Lockdown, it remains particularly emotional for families with older relatives in isolation. More than 400 u. S. Facilities now have residents infected with the virus. And texas remains one of the biggest states to not yet impose a statewide stay at home order. Why dont i start with the number 794. That is the number im most focused on. The number of people in icu and the number of people hospitalized in the state of california. Those numbers represent our most urgent need in terms of keeping people alive and keeping people healthy and safe in the state of california. It is incumbent that we prepare for a surge in the number of hospitalizations and the number of icu patients. That 774 may be deceiving. Many of you may think, that sounds relatively modest what is happening in other parts of this country. And that may be true. But its incredibly important to impress upon you that, that number represents a quadrupling compared to where we were just six days ago. The number of people hospitalized in the state of california the number 1,8 arepresents a tripling of where we were just six days ago. It gives you a sense of the nature of the spread and the nature of the attack of this virus and the nature of our focus as it relates to preparing for this surge. I will remind you, we are preparing for two a twothirds increase in our hospital bed capacity in this state. We are preparing to meet that not just in terms of the physical needs within that system, but also making sure we have the appropriate protective gear, the ventilators, and of course personnel people. Ill talk more about that in a moment. So today i want to go fo some more specifics about our modeling, about what those numbers that ive led with actually mean and mean to you and mean to the state of california. Ill ask dr. Gala here in a moment to provide an analysis of our current modeling. Recognizing our modeling is dynamic and our modeling is unique to the state of california. Not necessarily trending with other parts of the country. Well then talk about the issues of schools. As a parent, that is top of my agenda and top of mind. And im pleased to be joined today by superintendent of Public Education tony thurman and by Linda Hammond the president of the States School board. We will also update all of you on guidance we have around facial coverings and then well happily of course answer all of the questions you may have. Let me begin with dr. Gally and ask him to come up and share two slides that will gi ndplanning exercises and how we are planning our priorization in resources and give you a sense of where we think we are going over the number of weeks and into may and potentially june and july. Thank you, governor. Let me begin by reminding everybody what we are up against. We have a brand new virus to the globe. Weve been watching it and tracking it over weeks and months now. And we know that we dont have treatment. We dont have treatment at scale. We dont have a vaccine. So the most important thing we can do is stay home and save lives. Weve been talking for weeks about models. Weve been talking about flattening the curve and today im going to talk you through how california has been looking at it. I want to remind you that nearly three weeks ago we began issuing guidance. First around limiting the number of people in Mass Gatherings. And then a few days later issuing guidance to protect our vulnerable population seniors. Those people that are homeless. Those people with under lying conditions. And then a few days later limiting Mass Gatherings even further as an indication that we were methodically and thoughtfully implementing physical distancing across the state. We then on march 19th issued the stay at home efforts across the state. Augmenting what lots of local partners did as well. And it was all based on models and considerations that weve been tracking and thinking about since we learned about covid 19. We welcomed americans home. We took people in off cruise ships and we prepared as a state for what we are facing today. So as the governor said, i will walk you through two slides that demonstrate a bit of what we were up against if we did nothing. And then what we hope to be doing in terms of flattening that curve and changing the history of california as it relates to covid 19. So on that first stay home effort statewide, we talked about the potential of millions of californians being infected and the need for an extraordinary number of hospital beds. This black line here indicates our search capacity. If we added that to the existing capacities in hospitals we would just be above this 100,000 line. But if you see unmitigated, we would need over 700 hospital beds at peak. That san extraordinary number that no perfect search plan can ever deliver. So we began immediately talking about how do we flatten this curve . This is the curve that we were worried about if we didnt do what the governor directed us to do early. Which was consider all of the things to flatten it. Again, here is the same blue line if we would have done nothing. And you it rapidly increases. Even off the chart. This line here is where we project to be with our phase one search plan. And if you add it to existing beds, we know this baseline starts at 75,000. This line represents 125,000 of available beds across the state of california. When the governor speaks to two thirds increase, this is exactly the line where we hope to be. And i will remind you, that this line builds over time as well. And we are working hard with our local hospital partners, our local counties, our local labor unions to make sure we not only have the spaces for these beds, but also that we have the staff and supplies to meet the need. This pup l line here looks at a model what california experiences if we implement and implement well this stay at home measure. We know throughout california, counties are doing an amazing job. People, individuals are doing an incredible job. I feel like i am joined by 40 million partners in this fight against covid and we are grateful for everyones effort. But i want to remind you that in order to keep this line and stay to it, we need to deliver on these efforts on physical distancing. And that means, holding each other working within our communities to do all that we can do to stay home and save lives. I want to point out that even in this scenario which is not the best case scenario, this is if we are doing what we are doing today, we do cross this line, our effort is to move it as far to the right as possible so that we can insure we have the capacity in our Health Care Delivery system, not just in hospital bebuu beds and ventilators. And the governor is absolutely right. We will need more and all of these things that we can accumulate. That is why the efforts across the state, the effort to get those supplies and ventilators is key to our ability to not only move this to the right with our own personal efforts, but potentially lift this line as well. These lines, these points on the graph demonstrate what we are experiencing today. These should not give people immediate hope. It tells us that we are doing in five or six days of data points with our Hospital Data that we are doing about what we would have hoped and expected. But because these models are highly variable, they change every single day. And there are a number of different models out there. Many of you are seeing them in other settings. We need to keep an eye on these very closely to make sure that we continue to track to the model. These are the actuals, this is the model. We are always at risk of having could cross this surgeline sooner. And we need to do everything in our power to ensure that we keep this line as flat as we can and continue to support our communities in that effort. We will continue to be able to highlight where we are on this model and share that with you. Give us feedback as a state on how we are doing in implementing those stay at home efforts, and it will help you understand when we bring up new considerations around on different elements of our stay at home effort. In order to make sure that we bring thisline down as flat as we can and that our actuals track to that effort. With that i will turn it back to you, governor. Thank you, doctor. It reenforces the focus of our efforts. The prioritization of our day and day discussion and action is the issue of hospitalizations and icu beds. Roughly they are running 41 almost 42 . You extrapolate that out based on the graph that was just provided and the model will exceed that phase one Surge Capacity of 50,000. Somewhere in the middle part of may. And if you get up to about 66,000, that is based upon our current modeling, we are looking at 27,000 icu beds that we will need to procure in this state. The good news is we have time. That is why it is incumbent on all of us to utilize this time thoughtfully and judicially. Practice safe distancing. Stay home, connect with others. Make sure we are doing the neighbor to neighbor program. Make sure we are checking in on our seniors but no greater impact on changing that curve, buying us more time to prepare for this surge and for that peak than physical distancing. And so that is the frame of reference that we are priding today. Just to note, we are over 8,155 individuals. 8,155 covid positive cases. But the subset again is 18,055 hospitalized in the 774 that is in the icu that drive our planning focus. With this new modeling, with the dynamic nature of the models that we have been using now for many, many weeks, it seems selfevident that we should not prepare brg our children back into the school setting. And that is why i was very pleased yesterday, weve been working collaboratively with the superintendent of Public Education tony thurman and Linda Hammond. Im very pleased with the guidance the superintendent put out. Ive been very honest with you for weeks now. Based on that modeling should be clear that the right thing to do for our children, the right thing to do for the parents, for households, for the communities which they reside is to make sure that we are preparing today to set our School System up where we are increasing class time but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligations through Distance Learning and other mechanisms to make sure that we are educating our kids but not doing so physically on the school sites. And so im very pleased that we have the superintendent of Public Education here on the phone and in a moment, i will turn it over to him. But with the expectation now that the school, schools will not reopen but classes are in, we also recognize our responsibility to make sure that we are not only educating our kids, but we are feeding our kids. Before i turn it over, i want to make two quick announcements along those lines. We are very pleased to get a waiver from the federal government that will allow us to substantially increase access to Food Distribution throughout our Public Education system in the state. We made great progress but it has been inhibited by the lack of access to this waiver. We finally got that waiver and that will allow us to provide points of access for grab and go meals and other meals throughout our system. Number two, i was very pleased today with the great work of tony thurman and ben and others we were able to advance a management labor agreement. This was a stubborn issue that manifested itself very differently in the 1,000 plus School Districts throughout the state of california. Remember this is the largest School System in the United States, america. We worked with management of all stripes and labor of all stripes to get a comprehensive agreement on protocols and procedures and processes to work through any differences that we may have in preparation and expectation to meet this moment and dot do the kind of work that is necessary. And make sure people are properly getting the resources and accesses to critical curriculum. In order to do that, we needed some private sector support. So today im also pleased to announce google stepped up. Google stepped up in a big way. Google announced today, were announcing today with google a partnership where they are providing 100,000 points of access to improve wifi and broad band capacity. And not only access to the internet, but quality access to the internet. They are providing minimum three months free access to high quality, to high quality access to broad band throughout the state of california. Those 100,000 points will help us substantially address the rural issues, the equity issues that are at play. Even in the best of times. But are highlighted in these more difficult times. In addition to that, google has announced thousands of chrome books that they will be making available for those that may say well ti have access to the internet now but i dont have anything to connect it to. So they will be providing those chrome books in addition to providing minimum three months unlimited capacity at 100 plus thousand sites throughout the state of california. We need more googles. We still have a little bit more coverage that we will need in some of the more remote parts of the state. But this was a substantial enhancement that came at the right time with the Labor Management agreement, with the federal waiver. And with the exspeckation that the schools will close. I want to end by making one personal point. As a important of four. The oldest has been a very session stressful time. For all the parents out there, millions of you that may be very anxious about the expossessionation your school is not expectation your school is not going to reopen. Let me just express deep respect and empathy. And particularly for mothers. Let me just say this openingly. I try to do my part as a parent, but my wife does a heroic amount of work. And the pressure that we have placed now additional pressure on care givers and parents particularly women and moms is extraordinary. Moms are already carrying disproportionate amount of weight in terms of managing the household. Moms are also working. Many are teachers themselves that are having to provide Distance Learning, having to cope with all the stress and anxiety. Looking out for all of their kids they love dearly and making sure they are taking care of their own kids and Child Care Needs and the like. And again, there is a gender reality connected to this. I just want to go deeply to express an appreciation to all of the moms, all of those teacher, all of those care givers. I know what we are asking of you. I know you were looking forward to those graduations. You were looking forward to seeing how well you did the sat and those grades and competitive environment particularly for our seniors. And all of those things are working in realtime. That is why i will turn it over to the superintendent to talk about partnerships with the ucs, California State University system and our Community College system to address ag requirements and to address the issues associated with the sats and graduation. But we know that those anxieties run deep and they are justifiable and so the care and the deep empathy and collaboration you provide at this moment will never be forgotten and i just want to know how deeply proud i am of everybody that everybody that is going to step in to the void with these schools being closed but these classes now continuing so that we can educate our kids despite this challenging moment. And with that if i could ask tony thurman who is kind enough to join us by phone to amplify some of thissen i just want to thank the superintendent for his wonderful leadership and helping navigate the system that is the most challenging Education System in terms of jurisdictional diversity of any in the United States of america. Tony. Thank you, governor. Just happy to echo the sentiments that the governor and his team has provided about how unprecedented these times are. And given the height of the challenge how important it is to put forward maximum social distancing. So that we can flatten the curve. And for those reasons it is so important that our schools continue to do what we are doing. Quite frankly none of us knows when its safe enough for our students to return to campus. We have to do the work that we heard secretary gally talk about today to promote social distancing and flatten the curve. But out of abundance of caution we think its most important that all of our schools maximize their efforts around Distance Learning to help all of our students. We know that this is difficult. We know that this is a challenge. But as it relates to the education of our kids, we have to rise to that challenge. And so while right now our campuses are closed to our kids, school is not out for the year. In fact, we are asking everyone to accelerate their efforts to make sure that our students get a great education. As the governor indicated, we are working with a number of philanthropic leaders to make sure that they can provide devices and access to wifi for many of our students that dont have them. We are providing professional learning and training for our teachers and other educators on how do we do Distance Learning . Tomorrow at 3 00 p. M. There will be for anyone that is interested, there will be a webinar with a number of experts and teachers that are also experts on how we can deliver special education through Distance Learning. We have surveyed just about every School District in this state to ask what your Technology Needs are, the California Department of education is providing training. We are working collaborative with our Higher Education institutions. Many of whom have announced they will accept work in a pass, not pass format so that seniors will not be, it wont be held against them that they are not able to take the sat. The sat will no longer be used as criteria for admissions as was Just Announced today by the uc. We are working with our Higher Education community to make sure that while we cant provide a Graduation Ceremony for our students, we can ensure that they graduate and that they move forward on post opportunities. California department of education will continue to provide support to any district that needs it as it relates to Distance Learning. This is a tough challenge but as it relates to educating our kids, its a challenge that we must meet. We can do more together. We are stronger together. And together we will support the 6 million needs of our students. Thank you governor. Thank you. I appreciate you joining us by phone. Im also very grateful that we have the president state board of education Linda Hammond who is on the phone. Linda, i just want to ask you and maybe you can give us a broad over view. The work you are doing to re enforce what the superintendent just said. That schools are closed but classes are in. Just because the campus is closed does not mean we cannot accelerate learning in the state of california. Perhaps you can amplify a little bit more on the Distance Learning efforts. Sure. We have been working collaboratively with the Governors Office and the department to help district launch Distance Learning. They are launching a Distance Learning plan if they have not done so earlier in march. Many were on break at that time. And expecting to return and when it became clear that, that wasnt going to happen, districts have been assertively getting out there, purchasing and getting contributions with tens of thousands of hot spots and devices to do Digital Learning wherever possible. When we went into School Closure about 20 of california students lack digital connectivity at home. We are probably cutting that by more than half at this point. And we will continue to try to close the gap. Im hopeful that by the time we resume school based instruction, we will, in fact, have closed that digital gap and taught a lot of people, both kids and teachers and parents, how to engage in learning online. The districts are also where they dont have that connectivity yet using hard copy packets for students. Sending them out by school buses. Collecting them back. People have been extremely creative. Access collecting on its website the California SchoolAdministrators Association what the plans are the district has. And some of them are also that are strong models are on the covid website that tony mentioned and so people can see what good Distance Learning looks like. I also want to note that today we will be posting guidance state board and Council Department of education on graduation requirements and grading that will make it clear how all students who are on track for graduation should be enabled to graduate. I know some districts will hold those Commencement Ceremonies in the fall or hoping to. And further, the guidance will illustrate can and should be held harmless in grading. How their work can be acknowledged prior to the closure and continue to make progress through the Distance Learning program that is under way. We will also be issuing later today a joint statement from the department of education state board and our Higher Educationpartners. Uc, csu, college systems, and private nonprofit universities on solutions to is a lot of the College Admission challenges that our juniors and seniors have been worrying about. The colleges have agreed to accept credit, no credit or pass fail grading where districts decide to use it. Grade through g courses during the recent quarters of the school year with no negative impact on student grade point averages. Colleges and universities are also extepidding a wide range of flexibilities for testing requirements. Signing of payments. Processes for transcripts. Reconsidering the needs for Financial Aid that students may have because of changing circumstances of students and families. We are pleased everyone is working together on behalf of the students. We are also, as you noted earlier, ensuring students are getting fed. Right flow there are 152 districts across the state where students are getting grab and gomeals. Being fed in cafeterias. Many districts have expanded their provision of meals so that all students under the age of 18 are getting served. Or all of those in schools that are title one schools with more than half of students living in poverty. So rewith getting as many people fed as possible and the federal government has approved our request for waivers to make this process of food access even more extensive. We do have a numb of districts that are setting up Child Care Centers. I know in los angeles closed physical buildings they open 40 Child Care Centers for the children of First Responders and other essential workers. San francisco has done the same thing. This is a strong need throughout the state. And i would say its the place where we need to put our orr down for additional intensive work. But districts are also organizing where they can and reaching out to other community partners, boys and girls club, ymca, ywca, and others to be partners in the child care process. And we have had some flexibilities in the rules to make it possible for more people to d particularly our First Responders and other essential workers. And the feedback you are getting from folks all across the state of california. Thank you both of you for joining us today and thank you for your leadership and thank you for meeting this moment. My deep respect and admiration for all of the mothers out there and all of the parents that i know are going to have to