Place in northern california. We are uicont our ongoing coronavirus coverage. Today, President Trump signed into law a new 484 billion stimulus package. The bulk of t billion will replenish the io paycheck proteprogram. This second round of relief also includes funding for hospitals, testing and disaster joining me now by skype is a physician and Congress MemberCongress Member thank you so much for joininus. Thank you for having me on. Lets start with the paycheck protection program. What about the momandpop shops . You know, what we saw in the first interaction, the first round of 50 billion was the bigger firms that had relationships with banks got the bulk of the money. We really want to make sure that tse resources got down to the smaller businesses, as you saw the momandpop businesses are ally devastated by this. You know, for credit baions, communits, that was the place where a lot of the smaller businesses me back. We also wanted to make sure this money didnt go to hedg and we also put those protections and. What else will this new legislation differ amerueans . It contto help shore up our billion for hospitals or providers. Cacommunity Health Center apply for those funds. We want to make sure that that is avaible for those workers. In addition, we saw more of a democrats probably failed to approve i you want us to keep our revenue in california, i think we ought to be helping the states and local communities. The death toll has now exceeded 50,000 people in the United States and yesterday, President Trump suggested light and disinfect hint as a way to in a recent interview you gave, the president a c for his response to the pandemic. Would you m ill give a passing grade . You know, i may have to revise that down to a d or an f. I would tell them when, leave the healthcare tips and ca the mesuggestions to the doctors. He has great doctors, tony felty, deborah birx and others. Anyone watching out there, household disinfectants, cleaning products or for surfaces. Dont put them in your body. Ose ow the directions on productsand you know, maybe i a generous with a d. You know, President Trump does have these very strong advisors when it comes to the health response. And yet, it seems he ill speaks from a different place. A different voice. And he is not always in line vi with those rs. What is going on e . Th what, how do you as a Congress Member put pressure on this administration are to have a d coherent, clear curate message. Do you know, the problem is i dont think President Trump listens to anyone buhimself. Throughout his presidency, he has failed to follow advisors and some of these debunked theories it was fine for us to study hydroxychloroquine, bulets do itin a scientific way, see if it works obviously. The data right now does not ok like itworks, so i think its dangerous when the government the president of the United States goes out there anhas these theoes on ingesting cleaning products will kill people. So i wish we could control what thpresident says. T is thus far, even an advisor can control what he says. Lets turn now totesting. Jessica harvard says that they need to triple the numbte of that are out there before they country can consid you agree with that abnumber . Lutely. We are still not testing enough folks. We have to ramp up the diagnostic tests. Those cottonloswabs that you to tell whether the person passes the diagnosis or doesnt. We also have to start ramping up serologic testing, those antibody tests that will help us make decisions. To show how many peop in a community have certain levels immunity. We recognize that we hat has surprised you about our nations response to this pandemic . I think the Silver Lining is that weare all in this together. I saw survey resultthat said 75 of californiacommend that we stay at home. Its amazing how quickly we fell into compliance and then you are seeing neighbors look after neighbor the human kindness and that is coming up. Lets come out of this looking after one another, because we are all in this together. Congress member, omni barra ufrom elk grove. Thank you, be well. As the coronavirus cuts deeper into the nations Southern States are beginning to reopen. This comes as protests were held across the nation over strict shelterrein place lations. In california, Governor Newsom says it is too soon to riddick to date for the state to loosen restrictions. But San Luis Obispo says they are ready to reopen now. The counties representative has asked the governor for s permission. Joining me now is leasse member. Why do you think San Luis Obispo county is ready to start reopening . We took aggressive action. We issued our own stayathome order a day before issued one. We have quired ventilators. We have alternativcare sites at the University Campus in the gym. It is capable of ramping up to treat over 900 people. And while we were doing all that, keeping a reful eye on our numbers cases. Right now, in the entire county of 280,000 people, we only have one covid19 patient in the icu, in the hospital. So our numbers are welooking goodhave done what we needed to do to find the curve, to get ready on the healthcare side, and i think it is time to transition o looking to reopening the econ phasedin, scientific, intelligent manner. So you have been preparing a roadmap for opening in the county. Can you give us a first look at the changes residents with the if you starfollowing that roadmap . Well the first thing is our county officials, in consultation with doctors and epidemiologist, and under the dicoction of our ty Public Health director, they are all quite competent. They have recommended certain segments of the economy that has been closed down can start reopening. Ar its going to with allowing medically nece ary surgeries. If they have delayed for a heart condition, they need to get back in the hospital and get treated. Are going to move from their to possibly stallowing rants to reopen with proper physical distancing, ppe for the workers, the proper spacing in the restaurant. And we are going to be doing that in phases. We are ing to betracking as we go to make sure that we are that we can keep our hospital d capacity and our healthcare capacity ahead of the curve. I think that is a way forward that would work for a lot of counties. I think our numbers justify doing it in at way, anwe are simply asking the governor for permission to start taking some of those steps now. Our geographic relatively speaking, isolation, we are 200 miles from San Francisco, 200 miles from l. A. What works in l. A. Is not going to necessarily work here, but we are in a pretty good spot where we can start looking at reopening the economy. Its important to do that not only for people who are out of work, they are scaredcl businesses are ing, where they are going to close for good. Its important on the economic side, but also, history tshows t prolonged recessions and high unemployment have disastrous Public Health consequences of their own. Suicide yes,we have been studying this is a Society Since the Great Depression when people are out of work in largescale numbers, and dep goes up, stress goes up. Heart attack snow. Suicide goes up. We are already seeing those indicators starting to go up here in r county an throughout the state and if we are going to waive the Public Health in the balance of good policy, my ntention is th we need to be looking at all types of Public Health issues. Weve got a pretty goodhandle on the virus right now. In our county. D i realize that not everywhere the state is in the same place. That is why i think a it makes lot of sense as Governor Cuomo has announced in new york it to look at doing this a regional basis and we are asking the governor of california, Governor Newsom the permission to start doing that on a regional basis as well. Will you mo forward with this plan whether or not you get a direct okay from the governor . Our county officials are not going to doanything that directly conflicts with the governors statewide executive order. I dont think that would be responsible to do, but where that order allows for certain things, we are going to gs those ththat the governors order allows us to do. Tell me about the Economic Impact of the conavirus on San Luis Obispo county, which is generally a very agricultural area. You have a lot of tourism well. Well our two tsbiggest componof our local economy, as you mentioned our agriculture and tourism and they have been hammered. Unfortunately, no tter what we do, if we are keeping our eye on the ball, as weneed to do during the phased reopen of the statewide economy and our obably going to be the last industry to come back. That is going to hit us hard in san luis obiscounty, which is why we need to get going as intelligently and quickly as we can on reopeng some of r restaurants and maybe our wineries. A lot of people go to parks and or ll gatherings of five lessthings of that sort. I think on the Agriculture Sector said, if we can start phasing in some opening of the restaurant, then contracts, they rely on fose ing their lettuce to the restaurant, they will start renewing those contracts. We can get the wheels spinning there economically. Because im tellyou what, my office is processing unemployment claims, helping people with that. We are seeing unprecedented calls for an employment. We are helping every small n, business we trying to get federal bridge financing. To stay alive are now. Is family mber, do you believe approve of how Governor Newsom has been handling nae corus pandemic here in california i thinhe handled the first phase of the, the response to the coronavirus, issuinthe stayathome order, i think at move. Ght it was and i think he handled the first phase of responding to this virus pretty well. We are entering quickly into e, the second phwhich is handling the economic recovery and doing that in a way that doesnt make us a slide backwards on thPublic Health front. And me and a lot of local electives and people from throughout the state are looking for leadership from him to let us sort of plan as a region and on a local level, what we ne to do to accomplish our. Assembly member jordan cunningham, thank you so much for being th us today. This week, a team of researchers from ucsf begin testing two very different communities to look for clues on how the coronavirus is spreading. And you may have some degree ofo immunityit. They first tested nearly the entire population of bolinas. The small coastal town in western marin county. Not only did they look to see who is actively infected, they also took blood samples to screen for antibodies. Antibody testing helps scientist plural mac see who has been impacted in the community. This week, wthl kickoff the second phase. Joining me now is dr. Brian greenhofse. An associate sor of medicine at ucsf and one of the principal investigators of the study. Thanyou so much for being with us. Thank you for having me on the show. Lets talk about the study. Is the first time of the nation. What is the basic question you are hoping to answer . Its because many people know, we do not have enough testing in going on this community, or in the world really deto tand where we are in the epidemic. We need to know where we are to ow what to domoving forward. One of the things were trying to figure out is how do we go about testing a rge number of people in a way that is safe, efficient, and can get information back to the people that need to know the answers as soon as possible. Threally one of the most important things about doing the study. Really just figuring out the logistics of how we can out into a community, partner that community, leverage the resources, volunteers, everyones expertise. And the partnership between aca emic institution like ucsf and a community of bolinas to test everyone. Why these two communities . There are two reasons for that. The first is that these communities are very different. A they are just few miles away. We are testing them within a week of each other. But they are miles apart within how the communities are structure. Linas is a rural district. And is a. M. Essentially in the same geographic area,it will give us Important Information about communities that might rely on that spectrum may be. The other reason that bolinas was chosen, is because the community chose to do this. They came to us at usc f. And they said we dont have ilthe y to get testy. We have the opportunity to do this if you work with us. That was an Incredible Opportunity for us to work with the counity. How ny were you able to test and what is your expectation for the Mission District . We dont have the final numbers. That is what we e working around the clock righ trying to get all of our data right now. On the order of 18 people, we are testing and bolinas. For the Mission District, we are not testing the entire Mission District. We e hoping to do somewhere between 5000 and 6000 people. Lets talk about the g antibody testure doing. You are not just checking who has covid19 right now. But potentially who has been thexposed to in past . What can and cant antibodies tell us . We hope in th future, th can tell is a ole lot more than they can right now, but one thing that we are being very carefue tocommunic the commnity and participants is even if they do have a positive antibody, which is evidencewef prior infection, do not yet know at this time if that means that they have any degree of protection against the virus. So they should in particular still takethcare of selves to protect from infection and illness. What they can tell us is who might have been affected, and formation not just to look at each individual, but on a community level, but what proportion of people my has been infected. This giv us really portant information as to the degree of transmissi that might have been occurring in the past, because peen we test le for active infection, we are only testing one single point and. Antibodies allow us to go back in time ansee what we may have list over the last few weeks or months. You mentioned the shorge of testing kits. You sa we should look for anything with a stick and fuzzy and. It sounds pretty dire. Yeah, its really surprising. One thing that was surprising to the Community Members and to us as we look ulto what be the barriers to doing this is that the Testing Capacity was actually do this. The ability to run thpcr tests was a bail so they actually have the capacity. So basically, we went through all the different pieces that we would need to do the testinga that it down to procuring swaps. The little qtip things that you stick in somebodys throat and nose to be able to test them. A number of people working we together, we able to find out how to get them. But it was really interesting ving run into number of studies to have the come down something as simple as getting swabs for a study. From hea public th perspective, what needs to happen before we can safely reopen . That is a great question. We dont have all the answers. But i think the experiences we have had, and the lessons that we have learned, and how you can safely and officially test n an entire coy will be one of the steps. We need to think about how we surveillance capac and multiple communities and doing a way that is dynamic. And provides information in altime that we n respond to. So we can start relaxing some of these brought anintervention do things in a more targeted way while restill ining safe. The Mission District is going to be tested for three days after that. What you hope to see from that particular portion of the teing . Thing we want to see who is infected so we can protect themselv and their community. We are looking to see how much affection is going on in the community and who is being wh infected andis getting we sick . Anare also learning to see how, we have just in this in a rural area and over a few days we became a well oiled machine. We have a blueprint we are hoping to share with communities d towns elsewhere. Now, we are going to do things in a more densely populate urban community. The lessons we learned from blueprint for other cities and o urbaune is that are hoping to do some more things. You have worked extensiely in the transmission of the disease. Malaria. Ecifically about the you coronavirus . One of the very interesting things is how it is spread across the enti world. Many of the diseases i have worked on are only prevalent in one part of the world. Here, we have a disease that is really affecting everybody and because of that, the entire world is really chipping in to work tssether. Acisciplines, across institutions and across countries. Its one of the most uplifting things for me working in this ti very stressful to be able to communicate with other colleagues for being so op with whatthey are doing and working so hard to bring all of the experience and resources they have to bear to help fight this disease. Dr. Brian greenhouse from ucsf, think you so much. 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