We wanted to talk to you for a number of reasons. First and foremost, San Francisco seemed to get an early jump on this virus. And that has resulted in fewer deaths and fewer illnesses. What the lessons from your school and from your city . I think you put your finger on it right there. They declared a state of emergency in early february before their being one case in San Francisco. They moved to shelter in place on march 16. We had a few confirmed cases, but no deaths. It did not occur in San Francisco until eight days later. Of fact that the citizens San Francisco are cooperative with those Public Health orders, and for me, the lesson has been the importance of the Academic Health system in the Public Health ecosystem of San Francisco. Host as you look at what has been happening in your city in San Francisco and compare that to the trick, chicago, miami, new york city, washington, dc, what are the lessons . What you tell officials in those states that we have been seeing a high rate, especially in new york . The early action allowed for flattening the curve. Where a to 1000 confirmed cases in San Francisco. We are up to 1000 confirmed cases in San Francisco. In total. I think the social distancing really does limit the transmission of the virus in the community. The more we are learning about covid, it appears to be highly transmissible in the community with what is called the reproductive number. We areigher than thought. It is very transmissible. The only protection we have against that is quite rigorous social distancing. And other Public Health measures such as wearing a mask and public in public. It allowed us to prepare our to what has not occurred in San Francisco. We prepared for the worst, hoped for the best. It looks like now that all paid off with the low case rate in the city. The hospitals are well capable in managing the case rate we are seen. To that point, the former dean of the university of california of San Francisco school of medicine, you certainly understand the needs of hospitals. I read you worked with a couple of companies in Silicon Valley to make sure equipment that was in place in california was sent or shipp to new york and other hotspotsed shipped to other hotspots. How did that come together . We had wonderful supporters of the university. In this case, salesforce contacted merely asking how they can help. Contacted me early asking how they can help. We make sure our patients were safe and will protected. We worked together to secure protective equipment. Then have helped our local departments of Public Health in universityco, the physicians, county hospitals. And then looked at fields. Other fields. Other hospitals throughout the state of california and the country. Because we are in such a blessed position and are seeing a very manageable caseload, in fact, we set 20 of our staff, about 10 of our Critical Care physicians and nurses to new york just this saturday to help out there. We want to do what we can both in our local community, but help those that are in a less fortunate position across the country. We are privileged to be able to do that. Host you are also running a university. What will the new normal look like . What will the academic calendar look like for you . Dr. Hawgood we have been talking a lot about that. We appear to be in the downswing of the pandemic. It is by no means a time to throw the light switch down and go back to what we considered normal. For the next couple of years, we will be operating in an abnormal environment, but one where hopefully we can execute on our mission of both teaching, research, and Clinical Care both teaching and research in Clinical Care. We have testing capability here in the university. Studies in the bay area so we can catch hotspots, which are sure to occur, with people coming into the bay area. Just a resurgence in a nursing home, or other areas. So we will see hotspots, but we need the Public Health tools such as widespread testing, rapid turnaround, and then really effective Contact Tracing so that we can tame those hotspots and not allow that surge we are seeing in some of the cities in the u. S. We are fortunate we have a very leadership. C health in 1982, just as the aids epidemic was starting here we have very experienced leaders in the city, and the university here. We know what to do. We are ramping up to put all of the tools in place for us to find out what the new normal looks like over the next months. But we do intend to progressively, under the guidance from the governor and the mayor, to slowly ramp back up our Critical Research ramp back up muchneeded medical care in order to create capacity for covid19 patients, now we need to turn our attention to those patients. Host let me conclude on that point. That is the aids epidemic. What specific lessons were you able to apply to what we are dealing with today from what you saw in the 80s and the 90s with aids . Dr. Hawgood i think rapid action. At the time of the aids rapidic, it was clear definitive action by public lessens thers ability of spread. Communication i think is very critical. To theble to speak citizens so they understand when they are asked to do something that doesnt come naturally, such as social isolation, sheltering in place. They are ready to trust and have confidence in the leaders of the city and of the state to do what is best for everyone. I think those are the key lessons. And the research that is needed , in thisse of the 80s case, we were able to generate the cause of this particular pandemic quickly. That was done in china. But now, we have turned the Research Efforts in our university we are the second largest biomedical researcher in the country. We have effectively shut down all research except looking for better diagnostics, better treatments, and preventative tools such as a vaccine for covid19. That is what is really going to get us out of this, is the research that needs to get done. Other universities across the country are up to the challenge and are excited about discovering the weaknesses of this virus as much as we have discovered the weakness of the hiv virus and have been able to bring therapeutics to bear to take advantage of those witnesses. We will do it with covid19 and we will do it quickly. Host a quick final point. On cbs this evening, dr. Fauci, saying there could be a vaccine as early as 12 months. That is optimistic, but he said it is possible. Dr. Hawgood that would be recordbreaking time, but there are vaccines already in very early phase one safety trials. There is tremendous advances in biology. Around vaccine development. Think that is a possibility that would be miraculous if it occurred. But we need a vaccine, too, eventually for this particular to put this particular virus behind us. Hawgoor. Cspan has aroundtheclock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic and it is available on demand at cspan. Org coronavirus. Watch white house briefings, updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u. S. And world with interactive maps. Watch on demand any time, unfiltered at cspan coronavirus. Coming up thursday on washington journal, Jackie Walorski on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in her district and the status of a Coronavirus Relief bill. On the a. M. , megan myers role of the u. S. 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