Transcripts For CSPAN California Gov. Newsom Holds Coronavir

CSPAN California Gov. Newsom Holds Coronavirus Briefing July 13, 2024

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 location, primarily focused on Rural California. I can announce we are putting those tests in Sutter County and Shasta County as specific points of the movement in that space. All of those testing sites will be up and operational by monday. Verily also focusing on expanding their testing on a to a socioeconomic lens Diverse Communities not only in Rural California but inner city california. Real progress in that place. Yesterday we updated you as well on some efforts to train the work force starting phase 1, 10,000 tracers throughout the state of california. Partnerships that were forming in that space and Capacity Building that is also well under way. We talked broadly about other indicaters, one of the most important being how we protect the most vulnerable californians. How we protect people in congress regatt care facility, assisted living facilities, other adult and senior license facilities throughout the state of california. We have well in excess of 8,500 of these facilities in the state. The Skilled Nursing facilities represent 1,024, thousands more in home settings, as many or two or three people or six or seven in size throughout the state of california. We 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. But real strategies, real plans in that place give us some more confidence that were moving in the right direction. Accordingly were doing the same for our homeless population. Another sensitive needs population that we have as you know advanced a series of announcements, particularly project room key, partnership with fema, provide 15,000 hotel rooms. We already acquired 12,500 hotel rooms in that portfolio, thousands of individuals off the states, out of congress regatt shelters, into ice isolated isolated units, support on site, particularly three meals a day being provided. This is among many, many different homeless strategies throughout the state of california. Its just one we have consistently highlighted in that space. We are doing more as well in another indicater, and thats obviously securing the Surge Capacity within the Hospital System and outside of the Hospital System. These alternative care sites we have brought up. Weve talked abthe f. M. S. Sites, close to 2,000 rooms we were able to draw down with support of the federal government. The work that we have been doing collectively and collaboratively with cities and counties all up and down the state to provide assets as points of surge if necessary to address any increase in hospitalization, increase in need for isolation of vulnerable populations. We feel we feel we have done well in that effort. By therwhelmingly abided stayathome order and gave us time to put together physical assets and begin the process of procuring workforce through the health core adaptation in the workforce that we have now identified for a potential surge. Those individuals who have come back from retirement or are willing to come back, or who have particular job skills they believe can be transferred to meet the needs, we have a matching system and we have that capacity now in place. Physical sites, Human Resource sites, and more good news on ppe. Yesterday we announced 3. 1 Million Masks arrived saturday night. Million ofted 2. 78 those to regional sites throughout the state of california. Another plane is taking off today and will be landing tomorrow. We will get subsequent shipments. Ppe is not even close to where it needs to be and i recognize that. I can assure you the reason we 2. 87 Million Masks out yesterday is because of back orders. Want to broaden that beyond the health care space, provide protective gear to those doing testing and make sure they are adequately supplied, make sure people on the front lines, grocery workers, are adequately supplied, so are Nursing Homes, in Care Support Services and across a panoply of sectors we will talk about in a moment, to make sure they have adequate supplies. Progress in that indicator is also being made. We talked about another indicator, therapeutics. I want to remind folks that california, like massachusetts, endowed,y, is well well resourced in therapeutics space. In california and outside california, california is the birth place of biotech, life science capacity second to none, about therapeutics, medical devices. San diego, bay area, we are blessed. The number of National Health funded facilities in this state is a point of envy for many parts of the globe, not just across this country. As a consequence we are in advanced trials with partners in the private sector, working with our Uc Medical Centers and other radical centers. Medical centers. There is progress in this space. I will not promote a particular drug or trial, but as an in advanceddesivir trials, in partnership with gilead. Thisch and others in space, we are making progress at least in understanding what is real and what is not in the therapeutic space. With points of consideration always cautious in that space. That is one of our other indicators that is important. We will highlight issues around business and the schools and Childcare Centers. Before i get to that i want to mention the other indicator. If we pull back and modify our stayathome order to early, we start to see an increase in surge of cases, hospitalizations, and we have to have the ability to toggle back, adjust, the ability to fix it. That is a foundational indicator, number six, in terms of our capacity to deliver on the promise, what we are promoting today in this roadmap for reopening. Forgive me for being longwinded in that space, but i wanted to contextualize the framework, six indicators. When those turn green, when they moved from red to yellow, that allows us to make determinations. Let me introduce this for for happens to be the fifth indicator around businesses and schools and Childcare Centers. I want to make this clear. We believe we are weeks, not months, away from making meaningful modifications to that indicator in this space. Weeks, not months. Is that one week or three weeks . Weeks, not months. Again, based upon the data, the indicators. We will talk specifically about hospitalizations, icus and community spread. Dr. Angell will show you the model, the graph, so you can see the stability in that space, but we are still by no stretch of the imagination out of the woods yet. It is stable, we are not seeing substantial declines. The californians know we never experienced the big surge other parts of the globe and country had. The stabilization is a point of cautious optimism. Makeindicator allows us to the presentation we are making today. Weis specifically about what are talking about over the course of the next few weeks. For inr and plan realtime. Those are areas of our economy. Manufacturingut of nonessential materials, logistics for nonessential movement, areas around retail, curbside retail for nonessential items. Issues that have been defined around the need to address our kids in schools. We clearly have shut down. People are well aware of this. Schools are shut down for the remainder of the school year. Distance 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. 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. We make no decisions definitively in that space, but to know about the concern. As a parent myself and having talked to many other parents and educators, even kids, i think we might want to consider getting that school year moved up a little bit. That is one of the things we want to begin to socialize in this indicator. We need to start preparing for the physical change in the schools and environmental changes that are necessary to advance that conversation and make it more meaningful. Accordingly, in the childcare space itself. We are able to make these announcements and have a more public conversation with you about opening up with adaptation and modification. Meaningful changes to our stayathome order, because people have taken seriously, overwhelmingly, the stayathome orders and physical distancing. But i want to caution everybody, if we pull back too quickly and walk away from our credible commitment to not only bend this curve, but to stop the spread and suppress the spread of this virus, it could start a second wave that could be even more damaging than the first and undo all of the good work and progress you made. That could happen like this. The viral the virus has not gone away. Virulence is acute. We are by no stretch out of the woods. There is durability to this virus and there may be seasonality. Into thise lulled quiet sense of confidence, change our behavior, and put ourselves at risk, with this broad agenda of reopening. I assure you on a daily basis of the importance of our individual , and to the extent business is making decisions and modifications. Men and women on the front lines, entrepreneurs, not just organizers, but advocates, the importance and power of their individual decisionmaking in this space as well. We need to protect not only the Business Community, but customers. It is one thing to open a business, but there is no demand, it is a false promise. As someone who had the privilege of starting many businesses, i recognize i am not a job creator. Consumers are the ones that spend the money and create growth and job appreciation. I want to emphasize the importance of protecting customers and of course, iness foundationatio foundational resource, workers. Again, i deeply understand the needs for the Business Community to police get clarity. We are trying to provide that over the next few weeks so they can start to plan and look at their own supply chains, their ability to change the physical and environmental conditions in their businesses and look at the guidelines that will be advancing very specifically, sector by sector, for guidance on what we can do and what we cant do at this stage. We are not going back to the way things were until we get the kind of immunity that all of us look forward to, a vaccine that we look forward to. I want us to be cautious in this space but also patient. Inpatience, we understand meeting it. That is why dr. Angel will be up these newout indicators. Introduce dr. Angel. We have looked at this indicator through the prism of four phases. Phase one we are currently in, which is planning workflow, focusing on the supply chains, physical and environmental considerations, planning to do what we need to do on ppe, to make sure conditions are set so we can move forward with modifications of the stayathome. As we move into phase two where businesses can begin to reopen, we have to make sure that guidance is abided by and organized in a deliberate way. That is the job of dr. Angell. She runs Public Health in the state of california. It is her state state wide guidelines that will drive decisionmaking. We also want to drive localism. Forgive me for repeating myself again on this. Localism is determinative in this respect. I recognize the region a la in this state, variance in parts of in thise regionality state, variance in parts of the state. The bay area today announced extending their stayathome order through the end of the month. Tom not here as governor preempt their right at the local level 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, but all across the state of california. Accordingly we have a regional variance we also want to recognize for people that want to go even sooner, based upon regional conditions. Received aware i have many letters, many very publicly, provided to me in tweets and public pronouncements even before i had the privilege of reading them. First thing i recognize, a lot of those regions are moving forward, making their recommendations. Dr. Angell will talk about the expectations we have of making regional augmentations. They are going to be stringent. Not just when people think they are ready to reopen. Do thatot going to without, for example, Community Surveillance obligations that are attached to those regional efforts. Dr. Angell can talk about the seven underway, the five we will be doing very soon in 12 different counties in total. Community surveillance becomes foundational if we are going to loosen on a regional basis any of the new guidelines that we will be rolling out over the next few weeks. Two. Is phase one and phase retail, logistics, manufacturing, nonessentials, schools in the summer and preparation in the early fall, childcare facilities and centers with strict physical distancing and environmental considerations, workforce protections, customer and consumer protections. There is a third and fourth phase. The third phase is personal , spas,reas around gyms nail salons. People want to get haircuts. All of us. Those would fall into the third phase category. Dr. Angell will lay out details on that. Ultimately the fourth phase, the highest risk activities, the higher risk activities the highest risk, the larger public venues like conventions, concerts, Entertainment Venues with crowds would be in that category. Do not want to get ahead of myself. She will walk you through those four phases. Wese two is the phase believe is upon us in the next few weeks, the most important and getting everyones attention and focus so we can prepare for it in real time. I prepare inen real time, i mentioned yesterday i will be doing it after this press conference and presentation. We will be meeting sector by sector with our economic recovery team. We will be meeting today in the Retail Sector with some of the biggest retailers, like the gap ceo will join us. And Small Businesses 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. It is an example of the work we have to do, sector by sector, every day over the next days and weeks in order to prepare for this augmentation modification to the stayathome order. I have spoken long enough. Forgive me. A lot of what i said will be said more definitively and singly and most likely, who intly, by dr. Angell, am proud is here to make her presentation. We will follow up with questions and i will do my daily update briefly, if i possibly can. And q, governor. It is a pleasure to join you today with what i would call cautious optimism, as we just heard. Austins of optimism is based on looking at the data and seeing where we are today and giving you insight into the way we are thinking about where we want to be within potentially weeks and months to come. Guided by the data. I am pleased to share insight, thinking about moving forward anchored in that. I would like to start first with a reminder of what i shared with you two weeks ago when we shared our original roadmap. That was to discuss with you that everything we do will be a reflection upon six indicators. These relate to domains of work we know are inherently important as we think about moving forward in ways to moderate modify our stayathome order in a way that minimizes risk. This is not about a process that will remove risk, but it will be a process in which we can think about, until that time when we are all protected from covid19, at that time we either have broad scale immunity or vaccinations, or other mechanisms through which we know we can be safe, there will be a time when we have to be very thoughtful about the way we move. These six indicators which i have here are the ones we have just been reminded about. I will mention them to you. How this hastand informed our work today. The six indicators we showed with you shared with you included the following. Contact andto test, trace, isolate and support those who may have been exposed. An important tool in particular as we think about moving from the first to the second as we just as was just described to us. All of ourt tool for communities to keep ourselves safe. The second is the ability to protect those at high risk for covid19. Those are individuals in congregate care settings or 65 and older, or those with comorbidities, that if exposed, their risk is greater. We have made sure that is a central part of our dialogue and activity. It is also critical we maintain Surge Capacity for hospital and health care systems. As we move to this next stage it is not about removing risk entirely, it is about removing risk. Even as people move in an environment with minimal risk, there is a possibility of increased cases and we must make sure our delivery care system is in place. Therapeutic development to meet demand is an area we are working on to work move work forward. We will talk today about an indicator that focuses on businesses and schools and childcare facilities, making sure we support and make those

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