Governor desantis all right. Well, good morning or afternoon. Nowadays. Se track this is an important part of the states response to the covid19 virus. This is a state logistics response center. It since about 2007, and a lot of other states have almost t, but this is 200,000 square feet of climatecontrolled warehouse space. Also, almost 20,000 square feet of logistics and command level offices, Conference Rooms and supports area. Today, this is going to be 24 7. G its been making a lot of deliveries around the state. Round its going to be the clock until we get on the other side of this. Here re will be employees nonstop. The National Guard has been reat in assisting us with what were doing. This response is very heavily a lot of key medical supplies, and so these masks so e the n95 that Health Care Workers are protected. Them to o distributing Nursing Homes and assisted living facilities so any staff our comes into contact with elderly residents is wearing a ask and we can mitigate any transmission in those centers. And that is really important. How re going to have much probably within the next eek, how many masks do you think . Over a million n95 masks. Millions more the weeks after that. This is very cutthroat right now. The distributors, most of the being directed to new york city because of whats going on there. Good job is doing a getting a lot here for the state of florida. So when that stuff comes in, to the tributed out counties, the Emergency Operations outfits in the theyre able then to work with local government, the hospitals, whoever may need of this. So we understand thats important. For Health Care Workers, protective equipment is probably the number one issue. Just look and say, ok, we only have so much. Of the patients come in that is infected they have to p. P. E. E if they dont and theyre exposed then they have to selfisolate for 14 days. That, anyone they had close contact with, particularly heir coworkers, will have to selfisolate for 14 days. A lot of hospitals are rightfully concerned about ending up with a lot of their people in selfisolation. So we want to avoid that. We want to give folks the protect themselves. Obviously we also dont want them to get infected as well. Sending this stuff out is very significant. Everyone has, quote, testing kits, but what is the ort supply is collection swabs to take the sample. O the state labs can run the tests. We have other certified labs throughout the state of florida tests. Run the we just need to have enough collection swabs to be able to and then send it to the labs. So we have, you know, more day. Ling in every again, a lot of the supply being distributed to new york city or diverted to new york city. Something thats important so the site today that oure seeing people go through at the Orange County convention center, that was a partnership. Hats the federal government providing supplies. And then state and local administering it. He federal government only processes 250 swabs a day out of those sites. So people know, thats their rule. We did a site down in broward ounty with the National Guard and Memorial Health care, we got it up to about 750 a day. Hats been going on for many days trying to get more test results. The test results are important people are antsy. This is an invisible enemy. Here is a lot we dont know about it. If people have symptoms, 65 icularly those who are and older who have a serious underlying medical condition they want to know. People to y way for have access to a test, go through and then most of the 90 , even amongst people attic and m symptomatic, those who tend to older and symptomatic, 90 negative. It is good for their peace of mind to see that and know whats on. G we in the state of florida have seniors, 65 and older, nd anybody with a serious underlying medical condition to stay at home. Is this group of individuals are the ones who suffer the worst consequences if contract the virus, and obviously people have talked bout the elderly, but an underlying medical condition, if you have some of these conditions like diabetes and other things, lung problems, you could be 30 years old, but that underlying condition, it doesnt well if you get infected by the virus. And so its not just elderly. Serious underlying medical condition. And our mendation Public Health advisory is to stay at home for the next two weeks. See how the data comes in and see what its looking like nd obviously be able to reassess. Thats really the best way that we can prevent bad outcomes here of florida. And if youre Somebody Just in the general public but particularly in those groups, know, just assume whatever youre doing, anyone you come in potentially could have it. And so keep a safe distance from people. Your hands and just understand that this is not a measles where it can infect 10, 12 people very easily. Is one that really if youre in close contact thats hen youre more vulnerable to it. So avoid crowds. Avoid close contact with people end up and assume some people have the virus. The c. D. C. One all mitigation measures statewide. Pretty sweeping mitigation measures. We did that as part of the 10day or 15day to spread. Then, different communities have done additional mitigation measures. Basically down to essential businesses. Everyone else is staying at home. Central florida theyve done something similar. Weve supported working with the to apply an ties approach that makes sense there. We have other parts of the state have sporadic cases and we still do the containment easures and we still do other mitigations, but that approach will be different. In terms of the challenges that were facing ight now, i think people realize that kind of the ep enters of this thing epicenters of this thing shifted. First it was wuhan, china. Italy. T went to now the epicenter worldwide is city. Rk were rooting for new york to get through it. We hope they will be able to health. Ple in good obviously, they have a lot of cases. But whats happened is and for florida is once the shelter in place was fleeing eople started the city. They started getting on flights the oing places all across world the united states, i should say. Many of those flights are here florida. Just as an example, you go back o march 17, flights from the new york city area to orlando, there were zero flights. One flight. 19th, one flight. He 20th, nine flights, because the order had been announced, not enforced. Hen, once you get beyond that, starting march 21 and each day, 44, 26. Ts, so thats a lot of traffic of top hot zone e being brought into floridas communities. Saw that these flights were this uptick, i order an executive requiring everybody arriving rom the new york city area to selfquarantine for 14 days. We have National Guard and some ther health folks at the airports. All these folks are having their they have to provide information. Provide a place where they will be selfisolating. And that is enforceable under order so they could face adverse consequences. My sense is most people will to selfisolate. I think they want to listen to directives. N case they dont, you know, were going to have an ability to deal with it. And i talked to dr. Birx about this. This virus has been circulating widely in new york city for certainly weeks and maybe more than that. Nd so ive also issued an executive order that any floridian, anybody in florida in new w who has been york city area for the last hree weeks should selfisolate and should identify any people in florida that they had close them know h and let that they had come from the hot shouldd that these folks check their symptoms. At the end of the day we have 21 million peopleplus here. We have a lot going on. Across rking diligently the state to be able to win this battle. This makes it more difficult more people flooding in when they were given stay at home shelter in place order. Please, please, if youre one of who come from the hot zone, dr. Fauci said yesterday, you have a much being infected coming out of that region than anywhere else in the country right now. Need to , you selfisolate. Thats the requirement in florida. Think do that, then i well be able to work and keep safe. Rrent residents and the white house is also on board with this. He Vice President issued directions about regardless of where youre going, if youre leaving the new york city area, sure youre selfisolating for 14 days. So thats very, very important. Orange county center here that youll have. I was visited earlier. Through. E going guard did a great job. We also have some of the folks procured in as terms of nurses and medical technicians who are working on a contract basis. These people are from other parts of florida. Some from other states. And theyre here to be able to us with the needs here going forward. At lso have testing site Hard Rock Stadium in miamidade county. Enough as we have collection swabs, well probably open up one at the marlins in miamidade. Duval county has a test site at he Jacksonville Jaguars stadium. Its run very well. And then broward memorial conjunction with the florida National Guard and my office. Week, and hat last its been doing about 700 to 750 swabs a day. Thats very, very important for folks down in broward who community ve seen spread there, but then now we also have people flying in and think thats going to exacerbate it. So its really important to be the people, ify have them isolate, and try to blunt the spread of this thing. Finally, we have a test site at the villages here in florida. Its in conjunction with u. F. Health. U. F. Health is doing a great thing. Doing typical clinical wabs for people that may have symptoms, but theyre also doing a Research Project so its going testing to tryom o figure out how widely disbursed this virus may be. No one really knows whether the virus anduire really not even know it and then pass it onto other people. Out there whoople get it are just without symptoms and never even think about it thats true that they can do that, are they contagious at that point . O theyre going to be looking at all those and theyll try to get a handle how widespread this ould be in a place like the villages . Theyre doing all the social distancing. The restaurants are closed, everything. A very active community, and so it will be interesting to see, but that some of the rm on policy in terms of what were doing here. Work hard on to all this. I think right now if you look at cases, you mber of have a strong number. But not a majority certainly close in southeast florida and the three southeast counties, broward, miamidade, and palm beach. Looking mething were at very closely, particularly now if new people are coming in ceding additional infections in parts of florida. I will get an update on some of he logistics efforts being undertaken by the state of florida. But the message is i think just working, everyone, just hard and staying safe. Older, if you have a serious underlying medical condition, staying at state of at the florida is recommending for you. If you do that and you limit contact with people, you a w, youre going to have really, areally good chance this all right. Those in the fight, Health Care Workers, first responders, i hard. You for working very i can tell you in tallahassee everyone has been working seven i s a week and no rest and know thats true throughout the state of florida so you have my gratitude for what youre doing. Jared. Jared governor, thank you. To the slrcr coming which has been the warehouse run mostly Hurricane Missions out of. In fact, weve been retooling warehouse now for the last several days, moving out urricane supplies so we can make more room, obviously, for health care and Health Supplies is a new viously mission. Governor, its because of your irection and your leadership with the division that early investments made and early on in to expand llowed us our Logistics Operations by, a, investingour team, b, in employees, also the fact we were able to get a logistics a logistics rd contract so we can have vendors e. O. C. , making sure that florida is a priority. And youre seeing thats why able to make order of these products over 3 1 2 weeks ago and those products, those a modities are coming in on rolling basis. So we are starting to really the the tide, get around corner on getting this p. P. E. In and getting it out rolling. 5,000 Mission Requests and those are being filled on an ongoing basis in with our partners at Florida Health, making sure we critical needs ost, Nursing Homes, first responders. Going down on p. P. E. Weve asked the federal n95 nment for two Million Masks from the Strategic National stockpile. Thankfully the federal good ment has pushed a deal of product from the s. N. S. Here to help fill gaps until our endors could start getting things in from manufacturing plants around the country and ut of the country, quite frankly. Were flying stuff in from all over the place. So youre talking gowns and booties and tieback suits. 2,000 ventilators we ordered. 5,000 ventilators we asked from government. In the other room, we have hospital beds, we ordered 3,000 of those. I. C. U. Beds. This is a massive basically sure l operation, making that while we dont necessarily have that need today, making have hat were ready to that need in the future. A lot of people think Emergency Management in the state of hurricanes. Ust but all of our Emergency Managers around the state and counties different know that we have a lot more responsibilities and we got to be thinking ahead. Actually today the army corps is out there doing at ssments for us, looking old hospital buildings, old hospital wings trying to figure we can bring online for bed capacity. Hospitals being deployed to get a gap measure so online. Ring them i want to thank the National Guard, Florida Health and all of cert people lorida who are here helping run the warehouse. The governor said were going to day. Urs a e had to get 15 18wheelers to get it out of the warehouse and those are being kept in another location so we can increase here. So we really appreciate all of their efforts. Team effort. Een a governor, thank you. Thanks, desantis jared. I want to thank mayor demings and everyone in Orange County of their hard work. This is a very dynamic and vibrant place. Little different when disney is not going and things of that nature, but well get there. So i want to thank the mayor for working hard. I also want to thank the sheriff his hard work and these re this is a little bit different mission, you know, for Law Enforcement than some of the other things. I know we worked closely with and things like that. But its a very important mission. I know theyre working very hard able to get it right. So thank you. To take some happy questions. [inaudible] so the mas ntis mass so the masks, the priority are the health care orkers and Nursing Homes and a. L. F. s. Its good if Law Enforcement is able to do but not every deputy will need it. Depends on the mission. It, jared as they get puts them out to the various counties. I think we look to see and figure out what the need would be in terms of different capacities to do, but, its a very, very urgent priority. When we started this, you know, he ordered all this stuff. We started getting stuff in. And then the crunch happened. Never seen a stronger runch on wanting medical supplies in american history. This was it. And obviously you had some that were flaring up Like Washington state and later new york city. Had to compete with that. But as we get these masks and million getting many over the next hopefully week or two. Certainly within the next week hundreds of e thousands more. Their directive is to get it those emergency operators so theyre able to work with their communities to it. Yes, sir. Indiscernible] Governor Desantis its not a mixed message. Dr. Birx said yesterday what a datedriven approach florida has had. Not every aid instrument is appropriate in every population in the country. So we have a situation here where, you know, we obviously southeast ak in florida so theyve gone to a stay at home. I worked with them on that. Of the orders to harmonize palm beach and broward counties. Obviously essential florida counties Central Florida together. Orked thats fine. There are certain parts of the state where you have more poradic cases and to issue to order someone not to be able to earn a paycheck when them going to work is not going to effect on what were doing with the virus, you know, hats something i think is inappropriate. I talked with mayor of jacksonville and i said, look, im willing to work with you on whatever. You want to work with your surrounded counties. If you want to go that route let me know and he just didnt think it made sense given the circumstances and so thats why. Some of d when you do these things, people respond different ways. You have to think what the second order effect is. New york did shelter in place, that caused thousands and thousands of people to flee. Going to make it more difficult, i think, nationwide for us to get a grip stuff. You look at california, they were ordered not to go to work out on ou look, theyre partying, theyre at beaches and stuff. Ou are probably less dangerous just driving your car going to the office than being with crowds of hundreds of people. O you just got to think it through. I supported the local things. Its a more surgical approach. Also is mitigating any amage that would be done for blunt instruments being applied in places throughout the state where it wouldnt be appropriate. [inaudible] Governor Desantis its a tough issue. We could set up checkpoints and stuff and say, ok. You come from new york . Where did you come from . He problem is it requires putting people there and it requires a process which will to get g up the ability supplies in, to get people to restock the grocery stores. Got to have the lanes of commerce open. People ngs closed for right now. So they need to be able to get food. Hey can go through a drivethru, they can get takeout, they can go to a grocery store. Starts to be depleted, its very, very difficult to be able to sustain. Logistically speaking difficult. However, anybody whos driving n, its not just the flights, you are required if youre newng from the no in the york city, you are supposed to selfisolate. T requires penalties if you dont. We would urge everybody coming in, if youre coming in, wed urge everyone to follow the directive of your state. Dont defy it. Of ourse, tens of thousands have denied if defied it. We were ending up in a situation where we have to pick up some of the pieces. To so you need to selfisolate for 14 days fromially if youre coming the new york area. You look at some of the places and there may be, you know, 40, in a really large metro rea, thats something you deal with. But you cant look at that and ay its ramp antley spreading across the community. In new york city, the subway, been passed is has around for weeks and weeks at a minimum. Been there you have a shot bringing that somewhere else. Florida, were dealing it the most. Not the only one dealing with it. I think other states will have to deal with it as well. I spoke with the president about it this morning and he understands. The Vice President , as we said same day, issued the warning about selfisolation. We need to do it. Purpose is all this stuff serving if youre going to have people just do what they want, and then cause problems for other communities . [inaudible] Governor Desantis how protecting communities that doesnt have any cases . Have been driven by the facts. As unately, youve not had many cases in Central Florida. I mean, knock on wood. Expected that. E anything that happens in the world, if there is an ailment going to end up in orlando somehow because of all the international travelers. Expanded here. Were obviously working to do it even more, but ive spoken to some of the hospital folks and of the sickest of the sick who are testing, very few are testing positive. Ready to help. But you know, right now you clearly have an outbreak in broward and dade beach. And palm i think most of the flights are going to that part of the state as well. O those folks, they are going to need to do it. So we very much will be helping we can. Florida if i think part of the reason you havent seen as much is because think the folks in Central Florida have heeded the warnings that people have said. Think theyve done a good job of practicing some of these social dancing distancing measures. Theyve done ings i think it could have effected. So you have the restaurants, you bars, you have these things. He idea is to try to reduce density as much as we can. Part of the reason that Central Florida has done a little bit etter is because theres a lot of people here but they are not as densely packed. They are a little bit more out. D but, yeah, this is an important part. The state, the big part of our plan. Where the facts take us. If we start to see indications here you are definitely going to see more assets being deployed. We set up a Field Hospital in broward county. Anyone in it yet because they havent had the hospitals faced a surge yet but were looking at the numbers and ok, if that happens, that may be a place where it happens. One in dade. Er we have facilities that could have an overrun of folks. Important. I would also say we did one of testing innovative projects anywhere in the country right here in Central Florida site. Ur villages obviously they are going to do clinical. Will be for Research Purposes and thats the type of data that will help us. F you talk about some of these orders about saying this, this, theres really no data to support it. It. People say to do wouldnt it be nice to have a little bit more data so we know may be how this virus operating, particularly in some of those communities . [inaudible] Governor Desantis well, thats a federal decision. Raised concerns about the new york flights about two weeks ago ecause you can see what would end up happening. Might imagine the airlines, they want to keep as many flights going as much as possible. Political back and forth there. It does make no sense. Youre telling people if you random town somewhere that you must be imprisoned in your home, dont do it, ur home, dont but yet people are riding the subway in new york city. Eople fly from all over the place from some of the hot zones. You know, really, how does that make any sense if were trying this thing . So some of these measures, i think, are more symbolic where doing can say theyre something, but when you let outlets like that, then thats not really solving the problem. And those flights i think have really been and im not aying you cant have a flight anywhere in the country. But as soon as this happened in wuhan, the flights from china off. Turned as soon as italy began having the outbreak, they shut off the from italy. And then all of europe. Getting the tarted outbreak. So we have an even bigger our own country within the new york city area and yet the flights had accelerated. E cant do it on the state level. What i did do, we did put in the screening. Were going to have people selfisolate. We have their information. Well be following up to make sure theyre doing that but its important. Lly its also, you know, the flight attendants, everyone who would plane. Hat remember, there was a guy that came from new york city to palm beach who tested positive and he the plane and then got the guy came down to florida and said he wasnt going selfisolate and then he finally said he would. But sometimes its just reckless behavior, you know, when you have people doing that. You unfortunate because have people who have now lost their jobs. Ou have businesses who may never be able to recover. Familyowned businesses. The unemployment numbers in the of florida, you know, we get 200, 500, 1,000 a day for time up until this point. You know, now were getting 5,000 to 20,000 unemployment claims a day. Whats going to happen to those people . Whats going to happen to them cant put food on the table, if they cant pay their rent or they cant pay their care of their families . Youre going to see not only economic consequences from that, you are going to see a lot of Public Health consequences from that. m worried about the Mental Health impact of whats happened. m worried about drug abuse based on some of the dislocations. Im worried about suicides. Worried about domestic violence. Im worried about child abuse. That stuffation like like that goes up. This may be one of the most people ant situations faced. If theyre going to put in with policies and yet policies are ineffective because i think it ghts, doesnt sit well with me and it probably doesnt sit well with a lot of folks in america. [inaudible] Governor Desantis its not a problem that youre at a restaurant. You are at roblem anyplace. You dont want to have large crowds. Thats what youre trying to do. Limit large to crowds. Have as much t transmission of the virus. You have to think one step ahead. Whether the estion School Closures have been effective. Evidence. Eally no it was recommended and we kind of worked with the our education. R of i think singapore, i dont think they closed the schools. Some didnt. Difference how the virus spread in either of the countries based on that. To es not a lot of data support it. So you need to look to say, ok, f the schools are closed, then what stress does that put on the parents . If you have someone working in will they take care of the kids . There are second and thirdorder consequences from this that i people really need to think through. I think part of what youre seeing in some of these other is when restrictions are put in, people dont have an outlet. Hey then go and try to find one. I talked to a buddy in southern california. Never seen the beaches as packed. Hes never seen some of the parties that are going on an use people dont have outlet. So you got to figure out, how can you channel this in a way people understand that theres a time of sacrifice but still have an ability to maybe fresh air, maybe take their mind off things. Crowd. Not in a large stay under 10 people, but do that. I think thats kind of the needle that you need to thread. Ive tried to do. I think you have better chances that than being like some of the other things. So were going to continue to evaluate. Talked to dr. Birx and all these people about whats the data on when this has america before and this really has never been done in america before. Something that is kind of like a reallife experiment. You know, were going to see how effective some of this stuff is in the immediate tasks and then well see what the consequences doing that for the medium and long term. My goal is to try to protect the i can. Alth as best and thats obviously in both the virus but involves some of the Public Health issues that could also be inpacted by what were doing here. Thank you, guys. Well see you later. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] Florida Governor ron desantis with his States Coronavirus briefing. Our e going to continue live coverage of state leaders going now to new york to hear rom new york governor andrew cuomo. This started about 15 minutes ago. Cuomo were also house abouthe white another concept. New york has the greatest need numbers. Of new york also has the most
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