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DPH outlines COVID task force shift, after-action report and targeted outreach
Summary
The Department of Public Health described its COVID Task Force transition from a large unified command to a department-centered task force prioritizing vaccination outreach in highly impacted communities, low-barrier testing, monitoring variants and an after-action report due before Thanksgiving; the city confirmed an existing PPE stockpile but said it will move to targeted prepositioning rather than indefinite bulk storage.
Dr. Andy Tenner, who co-leads San Francisco's COVID Task Force, told the Disaster Council that the department has moved from a citywide "COVID command center" to a DPH-led task force aimed at reducing hospitalizations and deaths in the most-impacted communities.
Tenner described the group's operational focus: "We're really fighting for those communities where COVID is still a major threat," he said, naming vaccination outreach in highly…
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