Getting our children back to school. Throughout the last few weeks, i have spent countless hours talking with educational leaders around the state. Everyone agrees that for the future of our sheer drum our children, we want everything we can have them back in a learning environment this fall. Working with superintendent woods, administrators, and School Boards around the state, we have crafted guidelines for schools that i am very proud of because it took the assumption that we would open schools but we would do it very safely and ensure that schools have the tools they have to protect the students, the staff, the teachers as well as the community as a whole. We know and fully expect that there will be some cases of covid among students and teachers and we are doing everything we can to provide the resources needed to protect everyone in the school setting. Fema, schools are receiving allotments of ppe to prepare for reopening. Just as we know it is in the best interest of students to
Out ppe hospitals when they had only three days supplies left on hand. Developed a surge plan. Tried to develop our supply chains and beef up the ppe supply. Increase our Testing Capacity within the state. Our original modeling that was done by our state epidemiologist, we will try to share that right now, shows that by that first modeling prediction on july 21, they were expecting 30,000 deaths in the state of oklahoma. At this time, we have 432 deaths. We certainly helped decrease the number of deaths in the state of oklahoma. What we did with social distancing, safer at home, the closing of nonessential businesses, etc. Then we went to where we are today. We have had a total of 432 deaths. There were four new fatalities last night and 1000 new cases. Back in april, we were testing around 1500 to 2000 tests a day, that was our capacity. We have about 22,000 combined tests. Today, we have done over 449,000, 450,000. You can see the resolve is increasing numbers all around the u. S. We
First across the line russia says it has a code of its vaccine good to go questions already coming from the west of the how it made such quick progress. Those are the headlines for this hour coming up next his political larry king. Front line perspective on the covert 19 pandemic on the city politics. The politicking on larry king as the National Death toll tops our 140000 we laid off for the front line perspective on the cold the 19 pandemic from the chief physicians of the state of delaware dr rick pesca drawer including whats his assessment of the state of testing and the effectiveness of public outrage thanks for joining us dr how do you describe the cold 19 situation in the United States right now the president said yesterday were doing well. Pushback on that larry you know we have talked about this from the beginning that there is a need for a comprehensive nationwide strategy leveraging the resources of the federal government and bringing them to bear in situations in areas wher
We have part of our engagement was Junior Deputy program. I mentioned earlier and we try to get out there to do clinics related to interest. We went up to Juvenile Justice Center a few months ago. Myself, captain stanford and another captain and provided basketball clinic for juveniles up there. It was part of our process to reach out not just for recruitment but to engage with people to just really message out that we are here for them in any other ways other than being just as involved. I think those efforts that we engage with the community. The organizations i am looking forward to meeting with you. I have spoken to director davis about that. Thank you so much. Colleagues. Any other questions or comments . Thank you. I am good. Thank you, sheriff. All right. Maybe we can move to wrap up this hearing. Thanks, supervisor safai and your legislative aid for organizing such an important hearing. Do you have Closing Remarks . Yes, i would like to make Closing Remarks if that is okay. Tha
To adapt to our new normal. Lets get started, dr. Colfax. Thank you and welcome. Can you fleacan you please prove where we are in San Francisco as it relates to the numbers. Thank you for your leadership during this time and really supporting all of us as we focus on the data, science and facts. I have a presentation with a lot of data i would like to go through. If there are questions that you would like to share during the presentation, please let me know. I will just give us a snapshot where we are today, talk about what we can all do to bend the curve, reduce infections across San Francisco and talk about what the future may hold if we do not wear face masks, practice social distancing and good hygiene. Can we go to the slide presentation, please. First slide is number of cases in San Francisco. All the way back, please. Okay. We have a preview. This is where we stand right now in San Francisco. Anybody can follow these data on a daily basis at our San Francisco data tracker sf. Go