Thanksgiving. I believe we are going to have to make many of those same arrangements into the christmas holidays. Why dont we go to the first slide . Ok. Today, we have 1684 new cases. That brings us really to a startling yearly 100,000 cases statewide. 97,095 total cases. Today, we have an additional 28 deaths. That brings our total to 1568 total deaths statewide. This is really the grimmest part of these updates for everyone on the state of new mexico team and i know for all new mexicans, i gave personal condolences to some families who shared their information with me this morning in this incredibly painful, of course, these are unnecessary deaths and we all must do better. I do want to alert folks that in the details of the emails we send out about the new mexicans we lose to covid, we lost two individuals in their 30s with no underlying conditions. And i dont report this, and we dont put it in our daily updates that go out via email or on our websites and in the media, to provide any more gruesome details about this deadly virus. But to remind everyone, again, it does not care how old you are. It does not care what Political Party you are. It does not care what gender you are. This virus can be deadly for anyone. And while we know that it is particularly precarious for individuals with underlying conditions, therefore older populations can be most at risk, we want to point out that we are learning that science as science catches up with this virus, we are continuing to learn about its longterm devastating impacts, underlying combat conditions that seem to stay far longer than the virus, and the fact that it can be deadly for anyone. So new mexico, we really have to do better to protect each other. Hospitalizations, we currently have 876 hospitalizations. And we have 146 on ventilators. For individuals who may be joining us for the first time, we want to make sure folks have information about hospital capacity. We also track what is likely to occur by the number of people on ventilators. We know if you require breathing assistance, that puts you in a very risky category for recovering with this deadly virus. So that is far too many in that category and our thoughts and prayers are with those families and those patients as they fight against covid. Next slide. Today, we announced it on friday, but i want to provide as many details as we can. What do i mean by that . Things are more do. This virus moves through the country, and we get more data as there is more studies. This is what we believe is a mechanism that will allow new mexico to move through the virus, protect new mexicans, provide a little bit of more economic certainty for the entire state as a whole. So we are calling it red to green. What it basically means is that we have got three areas in which we will look at the state to determine what kinds of things will be available and open, and what kinds of restrictions would still need to be in place in order to protect as many people as we can, to prevent our Hospital Systems from being overwhelmed, and to lead the state in as cohesive a way as possible, but allow some local flexibility in that regard, if those communities can get their constituents to work a little bit more closely together. We think that is possible in this framework. So, we are going to go to this threetiered system, after our reset. Our reset ends. On wednesday, we are going to go to this red to green a by county county by county framework. I already talked about the city read level. So red, red means what you would think it means. It means our case levels are too high, our Positivity Rates are too high. Therefore, we are not going to move a whole lot in terms of garnering new access. I want to point out, it will come in the next slide, there are some additional benefits after the reset. So that we can again learn to manage this virus. Not let it manage us. We learn to manage it. And still work to prevent spread. Yellow means that youve got a better Positivity Rate than red. We will show you what those numbers are. Or that youve got a lower average of new cases. We know those are the two things, you dont want a doubling of your cases. You dont want a rate of infection that continues to go up. You dont want Positivity Rates that go up. I went to point out that when new mexico was doing well, we had an average, a 3 Positivity Rate. We saw other states as high as 25 and 30 . We are now seeing many, if not most new mexico communities, in the doubledigit range. And we are seeing the country in as much as a 50 positivity range. What does that mean . For every person tested, one person positive, 1 negative. That means the virus is far too prevalent. That means wherever you go, you are increasing your chances of getting the virus or giving the virus. So that is what we are working to avoid in new mexico. And we can do this. Green means we get right back to those low Positivity Rates. Remember, we used green. That was the color to show when schools could open, how that would work. That is a 5 Positivity Rate. We are going to go through that with dr. Grayson in a minute with a gating criteria. It means you have a low average of new cases per capita. We basically tier it out at different levels, using this red to green criteria to move the state as cohesively as we can together. But to also allow opportunities, and we are going to empower local governments and constituents to work more carefully and closely together, so that we can move the entire state to green. Now, you are going to find out anything you need to know with the red to green at our website. It is specific to this framework so we can realtime give information to individuals, residents, consumers, businesses, local bodies of government. Cd. Nmhealth. Org redtogreen. Cd. Nmhealth. Org redtogreen. Next slide, please. All right. So, this we thought was an easier way to get a sense about what is available if we are in the red. And you are going to see in a moment that basically the whole state is red. Essential retail. So, Grocery Stores. More than that, but basically it is places for goods, supplies, and services. Grocery stores, pharmacies, the things we cannot live without. That is going to go to 25 of maximum occupancy, or 75 customers, whichever is smaller. And we have already been doing that. We are getting used to that. Food and drink establishments, note that is new. So we did not allow those to be opened at all in our reset. So we are still prohibiting in red Indoor Dining. But we are starting to ease back into Outdoor Dining again. At 25 of the maximum occupancy. And we still have a curfew. No alcohol after 9 00 p. M. Houses of worship, down to 25 of maximum occupancy. Places of lodging, 40 of maximum occupancy. For everyone that is in new mexico state certified, 25 for those who are not. Five guests, which is our group number, for vacation rentals. And then a central businesses have to limit their operations to only people who are absolutely necessary to carry out essential functions. Why would we do that . Again, it is really trying to minimize person contact. We are keeping the five person limit for Mass Gatherings and 10 vehicles. The reason we did the 10 vehicles is there have been, and we appreciate the question very much, can we do a birthday parade . Can we congregate to participate in an event that is all in the car or drive by . We are trying to create an environment where we manage that a little bit better, and we grow it as we do better in terms of the number of cases and the Positivity Rates. Now, businesses, and those are gyms and salons, same thing, 25 of your maximum occupancy or 10 close contact businesses, and those are gyms and salons, same thing, 25 of your maximum occupancy or 10 customers at a time. Whichever is smaller. Outdoor recreational facilities, 25 of maximum occupancy. Close contact, movie theaters, bars, those remain closed. And then all other businesses, this includes nonessential retail. So those are our Clothing Stores or the Computer Stores or any businesses that are selling goods can do 25 of maximum occupancy. Or 75 customers at one time. Whichever is smaller. So you can see now the groupings, and you can see we have opened it up a bit. Even though we are red. We are doing that because we saw improvements, which we believed will occur, we are still going to have to work really hard. This does not mean that new mexico has no risk. That is why it says red. The more we go, the more we move, the more this virus can move. So we still, covid safe practices must be occurring in the red level. In every level. Lets go to yellow. You can see the same icons. Now you will notice in a essential retail like Grocery Stores, you can do 125 customers. So we keep that 25 at the maximum. But we have lifted by 50 additional individuals the number of customers. We are doing that, we are providing an easing up on the number of people who are moving through a business at one time. Because we have lowered the Positivity Rate and we have lowered the number of cases per day. And this is what we will do. So as we move all the way to green, we will provide a little more normalcy in those designs. Food and drink. Indoor dining would be available at the 25 of maximum occupancy. Outdoor dining jumps all the way to 75 . And the curfew changes by an hour. Houses of worship, 25 of maximum occupancy. Places of lodging, 60 . State certified, 25 . State certified. 25 for those who are not. We keep the five guests for vacation rentals. Essential businesses, same criteria. If you can be teleworking, you need to do that. Here we have made the vehicles 25. Mass gatherings, 10. We have not gone to 10 in quite a while. Were really hoping that we can exhibit the kinds of covid safe practices and allow us to do that. Close contact businesses. Now you can go to 20 customers. Whichever is smaller, the 25 or 20 customers. Outdoor 25 . Close contact in yellow. Still closed, then nonessential retail, they match the essential retail. 25 or 125 customers, whichever is smaller. Green. Green, we take away from the essential retail and for the nonessential retail, the number of individuals. So it is 50 . If youve got a big area then you can go to 50 occupancy. We are not going to limit the number of people in at one time. Notice that we go all the way to 50 of the maximum occupancy. And Outdoor Dining, 75 . We have not been that high, or for restaurants, in quite some time and we really need to get to green. We get to green by exhibiting safe covid practices. Places of lodging, 75 . New mexico state certified, 40 . 10, we double the number at the vacation rentals. Same thing. Essential businesses have the ability to really help us here. By having as many people telecommute that can. Because that minimizes persontoperson contact. Notice we go to 20 people, one 100 vehicles, close contact go to 50 maximum occupancy. Outdoor recreational, 50 . Close contact recreationals remains closed. And then i already talked about the nonessential retail. I know that folks, im going to go ahead and preempt the question, when can we get to new zealand and south korea where theyve got concerts . We can get there. We can get there potentially before we have massive distribution of a vaccine. How well we do in green is completely up to every single new mexican. The more covid safe practices we engage in, the more we adhere to these efforts and socially distance, the more things that are available. And i have never not believed that we cant do it. It is, i will admit, it has been very difficult without a federal strategy to keep people moving together as productively as we can against this virus. So we are subject to what goes on around us in arizona and colorado and texas. And just one quick reminder as we get ready for questions. We have Less Health Care capacity than other states. We have a sicker population than those other states. We still have rural areas without basic access to services and personal supplies that would allow you to manage a covid safe environment without traveling. These risks mean we have to do it better than everybody else, and we can. I have complete confidence that we can do this. Next slide. All right, so, this is tough to look at. It is for me too. It is really stark when we were the first state in the nation to be green, right on those National Maps that we are showing when you are ready to reopen. Showing that every Proactive Public Health related effort we were making was really making a difference. And again, no national strategy. All the things that we know, covid fatigue, not adhering to productive covid safe practices. The whole state, except for los alamosa county, is in the red. Los alamos is in yellow. This is startling. But it is not where the story has to end. We can show this map in a couple of weeks, it can be yellow. There can be some counties that are green. We can move through it fairly quickly and effectively if we really all do this as productively as we can together. Next slide. All right. So, this county by county framework, and we are going to update the information every two weeks starting this coming wednesday, december 2. I just want to remind folks that we do think in that twoweek. , based on a number of factors. One, the data takes a wide bike, it lags before we know exactly what the positivity trends are. We have to trend out this data before we know what the trends are going to be like and hospitals, so that we cant make these we cant show you where we are without getting a reasonable amount of data in which to make productive Public Health, epidemiological Public Population Health decisions. We are going to do it every two weeks. I want to show you how easy it will be for a county to move between these colors, red to green, when they have access to the information. When a county moves to a less restrictive level, so los alamos, when you get to green, the second you are green, you can go to all of the green standards that we identified that will be on the cdnmhealth website. You dont have to wait for the end of the two weeks. As he moved toward the least restrictive environments, you are ready to go. You dont have to make those decisions right away. You can wait and see if you hold it. But we are going to allow that folks can move as quickly as they get to the next color. If a county, i will pick on poor los alamos, if they go to red, then they have to Begin Operating at the red within 48 hours. Because that takes some planning and some time by those businesses. This is really hard on business. Businesses need predictability. These rules and standards are really difficult for them to manage. That means that they are doing everything in their power to keep new mexican safe, to make sure you have access to necessary goods and supplies, that we can get ready ourselves for the holidays. All of those things. I want to make sure they have a little more time in order to ratchet back down if we need to. The goal is not to be moving through these all the time. The goal is to be steadily moving towards green, and then what i hope to be talking about, green plus. Which means we have really learned to manage to live with the virus and we can open up many more things in a more reasonable fashion. Businesses are counting on us, and new mexico lives. We deserve, all of us, the opportunity to save as many new mexicans as we can. Ok. Next slide. All right. I just want to make sure that even though we have managed and we will talk more about that, our two week reset, thank you, new mexico for working hard to do that, thank you to the Business Community who really takes a significant hit, and to all of the individuals who are now on unemployment. This is not easy. This is really hard, living among a deadly virus. I just want to point out, the virus is still here. It is still deadly. It is still highly contagious. Even though we are working, again, to try to manage this virus, you have to do your part. You cannot stop being vigilant. Remember . Dont go more than three places. You must have your mask. I have my mask. Walking right out here, i have my mask. I just take it off to get on camera. You have to be socially distance from one another, and we have to be really vigilant about bringing family groups together outside of our bubbles or our own households. That is incredibly highrisk, and we are seeing it bear out in our numbers around the country and our numbers here in new mexico. Remember to wash her hands. We dont talk about this enough. You want to wash them 20 seconds, hot water, soap, and hand sanitizer. That combination is incredibly effective. For killing the virus and minimizing that you will touch your face and spread it. So, keep vigilant, new mexico. We can do this. I dont think i have anymore more slides. Am i correct about that . Looks like i am. The so lets go to dr. doctor, with his updates and then we will go to questions. Dr. Scrase thank you very much, governor. Were going to walk through some of the epidemiologic data today as we usually do. This is the familiar case curve. The blue line here up top is all of new mexico. In these other colored lines, you can go back to our legend here, individual regions of the state. If you have been watching these for a while, you all know that i tell you not to Pay Attention to this downturn here. Because we will go back, as we get Additional Lab results and fill in some of those datas. Even with a lag we have built in. I want to call your attention to what looks like a plateau here. A little zigzag. But the case counts have leveled off over thanksgiving weekend. From the implementation of the reset, which is when we expected to see some effect. Also if you look down here, you can see most of the region seems to be leveling off as well. Four of the five of the metro region still an uphill curve. But there may be some cause for optimism here. At this point in time, we were doubling every day. And now, we are seeing that steady. Ive got to tell you, it is not the best of the new best news. We were seeing 1800 to 2200 cases a day. But it is better than going from 2000 to 4000 to 8000. I think this data shows that this early plateau. Next week we will have more data and we can tell you more accurately if that is the case. These are maps that show the number of total cases in counties. On the left from