Coronavirus impact on the nations Food Industry, Small Business can be heard from representatives of the industry on supply chain issues, loss of customers, perishable food than facility cleaning and maintenance, this is just over 90 minutes. I call this hearing to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. I think everyone especially our witnesses for joining us today for our committees private hearing. I want to note some important requirement. Let me begin by saying the Committee Rules and practice continue to fly during hybrid proceedings. Members are reminded they are expected to adhere to these rules including decorum. During the period designated by the speaker the committee will operate in accordance with House Resolution 965 under subsequent guidance from the rules committee in a manner that respects the rights of all members to participate. House regulation requires members to be visible through video connection throughout the proceedings
To participate in another proceeding please exit this one and like back in later. Any that a member encounters technical issues that prevent them from being recognized from their questioning i will move to the next available member of the same body and will recognize the member of the next appropriate timeslot provided they have returned to the proceeding. In the event the witness loses connectivity during testimony or questioning i will preserve their time as staff address technical issue. I may need to recess the proceedings to provide time for the witness to reconnect. Finally remembered to remain muted until you recognize to minimize background noise. Over the last few months the outbreak of covid19 has led to an unprecedented Public Health crisis and creating a dire economic crisis for small firms. Three out of four businesses are experiencing a decrease in revenue and over half of Small Businesses are concerned about being forced to close. Small businesses across the Food Supply
Briefing, but did announce what he calls a significant change to the states stay at home order. Hospitals cannot resume surgeries not considered emergencies. It does not apply to purely cosmetic cedars. These are surgeries that are scheduled, but also essential. Tumors, heart valves. This comes a week after him build a plan that must be met before the state can get back to business. Among those goals, testing more californians. Which the governor said averaged about 2000 per day at the end of march. 16,000 on average currently with the forecast an average of 25,000 people tested by the end of the month. The minimum being 60,000 per day. Spin he said to me the need many of the testing sites need to swap testing kits from the federal government and during a phone call with President Trump on wednesday he was promised a shipment thats already on the way. He said we will be provided 250,000 swabs next week. He saidin the 3rd week expect to see a substantial increase above the 250,003 the g
The governor also said he is working with the federal government to obtain hundreds of thousands of swabs and other necessary testing equipment. Taking a look now at the bay area Santa Clara County has reported close to 2000 coronavirus cases and 94 people have died. Alameda county is over 1200 cases with 45 debts. San francisco also has more than 1200 cases and 21 people have died there. In the 9 bay area counties there are close to 7000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 238 people have died be the governor also spoke today about what is happening in Santa Clara County about a report the. Officials are saying the 1st death in the u. S. Linked to the coronavirus happened much earlier than 1st thought. Early february is when they have been. Jesse has more now on those findings and what they could mean moving forward in the fight against covid19. It was somewhat surprising, but not completely because when we identified our 1st travel associated cases in late january we had a very na
That i know so many of you demand and deserve. Reporter we are making progress, but we are neither there yet. That is the message from governor gavin newsom. Good evening, everyone. The governor says the curve has been flattened and hospitalizations and icu numbers have leveled off. Widespread testing have to be available before the state can reopen. Governor newsom has set a goal of 60,000 tests each day, up from the 16,000 that are available right now. He also said President Trump told him the 100,000 testing swabs are on the way, with 250,000 coming to california the following week. The governor said ramped up testing will supporting strong Contact Tracing program to identify people who have been exposed to the virus. The governor did announce one modification to the current shelter in place, hes allowing hospitals to resume surgeries and other procedures that were delayed. Resuming surgeries is a big relief to patients and doctors alike. Hospitals need the procedures for revenue an