Still having the same conversations around ppe. And while those challenges still exist, i want to point out some information that was not accurate that i stated at the last press Conference Regarding fema. In particular, the information we were given by one of our sources that we were purchasing ppe from, and third party, basically provided us that information when we had anticipated the ppe to come to our location. We were preparing to purchase it and the excuse that we gave, that we were beyond frustrated with, was that these materials were diverted to some place else and confiscated by fema. As a result, that was along with a number of other challenges that exist and that was one that i was particularly frustrated with, else in light of the fact that we are working with fema are on our thoug hotels and food delivery. This was just very frustrating. We found out when the director of fema here in San Francisco reached out to our office to make it clear, that not only was this not true, butth but they at investigating the third party that we are working with to ensure that Accurate Information is provided. Providing the Incorrect Information is not only irresponsible, but its also very dangerous in light of what we are all dealing with. And so, not only do i want to apologize to fema for that particular information and providing inAccurate Information, i want to just point out that that the other challenges that i talked about are still challenges that we face. And we will continue to do everything we can to work with fema and to work with other agencies to deliver the ppe our city so desperately needs. We are not out of the woods and even if we have the ppe we need to help with our hospitals, maybe for this month and some of next month, we are going to be dealing with the coronavirus for some time. And so, when we talk about not only the need for ppe to help with our hospitals, when were thinking about restaurants, hair salons and nail i salons and otr places opening, we have to make sure that when we are implementing regulations on their reopening around masks and other things they may need, that we have access to those resources, as well. So theres a larger conversation here in terms of resources. And there still continues to be a challenge with the coordination around the efforts for large cities like ours with our federal government. But i will take this opportunity, again, to thank fema for their willingness to be able to work with us and to ensure that some of the obstacles that weve had, that those obstacles are removed. They have extended that support and i appreciate it. And we desperately need it. So with that, thank you for the time and at this time, i will ask dr. Grant kolfax to come forward and provide an update. Good afternoon. Im the director of health and thank you mayor breed. A week from today is may 4th, which would mark the end of the bay areas current stayathome health order. I commend everyone who has done so much to make that intervention successful. We have, indeed, flattened the curve. We, each and everyone of you, has literally saved lives. In San Francisco, and in the bay area as a whole, we are lead the country in taking aggressive early action to protect our communities from the threat of the coronavirus. I would like to reminded you ofa few key moments in our journey. On january 21st of this year, as we had watched closely the developments internationally with regard to the coronavirus, the San Francisco department of Public Health activated the Department Operations center. With that, we set as a top priority our preparation and response to the coronavirus. We devoted significant resources and staff in th to address the upcoming issue. A week later, on january 27th, the city opened its Emergency Operations center, expanding and strengthening the effort of the citywide response. At that time, we were monitoring incoming travelers from countries with confirmed cases and still had to cases in sanfrancisco. Yet, the mayor continued to heighten our preparedness. On february 25th, she declared a local emergency, even before we had any confirmed cases. This decision was pivotal as it allowed under the circumstancesy faster in our citys collective response. On march 5th, we had our first confirmed cases as we had anticipated. On march 11th, we made Strong Social distancing recommendations so that the public could understand how to help slow the spread of the disease. Slowing the spread has always been our goal. Later, on march 16th, the entire bay area issued a shelterinplace, also known as a stayathome order and over 7 Million People joined together to protect the health and safety of our region. That health order was renewed on march 31st and the work that all people in San Francisco and bay area residents have done has been a model for the nation. We are also following and are aligned with the governors statewide stayathome order and the framework he has laid out for the states recovery. We are fortunate and grateful that our state leadership is so focused on protecting Public Health, leveraging resources and following the data, science and facts. And yet, at this time, none of us can get complaisant. We need to stand our ground and maintain our gains. And make no mistake, this virus is still out there and it is still a threat. Today, there are 1424 San Francisco residents with confirmed cases of covid19. A total of 23 people in sanfrancisco have died from the disease and my condolences to their families and friends. Of the 1424 people diagnosed with covid19, 134 or professional 9 are people experiencing homelessness. For these residents, for other vulnerable populations, and, indeed, for the entire community, we must continue to have a unified, regional approach. That is why as the mayor announced, the bay area will extended the stayathome order until may. I know that this is very hard to do. We are missing vital and important parts of our lives. We are sacrificing time with our families, our friends, coworkers and neighbors. Thank you for your sacrifice, your patience, your collaboration and your support. As we think to the future and consider loosening some restrictions, i cannot stress enough that it will become even more important to continue to protect one another. This means establishing and sticking to what will be the new normal. This will include staying six feet apart, covering our faces, washing our hands frequently and still staying home as much as possible. These actions are based in science data and facts. And they are working. And they need to keep working. They need to keep working as we move forward. As we have done throughout our response, we will be informed by the data. We know we need to continue to expand testing and learn more about where cases are. And we know that we will find more cases that way. Right now, we need to increase the number of tests being done in San Francisco each day. With ongoing expansion, this will happen. In terms of recovery, another key metric we will be watching closely is hospitalization of covidpositive patients. Now why is that . Well, that data point tells us a lot. It tells us how many people we have in our system who are seriously ill with covid19 and who need the highest level of care in the healthcare system. That number has varied somewhat over the past two weeks from 94 patients on april 11th to 85 on april 25th. But the overall pattern has been pretty stable, a flat curve. That means that today, our Hospital System has room to care for patients and that is, indeed, good news. But it is still not enough. We need numbers to start dropping significantly and just stay down for several weeks. If that could happen that could happen if we continue our our current course. Yet, we know today that those numbers could also start climbing again. That could happen if people start taking precautions, stop abiding by Health Orders and give the virus an opportunity to flourish and spread. As the mayor has mentioned, we saw that 102 years ago in San Franciscos prior serious flu pandemic. We have seen this happen with covid19 internationally, in countries that successfully flattened their curve, listed restrictions too soon and the virus, unfortunately, came roaring back. The hospitalization numbers could also get worse if our vulnerable populations experience major outbreaks that we are not able to contain. , leading to other people becoming seriously ill. And again, i thank you for your patience, your sacrifice, your collaboration and support. And moving forward, we are working hard to develop recommendations based on data and science for loosening some of the restrictions. But we must be thoughtful, we must be careful and we must take this step by step. With regard to our ongoing focus on vulnerable populations, they remain at the highest risk of the virus. This means people who are over 60 or with Underlying Health conditions. We must continue to prioritize them now and in the future including people in congregate settings, such as longterm care facilities, in homeless shelters, sros and jails. And we are making considerable and significant progress. As an example, i remind you that over 850 people, 850 vulnerable people, including those experiencing homelessness, those with chronic conditions or over aged 60 are now in hotel rooms in our city. To protect them from getting the virus, to protect them from getting sick, to protect them from potentially dying from the virus. We have made significant progress, but there is much more work to do as we learn about how to slow the spread. We must continue to generate new knowledge and support a response. For example, the Health Department is collaborating with ucsf and Community Members in the district to determine the prevalence of the coronavirus in one of the most densely populated sections of city. We are seeing high rates in the llatino population. Its to test at least four people and ucsf is well on it way with over 1700 people tested just this past weekend. What we will Learn Together will better inform our collective response and strengthen our current education outreach testing and care efforts within the Latino Community and the San Francisco community as a whole. Our goal remains to slow down the virus as much as possible. We cannot prevent it from coming here altogether but we can and have joined together to make it harder for the virus to spread. Later this week, the mayor and other bay area leaders will provide more details on what the new health order will entail. But in the meantime, i wish to thank you sincerely again for your cooperation and compassion. Everyday, i see people Wearing Masks and standing apart from each other and making the hard decisions. Together, we will do what it takes to get through this crisis. Thank you. Chief William Scott will make a few remarks. Good afternoon, everyone. Im chief William Scott of the San FranciscoPolice Department. As i always start off withi, i d like to thank our mayor, london breed, and dr. Grant kolfax for their leadership during this very challenging time. As we expected over this past weekend, there were quite a few people out trying to get exercise, fresh air and enjoying the weather. We had an increased number of officers, volunteers with our Alert Program withi, and standsr auxillary response team. We worked at popular Public Places to make sure and remind everyone about social distancing, about wearing face coverings and really trying to promote the safe protocols that our Public Health officials have told us will flatten the curve and i would like to thank everyone for their cooperation because by and large, weve been very successful in getting compliance voluntarily from the people in San Francisco. So i have would like to thank everyone for their compliance and for their cooperation. We did receive complaints over the weekend, not that many, but about the Public Health order violations and in general, there were no significant issues. Surprisingly, we actually received very few complaints about the lack of face coverings and although i can say because i was out this weekend around the city, that most people were complaint. Most people tried to comply with the face coverings. There were some that didnt have them and we had our park rangers and mta ambassadors by giving people face coverings who didnt have them. And we think that will go a long way to help continue to flatten this curve and well continue to do that. Weve had to cite some businesses who after being warned continued to violate the order. As of sunday, april 26th, yesterday, that total is 17 cites in total and eight of those were businesses that were cited and nine individuals were cited. So violating either our county Public Health order or the state Public Health order. Weve admonished a total of 78 8 and those warnings come with officers completed incident reports. Enforcement has been an option of last resort and we have mainly gotten compliance when weve had to engage with individuals to remind them of the Health Orders. But as i stated, there r there w people and a few businesses that had to be cited. We will use a pathway that starts with education, asking for voluntary compliance, warnings, and citations when necessary. You can visit our covid19 website on our San FranciscoPolice Department web page and learn about our enforcement protocols. I would like to remind everybody and take this opportunity to say if youre going to go outside, please follow the Public Health order protocols, remain six feet distance from others, wear face coverings and when youre waiting in line, please practise those social distancings. Distag proceeds. Most of the businesses in the city have taken measures to remind people what six feet looks like and youll see sidewalk markings and youll see in a lot of cases employees of the businesses out in front of the businesses reminding people to wear their face covers and reminding people to stay significancsixfeet apart. We would like to thank Business Owners and managers for working with us on that. And i would like to switch to crime now and ill provide you with an update on our Crime Statistics of the shelterinplace order. Im happy to say we saw a 19 decrease in overall Violent Crimes and we saw a 24 decrease in property crimes this past week, which was 126 fewer property crimes from the week prior and in total, there was a 23 decrease in part one of serious crimes which represents a 142 crime decrease over the previous week. And were comparing the week of april 20th to april 26th to the week of april 13th through april 19th. We continue to investigate burglaries. One area weve seen a slight increase are burglaries, particularly commercial burglaries, and we continue to investigate and weve made significant progress on many of the investigations that have resulted in arrests and prosecutions from the District Attorneys office. 27 of those cases have resulted in charges booking challenges of looting. I would like to thank the District Attorney to working with us in those types of crimes committed in a stateofemergency. Next, i want to remind everyone, when you travel, travel safely and responsibly, particularly on our roads and highways. As i reported this past week, weve had reports of a lot more speeding on our roads and highways and thats simply unacceptable. Fewer cars on the road is not a green light to speed or break traffic laws. So with that, you will see our Traffic Company officers with an increased visibility on our highinjury traffic corridors in support of our focus on the five efforts. And just to remind everyone, the focus on the five efforts we are trying to get to zero traffic fatalities by the year 2024. And that is our vision zero goal and aspiration and we will be out to make sure that we remind people in whatever way we need to, whether that be education enforcement, citations, to slow down. We want to thank those that are conducting their travel, their essential travel in a safe way. As you see our officers out there, just to remind everyone, as we roll out our slowstreets program, that its imperative you obey traffic laws, slow down and share the roads with pedestrians and bicyclists. As always, i want to encourage people to report crime when they see it, particularly violent crime. And report your crimes in a way that will decrease our facetoface contact with either officers or each other and prevent the spread of the covid19 virus. You can always call 911. We will always be there for crimes in progress. If you need to, you can use our new text 911 service and, again, i would like to reemphasize that was really designed in mind with victims of Domestic Violence who sometimes arent able to make those calls, those landline calls or cell phone calls because of the circumstanceses theyre in. So please take advantage of the text 911 service if you need to. For those crimes that have already happened and for nonviolent or property crimes, please call our nonemergency number at 415 5530123. You call 311 or utilize or website to request a report or file a police report. And with that, again, i would like to thank everyone for their coope