doctor corwin joins me know by sight.d evening doctor. >> thanks for having me on. >> thanks for joining us. you are at the epicenter in new york city. do you have what you need for all of the hospitals? and let me just say one thing. i want to give you some credit and i look this up today. in terms of new york state, new york presbyterian hospital is number one in the nation you are number five in the nation. your hospital system. so having said all of that, do you have what you need to continue to be number one in new york? >> let me just go back for second period as you said it should be getting, we will get through this. it is going to be very tough, but the reality is, that new york city is not going to break, and america's not going to break. we have the best healthcare system in the world him we will get through this. now, the president has unleashed all of the manufacturing capacity for gloves, all of the protective equipment, ventilators et cetera. it's going to be a little bit of time before that ramps up. right

steven corwin. dr. corwin, thank you so much for being on with us. i have to start by asking, are your health care workers exposed to the coronavirus? do people who have suspected symptoms of the coronavirus walk in and mix with your health care workers in the regular er? >> we've taken extraordinary steps on our emergency department to prevent that, but there's no question that the availability of health care workers is going to be key for this crisis. the ability not to furlough health care workers becomes critically important. i think what the president did yesterday was the right move. having worked with governor cuomo now the past couple weeks, i think he's made extraordinary steps. i also want to congratulate, thank all americans for the sacrifice they're making. we're talking about, as you know, a harsh economic impact. businesses going down. people losing their jobs. if we can flatten the peak of this, then the hospitals in new york and the surrounding areas can meet the surge. >> so there was talk of military hospitals and coronavirus care c

>> and joining me is leana corwin. she is from the travel app hopper. okay.with coronavirus. are people cancelling a lot of trips? are we seeing that? >> you know, we're seeing a lot of people who had travel plans to affected areas attempt to cancel their trips. and what's great is a lot of airlines have been responding with waiving those cancellation and change fees. so if you're planning to go somewhere that's been impacted, definitely reach out to your airline and see if will is something you can do to change those plans. >> american airlines, i think i saw they said you could book anywhere and cancel it, right? >> yes. and we've been seeing that from a couple of different airlines saying if you book in the next two weeks and then your destination gets impacted by coronavirus, then we'll waive that cancellation fee. so i think because there is so much uncertainty right now, airlines are very understnding of that. but they don't want to inhibit people from makingserips because right now we just don't know. the cdc has only limited travel to a few destinatio

i would like to thank corwin and colina.

and accompanied my as because if we must stay home people who are not a whole lot not a doctor to corwin if you sit disease the disease is a big issue for themselves and for the community and who are so these the way we are trying to go with there and at the center and trying to. not. there there not. with. our ask you about about that a little later a little later on but francesca you're there peter talked about people being caught flatfooted initially about the government being caught flatfooted were people paying enough attention attention to this where you are where they taking it seriously. no honestly i'm honestly no one now is. you know is so listening to what's going on there on the bubble of their best security am we're just watching the dying to die and you know it's it's like here is like being 2 weeks a head off off the rest of italy and viewed up and so we are now 2 of us of intensive care a bad scene while a group than when we run out of oxygen tanks. who are you know attending the torm and now we were even run out of flour we're seeing the cemeteries and nothing i mean eve

corwin, but i would add another thing to what they both said.s issue of antibody testing which is now starting in germany and is what will be used to identify those that have gone through the disease, even sometimes mild disease, to see if they have developed immunity, so what i'm really waiting to hear is when the united states, the cdc will be able to effectively determine the status of immunity in those that have gone through the disease, either asymptomatic or with mild disease, develop antibodies and develop immunity. if the immunity is equivalent to what a vaccination would be, then this horrendous year-long wait as dr. fauci just described for a vaccination to come, may be somewhat foreshortened, but that information is not yet available in the united states but it could begin to be told as we ramp up the antibody testing and determine, in fact, who was exposed, who had mild disease or who was asymptomatic. of that growing number, as joe mentioned, that number may be well over a million people who have been exposed, either had no symptoms

i would like to thank corwin and colina. 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 5. >> clerk: yes. item 5 is a resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development to accept and expend a gift of $100,000 from san francisco 722 montgomery. >> chair fewer: supervisor peskin, do you have anything you would like to add? >> supervisor peskin: i would like to thank steven sang for accommodating my request for this additional $100,000 on top of the inclusionary fees and interest and the mayor's office of housing for preparing for the accept and expend and recommend it to you for full recommendation to the board of supervisors. >> chair fewer: thank you. is amy chan here from mohcd? okay. supervisor peskin, is this something that you want to present on since emmy chan is not in the audience today? >> supervisor peskin: so yeah, sure, i'm happy to present. this is a gift to the affordable housing fund of the city and county of san francisco in the amount

. >> miles corwin is a best selling author who's written several books about the lapd. >> it's kind oferfect storm of problems. you had the proliferation of high powered weapons, you had the gangs who were really expanding. you had crack cocaine hitting the streets and detectives were overwhelmed. >> and now, in february of that year, cops had their hands full with an especially heinous crime in the city's sprawling san fernando valley. sherry rasmussen has been beaten and shot in her own home and no suspects and no clues and then a possible lead. former crime scene investigator yolanda mcclary was a consultant for nbc news. >> in the same vicinity another woman was approached in her residence by two males at gun point. also involved a home invasion robbery situation. so police early on thought that was a possibility these two men might have something to do with the murder. >> a composite sketch was released of the two men. but still, detectives had no prints, no eyewitnesses and no murder weapon connecting them or anyone else to sherry's murder and the dna collected at the crime scene

i would like to thank corwin and colina. 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 5. >> clerk: yes. item 5 is a resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development to accept and expend a gift of $100,000 from san francisco 722 montgomery. >> chair fewer: supervisor peskin, do you have anything you would like to add? >> supervisor peskin: i would like to thank steven sang for accommodating my request for this additional $100,000 on top of the inclusionary fees and interest and the mayor's office of housing for preparing for the accept and expend and recommend it to you for full recommendation to the board of supervisors. >> chair fewer: thank you. is amy chan here from mohcd? okay. supervisor peskin, is this something that you want to present on since emmy chan is not in the audience today? >> supervisor peskin: so yeah, sure, i'm happy to present. this is a gift to the affordable housing fund of the city and county of san francisco in the amount

supervisor stephani and supervisor walton and we're joined by supervisor hainey and i want to thank corwin coolee for staffing this meeting. mr. clerk, any announcements? >> please make your you have silenced your stones and cell p. items acted upon will appear on the march 10, 2020 agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, are clerk. please all our first item. an ordinance to require the medical examiner to report information to the mayor, the board of supervisors and the director of health each month regarding deaths from drug overdoses. >> thank you, supervisor hainey, this item is yours. >> yes, thank you, chair. i'm here, again, with you, committee to again discuss what we can t do to take action on te most deadly epidemic facing our city which is the drug overdose epidemic. drug use and drug overuse deaths in san francisco and across california, as we all know have been increasing at a terrifying rate and today, people in our cities are dying from methamphetamine and there were 222 fatal drug overdoses in 2017, 289 in 2018 and 330 in 2019 according to thelat the laf data health.