Spreading. Here in the bay area the number of positive tests generally remains below the state average of 5 with the exception of marin county where cases have shot up due in part to an outbreak at san quentin prison. Joining me to discuss the prissituation is dr. Matthew llis joining from san rafael. Marin county is experiencing the largest covid spiking the bay area largely due to the outbreak at the prison. What is being done to manage that contagion . We have seen in the past w weeks a remarkable increase in cases attributed to marin county because that facility isn within our ries. There has been almost 600 cases now at that facility and about 600 if you includstaff. Up until, for the first three months of our outbreak here in marin county we had a total of 1000 cases. You can imagine almost 600 in two weeks drives those case rates lyup dramaticand has established us as having the highes. Incidence they wi we are working with the California Department of corrections to offer consultation and technical assistance. How this happened, there is a group of inmates that came from another prison who basically brought the infection with them. Right. Inthere were 121 tes who were transferred up from gino io institfor men in southern california. That institution was having a large ou reak similar to wh is being experienced at san quentin. In aneffort to get those folks out of there so they have more room withithe facility to isolate inmates they transferred inmates into differet prisons across the state. Unfortunately, that a risk for reseating a second outbreak and at appears to what happened here. How many inmates have been you mark ed to cal hospitals about 25 so far have become ill enough at the facility that they have required transfer out izto be hospit. You have had one death at saquentin and do we know the cause of death for that . Individu it is still pending investigation. With almost 4000 inmates we would expect that some people pass for other reasons but of course when it happens in the context of a outbreak there is a concern thatmay have contributed. I want to understand the situation better at san quentin. There are 3500 prisoners there at this point about one in eight is infected. Can you tell me about why re precautionary measures were not taken . What are you hearing about how this was allowed to happen . It is challenging i think just wheg you are dealwith a prison system where they are overcrowded at baseline and once the infection gets established the virus gets a n footholdthat setting whether it is brought in by sta f member or some other mechanism where the first case starta, once it is ished it is challenging to manage the portunity to isolate people infected from those who are not just architecturally in terms of thnumbers so theralis no substitute for prevention and i think that when we learn that number of inmates had come from a facility that was having an outbreak who had been exposed, had been untested and had been placed in that facility, at that point we knew the stage was set for what has unfolded. Ere was a warning two weeks d before experts from uc berkeley and ucsf Health Experts warned there could be a major outbreak, a catastrophic outbreak ithe prison population was not reduced by 50 . Now the suggestion was to that through the cursor ration was there any serious consideration given to that idea . Absolutely. So of this is who has jurisdiction and control. We can offer recommendations from a Public Health stamand, we need to the densify these facilities and isolate people who are affected from those who are not. But, it up tothe Correction System to implement that and operationalize how that worker. That is happening. But, the wheels turn slowly and e numbers of peopwho are being released are currently not sue icient to achithat goal of being able to create room to have people far enough p art to prevenad. There is concern of people are released into the community or go to local hospitals that infection will spread more rapidly throughout the community. What would you say to that concern . Ishat something you ar worried about . We know the virus is present and we want to be careful not to stigmatize this issue. It is viously a concern and we are concerned that more measures were not taken early recognize veat inmates the highest standard of care when they do become ill. We do not want to act like one case is a icpaar risk. We are having every case is obviously a risk, but the fact is that we have had 5060 cases in marin county and our native population every day whetr it is workplaces or other settings and it really gets back to the fundamental precautions we should all take to s. Protect oursel so, i am less concerned about inmates being released especially because we are tracking them and we are given their information and we are able to follow them just like the other 1000 ca s we ha had so far in the county. Are there enouno safeguards in place to tigate what has been happening there, to bring this contagion down, to control it at san quentin . We are working every day st with thef to ensure that they have access to the best available in information and knowledge. In terms of how to manage the situation. Making sure that they have access to protective equipment and the masks and gowns and face shields. They have supply chains for that from the state mebut somewe are able to supplement that at the local level. So much of the challenges builtn into the ronment itself. You have large cellblocks where they have one shared ventilation and hundreds of portunities to move them around in that facility once a few become infected. Cohort in those away from others is an incredible challenge. But i think the state for at least another few hundred cases. What about in the population at large throughout growing numbers of cain een general throughout the bay area and california. What are you seeing as the economy reopens and people go back out . We have seen a gradual increase in cases across the county. And through testing and identifying thdemographics ancupation of the people coming forward with the disease. Scribe it more specifically in the dynamic is primarily the essential workforce. Those people who have been out from the beginning of the ckbone of our economy, many e are lower income from the latin next communities. Been exposed in that workpline environment, ng it home into a household where you might have 510 People Living in one apartment and amplifying the numbers so one case of a work coming back to a househ d and then thone case may become 510 based on who has been exposed and that happening over and over again. That has really driven thrd numbers up about 90 of the cases over the past three weeks have been attributed to that particular dynamic in the latin next community. The guidelines seem to be continue to practice social distancing where your mask and wash your hands. Those enem to continue as the economy is reopening. Is there anything else you would add to that should people be going out and getting a haircut getting a manicure or having dinner with their friends mark people to realize thatone of r the shifts in these shelter in place is moving from a restrictive policy about Public Health and putting it more into the hands of individual choice. In the responsibility is lebein ted across the community to the siness owners anour Community Members themselves. Just because it is allowed does not necessarily mean it is safe in every case. I think that we need to ma sure peopunderstand their own risk and if someone is older or has medical condions that might predispose them to a more severe outcome should they become ofafected, sheltering in place is still the safest thing to do. If you are in a business were it seems t ey ar practicing those guidelines are not enforcing the social distancing and the ricial cos, those are businesses we may choose to avoid. One last question. What is the experience like of having had the coronavirus . Having had covid19 anhow has that impacted your lens on the situation . I was diagnosed about week after we instituted the shelter in place in thmidmarch. And had a few days of mild symptoms and thought i would be in the fortunate group that sort of has a week of mild illness and recovers unfortunately, it took a turn for the worst and endeup two weeks more or less in bed continuously with fever. I have good home support and i e was to recover completely. But, it definitely, i have a lot more respect for the virus now. Re i had unimated the power and it has given me a sense of what im trying to do for the mmunity. I underestimated for myself and i do not want to do that for the community as a whole. Thank u for the work that you do, we appreciate it. Goodwill has 67 stores in the bay area and hundreds more throughout the state, which all closed under the shelter in place orders. As restrictions have loosened some locations have opened their doors for shopping and donations with new social distancing and contact free procedures. But several local Goodwill Stores are likely to close peoranently as the nization struggles to provide for its employees. Joining me from oakland is william rogers, the president and ceo of goodwill of san an francisco san matemarin. Thank you for joining us could you tell about the impact the pandemic has had across the state on goodwill and more narrowly here in the bay area . Absolutely. The pandemics had a huge impact and really, i want to first talk about why goodwill exise. Ly reason goodwill exists is to help people who would otherwise be considered unemployable to gain employment and to develop skill sets so that they can support themselves and families. So, the folkthat we hire are people who are homeless formerly incarcerated, low educational skill levels, immigrants, because what we want to do is help people who are sort of stigmatizeciby theiumstances and help them have a second chance. The impact on goodwill statewide has been huge. Ll so, goodemploys 14,000 people in the state ofli rnia. As a result of the shutdown order we had to shut down all ur ofretail operations, warehouse operations, our e commerce operations and that meant that 10,000 people across california had rlto be ghed or laid off. Godwill earns through the businesses that operate, aout 80 of what we n so, when thosbusinesses were closed we immediately lost 80 of our funding. That is devastating. And so most nonproalts are ac funded through philanthropy or maybe through individual donations but because goodwill is largely self funded by 80 , when the shutdown order e me into pl we had to shut everything down which meant there was nofowork the employees that we employ. Have you been able to get assistance from the state where the federal government or philanthropic donations . Unfortunately no what has happened is that we have over 500 employees. And so goodwills are separated by chapters and each chapter there are 157 chapters. In eight of the 14 chapters in california there are fewer than 500 but the rest of us had re an 500 employees investment we were not eligible for any federal aid in the form of whdp and that meant is that we were put ata marked disadvantage. I think we lost incredible amounts of revenue that we would have used to pay folks who really needed it. And so we are now in a io situwhere not only did we have to for low folks and so people were unemployed and in San Francisco we had to furlough 500 employees. We chose furlough because what it did is allowed the employees to still be employees on a temporary furlough which meant that they were still eligible for unemployment but we were also able to continue topay Health Benefits because one thing that we cannot imagine is ving people in a pandemic and particularly people who are more at risk for things like diabetes and hypertension and asthma and all the comorbidity factors that create complications with covid19, we cannot imagine people being so, the chair of our board incredibly generously wrote a check for 100,000 to start a fund to help employees with benefits. Every board member and the senior staff member participated and we also then in started raising monethe community and many Community Members participated which then allowed a lot of folks who are at high risk of complications for covid to help have Health Benefits during the pandemic. I felt very fortunate we were able to do at. How has this pandemic impacted the donation side of the Business People were not able to bring goods in for quite a long time. I have to say was jealous of the people o were abto clean out the closets multiple times but a lot of people were ring the shutdown order. People were very anxious then. Once you clean out your closet you wantto get it out of your house. People were anxious and initially we had some dumping at science but we ask the community to please not dump and pe le listened. So, people hold o items, they took them away and a couple weeks ago we had lines around the block of people who were turning ina ton of stuff they wanted to donate which is terrific because what that is going to do is help us with the Recovery Efforts to get back in business. Can you handle these donations coming in . Wndare currently ng the donations coming inand it is allowing us to bring back employees for processing those donations so that is creating jobs as well. It is a lot of donations but we are incredibly grateful for the generosity and the Community Around us. What is n your expectat about how many stores you will be able to reopen and how many fowill be closed good . It is one of the besaddest thingsuse we are employing some of the most vulnerable californians but because we have not gotten relief we are going to have to close a number of stores. I think of the 18 stores we have in my chapter we will have to close probably five or six. We also have folks around the state california and some good wells that are struggling. There may mergers and closures of good wells. It remains to be seen. People are i dont think that people often understand the e huge servthat goodwill provides to the community on an environmental level but also on an employment level. And we have at my chapter alone, 10 of the people that we currently employ are homeless or were homeless. 25 were rmly incarcerated. 95 of the people that come to us are low or no income when they came to goodwill and now have jobs and are getting skill sets to moforward. We are reallyhelping some of the most vulnerable californians. That is the thing that breaks my heart the most that we e not able to, that we are going to have to contract so that we can continue to help people. The one good thing that has happened is we have been able it is compd because a lot of low income people do not necessarily have stable internet were necessarily have the tools to get online effectively at we have helped online and training. Through we have moved a lot of things online but we are helping people over the phone for the Internet Service and actually in the last month we have interviewed over 1100 people and we haplaced 896 people in jobs and a partnership with the city around jobs for emergency workerduring the epidemic. Were taking the lowest income folks in the state and helping them get jobs and we ve done that over the last mont how can people who might be watching the support you . There are three ways. The biggest lift isreally helping us advocate at the ate and federal vel for the services that goodwill provides and for some relief for goodwill. The second thing that people can do is donate money. N people often think about donating money. They think about donating itemst but the is because we make 80 of what we need to operate through the businesses every dollar that yodonate, you are getting three. You are leveraging that by three. Donating us some of that extra 20 we need to make is really imsortant. Donating to goodwill is great and then finally, people often think that they should not donate their really good items to goodwill b they will not get the value. The fact is that we have a e greammerce program and we definitelymake sure that the really nice items get tochannel the right places. It does make a difference and allows us to raise more money to further the mission when people donate the higher end items as well. Those are the three things that i think people could practically do. Thank you for joining us. Unded in 1977, frame line, the San Francisco international lgbt Film Festival is the longestrunning film exhibition event of its kind in the world. It takes place right here in the bay area with approximately 60,000 people flocking to local screenings. Traditionally hosted during pride week this year it is held online and you w can catch films throughout this weekend. Joining me from San Francisco is james willey, exec director. Thank you fojoining us so, this is an unusual year for anyone. But, this has been ina specia challenge for you because your first year as executive director, you just joined us from sydney in august. Tell us about the challenges of pivoting to move this festival online. It not thyear we expected but it has been okay. We have had pivot toonline instead of having the beautiful theater as our main home with dozens of screenings throughout the week. Instead we have got 16 amazing screenings online. They are great films. We knew that we had to ill celebrate pride. It is so important. Frame line and pride have been connected for 44 years. We nnot let thweekend go without showing amazing movies and connecting with our community and it is just putting frame line back out there into the world. You do have one event that is not virtual. It is actually a drivein. Tell us about that one. It is great. There is an amazing movie made by oakland filmmakers. It is called ahead of the curve and we are screening the west wind drivein in concorde saturday night at 9. It isgoing to be so much fun. It is just a really great movi about the founding of curve magazine which was a very influential lesbian magazine and it is such joa us ride about the creation of this iconic magazine and the influence that it had the celebrities on the cover and hopeople connected through it and now, what happens is it is looking moretowards digital instead of print. I love this movie and i really think people are going to have m h fun on saturday night sitting there in their cars ho honking their s and having a great time. So, we are thrilled to be doing it. I think it will be the most fun you can ghve saturday in the bay area. You seem to be encouraging people to come out. Ll me about the other films being screened right now. Another one that is a bit of called stage mother it is the story out a texas christian woman who inherits a and they are famous for their dragon acts. What they do is revitalize this drag club and have a lot of fun and this christian woman has to kind of come to terms with what san francio gay culte is like and likewise they have to come to terms with her. T, it is a fun, good movie and stars jackie weaver who has been nominated for an oscar twice and lucy lu who is d very great fun and we miss seeing her as often as we used to. And it has got a lot of great drag talent. If you are looking for a great fun night join us for stage mother pretty can watch at any time over the last four days. I want to turn to the Supreme Court cision just last week. A historic decision in which members of the Lgbt Community were granted the woright to without discrimination throughout the nation. That ghis a we have had in california for a long time but expanded. Ric that it has been has that been part of the discussion that are ongoing as part of the frame line Film FestivalCommunity Conversations mark of course we have talked abouit on daily chats. Is not like we have the office to gossip around anymore but it is important and we are d thrihat this has come down. It makes a lot of difference for more than half of the states in the United States and i know that people will be going to work feeling more secure and to me that is very important because peopleshould never have been able to be fired for being gay in this era. As that impacted filmmakers within this Community Across america you mark im sure it has and stateby state. Overall, we are lucky that the filmmaking community is often very accepting and being gay is welcome but you cannot say that is the case in every set and you cannot say that was the case in every workplace. We are thrilled that ople have the freedom to be who they are as they create this amazing work that they ardoing. What are the drawbacks and challenges to being online . For me, it is connecting with the community face ceto and is, you miss the applause that you can hear and i miss people cheering at the screen and doing all those things. What we have done is try to make it as strong as possible even though we are virtual. We have done ts of recording from the castro theater and recorded the organist which is t an iconic of frame line before the film. We recorded that before the films to kind of givethat vibe. But, that is what it is, it also has some pluses also. We are more accessible than ever before. And you cannot watch our mm progg from anywhere in californiaand you can do so w from the mfort of your own home and watch three or four totals in a night if you want, just sit there and watch. It has its pluses as well and people aralready enjoyiit. We started screening yesterday at mnight and the response has been fantastic. The executive director of frame line, thank you so much. Visit frame land. Org to visit more about this years line and buy tickets tos trainings which will stream online. The festival runs through sundnd pretty can more coverage at kqed. Org. You can reach me through my social media handle. For all ofus here at newsroom, thanks for watching, good night. Scott the virus spik and the president s poll numbers sink. Weve been hit badly. D weve now over 120,000 deaths and weve had 2. 5 million infections. Robert across the country statrt repoecord highs in coronavirus cases. But the president remains defiant. Pushing top ren the economy and rallying his base. 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