colfax led one of the most effective public health responses in the country. thanks to his leadership, san francisco's death rate remains significantly lower than the state and national averages. >> when our city was faced with the impacts health emergency under dr. colfax moved quickly ensuring over 55,000 vaccines were distributed protecting our community and limiting the spread of disease. >> and in the face of the fentanyl crisis, dr. colfax worked to ensure that we transform the way we deliver mental health and substance use treatment. i also want to highlight that during his tenure 430 new treatment beds and care beds were brought online with an additional 135 currently on the way. laguna honda hospital was recertified in both medicare and medicaid programs by the federal government. >> the first unified electronic medical record system was implemented and nurse vacancy rates were reduced to 0% after years of national pandemic related staffing shortages. beyond the policies and programs dr. colfax has remained we remained connected to the work as he conti

the public health service didn't do it all, but we participated. and i think our role this direction will be somewhat similar. have you received plausible or workable suggestions as to how to reduce the smoking danger. i think really one of the one of the principal to this is education. i know that some people who smoked for a long period of time are going to up smoking because of this. and information that comes to them. on the other hand, i think by far the strongest manner in which we can be effective is to educate the youngsters, as do the dangers involved, and therefore discourage them from starting smoking while you investigate the development of a less dangerous cigaret in any way. in a sense, we will though, actually aware. our business is not to try to go around perfecting cigarets. we would be happier if less dangerous. cigarets present in an indirect way. certainly going to work on this because we that we do not have all of information today as to why cigarets produce these particular on the lung or on the cardiovascular system. therefor

throughout my career i have worked at the intersection of public health health care operations and community advocacy. i have led strategic initiatives focused on reducing health disparities particularly in communities disproportionately impacted by preventable diseases linked to nutrition including dental disease one of the earliest and most visible consequences of sugar consumption. i have experience with san francisco citywide oral health initiatives, quality improvement program and equity driven health policies making me uniquely positioned to contribute to the work of the soda tax committee. beyond my professional role i am also a parent of two in the staff usda daniel webster and a community advocate. i understand firsthand the challenges that many families face in accessing healthy food and nutrition education. my experience leading community programs such as my role as a girl scout troop leader has reinforced my commitment to ensuring that public health policies are not well not only well informed but also practical and accessible to the communities they serve. i'm eager to contribut

when i say attack, i mean the silencing and the kind of removal of essential public health data and publicealth information. right now, we're seeing a lot of political fighting when it comes to what cdc and nih and even fda can do. so things are not looking great, but there are a number of very active public health leaders and organizers who are trying to do the best they can to put out good information and to help create systems of harm reduction. and advocacy, kind of the core principles of public health. john: epidemiologist jessica malaty rivera, thank you very much. jessica: thanks, john. john: in other news, russian strikes on ukraine have killed at least 20 people. it was the second night of aerial attacks since the trump administration stopped sharing satellite images with ukraine. in the donestk region, 11 people died in strikes that damaged apartment buildings. others were killed in areas along the front lines. u.s. and ukrainian officials are to meet next week in saudi arabia to start talks on a possible cease-fire. ukrainian president zelensky said ukraine is fully committed to

you talked about the warranty process. >> i think for one of the was it one of the public health clinics or one of the community health clinics was casa mission health center? >> yeah. yes. so can you just talk about that? i was a word that was relatively new to me warranty i think that's going through the punch list. is that correct that comes before close out or is that part of the close out process? >> this is a situation where for cash machine we also had some owner recourse to change orders that we also just finish up last year and the same time there was also a very like 1 or 2 i call it warranty as items typically purchase items can be completed after substantial because the difference substantial is that the the facility itself can be used for is for design intent. so in this case the you know as you can tell from the day the clinic was already it was being utilized in 22. so for a period you know there was other change orders that did not impact the usage of the building. he went in from cash remission . we had to do some waterproofing for the facade so we wanted to just take ca

let's be clear, this cost-effective rule presents minimal cost to industry in order to protect public health. so what are we doing here? why are we selling out the health of americans? the consequences of this would be devastating to our children, moms and new babies, and families across the country. and it is completely preventible. to my republican colleagues who hold the majority rule in this chamber, please, for the sake of the health and well-being of the american people, vote no on this resolution. thank you, mr. speaker, i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey reserves. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. griffith: mr. speaker, i recognize none of us want the world polluted. the gentlelady indicated somehow this was going to affect arsenic and lead. now, i suppose in a theoretical world, perhaps it could. but there are other regulations on tire manufacturing that may deal with that, but that's not what this congressional review act is about. it's about a regulation put in effect that instead of looking for arsenic and lead, the e.p.a. used a proxy me

, public health experts made.hat's a really important start. i also think we get it back by working in those communities to address the big public health issues of our time. i think, if we work with trusted messengers, religious leaders, political leaders in those communities. we can build back trust and convince people that public health has been this incredible boon for human longevity over the last 100 years. it can and will be again. geoff: and yet there is the potential for a wider measles outbreak, worries about bird flu presenting in humans, the attitudes and approach of rfk jr. as hhs secretary. what are the stakes and what are the implications? dr. jha: yes. i'm very, very worried about this. i mean, secretary kennedy said he was pro-vaccines, and yet his, short tenure as the health secretary of our country has not been reassuring. he has been incredibly i think the most generous thing we can say about the way he's talked about vaccines is that it's been confusing. but the bottom line here is, we need a s

ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health.sponse coordinator at the white house for former president joe biden. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me back. geoff: it is easy to think of covid as something in the rearview that we moved beyond. 6500 americans died from covid since the start of the year. what bastions remain about the disease -- questions remain about the disease, the virus and treatment? >> we are in a better place than we were five years ago. while it continues to be around, the population is largely affected -- that is largely affected our elderly and immunocompromised who are not up-to-date on vaccines. we have a strategy how to manage the virus moving forward that is not disruptive and doesn't have to because serious illness and death. geoff: what about long covid? what progress has been made in treatment on that front? >> this is something we haven't made as much progress as we need to. let's talk about long covid. most people who have long-term effects of covid got infected relatively early in

department of public health and dpw.the program managers 93% of the bond authorization has been issued with the first issuance in 2021 and then 2023. however, looking at the balance sheet provided by the comptroller's office in the document see go back project summary i see that issuances are listed as 287.3 million which is only 5050 59% of the bond authorization. so i'll look to clarify my understanding of that discrepancy. you know as we will hear from this program later on this year, perhaps in august, a third issuance for this bond is scheduled to be introduced to the board of supervisors in april of this year. looking across the four sectors authorized by this bonds for rec and park the named parks from the ballot measure or all under construction will be completed by mid-next year and the projects are being delivered within the time frame that has been reported to this committee in the past. the recovery parks so these are projects not listed but approved of can be used for general funding will be entering constru

>> yes, because i think in public health you think about the community. i think as americans, we're used to thinking about our family unit or ourselves. and that's kind of in the beginning. it's easy to, okay, i can hunker down for a little bit. the longer it drags on, the harder it is. the second part that was hard was that science evolved. it changed every time i came on here. we talked about the new study, and that sometimes meant that the things we recommended before have to change, and that was really tough for people. it almost seemed like you were changing your mind, whereas we were guided by the new science, and maybe we didn't communicate why we needed to change, and maybe we didn't say when things were wrong and why we're changing or pivoting. >> but that lack of trust in doctors and hospitals, what's the implication? >> i think it's really hard right now because you have to convince people more. i think you have to have more conversations depending on the person. people who really don't trust don't come in. and i think now with social media, yo

maybe three years older gave more service i retired based on that fact and also knew that um, and public health was hard the next a place was the health direct i knew that was not going to happen. >> as is i moved into my 70s a couple of years ago my wife of 50 years have you thought about retiring yet? i said no, i'm not ready to retire i feel like i have something to say still. writing a sermon every week for example, and also i don't know if i can afford so i'll keep on working until i can't anymore and one day i had a oh, huh? moment maybe i said what i had to say and consider setting that aside and not making that my main thing but also, we realized that in the time we left in my live things we wanted to do travel and seeing friends in different places around the world we have done a little bit before but want to do much more and shift gears and do those kinds of things. and so about a year about two years ago i started thinking more and more what retirement will look like and being at a financial thing the pension, benefits from my presbyterian church and social security and things like t

five years later, a bay area infectious disease expert looks back on the public health emergency and the lessons learned and happening now. two of the candidates for oakland mayor going toe to toe on the issues in a special debate. we're proudly sponsoring and the great debate over san francisco's great highway is now heading to court. the legal action, filed just days ahead of the planned closure. >> this is ktvu, fox two news at 730. >> and the highway is set to permanently close to cars on friday, so it can be turned into a public park. good evening everyone, i'm heather holmes. opponents, though, are challenging the ballot measure that passed last year that made the conversion possible. our christian captain, with the allegations that measure k violated state law. >> the battle over the future of the great highway running along san francisco's west side was decided by voters in november, when they approved plans to shut down a portion of the road for a park. now, opponents of that plan have filed a lawsuit, saying proposition k supporters rushed their plans through and didn't fol

literally the people who were helping the public health systems of those two countries have been told, shut down, stop what you're doing, come home. i don't know that the judge's order in joining the funding shutdown will actually restore funding quickly enough to allow these organizations to avoid shutting down completely. for a second, yes, there's a real divide between some of the doge and maga extremists who say we should be doing no foreign aid. it's of no benefit to the united states, and republicans who i've worked with for years, who i've traveled with and visited aid programs and projects around the world who see it as a key part of the 3 ds that secretary jim mattis used to talk about defense, diplomacy, development. i'll remind you we spend less than 1% of our total federal budget on foreign aid. your average american thinks it's between 25% and 30%, and that trimming, you know, waste, fraud, and abuse in foreign aid is a way to deal with our deficit. there is a list of a small number of odd, strange, or embarrassing programs that were funded, many of them not through usaid

very excited to introduce bridget nelson and dedicated public health professional research and educatorely qualified when i say diversity, equity and inclusion are not just ideals to strive for. they are essential to public health and science. [cheering and applause] during the early days of hitler's regime, the nazis first books, these books were primarily from the institute, the institute for sexual science it was the first technology research center in the world and pioneered publications on gender sexuality offering education to both health professionals and laypeople alike. i share this story to illustrate how the destruction of science is also an attempt to control my identity and find two matters. while many are wishing to exclude from the narrative, from history and research, i argue that science is inherently clear [applause] to be clear is to question previously held beliefs, to inquire if rigid socialist assumptions are true, to be transgender is to transgress barriers that were never created by you and instead approach identity with curiosity. to question, test, try, stumble

today i'm happy to announce that through our collective collaboration with the department of public health we are now able to build certain hsa services to medi-cal through the san francisco health plan. this is something our team has been working on for several years now unlocking more funds for housing navigation services and homelessness prevention efforts is really important to the work we do. kathleen stands for california advancing and innovating medi-cal. and while it sounds like sounds great i mean those of you who've worked with claim it all know that improvement is an innovation is in the eye of the beholder. >> there are a lot of things there that are great and exciting and promising and it's really challenging and and still complicated as the medicaid system is. and so i really want to thank our staff who've worked so hard on this and i also think that and and the housing i'm sorry the health plan so housing supports programs recognizes housing as a major to determinant of health which actually is a big new step for the medicaid program and and stable housing for all means a he

and they're not there for the money they're there for because they believe in public health. believe in improving the health of americans. so to me, we should we should not only treasure the cdc, but we should support the cdc, because the reality is that is the core of the public health of our nation. >> are you concerned that the readiness of this nation is impaired by the laying off of people at the cdc? >> you always worry because public health is always undervalued and under-resourced. so, yes, a little bit of damage could a little bit of, you know, cuts in budget, a little bit of drop in personnel could put a significant strain, especially when you have an epidemic, you know, when you have an outbreak. public health at its best. you don't see it, right. it's like having the fire department, but we don't see any fires. but let's suppose you close the fire departments in our city, and all of a sudden you have a fire. you better wish you had the fire department. so cdc is like the fire department is there to respond when there's an outbreak. and we need to be ready. and rea

i don't even feel it we have a public health system anymore. e are just doing what is right for them. there is nothing right for the public. i would like your comments on any of that. guest: it sounds harrowing your experience with measles. i'm am glad you are here today. i wish more people could hear stories like yours. it was not long ago it was serious and impacted people. i think we have had some short-term memory about how serious these illnesses are preyed they are not chickenpox. i think you asked about whether that can cause immune issues in your future. i think there is still an open question with that and other viral diseases like covid-19. even if we are questioning or certain people like this administration are questioning the long-term safety or impact of vaccines, are we tracking the long-term impact of getting these diseases, and the risk and benefit. bringing up being in a medical situation like yourself or colin powell, that is why there was so much controversy over the barrington declaration co-authored by the now potential nih

you commit active member of our public health effort.re too young or they have a significant immunosuppressant illness. we can ask people to reconsider and get themselves vaccinated. get their children vaccinated. a single dose of the vaccine has 93% efficacy in preventing measles. if you get both doses it has a 97% for this outbreak would be over. >> more broadly, how does the country get to return to trust a public health we had before the pandemic? >> that's one of the most important questions there. can public health bit of public trust not a fan of mandating vaccines that want to otherwise feel they have the freedom to make their own decisions. i think you have to be honest. you have to be transparent. you have to engage people in the discussion. you have to not ridicule people for making a decision that you may not agree with. have to make sure not packaging the information incorrectly so people conclude what you want them too. it is going to be a journey. it's the biggest crisis of the covid pandemic. the loss of public trust and

i don't even feel it we have a public health system anymore. e are just doing what is right for them. there is nothing right for the public. i would like your comments on any of that. guest: it sounds harrowing your experience with measles. i'm am glad you are here today. i wish more people could hear stories like yours. it was not long ago it was serious and impacted people. i think we have had some short-term memory about how serious these illnesses are preyed they are not chickenpox. i think you asked about whether that can cause immune issues in your future. i think there is still an open question with that and other viral diseases like covid-19. even if we are questioning or certain people like this administration are questioning the long-term safety or impact of vaccines, are we tracking the long-term impact of getting these diseases, and the risk and benefit. bringing up being in a medical situation like yourself or colin powell, that is why there was so much controversy over the barrington declaration co-authored by the now potential nih

but i also think that the way the public health community tried to guide us, i mean, they were guiding us according to scientific principles. they weren't guiding us according to, you know, public relations principles, where you have to have one clear message and stick with it so that people get it. they were changing their guidance as the got new information. that's how scientists work. but that's not how the public receives information. and i think that people who are willing to exploit that did did. >> the impact on the electorate, too, has been interesting because it's in some ways it's created this, you know, annie grayer this anti-incumbent. anti-institution electorate that, you know, trump in particular tapped into. >> yeah, i don't think we'll ever fully know the political tale of this. i think probably the more interesting question is what's the education tale on this? what does it do for learning loss for a particularly kids who are in rural areas, families. the political tale is harder to sort of define. to me. i think the first indication wei seem to me just talking sort of

most of this at the department of public health, most o this at the san francisco health networ a little bit offset because we're still having the issue at laguna honda hospital that we have now overcome the certification problem. we can now admit people there. i think the sta are being intentional about how quickly they refill and so the the revenue at the hospital is directly relat to the population. so s that there's a shortfall from budget at laguna honda. but overall departments a going to have an operating surplus of about 98 million i thinkesterday pardon me it was last week the mayor introduced a supplemental and overtime supplemental for the police and sheriff departments and there probably will be more coming. anything that any approved use of the general reserve in the curren year is most likely to require for a deposit of a like amount in the budget yr so that we maintain our required funding level for the general reserve. so it kind of creates an expenditure and therefore increases the shortfall in the budget year. and then ltly i'll just say there's no we don'tssume any cha

having alternatives not ethically -- it is a public health issue.nk you very much. it is a tremendous point that it is not just a moral principle issue, but it is also a public health issue when you think about millions of americans who are understandably very concerned about the components of many of these vaccines, and we want them to be able to access this on the same basis as others. let me ask you about something else that your soon-to-be boss, secretary kerecently. he's talked about his concerns that nih is working to advance in some instances, big pharma's bottom line rather than the health needs and interests of the american people and he recently wrote in the wall street journal that he wants to propose stopping nih funding going to researchers who have conflict of interests, financial benefit with a big pharma company. do you support that effort and can you comment on the importance of making sure that what we are doing with our nih funding is prioritizing the health of americans, not the profit of any particular corporation? dr. bhattacha

doctor cody says now is the right time to pass the baton to the next set of public health leaders. her retirement is effective in april. okay, first alert weather. right now we give you a live look outside of san francisco. one more day of sun before a storm moves in. let's check in with zoe mintz. hey, zoe. >zoe>hey, you can see a little bit of that haze, that marine layer sitting in the distance. but the golden gate filled with plenty of sunshine. and most of the bay area is filled with plenty of sunshine. today, you can see this is our view from the top of mount diablo. a little bit of haze out there, but hey, still beautiful. i highly suggest you enjoy today because it's going to be a lot more active by tomorrow. this camera is going to look significantly different just 24 hours from now, so enjoy the upper 50s to low 60s right now will be in the mid to lower 60s all across the bay area this afternoon, as right now we're in between storm systems, so there is still plenty of sunshine, just a little bit of those coastal clouds holding on tight as there is a storm system. well, to

. >> i'm jimmy retired in the department of public health in san francisco and served as is deputy director of health and for a sponsor for hiv for all in my work as deputy i retired in 2008, on a friday and monday started at nonprofit another executive director and for four years and came then officially retired retired in 2011, i served obtain community board's and active through retired and they don't seem healthy to me in a lot of ways i knew i wanted to be healthy i'm a first generation no my family and over 50 years in san francisco and went to la for 5 years. >> (laughter.) >> also. thank you. >> and linda how about yourself. >> good morning linda parker for l t b the founder i have been in california since 1981 came out for graduate school and in for 25 years since i got married i don't consider myself required i created my own business in 2006 and i do leadership development and consulting. and you know, i'm described as a trip threat i worked for apple computer as an aide and then google when i was in any 40s. which made me a - only two powers of people and google were reporting a

so it's very disheartening and very concerning to me as a public health expert, that we've now canceled one meeting or postponed it indefinitely and canceled another, on top of the fact that we have essentially disengaged from our critical global health partner, the w.h.o. >> yeah. and also, we got from the hhs yesterday that they have ended the requirement of a period of public comment and notice for decisions regarding management, personnel, public property loans, grants, benefits, contracts, major changes coming under the new secretary, robert f kennedy jr.. doctor harry hyman, thank you so much for being with me. still to come, the federal reserve preferred inflation gauge cooled as expected last month. but the good news came with a potential red flag for the u.s. economy. we'll tell you what that is. >> welcome back. >> have i got news for you? new tonight on cnn. >> tap into etsy for original and affordable home and style pieces like lighting under $150 to brighten your vibe. for under $100. put your best look forward with vintage jackets or pick up custom shelving for under 50 to

what are we proposing when it comes to public health?as tim walz even said, it better be universal health care. >> you know, people are, you know, to francesca's point, rightfully scared right now in lubbock, texas, a pregnant mother told the bbc that she's been avoiding public spaces for the last two weeks. we know that pregnant women are among the most susceptible to measles. you've got immunocompromised people and those who are unvaccinated, and it is clear that you know, those that are impacted the most are vulnerable communities. >> right? but, you know, we made a choice during covid to say that we actually don't care about everybody and that we were willing to allow people who were vulnerable to be left to their own devices and many of them to die. talking about the president trump's administration of covid. and so i think that what we're seeing is just a carryover from that. and i think that it's even more so than what francesca is saying, right? that actually getting people ill and letting many people die is a part of the plan of

in fact, today marks five years since the world health organization declared covid a public health emergency. doctor cody has been the county's health officer since 2013. she has served as its public health department director since 2015. she departs both positions when she retires in april. doctor cody's announcement comes on that five year anniversary. as i mentioned, of covid 19 being declared a global pandemic, the race to succeed california governor gavin newsom getting a little more crowded. ahead on nbc bay area, the former lawmaker now set to run in the one caveat her campaign is making when it comes to her candidacy. plus, housing the unhoused. one north bay community considering a new option as advocates push back against an east bay city's new policy. the efforts to get people off the streets. also, is bigfoot real? california live goes deep into the santa cruz mountains to the bigfoot discovery museum to meet a stanford grad and former engineer who believes he spotted sasquatch. that's ahead. at 1130. when migraine strikes, do you question the trade-offs of treating? ubrelvy is a

having alternatives is not just an ethical issue but a public health issue. we need to make sure that everyone is willing to take the kinds of progress that we make. >> very good. thank you very much, and i think it is a tremendous point that it is not only an issue of moral principle, although it is, but it is also a public health issue. think about millions of americans who are understandably very concerned about the components, if you will, of these vaccines and we want them to be able to access these. thank you for making that point. let me ask you about something else that your soon-to-be boss secretary kennedy has said recently. he talked about his concern that nih is working to advance in some instances big pharma's bottom line rather than the health needs and health interests of the american people. he recently wrote in "the wall street journal" that he wants to propose stopping nih funding going to researchers who have conflicts of interest, who have a financial interest with a big pharma company. do you support that effort, and can you comment on th

she has served as the county's health officer and director of public health. she has spent more than 25 years. some public health overall and played a crucial role in the county's response to the pandemic. she issued the very first stay at home orders in the country and worked on policies to prevent the spread of infection. this led to the county having one of the lowest pandemic death rates. she will officially retire next month. >> still ahead on kron, 4 news at 5, we're comparing prices week to week at a local grocery store. what we found a week after those terrorists became official. plus, the major change in the russia-ukraine war. also, where else in the bay area you can now snag yourself a one of those cars that just drives itself azy. right from 4 news at 5. we'll be right back. alright, weather time here as we get a live look at the golden gate. some clouds moving in. it's a. >> so a beautiful night here in the bay area. but we're bracing for rain are bracing for rain. but lawrence, also a lot of snow in the picture. >> yeah, it's going to be somethin

it was a public health failure. my question is what happens next time? still ahead. president trump is urging iran to curve its nuclear program. >> we have a full report for you. senator lindsey gram warning potential disaster for ukraine if trump doesn't restart military aid. >> if we pull the plug on ukraine, worse than afghanistan and i don't think president trump as any desire to do that. stuart: is that an overreaction? good question. we'll ask darryll issa what he thinks. darryll issa is next. ♪ where ya headed? susan: where am i headed? am i just gonna take what the markets gives me? no. i can do some research. ya know, that's backed by j.p. morgan's leading strategists like us. when you want to invest with more confidence... the answer is j.p. morgan wealth management hi, i'm rashod and i've lost 118 pounds on golo. the highest i've seen on the scale was 417. but every single week on golo i have lost weight. and that gave me the motivation to keep going. i am in control now with golo. ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. wel

joining us right now is doctor megan ranney, the dean of yale school of public health.ood to see you again, doctor. thank you for coming in. we have this outbreak in texas that we have been tracking, and it is getting worse. now we have one a new case now confirmed in pennsylvania. what do you see in this outbreak? where and where it stands right now? >> well, it's too early to say whether that case in pennsylvania is one of the random cases that we see every year where there's an unvaccinated kid who is exposed to a traveler who is also unvaccinated, and whether that case in pennsylvania is just going to stop because the people in the community around them are vaccinated. real herd immunity, or whether the case in pennsylvania is a canary in a coal mine for the spreading of this texas outbreak far beyond texas and new mexico to the rest of the united states. you know, i and other physicians and public health experts are concerned because our level of measles vaccination in kids in the united states has dropped below the level that we need to protect our communities, me

he became widely known during the pandemic when he coauthored an open letter calling on public health officials to roll back covid lockdowns. his hearing came the same day a federal judge blocked the trump administration's move to drastically cut medical research funding from the nih. 15% cap was implemented. stanford would lose approximately $160 million per year. so what do you say today to your colleagues at stanford? a lot of it likely goes to things that are worthwhile. and i've heard lots of folks, including from stanford, who say that. and i and i agree with them, you know, support for buildings, light bulbs to make sure that we can we can see in the lab and a whole host of other important things. but there's a lot of distrust about where the money goes, because the trust in the public health establishment has collapsed in the pandemic. doctor bhattacharya also faced pushback, though, for saying he generally doesn't believe there is a link between vaccines and autism, but was open to funding more studies. it's a myth that has already been widely debunked. more fallout between t

with our new department of public health director dan sy who started just last week, we are working to of care from shelter to locked behavioral health beds. i appreciate the board of supervisors and your support for my fentanyl state of emergency ordinance which is helping us tackle this crisis with the urgency it demands. with its passage we will be able to quickly open first responder friendly treatment sites like a22 garry and add much needed treatment beds for those struggling with severe mental illness and addiction. this legislation also allows us to streamline procurement of these sites and hire essential public health workers and where necessary law enforcement to strengthen our response alongside our enforcement work to stop the sale of deadly fentanyl in our streets. we are also providing services to people who are on the pathway to recovery who may not be sure what type of support they need. and we are helping them steer them towards treatment. for my administration, success means helping people regain their health and stability but also for our entire community to feel saf

it looks like definitely there'll be a need this for for an issuance this year for the public health portion of that bond and we're also probably going to do another issuance for the 2020 health and recovery bonds or at least come to the board for approval and also to offer some clarification. i know this came up earlier. i think remember fox had mentioned there was some lack of clarity on whether 87% or 59% of the of the bonds had been issued and i think that probably the reason for that was for for the first issuance for that health and recovery bond we had gone to the board with an authorization with a large not to exceed amount but as we were vetting the projects certain projects weren't ready to move forward yet so we only did issue instead of 425 million we only issued 258.5 million. so that 59% number should should be the correct number of the actual proceeds that have been received from the total authorization to date. so we'll be moving forward with a potential new issuance for 2020 health and recovery this spring which will increase that percentage. and i think we're we're g

thinking they have seen in the best technologies and the best part out best public health policies. but if the community on with us on that, then it's gonna file to episode to this, especially with series about pandemic preparedness will examine the challenges in reading the plan for disease that so let's why should look a the, one of the most remarkable medical feats at the 21st century, a code here in the lavar trees of the ox. with that same group it's west scientists, created one of the world's best coded 19 vaccine. the leader of that t x with university professor and report lod says the race to save lives during the pandemic is led to a golden age of medicine. there are many more investigators that i can email, as well as an industry working on the development to vaccines that could manage future pendant mix. i think we all are in a good position. we really know how to make vaccines. again, it's a wide range of viruses and bacteria which 2nd human populations. so with the science is really that we, we know how to do it 1st ins, financial capital quite empty. the was meant to b

she will step aside after 12 years in the position and with more than 25 years in public health, infectious disease specialist doctor peter chin-hong sharing his expertise with us on covid countless times over the past five years. and earlier today on the floor, he did say he believes the u.s. is better prepared for the next pandemic. >> we're able to take a genome from a new pathogen, cut and paste the code and make a vaccine in, you know, in literally days and then months and do a trial in a year. i think the science is easy. we could make a diagnostic test to use at home, but the hard part is implementing the science. >> he added that here in the bay area, lawmakers and public health officials successfully worked together to deliver a unified message, even as the science on covid was evolving. next, at 11, two of the candidates running for mayor of oakland go toe to toe in a special debate. tonight, we take a look at what was discussed and what voters are saying ahead of the special election. and a british woman detained by ice in washington state. tonight, her father becoming increasing

don't travel santa clara county public health officer doctor sara cody helped guide millions through the pandemic. she says it wasn't until labs began widely testing for the virus in march of 2020 that she realized just how much trouble the county was in. this virus was spreading like wildfire, and that's when we saw exponential growth and felt that it was a danger to the community. in many ways, her county led the nation in covid response. in retrospect, we discovered that we had the first person who died of covid in the entire united states. a woman died on february 6th. the resident of san jose. doctor cody issued the nation's first stay at home order and shelter in place order that severely impacted many businesses. it's a choice she says she would make again. given what we knew and what we didn't know about covid 19, we didn't have any other tools. the there was exponential growth of the virus, and we would have seen many people die. and, you know, enormous community sorrow. and i think we prevented that. doctor cody also paid a price for blazing the trail to covid response. as

she served as the county's health officer for 12, and as the director of the public health department for the last decade. now, doctor cody has received numerous awards for her pandemic contributions following some of the country's earliest covid 19 deaths. she issued the first stay at homrd in the nation. santa clara county credits her early actions and leadership with saving many lives. the county maintained one of the lowest covid death rates as well. santa clara also became the second most vaccinated large county in the u.s, but now, doctor cody says it is time for her to step aside for the next generation of public health leaders. >> being in this position in this county has been an unbelievable privilege. i think that local is where you want to be, especially now. local is where you can have impact. uh- and it's a fantastic place to be. and i have deep, deep, deep love for the county of santa clara. >> and she has deep, deep roots. doctor cody was raised in santa clara county and attended stanford university as an undergraduate before going to the yale school of medicine. her la

we're seeking responses from three city agencies our department of public health, public utilities commission and office of the chief medical examiner to offer us one an estimation of resources and staffing necessary to implement such a wastewater based epidemiology or wbe program. two additional policy or resource considerations we should be aware of as we legislate this program into existence. >> and three any available results from san francisco's participation in a bio bot analytics pilot that the national institute on drug abuse started as the wastewater surveillance program in 2023 and 2024. this kind of program would enable us to measure progress in our fentanyl and methamphetamine crisis and also to monitor for deadly new drugs and drug adulterants like tranq measurement metal modine and others. although relatively new in north america, wastewater drug testing has been used successfully in europe for the last 15 years and i look forward to the forthcoming information and partnership from the relevant departments and colleagues in this effort. and before submitting i would ask that i b

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now, doctor cody says it's time for her to step aside for the next generation of public health leaders>> local is where you can have impact. and it's a fantastic place to be. and i have deep, deep, deep love for the county of santa clara. >> doctor cody received numerous awards for her pandemic contributions. >> cleanup efforts continue this morning at the massive battery plant that caught fire in monterey county. coming up at 530, the celebrity activist lending yeah it is weird that we still call these things "phones." well yeah, they're more like minicomputers. precisely. next slide. xfinity mobile customers are connected to wifi 90% of the time. that's why our network has powerboost with speeds up to a gig wherever you need it most. so, this whole meeting could have been remote? oh! that is my ex-husband who i don't speak to. hey! no, i'm good to talk! try xfinity mobile for a year! get an unlimited 5g mobile line included with your xfinity internet, plus a free 5g phone. abc seven mornings live. >> $922 million in unclaimed tax refunds at risk. now at five. the message to californi