growing public health needs.an continue on with some of the benefits or does anyone have any questions at this time for me? >> we are going to go to the bla report at the budget legislative analyst report for the item? my apologies. no, we don't have a bla report. it is my pet peeve, sorry, don't mean to say that, but it is not ph.d it is department of public health so the code is dph. i wanted to say that on the record for the acronym, it is dph. my question for this though is that, looking at this, because it brings-not only it is retroactive but it funds full time positions of a total 17 of them, but it looks like it is reoccurring grants and i just want to make sure reoccurring grants will cover all 17 full time positions? >> that's correct. >> great. any questions colleagues? actually one more question. when we talk about reoccurring grants, how long is the reoccurrence? >> this grant is ongoing, and the plan is that once the grant is close to expiration our grant management team will continue its future gra

but the public health takes care of the health of our whole community.r disease control and prevention is advising that cloth-based coverings no longer, >> she says the community isn't fully aware of what's at stake. >> it's like, oh fine, masking and vaccines. but what about sewers and restaurant inspections and all air quality when there's a fire? who's doing that? it's the public health department. >> the current arrangement funds the department through december, when much of the staff might join kayla marler, on the sidelines. marler sheays that subsequent events have proven she was on the right path. >> family planning got approved by the board of health. it was no longer than two weeks after that i was notified, we have a huge syphilis outbreak. we are needing to do something. and i'm sitting here like oh , yeah, we need to do something in an back of my mind knowing we had a plan in place and that was family planning. >> who or what is affected when politicians get to make these public health decisions? >> the people that are impacted are the resid

witnesses to help us better understand the serious threat that antimicrobial resistance causes to public health. it is not a new phenomena, it has been vexing scientists in congress for years, however, it has been increasing across the board and imposes health risks to the public. according to the center for disease control and prevention, more than two point eight americans have an infection in 2019 and one and 35,000 americans died from the infection in these numbers are expected to grow as more and more dangerous organisms develop resistance to the treatments available today. and that is deeply concerning tower public health. there is not seem to be one obvious solution to the issue and it cuts across the board to how we identify resistant threats to how we administer available drugs while also fostering the developments of new treatments. the challenging balance between withholding certain antibiotics for patients in order to avoid unintentionally promoting more resistant strains of bacteria and providing the patients the best treatment available. in terms of developing new treatments, the

they're delivering really good public health. dr. d is a biology professor at fort lewis college. she sits on the board of health, which recommended the split. shere: people in archuleta county came to meetings with guns on their hips. it was just an untenable situation. dr. patel: but standing up a new health department comes with a big price. a consultant hired by la plata county released a report last month, which said this county of 56,000 peoplwill have to find nearly a half-a-million dollars a year to maintain the same services, on top of the transition cost, nearly a million dollars. the report also suggested staff would be cut by more than a third. shere: if you're talking about 40% fewer people, it's going to have an impact. dr. patel: can you tell me how you felt when you first learned about the vote that san juan basin was going to be dissolved? dr. webb: well, we were devastated. dr. patel: dr. rhonda webb is chief executive at the pagosa springs medical center in archuleta county, the only hospital for more than 50 miles

growing public health needs.an continue on with some of the benefits or does anyone have any questions at this time for me? >> we are going to go to the bla report at the budget legislative analyst report for the item? my apologies. no, we don't have a bla report. it is my pet peeve, sorry, don't mean to say that, but it is not ph.d it is department of public health so the code is dph. i wanted to say that on the record for the acronym, it is dph. my question for this though is that, looking at this, because it brings-not only it is retroactive but it funds full time positions of a total 17 of them, but it looks like it is reoccurring grants and i just want to make sure reoccurring grants will cover all 17 full time positions? >> that's correct. >> great. any questions colleagues? actually one more question. when we talk about reoccurring grants, how long is the reoccurrence? >> this grant is ongoing, and the plan is that once the grant is close to expiration our grant management team will continue its future gra

we made a public health recommendation based on sound public health principle.y issue that you need to consider when you're in the middle of an outbreak. >> right. >> you have to consider a number of other things and that's the point we were making. >> a lot of parents and teachers would say, well, yeah. the cdc when they made the recommendations, they should have considered the effects that learning wlosloss would have. do you agree with that? >> i believe you have to consider a variety of other things. but, remember, at the time that the shutdown occurred, i mean, you have to distinguish, caitlyn, between the crisis at the point when our hospitals were being overrun and we were having cooler trucks to put bodies in because we didn't have enough room at a morgue, that's when things shut down. the real issue is how long do you keep that shut down? how long do you keep the schools closed? and if you recall, and go back many of the things i've said in a lot of interviews is that he with have to do bhawhatever we do to get the schools open and get them open safe an

public health from harvard school public health or from the harvard medical school. so perhaps one of the suggestions would be to entertain the career options for public health and physicians and medical scientists to join the intelligence communities in doing the research ezell. >> i think that would be a good day. also know recruit when i i goy degree from harvard history department. we have to rethink how we recruit so going to medical schools, public health policy schools would be a very good idea. >> thank you. i yield back. >> i now recognize the chairman of the full committee mr. comer from kentucky for five and is a question. >> thank you, mr. chairman. what you think each of the witnesses for being here today. as i said from the beginning discovering the origins of covid-19 is vital to both the public health and national security of the united states. former cdc director redfield testified last month this is not simply a scientific question but also one of intelligence and i agree with that. we need to ensure the intelligence is accurate and truthful. on mar

the second thing is that by calling it a public health epidemic we can apply public health tools.ve successfully decreased the number of cap -- car crash deaths amount eight steps, even had an effect on cancer. with the public health tools we can have the same impact on gun violence. we can finally start to make progress against this epidemic across the united states in ways that allow us to of course use legislation, but also talk about the most larger societal and environmental impacts of gun violence. anchor: for you, they started 15 years ago in an emergency room. can you tell us about that? >> as an emergency physician i have taken care of countless victims of gunshot wounds over the course of my career. about 15 years ago, i took care of what was at that time the first ever going suicide they had come through my doors. most gun suicides die long before they make it to the emergency departments. that case changed my approach to violence prevention and got me started thinking on how to approach gun fire prevention. we have course have to talk about the firearm. we also have to

would prevent and reduce the harm of future viruses and pandemics without vilifying our nations public health officials. the world is watching what we are doing here today. it is my hope we rise to the occasion and we meet the moment with the integrity that are global health national security demand. pursuant to committee on oversight and accountability rule the witnesses will please stand and raise their rightht hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to gift is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> thank you please be seated. but witnesses all answered in the affirmative. our witnesses today are the honorable john ratcliffe director ratcliffe was recently the director of national intelligence serving as a principal intelligence advisor to thehe president. prior to that het. served in congress and as a member of the house intelligence, homeland security and judiciary committees. mr. feith is currently an adjunct senior fellow at the center for a new american security. he was previously deputy of assistant secretary of state for ea

health care affordability and access. and as you can imagine, as a survey researcher who regularly the public about their views of health policy, i am well versed on partizanship and its impact on the public's attitudes and reported experiences. but i think it's especially important and this book does is to think about how the party partizan divides in public play out with this unimpressive effort in an unprecedented pandemic effort to vaccinate americans against covid in late 2020. like other survey researchers, my organization had launched a big effort to track the public's views and experiences with vaccinations through our covid 19 vaccine monitor. the monitor, still active, is a nationally survey run by my team to. initially, it was used track vaccine uptake and hesitancy and is now tracking everything booster uptake to vaccine options among kids and as a poor, i mentioned the prevalence of misinformation in similar to others reading book. it was a little triggering for me because it reminded me of such moments during the pandemic and china alluded to some of them. but you know, what's the so influential was the early, co

because i -- would expect this future behavior past mayor and public health and limited rolls royce planning resources lead mow to believe not with standing my strong sdoir to have a laguna handa worth of mental health facilities rolling out in the next 5 years. my sense we have a huge night for it. yea, i think it it is entirely possible that even with supervisors pushing for it and the administration buying into it, this there will in the be the ability for the department of public health and whoever needs to figure out operating costs and the design and the mix of facility and not locked facilities and where they go and how that would work. i can imagine we would roach a point we are like, we have the housing needs we know we have them and should put this money in to actual housing projects this will get builteen he the critical kroiing ned in san francisco now and in california. and my view is for longer term if sill isfor mental health and a need we continue not to meet. things get worse and san francisco's biggest problem. this being said witness the machine sein the housing boinld con

briefed on public health and housing. the homelessness and housing. and i will say i'm behind the up grids to the china town, silver and south of market centers. those are extreme low important part of our infrastructure in providing health care service. combike march approximate november boundaries is i don't believe is the best approach. so, want to make sure we prioritize and getting the public health moving. as it relates to the shelter plan hearing i'm had, let of time to been this. worked next to the family shelter for i decade. that as much there on golden gate. i don't like and don't believe the plan to relocate to polk street is a forward thinking plan. the idea of taking family and keeping them in drug infested crime neighborhood is not the best plan. when you break down the can have the of that plan, 200 best at 100 million dollars you talk about 5 huh thousand dollars a bed. 500 thousand dollars a bed does not make sense. this just does not make sense and by the way, much of that is not individual units. some exclusive for that. and i had

because i -- would expect this future behavior past mayor and public health and limited rolls royce planning resources lead mow to believe not with standing my strong sdoir to have a laguna handa worth of mental health facilities rolling out in the next 5 years. my sense we have a huge night for it. yea, i think it it is entirely possible that even with supervisors pushing for it and the administration buying into it, this there will in the be the ability for the department of public health and whoever needs to figure out operating costs and the design and the mix of facility and not locked facilities and where they go and how that would work. i can imagine we would roach a point we are like, we have the housing needs we know we have them and should put this money in to actual housing projects this will get builteen he the critical kroiing ned in san francisco now and in california. and my view is for longer term if sill isfor mental health and a need we continue not to meet. things get worse and san francisco's biggest problem. this being said witness the machine sein the housing boinld con

so i really want to defend public health and public health practice, and say that in the event of a novel airborne deadly pandemic, social distancing is one of the crude and also rudimentary public health measures to keep people safe. but what we want to do for the next airborne, deadly pandemic is that we want to create safe environments so that people can socialize, so that we do not have to close the schools so we don't have to do these things to keep students apart from each other. and i think that that is what we should be focusing on here today. we should be focusing, thinking ahead for that next airborne, deadly pandemic on how we can save lives, how can we lower transmission, and how can we keep kids safely in schools so we don't need to practice the social distancing that has shown to work -- the charge of the subcommittee is to understand the covid-19 pandemic. so we can prevention prepare for future public health crises. our mission is to get ahead, of a future deadly novel viruses with the potential to devastate her communities. so that none of us have to endure another pandem

but public health experts say that previous immunity is preventing severe infections. d w as many are chowdhury reports from delhi. in death clinics and hospitals are crowded again. people are once more queuing up to see a doctor about pulse beth looseness and fever. this mall community clinic in delhi is seeing between 30 to 40 patients with cold like symptoms everyday. at present, the sample positivity rate in the city is hovering between 25 to 32 percent scientists. point to a civilian or the only cron cove at variance called x b b $1.00. as the cartridge behind the new speed of infectious layer was other cbm, this is not a very severe variant, yet we're still not causing the kind of infection in which the patient may face respiratory distress. why she needs intensive care with oxygen support. this is our la. busy it's mostly mild to your mild her. despite the number of rise in cases most probably faces off till seen large crowds with no safety protocols being followed. the rising forward infections have caught the attention of the authorities as well. the delhi gov

lesson number two, you have to act early and rapidly with public health interventions. when you are dealing with a pandemic, what you are experiencing today was caused by something that happened weeks ago. what is going on now will manifest itself three weeks from now. so, look at this most extraordinary -- i don't know if you can see it because things are in the way. whatever. you can see how it just percolated along very low levels and just took off in an exponential way. pandemics are not linear. they are exponential. that is an important lesson. when you see it going up, don't feel comfort because if it is an epidemic, it will do this. that is exactly what happened. the g7 has made it very clear that they want all the countries to be able to have an aspirational goal of the 100 day mission. in the first 100 days that a pandemic threat is identified, intervention should start to become available. i will get into that in some of the other lessons. lesson three, global information sharing and collaborations are essential, that is everything from samples, infected and c

do to ensure they keep th kristen: the biden administration moved to en that's publicd health emergency -- its public of the emergency that had been in place for three years. with that, confusion over whether millions will lose their medical coverage. to know whether people can keep their health coverage or options, door-to-door outreach happened today in china's chinatown. joining us today is the chief science officer for a color health, dr. alisha joe. thanks for your time. >> thank you so much for having me today. kristen: absolutely. this information pertains to so many people. today color health, the chinese hospital in san francisco and the state treasurer can best -- canvassed chinatown together to give people information about what is happening with their medi-cal coverage as a result of the health emergency ending. we have pictures from the event. tell us what the goal was. >> absolutely. some people might know, as of monday, president biden announced we are coming to the end of our covid health emergency. on one hand, that is great news. but there are implications for californians. specific

prior to this, we were unable-those of us interested in public health to make our needs known unless we spoke to the officialed a min administrator in charge of the health department. if we were to talk about transparency, there were no transparency at that time, and over these years commissioner bernal and vice president green have fallowed in the tradition of being a-of leading and at the same time being able to be sure that we hear the public and with that we act on behalf of the public, and so, i would like to strongly support the nomination of commissioner bernal as president for another year. thank you. >> commissioner chung. >> commissioner chow took all the words from my mouth, but i also want to just say that i truly support the nomination of the team of president bernal and vice president green. i know that you two have really (indiscernible) and to juggle between that and balance that with your leadership on the health commission at a time where we are experiencing you know, like unprecedented pandemic, it is phenomenal,ic and i just want to express my gratitude and my appr

and public health practice. a novel airborne deadly pandemic and rudimentary public health measures. the most deadly airborne pandemic as we want to create safe environments people can socialize not to close the schools we don't have to do these things should be focusing here today but we should be focusing thinking ahead for that next airborne deadly pandemic hunt how we can save lives. a complete lower transmission how can we keep kids safely in school so we do not need to practice social distancing the charge of this our mission is to get ahead a future deadly novel viruses devastate the community so that none of us have to endure another pandemic. yet today and said in the critical work of the of learning loss from the pandemic, it's what most parents are concerned about my child mental health and learning loss what can we do today to help these children? other worker bring it relief to americans facing a mental health crisis. we rehashed this weingarten's e-mails and organization commonsense feedback on sch

let's invest $45 million in upgrading our department of public health i.t. for illinois national surveillance system and long-term care systems. [applause] these are tools that states use to monitor the spread of disease to prevent outbreaks to protect our most vulnerable residents and willie will couple that with an $8.5 million investment to assist public health professionals identifying and protecting the potential impact of an emerging disease on the horizon. if covid-19 taught us anything we must invest in the tools to quickly and aggressively contain the spread of these diseases. every day that held the spot since the outbreak of covid that i think about health care workers who risk their lives to save others. going home. needing to keep their distance from their spouses parents and children. battling exhaustion and burnout and too often having to deliver the worst possible news despite their best efforts. our health care workers are heroes. [applause] though there is never enough we can do to repair them for their sacrifice i propose we make their liv

- future of public health funding - $3,639,888] sponsor: mayor mayor entitled “future of publicealth funding,” for the period of july 1, 2022, through june 30, 2023; and amending ordinance no. 162-22 (annual salary no. 162-22 (annual salary entitled “future of public health funding,” for the period of july 1, 2022, through june 30, 2023; and amending ordinance no. 162-22 (annual salary no. 162-22 (annual salary no. 162-22 (annual salary ordinance file no. 220670 for fiscal years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024) to provide for the addition of 17 grant-funded full-time positions in class 0923 manager ii (0.5 (0.25 fte), class 1823 senior administrative analyst (0.25 fte), class 1824 principal administrative analyst (0.25 fte), seeing none, on the roster we will take that same house, same call the ordinance is passed (gavel) next commission - community food service energy efficiency program - $4,579,056 - fy2022-2023]sponsors: mayor; safai and mandelman. implement the community food service energy efficiency program; and placing $3,052,704 on controller's reserve, in fiscal year (fy) 2022-

- future of public health funding - $3,639,888] sponsor: mayor mayor entitled “future of publicealth funding,” for the period of july 1, 2022, through june 30, 2023; and amending ordinance no. 162-22 (annual salary no. 162-22 (annual salary entitled “future of public health funding,” for the period of july 1, 2022, through june 30, 2023; and amending ordinance no. 162-22 (annual salary no. 162-22 (annual salary no. 162-22 (annual salary ordinance file no. 220670 for fiscal years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024) to provide for the addition of 17 grant-funded full-time positions in class 0923 manager ii (0.5 (0.25 fte), class 1823 senior administrative analyst (0.25 fte), class 1824 principal administrative analyst (0.25 fte), seeing none, on the roster we will take that same house, same call the ordinance is passed (gavel) next commission - community food service energy efficiency program - $4,579,056 - fy2022-2023]sponsors: mayor; safai and mandelman. implement the community food service energy efficiency program; and placing $3,052,704 on controller's reserve, in fiscal year (fy) 2022-

growing public health needs.th some of the benefits or does anyone have any questions at this time for me? >> we are going to go to the bla report at the budget legislative analyst report for the item? my apologies. no, we don't have a bla report. it is my pet peeve, sorry, don't mean to say that, but it is not ph.d it is department of public health so the code is dph. i wanted to say that on the record for the acronym, it is dph. my question for this though is that, looking at this, because it brings-not only it is retroactive but it funds full time positions of a total 17 of them, but it looks like it is reoccurring grants and i just want to make sure reoccurring grants will cover all 17 full time positions? >> that's correct. >> great. any questions colleagues? actually one more question. when we talk about reoccurring grants, how long is the reoccurrence? >> this grant is ongoing, and the plan is that once the grant is close to expiration our grant management team will continue its future grants to continue t

to clean water, non processed foods, nutrition education and other necessities to support the public health of san francisco. i hope through the sugary drink distrirt committee i can work with a team who cares about health equity as much as i do and utilize opportunity to introduce public health awareness through youth and encourage involvement. thank you for your time and consideration. >> thank you so much ms. ye. i apologize if i mispronounced that. >> you got it. >> yee or ye? >> ye. >> i might have mispronounced. no other questions other then impressed by command or topic and someone of your age, the amount of accomplishments that you have. thank you for your interest and willingness to serve. i don't see any questions from my colleagues, so i think we'll move on to our next person. eva holman who applied for seat number 5. ms. holman. i apologize, applied for seat 15. >> my favorite number. incredible to hear all the speakers today and i first became interested in this committee after reading the 2018 report by ucsf that connected lack of access to public water to diabetes and other i

what are the right public health solutions? i think we need to think outside the box, not be afraid to embrace that people, not just addicts, those who are just experimenting, are at grave risk of death. what are the public health we should be doing? >> what we need to do is not focus on supplies, protecting people who are using drugs from the dangers of fentanyl and other even more deadly contaminants. i have a chapter in the cato handbook that deals with this. among the things that this committee could do is drug paraphernalia, make it illegal for a person to hand out fentanyl test strip, because that is considered drug paraphernalia. many states are changing their laws to allow that, red and blue states. another thing is for this committee to consider repealing or amending 21 u.s. code section 856, the crackhouse statute. it came out yesterday, about this, overdose prevention centers have existed throughout the developed world since 1986 when they first started in switzerland. they are in 16 countries, 147 of them in 91 loca

whereir the city agencies that help make this public space safe and health and he welcome to all members of the public. >> beyond resource the mayor deploys how is she coordinating with the da, sheriff, drug enforcement agency and other appropriate per ins which can help save lives. i would like to let the mayor know this is in the a one time exercise if the answer is moving the problem to another neighborhood, then that is where weep hold our next question time of we need to do more than declare a crisis we mead to act like it is. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor preston. >> thank you in dam clerk. 2 items first, joining with budget chan in calling for hearing on affordable housing in san francisco. recommendations of housing stability funds oversight board the body provides guidance on use of prospect i funding in november of upon 2020, my office put forth to approve prop ian increase on the tax rate for transfers of the highest real estate transactions in the city 10 million dollars and above. we credited the housing stability funds the intended destination for prospect i p

hired by the california department of public health, they have been deployed to classrooms and nursingver the bay area, essentially serving as walking covid tests. no need for swabs or even a laboratory. instead, these come to you. why use dogs? >> they are environmentally friendly, so there is not a lot of trash from that and why wouldn't you like her running around you instead of someone taking a swab of your nose? >> reporter: her sense of smell is 10,000 100,000 times better than that of humans. over the years they have been used to sniff everything from bombs to illegal drugs and even cancer. >> they can sniff out half a two spin of an odor in an olympic swimming pool, no problem. >> reporter: they are trained with a wheel with a canister on each spoke. one is stuffed with used sock that belongs to a person who recently tested positive for covid. the moment they think they detect a positive case, they sit down. >> right here is the covid canister. i will move it a little bit to my left and let's see if she can find it. >> reporter: that's amazing. she didn't hesitate. how accurate

but public health experts do say that previous immunity is preventing severe infections. he w, manero, chowdhury reports now from delhi in the us clinics and hospitals are crowded again . people are once more queuing up to see a doctor about pulse, breathlessness and fever. this mall community clinic in delhi is seeing between 30 to 40 patients with corporate like symptoms every day. at present, the sample positivity rate in the city is hovering between 25 to 32 percent. find this point to a sub burden of the only chronicle, vivian called x b, b $1.00. as the culprit behind the new speed of infections layer was others. again, this is not a very severe variant yet that are just not causing the kind of infection in which the patient may face respiratory distress. why she needs intensive care with oxygen support. this is, i would rather, it's mostly mild to your milder, despite the number of rise in cases most probably faces after thing, large crowds with no safety protocols being followed. the rising corbett infections have caught the attention of the authorities as well. t

so i really want to defend public health and public health practice, and say that in the event of a novel airborne deadly pandemic, social distancing is one of the crude and also rudimentary public health measures to keep people safe. but what we want to do for the next airborne, deadly pandemic is that we want to create safe environments so that people can socialize, so that we do not have to close the schools so we don't have to do these things to keep students apart from each other. and i think that that is what we should be focusing on here today. we should be focusing, thinking ahead for that next airborne, deadly pandemic on how we can save lives, how can we lower transmission, and how can we keep kids safely in schools so we don't need to practice the social distancing that has shown to work -- the charge of the subcommittee is to understand the covid-19 pandemic. so we can prevention prepare for future public health crises. our mission is to get ahead, of a future deadly novel viruses with the potential to devastate her communities. so that none of us have to endure another pandem

this week, 11 people died of sunstroke and february hospitalized at an event near mom by public health. 333. india is one of the country's most exposed and vulnerable to heat. this year, the average maximum temperature in february reached 29.5 degrees celsius. the highest recorded in more than 100 years. farmers especially are watching the temperature rice bit direct. last year, the we're heat fifths damaged, wheat production, and india. the world's 2nd largest producer of wheat was forced to band exports. what the government believes to requirements would be met with full yield and they will be able to export, but there was a 20 percent short fall in the yield because of the heat wave. when the government realised the production loss, they called for ben o, the banker, scientists, fe, warmer temperatures, are caused pay increase in greenhouse gases. in fact, my fear some experts suggest india should significantly cut down its emissions according to weren't economic forum. india is the world's 3rd largest emitter of carbon dioxide. one of the greenhouse gases, the south asian country,

rapidly depleting stocks at a new coven. 19 sub variant is driving a search in cases in india. public health experts say that the protection offered by vaccines and previous infection is holding up. plus labor cruising continues their charge toward the champions league, places they see off fellow contenders leipzig to extend their unbeaten street. to 13 batches will have the best of the one to speak and more coming up and sports. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. basic food and water supplies in the sudanese capital cartoon are running low as violent clashes rage across the city. brutal street fights between forces aligned with 2 rival military generals are continuing for a 2nd week. at least 420 people have been killed with more than 3 and a half 1000 wounded. many of the injured are stranded and unable to get to the hospital, which is struggling with lack of supplies. thousands of people are sheltering in their homes, like power cuts or limiting communication. earlier i spoke with sued news journalist alice, a adam who is following the development in sudan from nairobi. he gave

so i really want to defend public health and public health practice, and say that in the event of a novel airborne deadly pandemic, social distancing is one of the crude and also rudimentary public health measures to keep people safe. but what we want to do for the next airborne, deadly pandemic is that we want to create safe environments so that people can socialize, so that we do not have to close the schools so we don't have to do these things to keep students apart from each other. and i think that that is what we should be focusing on here today. we should be focusing, thinking ahead for that next airborne, deadly pandemic on how we can save lives, how can we lower transmission, and how can we keep kids safely in schools so we don't need to practice the social distancing that has shown to work -- the charge of the subcommittee is to understand the covid-19 pandemic. so we can prevention prepare for future public health crises. our mission is to get ahead, of a future deadly novel viruses with the potential to devastate her communities. so that none of us have to endure another pandem

court judge has ordered calgary chapel san jose to pay $1.2 million in fines for violating the public health order. this has been an ongoing battle and has reached just about every court level. stephanie magallon explains it looks far from over. >> reporter: the san jose church that defied the public health order will have to pay more than $1 million in fines. a superior court judge on wednesday ruled in favor of the county and rejected arguments presented by calgary chapel in 2020. they alleged county orders prevented it from exercising its religious freedom. >> what this case is really about is holding the most egregious entity that violated pretty much every public health order, holding that entity accountable. >> reporter: county counsel james williams says this decision is just one piece of a years long battle, a battle our investigative unit has covered intensely. they sat down with the pastor. while wednesday's ruling focused on mask wearing during the peak of the pandemic, which reduced the original fine from $2.8 million to over $1.2 million. >> this is a really important indication