Issued. We are continuing to see that trend. For those that have to go out, be careful. Social distance. We had a significant drop in property crimes and violent crimes. The overall crime is down over 26 from this time last year when you do a month to missouri comparison. That is a month to missouri h comparison. Report crimes if you experience them. We are doing what we can to try to limit exposure to officers, general public and general public to officers. You can call in if it is nonviolent call the Emergency Line 415 5530123 to report the crimes. You can utilize 311 or utilize the website. Some crimes you can report online as well. We have started a call in center for Crime Reporting to make it easier to report those crimes. If you have suffered a crime, report it. If it is violent we will respond to those crimes in person. I ask everyone watching this add hed the Public Health orders, keep your distance, listen to what the professional in the Public Health department and around the country are saying, and we will save lives in our city and country. I thank you in advance for your coulyourcooperation. Please stay safe and stay healthy. Thank you. Questions for mayor breed from nbc bay area. Earlier this week you explained the city doesnt have the resources to provide Wraparound Services needed to allow just any homeless person in the shelter in the cityleased hotel. Yesterday five supervisors made the argument the city does have the resources so long as they can selfcare. Are the supervisors wrong or are you wrong . Mayor breed let me start by talking about moscone west. We opened a day later, almost 400 shelter beds because we didnt have sufficient staffing to cover what we know we need as it relates to those sellter beds as well as other locations that we need to house people. It is not as simple as we can open up a hotel room except for those who we know can basically selfcare, people that we are working within our Shelter Systems and other places. It is a real challenge. The fact is if there is someone who is diagnosed or suspected of coronavirus they have to stay in that particular hotel room, and we have to make sure that there are resources there, including food, cleaning, security to make sure they dont leave those locations. There is a lot that goes into not only having the resources but making sure the people working with other people, we have to keep them safe. We have to make sure everyone understands the protocol. Social distancing applies in the shelters. Social distancing applies when people are cleaning and doing things that need done because there will continue to be challenging, but i want to be clear that we have a system by which we are focusing on making sure that we are helping the most vulnerable homeless population. That is people in the shelters, people who are over the age of 60 and have underlying conditions, people who we know have no place to go or may live in a congregate setting and have no place to shelterinplace. We have to prioritize those people, and that is what is most important. We are hopeful that we will, of course, be able to do more, but it is going to require more money and staffing. There are limitations what we can cover but what we get reimbursed for from the federal government. It is a lot more complicated than what some are trying to imply, and this is why we have professionals in our Public Health industry. This is why we have departments where people have been doing this work for many, many years. The folks who are part of the Emergency Operation center are the professionals with the expertise and understanding. The citys office and others have a building what we need to do and we are putting what we need to do into place based on what we know we can deliver on. Next questions for doctor susan phillips. I want to take a moment to make sure i said the numbers of cases across the city and people in the hospital in case i didnt say it clearly. As of today there are 497 San Francisco residents with confirmed cases of coronavirus. 60 of them are in hospitals across the city. Half of those are in i c. U. Sadly, 7 people from San Francisco have died from the virus. California is 50th in terms of testing with only oklahoma testing fewer people than california as of this morning. California has a huge number of tests pending, close to 60,000. Why cant california process these tests and what is being done about this . The situation in San Francisco and the people in leadership in the state of california and Public Health can answer about pending tests. I can talk about what we are doing and how we responded in San Francisco. Doctodr. Colfax and the mayor td about expanding testing in the sites we work with and control the Public Health and Clinical Laboratory at zuckerberg general hospital. We have had very strong partnerships with university of California California and u. C. S. F. Lab has capacity to test. We are increasing our local capacity to test. That is our focus. We do not have a backlog of tests for residents in San Francisco testing at the sites we are working with. As the mayor and dr. Colfax have said. Everyone across the country is facing a limitation on the collection kits needed to do testing. Tainmenthe tests in the lab ares good to get the tests from patients and to the laboratory. We are working to allow for different types of test kits and swabs to be used. That is going on with the eoc and department of Health Laboratory experts and u. C. S. F. Staff. We are in a challenge. We are increasing every week the numbers of tests available. Later today we will have Information Available to the public to see the progress on testing. Related to that question from the San Francisco chronicle. How many tests does the department of Public Health have every day . How are you rationing and prioritizing the tests. The issue is not the tests and kits. It is the collection supplies. We are working to get hands around the numbers of those supplies. In normal situations many of these would be at clinics and locations throughout dph. We are gathering that together to understand what we have. Those will be prioritized based where we see the most vulnerable populations. We talked about laguna honda hospital and how we are in discussion with California Department of Public Health and our experts about testing there. As we decide on the need for testing we will prioritize that population for the tests we center. We continue to increase capacity for testing. We are bringing on experts to help optimize the work flow and get the most out of our equipment and bring on more people. We are ramping up capacity in the lab. We work to make sure we have more collection kits needed for testing. We are trying to partner and bring on new ways of doing testing with partners in sites that may be new that we havent fried before such as walk up or drive up testing. You will hear more about that in the coming weeks as well. Another question from the San Francisco chronicle. The number at laguna hospital has remained at 12. Is it under control or too early to tell . Too early to tell. We take the situation seriously. That is why we are briefing the public about it on a regular basis. We asked for expertise from c dc to be added to our own we want he are glad there have been only 12 cases identified. We continue to be thinking about additional patients and staff that might require testing, and we know we have to be vigilant based on what we have seen about how vulnerable patients are and because of the size and scope and sheer number of people involved we want to be very cautious how we proceed. We pay the highest amount of attention to laguna hospital. It is encouraging that we have not seen more than 12 cases. We need to keep that level of vigilance up. Are you considering making mask wearing in public mandatory and under what circumstances might that happen . I want to clarify we are not talking about masks. We are talking about face coverings. Any type of homemade cloth, a scarf, bandanna, we are not talking about masks. Specifically isolation masks and n7979595 masks should be reservr healthcare workers. We are trying to decrease the amount of unwittingly how we are spreading virus particles to other people even if we dont feeling safe. We are protecting people around us. We are not considering mandatory covering of space. This is a good tool and we know that people in San Francisco have been doing their part by staying home, keeping distance, limiting outings to essential services and looking for additional ways to protect the community and work to flatten the curve. This is in addition to those important activities San Francisco is already undertaking. It is not mandatory at all at this time. Have you personally started wearing a mask when you go out . If so, when, what kind, how has the experience been . I have started covering my face when i go out. I have used a scarf on some occasions. I do have an isolation mask that i use as part of the eoc and doc being an essential worker for the city and needing to come to work every day. If you do have a mask that ushusing, if you are not just using a homemade face cover extend the use. I have had the same mask for two weeks. There is no need to discard it to have a new one every day. It is an odd thing at first as we walk around the streets we see more people doing it, and we think it will become the norm. That is the way in which san franciscans are giving us the courtesy to move out of the way and the mask will be a reminder that life is not normal yet. We are looking forward to the time when we can go back to the city more normal. For now it is a reminder to keep our physical space, reminder to stay home as much as possible. I dont want to overlook washing hands and using Hand Sanitizer is one of the best things to do to keep ourselves healthy and others around us. Last question. From the new york times. How familiar icu beds and ventilators have been made available in San Francisco . Will the City Hospitals be securing more of them . In San Francisco advance planning has been going on for weeks, very early in our planning as the city. As the mayor has said through her leadership we declared an emergency early on on february 25th. Since this time there are teams doing advanced planning for i c. U. Availability and beds. Later today we will have up Information Available to the public about just that. We know people are very interested in hospitals, capacity and surge. We currently do not need to use any of our surge capacity. As we said there are 60 people hospitalized throughout the city with covid19 at this time. 30 are in i c. U. That is well with in our capacity as a city. The full numbers are percent occupied and all of that will become available later. As we get additional information, it will be shared. There is ongoing planning about surge, ongoing planning about how we would accommodate that. There are requests put in by the mayor to secure additional beentilators and surge capacity. That has been going on for a long time in San Francisco. Thank you. Next questions are for Abigail Stewart conn. As i get started here, i want be to introduce myself. I am the interim director of the department of homelessness and supportive housing. Before i respond to questions, i want to note a couple things. This pandemic gives us the opportunity to keeply understand that housing is healthcare. That is clear now more than ever. Thanks to the leadership of mayor breed before the crisis hit, she supercharged our homelessness response system with expansion. As i was visiting many housing and shelter and navigation site yesterday i saw 9,000 homeless that are safer because of that housing. Immediately after the homelessness response after the coronavirus became evident we pivoted the response system to care, prevention and response. Echoing mayor breeds note about positivity our system of care is tremendously grateful for the h. H. S. Staff, guests, tenants and clients and People Living unsheltered in our community, to our City Partners annan profits and community we see you out there thanking us. I know my family has been out at 7 00 cheering with Musical Instruments and putting signs in windows. That is deeply helpful to all of the amazing front line workers in the homelessness response system. First question. What is the current number of Homeless People that have been moved into hotels . That is an excellent question. At the direction of the department of Public Health, the first hotels have been used for people coming out of hospitals and medical care when they dont need to be in the beds. You heard that from the Deputy Health officer earlier. Trent rhorer provided the update 120 people, 90 to 95 of those individuals are homeless or formerly homeless. That number increases a bit each day but will decrease as those individuals through the direction of Public Health have completed their isolation or quarantine period and are able to move to other locations. When do you expect more will be moved in and how many total by when . That is a great question. Let me be clear. From the beginning of this issue, the mayor and all of the leadership of the city has put housed Public Health and unsheltered Public Health on equal footing. Our sheltered and unsheltered population on the list of people receiving services from day one. First from the hospitals, the individuals now in the hotels. In the coming days we will stand up hotels with the support of Human ServicesAgency Responsible for mass care and shelter to rapidly expand the Hotel Capacity they have already obtained those hotels. We are pivoting to moving to staffing, supplying and transporting those individuals. We are be beginning this process with people vulnerable to covid19 among the homeless. We hear you and know that being homeless makes you vulnerable, and we need to start somewhere. At the direction of Public Health that is people who are over 60 or who have an Underlying Health condition that makes you vulnerable to covid. I know you have a priority to keep hospital beds open, would families with Young Children or pregnant women be eligible for the hotel rooms you are talking about . We are spending a tremendous amount of time on the single adult to population. Our staff and partners are working tirelessly with young people and families. Let me talk how that looks. San francisco under the mayor breed attained functional zero in unsheltered homelessness. We maintained that through the covid19. That doesnt mean somebody is sleeping in their car and not wanting to come into shelter. It means we have the capacity to take them in when we outreach to them and they say yes. That continues today. Families, women who are pregnant can come indoors immediately into a congregate setting and through a partnership with Human Services increasingly to hotel rooms through cal works and Additional Hotels coming online. Last question for you. Cathy novak k cbs radio. How many people from the Navigation Center have been moved to the hotels and what is the plan for the rest of the residents . Thank you for the question. Thank you for your compassion. I am going to use this opportunity to speak about the full response of the city to our first covid positive individual staying at a Navigation Center. Immediately upon learning of the diagnosis the shelter site was supplied with masks. They are wearing them at alltime and they initiated Contact Tracing to identify who that special, we call them guests. The individual i am not sure we should share the gender, has initiated Contact Tracing with the individual who is now a patient in very good condition. That allows us to understand who is considered exposed, vulnerable and so on at our site. In response to the positive test the department of Public Health rapidly employed a physician and Health Workers to conduct system as and temperature screening beyond what was already in place. Any guest with symptoms with covid19 will be tested and relocated to staff quarantined rooms immediately. Other guests will be moved to hotel rooms based on exposure and risk of disease. They will be provided medical support and space to selfisolate. They are considered healthcare workers in this situation. The city is deploying a professional cleaning crew in addition to the cleaning resources led by may or breed at the beginning of this epidemic and that is ongoing. Staff will be on site to answer questions. They will guide social distancing and implement Shelter Health screening pro pocols. I am with that community. Division circling is near my childrens school. It is a favorite spot of mine. It is important to unde