Plan which paves the way for outdoor dining, not indoor, outdoor dining, salons and gyms to reopen with a target date of mid july. So if you are confused, then youre just like everybody else because our heads are spinning from all these counties that some saying this activity is okay and thats not, whereas other counties have a different risk assessment, so i know dr. Patel, youve been busy working on a risk calculator for us that youre going to share with us today, right . Oh, totally, because honestly, if people look at the different counties and which businesses are in and arent, its totally confusing but it comes down to certain variables about safety that were all in control of. So were asking you, the viewers, to play along with this game show quiz, actually, its very important though. Its on our web site, abc7news. Com, which you can check out, but here it is. 12 common scenarios and whats your risk, and alok, dont feel bad about putting me down, saying youre way off here, krist
Week. But here in california, we have filed a more than 7 million claims for unemployment that happened since the pandemic began and paid out just last week alone 3. 7 billion in Unemployment Benefits and thats more than 3 billion more than the worst week of the last great recession. So as you can see, there is a massive demand for this type of until assistance. So is the volume that you are getting, you are having the process going down at all . You know, the volume continues to be quite high. We are still getting a couple hundred,000 claims each week. However, what we are able to to do is we are now able to expand our capacity. As you know when this hit, it was like an overnight perfect storm. Right. So it was hitting at a time of record low up employment. We have low staffing, low funding. Now we have more funding. We are in a mass expedited hiring effort, where we have hired or at least extended considerable job offers to more than 4,300 people to come on board and help us here at
And Economic Activity continuing. The issue for us right now around wanting to ensure that you have clarify is the commitment of our office of economic work force brings and do visit our website and continue to learn more about updates that we are providing in partnership with the city and Public Health to have realtime information around best practices, guidance, and reaching out to us so we can answer any questions you may have about reopening. That is our commitment to you in addition to continue to make you aware of the relief programs whether grants or loans were providing here in the city and continue of San Francisco for all of you. All of us are deeply excited about getting back to work. All of us are deeply excited about seeing when and how their business can reopen. Please stay in contact with us. We look forward to working with you to making that happen. They continue they continue to come in day in and day out to provide for ourselves and our families and thank you for the
Great to see you. Great to see you as well. Im well, thank you. Thanks for coming on. The reason were bringing dr. Brown on is because as we go back into a situation where the coronavirus is spiking all over the country, just when we thought or some thought maybe were beginning to get out of the woods even though we were worried about a second wave later, suddenly in the middle of this first wave it has spiked again. It can cause a lot of emotional and mental stress. Thats what dr. Brown is here to talk about. Heather, im sure youve heard from several of your clients about their anxiety and their stress regarding coronavirus and the shelter in place order and the social distancing. What are you expecting to hear now that its getting worse yet again . Well, frustration for sure though i think we knew that the first stayathome was just to slow things down and we needed to open up to test things out. And we have, and were learning a lot. And just like before, its important that we try to
So to start, we heard governor gavin newsom with updates from pittsburgh. More than 6300 new cases in the past 24 hours. This comes just after yesterday when california broke the record with more than 8,000 hospitalizations and icu numbers continued to climb. Masks and face coverings. Theres heated discussions about masks and their efficacy. University of San Francisco researcher and founder of masks for all, by the way, viewers if you have questions for jeremy, regarding masks, what type of mask might work best, if you see data that confuses you, post them now on facebook and well try to get to some of them. Jeremy, this morning, dr. Anthony fauci and the cdc director robert redd field and warned america is going in the wrong direction. They both urged everyone to wear masks, any idea whats the percentage of the public thats complying . There is a lot state to state. The states that have mask mandates which now covers more than half of the country in terms of population, most people a