And rightfully so. It was an opportunity to reflect on some achievements that we have achieved in florida, recently, particularly with our teacher pay increase, and expanding scholarships for low income kids. So we are proud of the work that has been done. We want that to make a difference in the future. We know parents had a lot of have a lot of angst about the situation generally. And of course, what will happen with the school year. I know we have 67 Different School boards, School Districts looking at their particular circumstances. For me, i think one of the Core Principles is that parents have to have the ability to opt for the type of learning that they think is important. If they are more comfortable in a Distance Learning environment, they need to have that choice. I know a lot of different issues related to how schools will operate. We see the epidemic have a different shape have a different shade in different counties. Ultimately, the parent is in the best position to make decisions for their children. And so, i reiterated that to the board of education and instructed the commissioner on that. I think it is very important. I was in Miamidade County yesterday meeting with a lot of local officials, the county mayor, the municipal mayors. Miamidade is facing a tough challenge in terms of some of the rates at which people have been testing positive. Some of the Emergency Department visits, some of the hospital admissions. But i think working together, collaborating with the state and working with our federal partners, we will be able to meet the challenge. My view is that we will work together. The state will continue to support the county as best we can. We have already sent Additional Health care personnel down to Miamidade County. A lot of those hospital systems, they have the capacity to do a lot more in terms of having bed space. A lot of it is personnel. People need to have more personnel. We have already done 150 to 100 systems. I think its really important. We also at the state level over the last week or so have set up several retail based testing sites, a little bit different than drivethru. You can go in and get swabbed really quickly. I think miamidade, we calculated it yesterday when i was with the county mayor, and i think 16 to 17 of the county population has taken a test. During the course of the pandemic. We want to continue to do that. We are, as a state, testing at an incredibly high clip. Roughly 90,000 tests a day. For the past week. One time we had 143,000 test results. That is important. I think a lot of states have more severe outbreaks. They were doing a fraction of that. They are doing 10,000 to 20,000 tests a day. We are capturing more of the infections out there and providing folks the opportunity to get tested, including these people that are not symptomatic. One thing that i think is clear is we need to get the testing results back in a timely fashion. The state at the drivethru sites have set up these commercial labs. When we went into the expansion of testing, our request was a 48hour turnaround from the time the swab was received and the test was run and reported back to the person. Whether they were positive or negative. There are some that have done well, but many have not. The department of Emergency Management will shift business labs that failed to produce results in a timely fashion. If you have someone go through the site and they get a result back 10 days later, that is not really going to be very helpful. And so the state, when we are sending these away, those that can produce will get more of the business. We will also be debuting on friday, symptomatic lanes. There will be test sites at the war memorial in broward county. The Orange County convention center. The Regency Square mall in jacksonville, those will be lanes where they are symptomatic. You will be able to do a self swab and send it to a lab that will turn it around in a more timely fashion. We hope within 72 hours instead of seven days, it will help people with their peace of mind. It is also more effective in terms of, if you have to isolate someone, it makes sense to isolate them. We are very cognizant of some of the delays we have seen and we are doing our best. We continue to make progress on testing, the routine testing that houses our most vulnerable residents. We have now done this is our first round after we have done that. We now have 122,000 test results back from staff. 2. 79 positivity rate. Which is actually much better than what we are doing in other parts of the state. We are actually happy with that. We are doing this because so many people get infected but dont develop symptoms. Anytime someone goes to work in a longterm care facilities, they are screened pursuant to state regulations. Have you been in contact with anyone that has been infected . Do you have a fever . They take a fever. Take the temperature. If you are asymptomatic and you havent had obvious contacts, you will pass the screening and go in. But you could potentially spread that. We recently identified an outbreak in northcentral florida. 50 staff members, i think all of them asymptomatic, tested positive. We dispatched on a three staff members. Of healthpartment was on scene to pick up the slack. This is kind of the exception. Where you have that type of spread amongst the staff. We are finding examples of one or two, sometimes three or four. If you are testing every two weeks like we are, you will be able to identify more and more before it spreads widely inside the longterm care center. And that really is the name of the game. And it will absolutely save lives if you can prevent outbreaks there. We appreciate that arrangement that allows us to do that type of testing. We are also continuing with the antibody testing. We opened it up recently. We have been doing First Responders and Health Care Workers. We are saying anyone from the general public wants to do it, what we have seen a pretty significant increase for the people testing positive for antibodies hovering around 10 over the past week, which is more than what we have seen. You figure these antibody results are reflecting infections for four to six weeks. 46 weeks prior, typically. It is actually a good time to see more antibodies, because it creates resistance in terms of the ability for the disease to spread. We are also working hard to support our Health Care Workers and hospitals that are caring for folks who are ill. The capacity in terms of beds is strong. It really is the personnel that will be key. I mention some of the people that were deployed to miamidade. We will be deploying the capacity to up that to 3000. I had a discussion with the v. A. Secretary. They have resources and they are offering Different Things. The personnel is there to help supplement. It has been a long road for folks in the medical profession. This became something very earnest in march and april. It was a little quieter in may for the general public and the beginning of june. You had longterm care facilities transfers and the pace is picking up even more. It is really important we do everything we can to support them. We also have a request that we think will be fulfilled. For additional staffing. We welcome that support. We also offer 15 covid only Nursing Homes with 1000 beds available. We have nine sites that will be with beds very soon. That will be on the way very soon with 600 heads. With 600 beds. You cant discharge the resident of a longterm care facility that is covid positive and contagious back to the nursing home, because the fear is that it will infect other vulnerable people. What happens is, you end up having folks that are infected. They really dont need continued hospital care. They are medically stable. These facilities can serve as a step down. The hospital can safely discharge a patient to a covid only nursing home. Once they clear the disease, they can go back to their original nursing home. They can also use it on the front end that if someone tests positive, they can be transferred to one of the covid only facilities. If they dont need hospital care, this is a place where they could do it. This will be 1600 beds in various parts of the state. We have a lot of them in southern florida. I think that will be really important. You do have a number of these folks that really arent seeking or needing continuing medical care. They will not be discharged back to the care facility. The facilities have been accepting a lot of transfers. I think it is an important tool when it comes to protecting the most vulnerable among us. Our Guiding Principles are, number one, protect the vulnerable. We all have a responsibility to look after folks, especially 65 and up that we know now are more susceptible to the negative effects of this virus then folks in other age brackets. Than folks in other age brackets. If you are in one of those age brackets, 65 and up or you have significant underlying medical conditions, you really should be limiting your contact outside the home, sheltering as much as you can, and avoiding close contact with people who are not part of your household. This virus is circulating among the community in many parts of our state. Particularly, amongst folks in the younger age groups. A lot of 2030yearolds. In places like miamidade, a lot of young people have gotten it. But it has spread to some of the older population. And i think part of that is family gatherings, friends, things like that in multigenerational households. Folks should be very cognizant if you are in those groups to take the necessary precautions. If you are not in those groups, you have a responsibility to look out for folks that might be more vulnerable than you. We are also recommending that folks avoid the three cs. Closed spaces with poor ventilation, crowded places, and close contact settings. Particularly, close contact for an extended period of time. That is why the number one source of outbreak has been the home, because you are under the same roof in an enclosed setting. Usually in close contact with family members for an extended time. Facial coverings are recommended. Especially if you can physically distance. You have some folks working in certain types of industries where they cant always maintain the six foot difference. Six foot distance. It will potentially reduce some of the transmission. Those basic things will really help us turn the corner. There are positive signs in terms of learning about the number of cases. We are seeing positive trends in parts of the state. It has declined in key areas. We got a lot more work to do. I have no doubt we will be able to do it. It is going to be done by having a steady resolve, not being fearful. Just understanding what we have to do, what is out there, and understanding we will be able to get the job done together. We are also going to be working hard to get the supplies, get talking with folks throughout the state about some of the way forward in terms of the businesses, schools, and the important things that are key to daily lives. Thanks, everyone, for doing their part. And with that, i will take questions. What results are they supposed to submit, both positive and negative there are five or six things at the department of health. [indiscernible] from press releases being recalled. Do you still have confidence in dr. Ripken . Gov. Desantis of course. The law requires a reportable that for a reportable illness, that if someone tests positive, that is reported. That is the underlying law. We said to report the negatives as an executive order. That is how we see the percent positive. There were a number of laboratories doing what the default is, sending the positives only without sending the negatives. They werent trying to be underhanded. That is what they were doing before this started. I think it was more of an issue with the labs. Earlier, hospitals had been reporting positive and negative cases. They have seen discrepancies on the spreadsheet. When we come up positive cases are missing, the other week, negative cases are missing. Memorial. Discernible] they are going with a different names it was listed under eight different names. Gov. Desantis i think they had pretty much only positives and then kind of a bigger entry. Understand this is labs using the merlin system to put it in. Somebody input it that way. We are doing 90,000 tests a day. It is a huge amount of volume. We understand some of the labs, it doesnt always get reported. And that is also why you look at some of the test results. Because sometimes it takes a long time to report them. And in some ways, they are a lagging indicator. If i get results today, and i see a case, that is somebody that very well may have been infected. That is something to keep in mind. We understand that. It is just kind of the nature of when you have all the data coming in from all these different places, you have to do the best that you can. I think the percent positivity is a pretty good indicator. But you do have to weigh that against maybe not all the negatives are there. I know the labs were submitting the positives quickly and then they would dump the negatives. If you look at the testing, the ramp up into may, there was a week where there were way more test. Then we went down and built back up. And it wasnt because we did more test that week, its more tests that week, its because they had been having negatives. I think that day they dumped a bunch, we had a. 6 positivity. It really wasnt the true number because of how the data was put in. And its not his fault for the data entry stuff. We were told about 4500 in the state, democrats had a meeting today and want to know how many more people have to die before you consider scaling back on the reopening plans . We are working hard every day to prevent not only the deaths, but significant hospitalizations. If you look at all the efforts we have done to protect the most vulnerable and compare that with some of the other states, who didnt put as much emphasis on that. Some of them say that we have been able to save probably thousands of lives when you look at the efforts to protect the residents of longterm care facilities. It is something that we take very seriously. We are doing all we can. Because every life counts, and it doesnt matter if you are 10 years old, 30 years old, or 90 years old. We want to be there and do the best we can to help folks, particularly those that are the most vulnerable to a nasty virus. On the backtoschool issue, you expect the department of education will arrive . To local counties . And protocols in terms of what happens if a child tests positive, who gets isolated. The testing of children. Is that all going to be part of this . I think the department is working with the state department of health and each district working with the department of health on those protocols. As we get through this period, in terms of the testing, we will have to make some decisions generally about because when you test healthy people, you go get tested, and you are negative, but then the lab gives you a result seven days later and you may have been infected in those seven days. A negative can be a false sense of security. Clearly, if anybody develops symptoms, we want to have the ability to do a test. It is very useful. Test on sure saying the first day of school, you are good. It is not an antibody test. This is a snapshot in time. I believe the younger kids in particular seem to be more resistant to this. The fact is, you will probably see different transmission as this stuff goes. The health has to be paramount. I dont think it will be uniform throughout the state. I think you will see different localities approach it in different ways. [indiscernible] gov. Desantis i think that is a very good question. Typically, i dont know that we would be able to just force you to take a test. That is why i think if you are symptomatic and you are sick, that is probably a different question. When we do the longterm care testing, we do not require we offer it to residents, but you have some that just dont want to be tested. We do not force them to be tested. We do make the staff do it, but they are regulated as part of working in these facilities. It is a little bit different. I think there are significant issues with that. Clearly, if you are doing it with folks that are symptomatic, it is something that will probably be easily defensible. [indiscernible] do you think need to be made . Gov. Desantis look, i think you are seeing that. Remember that when we were going through this in march and april, a lot of folks were focused on what is being restricted, shut down, or all that . When you look at it, most of the behavior was changing before a lot of that was happening. We have seen the cases have risen as it becomes more of a center stage issue again. We are seeing changes in mobility data. We are seeing folks making the extra effort. We are seeing people doing the social distancing. And i think ultimately, that is what will do it for us. I was in miamidade with mayor jimenez and a lot of local leaders. They have done they were one of the first counties in the country to close. I think they were closed for two months. They had a very measured dip their toe and the water into phase one. They had things like facial coverings. They had Different Things going on. They have pretty much done all the things that people have recommended at different times. And i think it is really going to be turning the corner with focusing on these key behaviors. That was kind of the message. We are working every day. If you look at what were doing with the testing of the longterm care facility, we didnt have the capacity in march to test every worker. As we got into may, we were expanding it. We knew that we had the opportunity to really make an impact on that. We are working very hard to be able to support the Health Care System with this personnel. That is the number one. It is very important. Every person i talk to that run the hospital, it is all about runs a hospital, it is all about the personnel. The great story is just how good is some of the physicians have done compared to what the results were in march. I think they learned a lot. I think that they are using appropriate treatments that have now been developed and tried over the months. I think the results are better. Obviously, we wish that this would just go away. We hope people can fight it off and do not need medical attention, much less hospitalization. If they do, they are in pretty good hands. I think you are in much better shape today going into a hospital in the state of florida than you would have been in march pretty much anywhere in the country. I think they