71 the week before and 58 this week. Property crimes we saw alarminger decrease. 146 fewer property crimes and that number went from 569 to 455. Our part one overall crimes we are down 165 over the prior week. We are seeing decreases, but we want to emphasize our officers are out in force. They are out patrolling the streets, and we would like to see that trend continue. Particularly we are focused on the businesses boarded up and closed. We know those businesses feel vulnerable and the owners feel the businesses are vulnerable. We pay extra attention to that. We have had burglaries and vandalisms of businesses. We have made arrests and we will control those areas to give a sense of comfort to those who closed businesses. We encourage all people to report crime when and if they see it, and there are some crimes as i mentioned that you can report online or call our call center. If it is a crime of violence or crime in progress, serious crime, please call 911. Continue to do that. We will respond, and one of the silvesilver linings is that trac is light. Our Response Time has gotten much, much better because of the light traffic. We will be there if you call us. For crimes that have already taken place annan violent property crimes calm 415 5530123. You can call 311 or utilize our San FranciscoPolice Website to file a Police Report or request an existing Police Report. I want to reemphasize some of the scams we have heard about. We have not had this particular one in our city but it is online. We hear people talk about it. We want to advise and warn the public so people can remain safe. We have had a number of online posts about people knocking on doors asking to come into residential communities and they are claiming to be center for Disease Control workers or San Francisco department of Public Health workers. I want to inform the Public Workers from the San Francisco department of Public Health or workers from the centers for Disease Control will not knock on your door and ask to come inside your house or residence. Dont let people in. If you get that it is not legitimate. Be aware and be informed and call 911 if that happens to you. We have our City Disaster Service Workers placing door hangers on businesses and doors. Be aware of that. Informational pamphlets to keep the public informed to help with the cause of staying at home and staying six feet apart in the social distancing requirement we have been asked to do. They will not ask to come inside your residence. Please make note of that. If you have somebody reporting to be a worker from any of those entities or any city worker do not let them into your home. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Dont fall for things that sound too good to be true. Investigate and call somebody you trust. These particular individuals like to prey on the elderly and most vulnerable population. Be aware of that. If you know someone in those demographics please spread the word so we dont have anyone taken advantage of. Robocalls, emails, Online Sellers are also sources of scams. Please be careful and not fall prey to that. If you are asked to click a link you are unfamiliar with, be cautious about that and investigate the site to make sure you are not being scammed that way. If you are receiving online type of fraudulent or scam activity, you can call the federal trade commission at 877 3824357. As the mayor said, we expect that the weather will be nice this weekend, and we believe the weather has played a part in helping keep some of the people off the streets in the past few days. As weather increases, we ask again to please comply with the Public Health orders, social distancing requirement. If you have to go out for shopping like groceries stay six feet away from the person in front of you or behind you. It is really important. We ask the store managers and owners and leadership at these particular out lets help out with that cause as they are required to. The last thing i would like to say is for the Overall Health of the Police Department and wellness, nothing to update there. Again, i would like to thank our mayor london breed, director of Public Health, doctor grant coal fograntcolfax. Keep our foot on the pedal and do what we have been asked to do and stay safe and healthy. Thank you. Thank you. Our first questions are for doctor grant colfax. This question is from jamie at the associated press. Last week trent rhorer said 123 people, of whom 95 are homeless, had been moved from hospital beds to hotel rooms because they tested positive and needed to isolate or were awaiting test results. Why are these people not counted in the citys overall number of homeless who tested positive for covid19, which is three . Let me clarify on that number. Currently we have 167 people who have been moved out of the hospital who are either covid19 positive or under investigation. Those include people who have no other place to go that is safe. That would include a high proportion of Homeless Individuals. Also it includes people in crowded Living Conditions and other places where they cannot go and safely isolate. It is a combination of those populations. Again, that is very important intervention to keep our Hospital System as open as possible. With regard to the people, the three people mentioned, we have four cases now of people who have been diagnosed in a shelter or navigation center. The msp south is for three cases. We are working hard with data systems to provide an accurate number of people experiencing homelessness diagnosed with covid19. This testing is done throughout the city by different providers including private labs. Our understanding is that private labs do not assess the housing situation. Within our dph system we look to merge data sources on status of living status and covid19 positive cases. We hope to share that information. Thank you. Next question from trisha with the San Francisco chronicle. Will the city release specific data on how many covid cases are tied to Skilled Nursing facilities or longterm care facilities . If so how many cases have there been . We will release that data as it is available and we will ensure that they are accurate. Followup. Yesterday we learned one Skilled Nursing home campus for jewish living is preparing to accept covid parish aints patients. The state is working can longterm care facilities helping derm which facilities both across the state and within San Francisco could do that with regard to the need and ensuring the safety of staff and residents. I am not able to identify these facilities specifically in San Francisco out of respect for privacy. I will say that it is part of our surge planning assessing and determining where covid positive patients who require a Skilled Nursing type level of care has been part of our conversation with other Health Systems in the city. We are supporting the longterm care facilities in our collective response. We have regular communication with them. We are supporting them, and we also hope to apply the cdc recommendations from laguna honda to other partners in the city. Question from ron lynn of the los angeles times. Do you expect the shelterinplace order and forms of social distancing to last beyond the summer and into the fall or into next year . Well, unfortunately, i cannot predict the future. I am focused on what we know now. Looking at the data and science and facts. What we know now the physical distancing appears to have slowed the spread of the coronavirus in San Francisco. This is a very vulnerable time for us to ensure that that surge continues to be slow. As you can see from the data tracker, there is a steady increase in cases and hospitalizations. We must be resolute in continuing the social distancing through the shelterinplace during this time. Followup. Why are we seeing rising hospitalization cases eventhough the shelterinplace wasnt acted more than three weeks ago . Well, this virus is extremely transmissible. Despite multiple efforts early actions we knew there were going to be cases of covid19 in our city. And what we are focusing now is ensuring the Hospital Systems have capacity to provide the best care possible for people with covid19. Yes, there is an increase across the united states. Unfortunately, in our city we see a pattern. If you look across the nation, our increase has been slower so far, but again this could change any day when this virus takes off it can really take off. I would go back to Public Health intervention, social distancing, wash your hands, wear a Face Covering if you cannot keep at least six feet away from individuals, please do that and exercise restraint in your outings. Thank you. Final question for dr. Colfax from the San Francisco examer. Since the first cases were diagnosed has anyone recovered from covid19 and if so how many people . People recover from covid19, and i think we know from the data on both nationally and internationally that the majority of people and many have mild symptoms and recover well. It is really the focus on the vulnerable populations, the people who have to be hospitalized, the people in the i c. U. I think the focus needs to be on the Hospital System and the capacity there and the people who have not recovered are are e people who died. With our collective efforts of prevention and experts. I want to emphasize the expertise we have in the Health Department at zuckerberg, San Francisco general, u. C. S. F. And kaiser we have incredible leadership ensuring that as many people recover as possible. Is the department doing contact investigations for every positive case and notifying those who may have been in contact with the positive case . So we are continuing to expand our contact investigation efforts. We are ensuring that we are focusing on the most vulnerable communities with those contact investigations. Right now our capacity to do all of the Contact Tracing for every case has benumbedded, which is again why ha has been exceed. As we move forward we are ensuring that we have a robust number of contact investigators on board. Think of right now as a situation where we have as you can see from the dashboard a lot of Community Transmission. Over tight our hope, and i do not know if this will happen. Over time we hope due to social distancing that Community Transmission rate will be crease and we will go to a level where the Contact Tracing is particularly important. Think of it now as a situation where there is a steady, unfortunately, steady fire throughout the city with regard to transmission of cases. If we are successful in extinguishing this broader fire across the community, then we think about in the next stage if we get there sparks in the community. Sparks, outbreaks that are containable. Our goal is to have a robust team of Disease Control investigators to immediately respond to the sparks so we do not return to widespread Community Transmission like today. Thank you, dr. Colfax. The next questions are for mayor breed. Mayor breed, this question is from stefani at abc 7. Sf pride parade organizers have not cancelled for june. It may still happen. Do you have a response to that . Mayor breed i do. I want to start by saying pride is one of my favorite times of the year in San Francisco, and especially during this pandemic. The fact that the pride celebration potentially may not happen will be devastating to not only me personally but to so many people in our city, but we are in a different reality. I think it is important as dr. Colfax said we cant predict the future. We dont know what is going to happen in the city. We know when we start to get out of this that having large scale events will be very, very difficult. I am not certain that it will be possible at this time to say whether or not we can move forward with pride in the same capacity as we have done for many, many years. I think that once the shelter in order is lifted, there is going to be a gradual process to get the city back on track and back into some level of normalcy. I think it may not be possible to expect that we could launch a large scale event with millions of people in San Francisco. I am not sure if that is going to be realistic to expect that we will be able to host the kind of pride parade this city is known for. That is where we are at this time. John king of the San Francisco chronicle. What will mayor breed do if the emergency legislation proposed yesterday at the board is approved. Including Homeless People of all ages and Current Conditions and placing them in hotel rooms. Mayor breed i want to be clear. From the beginning we have focused on moving forward plans that are realistic, that allow us to use data, that are sustainable, that allow us to not only provide the resources necessary to make them work but to also sustain them. We have had to basically make magic happen over the past month as it relates to setting up the Emergency Operations center to focus on the Public Health crisis in staffing the hospitals, making sure the nurses and doctors have protective equipment, making sure the city work force has protective equipment, thinning out shelters to protect the people working in the shelter system. We know that it is a lot more complicated, as i said. The thing i would want to do more than anyone else is to be able to house every Single Person on the street to make sure they have a safe place to be. The fact is that comes with so much more than opening up the doors to give people a hotel room. Trent rhorer, the director of Human Services had provided an overview with a clear plan that has been changed based on what we know may work and may not work. Specifically, the change we made to moscone west, the changes we are making around the hotel rooms that we are fortunate enough to have access to and to provide the staffing for those particular locations. That will ensure safety. That will ensure that when we provide a room to someone that person is the only person who is in that rumor that person with their family members. That we are working with the hotels, that we are providing the 24 hour care and support, laundry service, food and all of the things needed. That takes a lot of people. It takes a lot of people who are part of our work force and the reality we are this is that some of those people are afraid. They are afraid to come to work. We want to make sure when we set these systems up we are not only providing places for people to be during this crisis but we are providing protection for those we are expecting to put their live on the line. We are expanding our capacity significantly quickly, and that takes a plan that is focused, that is developed, that is consistent, that is something we can actually deliver. That is really what is important for me as mayor of the city to focus on, what we know we can do and make sure we get it done and to focus our attention on elevating what we know we need in this crisis. I will really basically continue to do just that. Next questions for trent rhorer. Thank you, mayor. Trentrent rhorer, human serv. This is the San Francisco chronicle. The 7,000 hotel rooms do not include homeless not covid19 positive and not ranked as part of the vulnerable population. No ordinary homeless so to speak . Let me clarify. The 7,000 rooms we are bringing online are for covid positive, persons under investigation who cant selfquarantine and vulnerable Homeless Individuals who are living in shelter or on the streets. Vulnerable age 60 and above or Underlying Health conditions. That would make them more susceptible to the covid virus. 7,000 includes homeless on the street, shelter and covid positive and under investigation for covid. Next questions for chief bill scott. This is a question from the San Francisco chronicle. Has will been any change in calls related to Domestic Violence, increase as suggested by evidence . I can tell you what has been reported to the San FranciscoPolice Department. We have seen a decrease in reported Domestic Violence incidents. From the period of march 17 to march 31st is the latest reporting that i have. Compared to that time last year, we had 121 reported Domestic Violence incidents as opposed to 179 for the same period last year. We are hearing from the groups that they had an increase in calls and that might be a good thing in that people are seeking out help. We know from the science of Human Behavior that stress and anxiety and frustration can trigger violent behavior. My message is that the those things are happening seek out help. The mayor said it, Public Health professionals across the country said it. Seek out help. As far as reported we have seen a decrease for this shelterinplace stay at home period as of march 17th through march 31st. We will keep an eye on that. That is definitely something our Police Officers are watching. Some crimes are not reported. We realize that. It is another opportunity for me to encourage people to report crimes when they happen. We will be there and we will investigate. Thank you. The next questions for abigail stewart. These are the last two questions of the press conference from the San Francisco public press. Has the city run into challenge with hotel rooms with general trust issues. How are city agencies handling these challenges . That is a great question. From talking with you i know you feel that people experiencing homeless niece are just like you and me. We all have questions and worries now. We would all need support if we were asked to pick up and leave our communities and move to an unknown hotel room. As a social worker, i know the strength of every person is what we need to rely on now. I see it as the systems responsibility to set up that support so that we can rapidly meet people where they are. We have steps in place and staff from all over the city who are trained to evaluate an individuals ability to selfcare in these new environments before they move. The city is coming to help us. Our hotels are staffed with hsh heroes, nonprofits, first unite council and ecs of San Francisco and many more on the way as well as Disaster Service workers from city partners. As we scale, we will be reaching out to the most vulnerable outside through the channels and with a careful and clear process in place. We are grateful to ihss which is part of the Human Services agency who have helped so people can selfcare. We are excited that we are exploring a volunteer program that would allow peop