Apply to selfemployed, part time, and gig workers, people like uber and lyft drivers who have been hoping for state benefits. Basically, if you lost her job because of the coronavirus pandemic, on a planet benefits will likely be available and they are retroactive to the date you lost your job. Not just the day that you file. That is a big victory for people who have held protest arrests over the last month after their income dried up. Benefits are only being offered to fulltime company employees. These new benefits are part of the federal cares act which was passed earlier this month. Here are some of the qualifications if you are trying to apply for these new benefits. You have to be unemployed, partially up employ, partially or unable to work as a direct result of the coronavirus. You can apply even if you dont have a robust work history during the last 18 months, like if youre selfemployed or independent contractor. You can also apply if you have collected all in a planet benefits for which you are eligible and remain out of work. You can file and find a lot more information on the regular California Unemployment Development Department website and i have a link to that on my twitter page. Meantime, the governor is stepping up to the podium right now. Lets hear what he has to say. There are six indicators that will drive our decision making. Politics will not drive our decisionmaking. Protests will not drive our decisionmaking. Political pressure will not drive our decisionmaking. The science, the data, Public Health, will drive our decision making. We set forth a week ago a deep dive on one particular indicator around testing and tracing, tracking issues of isolation and quarantine. Today i want to update you on another indicator and that is specific to businesses, schools, child care facilities. First i want to remind all of you what those six indicators are. I mentioned testing as one of the principal indicators. We have made Real Progress in that space. Not nearly what we want to go and need to be, but Real Progress we are now seeing in the space. 570,000 tests have been conducted in the state of california and we are averaging over 20,000 tests per day and we are on our way to meeting 25,000 testing goal in getting to 60 to 80,000 very quickly shortly thereafter. I mentioned yesterday doing these endtoend tests being deployed at these locations primarily focused on Rural California and today we are putting those tests into Sutter County and Shasta County as specific proof points as the movement in that space. All of those testing sites will be up and operational by monday. Also we are focusing on expanding their testing on a socioeconomic with a socioeconomic lens to diverse communities, not just in Rural California but intercity california. Real progress in that place. Yesterday we updated you on some of our efforts to train the workforce and starting phase 1, 10,000 tracers brought the state of california. Partnerships are forming in that space and Capacity Building that is also well underway. We talked broadly about other indicators and most portt how e in Skilled Nursing facilities, assisted living facilities. Other adult and senior licensed facilities throughout the state of california. We have well in excess of 8500 of these facilities in this date. The Skilled Nursing facilities represent 1224, but thousands more in home settings, as many as two or three people, some six or seven in size, all throughout the state of california. We have updated you on a consistent basis about our efforts in that place and the sincere concerns we have, demonstrable concerns we have, about protecting our seniors in those facilities. We continue to focus on that above and beyond anything else as it relates to the data that comes in every morning because of the vulnerability of those populations. Real strategies, real plans. That gives us confidence that we are moving in the right direction. Accordingly we are doing the same for our homeless population, another sensitive needs population, and we have advanced a series of announcements, project room key, partnering with fema to provide 15,000 hotel rooms. We have acquired many hotel rooms in that portfolio. Thousands of individuals off the streets, out of congregant shelters, into these isolated units. Onsite support, three meals a day being provided. This is, among many different homeless strategies throw the state of california, one we have consistently highlighted in that space. We are doing more on another indicator and that is securing the Surge Capacity within the Hospital System and outside of the Hospital System. These alternative care sites that we have brought up, we talked about the fms sites, close to 2000 rooms, we were able to draw down with support from the federal government, the work we have been doing collectively collaboratively with cities and counties all up and down the state to provide assets as points of surge if necessary, to a any increase in hospitalizations or increase the need for isolation of vulnerable populations. We feel we have done justice in that effort and because of your good work on physical distancing, social distancing, because you have overwhelmingly abided by the stayathome order you bought us time to put together those assets and not only those physical assets, the began the process of procuring a workforce through that health core adaptation and the workforce that we have now identified for a potential search. Those individuals that have come back from retirement or willing to come back from retirement or people who have particular skills that they believe can be transferred to meet the needs, matching sysm and we have apacitnow ysal siteshuman sourcesi yesterdaanced the 3. Ion masks arrive saturday night. We have distributed 2. 87 million of those 3. 1 Million Masks to our regional sites throughout the state of california. Another plane is literally taking off today and will be landing tomorrow and we will be getting subsequent shipments. Ppe is beginning to loosen up, not close to where it needs to be, and i recognize that and i can assure you the reason we put 2. 7 Million Masks out yesterday is that was backorders. That was just in the healthcare space. We want to broaden that beyond the healthcare space and provide those masks and protective gear for people that are doing testing and make sure they are adequately supplied and make sure people who are on the front lines, grocery workers, are adequately supplied, clearly our nursing homes, inan across a panoply of sectors that we will talk about in a moment to be sure they have adequate supplies. Progress in that indicator r of i wato remind folks that california, like massachusetts, new jersey, like a few states, as well endowed and well resourced in the therapeutic space. I will remind people in california and outside california that the state of california is the birthplace of biotech. Our life science capacity is second to none, biotherapeutics, renovation, medical devices, san diego, the bay area, we are very blessed. The number of National Institute of health funded facilities in the state is a point of many other parts of the globe, not just across this country. As a consequence we are in advanced trials with our partners in the private sector working with our uc medical ogre in terms ofunderstaing the i will not promote any particular drug or particular trial, but just as an example, from to severe in their trials are happening in the state in partnership with gilead who is a statebased headquartered company. We are making progress, at least an understanding of what is real and what is not in the therapeutic space. Again, with points of consideration and always caution in that space. That is one of our other indicators that is important. Today we will highlight the issues around business and schools and childcare centers. Before i get to that, i want to mention that other indicator, that sixth indicator, and that is if we pull back and we modify our stayathome order to early, then we start to see an increase in surging cases, hospitalizations, and spread, we have to have the itto toacves ve the ability to fix it. That is a foundational indicator. In terms of our capacity, number six, is are promoting today in this roadmap for reopening. Forgive me for being long winded in that space but i wanted to contextualize the framework. Six indicators. When those turned green, they move from red to yellow, it guides our decisionmaking and allows us to make determinations. Dates dont, but data does. I will introduce this fifth indicator, around businesses. And around issues of our schools and childcare centers, i want to make this clear. We believe we are weeks, not months away, for making money that indicatorin the spe. Weeks, the indicators. We will talk specifically about hospitalizations and icus and community spread. Dr. Angel will come up and show you our model, the grass of actuals, so you can see the stability in that space and we are still by no stretch of the imagination out of the woods. It is just stable. We are not seeing substantial declines, but again california californians know we never experienced a big surge that other parts of the globe and other parts of our country had. The stabilization is a point of some cautious optimism and that indicator allows us to make the presentation that we are making today. Lets talk se few weeks to think about and consider more importantly to plan for in real time. Those are areas of our economy. Lets talk about business. Manufacturing, nonessential materials, logistics. Ar retai rr nonessential items, the issues that have been broadly defined around the need to address our kids and schools. We clearly have shut down, people are well aware, the schools for the remainder of the year. Learning continues at home. We recognize there has been a learning loss because of this disruption. We are concerned about that learning loss even into the summer, and so we are considering the prospect of an even earlier school year into the fall. As early as late july, early august. We are beginning to socialize that and we have made no decisions definitively in that space, but we want folks to know the concern around learning loss and the concern about waiting until later in the year into the fall for the lf, anng parent many othe i think we may want to consider getting the school year moved up a little bit and so that is one of the things that we want to begin to socialize in this indicator. We need to prepare for that and we need to start preparing for the physical changes in the schools and the environmental changes in the schools that are necessary in order to advance that conversation. With adaptation and modification, meaningful changes to our stayathome order, people have taken seriously the stayathome orders and physical distancing. I want to caution everybody, if we pull back too quickly and we walk away from our credible commitment to not only been the curve but to stop the spread and suppress the spread of this virus, it could start a second wave that could be more damaging than the first and undo all of the good work in progress that you have made and that can happen like this. The virus is not going away. Its a very lanza still is acute. Its ability to be transmitted still is dominant. We by no stretch her out of the woods. There is durability to this virus and there may be seasonality. We could be lulled into this quiet sense of confidence, change our behavior, put ourselves at risk, and put this broader agenda of reopening with modification at risk. I caution everybody, as it will be doing on a daily basis, of the importance of our individual behavior and to the extent business is making decisions and modifications of our business leaders. Entrepreneurs, not just organized Business Advocates of the importance of power of their individual decisionmaking. We need to protect not just the Business Community but customers of those businesses. There is no demand and its a false promise. If someone has had the privilege of starting many businesses i recognize that im not a job creator. The consumers, the people spending the money, create the opportunity for growth and job creation. I deeply want to emphasize the importance of protecting customers and of course, one of the businesses foundational resources, that is workers. At the same time we are protecting businesses as entities in the abstract. Again, im deeply sensitive to the needs for the Business Community to at least get some clarity and were trying to provide that over the next few weeks, so they can start to plan and look at their own supply chains, look at their own ability to change the physical and environmental conditions in their businesses, look at the guidelines that will be advancing very specifically a prescriptive lease sector by sector, for guidance on what we can do and what we can do at this stage. Were not going back to the way things were until we get the kind of immunity that all of us look forward to or a vaccine that we look forward to. I want us to be cautious in the space but also patient in the space, as well. Impatience we recognize and the imperative to me that impatience in a pragmatic and thoughtful way is white dr. Angel will be up in a moment to talk more specifically about these new phases that we will be rolling out with the syndicator. Let me briefly introduce those phases as i introduce dr. Angel. We have looked at this indicator and we looked at it through the prism of four phases. Phase 1, we are currently in. That is planning. Workflow. Focusing on supply chains, physical and environmental considerations. Planning to do what we need to do on ppe, planning to make sure conditions are set so that we can move forward with modifications on the stayat home for businesses, just as one example. As we move into phase 2, where businesses can begin to reopen, we need to make sure the guidance is abided by and it is organized in a very deliberate way. That is the job of dr. Angel and she runs Public Health an the st caia s her stli idelin that widrthon we want dr often said, forgive me for repeating myself again on this, and that is localism is determinative in this respect. I recognize the originality in the state, the variance, the different parts of the state, but i also recognize in that respect local Health Departments have points of view that must be considered, as well. For example, the bay area announced today extending their stayathome order through the end of the month. I am not here is governor to an to be even more stringent. I am going to respect that and i want folks to know, not just in the six bay area counties and a few extra cities, but all across the state, accordingly we have original variance that we also want to recognize for people that want to go even sooner based upon regional conditions. I am well aware, and have received many letters, most of them publicly provided to me, and tweets and public pronouncements, even before had the privilege of reading them, the first thing i recognize is that a lot of those regions are moving forward making the recommendations. Dr. Angel talk about what the expectations we have of making any regional augmentations. They are going to be stringent and not just because people think they are ready to reopen, even more loosely than the state guidelines. We will not just blithely do that without, for example, Community Surveillance obligations that are attached to those regional efforts. Dr. Angel can talk more about the seven that are currently underway, the five that we will be doing very soon as well different counties in total. Community surveillance becomes foundational if we are going to loosen on a regional basis any of these new guidelines that we will be rolling out over the next few weeks. That is phase 1. And phase 2. Retail, logistics, manufacturing, nonessentials, schools may begin in the summer and preparation of early fall, child care facilities, centers with strict physical distancing and environmental considerations at hand, workforce protections, customer, consumer protections. There is a ir phase. The third phase is personal care. Areas around, a lot of discussion around gyms and spas us. Phase category. Drout some details on that and of course ultimately the fourth phase which is the highest risk activity, not the higher risk activities in stage three, the highest risk activities, that is the larger public venues, conventions, concerts, the larger Entertainment Venues with crowds, that would be in that category. I dont want to get ahead of myself. She will walk you through those four phases. Phase 2 is really the phase that is upon us we believe in the next few weeks and perhaps most important in terms of at least getting everyones attention and focus so we can i will close before i put dr. Angel up and say, when i say prepare in real time, what were doing, i mentioned yesterday, were doing it right after this press conference and this presentation, we will be meeting sector by sector with our recovery Economic Recovery Team and will be meeting today in the Retail Sector with some of the biggest retailers of wellknown brands like the gap ceo will join us, small businesses, small Retail Sector, to help them help us work on the guidelines for this second phase that we are hoping to advance in the next few weeks. In order to prepare for the augmentation to the stayat home order, i have spoken long enough. Forgive me, a lot of what i say will be said much more definitively and distinctly and most likely eloquently by dr. Angel who i am proud and will followup with questions dr. Angel. Thank you, governor. Its a pleasure to join you with a message of what i what is best cautious optimism, as we have just heard. Optimism that is based upon us looking at the data and understanding where we are today and giving you some insight into the way we are thinking about where we might be within potentially weeks and months to come. We are guided by the data and so i am pleased to share with you a little more insight into thinking about how we are moving forward. I would like to start first with a reminder of what we shared with you two weeks ago. Our roadmap. That was to discuss with you bereflection six e do, it ll indicators. These indicators reflect domains of work that we know are inherently important as we think about moving forward in ways to modify our stayathome order, in a way that minimizes risk. Remember this is not about a process that is the risk from all of us, but it will be a process about we can think about until that time when we are protected from covid19, that timer either have broadscale immunity or vaccinations or other mechanisms through which we know we can be safe. There is going to be a time when we have to be very thoughtful about the way that we move. The six indicators that i have here are the ones we have just been reminded about. I will mention them to you so as we go through we can understand how these informed our work today. The six indicators that we shared with you included the following. First is the ability to test, contacts, and trace. Isolate and support those people who may have been exposed. Very important. A tool that we have as we think about moving from the first to the second as was just described to us. I will give you more information on this but really a very important tool for all of our communities to be able to keep ourselves safe as we move around further. The second is the ability to protect those who are at high risk for covid19. Those are individuals who are in congregant care settings, or those who are 65 and older or those with comorbidities that we know if they are exposed to the risk is much greater. Around everything we have done we have made sure that that has been a very central part of our dialogue and their activities. It is also critical that we maintain Surge Capacity for hospital and healthcare systems. As i mentioned, as we move to this next stage, it is not about removing the risk entirely, it is about minimizing risk. Even as people move in an environment with minimal risk there is a possibility of increased cases and we must make sure that her care Delivery System is there to support them in need. Therapeutic development to meet the demand is an area we are working on, as well, to make sure we help move the work forward and finally, were going to talk today about the indicator that focuses on businesses and schools, childcare facilities, making sure we support and make sure those environments are safe for them and that is what this next period is all about. As i move onto this next lie, importantly, our ability to determine that we are moving in away that is safe and best for californians, also recognizing there is some risk involved. Dr. Galli presented to you the slide that helps share with you a little bit about what at this moment has given us the sense that it is the right moment to Start Talking about preparedness for potential modification. That is a recognition of the way in which, and this is a surrogate marker, for the amount of covid19 and how covid19 might be moving in our communities. We are doing that at this time because of the absence of broadscale surveillance and were doing that with something that is an excellent indicator for us at this moment which is an understanding of trends and hospitalizations over time. The slide has shown us from the very beginning when we introduced our stayathome orders, and over this period of time, it appears, and we are watching the cautiously, we have reached a period of stabilization over the past couple of weeks or so. The total numbers of hospitalizations from covid19 and the total number of admissions into icus have remained stable. As the governor mentioned we are watching this carefully and should that change that will change the way we talk about our opportunities to move forward. At this point this is the right moment for us to have this conversation with you. Let me move on to the progress will look like. A couple of quick reminders. The covid19 is not going away soon. This is going to be a while. There are things, as long as covid19 is here, there are ways we can modify the way we move around in an environment that makes it more possible. Were talking about modifications to the stayat home order but they will be guided by health risks and a commitment to equity as we think about the kinds of interventions that are appropriate now. The final thing that is really important for all of us to remember is that ultimately we all have some responsibility in this. The responsibility exists at all levels from individual, from the way you make decisions, from the way you move in the environment. Ultimately the government in the way that we help support and lift up appropriate policies. The fourth stage is that we discussed, the first stage is the stage we are in. This is where we are at home or engaged in the essential workforce. There is work that still needs to be done before we move on to stage two and that is about making essential workforce environment as safe as possible. For those who are workers and those who may be staying at home but may be interacting with the essential work horse and essential businesses and doing those activities of daily living like going to the grocery store. We will continue the work we are doing across all of those indicators. We are also looking forward to stage two. Those lower risk workplaces, the goal here will be creating opportunities for lower risk sectors to adopt and reopen and when i talk about lower risk sectors those kinds of