Fight that virus without destroying jobs and families. Today, i am issuing another order. This is a mandatory order. We have issued several that contain mandates and recommendations. Most of the recommendations are becoming mandates, orders, with criminal penalties attached. I am issuing a mandatory home or work order. A home or work order that goes into Effect Tomorrow afternoon at 5 00 p. M. Everyone under this order should stay home unless they are working, their visiting family, recreating outdoors, unless they obtain a necessary goods or services. Those are the limits. We are closing no additional businesses. Those businesses have been closed in previous orders. Mandatesare requiring of the Retail Stores that are open and that is the must limit the customers. We must have social distancing in the stores and that is no more than 5 customers for every 1000 feet in a Retail Business or 20 capacity according to the fire marshal. Whichever is less. Violation of any of these requirements is a misdemeanor, and or a fine. L why are we doing this now . Why not have done it earlier . Thats because it is time according to the data, according to the science, according to the facts, and according to the expert advice and guidance. It is time tod, make these recommended actions required. Why is it time . Because too many people from the statistics, the facts, from observations, too many people are on the roads, on the waters, in the stores, too many people are not complying with our request concerning social distancing. Suggested, urged, everyone is aware of the information we have disseminated. So last week or so we have the rate on the rise. We hope this order will reduce the rising rate of infection and also reduce the rate of noncompliance and reduce the number of people who are losing their jobs because of these necessary orders. Gentlemen,ladies and we had over 200 this week. By the end, we expect to have 200,000 people who have applied for uninsurance. That is just the tip of the iceberg. Each of those people likely represents a family and we know there are going to be more. We know that many more than that have lost their jobs. Either because of the market, because of steps taken by businesses and services by the orders we have issued. All of those people have to pay bills, feed the children, have to save for college. There are many things people will not be able to do because of these orders. It will be difficult at the least. We must be aggressive in going but seek to dos as little destruction to the homes and businesses and people in jobs as is possible. Finally, as for the General Assembly, we have to have a budget, we have to have laws, we have to have business done. Assemblyng the general to come back to work wednesday as has been planned and get it done. We have cashiers going to work. We have Police Officers going to work. We have all kinds of people going to work. There is no excuse for the members of the General Assembly not to come to work on wednesday and take care of this vital business. Recommendservices, we that those services continue, of course, but we urge the churches and others to stream on the internet if they can, to me outdoors and if they cannot do those, prepare for social distancing in the church. Speaking of easter, with chaplain please come forward . I want us to remember words from the preamble. We the people, of united states, in order to perform a more perfect union, establish justice, and should to mr. Trump quality, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Please, pray with me. Great god, you are a god of unity, a god who requires us to love justice and who longs for peace and mercy among its people. Us, wethis time, help the people of the united states, continue to love one another, serve each other, and let the spirit of South Carolina, and america, shine through us all as we patiently obey and pray for the leaders over us and pray for the Health Care Workers and other servant leaders selflessly tending to our needs. I pray all these things in your mighty name, amen. Amen. Good afternoon. 183 new casesng of covid19 as of today which brings the total number of people confirmed to have the disease in South Carolina to 2232. Seenthe last week, we have an accelerated rate. An average of 187 new infections per day have been recorded in the past week. 90 new an increase from infections in the week prior. We recognize the hardships that are facing many carolinians as we respond to this Health Threat together. I want to reassure the public we are working with National Partners to protect the health and safety of all self carolinians. Today, we continue to work facilities carcare and we are 51 capacity. Over 21,000 tests have been conducted in our state of which 2232 have been positive. While the Public Health laboratory has no delay in testing, private laboratories around the nation have significant delays which would indicate an even higher of cases yet to be reported. We should also include individuals who may not be tested. Problemsrking to avoid the most impacted areas are seeing related to the stress on the home care system including hospitalization rate, ventilator availability, and others. We are doing this by prioritizing our limited resources. Thaturrent data shows us social distancing and staying how help combat the spread of disease and ultimately save lives. However, while these hardhit areas of the country are continuing to have significant daily mortality, it puts us in the best position if we plan for the worst. The daily case count and some of those areas is improving due to mitigation efforts and we have worked in consultation with the governor to implement effective measures to slow the spread of the virus. Our ability to combat the spread of the disease will depend on the actions each of us takes. This is a historic and unprecedented event and how we respond as individuals, community, and state will be remembered for generations to come and we ask for your support for following the guidance of Public Health professionals. So that we can continue to fight on your behalf. Please do your part, stayathome, and limit close contact with others. As always, for the latest information visit our website. Thank you. Thank you, dr. Davidson. I will briefly cover a few items that will be posted on our website later. Both the explanation and a video. The cdc released information regarding the use of cloth masks and face coverings. While these are optional, they may reduce the spread of the virus. They are not intended to replace social distancing, handwashing, or any other recommendations. South carolina residents should not run out and buy masks. The cdc has warned this is a historic outbreak and supplies are limited. It is important we save the manufactured masks, surgical masks or respirators, for doctors, nurses, and First Responders who may need the most. Homemade masks may reduce the amount of virus one breaks out and may prevent one from touching the nose or the mouth. This measure is recommended to be used in situations where social distancing may be difficult to maintain such as Grocery Stores and pharmacies. Othersntended to protect from those who may be infected with the virus and able to spread it but not showing symptoms. People Wearing Masks should not have a false sense of security. They should be worn to help protect others. It is important to understand these recommendations do not allow for someone to go out in public if they are it. You still need to practice social distancing and stayathome if you are ill. Those with symptoms should isolate at home but consider a homemade mask when leaving the house. Again, we will post on our website instructions and a video for making a homemade mask. It is quite simple. All you need is a piece of fabric. You can take the fabric, folded so it fits over your mouth and nose. Insert youu cover with a rubber band. Enddo the same on the other about two inches down. Overlap the fabric on either end, grab the rubber bands, and public to the nose and mouth. Video or similar something will be posted on the website as well as written instructions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, governor. Since the announcement of the onernors executive orders march 17 the National Guard has been working with a Strong Coalition of personnel comprised of various state and federal agencies and Health Care Professionals in the state of South Carolina to determine the possible impact the current covid19 Response Plans could have on health care systems. Tiered implemented a response to increase bed space, staffing, and other supports to operate a medical facility. I would like to discuss with the analysis has revealed the fundamental aspects of this plan. Operate is intended to within the existing Hospital Health care system in the state. It merely expands the hospital footprint outside existing hospital facilities. I would like to recognize some of our participants that had been a part of the process. South carolina Emergency Management division, South Carolina department of health and environment control, the National Guard, the hospitals association, Regional Health care providers, South Carolina department transportation, carolina parks and recreation, cap Carolina Department of administration South Carolina department of administration. All of them have been developing this plan we are beginning to implement as of now. We have heard from reports over the last couple of weeks that this pandemic is an ever moving target. When i say got, projections and numbers we are looking at have changed and we anticipate they will continue to change but we are planning our initial plan which is scalable and tailored to the needs we may have. Early projections say we would have about 3500 potential coded patient in South Carolina that patients in corona South Carolina that could need hospitalizations. We will look at those numbers and adjust the plan as necessary to be sure we are capable of handling the Response Plan identified that we will discuss here. Numbers, youys can see the hospital bed capacity by region. The upstate, midlands, and low. Ountry numbers past thenoted in the hospitals have reduced elected surgeries and procedures to allow the capacity to be there. We appreciate their efforts to do that. In addition, if we look at it, you can see the number of intensive Care Capacity we have beds that are being used and those that are available as both the number of ventilators being used. Changethese numbers will on a daily basis and we will always monitor those to ensure our plan accommodates goes. As of today, we have 5944 hospital beds available in South Carolina. What our plan will allow us to 3000 add an additional they will be here no later than may. Phase will add 1500 beds in either a tier one or tier two capacity. We will speak a little bit more to that to identify what a tier one and tier two facility will be comprised of clear by may 5, we will add another 1500 beds that look give us a 3000 bed capacity above and beyond what we have available. , this is aeaways contingency plan. This is a plan we will have in place ready to go if those needs develop. If a plan is built around the current hospital system, the land, ifmidlands, low etted wheres been v they have talked to leadership in every hospital in the state, they understand the plan, they believe the plan and they support the plan. I think that is very important. Have dr. Erico pland speak about how our will be implemented. He is the vice chair of the department of emergency medicine and chief of preparedness and emergency medicine. Thank you. Do was build to upon what the general has said about the tiered Response Plan. When we envision this plan it was to extend the capacity of the existing health care system. We are not making anything new or novel, these are just extensions of the existing system. Over the last three weeks we have worked with the South Carolina guard, Emergency Management division, is South CarolinaHospital Association and clinical partners to come up with a workable system that will give us the bed capacity we could need. This is a threetiered system and as im sure you are familiar with, the tier three hospitals are traditional. We provide Critical Care services, the ones able to , and theentilators goal of these hospitals is not going to change. They will care for folks who are sick with covid19 but also care for people who have all of the regular illnesses and injuries that people in South Carolina will encounter. When we look at the additional expansion, we are really talking about tier one and tier two hospitals. Spitalsa behind the ho is to provide treatment wiccans go. Scope. In intense but itas will be professional, highquality care on the level South Carolina will expect. We arer one facility using for quarantine. Thingsthe most critical is that people are isolating from others when they are ill and people who are high risk contacts are quarantined and away from others when they are potentially infectious. When we talk about these medical surge facilities, we are talking about opening shuttered hospitals, creating tier two s, andties in coliseum creating tent hospitals if needed. These are options on the table for the tier two facilities. The tier one facilities are designed for people who are going to provide selfcare. These are not folks who require intense medical treatment. They will require selfcare and we will have a light medical footprint to assist and monitor patients. Should they become worse, they will be transferred as they was it during any other event. We believe this will allow us to increase capacity and serve our patients appropriate and safely during the pandemic. Thank you. Ceo would like to ask the usmc where he will discuss the staffing challenges we face if we were to build this plan. You, governor. This plan on behalf of all hospitals, i want to state we feel we are ready. All hospitals have been surveyed in the past few days and every single one is supportive of this plan. It is easy to support because this is a mere extension of what our normal Emergency Operations plans are. In normal operations, we are ready to surge. This may be a little deeper but we are ready. Acrossseen a lot of work South Carolina hospitals over the past four weeks and im confident we will be ready. We now this is going to be tough. This is not going to be easy. We have a hospital that normally has 800 patient and ready to surge another 150 beds. We are going to use our fitness center, about a block away, to surge another 250 beds if needed. This will require a different level of personnel and how they are used but we think we are ready. We have been planning hard. This is going to take our nurses, frontline doctors, our residents, fellows, this will take an entire team to take care of patients but i for confident we are ready. It will be a tough month. The surge is likely to last a while but i think we can pull it together and im confident, based on what i am hearing, that those hospitals will be ready to work individually as well as together. Is wegain, the message are ready. It is not going to be easy but we are ready to deal with this when it comes. Thank you. I would like the labor union of licensing to come up. Thank you. At the department of labor licensing and regulation we are prepared to support the hospitals in this plan through the licensing and credentialing of Health Care Workers to build staffing capacity when and where it may be needed. Since the beginning of the First Response to the pandemic, the agency and licensing board has been working tirelessly to take measured responses and adopt acre mental flexibility to ensure South Carolina has the resources to combat the virus while still ensuring citizens are provided with appropriate care and benefits. Conjunction the licensing forall those in another state. This allows additional healthcare workers to come to South Carolina and serves to expand telemedicine to serve citizens. We have relaxed regulations so providers from neighboring states can continue treating South Carolina patients by telemedicine. The board of medical examiners has relaxed regulation regarding telehealth to expand medical care. This has allowed doctors, physicians, assistance, and theres practitioners nurse practitioners, in certain circumstances, to write medication without getting approval from the medical board. It has allowed hospice providers to conduct medical examinations in lieu of inperson examinations of patients within 14 days of prescribing medicines. It has expanded the ability for the use of telemedicine to treat individuals with opioid use disorder with medication assisted treatment. Expanded access to health care by expanding telehealth to other professions such as optometry, dental, speech language pathology, physical telecounseling to name a few. We have expedited emergency and state licensing for the board of nursing and medical examiners. The agency has also taken measures to help the licensees themselves on the front line to help combat the virus. Many continuing education requirements required by professionals are allowed online. Theyve extended renewal or continuing education to september 30. Giving Nursing Schools full discretion to allow her hours to be done by stipulation so students can still graduate. We have issued practice guidance to licenses from the boards provided through links on the website. All of these measures are available on our website. There is an alert at the top of the page one can click on ansi actions by every board actions by every board. Day link is updated every as new measures are taken to combat this pandemic. Thank you. Thank you. As you can see, we have the whole team on the field. I want to thank these doctors and their staff, nurses, physicians, all of those on the frontline. It is much like a war. Law enforcement come at the same goes for them. They are rushing into situations that could be dangerous to them. This is a large part of the effort we are making but also unrepresented are some you have heard from before. Department, department of Mental Health, and unemployment department. We know isolation fostered by these orders are going to exacerbate existing problems. I repeat, youre going to have more and more people out of work for various reasons but we are working on the clock for Resources Available to soften the blow to protect his familys and get people back to work. Protect families and get people back to work. Everything you have seen so far has been part of a plan that is working and expanding and there will be more steps taken in the future. Are there any questions . Questioned the constitutionality of a governors ability to stay home. What do you think of that now . How has your thinking evolved . I think the same of the constitutionality of such orders that restrict the liberty and rights of people that are protected by the constitution. Therefore situations like this so we do not forget. Personally, i have been a lawyer for 45 years. What the government can do under the law we are doing that in this situation. We want to be sure what we are doing is within the framework of the constitution and the law. ,hat is to protect the people having full regard for due process, the right to assembly, but to stay within the parameters and guardrails that are set up by the constitution. What we are doing is limiting in impact as much as we can order to protect the health of the people. Andre not going beyond that destroy more. We are sticking with the mandates of the constitution. Facts that have been referred to today, which is the noncompliance, the rising infection rate, the cdc recommending face masks. Certain states to put travel advisories in place. All of those things are leading to a point where it is within the constitution to use they do not go any further than necessary to protect the liberty of the people without depriving them of rights. Im confident what we are doing today is legal constitution and protecting the people without destroying families. Reporter why not just call it a stayathome order . We have been urging people to stay home from the beginning. We have had it on signs on the highway. This is a stayathome order. Call it what you like but it says stayathome. Work,nd home, home and those are the best places to be. There are other exceptions good for the health of the people but will not endanger them. Those are the things we have been espousing from the beginning. Reporter you encouraged churches to do services online. A church in charleston held a service yesterday with more than 100 people. The pastor says it hisses his right to keep it open. Are you going to ask them to stop the service . Is this a danger to the public . Cannot speak for other governors but this governor is not going on the First Amendment. That is an absolute right. We are encouraging pastors and use social distancing could go online. You dont have the whole choir and there arent but three or four people in the church. It works. Way or have a service outside. If you must have a congregation under a roof, use social distancing. That First Amendment right is very important and we are respecting that. How are you expected to enforce the new mandate . It is a crime to violate it. It is a misdemeanor. Up to 100 of everyday violation. Any Law Enforcement officer can enforce it. If there are three or more people congregating in one way or another Foreign Agent public arrested andcan be go to jail. Same thing on the water. The department of Natural Resources was enforced on the waterway. They busted up over 2500 boats on the water and give citations. Rules. Ot to follow the they are clear. Comply, we will take the next step in the next after that if necessary. We are certainly going to protect the people within the power and resources that we have. Reporter what level do you want to see what percentage is normal . You can get the percentages of what has happened in the last weekend from the department of transportation. That was part of our consideration. Highways, not interstates, but traffic went up pretty 5 in some places. Pretty 5 in some places. 25 in some places. Those are just the ones we know about. We have to do something. There is no precise percentage but we want to see it go down. We want to see the people reducing interaction with others and the chance for contact and spread of disease to go down. That is what must happen if we are going to stop this virus. It is easy to do. All you have to do is follow the rules we have laid out. Follow the rules we discussed every time we have been here including stayathome as a undere punishable by law the rules we are announcing. If everyone will do that. , the rate of infection will be reduced. Perhaps we will get to the worst Case Scenarios we are talking about and prepared for. We have been preparing for this for weeks. Maybe we wont get there. We hope we wont get there but if people. Take it seriously, we will get there. Reporter arenas were mentioned surgessible thir hospitals. Everyone has been considered. We have had people volunteer. The plan has been announced i dont know if that includes arenas at this point. We are looking at those. Facilitiesessed 18 around the state. Thesee either been would be available or the state has operational control over them. Vet it against certain righ criteria. We are using engineers from the department transportation, state guard, National Guard. They have to be compliant. The have to have an adequate restroom and shower facility. We can put those in place if necessary. They must have appropriate Fire Suppression systems. They must be free from lead and asbestos and generally all hotels we are looking at built after 1990 meet that criteria. The have to have emergency backup power. We can also contract or have that type of resource made available. We are working throughout the state. We are looking to have in each onehose areas a minimum of one tier two facility. We will look to see where we need facilities built. We also have at our disposal hospital tents that are available to us. 100 hospitalcting tents. That is a quick turnaround that we can identify an area that may need immediate assistance and we could have that operational fairly quick. Any fixed facilities will be working through the corps of engineers to determine what those needs are. We will be moving quickly to determine where those will be and get started on those. Questionat answer your . I dont know if Colonial Life is one of them. We will be conducting assessments throughout the state over the next few days to determine what our needs are based upon the plan. Reporter followup to the shuttered hospitals. Which hospitals are we talking about and will those be for the tier one selfcare . Facilities that were shut over the last couple of years. Two of those facilities will not be available to us. Other two will be looked at and no final decision has been made yet on whether we will use that. Two . Ter which the fairfield and marlborough that are still the table. Reporter who is going to staff these hospitals . Identified byg is the doctors. This will be done within the framework of the current hospital system. Any support needs that may be necessary to build up these external facilities, such as the National Guard, could help with that. We could contract some of those capabilities as needed. We will work within the framework of the existing Hospital Systems for the actual care itself. The other support systems that are necessary to run a facility may be brought on by the guard were contracts. Reporter 3500 is the worst Case Scenario . That is a mid range projection and we will continue to look at projections each and every day. Scalable and if you look at that number based on the current availability of hospital beds, we are confident we can meet that. We want that contingency available in case those numbers do exceed what we are currently planning. Reporter you mentioned 9000 that by may 5. Beds by may 5. Is that Linda Program will go into effect is that when the program will go into effect . That process has already started. All facilities have been actively working to enhance their capability. The Hospital Association and dr. Adams. Operationt an unusual hospitals do. In the past five years with hurricanes we have had, this type of plan has used before. We are just using some additional facilities to help expand on that footprint. For planning purposes, we like to have these tiered facilities within a reasonable geographic space of the primary hospital and for planning purposes, we use five miles of that. As the needs may exist may exist, we will address them. Reporter we need a lot more medical staff and yet we are being told hospitals are laying people off. How are we going to staff these facilities . I can speak behalf of usmc. This event is affecting Health Systems in two ways. We are being dealt significant financial challenges and having rge ofl with the large su patients. The adjustment we are going through will not affect frontline nurses and doctors. What we are doing to make that adjustment is particularly support staff that, at this point in time, we still dont need to be part of that surge. Those of the staff predominantly affected. This is not affecting frontline nurses, nursing techs, respiratory therapists, or anyone provides direct patient care. Reporter those Staff Members would not be laid off or furloughed . That is correct but those Staff Members have already been affected. They have been affected by this because of the great decrease in hospitalization, surgery, ambulatory visits. Typically flexed a volume. Arenumber of ships they shifts they are covering has decreased. It will go much higher in the next weeks. Reporter could they be hired back after a temporary layoff . We are not laying off. Not at usmc. We are not laying off frontline nurses, doctors, nursing techs, anyone that works on the front line taking care patients. Reporter can you give us examples of who is being laid off for folks who do not understand what is considered frontline . There are people in the background who work quality folks,egistries, billing things that are often in the background that, during Something Like this where we have to prioritize patient care in an environment where we must be fiscally responsible, we have to prioritize frontline workers. Any more questions . Reporter dr. Osmond, where does Prison Health stand on the backlog of testing . Our testing is very caught up as of today. We are working closely with our internal labs and private labs. We feel pretty confident today that we are caught up in the vast majority of testing. Any more questions . In the back. Reporter South Carolina got pretty much everything it asked for the stockpile. Is it good to have a friend in a high place . Other states did not get as much. Why do you think South Carolina got as much that it asked for . Out is by it is sent population and also includes need. Administration, the trump administration, is working overtime to get factories and producers to come online and switch from one thing to another. We have a lot of them right here in South Carolina that will be announced two people coming making masks, face shields, tests, all sorts of things. It is an acrosstheboard effort but we talk with federal officials every day. Someone in our group is on the phone every minute during the day talking to federal officials being sure they know what our needs are. A lot of the things we need we must get from the private market. Else, welike everyone dont just get it from the federal government. I assure you our team is working aroundtheclock to see that whatever we need, we get. Hecear or so ago the d lab run out of tests. Known andat need overnight we got the reagent we needed. Therehing available out whether it is personal protection equipment, medical supplies, on up limit benefits, loans for small businesses, proprietors loans, unemployment 1099 who areo are not part of the under plumbing scheme unemployment scheme are now. We are making sure they know what we need and we are working diligently with congressional delegation, senator graham, senator scott, to make sure anything that is available we will get. Reporter you made in order to close nonessential businesses say what . Reporter gun stores have stayed open. Why are they essential . It is a constitutional right. Reporter are we losing a lot of nurses to new york . I would tracking that . I willre not losing but let these gentlemen answer. We have seen some nurses and doctors go. I think they are wanting to go to a place where they are needed. We have seen some lowlevel but not large numbers at this point. Yourter dr. Osmond, can comment on what type of staffers prisma has furloughed . We are in the same position as usmc. None of our front line doctors, nurses, technicians are going to be providing care. This is a challenging time for health care but we are taking the same approach they are. [indiscernible] i dont think it is affecting readiness. Our front line committed to the job and not impacting readiness. Reporter you have any layoffs planned . That is out of my lane. Reporter wendell benefits from the care act when will benefits from the cares act be available . That is the 600 . You have the coronavirus assistance act and then you have 600 percts but the person for unemployment was not available until i think it started now because of requirements that had not been met in washington for the dispersion of those funds. That is being met now. That money will be added to everyones unemployment check who files for unemployment under the unemployment system. The 1200 per person is automatic from the Treasury Department but you have to be known as a taxpayer. Year, have not filed this what they will use is what was on the books last year. A deposit account, it will go directly into your bank account. If you do not, they will send you a check. All of those things are being handled. There were some restrictions and rules that had not been thought out and finalized in the. Overnment but they are now those checks should start flowing. We are working with the director of the department of commerce. We were preparing to see what we could do ourselves in order to try and help fill the gap but now, the money should be coming. Ample avenuess open. I urge everyone to go to those websites, the department of commerce, and look at those. There are loans coming through the private banks as well. Reporter are you still doing nonessential services . We have postponed anything that can be. We are only doing emergency surgeries and only surgeries we call urgent, less than a week. It is not an emergency but should get done in the next week. This is finding been going on three weeks we have a third category called urgent, less than a month. We are starting to get into that group. We are trying to push that off but unfortunately, this is going on long enough we are starting to see those. Anything over four weeks is elected and we are not doing. Reporter what can we expect in the coming weeks . I know the Surgeon General has put a grim outlook for the next 23 weeks for the nation. What can we look for in South Carolina . What are the projections . It is very difficult to answer specifically what to expect. Our projections had already be commented on and based on a variety of models. We are looking at everything from projecting out case reports based on who has been tested great we are based on we are looking at reports based on countries in a recovery phase. Suggests wear model see a peak index in may. Deaths in may. Hard to number is is define because it is based on a range. There is a worstCase Scenario and a best Case Scenario. Arrange approximately in the middle of that. Eporter what is this status of the database for Law Enforcement in terms we are working closely with our local partners, Law Enforcement, Emergency Management partners. We started during this last weekend a process through which we can enroll them electronically. Depending upon the type of system, there is not one 911 system around the state, there are different types of systems. Some will have access through a query. Ifethod, they are responding to an address, they can enter it and they can be told if it is a residence with a recent covid positive individual or there was not at that same address. There is also a model that we are pursuing. We have several counties we are trying to work to pilot this with the there is also a model where the responding unit could do the same thing and. Theye a clearly query counties with more 911 thatties with more would directly integrate with their system. That is several models working simultaneously. We will be piloting with several counties and as the week comes bea close, we should beginning to share with all counties that data electronically. Wayst urge in a very secure so that we are not just handing anybody a list. Basedl be through a query system. One more question, have you been tested for the virus . Gov. Mcmaster no, sir. I am following protocol. I want to thank all of you for coming. Today was focused mainly on our medical and health response. We appreciate your work and please tell the doctors and appreciatemuch we what they are doing. I want to remind you that Law Enforcement and First Responders are in a situation where they have to rush into dangerous dangers, not knowing what they are going to find. We are trying to solve that problem. Andthe ladies and gentlemen mommies and daddies and children, we are doing all we can. I want to remind people that it elderly that are more susceptible to this. Those with underlying conditions, the highest percentages of those up in the 90 range, those are the ones who are succumbing to this notice. I want to urge everyone to be careful. Your mama, your daddy, your older people. Be careful about them. The social isolation involved in this as it increases as we go along, the social isolation has an impact on people. That is why the Mental Health community is standing up. Every every resource in South Carolina is thinking about the health of the people in South Carolina. We thank all of you for being here today. Wereve to new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is giving his daily update on the fight against the pandemic in new york. This is live coverage in on cspan. Today, the as of total number of hospitalized is up from yesterday. When you look at the three day averaging of these numbers, the threeday average down which is good news. This is the threeday hospitalization rate. We tend not to look at any one day. If you look at the threeday average, it is moving down which is good