advocates for the unhoused say yorkers living on the street. democracy now!ched charmel lucas, a member of picture the homeless who has lived in the shelter system for fivive years, reached on the phone last week. she exprpressed concerns about unshsheltered homeless people lt on the streets amid the pandemic. big hub for was a homeless people to use the bathroom. so how are they washing their hands? the mall is closed. no bathrooms. 24 our bread and butter, but they're not letting people use the bathroom. tohow are people supposed wash their hands? amy: meanwhile, those living in the city's packed shelter system say it is too crowded to allow for safe social distancing. this is bernard ward, who was living in a new york city shelter in downtown brooklyn until last week. we reached him on the phone. >> when the virus first hit and people are always requesting for ,loves and masks and they said we are not able -- it wasn't in their budget. i said, wasn't in your budget? that did not make sense. this is an epidemic. the maintenance personnel was there cleaning

you'll really transform how we address homelessness for people who are not just unhoused but those who are struggling to hold onto their homes. i wish we didn't have to be here for this conversation, but we all know -- i've seen so many service providers and people who work in the affordable housing industry and other places, and folks who are really at the forefront of helping, you know, this city, and the bay area address these challenges. and here in san francisco, we've done been amazing job, but we still see the suffering on our streets. we still hear the stories about if someone, if they hadn't had too much rent, they wouldn't be living in their cars right now. the fact is 200,000 people families are low-income in the bay area, and we have 30,000 people who are homeless. so what that means is we have to work harder than ever not just for the people that are unhoused but for the people that we know are really just a paycheck away from being homeless. and i'm sure you've heard that term, but now, that term means more to more people. so we can't do the work of addressing homelessnes

he was unhoused. there are thousands of charlies in san francisco, and they all need to be counted and participate. and how we get charlie to come to a site and fill out a form that is only nine questions, but sometimes difficult for people to fill out is really the challenge to us. so we are using art to build the first-ever san francisco coalition for civic participation across arts, technology, philanthropy, and faith-based communities. we need every san franciscan to jump on-line march 12 and fill out their census form. we're going to provide the help they need, but they've got to be motivated. we need to do it for our city, our family, our friends, our neighbors, and our communities. thank you very much for your support, and we look forward to creating individual p.s.a.s with you and activating events out in your districts. i also want to give a shoutout to our community partners, and you will hear from two of them after you ask questions, or if there aren't any questions, they'll be on desk. you

he was unhoused. there are thousands of charlies in san francisco, and they all need to be counted and participate. and how we get charlie to come to a site and fill out a form that is only nine questions, but sometimes difficult for people to fill out is really the challenge to us. so we are using art to build the first-ever san francisco coalition for civic participation across arts, technology, philanthropy, and faith-based communities. we need every san franciscan to jump on-line march 12 and fill out their census form. we're going to provide the help they need, but they've got to be motivated. we need to do it for our city, our family, our friends, our neighbors, and our communities. thank you very much for your support, and we look forward to creating individual p.s.a.s with you and activating events out in your districts. i also want to give a shoutout to our community partners, and you will hear from two of them after you ask questions, or if there aren't any questions, they'll be on desk. you

this comes as the coronavirus is putting unhoused people and other vulnerable communities at a higher risk of infection. in january, another group of unhoused moms in the bay area, known as moms 4 housing, were given an offer to purchase the property in oakland they occupied for months with their children. for our interviews with oakland's moms 4 housing, go to democracynow.org. and ththose are sosome of thee headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the death toll from the coronavivirus pandemicic has tod with at least 170,000 confirmed 6500 cases worldwide and 77,000 people now recovered. in the united ststates, amid an unprecedented d national criris, with 3600 reported covid-19 cases, 61 deaths so far, 33 states closing schools, and mass shutdowns in major cities los angeles new york city. democratic presidential candidates joe biden and bernie sanders faced off in the one-on-o-one debate sunday nigh. first they clashed on how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, medicare-for-all, the climate crisis, joe biden's record, and

with an estimated 4,000 unhoused in san francisco meeting these suffering from mental illness and substance abuse it is clear our current 29 hummingbird beds don't come close to meeting the need. we can see every day what happens when we don't have enough places to take unsheltered people. too many end up in psychiatric services or emergency rooms or jail. more than half all patients are homeless and between october and december 2019, pes was on diverse upwards of 40% of the time. we also know that far too many people leaving pes are released back to the street to return to the hospital in weeks or hours later. i have been working with the department of public health to identify potential sites for one or more hummingbirds in district 8 since my first days in office. i will continue to beat the drum for hummingbird city-wide. i live three blocks away on valencia street. i am eager to welcome the first hummingbird to my neighborhood. i want to thank the dent of -- department of public health and mayor breed and prc baker place for helping bring this online. over the past month, they have wor

unhoused pregnant women are more likely to face life-threatening complications needs medical intervention. they have diabetes and hypertension. we want those diseases treated and that they are taken care of. we also want to -- we will be prepared to help women with mental health issues, including postpartum depression. jelani house prioritises these families in support of long-term positive health outcomes. for 30 years, hpp believed in the importance of two generational upstream approach to family support. truly jelani has that philosophy with client centered intervention just as families are beginning their new lives together. hpp looks forward to creating a program that is effective, replicable and a model for the nation. (applause). a program that helps mothers have healthy pregnancies and deliveries and helps them exit homelessness once and for all. permanently breaking the cycle of childhood poverty and family homelessness. i want to thank all of the partners. many of you are in the room today and hpp staff. hpp staff has worked tirelessly from furnishing this entire house to buildi

for shawn who advocates for unhoused people. it's a silver lining of the crisis. >> people see themselves on the same field as homeless people and that's important. >> people are reeling from the shock of the last few days. no doubt they will spend the weekend planning for this new reality. >> all right. thank you. all open public schools are officially closed until april 5. the district joins a slew of school districts that shut down. three out of the every four students in the district will rely on free or discounted meals. they will set up is it 12 sites to grab breakfast and lunch. >> children in the house all day. there's a lot to think about. specifically around how to get instructional time. and manage work. and manage the household. >> oakland mayor announced senior centers and libraries and reck start and head start would be closed monday. >> we have an update on our web site. >> san francisco department of public health announced that non-essential events of 100 people or more have been banned. >> many of those busines

neighborhood has created an outreach zone and will offer an outreach and initial priority to the unhoused neighbors in the vicinity. i think there are a number of navigation centers in this surrounding area, and i'm hopeful that we will continue to build these throughout the city, but this is a neighborhood that will benefit from these services and opportunities, and there are a number of people who are unhoused in this area who will be able to access services, shelter, and a transition to housing as a result of us activating a piece of property that has remained vacant for some amount of time, so thank you for your hard work and everything that went into this. i apologize that i have to leave early before this, but i'd like to be added as a cosponsor. >> chair fewer: thank you. and so we have gigi whitley. >> good morning. gigi whitley, director of the office of finance and supportive housing. thank you to the committee for your hearing us through this proposed resolution that would propose -- that would approve a lease between the city and the property operated at 33 gough street for th

-- if we were to put people in hotel rooms, we heard there were 19,000 people in sros and 10,000 unhoused folks and that would be 29,000 people. in these hotels rooms we're putting people in, we have to remember that many have been chronically homeless for a long time and have not lived in this type of a setting. so the support system for this, it is about, also, coming with a mandate around housing, getting our unhoused population into housing should also come with a mandate about workers and increasing the wor workforce for this. what we've heard, there's a shortage of workers and why we can't do some of this is because we don't have the workers to work in so many facilities. so i think that with the mandate comes, also, another mandate about a worker shortage. thanks. >> supervisor ronen. i'm the last on the roster, doctor, so thank you so much. i just am such a fan of yours and really admire all of your work and appreciate you're here and answering all of these questions after everything you're doing. so i'm trying to understand now the extent of your power. so could you issue an orde

see people coming together and being their best selfs in this situation, that applies to people unhoused as well and doing their best to do their best and to help the community to get through this crisis so i'm optimistic that this will be successful immediately, but also we'll have a good long-term impact to how we do this work in the city. >> are they doing to develop plans to make sure that no individual 60 or older and, again, this is hard because my argument is that all people experiencing homelessness are immune -- their immunity is compromised. but at least for seniors. is h.s.h. coming up with a plan to get everyone indoors? >> yes. well, to get everyone indoors -- >> everyone at the high risk category. >> so ideally, what we would be doing -- and we have put this forward and working on it with h.s.a.s to utilize hotel voucher program which is used off and on in san francisco over the years. we still have small programs to get people who are over 65 out of the shelters. and we also are looking at reorganizing our shelters and creating more space between beds, as well as creating

for shawn who advocates for unhoused people.t's a silver lining of the crisis. >> people see themselves on the same field as homeless people and that's important. >> people are reeling from the shock of the last few days. no doubt they will spend the weekend planning for this new reality. >> all right. thank you. all open public schools are officially closed until april 5. the district joins a slew of school districts that shut down. three out of the every four students in the district will rely on free or discounted meals. they will set up is it 12 sites to grab breakfast and lunch. >> children in the house all day. there's a lot to think about. specifically around how to get instructional time. and manage work. and manage the household. >> oakland mayor announced senior centers and libraries and reck start and head start would be closed monday. >> we have an update on our web site. >> san francisco department of public health announced that non-essential events of 100 people or more have been banned. >> many of those businesse

i hope you get a sense of the seriousness we're taking the issue of homelessness and the unhoused and those that are struggling the most. many self-medicating, many with mobility, many issues that need to be addressed and most vulnerable under these deep circumstances. we also are laying out additional strategies and plans on search more generally defined. there has been a lot of focus in the last few days on our capacity to meet not only this moment but the moments to come. it's fair to say that if we are looking at a 56% rate of the virus attacking those out in the streets and sidewalks, if you model similar rates in the general population, if you assume for every individual that's contacted or contracted the virus that they in fact let's just say two individuals, and we have hospitalization rates as high as in some instances we model 20%, that would require a broader surge capacity of our health care delivery system, north of 19,500 additional beds. so i know those were a lot of numbers, but let me now try to unpack that. we're running scenario plans, again, for the purpose of full

with an estimated 4,000 unhoused in san francisco meeting these suffering from mental illness and substance abuse it is clear our current 29 hummingbird beds don't come close to meeting the need. we can see every day what happens when we don't have enough places to take unsheltered people. too many end up in psychiatric services or emergency rooms or jail. more than half all patients are homeless and between october and december 2019, pes was on diverse upwards of 40% of the time. we also know that far too many people leaving pes are released back to the street to return to the hospital in weeks or hours later. i have been working with the department of public health to identify potential sites for one or more hummingbirds in district 8 since my first days in office. i will continue to beat the drum for hummingbird city-wide. i live three blocks away on valencia street. i am eager to welcome the first hummingbird to my neighborhood. i want to thank the dent of -- department of public health and mayor breed and prc baker place for helping bring this online. over the past month, they have wor

-- if we were to put people in hotel rooms, we heard there were 19,000 people in sros and 10,000 unhoused folks and that would be 29,000 people. in these hotels rooms we're putting people in, we have to remember that many have been chronically homeless for a long time and have not lived in this type of a setting. so the support system for this, it is about, also, coming with a mandate around housing, getting our unhoused population into housing should also come with a mandate about workers and increasing the wor workforce for this. what we've heard, there's a shortage of workers and why we can't do some of this is because we don't have the workers to work in so many facilities. so i think that with the mandate comes, also, another mandate about a worker shortage. thanks. >> supervisor ronen. i'm the last on the roster, doctor, so thank you so much. i just am such a fan of yours and really admire all of your work and appreciate you're here and answering all of these questions after everything you're doing. so i'm trying to understand now the extent of your power. so could you issue an orde

see people coming together and being their best selfs in this situation, that applies to people unhoused as well and doing their best to do their best and to help the community to get through this crisis so i'm optimistic that this will be successful immediately, but also we'll have a good long-term impact to how we do this work in the city. >> are they doing to develop plans to make sure that no individual 60 or older and, again, this is hard because my argument is that all people experiencing homelessness are immune -- their immunity is compromised. but at least for seniors. is h.s.h. coming up with a plan to get everyone indoors? >> yes. well, to get everyone indoors -- >> everyone at the high risk category. >> so ideally, what we would be doing -- and we have put this forward and working on it with h.s.a.s to utilize hotel voucher program which is used off and on in san francisco over the years. we still have small programs to get people who are over 65 out of the shelters. and we also are looking at reorganizing our shelters and creating more space between beds, as well as creating

see people coming together and being their best selfs in this situation, that applies to people unhoused as well and doing their best to do their best and to help the community to get through this crisis so i'm optimistic that this will be successful immediately, but also we'll have a good long-term impact to how we do this work in the city. >> are they doing to develop plans to make sure that no individual 60 or older and, again, this is hard because my argument is that all people experiencing homelessness are immune -- their immunity is compromised. but at least for seniors. is h.s.h. coming up with a plan to get everyone indoors? >> yes. well, to get everyone indoors -- >> everyone at the high risk category. >> so ideally, what we would be doing -- and we have put this forward and working on it with h.s.a.s to utilize hotel voucher program which is used off and on in san francisco over the years. we still have small programs to get people who are over 65 out of the shelters. and we also are looking at reorganizing our shelters and creating more space between beds, as well as creating

more than half of those surveyed say they know someone who has been or is currently unhoused. >>> an earthquake hit off the coast of california, 5.8 quake hit around 8:00 last night near eureka. although the quake was pretty far offshore, a lot of folks said they did feel some shaking. this video posted on twitter shows a light fixture slightly swaying there. >>> a live look now at the sierra. kari was telling us about that and more is expected. an early season snowpack is giving them a big boost which is really good. >> thank goodness for the early snow and rain. who knew we would be so dry february into march. >> good to see some spots up to 5 or 6 inches of snow. and then we'll see it tapering off. as we look at the wide view and the reason why we have that bay area rain is because of this low still well to the south and west of us. we haven't seen a major impact. as we go through the week we will still have the rain chances. today and tomorrow we'll talk more about this and a bigger storm system. mike, a new delay through berkeley. >>> a couple reports of a crash, sounding like t

thousands of hotel rooms in order to house the homeless and reduce the risk of covid spreading among the unhoused. the city is booking rooms for first responders who have tested positive for the virus or have been exposed and need a safe place to quarantine themselves. >> hospitals are preparing to be overwhelmed. the latest projection from governor newsom that 56% of californians will get infected in an 8-week period. candice nguyen found out what this would do to our health care system. >> the feds are building an emergency health care -- they want to see if the bay yar is can handle the peak of this pandemic. we have a picture of what's to come. >> i get anxious about what things are going to look like in a few weeks. >> turning 70 next week, he should probably stay home and not risk contracting covid-19. but he's a doctor. he doesn't have that luxury. >> i'm doing an extra rotation in april that i wasn't scheduled for. >> as a physician and a professor at ucsf, san francisco hospitals are preparing for a surge of infected patients. >> new wings ready to go. mobilization of ventilators, increa

on social media, even more community building and outreach for sean cartwright who advocates for unhoused people she says it's the silver lining of this crisis. >> maybe it's the first time people see themselves on the same field as homeless people. and i think that's really important. people are really pulling together. >> many people i spoke to are still reeling from the shock of the last few days. no doubt they'll spend the weekend planning for this new reality. chris reyes, abc 7 news. >>> all oakland public schools are officially closed until april 5th. the district joins a slue of other school stricts that have shut down. three out of every four students in the district rely on free or discounted meals. the district will ease that burden by setting up 12 sites to provide a grab and go breakfast and lunch. some will move their studies online but still parents are concerned. >> rambunctious children in the house all day. there's a lot to think about, specifically mostly around like how do we ensure they get their instructional time, how do i manage work, how do i manage the household?

the lockdown order came as a group of unhoused and housing-insecure people in los angeles, including mothers and their children, have moved into at least 12 vacant and publicly owned hohomes in the neighbobord of el sereno. the families say the government has failed to provide them with shelter to protect their health during the pandemic. in new york, mayor bill de blasio said the city's hospitals are dramatically under-supplied for the coming wave of covid-19 patients, with a peak expected in 6 weeks' time. at a news confnference thursday, the mayor called on president trumump to mobilize e massive industrial production of medicil equipment,t, including 3 million air-filtering masks, 50 million surgical masks, 15,000 ventilators, and tens of millions of surgical gowns, coveralls, gloves, and facee masks. >> we expect those goods that are produced that we need for our hospitals to get there in time. there's only one organization that can guarantee that, and that is the united states military. we will president trtrump give e order? that is my question, when will he give the order? yc

that usually do outreach on general services are focused on covid-19 with our brothers and sisters unhoused. this is a crisis that could spread on the street quite quickly. >> hat kind of coordination have you or your office had with the white house? we're expecting to hear from the president this afternoon about 3:00. are you getting the kind of support you need from congress? >> we've had some, but i'm very concerned about the economic impact on everyday americans right now. we've seen it in the port of l.a. which brings in about 43% of the goods that come into america, with folks who have lost work, truckers, of course small businesses and others. we're looking at an eviction moratorium, so nobody can be kicked out, no utility cut-offs. we need that help right now. if there's one message that congress needs to hear and the white house needs to hear, it's get together, get that passed right now as well as the testing which we still see around the count. you cannot prepare for a crisis once you are responding to a crisis, and there's been a dereliction of duty at that national level. now i

with an estimated 4,000 unhoused in san francisco meeting these suffering from mental illness and substance abuse it is clear our current 29 hummingbird beds don't come close to meeting the need. we can see every day what happens when we don't have enough places to take unsheltered people. too many end up in psychiatric services or emergency rooms or jail. more than half all patients are homeless and between october and december 2019, pes was on diverse upwards of 40% of the time. we also know that far too many people leaving pes are released back to the street to return to the hospital in weeks or hours later. i have been working with the department of public health to identify potential sites for one or more hummingbirds in district 8 since my first days in office. i will continue to beat the drum for hummingbird city-wide. i live three blocks away on valencia street. i am eager to welcome the first hummingbird to my neighborhood. i want to thank the dent of -- department of public health and mayor breed and prc baker place for helping bring this online. over the past month, they have wor

have the same level of social distancing and protection that all of us deserve and people who are unhousedeserve just like anyone else. we're introducing again with supervisor ronin a resolution demanding state and federal government demand a moratorium on residential rents and this is one of the issues i hear about, as i'm sure you all do as much as anything, where people are terrified of the virus and terrified what will happen on the first of the month when their bills become due, their mortgages come due. there is a state-wide coalition with organizations with more signing on that submitted a letter to the government with a demand to the suspension of rent and mortgage payments and these are unprecedented times and these are also a time when we have to step up and let all of our residents know that we have our backs. lastly, i'm putting forward a resolution today in partnership with supervisor peskin for bar to remain operational. there are significant stimulus packages that are under consideration and debate at the federal and state level and it's critical that our state and federal l

unhouses is most worried about parents not recovering as quickly as other members of the family. >>>arrying more than 1800 people including 42 sick is trying to find a port where it can dock. the sick passengers on board have flu-like symptoms and don't know if it's the coronavirus because no one has been tested and the ship has been turned away from other ports in the past ten days and off the part of oakland and the ship doesn't have permission to do so. the panama canal closed to foreigners because of the coronavirus. >>> more passengers on the grand princess cruise ship expected to be released today and have been isolated at travis air force base for two weeks after the ship docked. 25 of the passengers were released early despite a warning from health agencies. hundreds of other passengers expected to be released in the next few days. 21 people on board have tested positive. >>> they help support the restaurant industry and much in dire straights and campaign backed by a coalition of national and regional restaurants and calls on americans to order one delivery and pickup meals

on the street today, we could help to alleviate some of the local burden of the veterans that are unhoused right now today. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> you have four questions remaining. >> is the speaker prepared to make comments? >> yes. thank you very much, supervisors. i'm the policy director at compass family services and i'm the cochair of the hopeless emergency service providers association. i wanted to express our support, compass' support for item 20, the resolution introduced to prioritize the need for people experiencing homelessness during the covid-19 crisis. there's a lot of strain or our system right now and people need a lot of support. it's extremely important to prioritize the people at high medical risk and those who are least able to self-isolate. everybody deserves the dignity of practicing social distancing in place requirements that mayor breed has olderred and fo ordere living in our shelter system and other vulnerable people, you know, who find shelter and refuge in our essential services, this means getting them inside to the hotel rooms. we have

neighborhood has created an outreach zone and will offer an outreach and initial priority to the unhoused neighbors in the vicinity. i think there are a number of navigation centers in this surrounding area, and i'm hopeful that we will continue to build these throughout the city, but this is a neighborhood that will benefit from these services and opportunities, and there are a number of people who are unhoused in this area who will be able to access services, shelter, and a transition to housing as a result of us activating a piece of property that has remained vacant for some amount of time, so thank you for your hard work and everything that went into this. i apologize that i have to leave early before this, but i'd like to be added as a cosponsor. >> chair fewer: thank you. and so we have gigi whitley. >> good morning. gigi whitley, director of the office of finance and supportive housing. thank you to the committee for your hearing us through this proposed resolution that would propose -- that would approve a lease between the city and the property operated at 33 gough street for th

have the same level of social distancing and protection that all of us deserve and people who are unhousedserve just like anyone else. we're introducing again with supervisor ronin a resolution demanding state and federal government demand a moratorium on residential rents and this is one of the issues i hear about, as i'm sure you all do as much as anything, where people are terrified of the virus and terrified what will happen on the first of the month when their bills become due, their mortgages come due. there is a state-wide coalition with organizations with more signing on that submitted a letter to the government with a demand to the suspension of rent and mortgage payments and these are unprecedented times and these are also a time when we have to step up and let all of our residents know that we have our backs. lastly, i'm putting forward a resolution today in partnership with supervisor peskin for bar to remain operational. there are significant stimulus packages that are under consideration and debate at the federal and state level and it's critical that our state and federal le

with an estimated 4,000 unhoused in san francisco meeting these suffering from mental illness and substance abuse it is clear our current 29 hummingbird beds don't come close to meeting the need. we can see every day what happens when we don't have enough places to take unsheltered people. too many end up in psychiatric services or emergency rooms or jail. more than half all patients are homeless and between october and december 2019, pes was on diverse upwards of 40% of the time. we also know that far too many people leaving pes are released back to the street to return to the hospital in weeks or hours later. i have been working with the department of public health to identify potential sites for one or more hummingbirds in district 8 since my first days in office. i will continue to beat the drum for hummingbird city-wide. i live three blocks away on valencia street. i am eager to welcome the first hummingbird to my neighborhood. i want to thank the dent of -- department of public health and mayor breed and prc baker place for helping bring this online. over the past month, they have wor

and those folks, the women that are on the streets, unhoused. come on down to turk street, and we've got some fresh water with lemon and cucumbers, and you can just hangout. i have to say, matt, when you called me last week, i thought it was to tell me you missed walk with wendy. i didn't know it was something better. thank you so much, matt. [cheers and applause] >> president yee: okay. thank you. next up will be supervisor with district 5, supervisor preston. >> thank you, president yee and colleagues, and congratulations to all the folks who came down today to show your support for these amazing leaders. in honor of women's history month, i am very pleased today to honor one of our most incredible community leaders in district 5, kristin evans. [applause] >> supervisor preston: kristin was born in washington, and i believe both her parents may be here today. her father went onto work at an aluminum company that he continues to work for to this day. because of that, kristin moved around the country and the globe. kristin studied political scie

with an estimated 4,000 unhoused in san francisco meeting these suffering from mental illness and substance abuse it is clear our current 29 hummingbird beds don't come close to meeting the need. we can see every day what happens when we don't have enough places to take unsheltered people. too many end up in psychiatric services or emergency rooms or jail. more than half all patients are homeless and between october and december 2019, pes was on diverse upwards of 40% of the time. we also know that far too many people leaving pes are released back to the street to return to the hospital in weeks or hours later. i have been working with the department of public health to identify potential sites for one or more hummingbirds in district 8 since my first days in office. i will continue to beat the drum for hummingbird city-wide. i live three blocks away on valencia street. i am eager to welcome the first hummingbird to my neighborhood. i want to thank the dent of -- department of public health and mayor breed and prc baker place for helping bring this online. over the past month, they have wor

.>> here is where the hand washing station is the >> for the 108,000 unhoused homeless in californiaa luxury and now a lifesaver.>> there is no medicine as powerful as hygiene is a when we have this other crisis overlaid on top of it existing severe homelessness crisis will see tragic effects. >> this doctor directs the center for vulnerable relations at ucsf as she says in san francisco know when experiencing homelessness has confirmed to have coronavirus but many could be infected and they just haven't been tested.>> creates this impossible situation>> san francisco set up dozens of handwashing stations, bathrooms or pitstops dealt with hygiene and the city has secured at least 30 rvs to separate or quarantined entire and camas if infection occurred on the streets the other big risk is homeless shelters often packed with people that eat together common areas. that only elevates the chance of spreading coronavirus>> and that is exactly what we do not want and if infection were to get into the community it would be at high risk of spreading >> national data shows 560,000 americans we

i mean, unhoused people need them. there may or may not be water around. people who just don't have a lot of money, vulnerable populations, if they were around they probably couldn't even abide -- buy hand sanitizers and our health care workers and medical professionals on the front lines. so what in the world is going on? and how do we wrap our hands around this so that we can make sure that the directions we receive from our federal overnment can be adhered to? dr. redfield: thank you, congresswoman lee. obviously important. we've seen the shelves. this isn't an area that we drive. but i can tell you the interagency working group is looking at a variety of different things to figure out where the shortage is and what can be done. whether the masks or medicine or hand sanitizers. i can get back to you exactly. but i do, from the public health point of view, at least remind people that 20 secretaries of vigorous washing with warm hart, hot wart and soap, is going to work. there are people looking to track, where is the supply issue here and i can get back