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Identification, isolation and contact tracing, and to basically prevent the opportunity for Community Transmission to come back into the system. Antibody testing is going to give us a good idea from a surveillance point of view of how significant the outbreak was. Reporter so more widespread testing critical to making sure that once the country starts to reopen and were hearing from a lot of health and Economic Experts thats going to have to happen gradually based on what the virus is doing in different areas. But to make sure we dont see a resurgence. Now in terms of the economic impact, lots...

It brings unemployment claims down to 22 million in the past four weeks and that essentially wipes out all the jobs created sin the financial crisis we know the dapta was going to be bad and will continue to be bad because this is reflecting periods that arent april, and we know april will be even worse. Right these are daunting historic we look at them, we must think about what was happening, say, in 1930, 1931. We realize that the system may hold, may not hold i think were in a stronger position than then because they didnt have a social safety net, but these kinds of layoffs, theyre extraor...

Beyond that let me say we have been working through femas acquisition process not only to deploy but to gather up personal protective equipment. In a few moments you will hear from admiral john polcyk on the extraordinary progress we made on the strategic stockpile but identifying on the commercial marketplace around america and around the world literally millions of n95 masks, surgical gowns, gloves, protective equipment and at this point we distributed some 7600 ventilators and you will hear today specifically about the state has have received those ventilators. Were just, this team is truly...

Miss collins can you hear me . Mr. Cook . [ roll call ]. These are extremely trying times. We dont know how long this crisis will stretch out for. We do know we all have as [ indiscernible ]. Especially doing incredible work as well as my colleagues on the board of education. Proposed change items two of the agenda. And that is why essentially furtherer direct approval to allow supervisor to change as we practice social distancing other than household members. The board of education agenda will focus on information and presentations and boards [ indiscernible ] information pursuant to order 25...

Really using science in terms of how best to trace and when Contact Tracing is needed a followup question to that from mr. King. Given the turnover at shelters from night tonight, how are you finding people to test if they are no longer sleeping at the shelter . So, again, we are working with the experts on that shelter system. Our colleagues at the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing are colleagues at the Human Services agency, as you know, they run the shelters and the support systems for those shelter across the city along with our contact investigation teams. We are literally...