Pressure wont drive our decision making. The science, the data, Public Health will drive our decision making. We set forth a week ago a deep dive on one familiar indicater around testing and tracing, track, issues of isolation and quarantine. Today i want to update you on another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. Another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. First i want to remind all of you what the six indicaters are. Mentioned testing as one of the principal indicaters, we have made progress in that space. Not nearly where we want to go and need to be but Real Progress we are now see in the space. 578,000 tests have been conducted in the state of california. We averaging over 20,000 tests a day. And we are well on our way to meeting our 25,000 testing goal and getting to 60,000 to 80,000 very shortly thereafter. I mentioned just yesterday optum serve that was doing the endtoend tests, deployed at 80 additional locatio
Are refocusing our energies and sense of purpose and a sense of optimism and faith we will get through times challenging, times like today, difficult moments that all of us are working through to reconcile the world we are living in and to reconcile the need to pay our rent and mortgage and to understand whether or not we can educate our kids at home with all the other burdens and challenges we face in the household and where we are going as a state and as a nation. The old adage we are nothing but a mirror of our consistent thoughts. Whatever we tend to focus on we find more of it if youre like me you are focused on the nightly news, 24 7 cycle seven days a week, a lot of anxiety is running through those broadcasts. A lot of fear that is induced focusing on what this nation and the world is doing to meet this pandemic had on. That stress is manifest and that stress is real and all of us work through that stress differently. No one can moralize how some deal with it versus others. Some
Now hear about. Reporter they are getting accustomed to seeing empty schoolyards and and the School Buildings it will be unlikely that the students will return back to the classroom this year progress would the right thing for us to do for our children and the parents and households and for the communities for which they reside is to make sure that we are preparing today to set our School System where we are increasing class time and increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligations through Distance Learning. Reporter google is stepping up to facilitate Distance Learning for all students, tony thurman is following up on a memo sent to School Districts statewide. Out of an abundance of caution we believe it is most important that all of our schools maximize their efforts around Distance Learning to help all of our students progress would now districts throughout the state are working out details to handle Distance Learning making sure that all kids have the internet and computer acce
Refurbished for exactly the purpose they are assigned and again our hearts and prayers go out to everybody as it relates to meeting this very difficult week had on and making sure that we have all of the appropriate personnel and the appropriate sites as well as equipment, particularly ventilators, to support those most in need. I want to make an argument for the state of californias efforts putting in person active the work being done, not just here that over the course of many months, by reminding everybody that we started on this journey in january with repatriation flights that came back into the United States through the state of california for people in mainland china, american citizens, we brought them onto air force bases here in the state of california and began the formal partnership with the federal government, the cdc and their respective agencies. Of course that generated a lot of attention and obviously raised the alarm bells for the state of california that we needed to
Hayward, workers wore homemade masks but target comiin thiweek also ems appear to have an issue with paper mask and back at the mcdonalds, they also had masks and gloves. Lets go reporter jeremy carr is not as lucky. He works at jiffy lube and says employers are failing their own workers. Can get to a restaurant and get this. And this is their idea to keep us safe . Thats not all right, man. Reporter its taken some time but lawmakers are finally working on a bill to provide food and retail employees sick pay and protection from retaliation for calling in sick at the end da tforests or ermaking a killing right now like walmart and target. Theyre never going to give anymore than they have t and mcdonalds released a statement saying we are disappointed by todays activities as they do not represent the feedback we are hearing from the majority of our employees across the country where 99 of our drive thrus are open to serve the Health Care Workers on the front line the way, if you d abt wn