[no audio] [no audio] gov. Murphy good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for your patience both in allowing us to move this to 3 00 today due to the white house vtc, which we will come back to but a lot of good content, it ran a little bit long. We apologize for the fact. We are a little bit behind. Im joined by the woman on my right, the commissioner of the department of health. To her right, another guy in , dr. Edno introduction. The guy to my left who doesnt need an introduction, pat callahan. Joined by jared maples, director of the department of Homeland Security preparedness and soon by chief counsel met plotkin. Dailybegin with our update on the numbers and charts. May these never be just numbers and charts. We are at it we are announcing an additional 347 positive test results, pushing 102,196. Total to. Y monitor is out if someone could get it plugged in, that would be great. We must keep in mind there are tens of thousands of new jerseyans who have tested positive the past seven weeks and have beaten covid19. Sadly we must report with the heaviest of hearts 253 additional lives lost, meaning we have lost a total of 5617 of residents tolessed covid19 complications. Bless their hearts. As we look at the curve of covid19 cases, it is still flat. These are positive tests. We can take solace in that it is flattening. It is flattening positivity is a ballpark around the same, and i know what is not the same is restarted from nothing. The country was not prepared for testing and now we are into the 90s of sites you can get tested. The last estimate of any state in america we also know that is not the complete view of the denominator. Absent universal testing. We will correct if we see it differently. It is gratifying, given the alternatives. Look at the curve a month or so ago. The map we have the showing you, good with a new color scheme, this map looks different from yesterday and not in a good way. Several counties have slid backward. The numbers in each county is the number of days it takes to universe innfection the county. You have seen backsliding. We cant let that happen. Our most important weapon, the biggest we have, our ability to social distance, stay at home and stay away from each other. Bact atat we crack the people who are infected and the fatalities. I cant be more clear and plain, everyone has a role to play in slowing the spread. We have to Work Together to lighten this map. We cant ease up. I am not in a position to put our state on the road back. We need to see more progress on slowing before we can begin those considerations. Thank you. You have done an extraordinary job. Dont take your foot off the gas. In our health care system, there were 6847 residents hospitalized for covid19. This is a degrees from what we will be we have been seeing. Judy will get into this. The field medical stations reported 98 patients. There were 1933 in critical or intensive care. That is about virtually unchanged. And ventilator use had a oneday currently in use. , 1933,bers at the top folks in critical care, 1487 the number on ventilators. 385 new hospitalizations yesterday. This chart has seen ups and downs but the threeday average trend line is moving in the right direction, down. 10 00 hours preceding p. M. Last night, our hospitals total discharges. If you look at the threeday average, we see discharges exceeding admittance is. The yellow line or the folks who are leaving. The orange are the folks who are arriving. Know thereurse we are those who are not being reunited with their families on the other end of covid19. The toll of this disease in terms of loss of life remains staggering to all of us. As we have been doing, i would like to remember a few more neighbors we have lost and let none of us ever think of those we have lost as numbers on a graph. They were real lives and they leave behind real families. Jerry. On the left for the past two decades he served the families and children of fair one, serving as a custodian before becoming a wellknown and beloved bus driver. If you need to know anything about his commitment to the community, consider this story. I told his widow i remember this last fall. He was driving a group of students back to school from a field trip on route 208 in wyckoff. He saw a truck that had caught fire. He extinguished the fire, got back in and the police have not arrived yet and proceeded to get his students back to school on time. He was a star. He leaves behind his wife, with whom mary jane i spoke this morning, two daughters and a immunity loves him. Community who a loves him. , see the attorney general lieutenant governor. Aviles. Christian he was only a senior at William Paterson university where he was a mainstay on the deans list. He was going to receive degrees in sociality and communication. He had a deep interest in Public Service and interned for the state senator nelly poe. We had a conversation on him. Talented artist and had his work displayed i think courtesy of the congressman in the capital. He was a bright light that has been extinguished too early. Memory, the and University President has already announced his intention to have his name added to the student memorial tree on campus. He leaves behind his mother anna with whom i have the honor of speaking and his siblings and when and angel siblings edwin and angel. Bless them all. Jameswish to recognize biera, the mayor one of the reasons we should remember him but not the only one. We should remember him because he embodies the values of our new jersey family. Love ofecency and family. His brother called him the fault of the earth. Leaves behind his wife with whom i spoke and she is struggling and his sisters and nieces and nephews. Our prayers are with the entire jimmieera family and joins his mom and dad in heaven. Three more treasured members. Their memories to find the strength we need to win the war. We need to continue social distancing and protecting ourselves and others when we go out. We have lost more new jerseyans to covid19 than we have in some of our nations wars and in 9 11. One of themevery and now we have thousands more for whom we will remember and pray for. Lets include every Single Person we have lost in the annals of our state history. They will not be forgotten. For them we will move forward and we will come out of this stronger than ever before. God bless them all. Aitching gears, i had productive call with secretary of the treasury steven mnuchin. It was a good call the beginning of a meeting of minds. We have got big money issues. One of them is the first step of the interpretation of the cares act signed four weeks ago today. We have to make sure we get what is rightfully ours. I mentioned the past couple of days we have gotten assurances but could not find our way through to the actual guidance that came out. I want to give the secretary of big shout out. We are not over the goal line but had a productive call with senior members of each of our teams. Good step in the right direction. I had a call with mike pence. I thought it was a good call. The hubble a couple of highlights, what is going on with testing. You heard from rutgers yesterday, brian presented the case well. Another sense from the call that rutgers is not just a big deal for us potentially testing wise in new jersey but a national matter. Corpsly i thank the army who was here. His team, lieutenant col. Parks, give them a much deserved shout out. I brought money up. I have to bring up money in every conversation because we are running out of it. Not only was the call helpful, and that will be the First Step Towards a good resolution of the cares act, but i reiterated ousted other governors, we need a big amount of direct cash to several states. This reception was a good one but we have to be persistent. I echo what i said, big shout out to senator bob menendez that he and senator cassidy from louisiana have cosponsored which would envision 500 billion of direct cash assistance. That is what the doctor ordered and we will stay on top of that. Today we are announcing new measures to help renters and homeowners feel more secure as we continue our battle against covid19. We recognize the anxiety so many feel about looming mortgage and rent payments especially with may 1 a week away. I had a conversation on this topic with another new jersey icon. Expressing enormous concern about matters such as the one i will refer to now. We have been corrective and engaging with sickle to groups to gauge solutions. Gaugekeholder groups to solutions. We have worked alongside mortgage lenders to implement a significant for Parents Program and worked through the housing and mortgage significant Forbearance Program and worked through the housing and mortgage. On housingproactive relief. First i am signing an executive order allowing renters to direct landlords to use security , whetherto pay rents to make up for a short all or to it it shortfall or to pay in full. This was money paid up front to secure a release. People must secure their place in their home. I wish to acknowledge the assemblywoman fridley Britney Timberlake for her knowledge. We understand too many renters are confused about their rights and landlords need information to adhere to the orders we put in place. To the department of Community Affairs led by sheila oliver, we are standing up a frequently online. Estions section you can see it and maybe we can come back tomorrow and put this up in big broadway lights. V renter. Nj. Go it will be a point of reference for renters and landlords. Everyone will have access to the same information so there can be no more misunderstandings and everyone understands expectations of them during this time. Jerseyto thank the new Apartment Association for support and assistance and encouraging landlords to waive late fees in this time. We are all in this together and we can only emerge stronger when no one for the people in new jersey fortunate enough to have the ncome to pay their rent or mortgage please do so as that whows us to best help those cannot. And third, were standing up an dditional information page for homeowners taking advantage of announced sly mortgage forbearance and we want it clear to the lender expectation for them is to tack the payments on to the end of the loan. Loan, at the end of the in the at the end of the 90day forbearance period. That page is on covid19. Nj. Com. It asks for lendsers to ask or skipped payments up front and were pushing to have those rules changed. Are backed Mortgage Loans already having payments moved to the end of the mortgage term and this is the model that we should pursuing for all homeowners. A a reminder, if youre landlord who has requested mortgage forbearance if your expect you to extend that relief to your tenants. Lets make sure there is some here, thank you. On testing, ill switch gears 95 locations o across the state where residents covid19. Ted for 30 publicly run communitybased testing sites can be found on and by website scrolling down to the link for testing information. Owever, your primary Care Practitioner can direct you to sites for 65 other testing. As we noted yesterday were working diligently to expand testing across the state. We continue to press, as i earlier, our federal partners for the necessary waivers to open up testing for more individuals. Working with great partners, rutgers university, in a big way, and our private labs new Testing Systems and fast tracked test processing use. Broad again, to remind everyone, having a Robust Testing Program key for our ability to begin getting our economy back running. Its a very simple equation and i can, emind you if Public Health creates economic health. It is in that order. Public Health Creates economic health. O the sooner that we have the testing that we need in place the sooner we can give our residents the confidence that to know that they will be safe once we begin down to that new normal. Some to say thank you to cou who, angelo and tina are donating a million surgical masks. Hey are en route but we didnt want to sit on this news any longer. And tina lo independently when i worked in hong kong. Native, angelo comes from a very successful and in wned business family taiwan, and then they met and have been married, i think, for plus years. Our Global Community has stepped forward like never before to help us. In this case i thank not just thank the tina, i people of taiwan for their support. The diversity of our state and matter is one of our strongest assets. This is no time for folks to or another, up especially our asian brothers and sisters, who have stepped up and for those of you who follow geopolitics, im have folksy not only in this country largely checked their partisan politics at the fight on behalf, in this state of every single one of our country , and in this every single one of our residents but you dont normally taiwan and the prc and japan and south korea each to their credit answering our calls for help. I i want to thank, again, want to thank the koos for their help. Before i close i would like to a few additional shoutouts to some people across the state great things doing in our communities. Over the past several days ive several young people who have stepped up in our community. New s another young jerseyian who deserves our thanks. Enberg. 14yearold josh i have a son named josh. Every friday for the past 18 hes been volunteering with the medical food pantry familiesves over 3,000 in Sussex County up in your neck of the woods, pat. Older any of the volunteers who josh works along rightfullyeen taking and smartly extra precautions the pantry has found itself has been ed but josh stepping up his volunteering time to help fill the gaps. Thank you for , all youre doing to ensure the sparta who rely on the ecumenical food pantry. Joshs dad is the state search and rescue coordinator for the office of Emergency Management hes been part of the team helping us build out our we thank apacity so not just josh but his dad and all the other folks out there way. Ing up in a big fouring of which, here are students from the leap academy in camden, a school i know well. Joshua ramos, junior devensente, and sophomore. D another they are part of leaps fab lab. Schools 3d printers they are on a mission to create a thousand face our front line healthcare workers. They are assembling the face using a kit me eveloped by fab lab director christopher mccrumb and his colleagues. There are already 150 face shields deep into their project those going to Cooper University hospital and Community Health center and these students are going to keep going until the rest of their goal is met. So to everybody at the fab lab, academy founder, and a friend of mine, gloria, new jersey thanks you. I would like to give a a team youout out to never see. Team, our technology several of whom are behind the camera today. Thanks to the team here at trenton war memorial, ill, mike, and sydney justice, and the folks in the office of information technology, jack casey, roy woods, and chris. Na to every one of you who the nues to help stop spread of covid19 so we can come out on the other side, bless you and thank you. Remember, this is no time for us to give up. Lets keep at it and together win this. Mentioned, i think, recently, my dad used to say remember, alpha and the omega, the the end. And weve got a couple weve got to share g and an end with you before i turn things over to you, judy. On the one hand, im proud to that our new jersey family has grown. Received this picture from kevin and windy slavin. Kevin, of course, is the c. E. O. Health and hs chairman of the new jersey hospital association, a good friend of judys. Are kevin and windys son sean and daughterinlaw emily new jerseyian, rosemary slavin. Everyone is safe and healthy, thank god. Our new jersey family, young rosemary. God bless you. End of the ther spectrum, as i close, i must condolences to a dear friend and a mentor of cain, ormer governor tom who has lost his wife of 52 first lady deborah cain. First lady debbie did not let trappings of politics change who she was. She remained a quiet public presence. But was a strong private mother, and a wife, lifelong friend. With all Brigadier General overnor entails she remained focus on ensure her husband, his greatest responsibility was to family. And that in and of itself is an extraordinary legacy. Honor of speaking to both governor cain and his son earlier. Tom cain god bless them both and god bless mrs. Cains memory. Children,vernor, their tom jr. , alexandra, and reed and of our ldren, all thoughts and prayers are with you. God bless her and her memory and you. And every one of with that please allow me to turn things over to the commissioner of health, the who needs no introduction, please help me welcome judy. Governor. You, good afternoon. Our hospitals are reporting hospitalizations last night. Hat includes covid positive patients and persons under investigation. Decrease from a individuals hospitalized on april 14. 1,933 individuals in critical care. 6. 6 decrease from a 2,069 on april 13. Covid19 positive patients and persons under ventilators has high of 12. 8 from a on april 14 to 1,487 last evening. 77 of the icu patients are on ventilators. This is down 99 ificantly, on april 10, of these patients were on ventilators. S the governor has said, we need everyone to continue to adhere to social distancing ensure that these hospitalization numbers continue direction. E right today were reporting 3,047 new total of over 102,000 cases in the state. To remove inue duplicate reports in the system. We continue to scrub the numbers reconcile them not only with Long Term Care, reconciling them against the death certificates, vary,metimes these numbers but overall, were still high ing significantly numbers. Sadly, 253 new deaths have been to the department for a fatalities. 17 the breakdown of deaths by race are as follows. 53. 5. , black. 20. 1 . Thats slightly down. Hispanic, 16. 3 . 5. 3 . , other, 4. 9 . Now 452 Long Term Care facilities in the state with cases. 9 our survey teams are continuing to inspect Long Term Care facilities. The team has conducted 30 thursday. Ns since last they have issued directed plans three ection to facilities requiring them to hire consultants for infection nursing, and administrative oversight. Has been completed at home. Aramus veterans the v. A. Is helping us with that. He positive activity rate is 46 . The total census for all of veteransilities in the homes is 2725. 244 residents have 91 veterans ve and have passed away. Additionally today, Cooper University, in collaboration Cooper UniversityHealth Testing in conduct Long Term Care facilities in the southern part of the state. Arrivingof lab reports to data from this morning, according to data from this of the seven labs that report to us 185,329 individuals been tested. 81,563 have tested positive for rate of 44. 1 . Theier this week, i covered importance of safely using cleaning products because of the calls that we were getting at the poison center. Reminder, follow the product instructions closely. Clean sposable gloves to and disinfect. Se epa registered household disinfectants and ensure proper ventilation when cleaning. These products away from children. They should never ingested or injected. When swallowed many household roducts cause severe gastrointestinal symptoms. You may be repeatedly sick and even vomit. You may vomit blood. You may experience swelling of lips or have burns to the esophagus. Abdominal pain and you may notice blood in your stools. Not ingest or inject disinfectants. As always, i thank you for home. G maintaining social distancing, safe, and cted, stay stay healthy. Thank you. Judy, thank you for that and reminder. Gov. Murphy and for all, just a quick follow up, counties, in positive tests, remain the same group. Followed by essex, hudson, union, passaic and middlesex. Six continue to be the with the most positives and not surprising given that they are new york metro reality. Thank you for that and for all. Anything on compliance, ppe, infrastructure and other matters. Thank you, governor. Very briefly overnight, newark olice department issued 83e. O. Violations and closed one business. In clinton, three subjects were playing golf on a closed golf course. Elizabeth, seven subjects were charged for congregating. Hey had been warned several times and continued to not socially distance and stay at location. In another incident, a subject a failed to disperse made police and oot the was charged with terroristic threats. Was cited for remaining open also in patterson. Who subjects were cited refused to disperse. Parsippany a retail vape shop was hope that did not sell store items ence that would allow them to stay open as essential and that owner well. Ited as just a good story that i think with regard to equipment, governor, and ventilators this morning, before dawn, the commissioner reached out to me. Directly from a respiratory therapist at a hospital, that was in dire need ventilators, and specifically sked for noninvasive ventilators. The ones that you referenced esterday, governor, the 500, both dual purpose ventilators, so within a few hours i was on he phone with that respiratory therapist and within shortly after that, 10 of those were hospital. To that so i just point out, one, the commissioners accessibility, thing to be accessible but you have to act upon it part of honored to be a team thats both accessible thats to act because life saving equipment whether they be invasive or noninvasive, i defer to the medical experts tell us that but it was good to be part of something that came together so quickly with effectiveness. Thanks, governor. Gov. Murphy thank you, pat. Amen to that. You, judy, and thank you, pat, both. Well start over here with brent. Do, just to say, tomorrow, unless im told otherwise well be here at 1 00 tomorrow. So 1 00 tomorrow. Well communicate electronically unless there is a get with you either in person or telephonically, in which case well let you know. Is to be determined. We had a white house meeting today. Sure if that replace add yesterdays or mondays so bear with us. 1 00 eferred timing is p. M. But those video calls are important and we need to be a part of them. For new are important jersey. Thats why we do it. So please bear with us on that minimum, 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Brent, youre up. Good afternoon. More many people with developmental and ntellectual disabilities in group homes, will they be tested, too . You put out a call for nursing statesployees from other and retirees to step up and help Nursing Homes here. Ave they been deployed and if so, how many . The state website says there are covid19 in with psychiatric facilities with 373 Staff Members which is more than double. How is that possible . That seems weird. One of the big reasons for the order is to flatten the curve. Does that mean its time to albeit fting the order gingerly and studies have shown that more people hospitalized conditions much more than those who dont. What about just isolating them nd letting others begin to reopen up . Okay. A couple of things. Lifting orders, were going to still on monday discuss the broad principles of how we as i mentioned yesterday, we need to he steps take in terms of the socalled reopening. Couple of quotes saying we were refusing to think about it or talk about it which is ridiculous. What were refusing. Today. 253 people die we saw the heat map go in the wrong direction. Ositive tests are still going up. They are not plateauing or going down. Hospitalizations, thats good news. That is going down although judy reminded me today the icu ercentage of those hospitalizations is higher than we would like. So were not out of the woods yet. So with all due respect, this is not directed in agitation, towards you, its a fair question to ask, were not there yet. There yet. Folks, this does not benefit me or any of us personally to stand way of the facts suggest we should proceed. When the facts suggest we should proceed, i will promise you, and by the way were spending an enormous including ime men and women ny in the state and perhaps beyond advice e to give us the we need not just from a health standpoint, on judys and eds of the house but from an economic and developmental reality standpoint. Judy, these are largely, group homes we addressed yesterday, i think, repeat that. Ant to thats obviously a major focus but in terms of both group homes, nursing home and lso the anomaly i think youre pointing out in psychiatric hospitals, between the number, as i understand your question, umber of positives mopping patients with a much bigger number of positives among staff, nd then the other question, judy, where is the underlying conditions reality stand now where it might have stood recently . We can start with the underlying conditions. Im just looking for my sheet. While im doing that, we know we 1,400 individuals in the psychiatric hospitals. Also know that some of the patients move between hospitals. We may see some of the same seen in the weve Nursing Homes. However, weve not done wide psychiatricg in the hospitals. Its considered a vulnerable we do intend to do that. The same with the dd population. 1,400 in psychiatric. I think in the dd population we have over 5,000. That the department f Human Services in collaboration with rutgers university, you heard from dr. Developing a re plan that may be rolled out as early as next week to test, to testing, in the dd. Emember, Long Term Care, assisted living, probably about new 0 individuals in jersey, over a hundred thousand individuals when you add in all homes, but for Long Term Care and assistive its probably around 0,000 and well be laying out plans similar to the use case that were doing in south jersey, to test all residents and employees. Judy, just for clarification, dd is developmental developmentally disabled folks. Im sorry. Say this up front before i throw it to you, rutgers was very explicit about yesterday, bryan was very explicit about testing those homes nd i say the word because, in some cases, as we mentioned yesterday, in all homes andse are their in some cases, for decades, so i just want to add that point. Hit underlyingto conditions. Yeah. Underlying conditions pretty much stayed the same. Cardiovascular disease, 58. 4. Chronic diseases, 31. 4. Disease, azubuike astsma neurological 15. 5. Lity, ther categories, 13. 7, and 11 . Er, what did we miss there . Is it true the majority of hospitalized also had underlying conditions and then there was a question about bringing other people in to help Nursing Homes. Have they been deployed . Depending on what they are for, its not comorbid r a conditions, something you would see every day, its a matter of extent. And then the volunteer army, in matchmaking process is, fact, happening. The matchmaking process goes every day. Were looking, and, for people, work, duals, that want to in Long Term Care, thats our biggest pushs our right now. Nd we have some ideas about different populations of individuals that might want to do that. Putting out a push next week. Youve got another push. I think its covid19. Nj. Com. The page. We want folks to go there. We l travel over here if could, matt. If you look at judy and ed, tell this, if disagree with you look at elderly, if you look comorbidities, and if you look at folks in long are care facilities, those the three big blows to our state overwhelmingly that weve taken. Saw christians picture earlier, 22 years old. Unfortunately, folks, no one is immune from this. There are overwhelming exceptions, but its sayre to say those are the three big society that have been crushed. Please. Ian. Governor, you said youre concerned about people of color people being atin overrepresented in covid deaths in new jersey. Does partment of health not seem to have or is not reporting ethnic or racial data on the population tested. This is not required in the law you just signed but shouldnt we track this as well so we can sure the testing system is not biased against these populations . It . Is that gov. Murphy in a Perfect World the answer is yes. I dont know that weve got were playing the hand weve been dealt. Weigh in on that . Ed sure. When the Doctor Orders a test lab runs it, lab can only report back the information they get from the doctor and the orders that test and that reports the patients ethnicity or race. They are just reporting the and that sort of stuff. When the lab reports that data o us, particularly all the negative ones, we dont have that information. We dont have any way to tie a anybodys er with race or ethnicity. Further investigation is done on that are positive and thats why we can pick up race and we icity on those prioritize those with worse knowing but as far as the race and ethnicity, its not possible. Love the point. So if you could somehow find you could a where scale up testing and have a rapid turnaround on the result information, count me in. Just think it will be challenging. Gov. Murphy let me ask judy a quick question. That. Ank you for i dont know if youve got it today. Least the profile, at first cut of fatalities. A first cut, i think it was hospitalizations in the day in terms of do we updated since then . I dont have it today but im but i do want to respond to testing. Plan is to make sure that underserved populations to testing. Hqscs, calling in were looking at mobile testing over neighborhoods, so youre absolutely correct. We have to pay a lot of attention to and we plan to do that, and when we put out testing strategy, you will see that involved. And the point i want to repeat which i know you agree know based on fatalities that the american 50 plus or minus ore representative of fatalities than in the overall society. Weve not seen that number yet, suspicious remain in the number that judy had mentioned the other day on least lizations, was at beginning to square the circle with the new york city reality hispanic, the latinex population, something to as we get k this more refined and robust. By the way, one thing everyone at this point, its not like testing will end sometime in may or june. Got testing will be with us for a long time. Thats the bad news. Well be able s, over that long runway to be able and ke it much more robust refine it. Good afternoon. Afternoon. Two questions. On rentals, your executive order the use of Security Deposits. Oes that mean that landlords must accept Security Deposits or are you simply encouraging the that . F and secondly, have Operation Air ridge deliveries been a significant part of new jerseys ppe supply . To take the former, and maybe, pat, you can take the latter. You . Hat okay with i think its more in the encouraging, recommending, as opposed to mandating. The record or ct agree . There is a statutory bar on deposits to cover rent so this removes that statutory bar. It does prevent them, if they it, if they accept the Security Deposit, from seeking another Security Deposit for at months after the end of the month, or the end of the Lease Agreement two classified as significant would be an overstatement. We have said we will take anything we can get by any means we can get it. And we appreciate it. It is still an ongoing process. There have been 73 national air bridge missions in the last month or so. It is an ongoing process. We appreciate every piece of ppe that we get. You have any idea how much you have received from average air bridge. I can circle back to you on that. We can give you a specific count. View testing, how do you the role of Antibody Testing to getting back to normal . It would allow for noncovid and nonurgent care. Talking aboutwere longterm care facilities. The standards and protocols were incredibly disappointing. On the discharge data, do you include deaths in the hospital as part of the discharge data . That seems to be the case from some of the other health department. If you are including deaths and that discharge data, is that a fair figure to show people . It gives people the assumption that things are Getting Better. Things are Getting Better. But we slept a little bit. There are no question things are Getting Better when you look at hospitalizations, icus, ventilators, and admissions. I will let ed and judy address the question on Antibody Testing. I am not qualified to answer that. Has become a very good partner of ours over the past several we. I think the jury is out. I will come back to you on paramus. I dont want to call out a particular facility. They are in there right now with our teams not only serving staff but helping us figure out how we can coordinate all of these things. I will reserve the right to come back to you. I would like to get their independent assessment. Our are there to help workers. Tenants can instruct their landlords to use the Security Deposit. When you are looking for Something Like if someone has covid or had it. There are two ways to do it. You can look for pieces of the virus in a swab test. Get that back, you can be pretty sure that the person actually has covid at that particular time. To respondody starts to infection. It creates antibodies. They come at a later time. It can vary. Tose become important to try decide if someone has had the disease before. Antibodies, one of the things you hope is that they become protective. They can prevent you from getting the infection again. You might assume that you are immune from getting the infection again. People say, can i get this test now . It will show you if any individual has have this disease in the past. That is what we would like the Antibody Test to be able to tell us. Unfortunately, that is not actually the case. For a variety of reasons. The testing that is out there now comes from a variety of forces. Testly how specific that is is unclear. It is not fair if you are infected with one of the more common coronavirus is circulating last year. We also dont know exactly how protective those antibodies are. All of these tests have a level of a all causative array. If i had a population where about five and 100 people actually had it and i tested all of those people, some might test positive. It would be a 5050 chance. For all of these reasons, at recommend any of that. What we are trying to move forward with his looking at our population to see how many people we dont know who were sick for my defense the and get a better sense of what happened in the past. The answer is yes. But there is an important footnote. I thought we made this point. When we say discharges, we mean between 10 p. M. Two nights ago. Nd 10 p. M. Last night report that we deaths we report did not come within the last 24 hours. This is a rolling number. There is a different timeframe associated with these. Not everybody dies at a hospital. If you asked me what the breakdown is, i do not have it. Away fromnot take what we believe are significant stabilization, particularly in the number of hospitalizations as judy has pointed to. Thank you. That is something we endeavor, including, we are also going through a rigorous assess to make sure the fatality numbers are as accurate as possible. Thatding presumptive cases we will be constantly looking back and reassessing. I think it is important to note, there will be people who expire who have the symptoms of covid19 but what forever reasons they were not tested. Maybe they expired at home. Maybe they are in the hospital but the test is not been performed yet. We are looking at every single one of those. Say thatt is fair to cases. Ld count probable we definitely need those numbers. No question. We consider a confirmed case or death anybody who tested positive and has died. Does a relatively simple because you know someone died and they had a positive test. The probable cases go into two broad categories. We aregetting there but not reporting them out as fast. Have died at home or in the hospital. Never done so it was never reported that way. They become a probable case. If someone were to die where there was a known outbreak and testing was not done, even if it wasnt written on a death certificate, even though they had symptoms that suggest covid, that would indepth being counted as a probable. We are working on getting those numbers. The problem is some of them are not as easy to tease out as it may sound. We will get there but it may take some time. We promise you that. We are talking about a scenario that is more or less dire than it needs to be. Everything on the facts. I had a short conversation with the president of goldman sachs. I would like to give them a shout out. They are putting 10 million to work. I had a short conversation with him earlier today to thank him for that. That will make a huge difference. We know you are frustrated. We are getting through it. I want to thank judy and and all of the brothers and sisters at the department of health for all they are doing. We will be back with you tomorrow at 1 00 p. M. In this room. Please stay the course. It is working but we have seen that we cannot let our guard down. The weather will be better. Home. Stay at stay away from each other. Keep the social distancing up. That is the most important weapon in the fight to beat this virus. The great work. We have roundtheclock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. It is all available on demand. Andh white house briefings track the spread throughout the u. S. And world with interactive maps. Watch on demand time unfiltered. This afternoon, president trumbull hold briefing at the white house. Byis expected to be joined Vice President mike pence and embers of his task force. Eastern. E at 5 00 p. M. A special evening addition of washington journal. 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