It iunclear where the Staff Members are coming from. Since this morning, at least three ambulances have shown up at gateway care and rehab center in hayward, leaving one patients grandson worried about the outbreak escalating further. A City Council Member for union city says his grandmother has dementia and requires 24hour care. She visited her window where the family left a poster board for her. Im worried that this ting exploded over two days. The he reason that you see the ambulances like you do now, theyre probably traction porting a lot of people to the hospital. Reporter the San Francisco chronicle is sourcing a record that shows anthony as the owners of gateway. The couple has allegedly been cited for olations at other Skilled Nursing fa owned across the bay area, including abuse and lack of infection control. And now were going to go live to governor newsoms news conference. Providing psychological first aid by extending our hand of appreciation, good word kind of support that we all need a little moral support. But we need to do more than that. That increasingly is needed for a workforce deeply stressed out, deportationly stretched. Families that have been broken apart because their loved ones are spending 24 hours a day, 7 days abyeweek attending to the needs of others and not able to come back home. In many cases, sleeping in their cars overnight. In other cases, unwilling because they have been exposed to this virus. Not wanting to expose their family back at home. And are spending their own money to go to a motel or hotel overnight. We have heard countless examples of these stories. And instead of continuing to absorb those stories, we want todo someand do soeffort in the state of california to directly support those caregivers, those Health Care Workers, those front line heroes by providing them vouchers and stipends and in many cases for lowwage workers 100 reimbursable costs at hotels all up and down the state of california. We currently have an inventory over 150 hotels that have been part of a bulk purchasing of room program through our department of general services. Some of the nicest and finest hotel chains in the world are participating in this program, providing deep discounts to the state of california. And we will extend those deep discounts directly to our carsher s agaiwe will provide 100 reimbursements so that theyre allowed to stay closer to their patients and provide them the opportunity not to worry about being out of pocket or worry about exposing their families or god forbid about worried about another night sleeping in their car so they can stay closer to the needs in their communities. Lets remember, people are commuting for an hour, hour and a half on the good days. And the idea that youre doing a 12hour shift and at 2 00, 3 00 in the morning have to drive back home only to get back up and do a double shift early in the morning, thats not appropriate and that is not right. We need to do better for these workers. So im very pleased that we have put together a new website, caltravelstore. Com. Cal travelstore. Com. That is the site that will have the list of these 150plus hotels. Every day were getting more hotels to participate in this and make available these vouchers for those individuals. Lower wage workers, richer supports. The higher wage workers, deep discounts across our health care workforce. I also want to thank the airlines that have also stepped up. United airlines, they reached out to us and they said, you know what, we read about the health corps website that you put together. All now 86,516 individuals strong. 86,516 individuals have signed up on our health care site. And United Airlines called and said, if you have folks that are traveling into the state that want to be part of that health corps, we want to take care of their travel costs. 100 round trip tickets no matter where they are at any point of the globe. Not just across the United States or within the state of california. And i just want to thank United Airlines for stepping in in a big way to help workforce costs accommodation costs, hotel costs. No sooner by the way united reached out that we got a call from southwest airlines, Alaska Airlines, and delta. Those are the four airlines that met this moment. And let me thank not just united but once again southwest, let me thank Alaska Airlines and thank delta for committing to do exactly the same. That information is also available at our website. And we couldnt be more grateful for r suppor that san openended commitment until this crisis passes. And our commitment to the hotels and accommodations extend accordingly. More care for our heroes and caregivers at a time that we need to be there for them so they can attend and focus on the needs of the most vulnerable patients throughout the state of california. And also i should just extend those that are in the workforce that may have been impacted and tested positive Health Care Workers for covid19, we also are providing these sites, these hotel rooms as isolation rooms, as quarantines for those individuals as well. And those that have also been exposed and are worried about their health and their process getting back results of the tests that cant go back to work until the tests come back, these are also hotel rooms set aside for you. I just want to thank all of our partners in that endeavor. And also of the individuals. We did one of those zoom calls and universally this was the number one ask for the people that participated in that call. And these were representatives of our doctors, the california medical association, our nurses association, bonnie l,iu and bo dave reagan and others that all participated in that. And they said this was one of the top asks of their members and one of the most important things we could do to help with their stress and ease their anxiety also their financial burden at this time of crisis. So thats the announcement we want today make up front. In addition to that, i want to just extend a few updates in terms of data and new information that we do on a daily basis in terms of the total number of individuals impacted and currently testing positive for covid19. 18,309 is the official state count of those test positive. 492 families torn apart. These are not statistics. Behind every stat is a real person, real live thats have been torn apart. 492 lives lost torn apart. 492 lives lost now in the state of california. 50 other families loved ones lost their lives within the last 24 hours to this virus. 1432 individuals are in our icus. And 2825 are now hospitalized in the system. Let me just put that into statistical terms in terms of percentage increase. The 2825, the total number of hospitalized is roughly 4. 1 increase from yesterday. And here very importantly is a statistic in terms of percentage drop i mmate y fings individuals in the icu. That number of 1132 represents a drop of 1. 9 from yesterday. One data point is not a trend. One data point is not a headline. Iion anread too much into that one point of data. But nonetheless, it is encouraging. And it just, again, reinforces the incredible work that all of you are doing to practice physical distancing. The stay at home is working in the state of california. That curve has been bent in this state. But it is also again stretched and we continue to be vigilant and do more every moment of every day to procure the physical assets in terms of our alternative care sites as well as the appropriate levels of ppe. We made a significant announcement about that last night. And that includes ventilators that we confidently have secured within the Hospital System and in our own state cache to meet the models and projections. On that front, let me just reinforce the number that i gave a week or so ago. Well, let me go back. About a month ago, i reminded all of you that we had 7,587 ventilators that were identified within our 416 hospitals. That was the number that we advanced in the ginning of re do everything that they can to procure even more ventilators, refurbish ventilators, get supplies donated and the like. Just a week ago, i announced that they had done just that. No longer 7587. That the hospitals had 11,063 ventilators, which was good today, because the hospery dae thecahe state of california cunts, y th11747 ven i make that point to make this point. I think some people have expressed some concern about californias willingness to extend a hand to new jersey, new york, illinois, d. C. , to maryland, to nevada and to other states across this country by lending ventilators to deal with the crisis at hand in those states. We thought it was the right thing to do. But i also want you to know it was the responsible thing to do. As american citizens from a moral and ethical imperative to save lives all of us americans. But also responsible in this context. The Hospital System alone is currently utilizing 31. 89 of all their ventilators. Forgive me for the precision but you deserve precision. 31. 89 of the ventilators are being used which means that over 38,000 ventilators are not being used in the Hospital System. That does not include the number of ventilators that the state of california has in its Storage Facilities and the number of ventilators we have been sending out over the course of the last number of months. So i just want to secure any anxiety that people have remind you of this, ventilators are different than personal protective gear. Theyre consumed personal protective gear and they are destroyed with, again, the exception of n95 masks which we are now able to reuse because of the new batel system that we have procured that will be operational by april 20th of this month. But ventilators can be used over and over and over again. And when those ventilators are used to save lives in those other states, we have the Firm Commitment from the sendththe s california. And why . Because, again, our curve is not bending like other states. We have stretched our curve. Giving us a little bit more time. But we cant vast sit on assets when we can save lives and help our fellow americans. And so i just want to clear up any anxiety in that space or any ambiguity or any misinformation to be candid with you that has been expressed in this space. I am not though naive on this front. We live in the aggregate. I give you those numbers and it does not necessarily are reflect the reality in each and every county in the state of california. But within the Hospital System themselves, they have a remashible mutual support program and strategy in the state of california led by david duncan is responsible for our states effort. They check in every single day to all of the county Health Directors to check in on their current supplies, current need. And our ongoing resolve is each county should at least have two times as many vents as they need on any given basis. On the basis of how we then procure and process the redistribution or distribution of those assets. And so that is something every morning we check in and we update. And that is the protocol that we have advanced from the beginning of this process. Thats what dave duncan does. Thats what he continues to do. And proud of his work and proud of the work of the team that we have assembled. By no stretch am i thinanwedoub our procurement and double down on our redistribution of these assets. Thats a dynamic reality. Were well aware of that reality. And we have strategies to address that. And i just want folks to know those strategies include regionally prepositioning these ventilators as well which we have done so we can save not just a day on the delivery, but quite literally hours on the delivery as those assets are called upon and needed. Ppe, again, we mentioned yesterday the significant capacity now for california to procure hundreds of millions of units of protective gear, n59 masks and surgical masks but coveralls and shields and the like. I know people are demanding more ppe in re time not just health caworkers but grocery workers. We rkers. We recognize that our ihss support needs more. Their teams need more ppe and just want folks to know as soon as we get deliveries, we get them right back out. Quite literally hundreds of thousands went out yesterday. Every day were pushing these things out. The announcement we made yesterday was not immediate. It is over the next few weeks. So over the next few weeks, we will start seeing our numbers increase significantly. And the redistribution of those assets in real time throughout the state will also significantly improve. So thats a little bit of an update on the ppe side, ventilator side. Update on the overall numbers in the state of california. And some good news on those icu numbers. Again, just one day, onpoint of data. We will check in tomorrow. The course of the next few days to see if the numbers continue to show positive signs. I also want to just make a point to those are anxious on another topic about the delay of the fishing season in the state of california. I may have lost half of you. But if i was watching, i would start paying attention right now. Im passionate about fishing myself. And i am getting inundated by people who are concerned that we have canceled the fishing season. That is not the case. We are not canceling the fishing season. In the state of california. We just want to delay, not deny that season. Here is why. And i hope it makes some sense. At least from our perspective it does. I hope i can extend a capacity of understanding at least on the way that were thinking about this. We have two small counties call us up that have some of the greatest fishing in the world quite literally in the world. Not just in the United States. Monoand. Reporter nno county. They have fishing seas object coming up and theyre worried about being overwhelmed by people who have cabin fever and want to get out and out on the streams. There are derbies out there, people that wait every year for the beginning of the next season. They felt concern about the number of people. That is quite rational. And the Health Care System up there does not have the resources that many other systems do if indeed people got injured for any reasons, not just coming into contact with others relate today this virus. We started to reach out to other counties that expressed similar concern and we realized we need to process a protocol working wirectors and fish and work on a county by county basis to address that anxiety. We had a little bit of problem yesterday, technical problems because so many people called into the fish and Game Commission that the system was overwhelmed and we delayed an official decision on this. But let me just make this point clear to all of the people that love the outdoors and love trout fishing or fishing more broadly in the state of california. We hear you. We deeply care about addressing your anxiety and know we are not ending the season. We just want to delay it a little bit and work with the counties to address the surge of interest and the need to keep everybody protected and everybody safe in this circumstance. Forgive me. It may have been a deviation talking about fishing at a time of a health crisis. But it is important as all of us are trying to find some semblance of normalcy at a time of deep, deep anxiety. I want to express to those that have that anxiety that youre not alone. You may be staying at home but youre not alone. That we have resources and we have support. If you have a team who is in crisis and youre concerned about a loved one, we have resources and we have the capacity to help. If you are in an abusive relationship, you are not alone. Reach out to us. Covid19. Ca. Gov. There is a treasure trove of resources there. Hotlines that you can call. If youre being abused or know someone who is being abused. If a child is being abused. If your loved one is having a particularly difficult time, go to that site, get the support that you need. No one should be ashamed for asking for help. Nobody. The strongest people i know are the one thats have the coe to reach out and ask for help. Please do so. I recognize how difficult this is for all of you, particularly our parents and how disproportionately this is impacting women. And i just want to, again, thank all of the mothers out there that have to do so much on the natural and now have to double down again and again to manage the household, manage the kids disproportionately. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I was raised by a single mom and i know the struggles she had. I cant imagine particularly for single mothers what going up against. Know that we want to be there for you and support you. Thats an update. And were here of course to answer any questions you may have. Hi, governor. Thank you so much. Last week you mentioned the rollout of the chrome books and the hot spots. But we are hearing still from School Officials who expect that some number of their students are just not going to be connected for the rest of the year. Maybe they dont have the right technology or they might not have a household where they can concentrate on learning. So what is the state going to do for these many children who are going to be so far behind . Is there going to be a mandatory Summer School . Will families get an option to have their child repeat a grade next year . What is going to happen . All of that is being worked on in real time. As you know, cde, tony thurman, linda darling hammond, the president of the state school board have been having webinars about distance learning, focusing on special education as a particular topic of prioritization. We were able to get 100,000 spots to get people connected throughout the state of california because of the general rossility of google. Also thousands and thousands of chrome books. Let me extend to your question the obvious. And that is not enough. And there are gaps still. The superintendent quite literally for the last two days hand been lighting up my phone and our team saying we need more help. And we need to go out together to procure more resources, more assets to help people with their distance learning, in addition to finding more wifi hot spots to avail the concerns that still remain about parts of the state that are still struggling with broadband access. And so those two things are happening in real time. Again, at a scale that is larger than any other state in our nation. I want to applaud the superintendent for his focus on this. He as well just put in a specific budget request to me and my office as it relates to procuring asset thats go to the second part of your question about what we do for those that are in this void, in this gap and how we make up for d at includes conversations. Yes, we are having around summer support and preparing kids for the fall school year. Just know that we are deeply focused on that. And over the coming days and weeks, we should have a lot more to say on this subject. L. A. Blade. Governor, my colleagues at nbc news reported the pandic ecstorm for lgbtq homeless youth. So my question is a twopart, sir. Lgbtq youth and young adults make up a disproportional number of homeless young people and this is particularly true in california. Theyre facing diminished office hours at the Community Centers, they dont have supportive family members. A lot of them are living on the streets. Conversely with students still enrolled in californias School Systems has your office or superintendent thurmans office looked specifically at the issues for these kids . Because in many cases, governor, a gsa in a school, a supportive counselor, an affirming teacher or interaction with other lgbtq students is a critical and much needed concern for these kids. So im going to throw the two parts at you, sir. Yeah. This is a deeply personal issue for me that cares deeply about the lgbtq community. Let me extend this a little more personally still. I just learned a few hours ago that one of my heroes, phyllis line, 95 years young passed away. Phyllis, as you may know, i had the privilege of being involved in a marriage ceremony between phyllis line and del mar tin. The couple had been together almost half a century. The manifestation of faith, love and devotion. And yet they were denied on the basis of their Sexual Orientation the right to say two extraordinary words, i do. The power and potency of those two words is profoundly significant as is the frame of your question. We are struggling as you know as a nation to address the needs of our lgbtq youth inpart the state of caiaa respsibeer than any part of the nation to address those needs. And we have done so through policy, through advocacy and through highlighting those challenges. L. A. County in particular has been a leader. And as you referenced ands you know well, the number of lgbtq Youth Homeless youth, disproportionately is represented in l. A. County. And so we look at the world not through the lens of one size fits all but through the competency lens and the unique needs, the unique challenges that reside within the lgbtq community. And not just within the community at large but specifically on the basis of age as well. D so no, that is a big part bipart of our focus. A big part of the reason that we have been so aggressive in terms of these help lines, teen crisis lines. They include specific resources on that covid19. Ca. Gov website resources for the lgbtq community. I encourage you and others to direct people to that site and the resources that we have made available specifically to the community on this site. And know that were going to do everything in our power to continue to support incredible organizations, nonprofit associations, Community Centers as we recover from this crisis. Because they disproportionately will be baring the brunt of those that are particularly in need for a multitude of reasons and issues. Hi, governor. Earlier this beak Santa Clara County published its model for Coronavirus Infections online. Will the state make its model public at all so that people can understand why your projections differ so much from other models that have infections and resource use peaking in the next few weeks than the next few months. We have done that on multiple occasions. We will continue to make them public. The answer is absolutely we will continue to make presentations, continue to make available that information. As you know, we continue to it is itter ate in all 50 counties throughout the state of california. Some counties impacted more than others. One thing is certain, our models have improved. And thats because individuals have met the moment. Individuals are practicing physical distancing. Individuals are doing the right thing in terms of the stay at home order. And that has allowed us to not only bend the curve, it has allowed us to update our models on a daily basis. But it has extended the period of time that we have to prepare and organize ourselves for a peak which is, yes, different than the one recognized by academics and hi, governor. Thank you so much for the update on the ventilators. I did have a question about, how can you assure counties throughout the state that, when they need ventilators, the state will be able to provide them . And especially when there is a third, what is the state protocol over who sees them first . Secondly, blood tests for covid 19 antibodies are becoming more popular and getting more attention. How would you use those results from the test to inform your decisionmaking, and you have any concerns that data gathered by that, possibly about lower mortality rates, or widespread immunity, could generate