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Pressure wont drive our decision making. The science, the data, Public Health will drive our decision making. We set forth a week ago a deep dive on one familiar indicater around testing and tracing, track, issues of isolation and quarantine. Today i want to update you on another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. Another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. First i want to remind all of you what the six indicaters are. Mentioned testing as one of the principal indicaters, we have made progress in that space. Not nearly where we want to go and need to be but Real Progress we are now see in the space. 578,000 tests have been conducted in the state of california. We averaging over 20,000 tests a day. And we are well on our way to meeting our 25,000 testing goal and getting to 60,000 to 80,000 very shortly thereafte ....
Good afternoon, good evening. Welcome. Happy fat tuesday, thank you all for spending you tuesday with us. Im joe could ross has been an important member of the institute, since our founding, hes been or media fellow and helped coordinate some of our events, some of our more contentious events. Youve may have seen ross was involved in. Were super pleased ross is joining today on i think the day of the release of his latest book. All of you know ross as one of the moe commenter men taters of the american culture, on the New York Times opinion page, written more than a few books and seem to all at least 0 couple of. The have the title of how we became something. Might want to steer clear of that or explain that. Anyway, today the format will be that i will engage ross in a conversation about the book, i actually had the pleasure of reading it and its an interesting book. In my judgment not the sort of typical conservative harangue on ....
Were going to get now. Thats hip. The hipsters will like that dude. Yeah. Only one person even knows what the word hipster means and. Thats me. Im the youngest one there by 35 years. Were out of time. Thank you so much for joining me today. Thanks, matt. Thank you all. Okay. I just got yelled at backstage because ive been forgetting this whole time to mention we have a whole give away thing that were doing that i just kn learned about. So if you like gopro Everybody Knows what a gopro iss. Right . I got one hand. Guys are active and engaged. You all know what a gopro is. , it i weve got the new black one, like with a head mount its our wi like literally everything you a couldny with a gopro weve got back stage. Our winner will be selected in some way that i dont understand at all. But put a selfie of yourself on instagram at Techcrunch Disrupt and well choose on the thir ....
I think that moment a year ago was a wakeup call for all of us. A lot of soul searching occurred which is good and healthy. Re i think part of the approach weve taken in government youme where you could argue some of the same historic issues have been raised in terms of pipeline. Ou bui you know im very much in the if you build it they will come school, meaning if you send a g if y message from theou beginning of inclusion, if you insist in the hiring process that there be imum o maximum opportunity for ss inclusion, you find a lot more success at inclusion. Our entire tech team happens to m happ be women, including some women of color. Our administration thank you. Our administration as a whole in terms of senior jobs and our administration across all agencies is 53 women in Senior Management roles for the entire set new york city government. So i think it is quite available if the mindset of what is valued changes. I would ar ....