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The number in the United States is twice as many as any other country. And doctor Francis Collins who once led the human genome project and now leaves the National Institutes of health needs a competitive shark tank enterprise at the nih to discover new ways to create tens of millions of quick and extensive diagnostictests. Covid19 plans should last for at least a year. The government is pursuing vaccines at what it calls s work speed a, faster than weve ever done that before but no one expects a vaccine this august. The second half of the school year schools should be able to provide more tests, more treatments, better Contact Tracing and hopefully we should begin to have vaccines. It will likely be the fall of 2021 though before we begin toapproach normal. There are several reasons schools have an advantage in weproviding a safe environment for students and for faculty. One younger people have been less hurt by covid19 and older people. Although doctor county told our committee we sh
Criminal Justice Center. Thats something the taxpayers have overwhelmingly adopted a tax to help us expand the criminal Justice Center which is something that were very glad to have. I invite you guys to come out and cover that event later today as well. With that ill turn it over to the sheriff and if i can let you know we have a very busy day planned ahead of us so well go until about 9 30. Thank you. Thank you. Let me welcome everybody. The last time i had a News Conference that was this well attended is when i was chief of detectives at the Tulsa Police Department and we had a businessman, roger wheeler, killed in tulsa out at Southern Hills golf club and just this past year Whitey Bulger was convicted of that crime. Thank you for coming. I want to thank shannon for the job hes done under these circumstances and the undersheriff and the officers of the tulsa county Sheriffs Office. You know i had a Public Meeting on tuesday, april 6th, at the courthouse and no one came. We had two