which has a comprehensive well

a new medical director dr. berry he's been with the department over 23 years expert in the health care and his credentialed as an hiv specialist under his great leadership during the budget process this year there was dollars 3r0i9d for h-3 medical team the team will be joining forces with the fire department to reduce the 9-1-1 calls to make sure we're doing

dr. michelle berry, professor of tropical diseases and medicine in stanford university. >> these vaccines which have been around for a while, it has not been fast tracked because ebola virus is a disease of people living overseas, not america. it's not going to be a very profitable vaccine. even in the travel medicine arena, not many people are going to be taking ebola vaccine. it's not going to be very profitable. >> you know, that's really the problem right there. there are only 3,000 people who have been affected by ebola, and they live in some of the poorest countries in the world, it's not a good target market for the pharmaceutical industry. >> and what about this sir rum being administered. is that something that we could see go into wider distribution. >> reporter: the problem is because this has been poorly studied there is really no sense at all whether this sir rum has anything to do with dr. brantley's recovery. it's been tested on primates, it's never been tested on humans. we have no way of knowing. the thing about it, there is a lot of interesting tough you could learn abou