tonight on kqed newsroom, a large outbreak at the san quentin prison how health officials are responding and the pandemic has hit nonprofits hard. we talk with the ceo of goodwill about their struggle to help the bay area. and it e prweekend with virtual events. we will take you inside e lineup of the film omstival. weto kqed newsroom. new coronavirus cases are climbing rapidly in stlifornia promptinng messages from the governor. he also partnered with the go former state rnors to urge everyone to wear a mask. health officials are monitoring the number of positive tests as a sign of how much the virus is spreading. here in the bay area the number

of positive tests generally remains below the state aver 5e with the exception of marin county where cases have shot up due in part to an a outbresan quentin prison. joining me to discuss the prison situation is dr. matthew willis joining from elsan ra marin county is experiencing the largest covid spiking the bay area largely due to the outbreak at the prison. what is being done to manage that contagion? >> we have seen in the past few weeks a remarkable increase in cases attributed to marin county because that facility is within our boundaries. ere has been almost 600 cases now at cithat ty and about 600 if you include staff. l, up unfor the first three months of our outbreak here in marin county we had a total of 1000 cases. you can imagine almost 600 in two weeks drives those case

rates up dramatically and d s establis as having the highest incidence they wide. wo we are ing with the california department of corrections to offer consultation and technical assistance. >> how this happened, there is a group of inmates that came from another prison whsi lly brought the infection with them. >> right. there were 121 inmates who anwe erred up from gino institution for men in rnsouthe cali. that institution was having a large outbreak similar to what is being experienced san quentin. in an fort to get ose folks out of there so they have more room within the facility to isolate inmates they transferred inmates into differet prisonse.across the st unfortunately, that is a risk for re-seating a second outbreak and that appears to be whathappened here. >> how many inmates have been transferred to local hospitals you mark 25 >> about r so have become

ill enough at the facility that they have required transfer out >> you have had one death at san quentin and do we know the cause of death for that individual? >> it is still pending investigation. with almost 4000 inmates we would expect thme people pass for other reasons but of course when it happens in the context of a outbreak there is a concern at may have contributed. >> i want to understand the situation better at san quentin. there are 3500 prisoners there at this point about one eiin t is infected. can you tell me about why more precautionary measures were no taken? what are you hearing about how this was allowed to happen? >> it is challenging i think just when you are dealing with t a prison where they are overcrowded at baseline and once the infection esgets blished the virus gets a foothold in that settitg

whetheis brought in by a staff member or some other mechanism where the first case starts, once it is established it tois challenging manage the spread because there is little opportunity to olate people infected from those who are not just architecturally in terms of the numbers so there is really no substitute for prevention and i think that when we learn that number of inmates had come from a t facilit was ving an outbreak who had been exposed,un had been sted and had been placed in that facility, at that point we knew the stage was set for what has unfolded. >> you expected to see this and there was warning twweeks before experts from uc berkeley and ucsf health experts warned there could be a maa r outbreakcatastrophic outbreak if the prison population was not reduced by 50%. that through the cursor ration. consideration given to that

idea? >> absolutely. some of th is who has jurisdiction and control. we can offer recommendations from a public health stamp and, we need to the densify these facilities and isolate people who e affeed from those who are not. but, it is up to the correction system to implement that and oper. ionalize how that work that is happening. but, the wheels turn slowly and the numbers of people who e being released are currently not sufficient to achieve thf goalbeing able to create room to have peopfaler enough apart to prevent spread. >> there is concern of people are released into the community go to local hospitals that rapidly throughout the community. what would u say to that concern? is that something you are ouworried >> we know the virus is present and we want to be careful not to stigmatize this issue.

it is obviously a concern and we are concerned that more measures were notaken early on to prevent this and we recognize that inmates have the highest standard of care when they do become ill. t we do want to act like one are having every case is obviously a risk, but the fact is that we ha had 50-6cases in marin county and our native population every day whether it is workplaces or other settings and it really gets back to the s fundamental precauti should all take to protect ourselves. so, i am less concerned about inmates being released especially because we are tracking them and we are given their information and able to follow them just like the other 00+ cases we have had far inthe county. >> are there enough safeguards now in place to mitigate what has been happening there, to , bring this contagion doto control it at san quenti >> we e working every day

with the staff to ensure that they have access to the blbest avaiin information d knowledg in terms of how to manage the situation. making sure that they have access to protective equipment and the masks and gowns and face shields. they have supply chains for that from the state but sometimes we are able to supplement that at the local leve so mucof the challenges built into the environment itself. you have large cellblocks where they have one shared ventilation and hundreds of inmates and not a lot of around in that facility once a few become infected. cohort in those away from others is an incredible challenge. so, they're doing their best but i think the state for at least another few hundred ses. >> what about in the population at large throughout marin m counk there have been growing numbers of cases in general throughout the bay area and california. what a you seeing the economy reopens and people go

back out? >> we have sea gradual increase in cases across the county. and through testing and identifying the demographics and occupation of the people coming forward with the disease. i think thatwe are able to describe it more specifically in the dynamic is primarily the essential workforce. wh those peoplehave been out from the beginning of the shelter in place serving as the backbone of our onomy, many are lower income from the latin next communities. been exposed in that workplace environment, bringing it home into a household where you mighhave 5-10 people living in one apartment and amplifying the numbers one case of a worker coming back to a household and then that one case may become 5-10 based on who has been exposed and that happening over and ove that has really driven the numbers upwards. about 90% ofthe cases over the past three weeks have been attributed to that partular dynamic inthe latin next community. >> the guidelines seem to be continue to practice social distancing where your maskand

wash your nds. those seem to continue even as the economy is reopening. is there anything else you would add to that? should people be going out and getting a haircut getting a ng manicure or hadinner with their friends mark >> i think it is important for people to realize that one ofif the in these shelter in place is moving from a restrictive policy about public health and putting it more into the hands of indivial choice. in the responsibility is being delegated across the community to the business owners and our community members themselves. just because it is allowed doesn not necessarily it is safe in every case. i think that we need to make sure people understand eir own risk and if someone is older or has medical conditions that might predispose them to a more severe outcome should they become ofãinfected, sheltering in place still the safest thing to do. if you are in a siness were it seems they are not practicing those guidelines are nosoenforcing the al distancing and the facial coverings, those are businesses

we may chooseto avoid. >> one last question. s whatthe experience like of having had the coronavirus? having had covid-19 and how has that impaed your lens on the situation? >> i was diagnosed about a week after we instituted the shelter in place in the mid-march. and had a few days of mild sympulms and thought i be in the fortunate group that sort of has a week of esld iland recovers unfortunately, it took a turn for the worst and i ended up two weeks more or less in bed continuously with fever. i have good home support and i was able to recover completely. but, it definitely, i have a lot more threspect for virus now. i had underestimated the power and it has nsgiven me a of what i'm trying to do for the community. underestimated for myself and i do not want to do that for

the community as a whole. >> thank you for the work at you do, we appreciate it. goodwill has 67 stores in the bay area and hundredsre throughothe state, which all closed under the shelter in place ders. as restrictions have loo some locations have opened their doors for shopping and donations with new social distanci and contact free procedures. but several local goodwill stores are likely to close permanently as the organization struggles to provide for its employees. joining me from oakland is william rogers, the president and ceo of odwill of san francisco san mateo and marin. thank you for joining us could you tell me about the impact the pandemic has had across the state on goodwill and more narrowly here in the bay area? >> absolutely. the pandic has had a huge impact and really, i want to first talk about whgoodwill exists. the only reasongoodwill exists is to help people who would

otherwise be considered unemployable to gain employdent and to lop skill sets so that they can support themselves and famili. so, the folks that we hire are people who are homeless formerly incarcerated, low il educational levels, immigrants, because what we want to do is help people who are sort of stigmatized by their circumstances and help them have a second chance. the impact on goodwill statewide has been huge. so, goodwill employs 14,0 people in the state of as a result ofthe shutdown order we had to shut down all of our retail operions, warehouse operations, our e- commerce operations and that meant that 10,000 people across california had to be furloughed orlaid off. s godwill earough the businesses that we operate, aout 80% of what we need to function. so, when those businesseswewere closedimmediately lost 80%

of our funding. that is devastating. and so most nonprofits are actually funded throug philanthropy or maybe through individual donations but because goodwill is largely self funded 80%, whthe shutdown order came into place we had to shut everything down which meant there was no work for the oyees that we employ. >> have you been able to get assistance from the state where the federal government or philanthropic donations? >> unfortunately not. what has happened is that we have over 500 employee by chapters and each chapter there are 157 chapters. in eight of the 14 chapters in 500 but the rest of us had more than 500 employees investment we were not eligible for any federal aid in the form of dpp and what that meant is that we

were put at a marked disadvantage. i think we lost incredible amounts of revenue that we would have used to pay folks itwho really needed and so we are now in a situation where not only did we have to for low folks anso people were unemployed and in rlough 500 employees. we chose furlough because what it did is allowed the employees to still be employees on a temporary furlough which meant that they were still eligible so able to continue to pay e health benefits because one thing that we cannot image is having people in a pandemic and particularly people who are more at risk for thin like diabetes and hypertension and asthma and all the comorbidity factors that create complications with covid-19, we cannot imagine people being he

withouth benefits. so, the chair of our board incredibly generously wrote a check for $100,000 to start a fund to help employees with benefits. every board memberand the senior staff member participated and we also then started raising money in the it command many community members participated which then allowed a lot of folks who are at high risk of complications for covid to help have health i felt veryfortunate we were able to do that. >> how has this pandemic impacted the donation side of the business? people were not able to bring goods in for quite a long time. >> i have to say i was jealous of the people who were able to h clean out closets multiple times but a lot of people were able to do that. during the shutdown order. people were very anxious then. once you clean ouyour closet you want to get it out of your house. people were anxious and initially had some dumping at science but we ask the

conounity to please dump and people listened. so, people hold onto those items, they took them away and when we open the donation sites a couple weeks ago had lines around the block of people who were turning in a ton of stuff they wanted donate which is terrificbecause what thatis going to do is help us with the recovery efforts to get back in business. >> can you handle these donations ming in? >> we are currently handling is allowing us to bring back employees for processing those donations so that is creating jobs as well. it is a lot of donations but we are incredibly grateful r the generosity and the coarunity nd us. >> whais your expectatn about how many stores you will be able to reopen and how many will be closed for good? >> it is one of the saddest things because we are employing some of the most vulnerable californians but because we have not goen relief we are

going to have to close a number of stores. i think of the 18 stores we have in my chapter we will have to close probably five or six. we also have folks around the state of california and some w gols that are struggling. there may be mergers and closures of good wells. it remains to be seen. people are -- i don't think that people often understand the huge service that goodwill ovides to the community on an environmental level but also on an employment level. and we ve at my chapter alone, 10% of the people that we currently employ are homeless or were homeless .25% were formerly inrcerated. 95% of the people that come to us are low or no income when they me to goodwill and now d have jobs are getting skill sets to move forward. we are really helping some of

the most vulnerable californians. that is the thinthat breaks my heart the most that we are not able to, that we are going to have to contra so that can continue to help people. the one good thing that has happened is we have been able to help people virtually. of low income people do not necessarily have stable internet were necessarily have the tools to get online effectively that we have helped a lot of folks either through online and training. we have moved a lot of things online but hewe are ing people over the phone for the folks who do not have stable internet service and actually in the last month we have interviewed over 1100 people and we have placed 896 people d in jobs a partnership with the city around jobs for emergency workers during the

eptaemic. we'rng the lowest income folks in the state and helping them get jobs and we have done that over stthe month. >> how can people who might be watching the support you? >> there are three ways. the biggest lift is really helping usadvocate at the state and federal level for the services that goodwill provides and for somerelief r goodwill. the second thing that people can do is donate money. people often don't think about donating money. they think about donating items but the truth is because we make 80% of what we need to bu operate through thnesses every dollar that you donate, you are getting three. le you are raging that by three. donating us some of that extra 20% we ed to makeis really important. so, donating to goodwill is great and thenfinally, people often think that they should not donate their really good items to ybgoodwill because they will not get the value. the fact is that we have a great e-commerce program and we definitelymake thre that

really nice items get channeled to the right places. it does make a difference and allowsus to raismore money to further the missiowhen people donate the higher end items as well. those are the three things that i think people could practically do. >> thank you for joininus. founded in 77, frame line, the san francis international lgbt film festivalins the longest-ru film exhibition event of its kind in the world. it takes place right here in the bay area with approximately 60,000 people flocking to local screenings. traditionally hosted during pride week this year it is held online and you can catch new fis throughout this ekend. joining me from san francisco is james willey, exec director. thank you for injous so, this is an unusual year for anyone. but, this has been in a special challenge for you because your first year as executive director, yojust joined us from sydney in august.

tell us about the challenges of pivoting to move this festival online. >> it is not the year we expected but it has been okay. have had to pivot to online instead of having the beautiful theater as our main home with dozens of screenings throughout the week. instead we have got 16 amazing screenings online. they are great films. we knew that we had to still lebrate pride. it is so important. frame line and pride have been44 connected for years. we cannot let this weekend go without showing amazing movies and connecting with our community and it is just putting frame line back out there into the worl>> you do have one event that is not virtual. it is actually a drive-in. tell us about that one. >> it is great. there is an amazing movie made by oakland filmmakers. it is called ahead of the curve and we are screening at that

the west wind drive-in in atconcorde saturday nigh9. it is going to be so much fun. it is just a really great movie about the founding ofcurve magazine which was a very influential lesbian magazine and it is such a joyous ride about the creation of this iconic magazi and the influence that it had the celebrities e cover and how people connected through ith and now, happens is it is instead of prin ards digital i love this movie and i really think people are going to have so much fun on saturday night sitting there in their cars honking their horns and having a great time. so, we are thrilled to be doing it. i think it will be the mo fun you can have saturday night in the bay area. >> you seem to be encouragin peop tcome out. tell me about the other films being screened right now. >> other one that is a bit of fun is called ste mother it

is the story about a ritexas ian woman who inherits a gay bar in san francisco. and they foare famous their dragon acts. what they do is revitalize this drag ub and lohave a of fun and this christian woman has to kind of come to rms with wh san francisco gay culture is like and likewise they have to come to terms with her. but, it is a fun, good movie and stars jackie weaver who has en nominated for an car twice and lucy lu who is very great and fun and we miss seeing her as often as we used to. and it has got a lot of great drag talent. if you are looking for a great ther pretty can watch at any time over the last four days. i want to turn tosuthe eme court decion just last week. a historic decision in which members of the lgbt community were granted the right to work wiout discriminati throughout the nation.

that is a right we have had in california for a long time but itthis historic it has been expanded. has that been part of the discussion that are ongoing as part of the frame line film festival community conversations mark >> of course about it on daily chats. it is not like we ve the office to gossip around anymore but it is important and we are down. d that this has it makes a lot of difference for more than half of the i know that people will be going to work feeling more secure and tome that is very important because people should never have been ab to be fired for being gay in this era. >> has that impathed filmmakers this community across america you mark >> i'm sure it has and state-by-state. overall, w filmmaking community is often very accepting and being gay is welcome but you cannot say that is the case in every s you cannot say that was the

case in evy workplace. we are thrilled that people have the freedom to be who they are as they create this amazing work that they are doing. >> what are the drawbacks and challenges to being online f me, it is connecting with the community face to face ismiwhat i and when a film and is, you miss the applause that you can hear pele cheering at the screen and doing all those things. what we have done is try to make it as strong as possible even though we are virtual. we have done lots of recording om the castro theater and recorded the organist which is before the film. we recorded that before the films to kind of giv vibe. but, that is what it is, it also has some pluses also. we are more accessible than ever before. and you cannot watch our programming from anywhere, in californd you can do so

now from the comfort of ur own home and watch three or four totals in a night if you want, just sit there and watch. it has its pluses well and people are already enjoying it. we started screening yesterday at midnight and the response nt has been tic. >> the executive director of frame line, thank you so much. visit frame land.org to visit more about this year's lineup and buy tickets to's trainings which will stream onthne. festival runs through sunday pretty can find more coverage at kqed.org. you can reach me through my social media handle. for all of us rore at ne, thanks for watching, good night.

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