Place in northern california. We are continuing r ongoing nav today, President Trump signed into law coroa new 484 billion stimulus package. The bulk of the money, 310 billion will replenish the paycheck protection program. This second round of relief also includes funding for hospitals, testing and disaster related votes. Joining me now by skype is a physician and Congress Member cok ress member thyou so much for joining us. Thank you for having me on. Letstart with the paycheck protection program. What about the momandpop shops . U know, what we saw in the first interaction, the first round of 50 billion was the biggd firms that relationships with banks got the bulk of the money. We really wato make sure that these resources got down to the smaller businesses, as you saw the momandpop businesses are really devastated by this. You know, for credit unions, community banks, that s the place where a lot of the smaller businesses come back. Towe also wanted make sure this money didnt go to hedge funds. And we also put those protections and. What else will is new legislation differ americans . It continues to help shore up our billion r hospital or providers. Community Health Centers can apply for those funds. We want to make sure that that is available for those workers. In addition, we saw more of a democrats probably failed to apove if you want us to keep our revenue in california, i think ex ought to helping the United States anyesterday, in President Trump suggested light and disinfect hint as a way to fight the virus. In a recent terview you gave, the president a c for his response to the pandemic. Would you still give him a passing grade . You know, i may have to do revise tha to a d or an f. I would tell , them wh leave the healthcare tips and the medical suggestions to the doctors. He has great doctors, tony felty, deborah birx and others. Anyone watching out there, household disinfectants, cleaning products or for surfaces. Dont put them in your dy. Follow the directions on those products. And you know, maybe i am being generous wh a d. You know, President Trump does have these very ngst advisors when it comes to the health response. And yet, it seems he ill speaks from a different plac a different voice. And he not always in line with those advisors. What is going on there . What, how do you as a Congress Member put pressure on this administration are to h coherent, clear and curate message. Do you know, the problem is i dont think President Trump listens to anyone buthhimself. Ughout his presidency, he has failed to follow adviso and some of these debunked theories it was fine for to study hydroxychloroquine, but lets do it in a scientific way, see if it works obviously. E data right nodoes not look like it works, so i think its dangerous when the government the president ofi the states goes out there and has these theories on ingesting cleaning products will kill people. Erous d so i wish we could control what the president says. Is thus far, not even an advisor can control what he says. Lets turn now to testing. Jessica harvard eysays that need to triple the number of test that are out there before they country can consider reopening. Do you agree with that number . Absolutely. We are still not testing enough folks. We haveto ramp up the diagnostic tests. Those cotton swabs that allow you to tell whethethe person passes the diagnosis or doesnt. To we also have start ramping up serologic testing, those antibody tests that will help us make decisions. Community have certlevels a of immunity. We recognize that we what has surprised you about our nations response to this pandemic . I think the Silver Lining is that we ar all inthis together. I saw survey results that said 75 of californians recommend that we stay at home. Its amazing how quickly we fell into coliance and then you are seeing neighbors look after neighbors. The human kindness and that is coming up. Lets come out of this looking after one another, because we are all in this together. Congress member, omni barra ufr elk grove. Thank you, be well. As the coronavirus cuts deeper into the nations economy this week, several besouthern states are ginning to reopen. This comes as protests were held across the nation over strict shelter in place reguiations. In califoGovernor Newsom says it is too soon to riddick to date for the state loosen restrictions. But San Luis Obispo says they are ready to reopen now. The counties reprentative has asked the governor for his permission. Joining me now is assemblers wh member. Do you think San Luis Obispo county is ready to start reopening . We took aggressive action. We issued our own stayathome order a day before the state issued one. We have acquired ventilators. We have alternative care sites at the university campin the gym. It is capablof ramping up to treat over 900 people. And while we were doing all that, keeping a careful eye on b our s of cases. Right now, in the entire county of 280,000 people, we only have icu, in the hospital. N the our numbers are looking good, we have done what we needed to do to find the curve, to get ready on the healthcare side, and i think it is time to transition to looking to inreopening the economy a phasedin, scientific, intelligent manner. Pr so yohau ve the been county. Can you give us a first look at the changes residents with the admap . Start llowing that well the first thing is our county officials, in consultaon with doctors and epidemiologist, and under the direction of our county Public Health director, they are all quite mpetent. They havcommended certain segments of the economy that has been closed down can start reopening. Its going to start ngwith allomedically necessary surgeries. They have delayed treatment for a heart condition, they need get bain the hospital and get treated. We are going to move from their to possibly allowing restaurants to reopen with proper physical distancing, ppe for the workers, the proper acing in the restaurant. And we are going to be doing that in phases. We are going to be tracking as we go to make sure not seeing a spike in cases and that we can itep our ho capacity and our healthcare capacity ahead of the curve. I think that is a way forward that would work for a lot of coties. I think r numbers justify doing it in that way, and we are simply asking the governor for permission to start oftakin some those steps now. Our geographic relatively speaking, isolation, we are 200 miles from San Francisco, 200 miles from l. A. What works in l. A. Rk here, but we are in a ly pretty good spot where we can start looking at reopening the economy. Its important to do that not only for people whare out of work, they are scared. Businesses are closing, where they are going to close for good. Its impoant on the economic side, but also, history shows us that prolonged recessions and high unemployment have disastnsus Public Health uences of their own. Su icide yes, we have been studying this is a Society Since e Great Depression wh people are out of work in large scale numbers, and depression goes up, stress goesup. Heart attack snow. Icide goes up. We are already seeing those indicators starting to go up here in our county and t througho state and if we are going to waive the Public Health in the lance of good policy, my contention is that we need to be looking at all types blic health issues. Weve got a pretty good handle on the virus right now. In our county. And i realize that not the same plac the state is in that is why i think it makes a lot of sense as Governor Cuomo has announced in new york it to look at doing this ongia al basis and we are asking the governor of california, Governor Newsom the permission to start doing that on a asregional basis well. Will you move forward with this plan whether or not you get a direct okay om the governor . Al our county offiare not going to do anything that directly conflicts with the governors statewide executive order. I dont ink that would be responsible to do, but where that order allows for certain things, we are going to do those things that the governors order allows us to do. Tell e me about Economic Impact of the coronavirus on San Luis Obispo county, which is generally a very agriculturalrea. You have a lot of tourism as well. Well our two biggest components of our local economy, as you mentioned our riculture and tourism and they have been hammered. Unfortunately, no matter what we do, if are keeping our eye on the ball, as we need to do during the phased reopen of c the statewide omand our local economy, tourism is probably going to be the last industry to come back. That is going hit us hard in San Luis Obispo county, which is why we need to get going as l intelligand quickly as we can on reopening some of our restaurants and maybe our wineries. A lot of people goto parks and small gatherings of five or less. Things of that sort. I think on the agriculture sectoraid, if we n start phasing in some reopening of the restaurant, then those contracts, they rely on for seing their lettuce to e restaurant, they will start renewing those contracts. We can get the wheels spinning there economically. A little bit faster. Because im telling you what, my office is processing unemployment claims, helping people with that. We are seeing unprecedented calls for ntan employ we are helping every Small Business we can, trying to get federal bridge financing. To stay alive are now. Is family member, do you believe approvgoof how rnor newsom has been handling the coronavirus pandemic here in california . I think he handled the first phase of the, the response to the coronavirus, issuing the stayatme order, i think at that time it was the right move. And i think he handled the rst phase of respondi this virus pretty well. We are entering quickly into the second phase,which is handling the economic recovery and doing that in a way that ma doesn us a slide backwards on the Public Health front. And me and a lot of local electives and people from looking for leadership from him to let us sort of plan as a region and on a local level, what we need to do to accomplish our. Assembly member jordan cunningham, thank you so much for being with us today. This week, a team of researchers from ucsf begin testing two very different on how the coronavirus is s spreading. And you may have some degree of immunity from it they first tested nearly the entire population of bolinas. The small coastal town in western marin county. Not only did they look to o see actively infected, they also took blood samples to screen for antibodies. Antibody testing helps scientist plural mac see who has been impacted in the community. This week, they will kickoff the second phas joining me now is dr. Brian greenhouse. An associate professor of medicine at ucsf and one of the principal investigators of the study. Th us. Ou so much r being thank you for having me on the show. Lets talk about the study. Its the firstime of the nation. What is the basic question you are hoping to answer . Its because many people know, we do not have enough testing going on inthis community, or in the world really to undersnd where we are the epidemic. We need to know where we are to know what to do rwmoving d. One of the things were trying to figure out is how do we go about testing a la e number of people in a way that is safe, efficient, and can get information back to the people thateed to knowthe answers as soon as possible. That was really one of the most important things about doing the study. Really just figuring out the logistics of how we can go out to a communitrtner with that community, leverage the resources, volunteers, everyones expertise. And the partnership between an acadic institution like ucsf and a community of bolinas to test everyone. Why these two communities . There are two reasons for that. The first is that these communities are very different. They are just a few miles away. We are testing them within a ek of each other. But they are miles apart within how the communities are structure. Bolinas is a rural district and is a. M. Essentially in the same geographic area, it will giveta us imp information about communities that might rely on that spectrum may be. The other reason that linas was chosen, is because the community chose to do this. They came to us at f. Usc and they said we t dove the ability to get testy. We have the opportunity to do thrk if you with us. That was an incredible opportuny for us to work with the community. How manywere you able to test and what is your expectation for the Mission District . We dont have the final numbers. That is what we are working around the clock right now, trying to get all of our data ght now. On the order of 1800 people, we are testing and bolinas. For the Mission District, we e are not testing entire Mission District. We are hoping to do somewhere between 5000 and le6000 pe lets talk about the Antibody Testing youre doing. You are not just checking who has covid19 right now. But potentially who has been exposed to in the atpast . Can and cant antibodies tell us . We hope in the future, they can tell is a whole lot more than they can buright now, one thing that we are being very careful to communicate to the commnity and participants is even if they do ha a positive antibody, which is evidence of prior infection, we do not yet know at this time if that meanthat they have any degree of protection against the virus. So they should in particular still take care of themsectes to profrom infection and illness. What they can tell us is who might have been affected, and particularly, we use this information not just to look at each individual, but on a community level, but what proportion of people my has been infected. This gives us ally impoioant informas to the degree of transmission that might have been occurring in the past, because when we test people r actiinve ioantibodies allow us to go bac in time and see what we may have list over the last few mo weeks or hs. You mentioned the shortage of testing kits. You said we should look for anything with a stick and fuzzy and. Sounds pretty di yeah, its really surprising. E thing that was surprising to the Community Members and to us as we look to what would thb barriers to doing this is that the Testing Capacity was actually do this. The ability to run the pcr actually have the capacity. So basically, we went through all the different pieces at we woulneed to do the testing that it came down to procuring swaps. The little qtip things that you stick in somebodys throat and nose to be able to test them. A number of people working together, we were able to nd out how to get them. But it was really interesting studies to have the come down to something as simple in geswabs for a study. From a Public Health perspective, what needs to happen before we can safely th reopen . Is a great question. We dont have all the answers. But i think e experiences we have had, and the lessons that we have learned, and how you can safely and officially test an entire community will be one of the steps. We need to think weabout how can expand testing and surveillance capacity to multiple communities and doing a way that nais c. And provides information in realtime that we can respond to. Of these brought interventions and do things in a more targeted way while still remaing safe. The Mission District is going to be tested for three days after that. What you hope to see from artha particportion of the testing . Thing we want to see who is infected so we can protect themselves and their community. We are lookinto see how much affection is going on in the community and who is being infected and who is getting sick . And we are also learning to see how, we have just in a this in rural area and over a few days, we became a well oiled machine. We have a blueprint we are hoping to share with communities and towns elsewhere. Now, we are going to do things in a more densely populated urban community. The lessons we that will hopefully be a nice blueprint for other cities and urban communis that are hoping to do some more things. You have worked extensiely in the transmission of the disease. Malaria. What is interesting to you specifically about the coronavirus . One of the very interesting thinit is how is spread across the entire world. Many of the diseases i have worked on are only prevalent one part of the world. Here, we have a disease that is really afg everybody and because of that, the entire world is really chipping in to work together. Across displines, across institutions d across countries. Its one of the most uplifting things for me working in this very stressful time to be able to communicate with he colleagues for being so open with what they are doing and working so hard to bring all of the experience and resources they have to bear to help fight this disease. Dr. Brian greenhouse from ucsf, think you so much. Thank you for having me. Ma parents are finding homeschooling children to be a challenge. To help ose parents and the kids, bestselling San Franciscobased illustrator Wendy Mcnaughton launched draw together with wendy mack. To drop everything from bicycles to penguins. Raising funds tobring lessons plans to thousands of children. Joining them now from their home in San Francisco are wendon mcnaugnd her wife, carolyn mc paul. We haare so y to be here. I have to let you know, that in the name of research, we as a family went through one of your lessons yesterda it was lot offun. We drew a rocketship together and we had a great time. Everybody laughed. Evanybody enjoyed it. I think one of the fun things about this is that while yohave made it for kids, you have said those kids are from ages two to 82. You have got all ages who are participating in these classes online. Can you tell me a little bit about the show that you have created. Great rocket ships by the way. Amazing. Draw together with wendy mack. E we created at day, we started the day that the School Closures habits. And we di30 minute training daily drawing classe for kids of all ages. Where families can gather and draw and it gives kids an opportunity be creative, have fun, process feelings that are going on and also gives parents a 30 minute break to get some work done. T you two dohave kids, what made you decide to create something that really was aimed at helping kids get thugh the day. What we have kids in our life and we also have a lot of friends we parents, so we understood that when School Closures happened, that was going to really really stressful and we thought that maybe we could just alleviate some of that stress with d parents and some fun. Initially, it was kind of light. A light have our. But it turned into something a bit bigger. Yeah. We have gotten so many responses from parents, almost wamediately. That iproviding structure for the days. And that it was giving the kids something to kind of focus on and to help process. Like i said, a thlot of gs that they are going to right now. And so much is going on, and the kially might not understand all the details about it, but they take a lot of it in. Are is such a wonderful way for kids to get all of our onthe page. To get some energy out. And at the same time, have a great time. So we tell parents a lot, that it has been helpful on several levels. Wha the show providing the two of you right now . Well we are not in the house with a just a couple animals d each other. We dont go out a provides a little structure for us frankly, and a little stress release. Yes. And also, boof our work is involved. We do a lot of research and i do a lot of dryi outside and stuff. So we are not able to go out and engage with the world and the way we normally do, but we o are able to that indoors. It has been great to connect with so many kids and families all over the s world. Therke thousands of kids from 40 countries that are watching every day. I feel that we have helped create this community of kids. Friends and hangout with them in the way that they want you every day. Were here, we can gather together every day and draw together. They show their stuff online, people see each others drawing. Its a community there. Have you o collaborated together before . And how do you split up the duties for draw together . Well, i am the camera person. And the animal wrangler. I mean we are the only two people, but we are the people that we can be within six feet of each other. So it is kind of a rinkydink operation over here. Carol is the st incredible director of photography that the world has ever known. Its amazing. Everybody is becoming very resomeceful in this all of this untapped talent. Caroline does everything behind the camera and i do everything in e front. We have collaborated o books before. So we have a really great working relationship i mean w so ware good at working together. And we just evolved it into is new class. You also fuhave a me page set up to help kids in underserved communities. Tell me about what youre hoping to do wi that mone that you raise and what you have been able to do already. Well the art classes themselves are free. But our supplies are not free. Th can actually bepretty pricey and right now, a lot of families are stretched just with housing and food. So considering thatour pplies are kind of like this Emergency Relief Service for kids, we think its really important that all kids have access to making art right now, whether they have access to the internet right ldw, they sh have the supplies. So we started a gofundme to raise funds and partner with communitybased organizations to get our supplies inthe hands of the kids who need them. And we are working with local Art Supply Stores to help business out there she. It is kind an ongoing what is the status of that gofundme right now . We actually just fulfilled our goal. It started here in the bay area. We are going to be able to provide 1750 kits in are sending them all out all over the city with our partners, communitybased organizations. And then we are going to continue raising funds and reach beyond that other parts of the bay area and to the east coast. Wendy mcnaughton and yocaroline paul, thank so much for joining me. Thank you sir much for having us. You can follow ndy at instagram at wpadymac. Classes are archived on youte and can be found through the channel, wendy mack. As always, you caalways find more information on kqed. Com. You can reach me through my social media priyadclemens. Thank you so much for joining us, stay safe. Captioning sponsored by wnet sreenivasan on this edition for sunday, april 26 the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. 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