I know it looks a little bit different today. And that is because we are over at our Emergency ManagementOperations Center. This is the area where so much of the work that we do in response to battling covid19 and also the work we do responding to natural disasters and other challenges that we face. Some of it so much of it happens here. It gives us an opportunity to show you a little bit of the inside of our response. Inside of our response. And i want to start today by introducing the head of Emergency Management here in kentucky. Give him an opportunity to welcome you to the center. s name is Michael Dossett and he has been doing a great job. Michael . Michael thank you, governor. Welcome to the state eoc. We christened the building in 2013. We have about 25,000 square feet. We are currently at level three for this operation. We are under unified command. We have 100 personnel working. If you have an opportunity to see some of the floor, they are spread out over a number of building so we can social distance and do our work. We basically do management. For this event, we are in support of our department of Public Health, also corelated colocated with us, our chair one partners, the national guard. They have the joint Operations Center here. We work in concert with all cabinets. Every cabinet in State Government is representativ represented on the floor. We work shifts seven days a week. We assist in procurement for ppe, obviously that is a strong issue throughout the nation, certainly for our state. We also do resource management. We are in support of all 120 counties. Thank you, governor. Gov. Beshear michael has been an invaluable part of this team, as has all of his staff, in everything from securing ppe, to coordinating our kroger testing sites. We appreciate his work. And he is renowned across the inntry for his experience running an Emergency Management center and in responding. We are very grateful. We start every day by saying we will get through this, we are going to get through it together. Because every single day we remind ourselves of how we are going to get through it. And that is by following the 10 steps to defeating the coronavirus. We talk about it every day because it has got to become part of our muscle memory. Even when we are able to be healthy at work, we have to remember that we start being healthy at home. Healthy at home is still the key in social distancing and reducing your contacts to making sure defeat this virus. It is going to become even more important. As we have a gradual and slow phase reopening of our economy. When we do that, we increase the contacts that we have. We have to make sure when we are not at work or at the grocery store, we are not getting supplies that we need, we are otherwise at home. So healthy at work doesnt stop being healthy at home. Social distancing. We are in a different building today. Making sure that even while we are here, any meetings that we are doing, doing as much telework as possible, but still maintaining that social distance is critical. Avoiding crowds and gatherings. We are going to talk about when we can ease that a little. But a crowd is still going to be dangerous until we are further virus. N defeating this it is going to be something that again, we need to continue to avoid. Even as we are able to phase back to work, remember, you dont need to have an in person meeting because everybody has a telephone. Lets make sure we continue to think in this way. Knowing when to seek care. Kentuckians have done a great job at this. Lets just make sure that if you are sick for another reason and it serious, you do get some help. We have seen some, maybe for fear of covid19 or for the better reason of wanting to to make sure there is a bed available for that person who is suffering from the coronavirus that has not gone in when they are seriously a. We need to make sure that you do. Now that we are starting to open up health care, we know that we have the capacity to take what we are going to see, make sure you see your doctor if you need to. Covid19. Kw. Gov. It has been important for us to be healthy at home. It will also be the main source of information for being healthy at work. Services. Hands and if you have been in your house for a period of time and we will be able to transition to other areas, it will be really important. Washing your hands, cleaning surfaces there. Applying for benefits. Wehave gone from yesterday, have gotten our unemployment claims from march down to 37,000 from over 100,000. They are now down to 29,000 just in the course of today. Annow we have helped additional 8000. These are the ones left at that either have Identity Verification issues or some other real issues too. But this is where the focus is going to be this week. Also make sure you sign up for medicaid, really important for the providers that are helping you out, whether it is with the coronavirus or anything else. Prioritize your Mental Health. Do not travel. And report noncompliance. Stepsalways have the 10 plus one more that is absolutely critical. Fill out your census. This is going to be absolutely critical to our rebuilding. It is how many federal dollars come into kentucky. And the federal dollars are just based on our population, filling out a very basic survey. For every single one of you that fills out the survey, the state will get dollars we can use to help people out. Youve been so generous, you have sacrificed so much. It is that same generosity and sacrifice that i hope leads you to fill out the census. And we are so close to being in the top 10. I would like to make that happen. Once we are in the top 10, let same even a little bit higher. And then i want to mention something that i mentioned a book yesterday that i think some a fourth grade class had ascend in. I do want to thank during these times the thousands of letters that we have gotten from people across kentucky. Talking about their situation and encouraging us to make the right decisions and understanding that we are all in this together. And the sacrifices that we make help other people. So ive got a letter from harper. And harper wrote me a letter to me personally. I want to read the letter but then i want to talk about what she did. Harper says, thank you for all youve done for us. It must be hard with some people complaining. Harper. Art of the job, thank you for trying and working your hardest. Im happy with whatever you want all of us to do because im on your side. And i like that. But this is a copy of her allowance. She sent one dollar to the Team Kentucky fund to help other people. Think about that. That is truly special and seeing that type of response out of our kids absolutely shows me that we cannot only beat this virus, but we can come out better people, stronger people on the other side, which is going to help us with everything from the economy to how we treat one another. Learn ae are going to little new sign lay which. But first, something i missed yesterday. For the first time, i missed social media yesterday. And i didnt believe it when my staff told me afterwards. They checked the tape and they were right. Every day we try to show this because all of us trying to do the right thing, even when it is not mandatory, is how we make sure that we set the right example. We get other people to follow. And remember how successful we are in addressing this virus, how successful we are at being healthy at work, whether we can continue to do that, whether we have to pull back, it is all dependent on how many of us follow the guidance. When just a couple folks can mess things up for everybody else, we want to make sure we are recognizing those doing it right. So here are our hashtags. We are also going to start healt hyatwork. Especially as we move into those phases. Here is a little bit of what we have seen that should have been shown yesterday. The good work out there that people are doing. So ive mentioned all of leroux countys First Responders have a now, for i believe almost a month, been wearing their green Team Kentucky shirts. These are folks that are on our front lines doing work. And just seeing them every day taking so much pride, not just in what they do, but in what you do too. And being grateful but encouraging, of making sure you are healthy at home, and that we are resilient enough to continue to do what it takes to defeat this virus. Remember, their safety relies on it. All right. This is taylor, of course, working on nontraditional instruction. And keeping busy in different ways in her home. Some kids. Kids are going through a tough time too. We need to make sure we are there for them. But i know parents are also adjusting to a very new normal while our kids are not in school. We know, we now have a study out, but we know that the sacrifice we are making, what our kids are making and our parents are making, is working. Weve got to keep it up. In a phase reopening of health care and ultimately of the economy. Weve got to do this right. I believe we can do it right. Being flexible and always making sure that our decisions are having the right results. This is staff coming together, even though they are not physically together. To communicate with technology, it is very important. To feel a little bit of community. It helps with our Mental Health too. I believe this is wilshire pantry. Meals forre preparing First Responders. We have seen this all over kentucky. ,eople that have facilities doing what they would normally do, are going through a tough time. Light lighting their headquarters up green. Lost,ognize those weve to show compassion, and to remind in this instance the people of frankfurt that they are not alone. And then i love seeing this too. Now some can get a green light that is out there, but they still want to show their compassion so we have seen all types of different ways that people have been a part been apart, even though they dont have that regular opportunity. Lets keep doing it. Even when we are able to get closer to a new normal, we are still going to have those out there that need our help and need our compassion. All right. Bit,ve talked a little and this is going to lead into the sign language we want to learn today, and weve talked a little bit about our test of humanity not being over. We talked about the tests having three parts. First is sacrifice. And we learned that before. Andsecond is patience planning. That is really where we are right now. And the third is perseverance. Remember, it is everything we sacrificed, pausing the economy, doing what it takes. Right now, planning and patience, we are going to lay out a plan today. And perseverance, making sure we get it done. Making sure that until there is a vaccine, we do what it takes to get it done. So today, virginia is going to patience. Lanning and planning and patience. Ok. One last time. Planning and patience. Thank you. Start our lets update today with testing. Testing has gone well today in all four of our drivethrough locations we do with kroger. Those are the direct updates i get each day. They are not closed yet, but louisville had over 264 tested. Lexington, over 242. Bowling green, over 200. Notes borough, over 231. We have to make sure that in all these locations, that we get all of these tests filled. We are going tuesday through thursday in owensboro. Friday in bowling green. We are going through friday in louisville and in lexington. Our states our sites next week with kroger is we are doing a second week for louisville and lexington and bowling green. And our new site is in ashland. So ashland will start tuesday of next week. You can start signing up for these slots right now. Portals are open. We want to make sure that you have an opportunity to sign up. It is open to the entire public. Increasing our testing requires that not only we get people signed up, but you show up. And i want to thank all of our leaders in warren county. They have seen at least a portion that have signed up not showing up, and they are doing a lot to push out in their community. Wanted to take advantage of each and every test. And we appreciate that. Lexington is actually monitoring it during the day and able to push additional people there at the end of the day. That was their innovation and we appreciate that. Be our four will kroger sites next week. And remember, when you look at ashland especially, it is regional. If you are in any of the counties around it, if you are in close driving dishes its distance, sign up and get online. This is just part of all the testing that is going on all around the state. We have more testing locations before, and we believe we will have new testing locations coming online as soon early next week. Many of these now, we are working with local Health Departments or others, where we can provide the testing and they can provide the people. These are all drivethrough testing. Testing hashazards gone up. Their capacity has gone up. Weve had over i think they have had over 130 in the last two days. They can accommodate more. If you are in that area, make sure you sign up. Isray, the county hospital, doing tests and they and Christian County of course have been doing it for a while. They have additional capacity still. And we had it we added a couple yesterday. Oldham county and in maysville. Lets make sure that we get people signed up. So our big news today that we are going to talk about is healthy at work. And giving some more information out. Weve got to start healthy at work with talking about the 10 rules of being healthy at work. Those 10 rules, which you will see in just a second, are rules that apply to everybody. And they are different, and they are supposed to be different. They are not the normal rules that you would operate a business under because we are trying to operate it in the midst of a Worldwide Health pandemic. Remember, for any business in any phase, continue telework where possible. The telework has worked for somebody, and they still are productive, dont bring somebody in just for them. To be in. Phased return to work. Matee this in the plans of of major manufacturers like toyota and ford. And ought to apply to everybody else. Remember you are probably not going to see the same amount of customers. If you are a forward facing business, when you have an opportunity to open up. Lets make sure we are phasing appropriately which will better enable you to meet the cdc guidelines. Onsite temperature and health checks. I know this is going to be new, and to some, it may be difficult. But it is the way that we ensure that the workplace is safe and we ensure somebody who may be infectious at that time, and that we can type can detect, does not ultimately infect others at the work. Workforce. Ect your but also any customers or any then interact with you. Universal masks. This is employees. If you are working inside at a facility, doctors talked about this, this is how we do this. Its different, but this is how we do this and we reduce the spread, even though your contacts are going to go from 3, 4, too many more. Answered another industry and a other industries will require other ppe, depending how close they are to each other. We will be coming out without guidance. Close common areas. We cant do all the things to spread people out and then have a break room where everything ash everyone comes together. Enforcing social distancing. It seems that any Business Needs to have staff management Walking Around ensuring social distancing is being followed. It is not going to be an excuse and it cannot be an excuse to say, we told people what they should do but they didnt do it. Limit facetoface meetings. Sanitize or hand wash stations. Special accommodations. This one is important. This is about many different folks, it is about those who may not be able to find childcare, but it is also about folks that are the most vulnerable. Over 60 with heart, lung or kidney disease. We need everybody to be really thoughtful and make special accommodations for those that are most vulnerable. Bringing somebody back who could be very vulnerable when you have a phasedin plan. You need to make sure that you are taking care of those folks. And finally, you need a testing plan. We are working on having the connections where businesses know where they can send someone to immediately get tested. This is important because if we are going to be able to do this, even with an increased number of contact, we have to be able to test anybody who shows up and has a temperature, and then we have to be able to Contact Trace throughout that business. So this is the piece that is going to be really a partnership between local Health Departments and the state, and business to make sure we can do it and do it right. Today, we are going to lay out in very general in may phased approach about when some things can start , provided they can meet these top 10 rules, and industry specific requirements that we are going to work with those industries on and they are going to have in advance. Those conversations have been going on. And this is not onerous, it is required to deal with the coronavirus. Are industries and associations have been very positive about wanting to Work Together and about wanting it to be safe. So, lets start going through it. It starts on may 11. What we are going to do is every 10 days or so, we are going to be able to add some other areas. The first is manufacturing. Obviously we have had a lot of essential manufacturing that is out there. This will allow nonessential ifufacturing to come back they have the appropriate ppe, if they do the temperature checks, if they do it in a phased, gradual approach, and if they continue to allow telework for areas that can do it. The second piece is construction. A lot of construction has been a central too. But this will open up construction and also set some uniform rules throughout to make sure people are being protected. The next is vehicle or vessel dealerships. So auto and boat. We are working on the last pieces of that direct guidance. There has been a lot of good plans there and for example, in just how things will change, test drives, you will be by yourself. If you are going and trying to purchase a car. Limited numbers of people inside dealership. And the whole process from which you say i will buy it, and Everything Else that goes on from credit to all the rest, it is a process that will be very different, ver