President Dudley Thompson called the 5,353rd Civic Thursday meeting of the Rotary Club of Oakland to order at 12:30 p.m. and was greeted by a large audience of Zoom and in-person attendees. He noted his agenda and notes were missing from the podium, so he decided to “wing it”.
Past President Peter Sherris introduced our speaker, Dr. Monica Gandhi. She is a Harvard Medical graduate and a member of the UCSF faculty. In recent years, she has achieved national prominence as the Associate Division Chief (Clinical Operations/ Education) of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/ San Francisco General Hospital and as the Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the Medical Director of the HIV Clinic at SFGH. From the outset of the Covid pandemic, she has lectured and published extensively on the science behind the spread of the disease, mitigation strategies, and natural and vaccine-induced defenses. Dr. Monica Gandhi discussed the state of the COVID 19 pandemic, where we are headed and how will it end. She expressed confidence our population will soon reach a level of immunity, caused by the combination of vaccination and the fact that Delta variant will infect almost all the un-vaccinated, that the pandemic will burn out relatively soon.
President Dudley shared the sad news of the passing of Michael Morgan, Musical Director of the Oakland Symphony. A minute of silence was observed in his memory. It was only two weeks ago that Michael and the Symphony were inducted to Oakland Rotary through corporate membership.
Past President and Past District Governor Ed Jellen appeared through his special Zoom “TV channel” circa 1950, to great visiting Rotarian District Governor Richard Flanders. Members in the ballroom introduced their guests.
President Dudley reminded everyone that the September 2nd meeting is Zoom only. The September 9th, 16th, and 23rd Club meetings will be in the Ballroom as well as on Zoom. He urged everyone to arrive in person at 12 noon for those meetings in order to mingle with fellow Rotarians. The last meeting in September will be a Zoom-only meeting on Wednesday, September 29th when the other First Five Rotary Clubs (Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle) will join us.
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