analysis of what the magnitude of the problem is, and the data to say how it is affecting communities of color and everyone in our population and help us defeat this virus. god willing and science granting, we will have hopefully a vaccine at some point, a cure, therapeutics and the rest. but we don't now. we don't now. but we do have the tools to kill the virus. testing, tracing, treatment, separation. our , sanitation, and in bill we have the resources to do so. and they respect the role that the states play in all of this. so i'm hoping that the grim reaper will not be responsible for even more dangerous behavior

that causes more deaths in our country because we have ignored science. we haven't acted in an evidence-based way. in this p but say that election in november, science, science, science, and science are going to be on the ballot. that is what is at stake here. and it's a matter of life and death. with that, i'm pleased to take any questions. es, sir. reporter: last time we saw compromise -- last time we rought states in to compromise -- [inaudible] is this part of the inherent problem with bringing in d.c., the challenge of the political balance so they

proceed, d.c. is automatically a democratic state. speaker pelosi: that shouldn't be how we have enfranchisement in our country. what's the nature of the vote. actually, mr. hoyer said here from the podium yesterday, not here, we were in a different room, but -- that at the time of that -- late 1950's, people thought that alaska would be a democratic state and hawaii would be a republican state. and of course they're not. repud of course they are not. while that is interesting, it shouldn't be part of the issue. about two black, too democratic, to whatever. otherer: is there any --d of compromise

[indiscernible] was votingosi: that on the floor of the house. ideater: but that is the -- there was a balance [indiscernible] speaker pelosi: forgive me for not valuing your question to the extent you are valuing it. think what a state is can change over time, but people in the district of columbia pay taxes, fight our wars, risk their lives for our democracy, they have this place, no vote in the house or senate about whether we go to war and how those taxes are exacted and how it is all paid. you don't want to hear about it, but this is in my dna. i am very committed to this. when i was born, my father was a member of congress from

chairore and he served as of the district of columbia committee. whoever chaired that was considered the unofficial mayor of washington because they made all the decisions for the district of columbia. he was a big believer in home rule and over time, you see some evolution in all of this home rule emerge and then a mayor -- there was a time there wasn't even a mayor in washington, much less a governor of a state. now we are to this place. we are at a state of compromise. we think it is very long overdue that the residents of the all goodof columbia a vote inshould have house and in the senate. yes, sir?

reporter: you regularly criticize the president's rhetoric. that it's ok to say republicans are trying to get away with the murder of george floyd with police reform? what wepelosi: i think are talking about is how we go forward. you we are talking about something that is an incident that everybody saw the martyrdom. everybody saw eight minutes and 46 seconds of a knee on the neck. and that may come up with a bill that says or the president comes out with whatever it is saying no choke holds, but maybe some? i -- absolutely not. we are talking right now, the

minute -- the administration in terms of their denial, their delay on coronavirus caused death. that bill in particular. we canhas an impact and prevent future deaths if we banned chokehold. i'm fully committed to that. reporter: [indiscernible] speaker pelosi: i don't know that that is determined yet. i know he loves his strict and loves his constituents and i whoever --ld welcome it may be another week before we know the outcome of another couple of races in new york. we have another powerful chairman, maloney -- weaker pelosi: next week,

will see what the results are, but i'm not going to speculate on what we don't even know has happened. but in those districts, a district like mine, anything can happen. it has nothing to do with who control the house of representatives, and that is where my focus is, not within democratic districts, but who control the house of representatives. i'm very proud of how we are proceeding, our chair has been wonderful in mobilization on the ground. worksing in a way that all over as a country on our for the people agenda, lower health-care care costs, bigger paychecks for the structure in a greenway, cleaner government, justice in policing, district of columbia becoming a state, part of that, passing the voting rights act. not only are we proud of what we call our frontline, our freshman who are up for reelection, but

we are proud of the candidates in the red to blue, where we hope to pick up more seats. that's where my focus is. back on the policing bill. yesterday, good -- going into the weekend, are there negotiations, talks happening between the chambers? are scott or mcconnell involved in this? speaker pelosi: you will have to talk to them on this. it would be important for the senate to pass a bill, one that can pass the senate. and in order to do that, they should engage in negotiations with the democrats in the united states senate. committee, may be the auspice is, i don't know. that is up to them.

mcconnell, the grim reaper, who doesn't want to pass any of our bills can't even pass his own bills. they should get together and formulate legislation that can pass the senate and then we can see how we come together on them. we are very proud of our bill. 134 civil rights organizations voted to support, the moms of some of the young people who were killed by police brutality support the bill, we are very proud of it. now the business roundtable has supported it, so the range of support for what we have in our bill is very broad. it is focused, it is disciplined, and it will save lives. lives ifuld have saved it had been the law already. reporter: democrats report something in the senate -- odds

are democrats would report it in the house -- speaker pelosi: the bill we put forth was shaped by senator harris, senator kamala and senator cory booker. they were part of putting the bill together. so we will see what they can do in the senate. people will not take no for an answer. hundreds of thousands of people lining the streets day in and day out, week in, week out, now one month saying enough is enough. as george floyd's brother testified before congress, and i'm very proud for the judiciary committee that before he testified, he said to me, madam speaker, do you think i can tell george's daughter's name won't always be room or because you will name the bill for him? i said i would recommend it to the judiciary committee and the

congressional black caucus who have shaped the bill. but i will only do that if you tell me this legislation is worthy of his name. he said it is. so we are very proud. not a tipping point, that would be too easy. a precipice the country went over. just a different place to say that's not who we are, we can do better and the senate can certainly do better. yes, ma'am. about what'm curious you want -- [indiscernible] thank you for: that question. we put together as a result of decades of concern on the

subject of police brutality. everyone of our first responders with the same brush. sure. overwhelmingly, we do not. but, where there is need to make change, we will make change. i think the press gave republicans too much credit for that senate bill. it did nothing. it took our language and defanged it. and you're like why can't you cooperate? what would you do. we are saying no choke holds. the president is saying maybe sometimes. should we agree on the number of choke holds? would that be a good compromise? that's not the point. it's not even an issue, it is an ethic. we have two differences of opinion. the president is in the supreme court where he sent people there purposefully to overturn the affordable care act, which is

something the american people need, especially in the time of a pandemic. passed is aion we result of decades of work on this subject. that's why over 130 civil rights groups have come out in support of it. read their letter. the senate has to do better. it isn't about the whole thing of equivalence, why can't you work together -- it's because they don't share our values on this subject. not yet, but i hope they will. reporter: why not agree to go to conference -- speaker pelosi: to go to conference, you have to pass the bill in your house. do you think i should suggest -- nor what i or any of my members, 100% of them voted against that bill yesterday. what are you suggesting? vote for something that is

completely contrary to your values so you can go to conference? i want congress to work its will . i'm always open to the four corners of our negotiations. we always respect each other's opinions. but if one person saying choke holds any other person is saying no chokehold, it's very hard to compromise. the president is going to have data collection but it's not going to be shared. what? how will people know for example, tamir rice -- he died -- he died at the hands of a police officer who had been fired by another department, but the information was not shared by the department that hired him. his misconduct resulted in the so i appreciate your question. as i said when i became speaker, i partisanship, transparency, e

pluribus unum, we always have a responsibility to reach across the aisle. but instead of a handshake, you get a slap in the face, then you better go back to the drawing board. that is what they better do. that's up to the senate. and they come to their conclusion, they cannot pass a bill and you think we should embrace it? no. thank you for your question. that's it. thank you all very much. [inaudible] safety is first and people have families at home that they have to go home to and they don't want to carry somebody else's virus there. when the president of the united states says he doesn't want to wear a mask and understands the ad example -- i don't know if he understands anything -- but

somebody must over there understand the bad example that is to the country and that we are at a place we don't have to be, this is a president who doesn't want to wear a mask, who hoax, isls the virus a going to go away magically, it's going to be a miracle that's going to make it go away. i'm a catholic and i believe in miracles and i pray for them, but i think science is an answer to our prayers. science says wear a mask, test, treat, and the president doesn't support any of that. he has events that are counter to that. i'm in a mood because this is a matter of life and death. this administration has failed miserably. justice.t

it's about justice in policing. it's about justice in health care and recognizing coronavirus is having a disproportionate impact on communities of color. so when you talk about sports, you have to talk about safety and health, and the families of the people sports figures go home to. they know that very well. everybody has to make the judgment in terms of testing, tracing, treating, keeping distance, how does that work? sports.o miss our we miss baseball -- i don't know if we are going to be missing football, we will see as we go along. sports are more -- have more physical contact.

let's hope and pray for a vaccine. let's hope and pray for a cure. testing,e and pray for tracing, and treating. but i'm telling you two days in a row of record numbers of cases. one of those days, the president going to overturn access to quality, affordable care. about detect my dismay saying why don't you go and agree with them, find an area of agreement, we always want to. , we havey in our bill negotiation. the president said he wants to negotiate. i guess not, anymore. we just have to defeat the virus so we can open our economy, so we can send our kids to school, but we have to

have it based on science and governance. and we have an answer to that and that is the heroes act. the senate is going to have to take at -- take up some version of the heroes act. i hope it's >> the house and senate are back in session next week before taking their expected two-week holiday recess. the house returns monday at 9:00 a.m. eastern and will spend the week working on the health care law, infrastructure, credit score reporting, and housing needs that have arisen due to

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administration officials. >> but i do think there is a line one should not cross where governmental power is used essentially exclusively for personal benefit. >> we will stand proud and we will stand tall. >> and the latest from the campaign 2020 trail. join in the conversation every day on our live call-in program, "washington journal." and if you missed any of our live coverage, watch anytime on demand at c-span.org, or listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. florida governor ron desantis held a news conference after his estate reported almost 9000 new coronavirus cases. he said he does not believe requiring people to wear a mask or enforcing such a rule would be productive. state'supdated the efforts to counter the coronavirus at a briefing in fort myers.

>> good afternoon. i want to thank dr. anthony fauci for having us back. i was able to have a roundtable with some of the doctors and other folks in the hospital. got a really good update of what really going on here in southwest florida. today, a loteeing of news saying a huge number of cases. really nothing has changed in the past week, in terms of we had a big test dump. we have been testing 10% to 15% positive for really the last week. that's a huge change from where we were at the beginning of june, when we were three or 4%, in terms of the positivity statewide. so the number of cases, if i'm going to get 75,000 test results like today, you will get a certain number of cases, if i get 35,000, you will get less. that's really what we're seeing, in terms of an increased

positivity rate, which is one of the major factors driving the cases. the last week of may, the positivity rate statewide was about 3% of test results coming in that were positive. that was good. march,the cases go up in through april, and then decline. then the positivity, once we got into may, was really low and steady for all of may and into june. we started to see an increase in the positivity that second week of june. some of that was driven by some hotspots around the state. then some of it was driven, particularly in the last two weeks, by a lot of community transmission, particularly from the younger demographic. positivity,

particularly in the last week, has trended up. it started creeping up the second week of june. the last two weeks at ghana. we like where we were in early maine and june, but we are also seeing more cases in addition to positivity. we are doing more tests. the last week of may, we would get about 24,000 test results a day. the last seven days, we have gotten 45,000 test results a day. that's a good clip, in terms of getting test results in. of course, if you have a stable positivity rate, the more tests you do, the more cases you will discover. if our positivity rate was back down in the 3%, 4% range, we would be getting more cases today than we were in may, simply because we are testing more. a higher positivity, more number of tests. probably the most significant change we have seen is a radical change in the median age of

people testing positive. when we started at the beginning of march, really starting to test, the median age half the tests positive were people 60 and over. i started going through most of april and may usually in the low to mid 50's. then, really in the last two to three weeks, you have seen a dramatic decline. first it went to 38, 37. now, it consistently is 33, 34, 35. you have a day were you have a median age of 33, which means half of the positive test result that come in are under that age. we were talking about a lot of people in their 20's, in particular, early 30's. even the ones above that median age, we are seeing a lot of people in their late 30's and early 40's. those groups by a large will be much less at risk for really serious consequences as we know with this virus.

in florida, we've had 86% of all covid related fatalities have been in the age group of 65 or older. there have been more covid linked fatalities over the age of 90 than under the age of 65. by and large, you are talking about folks 55 and under, but certainly 35 and under. you are talking about much less of a risk group now. if you have significant conditions, this is something that can certainly aggravate that. but, that is what we are seeing. the community transmission is being driven by that 18 to 35-year-old group. in fact, the positivity rate for 15 to 1444 is getting close to 20%. so, that's a lot different than where we were at the beginning of june. if you go from june 1 until now, the number of cases from 25 to 34 is almost tripled just in

less than a month now. that's a really, really big group of folks. part of the message is, is most of these people are a symptomatic. most of them, if they do have symptoms, it will be so mild they don't have to seek medical attention. but you are somebody who would potentially be able to spread the virus to more vulnerable groups. so, we want to send a message to folks in the younger demographics to understand that while this may not be affecting passing itely, by along to folks who may have some health issues or advanced in age, that really could affect them very much. so, we want to continue to remind people that. when we started doing things in march, the goal, remember, was to flatten the curve. we wanted to preserve the health care system and its resources

from being overwhelmed by the results of the virus. florida was able to do that. we were protected to have hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations by the third week of april. we had a small fraction of that. what -- now, when you flatten the curve, you don't have less infections necessarily. you just spread them out over a longer period of time. what it has allowed us to do and i think larry can talk about it as well -- we're in a much better position to be able to handle what would come down the pipe. in march, there was a question about whether there would be enough ppe for folks and hospitals to be able to do -- ppe is much better shape today than it was in march and april. in march, we didn't even know who -- sometimes, you would not be able to test people. the tests were not widely available. they were usually only reserved for people who were symptomatic and older. now, we have mass testing. that is one of the reasons why

we are seeing a lot of positive cases in the younger group because you don't have to have symptoms to get a test. hospitals contest anyone coming in. when someone comes in for a procedure, if they are going to be hospitalized for something, they are still being tested for covid. you have the ability to do that in a way that was not present in march. there is also better treatments, better ways to deal with patients. i think the physicians have learned a lot. you do have things like remdesivir that is being used and i think has proven to have some positive effects, which is very good. then, it is also given us time to do even more to protect residents of long-term care facilities. here at lee health, they have one of a number of facilities around the state which the state has really worked on to help set up in conjunction with systems like lee health and other skilled nursing facilities to have covid only nursing facilities. so if you have an outbreak at a

long-term care facility. not all of those patients will require hospitalizations, but if they are contagious, you don't want to leave them in the nursing home and make the outbreak worse. you have a place at lee health. there's other places around the state where those folks can be put and have a safe place where they will be able to be isolated. that's a really good thing. we do have that. certainly way better shape in terms of handling this then we were at the time. we have heard a lot about social distance over the last few months. i guess most of the last few months. there were a couple of months were people were not talking about it where you had some big gatherings out there. to me, given what's going on with the younger demographics, seeing how you have more spread amongst people under the age of 40, it's really important for folks who may be in some of those vulnerable groups to really understand you are seeing

more community transmission among the younger groups. most of them are probably not going to present with symptoms and certainly not with very serious symptoms. so, continue to be vigilant. continue to avoid crowds. continue to avoid contact with folks outside the home is much as you can. most folks and the seniors in florida have done a great job of doing that. obviously, as we got into may and had very low caseload, low positivity. got into june, covid kind of fell off the headlines. i think people were naturally just wanting to get more back into a normal swing of things. now you still want to be vigilant, particularly with a lot of younger carriers out there. so that is something, if you are 65 or older, if you are medically vulnerable, take the steps necessary to limit that type of close contact. i also say for those who may be in the low risk groups, understanding and maybe circulating amongst some of your friends. you have a response ability to

be careful if you are in contact with somebody who is more vulnerable. the state and the department of health, we have been stressing avoiding the three c's, which are closed spaces with poor ventilation. crowded places with many people nearby. and close contact setting such as close range conversations. a you have one -- if you're private home, packed in, no outdoor air, a lot a people shoulder to shoulder and a lot of close contact touching or talking, that will be a bigger risk for transmission. one of the things you are seeing coast-to-coast and the sunbelt is you are seeing more cases particularly amongst young people route the entire region. i don't know exactly why that region as opposed to other places, but i think part of it may be, as it gets hotter, people are going to want to go indoors more and be in the air conditioning.

the air conditioning is not going to be your friend when it comes to the virus. the virus will do much better when it's an enclosed, air-conditioned space than in terms of outdoor activities. outdoors is your friend. the sunshine is your friend. the heat and humidity is your friend. if you are doing different things, keep that in mind. we also at the beginning of may when we did phase one advised all floridians that if you can't socially distance, wear a mask to protect yourself and those around you. and particularly, if you are in businesses that are face-to-face that have close contact, it is important you are doing that to protect yourself and others. practice good hygiene. wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. of course, if you are sick, stay home. don't go to work, don't go out and expose other people. floridahealth.gov has a lot of information on that.

at the end of the day, we are seeing really big positive test lessts from our younger, risky demographic in terms of the effects of it, but a lot of a symptomatic characters and transmitters. that's what i think the concern is particularly for the vulnerable population, that that seeps into some of those folks who will be more vulnerable to the virus. i want to turn it over to larry, let him make some comments and then we will hear from some of our physicians. >> i want to thank governor desantis for being here with us today. we appreciate his attention to this pandemic. at lee health, we have been seeing increased cases both in our hospital and are testing. our positive test rate has been about 13% across the board since we began. in the last week or so, it has been over 20%. the demographic is definitely shifting to a younger the average whicith

age being around 40 now instead of being much older earlier on. we are definitely seeing those cases. we have adequate capacity in our hospital right now. andave 1300 staff beds 1600 licensed beds. if you look at the covid positive patients in the hospital, only about 20% to 25% of requiring icu care. the icu capacity is fine. the ventilator capacity is good. our ppe stockpile is much better than it was early on. we are really trying to drive home the message of social distancing and mask wearing. this community had incredible resolve early on and we were able to flatten the curve in a very dramatic way, as the governor mentioned. but, i think we are getting complacent. as i go around the community, i see a lot of people not wearing masks. although you may be 25 and feel that you are bulletproof, you have parents and grandparents, and i bet you know someone who is overweight or diabetic or has

heart disease or lung disease and they are at risk. the fact of the matter is you are going to put them at risk. so, we really are trying to deliver a message, trying to get to the hearts and minds of people in this community of why it's important to wear a mask. if you are not wearing a mask, tell us why. we want to know why you are not because for us, it is about putting resources towards education to the public to let them know why it's important and how we can make a difference. as we see this increase right now, we can flatten that again like we did before. it is going to take effort, it is going to take to community to rally around this effort and do this. so that's my message to the public today is please wear a mask when you are in a crowded area. practice social distancing, good hand hygiene. all the things we have been talking about for months now. with that, i will turn it over to the doctor. >> thank you. thank you to staff and

leadership over the last three months in these trying times. governor desantis for coming down to lee health for meetings with us and discussions over the past several month have been helpful. last time we were here, we had come up with a plan to open up elective surgeries that were closed. thanks for the nursing physicians and staff, we put those plans in action, ramped it up over several weeks to the point where we are doing a lot of elective surgeries now. not quite 100%, but we made a long way. i think most patients are very happy. they feel very safe, they are very confident. going forward, hopefully we will get to where we were before. patients should realize it is a safe place to come and feel confident in the care they will get here and they will be safe when they are here. hopefully, we will get to a normal, a new normal very soon. thank you. >> thank you, larry. thank you again to governor

desantis for his leadership through this trying time. i just want to mirror the doctor 's comments about how things have changed at the hospital and also at our private health care offices. in the private health care offices and in the hospitals, just expect when you see your health care practitioner, you will be asked to wear a mask. you will be asked to socially distance and are waiting rooms, in our lobbies. when you come to those facilities, please expect you will not be able to bring extra people with you to your visit so that we don't unnecessarily crowd too many people into a smaller space and potentially prevent even further spread. you will be screened for any symptoms you may have or any comorbidities that might put you at risk. then, just to mirror what the doctor said about the elective surgeries side. we still treat all patients that are going to have elective

surgery as if there potentially infected. patients are asked to wear masks. health care workers wear masks. we all practice good hand hygiene and make sure we make the lowest risk possible to the patient and to the community so we can continue to provide important health care. one of the messages we tried to spread last i was the impact of the virus is far beyond the number of cases that people do not seek proper medical care and cannot get timely care. people suffer in other ways that may be more serious than the virus itself. so, i just wanted to put that message out there. even though there is a rise in that it'spositivity, safe to come to your doctor 's office, health care facilities and seek care in this health environment. thank you. >> good afternoon. governor, thank you for coming today. thank you for your support of our facility.

thank you for your leadership as well. as a member of the infection prevention leadership team and part of the incident command center, we started up all around meetings throughout this entire pandemic with two goals in mind. we have to provide the care that our community partners need. we need to be sure we are therefore for our patients and their families. in order to do that, we have to care just as much as the people that work in our system, the medical staff that work for us and the medical staff that works with us, as well as our own staff that we employ here. our goals are to keep everyone safe. the best way we can implore you to help us do that is to do the things spoken about. we can all be a risk to someone else. while we may not feel that, we could be a risk to people around us. we are asking for responsible actions. we want you to live your life not in fear this is a new normal ball have to get used to. so, we don't want you to be fearful.

but we do want you to take those things that we know will help lessen disease and flatten the curve like our governors have talked about. thank you for your part in helping us to keep our health care workers and your neighbors healthy. want to thank i lee health again for being here. great to be in southwest florida. to underscore what the doctor said -- there was a great job done throughout the state of florida, march and april. low, tremendous may, very studies is she goes case load. even into the first week of june. the last three weeks, we have seen a change. i think now this is back in the news. i think people understand. it was natural. i would do press events in may. i would never be asked about coronavirus. it was about all these other things. now it's something. i think people just naturally assumed it was behind us.

viruses don't go away. i think we are seeing that now. someve an ability to do very easy things. be very vigilant and i think it will make a big difference. with that, i will take some questions. >> good afternoon. the experts sitting next to you at this very table and across the country and world have stopped the spread of disease. why not mandate it? gov. desantis: he has told me it is something we provide education. we did in advisory at the beginning of may. we've advised that is something that can make an impact. at the same time, to put criminal penalties on that is something that is probably would backfire. we have seen some localities require it. they will have to figure out how they will use the long arm of

the law to enforce it were not. a lot of businesses will require it when you are going in and that's fine as well. a lot of what we are seeing with younger people, they are partying at somebody's house or something, they are probably not wearing masks, let's be honest. you really would need to change the behavior there which i think would be great. but at the same time, it is a little bit different. i think the businesses have done a good job when people have come in creating a safe environment. i think a lot of customers will want to see that, so they have every incentive to do it. we will continue to put out the messaging. we are going to continue to put out the guidance. and we are going to trust people to make decisions. >> governor ron desantis -- president,like the think the o economic impact is more of a deterrence than the virus itself? gov. desantis: i would not put it in those terms. we know a lot more about the virus now than we did in the

beginning of march. we understand -- if you look at florida, the incidents in terms of mortality and morbidity is dramatic in terms of the ages it affects and the ages that have a much lower impact. my view has been -- that's why we've done so much with the long-term care facilities. some other states did it a different way. i think the way we did it has been successful. that is why we are doing all these things to have skilled nursing facilities that are cobit only to have a safe place for people to isolate so they don't infect other nursing home residents. that is why we have messaged since the beginning of march to the folks who are advanced in years, 65 and plus, those who have underlying conditions to avoid crowds and understand that close contact could put you at risk of contracting the virus. i think that's really the way to go. having people working is a good thing. rail --not been any

there's not been major outbreaks going to very many businesses. i think a lot of it has been social. you've had agriculture outbreaks. that's not because it is working, it's because a lot of them live close together. we went to phase i at the beginning of may and we have the best covid results we've ever had all through may and the beginning of june. positivity was low, the cases were low. things were going really well. it shows you can do things economically and continue to keep your eye on the ball with the virus. i think what's happened in the last few weeks is, i think it is more people want to be social. they want to interact. that is why you are seeing it so much with younger folks who, quite frankly, aren't much less risk. they want to interact and they understand the risk so it has caused some spread. i think the older folks have been very vigilant, very cautious and have taken efforts to protect themselves. i think that's what should be

done. mentioned there has been a bit of a testing dump, that most people are being tested and there are younger people being tested positive. in the last few weeks, we have seen the hospitalizations go up. we've also seen the caseloads consistently go up the past few weeks as well and becoming a hotspot so why are you doing more now to curb the problem? gov. desantis: like what? what did texas do? >> texas is causing the reopening. they have added more limitations to reopening. gov. desantis: like our secretary did this morning? texas did that. what else has texas done? >> there is a twitter hashtag with people from our community asking you to resign because you have not done enough. asking hownot, i'm

you are planning to address that because all i have seen is you asking people to wear masks, social distance and stay vigilant. it is fantastic but his a lot of real concern in the community right now. gov. desantis: right, so one of the reasons why we are coming here, one of the reasons why we are showing what we are doing is because we want to continue to advise folks of where we are seeing any issues in terms of the transmission, which is in the younger demographic, which is in the social situation, we naturallyhich occurs. you did see action occur. you didn't admit that until i told you about it. you have seen the nursing facilities. larry, what do you have, 50 patients? that is you to take action to protect our most vulnerable. we are going to continue to take action to protect those who

really are the ones who are vulnerable to this virus. we are going to continue to do that. we have stepped up our ability to do that since may. and actually, even since june because we have brought more of these facilities on. that's what you want to do to keep people safe. i want to see the positivity right go down, but at the same time, an individual case -- i have said to the beginning it is not the most boring thing to look at because as you see the cases a shift younger, that is not going to be a significant clinically as if you have nursing home outbreaks or outbreaks among the elderly. >> [indiscernible] gov. desantis: the phase one -- when people follow the guidelines, we haven't had any problems. the reason why dbpr took it is

because you have people that weren't following it. there was widespread noncompliance and that led to issues. so, folks just follow the guidelines. we are going to be in good shape. when you depart from that, it becomes problematic. i think that has been clear from the beginning. beginning of may, we went to this, he didn't see any problems. very good, solid may beginning of june. now you start to see more, but part of that is less business than it is social interaction. want to said that we trust people to make the right decisions, follow the advisories, wear masks, but you also said people have not been complying with the guidelines. in people aren't wearing masks. can people be trusted to do the right thing and wear a mask voluntarily? gov. desantis: i think when people saw this falloff out of

the news, may was not -- at least in florida, people were not talking about it as much. you had two weeks of protest where nobody was talking about it really. it was like coronavirus was no longer here. i think people look at that and decided, let's - go back and do our thing. i think now people understand that you still need to be able to do the basic social distancing and just take the basic precautions to be able to protect yourself, but particularly your family members. that is really something that is very important. there has been areas -- for example, we had a 10 person gathering mandate, a prohibition in place statewide until june 4. where their gatherings bigger than 10 people going around? did you ever see that? yeah, i think you did. they are still in place in south florida. i know you have seen a lot of big gatherings there. the idea that you are going to

mandate and selectively prosecute people, i don't think that is necessarily going to work. i do think what will work is consistent messaging, letting people know what they can do to help protect themselves and to protect others. you obviously can have local folks, if they want to do different ordinances, quite frankly, there's parts of florida. would it make sense because you don't have the same cases. it is not something where the high.ence is haas you also have some sheriffs come out and say they would not enforce any type of mandate. i think at the end of the day, we advised it almost two months ago, we continue to do it. i think that is the better approach than to try to prosecute someone criminally for it. >> last question. >> do you have any reaction to the quarantine put in place by other states, traveling to other states?

[indiscernible] gov. desantis: when we did that from new york, we were in a situation where most of the people fleeing there were going to southern florida. it was not doing it for my health, we were doing it because we were concerned that would accelerate the outbreak in southern florida. i think the virus has run its course in new york. that is why we did it. they've got to do what they got to do, but our situation here is much different than what you are seeing in new york city. if you compare the fatality rate per capita between florida and new york, they had it 10 times more fatalities per capita than we do. we are testing a lot of people. obviously, we are getting a lot of younger people testing positive. but in terms of the disease burden, it was much different there than it is here. we want to continue to work to have fewer folks in the younger demographic test positive. we are working on that.

i know folks throughout the state of working on that as well , but that is a different problem than what you saw earlier. i think they did the thing with the vice president, dr. birx talk about what's going on in the sunbelt and pointing out we have seen a lot of dramatic case increases. we have not necessarily seen the dire clinical consequences as you saw in those areas. she made the point it is a little different. fight asry much in the we have been the whole time. we have great capacity with our health care system. not only here, what larry has come around the state very good. they are well-positioned to help people if they need help. we have the adequate ppe. we have mass testing. anybody in the hospital can get tested now. the treatments have been a lot better and we have done even more to protect the most vulnerable in our long-term care facilities. much better position now to be able to help folks to the extent

that they would need help but obviously we want to make sure we want to take measures like they did the first time going through march and april. at the end of the day, folks understand the issue now. they understand it is backdated they understand it is something we have to deal with and i think a lot of people want to do that. i really appreciate folks like lee health, what you have done to put forth a very strong, consistent message to the community and we are going to continue working with them and other folks to make sure that the message continues to get out. and that folks will heed some of the advice. a lot of this stuff is very simple. these are not earth shattering actions that need to be taken. a lot of simple action can go a long way, particularly for folks who might be in those younger demographics can make a big difference. all right, thank you.

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