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I wanted to give you a sense of where we believe we are going as a state. I say all of this mindful that the last few weeks have been challenging. The last few weeks have changed in many respects the focus of this nation, not just this state, but i want you to know and be assured that our focus remains very, very, very direct at addressing the issue of the spread of covid19 and cognizant of the fact that we are by no stretch of the imagination, out of the woods, and we continue to have a lot of work to do. I want to just begin with the following slide. You see up here. It is a photo of the state of california. That state slide represents the equivalent of roughly 21 different states in terms of total population. The e largest state in our nati million residents strong, represents the population of 21 states. So just imagine looking at that state map, putting in over 40 of americas states and that gives you a sense of the magnitude of the state of california and the magnitude of our responsibility to approach our response in a way that addresses the needs of different parts of the state of california, different regions. Accordingly, we have long talked about the fact that our approach to addressing the issues of covid19, its spread and our suppression and Prevention Strategies have to be from the frame bottom up. We have long talked about the fact that localism ultimately is determinative that we recognize local conditions are distinct and unique from one another. And we recognize that conditions in far reaches of california and northern parts of the state are very different than in the n anciscbay area. Very different than the los angeles region. And accordingly, we have afforded the ability for local Health Directors working collaboratively with their Hospital Systems, working collaboratively with advocates and working, of course, very collaborative with their elected officials to make determinations for themselves on when to move forward through our phasedin approach. As many of you have heard me say in the past, we put up guidelines, but guidelines dont mean go. We put up guidelines that create a framework of how we believe we can reopen the economy safely, but we dont prescribe when. We maintain, because of the size, scope and scale of the state of california, that those decisions should be made with local lens. Those decisions should be made by allowing and advancing localism to be the thrust and the guide to ultimately making the determination of when to move forward through these phases in safely reopening the economy throughout the state of california. We have often talked about it in terms of not being an on and off switch as it relates to when we reopen but a dimmer switch based upon data, based upon science, again, counties ultimately using data to inform their decision. And its that data that we monitor. Accordingly, and we will get to that in a moment, the foundational data that has described californias approach to this pandemic and the realities and the challenges we have faced in this state in many ways can be exampled and certainly is exampled here and highlighted in this slide. We were the first state in the country to move forward with a statewide stayathome order. Its purpose was selfevident. We wanted to avoid a major spike in covid cases and we wanted to buy time to build out our capacity, both our physical assets, our Human Capacity and make sure that we were preparing for inevitably reopening the economy. We never made the case that the stayathome order was a permanent state. We wanted to buy time, we wanted to mitigate a peak and a spike and we ultimately wanted to save lives and prepare for a pandemic that needs to take its course until ultimately we have immunity, until we have a vaccine. There are a number of other states that experienced a spike, and as a consequence of experiencing a spike, they are experiencing a decline off those peaks. In california we were able to mitigate that spike, extend that curve as we often described, and bought us the time that we needed to develop the resources so that we can efway through this pandemic. Accordingly, we have focused on the foundational responsibility of testing. So we can get a big a better sense of whats happening in the community, understanding the prevalence of this disease and the spread of this disease. What you can see on this slide is a significant decline in the Positivity Rate. Those have have been tested and the percentage of those tested that have tested positive for covid19 since we began testing here in the state of california in early april. Remarkably, if you look back at the first 14 days in april, you will see a Positivity Rate that averaged in those 14 days 40. 8 . Now, of course, and not surprisingly, in the early parts of this pandemic, people with symptoms were prioritized for testing and unsurprisingly the positivity numbers were very, very high, but you see from the blue part of this chart that the tests were also scant. They were modest. We made that point abundantly clear that we needed a substantial increase the number of daily tests in the state of california. You can see from this chart that we effectively have done that. As we have increased the total number of tests from less than 2,000 a day to, as an example, the last two days 78,000 tests on saturday, some 66,000 tests on sunday, that the overall rate of positives have gone up but the Positivity Rate, the percentage of those tested that actually have been tested positive for covid19 has declined and has flattened to roughly 4. 5 . I say roughly because on any given day, that number, that trend, 7 to 14 days, the 4. 5 reflects a 14day average. It fluctuates. But its fluctuated within a very stable band, particularly over the last 14 days. Again, 4. 5 . A few weeks ago i would have said it was roughly about that as well. Just to give you an indication, we use a band, you use a 14day band of 14. 5. A sevenday figure, we had a lot of protests a few weeks ago. Are we starting to see Positivity Rate increases . The reality is, even on the sevenday band its roughly 4. 5, 4. 6 to be exact. So again, testing has increased, you see total number of positives increase as a consequence, but the percentage, the Positivity Rate has declined sharply and has remained stable over the past month and a half plus and certainly reflected in the 4. 5 in the last 14 days. Another thing we focus on with acute is the spread rate. You can see you had heard in the past this r0 rate. Now we have a different variant on that. But spread rate is a different way of describing it. It was higher for everyone that had covid based upon our testing, our capacity to trace, people that were infected were spreading the virus at a modestly higher rate than you see in the last number of weeks. Again, stability as it relates to spread rate. Its an important function, again, of the kinds of examples of what we focus on day in and day out for epidemiological perspective as it relates to issues of the spread of this virus. So, again, important graph and important point of emphasis as we move to reopen the state around the kinds of things that we are looking at day in and day out. Accordingly, we look at hospitalization rates and they remain stable. Icu rates, the blue line you see below the hospitalization, remain stable. What i mean by stability is over a 14day period, just to give a proof point, icu numbers are flat and when i say flat, i mean quite literally over a 14 day period have increased by. 0 . They havent increased at all over a 14day period. In fact, yesterday they decreased by 2. 1 . The day before, by roughly 3 . So a trend line over 14day period that is Holding Stable and you can see from that blue line this extends well beyond just that 14day period. It also extends through two important dates. You see on the slide may 8th. Thats when we began to modify in a significant way our stay athome order in the state of california. There was some sense that the hospitalization numbers would begin to increase, certainly anticipated positivity numbers to increase as we saw more mixing, more people that were out and about as we reopened the economy, but the good news is the icu numbers remain stable. Memorial day, a lot of folks were out and about on memorial day, and you can see again the trend line remains remarkably stable. Again, our eyes are wide open. All of this data is a moment in time, though, extended with the benefit of hindsight, you can see the trends. But by no means does the past equal the future and im going to get to that in just a moment. Accordingly, let me go back to the hospitalization number, the orange line you see above, hospitalization numbers went up0. 4 yesterday. They were down about 3. 1 the day before. But they have remained fairly stable in last 14 days as well. The stability we have seen in the last 14 days is about a 4. 4 increase. Its an increase nonetheless, again, no increase in icus, an increase of 4. 4 in hospitalizations, but again, considering we worked through the stage two may 8th opening and memorial day, those numbers are encouraging, though, nonetheless, we want to see these numbers decline and, again, ill get to that in a moment as well. Heres the point about Capacity Building that i was making a moment ago that cannot be reinforced enough. We talked about our need to build Surge Capacity in our Hospital System. We have worked hard over the last number of months to do just that. You can say specifically in this graph over 52,000, close to 53,000 surge beds we have now identified in our healthcare system. Currently we have through,103 covid positive patients. Youre looking at less than 6 of just our surge bed capacity. That does not include total number of hospital beds, that number you see above of roughly 74,000 beds, but just capacity a accessed. So this is an important point about our capacity. If the numbers go up, hospitalizations go up, the question is, can we absorb that . And the answer today at least is, yes. Again, based upon the work that we have done over the last number of months to prepare to reopen our economy and prepare for the likelihood that we will see an increase not only in number of positive cases but also the prospect of increase in hospitalizations. Accordingly on icu capacity we have worked hard to identify our icu capacity space. Theres close to 11,000 staffed icu beds in the state of california, but roughly 3,775, i say roughly, thats a snapshot as of last night, today, plus or minus, those numbers will change. You get a sense that we have capacity in our icu system to address the needs of covid positive patients, which currently is 1,053. So less than 28 of our capacity is being utilized in icu beds currently for covid19 positives. The good news is again we have seen no increase in the last two weeks in icu cases. But nonetheless, this is a slide that represents what i do on a daily basis every morning and thats the data that we collect that is provided to me, that is the first thing i do when i open my eyes. Whats the number of positives . Whats the Positivity Rate . Whats our hospitalization capacity . Whats our icu capacity . I want to make sure that you have the benefit of that information that is shared with me on a daily basis. The other information thats important to note on this slide is the 11,652 ventilators that we have. Thats ventilators that exist within the Hospital System and ventilators that exist in our own cache. We sent to four states our ventilators during the acuity of this crisis. Those have been returned in most cases and those are part of our cache, in addition to the Hospital System. The good news is hospitals didnt just sit back in the last few months. They have been working to get more ventilators. We continue to refurbish and work to get more ventilators. But again, having more than 11,000 vents is from our perspective fairly healthy at this moment and we will continue to work hard to increase those numbers as well. So thats an overview of where we are in the aggregate. We have a state that is Holding Strong in terms of stability in case rates. We didnt experience the great spikes as a number of east coast states did and so consequence, we are not experiencing a precipitous decline in the number of positive cases, but the stability remains and is Holding Strong. Positivity rates, icu, hospitalizations. But we recognize those numbers are in the aggregate and none of us live in the aggregate. If californias many parts, one body, then we have to recognize those many parts. Again, localism. Notion of regions and the attestations that they can meet certain needs, demands and expectations. We have now 52 of our 58 counties that have put out self attestations, basically they are planning to specifically address the needs of their counties as they reopen their economies at their own pace based upon local conditions. We actively monitor all 58 counties and their current data and we target our engagement in areas where we see the numbers that are raising a little bit of concern. And currently we have 13 counties of the 58 in the state of california where we have targeted engagement, where we are providing technical assistance, we are providing resources, Human Resources and physical resources. Dr. Galley is going to come up in just one moment and talk more specifically about that and also give you a preview of the dashboard that he every single day as it relates to where these counties are in terms of our targeted support and targeted engagement and the criteria again that we laid out in terms of that attestation process and give you a sense of the seriousness of focus and the acuity of focus on different parts of california as we begin or, rather, as we continue to reopen the economy. With that, dr. Galley will go through the ides number of points up. Dr. Galley. Thank you, governor. As the governor said, we continue to work with all 58 counties on a daily basis, supplying the data and information that we see at the state level around a number of different variables so that we are insuring that we are in lock step with those county leaders in whats happening and we can support counties to improve situations that might need additional attention. As the governor said, of the 58 counties today, the number of counties we are working with are 13. These are 13 counties for one reason or another. We have a little bit of concern about the data and we feel like early and frequent engagement around whats going on locally with that added support at the state level, whether those are staff or ventilators or helping move some other patients into other countries to make sure that californians get the care they need. And before i move on from the slide, we have always what we call our step three instituting Community Measures where we would work with a county where its difficult to get an important measure into our expected control level and that we would be able to work with those local leaders, local Health Officers who are every single day trying to make strong and good decisions for their counties in order that we put back measures that might be needed to ensure we get things under control and keep californians safe. So this slide is, as the governor mentioned, the slide that we look at every day. On the prior slide we mentioned 13 counties. This slide represents the counties as of today that have had three consecutive days of an area of focus or concern. This is in alphabetical order, not necessarily best, worse or any other order. And you can see that we look at these specific measures, things that we have talked to you about for weeks, if not months, things like the number of tests per 100,000 people. We want at least 150 tests per 100,000 people. We want to see no more than 25 per 100,000 cases in your communities. We want to see a testing Positivity Rate that is below 8 . We want to make sure that the level of increase in your hospitals with covid19 positive patients is less than 10 , and then we want to see that the capacity, both of the icu beds and the ventilators stay above a specific threshold. And here you can see the checks on this table, demonstrate where each of these listed counties is meeting the measure and where you see a number, we are tracking that number to try to help support the county to get that number back in line with the measure. And so each day we use this information through conversations about resource needs and plans so that we can make sure, as frequently as possible, we are getting in front of issues early and trying to help support counties so that as we look to reopen, we stay very vigilant around the data points that matter and we can support counties and make in a very transparent way the Decision Making known to those citizens in that county and who are throughout the state. We update this daily and whenever there are additional concerns, we have even frequent more frequent conversations with our county partners. Also just wanted to do one last thing before turning it over to the governor to talk about something you have all been tracking with us very closely, and that is the disproportionate impact on covid19 on certain racial or ethnic groups in california. And on this slide you will see the blue line or the blue bar is the percent of that ethnic or racial group in the population of california. The orange bar is the number or percentage of cases among all covid19 positive cases in our state as it relates to that race or ethnicity. And then the gray is the deaths. And when we look at that, you see two things that come out and we reiterated, we are going to keep looking at it together with you as a state, and that is around latinos, we see a higher, grant higher to determine what other efforts and interventions are needed. For example, do we need to bring more testing so that it can be available earlier and often . Do we need to increase our capabilities around Contact Tracing and insuring that we can support isolation and quarantine when necessary . Similarly, among African Americans or blacks you will see a disproportionately high number of deaths relative to the number of cases and even relative to the population throughout california. And, again, this requires us to look closely and work with the black communities across california to ensure that we have testing we known across the nation, seems to be the trend that africanamericans are showing up for testing much later in the course of covid19 and what that means is when we finally get someone to care, that we have they are sicker and we have a longer way to go to help them get back to health and so those focused efforts are things that california is working hard on to ensure not just that treatment and ventilators and staff are getting into neighborhoods and communities where we see additional cases, but that things like testing and Contact Tracing continue to be a focus and collectively across california we continue to make gains in this space, but we will persistent in an ongoing way share this information with you all so you can track with us our efforts and whether we are seeing the impact we expect in california. So with that, i will turn it back to you, governor. Thank you. You have been listening to Governor Newsom and state officials, including dr. Mark galley, give an update on the area so n go to that ence. So far what the governor and the doctor has said about the state is that we are starting to see or we have seen a flattening of the curve when it comes to covid19, talking about certain things in place when it comes to testing, the case rate, the testing positivity, the hospitalizations, they have seen a lot of stabilization in that so they are saying that and the stis now flatteneof the ratesivity rate has crea and the governor reminds everybody this is a dimmer situation. They are not going to turn on the light switch. Its not a quick on. So there you go. That is going to do it for kpix5 news at i acyou, becae hanng s ay hlthy sl wash your hands for at least twenty seconds. John hi, everybody. John mccook here. Im, uh, very excited to do this with you, and i thought, what better way to kick things off than to invite this, uh, very special friend of mine to join us . Tracey mccookie hi. How are you . John im fine. Wow, its great to see you. Everybody, this is tracey bregman. Shes been on our show, uh, quite a few times, and im so glad to see you again. Its been a while. Were kicking off this whole week. Its called the bold gets restless week. Tracey ooh i love it cause theres been so many genoa City Residents like me who have visited bold beautiful throughout the years. John victor newman, katherine chancellor, jack abbott, ashley abbott, and who could forget, most specifically,