briefing on the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic. we're working to fix the problem, hope to bring you back to live coverage shortly. governor newsom: 67% increase in the average number of daily tests, just month over month. we expect to continue to see a rate of growth in the testing, in the state. that's a point of pride and it's also a point that need to be emphasized. more testing

that's more modest than we've seen in terms of an increase over the last month or so. we're seeing now a majority of the state experiencing a plateauing, new hospital admissions. so a majority of the state actually seeing that rate of growth beginning to subside with one major exception and

that's southern california that continues to see higher case rates. particularly los angeles, but also san bernardino, part of riverside, as a county those three remain the most impacted large counties in the state. you can see in the i.c.u. admissions, similar trend lines. a growth along the lines, consistent with the hospital admissions. growth rate, though, again, hat's plateauing modestly, 4,228 individuals now admitted into our i.c.u.'s that have tested positive for covid. but again, none of us live in the aggregate. the plateauing is in the aggregate. regional -- region by region you're seeing a completely different story. this is a slide that i think sums it up. southern california that i see capacity, san joaquin valley, the capacity is effectively zero. both regions are in their surge planning on i.c.u. and many cases, that surge

planning is substantial. in other cases, it's certainly in that next phase. the bay area, not yet in to the surge phase at 9.5%. the greater sacramento region, still hovering a little bit above the 15% at 16.6%. and of course northern california, up near the oregon border, we are seeing -- i see a capacity. that's reasonable at 29.3%. not where you want to see it but not experienced in that part of the state as southern california in san joaquin valley. we have initiated, you recall, the stay-at-home orders. we're part of a three-week regional stay-at-home order when the i.c.u. capacity trended below 15%. remind you, san joaquin and southern california, stay-at-home orders were the first to be enacted. understandably so based upon the capacity you just saw.

that's a three-week period that is now due to expire both in san joaquin and southern california, begging the question, is it going to be extended? well, pretty -- well, self-evident, 0% capacity in san joaquin and southern california, that likely is the case. but i'll remind you when we conceived of this framework, we are looking at projections four weeks out. we are looking at current case rates, positivity rates, looking at the community surveillance that we're doing, and anticipating based upon our modeling where that growth will be over a four-week period. based upon the data that we will collect today, dr. gali and his team likely tomorrow will announce and that's why you see on this slide the 12-29 announcement. they will announce, once today's data is collected, their projections over the next four-week period.

it is clear and understandable that it's likely those stay-at-home orders will be extended. but again, based upon the data, that determination will be made, and based upon the data that needs to be collected today, to complete that three-week period, dr. gali will update you tomorrow on more specific projections. we see the greater sacramento area and the bay area, those stay-at-home orders, the three-week period due to expire on january 1 in sacramento, we'll update you after the beginning of the new year. where the greater sacramento area region are based upon their four-week projections and the bay area a week later on january 8, and we'll update, that's the conclusion of that three-week stay-at-home order, we'll update you on those four-week projections moving forward around that date as well. look, as it relates to southern california hospitals, that's been our biggest focus. it's obviously generated headlines, generated a lot of

focus, and consternation, not only within the region but throughout the region and throughout this country and i'll talk more about that in a moment in terms of the support and neutral aid that we are receiving. but you get a sense here from this slide, the magnitude of what we're up against, particularly in southern california. particularly in los angeles county. look at l.a. county alone. 12,000 to 15,000 cases a day just in the last few weeks. it's obviously having a big impact, taking a big toll on our hospitals. not only in terms of hospitals proper, but obviously i.c.u. and the impact in terms of the acute care, as well as just general emergency care within the system. 96%, let's underscore, 96% of l.a. county hospitals were on diversion. that's in essence when you can't accept ambulance diversions, can't accept the ambulance for acute patient needs, they're diverted to

another part of the system, another part of the county or another part of the region. 96% of l.a. county hospitals were on diversion at some point over this weekend, on saturday. typically you'll still see ambulance diversions, but 33% presurge, that's in a covid environment presurge, 33% to 96%. that's saturday's specific numbers. we use that just to illustrate the pressure now we are experiencing in terms of the system, particularly the hospitals in los angeles county. on average, and this number is sobering, on average, l.a. county hospitals spent 2/3 of their day or 16 hours on diversion, just eight hours when they weren't on diversion. that's on average. again, just putting -- underscoring a finer point of the magnitude of the stress now in the hospital system in l.a. county. again, routine emergency room care is being slowed down.

so, if you think this doesn't impact you, maybe you think somehow you're immune from impact of covid, there's the direct impact and that is the transmission of this virus, there's the indirect impact, god for bid you have a stroke or -- forbid you have a stroke or heart attack or accident, other acute needs, the impact of this virus this pandemic, is being felt on the entire hospital system and that impact obviously could impact each and every one of us, god forbid, that we're in need of emergency care. particularly now in l.a. county. so the consequence, we have been supporting through mutual aid and we'll update you on some of those effort, on staffing that we've been deploying over the course of the last many, many months, not just many, many weeks, since this third wave. and this new surge that we have experienced. but we've also been working a little bit more prescriptively over the course of the last week to really target the needs

within the hospital system. you have large hospitals, large systems, you have smaller hospitals. each one is a unique story. each one, each hospital within each county, within each system tells a completely different story in terms of stress and impact. so we sent a number of teams down, we visited a sample of the hospitals large and small to really understand what are the most important acute needs. staffing obviously top of mind. but what other supplies, not just p.p.e. as it relates to masks and gloves and gowns and face coverings, but oxygen. other needs. ventilators. and we have now been able to take that information, which we garnered over the course of the last number of days, and we are now sending a new team that we're imbeding now full-time, the county, in l.a. county, to encourage low load level and to encourage greater coordination between the hospitals. what i mean by load leveling, some hospitals that are at

130%, some are at 70%, some had just down the flood one another. and so have completedy different patient mix based on socioeconomics, based upon a mirial of different issues. so looking at load levels in a more coordinated and collaboratetific manner, not just within the county, but more regional and obviously with the state and drying down our federal partnerships. we're also looking at contingency care planning based upon that same consideration, same strategies. and this new team that's been impedestrianed -- imbedded down in l.a. county, department of public health, obviously office of emergency service, o.e.s. we have now deployed into 116 facilities in the state of california. 1,000-plus staff. in fact, 1,028 staff have been deployed through myriad strategies, it the health national it the guard, their cohorts of teams,

spectrum of folks, over now 1,000 staff that have been deployed throughout 116 facilities. we also have staffing waivers that's looking at flexibility, looking at really stretching resources, again, absolute expression of admiration, respect, for our nurses that are asked to do war with less staff and less support. it's heroic and that needs to be acknowledged. those staffing waivers put intense pressure on that work force, on -- -- [indiscernible] -- and just want to express our appreciation to each and every one of them, woking through the holidays and through these difficult times, especially now with these staff waivers, now 86 waivers approved statewide. federal resources again, we're pulling down more federal resources. we had good news on the h.h.s. and teams. these were, again, looking to be redeployed from southern california, primarily in a

certain area, we have a new team arriving this week, we're having today which is very, very encouraging as well as we're seeing 75 personnel. we're doingests to get more d.o.d. -- doing more efforts to get more d.o.d., department of defense staff, we have the first 75 now being coordinated, getting ready for deployment in the next 24 to 48 hours. so, more resources being requested from the feds. we updated you last week, some of the specific requests, here's an update in terms of some of the requests that have been granted and have been supported. additional work that we've been doing, just update you as well on these alternative care sites. with close to 2,000 beds, arguably more than that, 1872 that would be warm beds ready to go within 72 hours to 96 hours, some even earlier, you can see of those facilities, those beds, number already

being utilized here. warm open, no longer status, but we've stood up these alternative care sites. strategically deployed throughout the stafe of california. obviously sacramento sleep train, porterville, fairview. then a new alternative care site that's not yet taken patients but now beds are being put up, stood up, but you can see 67 patients now in these facilities helping just modestly at this stage, modestly, to decompress the rest of the hospital system. but as we stand these up, our capacity is substantially greater, just an example, sacramento sleep train arena, well over 200, 220, get up to almost 250, potentially more in that one facility, number of patients are just at 11. we're getting these sites up, operational, key again is staffing. it's one thing to have a site. it's another to have the beds. another to get the staffing and

hat remains the top issue as we work through this very challenging time. but nothing more challenging and nothing that underscores this challenge more than the total number of people whose lives have been lost and this is devastating, lives lost in the number of days, over the holiday season. hanukkah, kwanza and obviously christmas. 64. every monday i say this, 64 never tells a story. those are reporting lags based upon the weekend. 230 is devastating. that's the average number of lives that have been torn apart, families been torn asunder on average over the course of the last seven days. ust the last 14 days, 3,238. lives shattered and lost to this deadly disease. let me just give you an update on what we're experiencing in

terms of just the data we've collected on how deadly and who is most impacted in terms of morbidity, mortality. here you see just since october 1, 65% of the i.c.u. admissions have been a cohort of people 61 or older. but 80% of the deaths in that age cohort, 61. 60 is not that old. 61 is not that old. 61-plus, 80% of all the deaths in just that age group. this is monday contemporary data, just since october 1. that's why today we're pleased to announce a new partnership of pharmacy partnership working with walgreens, working with c.v.s. this new federal pharmacy partnership will allow the vaccination, beginning today, our most vulnerable californians, particularly in our skilled nursing facilities, there's two phases of this pharmacy partnership. that's focused primarily on the skilled nursing facilities as

the first cohort of focus. we're going to use the first phase of the pfizer vaccines, we're going to take from that allotment of percentages. this is all part of our plan 1-a, our drafting of our vaccine guidelines, it's all part of that existing public plan. we'll use those doses, a percentage of those, they'll be sent directly by the feds to the pharmacies. e pharmacies will begin that vaccination protocol again, the skilled nursing facilities, first. they're part b, their second phase of the pharmacy partnership will be assisted living facilities, residential care and other long-term care facilities. just to put in perspective, so you get a sense of the cohort, he size, it's about 1200 s.n.f.'s, skilled nursing facilities, for the first phase, phase a, that we will be

advancing in partnership. you can see the breakdown on this slide. 499 facilities. working with c.v.s. and 357 working with walgreens. you'll also notice that that does not add up to 1200. the pharmacy partnership is for every part of the state, with the exception of l.a. county. there's a little tiffer differentiation in l.a. county, pasadena, long beach. but l.a. county was committed to their own strategy, not in partnership with the pharmacies. they're doing their direct allocation, staffing, support, and distribution of vaccine into their skilled nursing facilities. so this is for all of those outside of l.a. county. again, with the exception in long beach and in pasadena. let me just give you a little bit more detailedensing of what that partnership looks like. they're going to administer the vaccine with their staff, pharmacists, technicians, pharmacy technicians, we did a waiver on that. they're going to do scheduling

coordination, all the onsite work, all the associated supplies will be done by this partnership. so we're not pulling -- i guess it's important for this site to say, we're not using our existing staff. that's why we went into this partnership with c.v.s. and walgreens, is the scarcity of staff. we didn't want to use staff for key supplies and pull it away from our other efforts. so that's why this partnership is so important. we hope as impactful as it's being promoted, again, this begins today. they're doing all the reporting, all of the logistics, the whole thing. all done by c.v.s., by walgreens. this is happening by the way in many other parts of the country. not unique to california. we're just announcing today that it is starting. we'll take questions here in just a brief moment. last week our community vaccine advisory committee met to discuss the next phase of vaccine distribution. i'll remind you, we're in the

current phase, phase 1-a, which is prioritizing, as i just updated you, skilled nursing facilities, congregate care facilities, and our health care work force. they put out that plan and we are implementing that plan in this -- and this pharmacy partnership is part of that plan. plan 1-b and plan 1-c are very hotly anticipated, for give the phrase, everybody's wondering where they stack in terms of that plan. they're not health care -- they're not a health care worker, they're not in a congregate facility or skilled nursing facility and the like. that's plan 1-b and plan 1-c. last week, there was a very public forum and i'll remind you, we have a guidelines work group that does the technical work, 16 members, and then you have this 60-plus member advisory committee this community advisory committee, that then has a public dialogue discussing the merits, demerits

of that drafting work group plan. at is, again, on our covid19.ca.gov website. you can watch the next cohort being discussed. you can watch the drafting guidelines work group presentation. and you can get a sense of the dynamic, the -- in terms of that conversation. really looking at populations and subpopulations. so let's take a look at what they discussed last week, in case you didn't have a chance to tune in. here's the next phase, this is next month, we hope. this is what's under consideration. this is what was discussed last week and what we believe will be finalized as early as wednesday. and so last week this is what was discussed. plan 1-b, two tears. you remember -- tiers. you remember on our plan 1-a, there are three tiers. if i've lost you, you're paying

attention. if i haven't lost you, you might not be paying attention except to say there's populations and subpopulations. there's prioritization and then there's categories of prioritizations within those priorities. so this is a slide that simplifies that a little bit. these are plan 1 and b folks -- 1-b folks. these are high-risk individuals that live in high-impact geographic areas. that obviously get im-- can impact the spread to their co-workers and/or the public. that was at least the sentiment from the drafting guidelines work group to which was the thrust, the value proposition that went in to the phase 1-b guidelines. 75 and over will be the top subpriority. in terms of population. workers in education, teachers and across the spectrum, child care, emergency services, food and ag.

the food supply chain. that's farm workers, grocery workers, the logistics around food. the essential work force we've counted on that's been there from the beginning of this pandemic, that's paid a huge price in terms of impact, in terms of spread, in terms of mortality and associated health costs since the beginning of the pandemic. so they will be prioritized in the phase 1-b, tier 1. tier 2 is 65 and over with underlying health conditions. people with issues of obesity and diabetes and the like. workers, again in transportation logistics, commercial sectors, critical manufacturing, we get into high-risk, incarcerated individuals, homeless and the unhoused. phase 1-c, this is under consideration. they'll be discussing this on wednesday. they'll be approving 1-b. we hope as early as wednesday. unless there's some deviation from the current schedule.

but plan 1-b should be lockdown on wednesday, plan 1-c will be discussed, that's the next phase. that's what i wanted to socialize and provide for you, a little preview of that. and this gets to folks 16 this may include many more people watching, 60 to 64. so someone like myself. 60 to 64. people with underlying medical conditions. workers in water, mastiff management, defense, energy, you can see on this list. community service providers, i.t., financial services, that again are high-impact. so, that will be part of the conversation, the advisory committee will discuss this preliminary phase 1-c plan. they'll make adjustments, we'll make accommodations, because we're getting a lot of people lobbying, a lot of people providing insight and developmental disabilities individuals, those are

impactful subpopulations and people are coming in making sure that we don't forget critical populations in the state. again, all with an eye on equity, all an eye on region alec which the, not just racial and ethnic. socioeconomics, always considered as well. that's the plan for the vaccinate-all discussion this wednesday. and, again, hope you tune in. if i've confused you, you can have more simplified version of l this this wednesday on the covid19.ca.gov website. let's talk more now about what's been done to date in terms of the vaccines that have arrived in this state, and the vaccines that have actually been distributed. so let me update you on the current status of moderna. the doses to california. we anticipate by the end of this week that we'll receive all 904,900 doses of the

moderna vaccine. we received the first allocation of 672,000 +doses d we anticipate 233 -- 232,000 + doses. 858,000 pfizer doses also anticipated to be in the state by the end of the week. we've received the 327,000, that first allocation that got a lot of attention. that second allocation that got attention because it was a little bit smaller, 40%, than what we had anticipated. 233,000 that we received. and now in anticipation, 297,375 doses by the end of the week. so you add those up together and that's 1.76 million. about 1.8 million doses we anticipate by the end of the week. you may recall in some of our early assessments, we were

looking at the end of the year for planning purposes. we are very cautious when we talked about this. we said, these are for planning purposes, and these are just estimates and it's likely we're not going to see these estimates as accurate as we would otherwise believe them to be. that's indeed true -- turned out to be the case. it's not a point criticism. i think it's an extraordinary success story. and i want to thank everybody associated with operation warp speed. thank you. from the bottom of all ouf hearts for this he had otheric efforts to get these vaccines into -- these heroic efforts to get these vaccines into our state, into patients' arms all across the country. the impact that's having around the rest of the world. that should be acknowledged. that 1.76 million is a little shorter than the 2.1 million to 2.2 million that we had anticipated by the end of the month, but not by a huge factor. but nonetheless, we're hoping to catch up and we're hoping to see more of these doses arrive in the state.

but 1.76 million is what we anticipate by the end of this calendar week. here's the update on the total number of vaccines that have been administered. these are the moderna and pfizer vaccines. 261,672. by the way, this number trails a couple of days, just a little bit of a report lag, particularly over the holiday, particularly after christmas, these numbers go through 12/26. that number well north of 300,000. you're going to see it's more like a flywheel as these things arrive. spoke and hub. then deliver these out, more rural, remote parts of the state, and then they prepare the distribution, additional sites for distribution and so we'll start to see these numbers begin to significantly stack up and significantly -- [indiscernible] -- i look forward dwroup dating these numbers in the next number of ays.

i'll close with this and we'll open up to questions. we're pleased more was done to advance the cause that unite, i think, all of us across this country, across the political spectrum and that's to get support in the hands, money into the pockets of those most in need particularly those with food scarcity, those who are a paycheck or two away from losing everything. despite our efforts on eviction moratorium, forebearns and other related issues across the spectrum, those pressures still are real. and they're stacking and they're amplified and they're made even more raw and emotional during the holiday season. so, good news finally in the president signing this covid relief bill. just reminds you of what it does and hope and expectation we'll do a lot more. but here's what it does, $600

qualified individual, $600 per child forle simply families. that's the child care component. we updated you on last week. the unemployment enhancements continue another 11 weeks. snap, that's food stamp, 15% increase in the nutrition program that's so critical for another six months, that's going to be key. the rental assistance package also key. that's across the spectrum and country. a couple billion dollars, here in the state of california, that will provide critical relief and we're hoping to move very expeditiously, working the legislature to get those dollars out. the pandemic expansions include the p.u.a., that's the unemployment insurance, but for people that -- the pandemic unemployment assistance, are self-employed or part of the gig economy, etc. that's extended through march and the p.p.e. program, paycheck protection program, that gets reopened for small

business, fundamental, critical , on top of the half a billion dollars of small business grants the states just put up, the $100 million of hiring tax credits we put up, the billions of dollars of abatement and extension on sales tax collection and all those other small business grants and loan programs that we also stood up at the california bank, etc. i encourage you, any small business man or woman watching, if you run a cultural institution, if you're a nonprofit, learn about accessing these 25,000 dollar grant business going to the covid19.ca.gov website. we'll have much more for or small businesses in january but this is this transition fund that we put together, with the incredible support of the legislature. we look forward to advancing that support in partnership and make some big and bold announcements to help our small businesses with the legislature in the next number of weeks. you can see as well there's some paid sick and family leave benefits that are also critical, that are also being extended, both to the federal

and obviously the work we've done here in the state. with that, as always, we encourage you, minimize your traveling, minimize mixing. this is an anxious period for dr. gali, for help officers up and down the state, hospital administrators, all of our incredible frontline staff. because of the expectation that and we've seen a plateau while we're seeing some good news as it relates to hospital admissions and i.c.u.'s -- beginning now to slow down in terms of the rate of growth, everywhere outside of l.a. in particular, again in parts of san joaquin and highlighted in san bernardino, riverside counties, that we likely will , 10, nce in two weeks 14, 18 days from now this surge stacked on top of these other surges.

related to holiday activities. we're doing everything to prepare our staffing, alternative care sites and be vedge lent in terms of our promotion of alternative strategies as we wait for the vaccines to mitigate spread, new past campaigns which we hope you're seeing up, new billboards, new messaging, in-store messaging in grocery stores, as well as more culturally competent messaging on social media to connect with people. all these nonpharmaceutical interventions, meaning mask wearing, avoiding mixing, the like, are critical at this juncture to, again, make these models mute and to bend this curve and not allow us to be just victims of fate. to be able to bend that curve by taking actions that can mitigate the spread and ultimately help expand our capacity in our system so that we can weather a very challenging january and challenging february and look

forward to moving into that second quarter this year, more vaccines, and begin again on the other side. that light we talk about at the end of the tunnel, the other side of this pandemic. so with that, we're on the other side of the presentation and we're happy to take any questions. >> sherrill cohen, "new york times." reporter: hi, governor. thanks so much for taking the time. wanted to ask a little bit about enforcement. as we've sort of seen so many examples of businesses openly defying stay-at-home orders, advertising new year's eve specials, and events, i'm just hoping you can kind of shed a little light about what the state is doing to counter that kind of activity and specifically if the state is planning to take any action against orange county and riverside counties, two of the most populous and hard-hit counties where the sheriffs have said they will not enforce

the restrictions? governor newsom: they're not going to enforce them, it's no another to have a county policy to move in defines. we have a law established protocol if that's indeed the case. that the distribution of these discretionary covid dollars will be distributed to counties that are serious about enforcement and are serious about public health and we have, as you know, sent letters out to a number of different counties over the course of this pandemic. and we have leaned in on that. as it relates to the issue of enforcement, also leaned in on enforcement, new guidelines, operational guidelines, through osha, new updates in terms of some of their latest enforcement. i'll provide you offline, some details to back up some of the recent enforcement, particularly in the food processing industry. we updated last week and i'll get you some updates on the numbers we provided last week, the abc, the alcohol beverage control, and their number of visits, tens of thousands of

visits over the course of last number of months to bars and restaurants, all throughout the state of california. i think the remarkable thing is how overwhelming the enforcement -- well, i should rephrase that. i think what's significant is how overwhelming we have experienced, and for give me for not -- forgive me for not phrasing this correctly, but people have been in compliance overwhelmingly so. it's not just the focus on bad. it's the overwhelming number of people that are doing right thing. i think you'll see that and we'll provide you an update on the numbers we've socialized last week to sort of prove that point. that the vast majority of these visits, overwhelming majority of the visits, there was no compliance needed because people were in compliance, they were doing the right thing. but there are notable people that are not. and they're thumbing their nose and putting their business at

risk and you're seeing that. there's a lot of local enforcement that is taking shape all up and down the state of california. and there are efforts at the state level in addition to the alcohol beverage control and osha that go to the board of cosmetology and others that are doing exactly the same. all those numbers will provide you, but i just want to acknowledge those doing the right thing, vast majority of sheriffs are doing the right thing. the vast majority of counties are doing the right thing. the vast majority of californians are doing the right thing. during this very trying and difficult time. >> sacramento bee. reporter: hi. thank you for taking our question, governor. in regards to, again, getting those covid dollars to compliant counties, what are you doing in the budget to further incentivize the counties who maybe haven't been complying with those state guidelines? governor newsom: i think we've done it. the bottom line is the roles are self-evident. if you refuse to comply, you

thumb your nose at the health of your constituency, the health of your community, then you're sending a message, two messages. one, you don't care about the health of your community in that respect. but number two, that you obviously don't care to get the support from the state as it relates to those dollars. and so, we've worked with csec, our partners, the counties. we developed a framework, a guideline, we worked over a month-long period to work out the nuances of the language with csac on what that enforcement looks like, what the notification looks like. and so we're looking to advance those -- by the way, those work through formally, that partnership, in terms of those notification requirements and distribution and redistribution of funds to the end of this calendar month. and we'll update those as we move into the new year. pursuant to your question. and be as aggressive or more

aggressive into the future. not everyone likes that. some have been particularly critical. and i understand that. good people can disagree. some people just want to be disagreeable. bottom line is we're in the midst of a pandemic. i don't know what more evidence you need, particularly highlighted riverside county, that is experiencing what they're experiencing in i.c. ampletse and hospitals and lives lost. what more evidence do you need that trying to enforce good behavior will actually save lives. it's a noble and right thing to do. to dismiss, as many have in the past, and some of the same folks that, you know, we don't holding - some still on that this is a hoax or face coverings don't matter. you know, continuing to send mixed messages. they're not helping. they're not advancing that cause. assertive as be we have been, we will be aggressive as we have been and

we will be proactive into the future. and a strong partnership with the california legislature. >> angela hart, keizer health news. reporter: thank you, governor. two-part question for you. first, can you give us any indication of whether people largely heeded the orders to during the y home holiday? are they heeding these orders or are these orders going ignored right now? what's your understanding of that and second part is, looking really at the impact on local governments and the immense responsibility that local governments have, i wanted to ask if you're going to do anything more in your january budget for local health departments, given that the federal covid relief package includes no new money for local governments and that's going to complicate their public health effort? governor newsom: we have a lot of resources that will

drive-through directly down to the county and local level, that come from this covid relief. may not be spelled out as local support or even state support for that matter. but substantially will draw down in terms of the partnerships and the capacity building that have been well established since the beginning of this pandemic. efforts in terms of logistics and operational challenges associated with administration of doses of vaccine, as well as other testing protocols. those supports are not insignificant. and those supports will be spelled out in the january budget. as they have been spelled out in this new covid relief package, that includes by the way substantial support for public education across the spectrum that will provide a lot of relief to communities that have large school districts and other relief that obviously will directly impact local communities, child care leaf and food stamp relief and other relief that otherwise

would have fallen as a burden on county budgets, on city budgets, and obviously on state budgets. by the way, that also includes rental relief. all of that reduces the stress and burden on these governmental agencies and certainly something that we celebrate and something that i think should be acknowledged with these federal -- this federal support. while we're disappoint they had didn't provide discretionary funds as it relates to state and local support, there's certainly a lot of state and local support that is being provided in the cares act in this now new stimulus. as it relates to the data on movement, this is health advisor, travel advisories that come from health agencies all across the country. the c.d.c. on down. every state has been providing the same -- we'll get you updates and i'll make sure my team gets you offline the updates, we've provided this i

think it was 10 or so days ago, it's actually prompting -- it's an opportunity to provide some of that cell phone data, public data, open source data that gives us a sense of some of the movement and we'll get that data to you. but obviously, look, give you nothing more to example than the total number of passengers on airplanes nationwide, that only suggests that we are going to see an increase in cases across this country. not just in the state of california as it relates to these travel advisories, that were not heeded clearly by everybody. >> john thompson, associated press. reporter: good afternoon, governor. wanted to first check on your status. you have been tested since your possible exposure? and as far as the -- you mentioned on the travel and cell phone data, do you have any more specifics that the point? what we're seeing here localy, even if you don't have your

fingertips -- is there data to suggest that people did or did not imply and can you go into more details as far as where will you be putting some of these people? you mentioned more generally about surge beds and state facilities but any specific plans for how to handle what you expect to be or haven't expected to be a doubling of hospitalizations? thank you. governor newsom: so, just on that front. we'll provide you -- we'll get you the update. i promise you my team is already working on providing that travel update and we'll get you more specific, more granular response in terms of whatever evidence at this stage that we can share or that tells a real story so we're not just working through conjecture and just loose observation. as it relates to the planning, over the course of the last number of months, you've seen, going back to the beginning of this pandemic, in early march, april, may, you saw some of the plans that we put out as it

relates to capacity building within the existing hospital system. looking at existing hospital footprints, looking at surge capacity, getting thousands and thousands of additional hospital beds on the same footprint, by getting tents and providing opportunities to reconstitute and repurpose different rooms within the existing hospital and health care delivery system. in addition to that, we also have been updating you pretty consistently, including a little bit today on those alternative care site facilities. five that are no longer warm status, that have been stood up. and another, well, eight specific or seven rather specific sites that are in warm status that could be turned on very, very quickly. i'll update you and we'll make sure our team provides you that list of those seven additional sites, plus the five in more details on their total capacity which i suggested was around 1872, but with our capacity building over the last couple

of weeks, we think well north of 2,000 beds, just again that's the alternative care site footprint. you've got the existing surge plans within hospital systems that get you tens of thousands of additional beds, all total that is a direct response to your question in terms of the immediate -- staff something the biggest issue. each hospital tells a totally different story. but in the aggregate the physical space is less of an issue. it's an issue. but it's less of an issue than staffing and staffing remains our top priority. that's why we highlighted a little bit of our staffing efforts today. but long -- sorry for being long-winded. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] >> we're going to leave the briefing. you can continue watching live at c-span.org. the u.s. house gaveling in. n wh yeas and nays and nayare