Our online data sunny skies sf. Org covid19 for full details. I want to just kind of update all of you on a few things and get to dr. Colfax and some important things that definitely need to be discussed. First of all, this past monday dr. Colfax and i had a monday was yesterday, right . It feels like monday every day, but yesterday dr. Colfax and i, along with dr. Susan phillips, had this great conversation about what it would take to reopen, and we talked about the indicators and the hospitalizations and a number of other things and the various phases. It was a very good conversation, and i think it is needed. What we found from that conversation are, of course, a number of questions, and many questions centered around when will we will able to get child care open, summer camps, schools and other things centered around children because i know many parents are anxious to not just get a break from their children but to get back to work and to get their kids involved in activities, and i know kids are anxious to play with their friends, and so this friday at 11 30 i, along with bill ginsburg who is the director of park and rec and others will have a conversation around some of the options that we have available and what you can expect for the future. It will center around opportunities mostly for the summer and transitioning kids into, you know, a place where we can allow in some cases some summer activities, and we will be able to speak to more details about that on friday and hopefully get to some of the questions that so many of the parents have. So we appreciate you all tuning in. We decided to cut back on some of the press conferences and really focus on the conversations with a lot of the leaders who are leading around Public Health, who are leading around support for children, youth and families, folks who are helping us to make the decisions about economic recovery as we move in our new normal of covid19 this provides us with an Incredible Opportunity to really get to the heart of, you know, what is of most concern to the people of San Francisco and answer your questions so that you are able to make plans or arrangements as information is provided to you. So we know that its been probably very challenging that we have not been able to provide you with specific dates or times around the things that you want to know the most, and as we have said before, this is a fluid situation and things can change at a moments notice, but because most san franciscans have complied with the orders, people have been wearing their masks, socially distancing themselves, and again i say most people. I didnt say all people, but most people have complied, and because many people are taking this directive seriously, we have seen a decline in the curve, and that is something to be proud of, but our goal is to get rid of it entirely, and thats going to take continued work. Yesterday was the first day that shops were able to open for Curbside Pickup, and some offering delivery. I stopped by green apple, a bookstore, in the inner sunset, and they have another location further out. I was so happy to buy a book. I just didnt know what to do with myself. It felt good to go out to the community and to support this incredible institution. This past friday i picked up dinner at the golden mira. I stopped by, you know, the garden center, and it just you know, to be able to support these businesses was really incredible, and i think that its important i know that we are all sheltering in place, going out to run errands and do essential things, but heres an Incredible Opportunity. We want to support our businesses, and this is a way that we can do that. So rather than making that next purchase on amazon, maybe consider finding a place in your community and trying to shop at the local stores that may have availability for pickup and delivery. I am really i needed a cord, and so i made sure that i checked in with the local Hardware Store. They didnt have the cord at the Hardware Store that i called, but i found it at another place. So i like the idea of making sure that we are purchasing things from businesses in our city that are able to offer their services, but i think its going to take a lot more effort so we can make sure that after we get through this hump those businesses are able to open they are not able to bring back their entire workforce. They still have to pay their rent and bills. Its been a really challenging time, even though they are raising private money and were putting public money together and were trying to support our Small Business community, and there have been a number of other initiatives, its not always reaching the people who need it the most because we still have our hair salons, our nail salons, our barber shops, our masseuse, people who do services that require direct contact with people, they are still not open, still not in business, and this is a really challenging time for so many people. So whatever we can do to support our local economy, our local businesses, i really want to strongly encourage you to think about supporting the businesses in your neighborhood and just maybe seeing whats available, going online and doing some research to see whats available to support Small Businesses in San Francisco. Another way that we are able to help some Small Businesses in San Francisco and help our seniors is through this great plates food program. And im really excited about this because we know that, first of all, when we first issued a before we issued a shelterinplace for everyone, we specifically asked that vulnerable population, our seniors and those who have Underlying Health conditions, to stay home. And what we found, of course, you know, there are some seniors, for example, who qualify for calfresh, some concerns who qualify for meals and wheels and are lucky to have those opportunities, but there are a number of seniors who are just above that threshold. They may even own a home but are on a fixed income and can barely take care of themselves and take care of their home. And i do think its important, regardless of whether or not you have the means to make sure that all of our seniors are taken care of. And so this program is a program that partners seniors with local restaurants, and what were able to do is provide three meals a day from local restaurants. So it not only helps support our seniors, it helps support our restaurants. And it provides a nocontact delivery. It makes it so easy for them, and i am so excited that along with all the other programs that are available, including the food bank, the San Francisco food bank, meals on wheels and a number of other initiatives and people who are doing it on their own, the fact that we have even another program that will provide food to our seniors and also support our restaurants is really great and i want to thank governor gavin newsom for his support for this program. I want to talk a little bit about testing because i know that comes up. The great news is weve come a long way. The fact is, if you are a san franciscan and you exhibit one symptom, you could have a cough, you could have a temperature, call 311 or go online to sfgov. Org and sign up and youll get sent to a Testing Center to be tested, any san franciscan. But we also will test any essential worker, whether you are a San Francisco resident or not. If youre an essential worker in San Francisco and you dont exhibit any symptoms because youre on the front line, whether youre selling groceries or driving muni or out there as a paramedic, those are the people who are in contact with folks on a daily basis, putting their lives on the line to provide us an essential service, so we wanted to make sure that you know that testing is available for you. Weve expanded the number of sites, and in addition to a site in selma area, in the Western Addition and bayview and a few other sites scattered throughout San Francisco, we wanted to make it a lot easier for communities where we know testing is needed. We specifically announced a few mobile sites, including the mobile site in the tenderloin, a site in ocean avenue and the omi, the lakeview area, and another site in the bayview Hunters Point community, and the site in the bayview Hunters Point community, the testing will be over the course of a few days, specifically in hunters view. But anyone from the bayview is definitely welcome to receive a test. We did this in collaboration with a number of communitybased organizations, similar to what was done in the mission, because we know that there are high rates of covid19 in the bayview Hunters Point community, and we know that people need access to testing, and we also understand that sometimes they may not call or they may not go online to figure out whether or not they should be tested. And we also want to make sure we detach the stigma associated with getting tested, and so on friday, myself as well as supervisor walton, we will be going to the bayview Hunters Point. We will be tested, and the goal is to show people how easy it is and to make sure that folks feel comfortable and they feel safe, that they can be tested whether they have insurance or not, whether they are documented or not. The more that people know they have access to testing and they feel comfortable when they exhibit a symptom or if they think theyve been exposed, the better well be. And so our goal is to get to a certain level of testing in the city because its gonna be critical to our ability to reopen. And thats why we want to make sure we set up these mobile locations. We hit all of the neighborhoods and we make it easy for people to get tested, and this is another opportunity to do that. So with that, i just want to, again, thank all of you for your patience and your cooperation. We have come a long way, and i just want to appreciate how far weve come. There was a time where access to testing was very, very limited, and now were at a place where we have expanded testing, and this is absolutely critical to reopening. There was a time when we were having discussions about requiring everyone to stay home, and now the pickup and deliveries and other things are available. Were going to have a conversation, as i said, this friday about the options available for families because i know that there are so many parents who are anxious to figure out what is gonna happen for their kid this summer. We want to make sure that kids have, you know, a great experience. It has been challenging and will continue to be, but its important that we make sure that there are options available, and so our goal is to have an indepth conversation on friday at 11 30, so i hope you will tune in, and with that, i know dr. Colfax has an update of where we are as it relates to Public Health overall, as well as some information, the latest on laguna honda hospital, and so, again, thank you so much for your cooperation, and with that id like to introduce dr. Grant colfax with the department of Public Health. Dr. Grant colfax good afternoon, everybody. I want to thank mayor breed for her leadership, and mayor was just a great experience to have that conversation with you yesterday on zoom, of course, about where we are headed and the phases of the potential phases of reopening and the key indicators we are going to be looking at Going Forward. So id really encourage people to watch that. It is available. It was recorded. Ill allude to a few of those points today, but if you really want more detail, please go to that conversation. And certainly well be sharing more information in the future as we move forward together. So as of today, as the mayor mentioned, there are 2179 San Francisco residents who have been confirmed with covid19. Sadly, 36 san franciscans have died from the disease, and again, my condolences to their family, friends and community. And as we move into a new phase of our response and recovery, i would like to thank you all for doing your part. Everything that you have done has truly saved lives and slowed the spread of the coronavirus in our community. You have protected each other. You have protected your families, and you have protected your community. And most importantly, you have protected the populations that are most vulnerable to this virus, the populations over 60, people with comorbid conditions who we know, both on our local data and from our national data, are unfortunately most likely to die from this disease. Today there are 62 patients with covid19 hospitalized in San Francisco across our nine Health Care Hospital entities, and while this is an increase since yesterday, the curve has been remarkably flat for many weeks now and steadily declining since may 5. Although, of course, and youve heard me say this many times, but its i will continue to say it, this could change at any time, but we must acknowledge that big accomplishment that, again, all of us have made major contributions to. You have all been a part of this, and for this i thank you. And lets continue to flatten and push that curve down together. We are certainly making this measurable progress in our fight against coronavirus, and because of that, we are starting here locally under the mayors leadership and across the region with regard to the gradual process of reopening. Yesterday we issued new Health Orders that allow Curbside Pickup for most retailers in the city, and we are taking steps in this regard with caution as our focus on Community Health remains a top priority. We will need to watch, continue to watch for the effects of increased movements that this opening will bring. We know that before the shelterinplace went into place, order went into place, the more we moved, the more the virus moved. And we are certainly hoping, based on the data, the science and the facts, that as we continue to take the precautions necessary, the masking, the social distancing, the intense hygiene that i think weve all adapted to over these last few months, i dont know about you, but my hands are a little red from the washing, and ive used a lot of hand gel recently, but as we adapt, we are hoping that as we move more we will not see increased movement and transmission of the virus. And remember the virus has no timeline, and our new stayathome order reflects that reality. We are in the second inning of a long game, and most scientists expect that this long game is going to be with us for 18 to 24 months. So the new updated health order will allow for future expansion and the reopening of additional businesses provided, again, we continue to flatten and even see a decrease in that curve. And again, the Health Indicators need to continue to look good. This new order doesnt have an Expiration Date so we can act with maximum flexibility and not be penned in, literally, by artificial deadlines. And i have hopes, and i think we should all have hope and good reason to believe, as i said, that if people continue to take precautions we will continue to make progress. But at the same time, if needed, we will dial back. If that curve starts to go up, if we start to see indications that the virus is spreading in the community at an alarming rate, if our intensive care unit numbers start to go up, the hospitalization numbers over all start to go up, we will need to take a step back and decrease our activity in our community. I hope that doesnt happen, and again, the more vigilant we are in our preventive activities, the more likely it is that we will be able to make incremental but sustainable progress Going Forward. It will take resilience. It will require that we stay nimble, and it will require that we continue to monitor the evolving health situation, you know what i say here, using data, science and facts. So in terms of our reopening phases, and i think we have a slide up to show this, this is the focus of our steps will be aligning generally with the states plan that you see on this slide. We are currently in stage 2 a , which is really, again, focusing on that allowing Curbside Pickup and then having the manufacturing and supply chains to support that Curbside Pickup in place. So again, this is just the beginning, and over the next period of two to four weeks, we will continue to watch the data to see if we can enter into that next phase, the 2 b phase. Again, if things go well, we would then be, over time, moving into stages 3 and ultimately into stage 4. But this is, again, an iterative process. Its going to take nimblism, and its going to take a lot of vigilance on all of our parts. We are working locally with the Economic Recovery Task force, the office of economic and Workforce Development, and the community the Business Community and other stakeholders to design smart ways, to design smart ways, ways that are informed, again, by the science, to help businesses come back while protecting Public Health. These things can go and will go hand in hand. I look forward, we look forward to bringing the next steps together and will continue to provide updates in this regard. And again, we will continue to study these indicators over a two to fourweek cycle, which will give us sufficient information to determine whether we can gradually open up into these next stages. So one of the key things we will be doing in this, the vital statistics, as it were, for this staging, is looking at the five indicators that i have mentioned before, but we have another visual for you to see here. As we move towards this reopening, the five indica