Guest today from the Interface Council who will be speaking directly after my comments. As of today, we have confirmed 676 cases of the coronavirus, sadly, 10 people have passed away as a result of this disease. This is clearly a challenging time for San Francisco. What we have done time and time again, especially during this press conference is to reiterate is importance of staying at home. We know that a couple weekends ago we had real challenges with that. Over the past two weekends people complied and have been wonderful. We also think that weather might have played a role in that because it was rain, it wasnt as nice as it will be this weekend. I want be to remind people. It is important to really maintain our physical distance when we are out in public. We may need to run errands and take walks and we are hearing about a lot of data that indicates the early signs that San Francisco is in a decent place. The fact is, we need to be mindful that this virus is out there. We cannot ge
Residents. We will provide extra resources to support staff and residents coping with the impact of the outbreak. For example the chaplain is available for Spiritual Services and guidance for staff and residents. We have opened a dedicated phone line. Staffed by clinicians to provide emotional support to residents in realtime. This support is in addition to the regular Clinical Behavioral Health services. We also have a Behavioral Health specialist on site dedicated to staff needs who is proactively reaching out to the staff on the two units that have been impacted to provide support and coping mechanisms. The Behavioral Health specialist is available to all staff and our clinicians will continue to reach out to provide services. We know, i know that caring for the most vulnerable is some of the most intense and selfless work in the city. I am grateful to the compassion of the laguna honda team. They are true heroes. With regard to Infection Prevention and control, laguna honda continu
Everyone yesterday we launched an alert system that will provide timely updates for covid19 and other critical kindness other guidance from the governors office. Text lacovidease to 67283. Already one heard thousand people across00 the state have signed up for alert. Additional information is available at coronavirus. L. A. Gov. This point i will ask the doctor to come up and explain more about the chart that was up there with the modeling because i know some of you were wanting more information about our modeling. Thank you, governor. Said, since the earliest cases in the state we have been working at the the academic side and with health items and insurers to build a model that would help us understand what to expect and how to reject what covid19 would mean for the state when it comes to our most Important Health resources that need to be there for those most severely affected by covid19. That is hospital beds and ventilators. You have been hearing us talk a lot about those. The gov
Tumlin, police chief, bill scott, and we have a special guest today from the Interface Council who will be speaking directly after my comments. As of today, we have confirmed 676 cases of the coronavirus, sadly, 10 people have passed away as a result of this disease. This is clearly a challenging time for San Francisco. What we have done time and time again, especially during this press conference is to reiterate is importance of staying at home. We know that a couple weekends ago we had real challenges with that. Over the past two weekends people complied and have been wonderful. We also think that weather might have played a role in that because it was rain, it wasnt as nice as it will be this weekend. I want be to remind people. It is important to really maintain our physical distance when we are out in public. We may need to run errands and take walks and we are hearing about a lot of data that indicates the early signs that San Francisco is in a decent place. The fact is, we need
We have more than 10,000 cases statewide. We also had an increase of 60 deaths with a total of 370. Today, wee seeing think, is going to look more like the daily normal going forward. We do know there is still certain test results that are lagging behind but the 13 is aase in cases today much more that increase is much more in line with what we expect to see day to day. That is what i am trying to communicate. Sprea will of spread depend upon will always depend upon the stayathome order, social distancing, and minimizing social contact. We have been telling people a long time that getting through this crisis would resemble a marathon, not a sprint. Patient,g people to be stay in their homes, and take the stayathome order seriously. Your neighbors life depends on it and so might your own. Good news is that tests we are second in the nation per capita. This helps us to see what is out there and gives us a better idea of how to respond and prepare for the future. There are interesting too