Conference today because we have we have a lot of information to update the public with. So i want to first start with city test s. F. And we know that every single day there are people who are working, City Employees who are on the front lines. Our police officers, our firefighters, our muni drivers, our Health Care Workers. They are essential city workers who are showing up and who are interact aing with the public more so than most others and they have, we know, concerns about their own health. So they cant always n their capacity, practice social distancing. That ier are taking care of us so its important that we take care of them. And one of most basic things that we can do is to ensure that they have access to testing. Now last week, we announced a partnership that would allow our First Responders to get priority testing through a number of health care providers. And here in San Francisco, we know that it has been very frustrating because we have lacked the testing that we need in order to really put people at ease and ensure them that they are safe. This means that so many of our workers are have a lot of uncertainty. And uncertain that theyre exposed and that they have the virus and thats why its important that we do everything we can to ramp up locally, but to provide an option for them to be tested. Today we are proud to announce that we are opening city test s. F. , can which will serve as a drivethru testing site for our frontline city workers. It will be located at peers 30 and 32 and we will be able to ramp up to test hundreds of city workers each and every day and i really want to thank the color companies color and Carbon Health for partnering with us to undertake this incredibly important project. This has really been a team effort and i especially want to thank support of San Francisco, the director lane forbes as well as dr. Colfax in the department of Public Health for their work in making this happen. The initial focus will be on First Responders that i mentioned earlier and as we ramp up, we will begin to expand it for some of our shelter workers and nonprofit workers and those other essential workers that are also on the frontlines. Access to the expanded testing means that frontline staff who have become infected can be identified earlier and get the care that they need. It also means that frontline workers who are currently in quarantine, but not infected, can return to their families and keep doing the critical work that we need them to do. They are taking care of us, as i said. So, it is important that we do everything we can to take care of them. We also have been working to secure hotel rooms for our First Responders and today im proud to announce that, because a collaboration between our Emergency Operation center and hotel council, we secured our first Hotel Lease Agreement to provide rooms for our frontline workers with more rooms on the way. The First Hotel Property will provide 383 rooms for city Frontline Health care workers, people who work at General Hospital or people who work at laguna honda. We anticipate finalizing a second Hotel Location this week for an additional 500 rooms. This weekend, 30 Health Care Workers moved into the first hotels. These hotel rooms allow people to do the incredible work they are doing to save lives without having to worry about going home to infect their families or folks in their community. They provide the relief for frontline personnel who are working long hours and commuting far distances and we will continue to add more hotel rooms to our frontline workers as well as for our other priorities. Which include covid19 patients who need to be isolated but dont need to be in the hospital. And our vulnerable seniors and people with Underlying Health conditions in our shelters and on our streets. Today we announced that we had two positive covid19 cases at one of the shelters and Abigail Stewart kahn from the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing will discuss that in more detail. These hotel rooms are essential in our work to proactively move Vulnerable People out of our shelters as well as to quickly get impacted people into isolation when cases do occur. And we will continue to add more rooms as we continue to prepare our city for a potential surge at our hospitals. We also learned today that two individuals that tested positive for covid19 at m. S. C. South have been in contact with 19 residents who had so far moved into the new location at musconi west. All 19 individuals at musconi west are moved into quarantine, into hotels as a precautionary measure. And we also realize that we as things move quickly, there are although that we set up musconi west initially to assist in thinning out many of our shelters throughout San Francisco to practice social distancing and, to be clear, musconi west does meet c. D. C. Guidelines for providing shelter to those who do not carry the virus. We also realize that we need to think about making changes to avoid having an outbreak or situation in places like musconi west or any place elsewhere we know there are large populations of people, regardless of our c. D. C. Guidelines being implemented. Moving forward, as a result, we have made some changes to musconi west. The musconi west facility will now be used to house people who have been in quarantine and recovered from covid19 or people who had been quarantined and test negative for covid19. This will allow us to free up hotel rooms. We dont have when people no longer need them. Just as the hotel rooms provide an exit for people from hospitals and shelters when someone needs to be quarantined, musconi west can free up a space in the hotel when they no longer need to be isolated and were also going to be making some changes at musconi west, including decreasing the capacity so we can allow people to spread out even more, adding partitions and a lot more. We already have 24hour bathroom attendants, we have shower facilities and outlooer locations in places for people to go outside and smoke cigarettes. Because we have people who live in our shelters who smoke cigarettes. We are thinking about food and where they eat and how we dont keep those places clean. A number of adjustments will be made and trent will talk a little bit more about that. In addition to more hotel rooms to create space in our system, we need more hospital beds. In places like new york and italy, we have seen what happens when we dont have enough of the facilities and equipment we need to handle the surge as we talked about. We have seen overcrowded hospitals and doctors making choices about who to treat. We never want to get there in San Francisco and we have to do everything we can to protect Public Health, but to make sure that when people need a doctor, when they need a hospital bed, that we dont turn them away. Today governor da Gavin Newsome will be leading an effort to open up 290 beds at the cpmc pacific campus on california street. We have been in close contact with the governors office, with sutter and cpmc over this issue over the past couple of weeks and were deeply appreciative of this effort to expand our Hospital Capacity and we look forward to working with the governor and cpmc and sutter to make sure that we have the capacity, that we are fully staffed with the equipment and the resources that we need to make sure that this hospital is able to support the people that we know need it the most. All along that we have said that no local jurisdiction can do this alone. We need support from the state and the federal government and im truly great to feel the governor for his leadership in getting this site up and running. And well continue to need the states support as we work together. As i said, to plan for staffing of the facility. Again i want to thank sutter and cpmc for their work in helping us expand our capacity. The site will need minor improvements before its operational. But we anticipate opening it within the next 10 days. Along with the 48 covid19 beds that opened at st. Francis hospital today, we are continuing to do the work to prepare our medical system for the surge we all know is coming. Our entire medical system is united and focused on doing what it takes to get through what is an incredibly challenging time. And we are truly showing that when we come together, we can really deliver for the people of the city. I also want to provide an update with muni and we have the director, jeff tumblin of sfmta to provide more details. We know that there are going to be some changes with muni and the bus service in the coming days and that is why it is critical we get this city test s. F. Site up and running. Once the site is fully implemented, well be able to provide tests for muni drivers so if they have questions about any illness they feel is covid19, they can get tested. If theyre not, they can help keep our critical Public Transportation system running. But right now one of the main reasons why we have had to reduce our service, has a lot to do with a lot of uncertainty around testing and around keeping our muni drivers safe and this is why its so critical and so important. These drivers work really hard for us. They are people out there every single day. They are essential workers to our workforce. And people who do not need to use muni, please dont. I know that director tumblin mentioned this before. This is the last thing we want to say. But we want to make sure that people who need muni the most, that they get it. Buses have been crowded when they shouldnt be and what that means they have to make some major changes to ensure public safety. If you see that a bus is crowded and you cant necessarily practice certainly distancing, do not get on the bus. If it gets too crowded, exit the bus. The fact is, we dont want to reduce service any further than we need to. We dont want a muni driver to stop moving its bus because it is too crowded to move because the people on the bus are not practicing social distancing. So we need to take steps to keep our drivers safe and keep the bhaoem rely on muni safe as well. I want to say a special thank you to all the drivers out there. More than ever, you are so essential to us and well do everything we can to keep you safe. And so busy times in our city. A lot of real challenges. And, again, this weekend i want to thank people here in San Francisco for continuing to practice social distancing, for just really taking the order seriously. Although we know we continue to face a number of challenges in particular areas throughout the city. We have been very active out there with our police department, with our Homeless Outreach team and others to try to continue to educate people but also hold them accountable because were all connected. We all need to make better decisions about how we continue to implement social distancing as time goes on. Its going to be harder and harder for us to stay at home and continue this practice, but were counting on all of you to participate and maintain social distancing and everyone here in the city to look out for one another as we continue to get through this very challenging time. So at this time, id like to ask the director of the department of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax, to come up and provide us with a update from Public Health. Dr. Colfax. Thank you, mayor. I am grant colfax, director of health. Today, i want to thank everyone in San Francisco and in the bay area region for their cooperation and everything they are doing to help fight the spread of the coronavirus. You are leading the way. When you stay home, when you keep six feet apart from people, when you wash your hands and when you cover your nose and your mouth with cloth, you are literally saving lives. I would like to update san franciscans today on a few developments in our ongoing work to respond to the coronavirus and protect our community. Today, there are 583 San Francisco residents with confirmed cases of coronavirus. 38 of them are 83 of them are in the hospitals across the city and nearly half of those 83 are in the intensive care units. We know that three of them are among people experiencing homelessness, including two at the m. S. C. South shelter and one who spent time at the Division CircleNavigation Center. This underscores the need for us to continue to focus on the most vulnerable populations. Including those in longterm care facilities, shelters, people over 60 and those with Underlying Health conditions. Sadly, nine san franciscans have died from the disease. Covid19. I would like to send condolences on behalf of the entire Health Department to their families, loved ones and friends. And as we continue to fight the coronavirus pandemic, i would like to remind you that our top priority is to continue to be slowing and reducing the spread of the virus in our community, protecting vulnerable populations, Health Care Workers and First Responders, preparing our Health Care System for an expected surge of hospital patients and expanding testing capacity. In all this work, we will continually seek to do better as we incorporate the latest science, data and facts into our action as and recommendations. We have all known from the start that this is a rapidly evolving situation and that will continue to be true. We will adapt our response accordingly. We are working quickly to integrate new information all the time and adjust our recommendations so that were providing the very best and most uptodate advice that we can give. As san franciscans know, we are working to prepare our hospitals and Health Care System for an expected surge of covid19 patients. We have seen this happen across the world and this country and we need to be as ready as we possibly can. We are making progress in surge preparation and i would like to share a few highlights today. As san franciscans know, our Surge Capacity to increase. And today we have reached a significant milestone. We have successfully expanded our bed Inventory System and exceeded the states ask that all jurisdictions expand their capacity by at least 40 . By working together since january, San Francisco hospitals have managed to increase the citys intensive care unit beds from 277 to 530. A 91 increase. A 91 increase. And our regular acute care beds, socalled medical surgery beds, have increased from 1055 to just over 1600. A 52 increase. We accomplished this by opening previously closed units and by repurposing areas normally used for other functions, such as outpatient surgery. These extra beds will make a big difference. However, there are still plausible scenarios that a large surge could overwhelm even those additional resources. And yet we have made progress by decompressing hospitals so they can be as empty as possible and ready for the surge and we have canceled, by health order, elective surgeries and routine procedures. I am happy to report that today, st. Francis memorial hospital, plans to open its newlydedicated unit for coronavirus patients. This unit will have a capacity eventually of 48 additional beds, including eight intensive care unit beds. Additionally, with partners across the city, we have moved 150 patients who have confirmed coronavirus or who are awaiting test results but who do not need hospital care into hotels where they can safely isolate. We have also sped up testing so that patients have a shorter wait time for their results. There are several other surge plans in progress, including expanding clinics throughout the city that we will be able to provide more information about soon. In addition, as the mayor mentioned and the governor announced today, the state has reached an agreement with cpmc to make its vacant pacific campus hospital available for our coronavirus surge work. These additional beds are not included in the totals i just covered. Every day that we can prepare is a good day. It is so important that people continue to stay at home and to practice physical distancing, hand washing and face covering. That is how we will slow down the virus as much as possible and ensure as much as possible that we have the beds we need in our Hospital System to care for those most in need. Now i would like to talk briefly about data. As i have said many times, San Franciscos response to the coronavirus emergency is grounded and will continue to be grounded in data, science and facts. We are able to use what we know from other parts of world and the country to guide our decisions and inform our interventions. Data is, and will always be, an important tool to help san franciscans see the whole picture of the coronavirus pandemic in our community. This knowledge can help us all do our part and see over time how the situation is changing. So today i am pleased to announce that we will be sharing more data about San Franciscos coronavirus pandemic. Our data analysts have been working hard to collect information from across the city, to create accurate, reliable and timely reports to help guide our decisions and inform you, the public. D. P. H. Has been working and will continue to work with the Controllers Of