Our state, recently were announced. Products of the uc system. Here are some fun selfies of those californians the moment that they received the news. The existence of supermassive black holes were proven at the center of the milky way. She shared this prize with dr. Wright her kinzel and professor meredith can set who also did his postdoctorate work there and dr. Charles rice, an alum with uc davis and caltech won a nobel prize in medicine for discovering the hepatitis c virus. That discovery has made possible blood tests and new treatments that have saved countless lives. Finally, dr. Jennifer doubt him who was honored for her discovery of the crisper gene, the editor tool which has revolutionized live science as an application across science, medicine, and agriculture. Most recently, it has been applied to covid19 diagnostics. It may be the key to scaling lowcost, High Accuracy testing. This is something more valuable than the 1 million prize. It came with a free parking spot for life on the uc berkeley campus. Congratulations to her and all of the outstanding californians we honor here today. Battling covid19 requires close collaboration between the state and local government. Throughout our fight against covid19, the state has worked closely with local governments to slow the spread, fill the gaps, and let locals lead in their communities. Together we have made important progress in helping to stop the spread of the virus by building Contact Tracing army and expanding and speeding up testing. Today i wanted to update you on some of those efforts. Notably, the efforts to increase testing, which now is averaging over 125,000 daily tests. Over this weekend, we were averaging a little north of 150,000 tests, 169,000 on saturday. 144,000 tests just yesterday. We are getting those test results back within 24 to 48 hours. In fact, 90 of all the tests that are being conducted are getting back within that timeframe. As far as a consequence of that timeliness to test results, it enables our local Contact Tracers to get to work immediately. I wanted to update you on the total number of trained staff, the total number of Contact Tracers now that we have assembled here in the state of california. Just shy of 11,000 now traced out. 1800 bilingual staff. I am going to ask my calling to come up and talk about some of the remote support that is also part of our Contact Tracing efforts. A lot of work has been put into their place. Not as much attention as deserved. That is why we wanted to hide some of our Contact Tracing status. No one better to do that then dr. Galli. Thank you, governor. It is good to be with you to talk about our developments on Contact Tracing and really where the governor started that testing that starts us with case identification, finding out who was positive. Then we go into the disease investigation part of the endeavor and identifying close contact of people who are positive so we can then provide the support and reminders to isolate appropriately so that we can cut down transmission from each case. That is not a new set of strategies for covid. We have been doing this in Public Health for decades to control other diseases across the globe. Here, the challenges just doing this at the scale where we have thousands of positive test results coming a day to make sure those thousands stay as low as possible. I talked to you many weeks ago about the need to get our case rate down and our infrastructure of Contact Tracing and disease investigation up. We have done that with these 10,000 plus trained staff. Many bilingual staff, not just in spanish but in cantonese and mandarin, many different languages across the state. Then, the ability to do something we have all become familiar with in covid, which is remote interactions. Many of you do zoom meetings or zoom encounters and meet friends remotely now via your iphone and other phones. We also have employed those same technologies, providing disease investigation support with epidemiologists that might be in one county supporting another county hundreds of miles away because they can do that remotely. Also, adding a virtual agent function to our cal connect. That is the program that the governor pushed us to create statewide to organize all of the case information and the Contact Tracing work. Now there is a function that allows us to do an initial survey of individuals who tested positive for who may have been exposed so that Health Departments can begin to prioritize those with the most concerning exposure. All of that together with the staff is building up this infrastructure across the state so that we can continue to box in the virus as much as possible to make sure that a single case does not turn into 20 or 30 cases from that single one. We did this twice. We did a survey many months ago of our local Health Jurisdictions to find out how successful their existing infrastructure was to Contact Trace all of the cases that were discovered as well as contacts. Back then, we were certainly lower than today. We were finding 95 of our local Health Departments are able to contact all of the new cases that they received results for on that same day. The idea of quick testing with quick turnaround time plus information in the hands of local Health Jurisdictions and the staffing sufficient to reach all of those positives gives us a better chance of making sure somebody who is positive does not transmit to others. Similarly, we have 90 of our local Health Departments who are able to contact all of the contacts that we learn about on that same day. These two things together allow us to get a better chance of keeping covid in check. Part of this really does start with the support of this state with local partners. I want to remind you that Contact Tracing and disease investigation is a tried and true Public Health tool. The local jurisdictions across this state have been doing this for a long time. They have beefed up their staff, increased their staff and their tools along with the state support to do this. We are now turning a significant part of our focus on helping our local partners with school days, making sure that we are able to track cases in the schools either among staff or among students and providing tools to increase our ability to address outbreaks. I want to remind you that i did pursue a Public Private partnership with kaiser. People in communitybased organizations said really, do you know the communities well that live and work within the communities to provide a closer touch to those who might need that Contact Tracing and isolation support. We also put out and describe when we described our equity metric, the need for counties to use state funds that were provided to the counties to do testing to make sure those thos dollars are invested in those communities where we have seen a disproportionate impact on covid. Those dollars are there in part to support the last piece of this threelegged school, the part that focuses on isolation and supporting and becoming individuals who learn that they are positive or may have been exposed to either quarantine or isolate, whichever is appropriate and to make sure that they do it in a supported way. We know that so many people fear not being able to return to work, not being able to support their families. There are many schools in the state along with our local partners, along with our Philanthropic Partners have put into place in order to support those isolations do not just happen but to happen in the most complete way. We box in the virus and reduce infection. With that, i want to turn it back over to the governor. Thank you. Thank you, dr. Galli. The key is the issue of isolating individuals that have come into contact or have had transition of the disease main positive, meaning that we want to make sure that the testing leads to something. In order to box this virus, mitigate the spread of this virus, quarantine and isolation become essential. I just want to remind people some of the work that has been done in the state of california, resources we have made available to help support isolation. One of them dr. Galli alluded to is these job protected paid sick leave that we have now protected to californias workers which is foundational in the endeavor of isolating quarantined individuals. We have also targeted very specific farmworkers and intercultural workers all up and down the state of california , a program called housing for harvest. We have highlighted it on multiple occasions in the past. This is a program that is now operational and we hope to do more and better still to expand the scale and scope of that effort. Project room key, which we highlighted on a consistent basis, is foundational in terms of isolating individuals that are high risk of covid19, particularly those out on the streets and sidewalks. Of course, the federal government is no substitute for support we get. 150 million of federal support is provided not just to the state but also supporting those county efforts in addition. Federal dollars adds that leverage of philanthropic support, what kaiser has provided, other philanthropic supports but some 83 million in philanthropic funds have been generated and recognizably deservingly need to be highlighted in the effort to get support our isolation and quarantine efforts. That is just a brief update on some of the Contact Tracing works and the isolation quarantine work, the testing. We continue to make progress. We will very shortly in the next couple of weeks, we will be announcing an update on our partnership and the efforts to more than double the capacity of testing here in the state of california. Real progress is being made in that space. We look forward to making that announcement very, very shortly. We will not slip backwards on testing. We are going to forge forward and be much more aggressive. We are not ashamed of testing people. We are not ashamed of identifying individuals that have been tested positive but we must make that meaningful. Testing for testings sake is not in and of itself significant. We need to save the patient from Community Spread and a transmission perspective. We need to make sure we go further than that and that is the Contact Tracing. That is the education. We have advanced psas that will allow people to support so they can isolate. They can quarantine, not only taking care of themselves for their own recovery but mitigating the spread to people they love. All of those efforts are being accelerated. All of those efforts are being reinforced. Again, news very shortly on a very exciting and significant increase in lower cost, much more timely testing that we have advanced. Lets talk about our case rates here in the state. A new number announced today, the hundred thousand 449 cases. This is from october 11, yesterday. It is slightly higher than our daily average of 3321 cases. You can see the Positivity Rate based on 127,000 average daily tests over the last seven days has dropped to 2. 6 . That is a 14 day Positivity Rate. The seven day Positivity Rate is consistent with the 14 day Positivity Rate, 2. 6 here in our state. Hospitalizations did increase 8 over a twoweek period and we are seeing a decrease in icu admissions. A little bit more substantial. You may recall, we are seeing a bit of a plateauing or at least a slowdown in the rate of decrease. We have seen 20 rates of decrease in hospitalizations and icus over the course of many, many weeks, slowing down modestly. These are just areas of caution. A sober reminder of how stubborn this disease is and how prevalent and widespread this disease still remains here in the state of california. Always a reminder of the importance we place upon prock to sing the physical distancing, social distancing, and the critical work that we can do by wearing these facemasks. Accordingly, we have made progress on our tiered status. Now, 42 counties of the 58 have moved out of the lower tier, the most restrictive, the purple tier. 24 counties in the red, primarily some in the central part of the state represents seven of our 58 counties. This county update, the tiered status update, is made every tuesday. Tomorrow, dr. Galli will be updating these numbers. Progress, i want always to lean in but they are always adjusting the numbers for the weekend. We can make progress. A number of counties now moving into new tears but again, stubborn, this virus. Some counties teetering. That will be made public tomorrow. Some of the latest information again being put together later this afternoon, updated every tuesday. County tiered status nonetheless moving in the right direction broadly. The overwhelming majority, now 42 counties out of that purple status into these other tiered status. Speaking of status, i wanted to update you briefly on the wildfire season which continues. This is around the peak of what we have experienced the last few years. The diablo wins and santa ana winds start to bring unseasonably hot temperatures. We will expect up to 20 degree increases in temperatures from what we experienced the end of last weekend over the weekend. We are also going to see an increase of winds. We are expecting high wind events, 45 Miles Per Hour gusts based upon the analysis and the briefings we got this morning. As high as 60 Miles Per Hour wind gusts in northern california. Pg e territory, working on their protocols around vsps partnerships with cities and counties and with cal oes and cal fire. Protocols approved last year are now in place. Again, strengthening partnerships that include 50 Million Dollars of support money that we distributed to the counties and to ngo, not mental associations. We are supporting vulnerable communities as it relates to those that may be impact by protocols. I want to a date you about the impact of these larger wildfires and remind you in the aggregate, some 4. 1 million acres burned in the state of california. Currently dealing with 14 major wildfire and or wildfire complexes. Some 12,000 firefighters. You saw those numbers north of 18,000 a few weeks back. Now about 12,000 firefighters working to battle these historic fires here in the state. Tragically, we lost 31 lives. That number remained relatively stable. Caution always the fatalities and structure data is likely to increase as we repopulate areas. Some part of trinity county, they have been evacuated for close to 30 days. In some cases, north of 30 days. As we go back in and we do justice to the repopulation and reconnection to friends, families, and communities, we are likely to see higher structures damaged and destroyed. Obviously, concerned always about lives lost. The glass fire, we talked a lot about last week throughout napa, lake, and sonoma counties. Last week, 30 contained. A stubborn fire up in the wine country. At least 65,000 acres impacted. Today, 95 contained. Real progress over the last week. Notably, over the last weekend , could not come too soon particularly with higher winds around that area coming into that part of the state wednesday and thursday and friday. Additionally, Real Progress. Not just Real Progress but substantial progress on the zogg fire, now 93 contained. I am told within a few hours later this afternoon, they will officially put out 100 containment figure on the zogg fire. Two large complexes, i want to give you a brief for support on two of the larger active wildfires in the state. The largest in californias history, the august fire. Over 1 million acres, 54 contained. Now, 75 containment. It is the northern part of the august complex. The u. S. Forest service is battling hard. That is the most stubborn. While there is some concern around wind conditions that could impact the northern part as it relates to containment, we have been anticipating that. The Weather Service is looking collaboratively with the state, prepositioning assets and building the conditions to hold the line on the northern part so we can hold this fire not only in containment but hold the line so we dont see a substantial increase in the total amount of acreage burned. The creek fire has generated a lot of attention for good reason. This is in and around the area that was disproportionately impacted by this historic drought here in the state of california. The drought between 2011 and 2017, 163 million that is just answer the estimate trees that fell because of the drought. The unprecedented conditions led to conditions that make it even more challenging in and around fresno and madera area and this unified command complex working with the federal government, a lot of federal acres being burned as well as state acres being burned. 48 percent contained last week. You could see the acreage burned in this last week has not been substantially greater, meaning we have slowed the rate of spread, 322,000 acres. It is still stubborn. Stubborn complex. 55 containment, a little better than last weeks number at 48 . As always, we want to maintain our vigilance as it relates to heeding the warnings who call for evacuations related to these wildfires. I want to remind people of the importance of being more vigilant and these dry and hot conditions where we start to see these winds whip backup. It was this time in october and november in 17 and 19 that we had some of these very damaging and deadly wildfires. Please maintain your vigilance. Please take very seriously those evacuation warnings if indeed you are the recipient of one of them. It is critical that we protect ourselves and our family, loved ones during this peak of our wildfire season. Progress across the board has been made. Testament to the extraordinary work of the men and women of cal fire and all of the mutual aid that is coming across the rest of the country. I cannot think them enough. All of the hard work that has been done including local mutual aid that has been working overtime for weeks and weeks and weeks. A little rest, putting their lives on to protect not only lives themselves but property and obviously our wildlands. Accordingly, i just want to remind you the importance of continuing to maintain your vigilance in terms of the actions you can take to spread and mitigate not wildfires in this case but covid19. That 2. 6 Positivity Rate is encouraging. The number of deaths beginning to decline, which is also to decline, which is also encouraging. Still, stubbornly at 60, 69 deaths. That is the 14 day average total number of deaths. Just a reminder. A sober reminder. The average of 69 deaths a day because of covid 19. Dont be misled that this disease is any less deadly. Quite the contrary. It is as much, more deadly than it has ever been in the context of those that are high risk. Despite so much of the improvements we have seen in therapeutics and how we have managed the disease, people are still losing their lives. What you can do is practice that physical distancing, that social distancing. Wear those masks, wash your hands. It is flu season. Wash your hands. Just on the natural, it will mitigate the threat of flu as well. Tomorrow, dr. Galli will be updating people on a different type of mask wearing and that is the following guidelines that we will be putting out tomorrow. Dr. Galli will be updating on some of the guidelines that we put out on friday related to minimizing mixing and coworking friends, family, outside of this household. Those updates have been made this week, continuing conversations back and forth. We continue in good faith to try to work to get where i know everybody wants to go. That is to get people back to work and also create more Entertainment Options of what we need to do. You have been watching an update from governor newsom. Our coverage continues now on cbsn bay area and streaming on www. Kpix. Com. The governor giving an update on coronavirus and wildfires about coronavirus, saying there is still that focus and effort on Contact Tracing saying 95 of local Health Departments are contacting all new cases same day as the test results. Also, talking about resources for counties. As far as the tier system goes, 42 counties in our state have now moved out of the purple, which is the most restricted tier. Tomorrow, we may see more counties move into new tears. Also an update on the wildfires. 4. 1 million acres have burned so far. We have 12,000 firefighters fighting the flames right now. Of course, the glass fire in one country is 95 contained right now after burning 67,000 acres. That will do it for kpix 5 news at noon. Have a the unfair money bail system. He, accused of rape. While he, accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. 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