>> the director of the department of human services, trent roher, the director of homelessness and housing, abigail stewart-kahh and bill scott. thank you all for joining us here today and we are providing our update to begin the week. as of today, we have 1,424 cases of people who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and sadly, there are 23 people that have logistic their lives and currently, we have about 85

people hospitalized. if you would like more information, specifically around the people who have been diagnosed as it relates to their race, ethnicity, zip code or any other data, please check out datasf.org/covid-19 for more information. we update that tracker everyday by 9:00 a.m. today, i just want to start by again thanking you all here in san francisco for your cooperation. i know that it has not been easy. we've imposed restrictions to your lives that have made things not only very difficult for you, but difficult for your family. sometimes difficult for not just your physical well-being, but

also your mental well-being. we have tried to make sure that in this process as we are trying to protect public health, we don't create an even worse problem with a number of those sorts of challenges rette relato mental health, related to economic health of your household or those other matters. it is, then, probably, i'm sure for some of the most challenging time of your lives. executive knoi know some of thes and programs we've offered from the city may have been helpful, but it's definitely nothing like getting back to work and earning your own income and being able to take care of your family. there's nothing like that and we want to make sure that we are able to get back to that, but more importantly, we have to make sure that we are able to continue to keep people safe. this has been pretty much the

most difficult thing i've had to to do, is to ask the people of this city to basically stay at home and only leave your house for essential services or if you're you're an essential worker or to get fresh air or exercise. toui've asked you to do that through a deadline with the hopes of maybe moving back to allowing the city to open and today, unfortunately, we will need to extend the deadline for the stay-at-home order through the month of may. it's challenging and, of course through the responsibilities of mayor and making sure that i am informed and making good decisions on behalf of the

people of this city, i also have to do -- i have to take care of myself, as well, and, in fact, being in the house all the time and not being able to visit with my friends and my family and that's been very challenging. i wasn't going to tell anyone this publically, but i had a moment this weekend and i started playing music that i grew up to. and i started dancing by myself and singing the words of songs of words i hadn't heard in years. i made me feel alive and hopeful there's a light at the end of the tunnel and i know some of you are looking at ways you can continue to use this as an opportunity to make sure that

you are taking this time for granted in ways that continue the positivity, the goodness and that you're able to get yourselves and your families through this time. it has already been difficult for many of you, especially kids who cannot play with their friends or a lot of the seniors who are graduating high school. the kids who want to go to the park, not being able to see your grandmother or grandfather. i can't even imagine just how challenging, i'm sure, this has been for so many of you. and again, i want you to know that we realize these are real charles. challenges. as we extended this stay-at-home order, it will be important for us to look at ways to develop, along with our health experts, policies that will get us back

to plans in order to open our city again. and let me just be clear that public health is our priority. taking the data and the information from our public health experts and using that to make determinations around what we can and can't do is critical to making sure that we're protected. but we also need to prepare and as i mentioned to you all last week, our economic recovery task force has already started meeting. the goal is to provide recommendations because when the city does open, there is going to be a change. there's going to be a change with restaurants. there's going to be a change with hair salons and nail salons and various job opportunities. there will be a chain with large-scale events.

there's a lot of uncertainty because right now what we see are the numbers go up every single day in our city. we also see the number of hospitalizations. they have gone up in our city and the good news is they've got gone up as large as other places, because you all are doing your part to comply. but the fact is, they are still going up. so we are not out of the woods yet. and so we want to be very careful that we not take the steps out of frustration, out of concern. we don't move too quickly and repeat mistakes that have been made in our path's history. about 100 years ago, i brought up the last time the spanish flu, when we thought the worst had passed us and folks threw out their masks and went out

into the streets and partied and had a good time and a few days later, we were even worse off than when we started. we don't want that to happen in our city. this is not an easy thing to do and to continue to come to every press conference and not only thank you for what you've done but to ask you to do more. this has been very difficult to do because as hard as i know it's been for me, i'm sure it is so much harder for all of you. and i just want to continue to express my gratitude because the only reason why the numbers are not as bad as they could be has everything to do with so many of you. and your patience and your understanding has been really the guiding light in what has been a very, very challenging situation. so i just want to appreciate

that, express that there are the deadline for the stay-at-home order has been extended through may and we are hopeful through this economic recovery task force and some of the other things that we are doing with our public health officials, we will be able to come back to you with good news, good news about things that we will be able to do to make things easier for you in this situation. and speaking of good things that we are able to do as a city, after examining what we know people are interested in our safe-street's program and closing off streets and allowing people to socially distance easier and safely, that program has been successful and closing jfk drive on the weekends has

been successful and after our review of jfk drive and the fact that people over the weekends are basically, definitely complying in most instances with the order following the direction, we think it's only fit -- it's only fair to offer jfk drive to close that street effective 6:00 a.m. permanently through the course of this stay-at-home order. i want to be clear after this stay-at-home order has expired, that will no longer be the case. but in the meantime, in an effort to provide more space for people to move around and maybe get some exercise and to run and to bike, we wanted to do something that would help. we don't want people driving to

the park, still. we want people walking through their neighborhoods and to their neighborhood parks. we don't want people setting up picnic or play dates or the things we talked about. we still need you to socially distance yourselves from people out in the park and to stay six feet apart. that is so critical because we are going to close jfk drive and we're going to close shelly drive in mcclarin park to car traffic as a way to provide more space for more people to move around because we know that there are larger populations using these parks in these areas and it gives you an opportunity to move around safely. and that's what this is about. and so we hope that this new opportunity, this new adjustment will make this additional extension of time to stay at

home a lot easier for each and everyone of you. so again, thank you for your cooperation. i want to talk a little bit about what's happening with rent collection for tenants that are tenants with the city and county of san francisco and as some of you are aware, a moratorium on residential and commercial evictions has been placed, has been moved forward through an executive directive by my office. we've extended that to ensure that as this pandemic continues and people are unable to get back to work in a timely manner, we are able to make sure that no one is evicted because of what's happening with covid-19 to each and everyone of us. that doesn't mean that if you can pay rent and you are able and you are still getting paid, that does not mean that you should stop paying your rent,

but there are so many people out there that are in a situation where they have a space that they lease and they're not generating any revenue whatsoever because they are not an essential business. and as a result, they cannot pay their rent or other bills for this space. our goal is to make sure that when our city reopens, we want our economy to, of course, get going sooner rather than later. what that means is making sure that we're not losing all of our businesses, our small businesses, our medium sized businesses. that they are able to come back to work on day one with a new guidelines and get started right away without the fear of being evicted. so we've done this with the city already, with the city tenants in particular and we're asking our enterprise departments and they are seriously considering

and i'm sure move in this direction. in fact, the port of san francisco will be moving this week in that direction with their clients, the people who occupy a number of real estate along the port. they will get some relief soon, as well as the airport and other enterprise departments in this city, where there's an opportunity to hold off on rent collection and to work with our tenants. that is something we need to do. because even when we reopen the city with new guidelines, financially, it's going to be challenging. tourism, our number one industry, where a lot of revenues generated for the city, it just won't return overnight. so we are all facing very similar charles and s challenges important to provide tools to face it together. and so i want to thank the port commission. i know tomorrow night they'll be

considering extending this policy and it appears that they are very receptive of doing so. i want to also just take a moment to talk about some comments i made on friday around ppe. it has definitely been very frustrating. the fact that we knew that a crisis existed or was coming and there was just a lack of coordination from the federal government to help prepare and get ready for what we knew was to come. there are a number of challenges that we still face around ppe and we operated our emergency operation center pack in emergency of this year and it's april, almost may, and we're still having the same conversations around ppe. and while those challenges still

exist, i want to point out some information that was not accurate that i stated at the last press conference regarding fema. in particular, the information we were given by one of our sources that we were purchasing ppe from, and third party, basically provided us that information when we had anticipated the ppe to come to our location. we were preparing to purchase it and the excuse that we gave, that we were beyond frustrated with, was that these materials were diverted to some place else and confiscated by fema. as a result, that was along with a number of other challenges that exist and that was one that i was particularly frustrated with, else in light of the fact that we are working with fema are on our thoug hotels and food delivery. this was just very frustrating. we found out when the director

of fema here in san francisco reached out to our office to make it clear, that not only was this not true, butth but they at investigating the third party that we are working with to ensure that accurate information is provided. providing the incorrect information is not only irresponsible, but it's also very dangerous in light of what we are all dealing with. and so, not only do i want to apologize to fema for that particular information and providing inaccurate information, i want to just point out that that the other challenges that i talked about are still challenges that we face. and we will continue to do everything we can to work with fema and to work with other agencies to deliver the ppe our

city so desperately needs. we are not out of the woods and even if we have the ppe we need to help with our hospitals, maybe for this month and some of next month, we are going to be dealing with the coronavirus for some time. and so, when we talk about not only the need for ppe to help with our hospitals, when we're thinking about restaurants, hair salons and nail i salons and otr places opening, we have to make sure that when we are implementing regulations on their reopening around masks and other things they may need, that we have access to those resources, as well. so there's a larger conversation here in terms of resources. and there still continues to be a challenge with the coordination around the efforts for large cities like ours with

our federal government. but i will take this opportunity, again, to thank fema for their willingness to be able to work with us and to ensure that some of the obstacles that we've had, that those obstacles are removed. they have extended that support and i appreciate it. and we desperately need it. so with that, thank you for the time and at this time, i will ask dr. grant kolfax to come forward and provide an update.

>> good afternoon. i'm the director of health and thank you mayor breed. a week from today is may 4th, which would mark the end of the bay area's current stay-at-home health order. i commend everyone who has done so much to make that intervention successful. we have, indeed, flattened the curve. we, each and everyone of you,

has literally saved lives. in san francisco, and in the bay area as a whole, we are lead the country in taking aggressive early action to protect our communities from the threat of the coronavirus. i would like to reminded you ofa few key moments in our journey. on january 21st of this year, as we had watched closely the developments internationally with regard to the coronavirus, the san francisco department of public health activated the department operation's center. with that, we set as a top priority our preparation and response to the coronavirus. we devoted significant resources and staff in th to address the

upcoming issue. a week later, on january 27th, the city opened its emergency operation's center, expanding and strengthening the effort of the city-wide response. at that time, we were monitoring incoming travelers from countries with confirmed cases and still had to cases in sanfrancisco. yet, the mayor continued to heighten our preparedness. on february 25th, she declared a local emergency, even before we had any confirmed cases. this decision was pivotal as it allowed under the circumstancesy faster in our city's collective response. on march 5th, we had our first confirmed cases as we had anticipated. on march 11th, we made strong

social distancing recommendations so that the public could understand how to help slow the spread of the disease. slowing the spread has always been our goal. later, on march 16th, the entire bay area issued a shelter-in-place, also known as a stay-at-home order and over 7 million people joined together to protect the health and safety of our region. that health order was renewed on march 31st and the work that all people in san francisco and bay area residents have done has been a model for the nation. we are also following and are aligned with the governor's state-wide stay-at-home order and the framework he has laid out for the state's recovery.

we are fortunate and grateful that our state leadership is so focused on protecting public health, leveraging resources and following the data, science and facts. and yet, at this time, none of us can get complaisant. we need to stand our ground and maintain our gains. and make no mistake, this virus is still out there and it is still a threat. today, there are 1424 san francisco residents with confirmed cases of covid-19. a total of 23 people in sanfrancisco have died from the disease and my condolences to their families and friends. of the 1424 people diagnosed with covid-19, 134 or

professional 9% are people experiencing homelessness. for these residents, for other vulnerable populations, and, indeed, for the entire community, we must continue to have a unified, regional approach. that is why as the mayor announced, the bay area will extended the stay-at-home order until may. i know that this is very hard to do. we are missing vital and important parts of our lives. we are sacrificing time with our families, our friends, coworkers and neighbors. thank you for your sacrifice, your patience, your collaboration and your support. as we think to the future and

consider loosening some restrictions, i cannot stress enough that it will become even more important to continue to protect one another. this means establishing and sticking to what will be the new normal. this will include staying six feet apart, covering our faces, washing our hands frequently and still staying home as much as possible. these actions are based in science data and facts. and they are working. and they need to keep working. they need to keep working as we move forward. as we have done throughout our response, we will be informed by the data. we know we need to continue to expand testing and learn more

about where cases are. and we know that we will find more cases that way. right now, we need to increase the number of tests being done in san francisco each day. with ongoing expansion, this will happen. in terms of recovery, another key metric we will be watching closely is hospitalization of covid-positive patients. now why is that? well, that data point tells us a lot. it tells us how many people we have in our system who are seriously ill with covid-19 and who need the highest level of care in the healthcare system. that number has varied somewhat over the past two weeks from 94 patients on april 11th to 85 on april 25th. but the overall pattern has been

pretty stable, a flat curve. that means that today, our hospital system has room to care for patients and that is, indeed, good news. but it is still not enough. we need numbers to start dropping significantly and just stay down for several weeks. if that could happen -- that could happen if we continue our our current course. yet, we know today that those numbers could also start climbing again. that could happen if people start taking precautions, stop abiding by health orders and give the virus an opportunity to flourish and spread. as the mayor has mentioned, we saw that 102 years ago in san

francisco's prior serious flu pandemic. we have seen this happen with covid-19 internationally, in countries that successfully flattened their curve, listed restrictions too soon and the virus, unfortunately, came roaring back. the hospitalization numbers could also get worse if our vulnerable populations experience major outbreaks that we are not able to contain. , leading to other people becoming seriously ill. and again, i thank you for your patience, your sacrifice, your collaboration and support. and moving forward, we are working hard to develop recommendations based on data and science for loosening some of the restrictions. but we must be thoughtful, we

must be careful and we must take this step by step. with regard to our ongoing focus on vulnerable populations, they remain at the highest risk of the virus. this means people who are over 60 or with underlying health conditions. we must continue to prioritize them now and in the future including people in congregate settings, such as long-term care facilities, in homeless shelters, sros and jails. and we are making considerable and significant progress. as an example, i remind you that over 850 people, 850 vulnerable people, including those experiencing homelessness, those with chronic conditions or over aged 60 are now in hotel rooms

in our city. to protect them from getting the virus, to protect them from getting sick, to protect them from potentially dying from the virus. we have made significant progress, but there is much more work to do as we learn about how to slow the spread. we must continue to generate new knowledge and support a response. for example, the health department is collaborating with ucsf and community members in the district to determine the prevalence of the coronavirus in one of the most densely populated sections of city. we are seeing high rates in the llatino population. it's to test at least four people and ucsf is well on it

way with over 1700 people tested just this past weekend. what we will learn together will better inform our collective response and strengthen our current education outreach testing and care efforts within the latino community and the san francisco community as a whole. our goal remains to slow down the virus as much as possible. we cannot prevent it from coming here altogether but we can and have joined together to make it harder for the virus to spread. later this week, the mayor and other bay area leaders will provide more details on what the new health order will entail. but in the meantime, i wish to thank you sincerely again for your cooperation and compassion.

everyday, i see people wearing masks and standing apart from each other and making the hard decisions. together, we will do what it takes to get through this crisis. thank you. chief william scott will make a few remarks.

>> good afternoon, everyone. i'm chief william scott of the san francisco police department. as i always start off withi, i d like to thank our mayor, london breed, and dr. grant kolfax for their leadership during this very challenging time. as we expected over this past weekend, there were quite a few people out trying to get exercise, fresh air and enjoying the weather. we had an increased number of officers, volunteers with our alert program withi, and standsr auxillary response team. we worked at popular public

places to make sure and remind everyone about social distancing, about wearing face coverings and really trying to promote the safe protocols that our public health officials have told us will flatten the curve and i would like to thank everyone for their cooperation because by and large, we've been very successful in getting compliance voluntarily from the people in san francisco. so i have would like to thank everyone for their compliance and for their cooperation. we did receive complaints over the weekend, not that many, but about the public health order violations and in general, there were no significant issues. surprisingly, we actually received very few complaints about the lack of face coverings and although i can say because i was out this weekend around the city, that most people were complaint. most people tried to comply with

the face coverings. there were some that didn't have them and we had our park rangers and mta ambassadors by giving people face coverings who didn't have them. and we think that will go a long way to help continue to flatten this curve and we'll continue to do that. we've had to cite some businesses who after being warned continued to violate the order. as of sunday, april 26th, yesterday, that total is 17 cites in total and eight of those were businesses that were cited and nine individuals were cited. so violating either our county public health order or the state public health order. we've admonished a total of 78 8 and those warnings come with officers completed incident reports. enforcement has been an option of last resort and we have mainly gotten compliance when we've had to engage with individuals to remind them of

the health orders. but as i stated, there r there w people and a few businesses that had to be cited. we will use a pathway that starts with education, asking for voluntary compliance, warnings, and citations when necessary. you can visit our covid-19 website on our san francisco police department web page and learn about our enforcement protocols. i would like to remind everybody and take this opportunity to say if you're going to go outside, please follow the public health order protocols, remain six feet distance from others, wear face coverings and when you're waiting in line, please practise those social distancings. distag proceeds. most of the businesses in the city have taken measures to remind people what six feet looks like and you'll see sidewalk markings and you'll see in a lot of cases employees of the businesses out in front of the businesses reminding people

to wear their face covers and reminding people to stay significancsixfeet apart. we would like to thank business owners and managers for working with us on that. and i would like to switch to crime now and i'll provide you with an update on our crime statistics of the shelter-in-place order. i'm happy to say we saw a 19% decrease in overall violent crimes and we saw a 24% decrease in property crimes this past week, which was 126 fewer property crimes from the week prior and in total, there was a 23% decrease in part one of serious crimes which represents a 142 crime decrease over the previous week. and we're comparing the week of

april 20th to april 26th to the week of april 13th through april 19th. we continue to investigate burglaries. one area we've seen a slight increase are burglaries, particularly commercial burglaries, and we continue to investigate and we've made significant progress on many of the investigations that have resulted in arrests and prosecutions from the district attorney's office. 27 of those cases have resulted in charges -- booking challenges of looting. i would like to thank the district attorney to working with us in those types of crimes committed in a state-of-emergency. next, i want to remind everyone, when you travel, travel safely and responsibly, particularly on our roads and highways. as i reported this past week, we've had reports of a lot more

speeding on our roads and highways and that's simply unacceptable. fewer cars on the road is not a green light to speed or break traffic laws. so with that, you will see our traffic company officers with an increased visibility on our high-injury traffic corridors in support of our focus on the five efforts. and just to remind everyone, the focus on the five efforts we are trying to get to zero traffic fatalities by the year 2024. and that is our vision zero goal and aspiration and we will be out to make sure that we remind people in whatever way we need to, whether that be education enforcement, citations, to slow down. we want to thank those that are conducting their travel, their essential travel in a safe way. as you see our officers out there, just to remind everyone, as we roll out our slow-streets program, that it's imperative

you obey traffic laws, slow down and share the roads with pedestrians and bicyclists. as always, i want to encourage people to report crime when they see it, particularly violent crime. and report your crimes in a way that will decrease our face-to-face contact with either officers or each other and prevent the spread of the covid-19 virus. you can always call 9-1-1. we will always be there for crimes in progress. if you need to, you can use our new text 9-1-1 service and, again, i would like to reemphasize that was really designed in mind with victims of domestic violence who sometimes aren't able to make those calls, those land-line calls or cell phone calls because of the circumstanceses they're in. so please take advantage of the text 9-1-1 service if you need

to. for those crimes that have already happened and for nonviolent or property crimes, please call our nonemergency number at (415)553-0123. you call 3-1-1 or utilize or website to request a report or file a police report. and with that, again, i would like to thank everyone for their cooperation up to this point and please, let's stay the course. we know it's not easy. it's difficult for all of us, but please stay the course. and i believe we'll open it up for questions. >> the first set of questions are for mayor breed.

>> thank you, madam mayor. the first question is from sf chronicle. >> question: the city is woefully under the goal set by the board of supervisors emergency ordinance to lease 8,250 hotel rooms by april 26th. why did the city fail to meet this goal and what is the city doing to meet that goal? >> as i've said time and time and time and time again, there's a difference between a goal and what we all desire to do and what reality is.

and in the age of social distancing, it has been way more challenging than it has ever been to serve an already-challenging population. and the challenges with our homeless population, in particular issues around mental illness and substance use disorder and getting people to just comply with some basic requests like wearing masks or staying six feet away from not only one another but even the people that are trying to help has been very difficult. and when we look at the capacity needed to build up hotel rooms and san francisco, what we have done in the time period we've been able to do is, i think, in comparison to other major big cities has been remarkable. the fact that we have in our possession over 2,000 hotel rooms, where we have almost a

thousand homeless people who are housed has just been a very difficult thing to do in general. and we will continue to do everything we can to provide as many hotel rooms as we possibly can to do a couple of things. , move people out of our shelter systems and thin out some of our shelters and to move folks in those hotel rooms, people who are not housed, to make sure that our first responders and healthcare workers have access to those ohio tel hotel rooms, . we need to make sure there's delivery, check points for each location so that anyone just can't walk into one of these hotel rooms, that people are

getting on the elevator one person at a time and they're not in each other's rooms. i mean, the management alone of any one of these locations requires a significant amount of staff and although we've worked with a number of nonprofit agencies and people who work for the city, we've had to expand the number of people who are able to help us in this regard. i want to really take this opportunity to thank people who work for other city agencies like the department of public health and people who work for rec and park and the public library, people who may not traditionally work with this population, but all city workers or disaster service workers and so they are the ones that we have had to rely on and we have had to train and make sure that they have personal protective equipment and the necessary resources and understanding in order to work in a different capacity than what they were hired to do.

so as i've said again, over and over and over again, there's a big difference between our desires and what we want to do, because i don't think there's anyone in the city who doesn't want to house homeless people, period, whether it's a pandemic or not. but we are in a really challenging situation at this time. so i have to be realistic. the reality is, we can't do so safely without making sure that we have the people and the resources and the things necessary in place to keep the folks that we're serving safe and the people who are actually working in these locations safe, as well. it is very, very challenging and this is new territory for us in the age of social distancing. we have to be more responsible than that. >> thank you, madam mayor. the next set of questions are for dr. grant kolfax, the

department of public health. your first question from the san francisco chronicle. >> question: whatmetrics matter most when it comes to determining when to return to normally see in the bay area?

>> there are a couple of metrics in san francisco regionally and they are metrics suggested by experts across the country, public health experts and scientists. one of the key metrics i mentioned was a sustained decline in the number of people hospitalized and i'm talking about significant reductions over a period of two weeks, because that's the two week period, the incubation period of the virus. we node to increase our testing rates and whether we have outbreaks and test a large number of people because of an outbreak, but in general, we need to increase our testing to two or three times what it currently is. so that's a key piece we nee. we need to ensure our hospitals

across the system maintain surge capacity is that in event of an outbreak, we can rapidly respond. and then among the other metrics, the fourth key metric is having sufficient ppe, personal protective equipment to be able to maintain our efforts and then to ramp them up rapidly in the event of an outbreak. those would be some of the key metrics -- those are some of the key metrics we are looking at. another key piece is ensuring that businesses and other entities have a good data and science-driven guidelines as we relax -- and and when we relax the stay-in-shelter order. >> thank you, and next question is from trisha at the chronicle. >> question: do we have the full scope of infections in san

francisco if the city does not count people who have registered addresses outside of the county? >> so right now we have 12 123 cases of covid-19 in our skilled nursing facilities in san francisco and 65 are in central gardens. the county of residents is the place where the death is recorded. so if somebody has a different county of residents but is staying at a long-term care facility in sanfrancisco, we would not count that as a death in san francisco and vice versa is also true. we've had some deaths among san francisco residents who have been in other county facilities. i would emphasize that our largest, if not the largest skilled nursing facility in the countries, l laguna honda hospil was over 750 residents, all of those are residents of san francisco as a requirement to be

able to stay at laguna honda hospital. >> as a followup, does the city coincidencount everyone else the day. >> so, again, deaths are counted as the county of residents and as our outbreak investigations, when we are providing number of cases, those numbers are provided regardless of whether the person has permanent address in sanfrancisco or a primary residence outside of the country and they would not be counted on the daily tracker or as a sanfrancisco case if they maintained a primary residence in another county or jurisdiction. just to add again, that's basic data rules across the state and

so we are adhering to those principles. >> thank you. the next question is from sf bay. >> question: what criteria did the city use on deciding to john k. kennedy park? johnf. kennedy drive? >> ensuring people had the education and tools they need to keep themselves and others safe, a recognition that social distancing in, and we need more open space for people to go in a more dense space. we continue to strongly recommend wearing masks if you're social instancing

significance feet or more. but we felt that the public had the tools and the education that they needed in order to socially distance responsibly and wear face masks responsibly when they're outside and that was the reason we felt that it was time to open this space to the public. >> next question is from ron lynn, l.a. times. the number of new cases are starting to decline in the nine-county bay area but week-over-week deaths are not and the number of hospitalized people have been flat. why are we not making more progress in reducing deaths in hospitals. >> so josep overall, the deathsn francisco, well, one death is too many, we have had a relatively lower number of deaths than many other regions in the country and i'm thankful for that. one of the key issues is that

the deaths lag, the cases to some degree. over the course of the illness, it can take, unfortunately -- it can take weeks for people suffering from the illness to require more incentive care and, unfortunately, in some kay caseo die. so the number of positive cases, the number of hospitalizations will be consistently less -- i'm wassorry, the deaths will be consistently behind the hospitalizations in increase in a number of cases and so it's a matter of the pattern of the disease. i think what is also important is that the hospitalization rate has stayed relatively stable over the past two weeks, which is a positive sign as we find more positive cases. obviously the most we test, the more cases we will find, which

is why it's so important to look at the hospitalization rate over the next two to four weeks with a hope that that curve will decline. deaths, i think, will continue to increase over the next two to four weeks just because of that delay and when we see deaths over the course of the disease. >> next question is from ktvu. >> question: what are the criteria by which this sanfrancisco department of public health and other departments of public health across the bay area are using to determine whether to extend and when to lift of the newly extended order? could we see a further extension? >> so i think, what i focus on what the new normal will be and i can't say when that new normal will be. i think that we need to, again, see some of the changes in the data that i've talked about today, the reduction in people

living with covid-19, the increase in testing, our ability to monitor the epidemic and get ppe. we have to reiterate that the situation has been fluid for weeks and months now and we just need to keep following the data and science while ensuring we're developing guidelines for what the new normal will look like. i think for the foreseeable future, high adherence to wearing mask and other facial coverings in public and ensuring people social distance whenever possible, those will be important criteria moving forward and we need to work with the business community and other key stakeholders to figure out what guidelines need to look like as we potentially loosen the shelter-in-place order in

the coming months. >> thank you. the next set of questions are for dr. kahn, homelessness and supportive housing. your question is from fox news. you've talked about the challenges of keeping unchallenged individuals in

hotel rooms for 14 days, especially if they don't want to. what are you doing to make sure they stay in there for the allotted time? are there incentives being offered? >> thanks for that question, mike. i think you all heard the mayor speak about the challenges of staffing hotels across the board. the 14 days would be specifically related to somebody's medical need to isolate in quarantine. many individuals in our hotels are staying for longer than that and certainly, there are challenges. i think about this myself, if i was told to go to a hotel room and not leave for a long period of time, how challenging it would be for me. and then if you add on the complexities of somebody who hasn't been living indoors, something with a mental health or trauma background, a substance abuse issue, certainly we know these compounding layers of trauma and medical health needs make it difficult on top of it just being difficult for any of us to stay in one place for that long. we've been having really

tremendous success as we get better and better at operating hotels and we know from operating permanent housing across the country that people want to be housed and they want to be safe and if you can meet their needs with food and comfortable spaces to be and enough information and contact, people will absolutely kind of connect to where they are. i think part of the challenge in our hotels is that we can't connect and so things we know are really successful in permanent housing, meals together and events at christmas time and other holidays can't happen. and so, what we're doing to answer your question is meals are served three times a day, of course, and we have people calling into check on people by phone and increasingly, we're looking forward -- we've been piloting and we're looking forward to rolling out a really big volunteer program where you can be kind of a buddy to

somebody staying in a hotel and you can form a tight connection with phone. and we know that people have things to do. people have access, generally, to television and to food and to a comfortable place to be. and we mostly get stories people who are so grateful to be there and their only question is, will they be able to stay in place for the entirety of the pandemic and what will happen to them afterward? while there are a few exceptions, we're getting much better at it and we thank all of our guests. as the mayor did, we thank the dsws and hsa staff who are out there ever da everyday operatine hotels. i was told the held of the library is employed as a site monitor. so it's really, really hard to do for everybody. i, too, wani don't want to sugt

this. this is one of the hardest things to do and this is part of the challenge and we're learning together to make this work. >> thank you, director. that concludes our questions for today. thank you.

>> san francisco parks, golden gate park transforms into one of the greatest music festivals of all time, let's journey, inside, outside land. ♪ >> to this, our 6th year doing the outside lands and our relationship with san francisco, rec and park. and we work very closely with them in the planning and working very closely with the neighborhood organizations and with the city supervisors and with the city organizations and with the local police department, and i think that the outside lands is one of the unique festivals in the world and we have san francisco and we have golden gate park and we have the greatest oasis, in the world. and it has the people hiking up hills and down hills and a lot of people between stages. >> i love that it is all outside, the fresh air is great.

>> they have the providers out here that are 72 local restaurants out here. >> celebrating, and that is really hot. >> 36 local winerries in northern california and 16 brewers out here. >> and you have seen a lot of people out here having a good time and we have no idea, how much work and planning has gone into this to make it the most sustainable festival in the united states. >> and literally, in the force, and yeah, unlike any other concept. and come and follow, and the field make-up the blueprint of the outside land here in golden gate park and in the future

events and please visit sffresh parks.org. >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those

earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the

weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it

bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question.

>> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances

buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you

are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ?

>> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage.

when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for

>> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪ ♪

>> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover

it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪ ♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go

ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved.

every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪ ♪ by the power ♪ of your name

>> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days.

i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and

kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element

>> thank you all again for joining us this afternoon. as of today, w we have a total f 1,332 cases coronavirus in our city. if you want more information, specific data around zip code and race and the number of people tested, you can check out our website, data sf.org/covid19. whenever we have accurate information and can provide it to the public, we provide it on our tracker and we made a number of announcements about the expansion of our tracker to include a zip code and to look at some of the despairties that exist in our city. the tracker is helpful in that regard and helpful in making sure that we are allocating

resources in the places that need it the most. i want to be clear from the very beginning in our emergency operation's center, we have embedded the office of equity, which is focused on making sure that all of the decisions that we make are looked at through a lense of equity in the communities disadvantaged or left out the larger city-wide response, they get the resources and the support that they need. this past monday, cheryl davis here was to talk about an extensive list of things they're doing for outreach and i want to thank all and all of the city staff that continue to support our most vulnerable residents. i've just a few updates that i want to talk about and i really want to start give to sf. we have been talking about give

to sf from the very beginning because we knew that when this pandemic hit, that it was going to impact people financially. and the city was not going to be able to do it alone. although we've done a tremendous job, many of our city agencies with reshifting resources that they already have in order to meet needs that we did not anticipate, we know it will be important to get assistance from private contributors. and give to sf, we announced over a month ago and as of today, we've raised over $10 million in private resources to help with give to sf and i want to be clear about the focus of this program. number one, food security. number two, housing security. and number three, small business support. and in particular, we knew that

a few things would happen as a result of this pandemic. there would be people who lost their jobs, but also didn't qualify for unemployment or had no access to resources whatsoever. we knew that food would be a challenge and although we've been able to invest more in programs and also a rent moratorium, an eviction moratorium and a number of other things we've put into place, people would need resources directly to ensure that they had food on their tables and that they had access to resources that pay their bills. and again, the spirit of the people of the city has been absolutely outstanding. it just really reminds me of how important it is that we look out for one another and this program, give to sf does exactly that. and i want to just take this opportunity to just talk about what the program has already

done. as i said, we've raised over $10 million for this program and already, we've allocated about 5.35 million to nonprofit organizations and other groups that have distributed the money directly to people that would need it the most, including providing grocery store gift cards to low income and non-documented residents because, again, we know people who are a part of our immigrant community would have the most challenging time getting access to food and we wanted to make sure we prioritize this community as recipients of gift cards so organizations that serve or immigrant community, as well as organizations that serve various low-income populations throughout the city have been the people that we've counted on to work with us to distribute

access to gift cards for grocery shopping. we're providing, as we did early on, grants to small businesses, as well as a no-interest loan with flexible repayment schedules because we want to provide not only money that people need in these small businesses immediately, but we want to make sure that they have a sufficient revenue to cover their expenses. when i think about the businesses who i know will need help the most and will most likely not be able to recover the cost that -- the amount of resources that they are losing as a result of these pandemics, i think about the people who do hair, the people who do nails, masseuse, the people who cut your hair, those kinds of services and i know that after we're able to move back into a place we can open up those businesses, they're still going to have some real challenges

with meeting the needs of their back rent and other financial issues, as well as their es. employees. we want to make sure those businesses that do not traditionally qualify for the resources that qualify for the state, that we provide them with some relief directly here in the city. and so, we are also providing funding for people who are at risk of losing their housing. although we have issued a moratorium on evictions within,w there other challenges besides what's happening with this pandemic that could lead to housing and security and concern about losing not only your housing but your business. so we wanted to make sure that we had a well-rounded network of support as a result to give to sf and we did just that, with the goals of getting the money into the hand os of the people o

need it the most. i want to reiterate, for example, if you are someone who has access to other resources, please make sure that you are not reaching out to this fund because there are so many people in need and the fact is, no matter how much money we raise, it's going to be difficult to help everybody. so if you need help, we are here to help you, but please don't take advantage of these resources if you don't need them. i want to neighboring this opportunity to also really highlight some of our major contributors to this fund who have been labor been incredibley one, the gershin baker foundation, dr. erica lawson and jeff lawson, google and stumsky

foundation. these organizations have contributed a significant amount of money, not only to give to sf but they also continue to support other nonprofit organizations throughout san francisco and have been really an important part of the fabric of philanthropic giving. you don't have to have a lot money to give to sf. we have received contributions between $10.1.5 million. if this is something you're able to do to help others, please look at our website or call 3-1-1.

we want to ensure it's reaching people who need it the most and thank you all for stepping up to support people in our city to make sure no one is left behind. i want to talk a little bit about testing expansion. from the very beginning, we announced a number of test sites to help some of our first responders and city employees, in particular. and as many of you know, testing is very, very challenging to do because we have limited test capabilities available and so, we want to be very strategic about how we make testing available. of course, anyone exhibiting symptoms should be tested, whether they have insurance or not and the fact that here in san francisco, we've not only extended our capacities to meet the need of many of our first

responders and healthcare professionals and muni drivers and others, but we are today taking it even a step further. the selma location that we opened is available to anyone in san francisco who exhibits any type of symptoms as it relates to the covid-19 virus. again, your immigration status, your lack of insurance, nothing should be a barrier to being able to get tested and we want to make sure that if you think that you have symptoms, then we're able to test you and this will be used for covid-19 testing and data. but we wanted to take it a step further and the location we're testing first responders and people who work in our healthcare industry that it was limited to that particular group of people, we know there are a lot of other people on the frontlines and when we talk

about essential workers, essential workers doesn't only mean people who work in the healthcare industry or those public safety folks who work for the police and fire departments. it also means our grocery store clerks. it also means our janitors and our in-home support services, people who we need to continue to work to support other folks throughout the city and so, if you are in a category of an essential worker, the location where we are testing our first responders and our healthcare professionals, we are extending the ability to test you at this particular site. dr. colfax will talk a lot more about the specifics of that, but again, we do not want anything to be a barrier to making sure you're able to get a test now, especially if you exhibit the symptoms. dr. colfax will also talk a little bit more about how we're limiting the number of symptoms that would allow for testing, p

you think you've been in touch with someone with covid-19 or in some way, you're infected, we want to expand the number of people that we can test and he will talk a little bit more about that as resources come ind as we evaluate on a daily basis, we will expand our ability to test more people. last week talked about contact tracing and trying to identify not only the person, family members who have contracted covid-19, but also others that they've come in contact with. our goal is to do everything we can to enhance contact tracing, expand testing capacities. because as we talk about reopening our city and oh region, these tools are going to be critical to our ability to move forward in this direction.

so if you are someone who needs tested, please give us a call at 3--311 and we will get you to a location to get test results. dr. colfax will talk about this more, if you're an essential worker and you think you have symptoms and you get tested today and you find out tomorrow that you're negative and you're back at work and you're working and later on, a week later, you significanexhibit symptoms agait you to get tested again if you think there's a possibility that you may have the virus because you are out there working and being exposed the virus because of your interactions with the public. and so, we want to keep that in mind as we move on about our lives, but especially as we look at the possibility of reopening

our city, and these are the things we'll need to pay attention to in the future. i want to thank color, carbon health and one medical who are collaborating with us to help provide these additional resources for testing and i want to thank the port of san francisco and the department of public health, as well, because it does take a lot of people and resources to put together any of these testing sites and the goal is to, again, to try to test as many people as we possibly can. if you have questions and you need to be tested, please call 311 or visit sfgov/citytest. hope flehopefully we are gettina point we can get back to our

daily lives. we're not there yet and we're hoping to get there. a couple of weeks ago, i, along with the president of board of supervisors, norman yee, to start a economic recovery task force. that is being cochaired by our recorder carmen choo, the labor council, executive director, rudy gonzalez, and the director of the san francisco chamber of commerce, rotney fong. and the goal of this economic recovery task force is to work with a number of stakeholders throughout san francisco and when i say stakeholders that's from the nonprofit community and business areas. so, again, i go back to the

folks who do hair and nails and making sure they're represented in this economic recovery plan and organizations that serve the community, people who are community stakeholders, we want to make sure that we are thinking about what happens after we start to get back to our daily lives. what happens with our restaurants and tourism? what happens with our hospitals and our hotels? what happens with job opportunities that may no longer be available and what other industries will be coming increasingly available as a result of this pandemic. how do we repurpose our educational institutions and other resources that we have available to fit the needs of what is our new normal? how do we shift our focus so that those who have lost their jobs and have no access to other opportunities or have limited

skillsets, how do we reshift our focus to make sure that they have opportunities? this economic recovery task force is about the future. and just so you know where we stan as istand, as of april 4th0 people in san francisco have filed for unemployment and we anticipated that another 40,000 people in san francisco will file for unemployment. the recession that happened in 2008 and 2009, 45,000 people applied for unemployment. and today, in 2020, we're already at over 60,000 which means that we're going to have some real challenges with our economy and that will not just be the economy here in san francisco. it will be all over the country and all over the world.

and how are we going to redirect our focus on recovery so that people are able to get jobs and take care of themselves and their families? and this economic recovery task force is critical to the success of our future. i mentioned last week or maybe the week before -- i don't think i can keep up with the days -- that we anticipate a 1.1 to $1.7 billion budget deficit. so the city's budget deficit, a number of companies might be going out of business, restaurants, small businesses and we have some real challenges ahead which is why this economic recovery task force and the work they do to help with plan for our future is so important. so i just want to appreciate all of the work that they are doing

and just remind everyone that this will be a very challenging time. one in which i know that because we are here to work together, that we will get through it. and in that regard, there's a lot that we're going to need to do to support our small businesses and our business community in general. because of the real challenges that they face. from the beginning, we provided grants to small businesses that, basically, were quickly swallowed up and we have deferred the payment of your business tax until february of 2020. we actually deferred the payment of certain fees for a few months with the commitment to defer those fees to a longer period of time and, also, i think it's important as a city that we look at all of the fees that we

charge our businesses and make some decisions to eliminate fees in general that have a negative impact on the ability for our small business community to return and that is something we're going to continue to work on. and i want to just talk a little bit about the announcement that was made yesterday by myself and treasurer cysneros to delay the fee for four months until september 30th. this business registration fee that businesses pay, the fact that we're delaying it until september will be helpful to our business community. this will lead up to $49 million in deferrals for at least 90,000 businesses in the city. and we're also extending the deadline again for the unified license fee, which is a fee we had initially extended for three

months. this fee that includes charges to restaurants, bars, small retailers, hotels, tour operators and other businesses and it has been especially hit hard by the pandemic. we're extending that to ensure that we support our small business community and with an opportunity to try to reevaluate what fees we can eliminate entirely. so i want to express the need to continue to make sure that not only are we dealing with the health impacts of the coronavirus here in the city. at the same time, there are other challenges and other needs that need to be met and so part of what we have to do in addition to our physical and mental health and well-being, we have to focus on our economic health. and so that will be a critical focus for us over the next

couple of weeks. and so, for my business that needs any support or has any questions or there's any way we can help you, please reach out at oewd.org/covid-19 or call 311. for any of the announcements that you hear today, if you don't have access to the internet, you can call 311 and you will be transferred to the right location or provided a phone number or information on how you get access on what we talked about here. and if you have access to the internet and you can't remember all of these websites, because i definitely can't, please just go to sfgov.org and you should able to find information about any city services. there's a tracker for the information on the number of people who have the virus in the city with details and there's information about food and

access to food. there's information about housing and other things. there's just a lot of great information if you're looking for it or if it's confusing and you want to just get straight to the point, you can either do a search our sfgov.org or call 311. we will continue to work with our federal and state partners to get even more resources for the people here in san francisco. but we also know the challenges of how long it can take to not only get legislation passed but to get it through the doors where the resources actually hit the public and we want to make sure that we're doing all we can here loyal to support the residents of the city. yes, the city government plays an important part in doing just that, but also, the incredible people of san francisco, so many folks who have been really kind they're neighbors and others and provided resources, spending money out their own pockets or

running errands or the things you've done, that is impactful, as well, and we appreciate all that you continue to do to make sure that we are really looking out for each other because as we continue to say, yes, we are all in this together, what impacts one person impacts us all. and if someone in the city isn't doing well, then it has a tremendous impact on each and everyone of us. so the fact we have so many people in san francisco that are extending their hands and helping out, it means a lot, so i want to express my appreciation and just end it quickly with a story about my grandmother. you know, when you are at home a lot, it gives you a time to not only clean up and do the kinds of house chores that you probably put off for a really long time. it gives you time to reflect

about the people in your life and the value of experiencing you've had. experiences you've had. i grew up in public housing and we didn't have a lot and a lot of the food we received came from the free food program. if any of you receive this food, you know it was a white box of powdered milk or the silver cans of beef or the juice, the grapefruit joyc juice and so ond so forth. we got a lot of the free government cheese and my grandmother was a really good cook. so she would take this free government food and make magic happen. and what i appreciate the most, because people would come to our house, especially when they know dinner was ready, and we knew that they were always coming there to eat. and so i remember one time, i said, mama, why are we always feeding everybody?

we don't have anything ourselves. my grandmother said shutup, girl. she was just like, that's what you do. be quiet. and this what you're supposed to do to take care of your community. you never know what whe when the you. you never know when you'll be in that same situation. so just remember to be good to people. and so, she always had a way -- she said a lot less diplomatic than what i just said, but the fact is, i got the message. and i think that so many people in our city, they have probably at some point in their life have gotten the same message as they grew up to learn that it is definitely a blessing to give and to be supportive of one another and that's the spirit of what this city represents and so, i just want to express my appreciation to all of you for

your continuous leadership and support and your compliance with this order. i know it's been a long time and everyone is ready to get back to their lives, but trust me, this is for the best. and we are in the process of reevaluating some of the health orders and looking at ways in which we can get back to that point safely. and so, as soon as we are able to evaluate that and make good decisions to protect public health, you will all be the first to know as i've committed to every step of the way of this process, to ensuring that we are providing you with information and doing what's best and making sure we're keeping people safe and that's exactly what we'll do when it's time to reopen our doors and to allow us to begin to gradually get back to the life we all know and miss. so thank you for your cooperation and i want to ask dr. grant colfax to come up and

provide an update at this time. >> thank you, mayor breed. good afternoon. today, there are 1233 san francisco residents with confirmed cases of coronavirus. i start out my remarks with this

fact to remind you that the data and science continue to tell the story here in san francisco and will continue to guide a response. now 21 people in san francisco have died from coronavirus. this is a loss to our community and i send my condolences to their loved ones. we know that 20 of the people who have died were over 60 years old and all 21 had underlying health conditions. this is consistent with what we know about who is most at risk. our hospitalization numbers for covid-positive patients have been holding relatively steady for the past two weeks. if you look at the graph on the data tracker, you can see that

the curve is flat. san francisco, you made that happen. it is an incredible achievement and i thank you. and we must continue to flatten the curve. i remain very concerned about outbreaks that are occurring in the homeless population, long-term care facilities and other congregate living settings. as we have known and as i have said from the beginning, that this is where the virus presents the greatest threat. if people affected by these outbreaks get very sick, it could still overwhelm our healthcare system. that is why we have prioritized vulnerable populations in these settings from the very start. and now, i want to talk in some

detail about testing. as you've heard the mayor say, we have made a major stride in offering testing to every healthcare workers, first responder and essential worker which has symptoms in the expansion of city test sf. this expansion applies to public and private sector workers and also to any san francisco essential worker with symptoms who do not have other access to testing. it is critical to test people with symptoms so that swift action can follow to provide care, contact investigation and isolation and quarantine. these steps reduce the risk of further exposure and slow the spread of the virus.

there have been many bumps on this road with getting the right test, a reliable test and a persistent shortage of supplies needed to conduct the test. let me be clear, our vision, my vision is that everyone in san francisco has universal access to testing. let me repeat that. the vision is that everyone in san francisco has universal access to testing. we cannot get there overnight. but we are certainly headed in

that direction. today people with any symptoms consistent with covid-19 will be able to get tested. today people who have had close contact with a confirmed covid-19 case, even if they do not have symptoms will be eligible for testing. as we move towards this vision of universal access for testing, this will be a step-wise process consistent with our public health priorities in fighting the pandemic. our values to promote equity and the feasibility based on testing capacity and supplies. and these challenges will

continue, but we will iterate and improve and respond. i want to remind you of priorities to litigate outbreaks, protect vulnerable populations, protect healthcare workers, frontline workers, essential workers, including first responders. test people as a result of contact investigations that include all close contacts and test people with symptoms who hey nomay not be covered by thee other criteria. we base these priorities on the facts about coronavirus. and by keeping to them, we have been able to test everyone in those groups with symptoms, even in the face of scarce supplies and other challenges.

we have been expanding testing capacity ever since we started in our public health lab on march 2nd. and that lab alone, thanks to the hard work of our public lab staff and director dr. susan philip. we are committed to continuing to expand that testing capacity, both in that lab and other partners across the city. as of today, 12,054 people in san francisco have been tested and an average of 12% have tested positive. here are some examples of our commitment to expanding and growing testing capacity to date. we have opened two city test sf

sites for healthcare workers, front-line workers, essential el workers and other people in san francisco with symptoms. the health department, in addicts taddition to expanding r capacity has opened multiple test sites in the city, including the castro mission health center and southeast health center. and i am happy to report that another community-based testing site will open tomorrow in the western addition next to the maxine hall test center. these community sites give patients the opportunity to be tested without leaving their own neighborhood, keeping themselves and others safer. these health department test sites are part of a growing capacity across the city to test people. , including 26 sites

across the city at ucsf, one medical, kaiser, fedder, chinese hospital and dignity help. health. in addition, we are testing all people coming so the jail who will be housed in the jail, and we will begin to test all close contacts of people with confirmed covid-19 regardless of whether they have symptoms or not. as we look forward to our goal of universal access, the next steps will be the testing of more people who do not have symptoms. the focus must be on congregate settings, workers and we must do this work through an equity lense. i want to expand on this a bit, because it's very important to understand the connection between testing expansion and

the unwavering commitment to our priorities that, again, are based on data, science and facts. the next phase of testing people without symptoms will include testing in congregate settings such as shelters, long-term care facilities and sros. testing of healthcare workers, frontline workers and other essential workers, testing in geographic and cultural communities that are affected by despairties and the spread of the coronavirus. and in reaching toward our as as spir racial goal of universal testing, we must recognise several points.

question will rely on those in the healthcare sector. the timeline for these next steps is dependent on several factors, multiple factors, including the ability to meet the demands of current work, managing new outbreaks, a growing number of positives, as well as testing capacity and supplies. and supplies continue to remain a challenge. we recognise and we all must recognise that not every positive test result can be met with full wrap-around supportive services. we will continue to work with our partners as a human service agency and supportive housing department. but we must take a harm

reduction approach. we know from experience that most people who know they are positive will take steps to protect themselves and others. and even with the efforts of the human service agency and the department of homelessness and supportive housing, we must ask people to protect themselves and others. we will take the harm reduction approach which has always been a foundation of our public health system and an effective approach based on science, data and facts, that most people who test positive will do everything they can to protect themselves, to protect others and to protect the community. and it is very important that we realize that negative tests are only a point-in-time finding and should not be cannot be a signal

to forego or relax the use of precautions. therefore, universal testing for people in san francisco will mean that all individuals have a responsibility to act on the basis of their results to the to the best of their ability, they must take this responsibility by self-isolating, seeking care, taking precautions and continuing to protect themselves, their family and community members. and, of course, our systems will do everything that we can to support individuals, their families and the community in this work. we also recognise that science and technology is rapidly evolving and will continue to inform our response and testing strategy. as more rapid tests become available, as we have a better

understanding of what antibody tests really mean and whether neutralizing antibodies confirm long-term, medium term or short-term protection, our toolbox of testing options will likely grow and be implemented as quickly and as effectively as possible. again, supplies continue to be a challenge, but we are making progress and we will continue to do everything we can to ensure that people in san francisco have what we need. and it is very important that we recognise the testing is an important piece, but it just one piece of an overall approach to fighting the coronavirus. the mayor emphasized the importance of contact tracing and this is a vital component and must be paired effectively

and over the long-term with our testing strategies. it is also crucial to continue to do everything we can to prevent people from getting sick in the first place. that includes staying at home, social distancing covering your face around other people and frequent handwashing. it is also important that we continue to ensure that the healthcare system is on high alert and prepared to handle a surge of cases and to be able to treat everyone safely. and it is critical that we do all of this work with an eye towards equity. the health department is commit to the health and well-being of all people in san francisco and to do everything we can to

support the health and full recovery of all communities in our city during and after this pandemic. thank you. is and now police chief bill scott who has been incredible partner to this pandemic will make a few weeks. remarks.

>> thank you and good afternoon. i'm bill scott, chief of police of the san francisco police department and i would like to start off as i always do by thanking our mayor, london breed, and director of public health, grant colfax to for their outstanding leadership during this ver very challenging time. i want to thank the members and the people of san francisco for their support and for their compliance. the vast majority of the public are compliant with the measures that are meant to stop the spread of the covid-19 virus. with that said, we do have some instances in which we've had to issue citations to people and

businesses who after being warned continued to flout the order. to date, we've issued 1 16 citations, seven businesses and nine individuals for violating the county public health order or the state public health order. we admonished or warned 71 people which breaks down to 48 businesses or business owners or managers and 23 individuals. our enforcement will continue and in addition to those figures that i just mentioned, we've informally reached out and contacted hundreds of individuals for warnings to gain voluntary compliance. we've already received press inquiries about how we will enforce the updated public health order regarding the face coverings. from the outset of the original public health order that was issued in mid-march, the sfpd

paid it clear oudmade it clear t has been an option of last resort, but i have stated and continue to state that we will use that option for those who flout the order. that motto has been largely successful and we will continue to use that motto going forward in the issuance of the latest public health order which requires face coverings. our compliance pathway, again, started with educating the public and asking for voluntary compliance. we then issue warnings and formal warnings come with an incident report that our officers take if they issue a formal warning and as a last resort, particularly for those who continue to disobey the order after being warned, we have cited those individuals or

businesses. i want to say that we are working with director cheryl davis, who you heard from during wednesday's press conference. director davis has mobilized key stakeholders in the community and, basically, those stakeholders along with director davis is other city workers plan to distribute face coverings thanks to the mayor's gift to sf campaign. those face coverings have been donated and we think that will go a long way in preventing the spread of covid-19 as well as voluntary combines. scompliance.thank you to directd the others who have been involved that effort because we think that will make a difference. for those interested in our enforcement protocols, visit our covid-19 website on our department's web page and read the department notices that lay

out all of our enforcement protocols. as we've stated before, the purpose of the public health order is not to arrest or cite. it's about promoting the public health practises that will help to prevent the spread of the virus and the san francisco police department's role in that is to help our community get through this extremely difficult time in ways that don't make the situation worse. by working with our community members and by working with our other city partners, we have been largely successful and we ask for continued cooperation and support to stop the spread of this virus. now i want to turn to our crimes to give you an update. we saw an 18% update and that

was mainly fueled by 11 additional robberies and two additional assaults. there was a 31% decrease in part one property crime, which equates to 154 fewer property crimes this past week. and overall, there was a 25% decrease in part one crime which equated to 142 fewer crimes from the previous week. as we've stated, we have had burglaries and vandalisms of businesses and we want to ensure the public and let the public know and let those would-be criminals know that we take this extremely seriously. we've made progress on several of those investigations and are well on our way to identify the perpetrators so those individuals can be brought to justice is held accountable for those crimes. we want our business owners to know that during this difficult time, that the san francisco police department will be out

patrolling, particularly during the night-time, because that's when we've seen many of these crimes occur and our field operation's bureau chief, as well as our operation's assistant chief, michael redman, and their teams are working tirelessly to make sure we do everything possible so that we don't have people being victimized during this difficult time and in some cases our investigators by working with the district attorney's office have been able to get additional charges for looting, which is section 463 of the california penal code and we've had 22 instances where individuals have been arrested and charges of looting have been brought fort anbrought forth.so thank you tot attorney for working with us on that. as always, we encourage people to report crimes but do so in a

way that decreases face-to-face contract in the midst in the spread of the coronavirus. call 9-1-1 to report violent crimes and crimes in progress. we will respond to those crimes as we always do and we will be there for you. please also make use of our newly implemented text 911 service if you are unable to make the phone call but need emergency help. particularly for those that might be experiencing domestic violence, if you are unable to get to the phone to make the call, please take advantage of the text 9-1-1 service. for crimes that have already happened, use our nonviolent property crimes, use our nonemergency line at (415)553-0123. that's (415)553-0123. you can also call 3--1 or

utiliz-1-1 orrequest a copy of g police report. as a reminder, this is national crime's victim's right week is we want to honor crime victims and raise awareness for victim's crimes victims for what they have gone through. lastly, the men and women of the san francisco police department want everyone infected by crime to know that we are always here to provide the service that you need with dignity, compassion and respect. please listen to the direction of our public health officials under the leadership of dr. grant colfax. if you must go outside, please wear a face covering as the most recent order mandates. also, maintain six foot of social distancing and stay six

feet apart. let all do our part for the prevention of the spread of the covid-19 virus and flatten the curve. thank you. >> thank you, chief scott. the first question is for you. from marco gonzalez, kqed, how will sfpd enforce the new public health order regarding face coverings? >> as i stated, our motto has not stated from where we started when the first issue was ordered. i want to make something clear. when i talk about progresstive e pathways to combines, admonished, warnings, it doesn't mean we're not engaging. our officers are engaging on a daily basis and engaging with

many, many people. and i want to let you know, that, yeah, you might be contacted with a san francisco police officer who might ask questions about either where you are or why you don't have your face covering on. please be patient with us because we are here to help. our goal is to further promote the public health orders. our goal is not to write a bunch of citations and arrest a bunch of people. our goals are actually to keep our public healthy is safe. be patient, and understand the orders are there to keep us all healthy and safe and please don't mistake the fact that progresstive enforcement or progressive pathway to compliance equates to lack of engagement. we are engaging thousandsch people and will continue to do so because we want to get to voluntary compliance. in order to do that, it takes engagement.

>> thank you, chief scott. the next set of questions are for mayor london breed madam mayor, the first question, the san francisco county committee chair, david compose switchewageswitch to all mail fs election and what is made to make this a reality? >> to be clear, as someone comes

from a community who, unfortunately, has a history in thiscallinthis country of not hg access to the voting booth, we, of course, take the ability for people in san francisco and others to have access to voting very seriously. in fact, we've already started this process over a month ago, working with the department of elections to prepare for what could happen if in november we still are in a very similar situation to the one we're in. we want to make sure that this in no way impedes anyone's ability to vote. so preparing to have access to more mail-in ballots and also more outreach around voting will be critical to ensuring that everybody has the ability to vote in this election and it's something we've beesomething wen for over a month and we will continue to do so. >> the next question is from joyce cutler, bloomburg law.

the board of supervisors passed requirements for companies to pay for or reimburse gig workers for protective equipment and sanitizing products. will you be signing the legislation? >> i want to be clear that it's important that not only does any other company or business in san francisco provide the appropriate support to their employees, including soap and hand sanitizer and protective equipment, especially to those essential workers. it's important that we do so at a city level. the legislation was just passed and so, we're still reviewing it, but it's definitely something overall that i agree with. >> thank you. also from joyce, what is the proposed level of budget cuts and how many positions will be eliminated to deal with the upcoming $11 billion deficit? >> as i said earlier, we anticipate based on the controllers' report that there will be a budget deficit of

anywhere between 1.1 and $1.7 billion and i think that what that means in the upcoming budget and next year's budget, we'll have to look at the financial projections and where we could make specific changes in order to cut the budget. we don't have the specifics as to what positions or what programs or anything of that nature might be impacted. because that is something we will continue to discuss as we move through this crisis based on what we're spending and based on what we would receive in federal or state reimbursements, as well as some of the resources we've allocated, some of the revenue loss. it's not as simple as being able to answer a question like that right now to say that definitively something is going to happen. but the fact is, close to

$1.7 billion projected deficit means there will be major shift in priorities and definitely some significant financial impacts on services in our city. thank you. thank you, madam mayor. the next set of questions are for dr. grant colfax.

the first question is from kt u.s. tvu. are there any measures to address the black latino americans who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic? >> welling, yes. >> yes. these populations have been a focus of our work since the beginning of the pandemic. there are resources to ensure that they have the educational materials, the support and access to the care that they need in order to pi to mitigatee effects and get the testing, care and treatment they need. one example would be at southeast health center.

we have established a field clinic so that people can get their primary care and urgent care needs met there rather than going to another medical setting. we've established a testing site there and i mentioned that maxine hall center, we will start testing site there tomorrow. and within the mission district, which has a high proportion of latin x residents, zuckerburg san francisco hospital is right there and we will continue to care for the population, for all of san francisco, but especially and including the mission . and an example of a collaboration with regard to learning more about what we can do better, we are collaborating with ucsf on a study of a census track in the mission which has

many latin x residents to better understand the prevalence of the virus there. so the goal there is to test thousands of residents in that track over a relatively short period of time to better understand the dynamics of the pandemic in that community. but i think beyond that, that's a study and i think the important thing is that we are reasoarereinforcing and buildinh community leaders and stakeholders and ensuring everyone in sanfrancisco, regardless of where you live in san francisco has access to testing and care during this time. and also general healthcare overall. >> the next question is from dominick from search f chronicle. sf chronicle. is the volume of swabs keeping capacity with the testing

capacity and what is needed for ppe and frontline healthcare workers? so this remains a huge challenge, a challenge locally, regionally, state-wide and nationally. our aspirational goal for universal testing is further complicated in amendmen implemeg because on a day-to-day basis, i do not have the metrics needed to plan as intent fullfully as d because it's unclear of the supplies will arrive and there is simil simply no centralized m to help local jurisdictions to figure out in a clear way how do we expand. right now, where we stand, we

have enough testing materials and equipment to of course pan to that next set of eligiblability criteria and mean have any symptoms consistent with covid-19, close contacts with people who are known to have covid-19 and then, as we expand to these broader populations and testing, it's going to be an iterative process and it will be dependent on the supply chains stabilizing over time. >> the next question, based on the facts this was weeks earlier than believed, are there any indications that san francisco's first death may have been earlier than we believe? >> i do not have indications of that. it a theoretically possible and we are having conversations with our medical examiner to

determine what retrospective analyses can be done. from the beginning of this pandemic, we have been vigilant in testing unexplained cases of death for covid-19. but it's certainly something given the data that was released yesterday that we will be looking at. >> thank you. the next question is from kathy novack. will essential workers seeking tests at the two sites need a referral? >> so with regard to this testing program, people can go online and are screened online for eligibility and then they can take the next steps depending on their answers with regard to receiving testing at those sites. >> can the city start to reopen before we reach the goal of universal testing for all people in san francisco? >> so i think there are a number of factors that will help us

determine based on data, science and facts how we will potentially relax the shelter-in-place order. certainly expansion of testing is one important tool and another important tool that is linked to that testing is the ability to do aggressive contact tracying stracing, so that in pg where there are outbreaks, we can quickly response. then we need to ensure there's a consistent methodology to how we ensure there's capacity in our healthcare system in the event of an outbreak or a surge in need. there are many other components that will help us to determine relaxation of shelter-in-place orders and the number of switches we turn on overtime, we need to be flexible and have the capacity to shut those down if, indeed, we start seeing

coronavirus cases increase. >> thank you. the next question is from mission local. dr. colfax, you mentioned that lab testing has increased four-foal. four-told. four-followed. whafour-fold. what is the testing capacity in numbers now? >> at our public health lab, we increased from being able to do 50 a day to 200 tests a day. and that's with regard to the machines that are used to do the tests. the mechanical capacity to actually run the test is generally not the right step here. it's around the supplies and around ensuring that seven-day s are expansive are most at need and the most vulnerable.

>> to clarify, the expanded testing for essential workers can be conducted at two city sf sites as well as those who exhibited positive covid cases. >> the two testing sites are focused on providing city workers and other essential workers with access to testing if they have any symptom consistent with covid-19. and then through our public health work and collaboration with partners across the city, we will be testing people who have come into close contact with somebody covid-19, even if they do not exhibit symptoms of covid-19. >> thank you, dr. colfax. the next set of questions are from abigail stewart kahn, homelessness and supportive housing.

>> the next question is from the public press. in recent weeks, city officials have discussed the possibilities of opening sanctioned cabinets to help homeless people better socially distance themselves. does the city have a time table for opening these incantments?

>> we know living in shelters put you at risk that many experienced before the global pandemic. meal as this became an issue, the healthy street's operation center paused their resolutions and began providing under the leadership of just kazitki to work with our unsheltered neighbors to physically distanced while unsheltered. i want to implore those living unsheltered to take heed of our hr stock partner's request and to physically distance as much as possible and to continue to ask all partners who are out there how to access the

resources that are available. there a isto get to the questie sleeping, we know that it isn't always possible in sidewalk spaces or in tight areas to safely sleep. the healthy street's operation center is evaluating the possibility of safe sleeping and weather the global pandemic of coronavirus warrants the movement in that direction by the city. i want to note that many cities across the country have had mixed success and safety. and so the city is evaluating whether the coronavirus makes that more urgent now and is working towards plans, towards safe-sleeping sites for the most impacted neighborhoods and vids

individuals in san francisco. we'll be able to provide more information in the coming weeks. the most final thing to note is the reality here. the reality is that the very people who will help us open these safe sleeping sites are the same talented individuals helping us to open hotels and so we cannot, without the help of our providers and all of our dsws and city workers open an of these thing at ths safely. we have to have a conversation how do we bring individuals into hotels in a safe way and we've spent a lot of time talking about the steps required there. as we also consider safe sleeping sites . >> thank you, director. that concludes today's press conference.

(music) >> herb theatre,open rehearsal. listen to the rehearsal. i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. it is good for us. we kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. msk (music) >> we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. we are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted.

my ambition when i came on as music director here -- it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. this was my purpose. and after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. my plan -- and i'm absolutely dogmatic about my plans --were delayed slightly. i would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and everyone, especially the arts, it's phenomenal how new century has grown where many unfortunate

organizations have stopped. during this period we got ourselves on national radio presence; we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd. we continue to tour. reputation grows and grows and grows and it has never stopped going forward. msk(music) >> the bay area knows the orchestra. you maybe take things for granted a little bit. that is simply not the case will go on the road. the audiences go crazy. they don't see vitality like this on stage. we are capable of conveying joy when we play. msk(music) >> any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the

program that you haven't heard before. string orchestra repertoire is pretty small. i used to be boxed into small repertoire. i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument,

no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note.

and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are. >> working with kids, they keep you young. they keep you on your tones -- on your toes. >> teaching them, at the same time, us learning from them, everything is fulfilling. >> ready? go. [♪]

>> we really wanted to find a way to support women entrepreneurs in particular in san francisco. it was very important for the mayor, as well as the safety support the dreams that people want to realize, and provide them with an opportunity to receive funding to support improvements for their business so they could grow and thrive in their neighborhoods and in their industry. >> three, two, one! >> because i am one of the consultants for two nonprofits here for entrepreneurship, i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the small business development center. i thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. they really give back to the neighborhood. they are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. >> when molly -- molly first told us about the grant because she works with small businesses. she has been a tremendous help for us here. she brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot

of things here were outdated, and need to be up-to-date and redone totally. >> hands in front. recite the creed. >> my oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. it instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. we think it is great. the moves are fantastic. the women both are great teachers. >> what is the next one? >> my son goes to fd k. he has been attending for about two years now. they also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. they took the kids everywhere around san francisco. this year, owner talking about placing them in summer camps, all he wanted to do was spend the entire summer with them.

>> he has strong women in his life, so he really appreciates it. i think that carries through and i appreciate the fact that there are more strong women in the world like that. >> i met d'andrea 25 years ago, and we met through our interest in karate. our professor started on cortland years ago, so we grew up here at this location, we out -- he outgrew the space and he moved ten years later. he decided to reopen this location after he moved. initially, i came back to say, hey, because it might have been 15 years since i even put on a uniform. my business partner was here basically by herself, and the person she was supposed to run the studio with said great, you are here, i started new -- nursing school so you can take over. and she said wait, that is not what i am here for i was by myself before -- for a month

before she came through. she was technically here as a secretary, but we insisted, just put on the uniform, and help her teach. i was struggling a little bit. and she has been here. one thing led to another and now we are co-owners. you think a lot more about safety after having children and i wanted to not live in fear so much, and so i just took advantage of the opportunity, and i found it very powerful to hit something, to get some relief, but also having the knowledge one you might be in a situation of how to take care of yourself. >> the self-defence class is a new thing that we are doing. we started with a group of women last year as a trial run to see how it felt. there's a difference between self-defence and doing a karate class. we didn't want them to do an

actual karate class. we wanted to learn the fundamentals of how to defend yourself versus, you know, going through all the forms and techniques that we teaching a karate class and how to break that down. then i was approached by my old high school. one -- once a semester, the kids get to pick an extra curricular activity to take outside of the school walls. my old biology teacher is now the principle. she approached us into doing a self-defence class. the girls have been really proactive and really sweet. they step out of of the comfort zone, but they have been willing to step out and that hasn't been any pushback. it is really great. >> it is respect. you have to learn it. when we first came in, they knew us as those girls. they didn't know who we were. finally, we came enough for them to realize, okay, they are in the business now. it took a while for us to gain that respect from our peers, our male peers.

>> since receiving the grant, it has ignited us even more, and put a fire underneath our butts even more. >> we were doing our summer camp and we are in a movie theatre, and we just finished watching a film and she stepped out to receive a phone call. she came in and she screamed, hey, we got the grant. and i said what? >> martial arts is a passion for us. it is passion driven. there are days where we are dead tired and the kids come and they have the biggest smiles on their faces and it is contagious. >> we have been operating this program for a little over a year all women entrepreneurs. it is an extraordinary benefit for us. we have had the mayor's office investing in our program so we can continue doing this work. it has been so impactful across a diversity of communities throughout the city. >> we hope that we are making some type of impact in these kids' lives outside of just learning karate.

having self-confidence, having discipline, learning to know when it's okay to stand up for yourself versus you just being a bully in school. these are the values we want the kids to take away from this. not just, i learned how to kick and i learned how to punch. we want the kids to have more values when they walk outside of these doors. [♪] all right. on 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 you innovation on or was on over 200 years they went through extensive innovations to the existing green new metal gates were installed our the perimeter

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>> hi everybody, we down here at the /ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. we we're going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about san francisco. how are you doing kelly? >> very well, thank you for having us here. >> in front of us, we have a

typical soft story building. when i see this, i think this is some of the most beautiful architecture our city has. a lot of people don't know these are problematic buildings. why don't you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings? >> soft stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. when we talk about the soft story, what we're talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or other /pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. so we're looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential buildings that are soft stories in san francisco look like. and the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have

residential units. they have not only a fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea it's significantly less country /srabl in those stories. now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commercial occupancy in this ground story. that very often not only has a whole lot less perimeter wall but it often has little or no wall on the interior. that wall is the earthquake bracing and so he see very significant bracing in the top floor and very little on the bottom. when the earthquake comes and hits, it tries to push that ground floor over and there's very little that keeps it from moving and degrading and eventually

/paoerblly keeping it from a collapse occurring. so we know they're vulnerable because of this ground story collapsing >> is this only a problem we see in sentence france? san francisco? >> no, this is certainly a national problem. more acute in western but more up to california, washington, moving out into other states. this kind of building exist and this kind of building is vulnerable. >> when you're involved with the community safety, this is a different way of thinking about these types of things. we had a community group of over 100 people involved and upper 1 of them. tell us about * how that conversation went. why did we decide as a city or a community to start fixing these types of buildings? >> there were a lot of aspects that were considered well beyond just the engineering answer that these are

vulnerable. and that effort brought in a lot of people from different aspects of the community that looked at the importance of these buildings to the housing stock and the possible ramifications of losing this /houbgs in the case of an earthquake. the financial implications, the historic preserve vacation s implication as you mentioned, these are very handsome looking buildings that are importance to the tourist city ask which make san francisco something that people are interested from outside in coming and visiting. >> it's such animation story when you think about the 10 years that the community spent talking about this /seurb but we actually did something about it. now we have an order unanimouses put in place to protect 100,000 residents in san francisco and retrospective in 2020. so on behalf of residents and employees in san francisco, we want to say thank you for

the work you've done in pushing this forward and making people more aware of these issues. >> and it was a fantastic community effort. >> so in an earth quake, what happens in these kinds of buildings? >> what happens when an earthquake comes along is it moves the ground both horizontally and vertically. it's mostly the horizontal that we're worried about. it starts moving the building back and forth and pushing on it. when you see i'm pushing on it, the upper stiff of the wall stay straight up but the lower floors, they actually collapse just like i did there. >> luckily, we can put this building right back up where it came from so it's a lot easier. now kelly, obviously these aren't real frame walls here but when you talk about buildings, what makes the property for stiff? >> the easiest and most

cost-effective type of bracing you can put in is either put in a brand new wall or to potentially go in and strengthen a wall that's already there where you don't need to have an opening is where you maybe have a garage door or access to commercial space, you might go to a steel frame or other types of bracing systems that provides the strength and stiff if necessary but at the same time, allows continued use of that area. but some combination of walls or frames or other tools that are in the tool kit that can bring the building up to the strength that's required in order to remove the vulnerability from the building so that when ground shaking comes, it in fact is a whole lot more resistant and less vulnerable. ideally, this story down here would be made as strong and stiff as the floors above.

>> if i'm a property owner, what is the first thing i should do? >> the first thing you should do is find professional that can come in and help you evaluate your building in order to, 1, figure out that indeed it does need to be retro fitted and 2, give you some idea of what that retro fit might look like. and third, evaluation and design to help you determine the retro fit requirement. >> well kelly, i can't thank you enough for being here today. thank you so much for your wealth of information on how we can take care of our soft story problem in san francisco. and you the viewer, if you have any questions, please feel free to visit our website >> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five.

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the city's future but for considering a career with the >> the director of the department of human services, trent roher, the director of homelessness and housing, abigail stewart-kahh and bill scott. thank you all for joining us here today and we are providing our update to begin the week. as of today, we have 1,424 cases of people who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and sadly, there are 23 people that have logistic their lives and currently, we have about 85

people hospitalized. if you would like more information, specifically around the people who have been diagnosed as it relates to their race, ethnicity, zip code or any other data, please check out datasf.org/covid-19 for more information. we update that tracker everyday by 9:00 a.m. today, i just want to start by again thanking you all here in san francisco for your cooperation. i know that it has not been easy. we've imposed restrictions to your lives that have made things not only very difficult for you, but difficult for your family. sometimes difficult for not just your physical well-being, but

also your mental well-being. we have tried to make sure that in this process as we are trying to protect public health, we don't create an even worse problem with a number of those sorts of challenges rette relato mental health, related to economic health of your household or those other matters. it is, then, probably, i'm sure for some of the most challenging time of your lives. executive knoi know some of thes and programs we've offered from the city may have been helpful, but it's definitely nothing like getting back to work and earning your own income and being able to take care of your family. there's nothing like that and we want to make sure that we are able to get back to that, but more importantly, we have to make sure that we are able to continue to keep people safe.

this has been pretty much the most difficult thing i've had to to do, is to ask the people of this city to basically stay at home and only leave your house for essential services or if you're you're an essential worker or to get fresh air or exercise. toui've asked you to do that through a deadline with the hopes of maybe moving back to allowing the city to open and today, unfortunately, we will need to extend the deadline for the stay-at-home order through the month of may. it's challenging and, of course through the responsibilities of mayor and making sure that i am informed and making good

decisions on behalf of the people of this city, i also have to do -- i have to take care of myself, as well, and, in fact, being in the house all the time and not being able to visit with my friends and my family and that's been very challenging. i wasn't going to tell anyone this publically, but i had a moment this weekend and i started playing music that i grew up to. and i started dancing by myself and singing the words of songs of words i hadn't heard in years. i made me feel alive and hopeful there's a light at the end of the tunnel and i know some of you are looking at ways you can continue to use this as an opportunity to make sure that

you are taking this time for granted in ways that continue the positivity, the goodness and that you're able to get yourselves and your families through this time. it has already been difficult for many of you, especially kids who cannot play with their friends or a lot of the seniors who are graduating high school. the kids who want to go to the park, not being able to see your grandmother or grandfather. i can't even imagine just how challenging, i'm sure, this has been for so many of you. and again, i want you to know that we realize these are real charles. challenges. as we extended this stay-at-home order, it will be important for us to look at ways to develop, along with our health experts,

policies that will get us back to plans in order to open our city again. and let me just be clear that public health is our priority. taking the data and the information from our public health experts and using that to make determinations around what we can and can't do is critical to making sure that we're protected. but we also need to prepare and as i mentioned to you all last week, our economic recovery task force has already started meeting. the goal is to provide recommendations because when the city does open, there is going to be a change. there's going to be a change with restaurants. there's going to be a change with hair salons and nail salons and various job opportunities. there will be a chain with

large-scale events. there's a lot of uncertainty because right now what we see are the numbers go up every single day in our city. we also see the number of hospitalizations. they have gone up in our city and the good news is they've got gone up as large as other places, because you all are doing your part to comply. but the fact is, they are still going up. so we are not out of the woods yet. and so we want to be very careful that we not take the steps out of frustration, out of concern. we don't move too quickly and repeat mistakes that have been made in our path's history. about 100 years ago, i brought up the last time the spanish flu, when we thought the worst had passed us and folks threw

out their masks and went out into the streets and partied and had a good time and a few days later, we were even worse off than when we started. we don't want that to happen in our city. this is not an easy thing to do and to continue to come to every press conference and not only thank you for what you've done but to ask you to do more. this has been very difficult to do because as hard as i know it's been for me, i'm sure it is so much harder for all of you. and i just want to continue to express my gratitude because the only reason why the numbers are not as bad as they could be has everything to do with so many of you. and your patience and your understanding has been really the guiding light in what has been a very, very challenging situation.

so i just want to appreciate that, express that there are the deadline for the stay-at-home order has been extended through may and we are hopeful through this economic recovery task force and some of the other things that we are doing with our public health officials, we will be able to come back to you with good news, good news about things that we will be able to do to make things easier for you in this situation. and speaking of good things that we are able to do as a city, after examining what we know people are interested in our safe-street's program and closing off streets and allowing people to socially distance easier and safely, that program has been successful and closing

jfk drive on the weekends has been successful and after our review of jfk drive and the fact that people over the weekends are basically, definitely complying in most instances with the order following the direction, we think it's only fit -- it's only fair to offer jfk drive to close that street effective 6:00 a.m. permanently through the course of this stay-at-home order. i want to be clear after this stay-at-home order has expired, that will no longer be the case. but in the meantime, in an effort to provide more space for people to move around and maybe get some exercise and to run and to bike, we wanted to do something that would help.

we don't want people driving to the park, still. we want people walking through their neighborhoods and to their neighborhood parks. we don't want people setting up picnic or play dates or the things we talked about. we still need you to socially distance yourselves from people out in the park and to stay six feet apart. that is so critical because we are going to close jfk drive and we're going to close shelly drive in mcclarin park to car traffic as a way to provide more space for more people to move around because we know that there are larger populations using these parks in these areas and it gives you an opportunity to move around safely. and that's what this is about. and so we hope that this new opportunity, this new adjustment will make this additional

extension of time to stay at home a lot easier for each and everyone of you. so again, thank you for your cooperation. i want to talk a little bit about what's happening with rent collection for tenants that are tenants with the city and county of san francisco and as some of you are aware, a moratorium on residential and commercial evictions has been placed, has been moved forward through an executive directive by my office. we've extended that to ensure that as this pandemic continues and people are unable to get back to work in a timely manner, we are able to make sure that no one is evicted because of what's happening with covid-19 to each and everyone of us. that doesn't mean that if you can pay rent and you are able and you are still getting paid,

that does not mean that you should stop paying your rent, but there are so many people out there that are in a situation where they have a space that they lease and they're not generating any revenue whatsoever because they are not an essential business. and as a result, they cannot pay their rent or other bills for this space. our goal is to make sure that when our city reopens, we want our economy to, of course, get going sooner rather than later. what that means is making sure that we're not losing all of our businesses, our small businesses, our medium sized businesses. that they are able to come back to work on day one with a new guidelines and get started right away without the fear of being evicted. so we've done this with the city already, with the city tenants in particular and we're asking our enterprise departments and they are seriously considering

and i'm sure move in this direction. in fact, the port of san francisco will be moving this week in that direction with their clients, the people who occupy a number of real estate along the port. they will get some relief soon, as well as the airport and other enterprise departments in this city, where there's an opportunity to hold off on rent collection and to work with our tenants. that is something we need to do. because even when we reopen the city with new guidelines, financially, it's going to be challenging. tourism, our number one industry, where a lot of revenues generated for the city, it just won't return overnight. so we are all facing very similar charles and s challenges important to provide tools to face it together. and so i want to thank the port commission.

i know tomorrow night they'll be considering extending this policy and it appears that they are very receptive of doing so. i want to also just take a moment to talk about some comments i made on friday around ppe. it has definitely been very frustrating. the fact that we knew that a crisis existed or was coming and there was just a lack of coordination from the federal government to help prepare and get ready for what we knew was to come. there are a number of challenges that we still face around ppe and we operated our emergency operation center pack in emergency of this year and it's april, almost may, and we're still having the same conversations around ppe. and while those challenges still

exist, i want to point out some information that was not accurate that i stated at the last press conference regarding fema. in particular, the information we were given by one of our sources that we were purchasing ppe from, and third party, basically provided us that information when we had anticipated the ppe to come to our location. we were preparing to purchase it and the excuse that we gave, that we were beyond frustrated with, was that these materials were diverted to some place else and confiscated by fema. as a result, that was along with a number of other challenges that exist and that was one that i was particularly frustrated with, else in light of the fact that we are working with fema are on our thoug hotels and food delivery. this was just very frustrating.

we found out when the director of fema here in san francisco reached out to our office to make it clear, that not only was this not true, butth but they at investigating the third party that we are working with to ensure that accurate information is provided. providing the incorrect information is not only irresponsible, but it's also very dangerous in light of what we are all dealing with. and so, not only do i want to apologize to fema for that particular information and providing inaccurate information, i want to just point out that that the other challenges that i talked about are still challenges that we face. and we will continue to do everything we can to work with fema and to work with other agencies to deliver the ppe our

city so desperately needs. we are not out of the woods and even if we have the ppe we need to help with our hospitals, maybe for this month and some of next month, we are going to be dealing with the coronavirus for some time. and so, when we talk about not only the need for ppe to help with our hospitals, when we're thinking about restaurants, hair salons and nail i salons and otr places opening, we have to make sure that when we are implementing regulations on their reopening around masks and other things they may need, that we have access to those resources, as well. so there's a larger conversation here in terms of resources. and there still continues to be a challenge with the coordination around the efforts

for large cities like ours with our federal government. but i will take this opportunity, again, to thank fema for their willingness to be able to work with us and to ensure that some of the obstacles that we've had, that those obstacles are removed. they have extended that support and i appreciate it. and we desperately need it. so with that, thank you for the time and at this time, i will ask dr. grant kolfax to come forward and provide an update.

>> good afternoon. i'm the director of health and thank you mayor breed. a week from today is may 4th, which would mark the end of the bay area's current stay-at-home health order. i commend everyone who has done so much to make that intervention successful. we have, indeed, flattened the curve.

we, each and everyone of you, has literally saved lives. in san francisco, and in the bay area as a whole, we are lead the country in taking aggressive early action to protect our communities from the threat of the coronavirus. i would like to reminded you ofa few key moments in our journey. on january 21st of this year, as we had watched closely the developments internationally with regard to the coronavirus, the san francisco department of public health activated the department operation's center. with that, we set as a top priority our preparation and response to the coronavirus. we devoted significant resources and staff in th to address the

upcoming issue. a week later, on january 27th, the city opened its emergency operation's center, expanding and strengthening the effort of the city-wide response. at that time, we were monitoring incoming travelers from countries with confirmed cases and still had to cases in sanfrancisco. yet, the mayor continued to heighten our preparedness. on february 25th, she declared a local emergency, even before we had any confirmed cases. this decision was pivotal as it allowed under the circumstancesy faster in our city's collective response. on march 5th, we had our first confirmed cases as we had

anticipated. on march 11th, we made strong social distancing recommendations so that the public could understand how to help slow the spread of the disease. slowing the spread has always been our goal. later, on march 16th, the entire bay area issued a shelter-in-place, also known as a stay-at-home order and over 7 million people joined together to protect the health and safety of our region. that health order was renewed on march 31st and the work that all people in san francisco and bay area residents have done has been a model for the nation. we are also following and are aligned with the governor's state-wide stay-at-home order and the framework he has laid

out for the state's recovery. we are fortunate and grateful that our state leadership is so focused on protecting public health, leveraging resources and following the data, science and facts. and yet, at this time, none of us can get complaisant. we need to stand our ground and maintain our gains. and make no mistake, this virus is still out there and it is still a threat. today, there are 1424 san francisco residents with confirmed cases of covid-19. a total of 23 people in sanfrancisco have died from the disease and my condolences to their families and friends. of the 1424 people diagnosed with covid-19, 134 or

professional 9% are people experiencing homelessness. for these residents, for other vulnerable populations, and, indeed, for the entire community, we must continue to have a unified, regional approach. that is why as the mayor announced, the bay area will extended the stay-at-home order until may. i know that this is very hard to do. we are missing vital and important parts of our lives. we are sacrificing time with our families, our friends, coworkers and neighbors. thank you for your sacrifice, your patience, your collaboration and your support. as we think to the future and

consider loosening some restrictions, i cannot stress enough that it will become even more important to continue to protect one another. this means establishing and sticking to what will be the new normal. this will include staying six feet apart, covering our faces, washing our hands frequently and still staying home as much as possible. these actions are based in science data and facts. and they are working. and they need to keep working. they need to keep working as we move forward. as we have done throughout our response, we will be informed by the data. we know we need to continue to

expand testing and learn more about where cases are. and we know that we will find more cases that way. right now, we need to increase the number of tests being done in san francisco each day. with ongoing expansion, this will happen. in terms of recovery, another key metric we will be watching closely is hospitalization of covid-positive patients. now why is that? well, that data point tells us a lot. it tells us how many people we have in our system who are seriously ill with covid-19 and who need the highest level of care in the healthcare system. that number has varied somewhat over the past two weeks from 94 patients on april 11th to 85 on april 25th.

but the overall pattern has been pretty stable, a flat curve. that means that today, our hospital system has room to care for patients and that is, indeed, good news. but it is still not enough. we need numbers to start dropping significantly and just stay down for several weeks. if that could happen -- that could happen if we continue our our current course. yet, we know today that those numbers could also start climbing again. that could happen if people start taking precautions, stop abiding by health orders and give the virus an opportunity to flourish and spread. as the mayor has mentioned, we

saw that 102 years ago in san francisco's prior serious flu pandemic. we have seen this happen with covid-19 internationally, in countries that successfully flattened their curve, listed restrictions too soon and the virus, unfortunately, came roaring back. the hospitalization numbers could also get worse if our vulnerable populations experience major outbreaks that we are not able to contain. , leading to other people becoming seriously ill. and again, i thank you for your patience, your sacrifice, your collaboration and support. and moving forward, we are working hard to develop recommendations based on data and science for loosening some of the restrictions.

but we must be thoughtful, we must be careful and we must take this step by step. with regard to our ongoing focus on vulnerable populations, they remain at the highest risk of the virus. this means people who are over 60 or with underlying health conditions. we must continue to prioritize them now and in the future including people in congregate settings, such as long-term care facilities, in homeless shelters, sros and jails. and we are making considerable and significant progress. as an example, i remind you that over 850 people, 850 vulnerable people, including those experiencing homelessness, those with chronic conditions or over

aged 60 are now in hotel rooms in our city. to protect them from getting the virus, to protect them from getting sick, to protect them from potentially dying from the virus. we have made significant progress, but there is much more work to do as we learn about how to slow the spread. we must continue to generate new knowledge and support a response. for example, the health department is collaborating with ucsf and community members in the district to determine the prevalence of the coronavirus in one of the most densely populated sections of city. we are seeing high rates in the llatino population. it's to test at least four

people and ucsf is well on it way with over 1700 people tested just this past weekend. what we will learn together will better inform our collective response and strengthen our current education outreach testing and care efforts within the latino community and the san francisco community as a whole. our goal remains to slow down the virus as much as possible. we cannot prevent it from coming here altogether but we can and have joined together to make it harder for the virus to spread. later this week, the mayor and other bay area leaders will provide more details on what the new health order will entail. but in the meantime, i wish to thank you sincerely again for

your cooperation and compassion. everyday, i see people wearing masks and standing apart from each other and making the hard decisions. together, we will do what it takes to get through this crisis. thank you. chief william scott will make a few remarks.

>> good afternoon, everyone. i'm chief william scott of the san francisco police department. as i always start off withi, i d like to thank our mayor, london breed, and dr. grant kolfax for their leadership during this very challenging time. as we expected over this past weekend, there were quite a few people out trying to get exercise, fresh air and enjoying the weather. we had an increased number of officers, volunteers with our alert program withi, and standsr auxillary response team.

we worked at popular public places to make sure and remind everyone about social distancing, about wearing face coverings and really trying to promote the safe protocols that our public health officials have told us will flatten the curve and i would like to thank everyone for their cooperation because by and large, we've been very successful in getting compliance voluntarily from the people in san francisco. so i have would like to thank everyone for their compliance and for their cooperation. we did receive complaints over the weekend, not that many, but about the public health order violations and in general, there were no significant issues. surprisingly, we actually received very few complaints about the lack of face coverings and although i can say because i was out this weekend around the city, that most people were complaint. most people tried to comply with

the face coverings. there were some that didn't have them and we had our park rangers and mta ambassadors by giving people face coverings who didn't have them. and we think that will go a long way to help continue to flatten this curve and we'll continue to do that. we've had to cite some businesses who after being warned continued to violate the order. as of sunday, april 26th, yesterday, that total is 17 cites in total and eight of those were businesses that were cited and nine individuals were cited. so violating either our county public health order or the state public health order. we've admonished a total of 78 8 and those warnings come with officers completed incident reports. enforcement has been an option of last resort and we have mainly gotten compliance when we've had to engage with

individuals to remind them of the health orders. but as i stated, there r there w people and a few businesses that had to be cited. we will use a pathway that starts with education, asking for voluntary compliance, warnings, and citations when necessary. you can visit our covid-19 website on our san francisco police department web page and learn about our enforcement protocols. i would like to remind everybody and take this opportunity to say if you're going to go outside, please follow the public health order protocols, remain six feet distance from others, wear face coverings and when you're waiting in line, please practise those social distancings. distag proceeds. most of the businesses in the city have taken measures to remind people what six feet looks like and you'll see sidewalk markings and you'll see in a lot of cases employees of the businesses out in front of

the businesses reminding people to wear their face covers and reminding people to stay significancsixfeet apart. we would like to thank business owners and managers for working with us on that. and i would like to switch to crime now and i'll provide you with an update on our crime statistics of the shelter-in-place order. i'm happy to say we saw a 19% decrease in overall violent crimes and we saw a 24% decrease in property crimes this past week, which was 126 fewer property crimes from the week prior and in total, there was a 23% decrease in part one of serious crimes which represents a 142 crime decrease over the previous week.

and we're comparing the week of april 20th to april 26th to the week of april 13th through april 19th. we continue to investigate burglaries. one area we've seen a slight increase are burglaries, particularly commercial burglaries, and we continue to investigate and we've made significant progress on many of the investigations that have resulted in arrests and prosecutions from the district attorney's office. 27 of those cases have resulted in charges -- booking challenges of looting. i would like to thank the district attorney to working with us in those types of crimes committed in a state-of-emergency. next, i want to remind everyone, when you travel, travel safely and responsibly, particularly on our roads and highways. as i reported this past week,

we've had reports of a lot more speeding on our roads and highways and that's simply unacceptable. fewer cars on the road is not a green light to speed or break traffic laws. so with that, you will see our traffic company officers with an increased visibility on our high-injury traffic corridors in support of our focus on the five efforts. and just to remind everyone, the focus on the five efforts we are trying to get to zero traffic fatalities by the year 2024. and that is our vision zero goal and aspiration and we will be out to make sure that we remind people in whatever way we need to, whether that be education enforcement, citations, to slow down. we want to thank those that are conducting their travel, their essential travel in a safe way. as you see our officers out there, just to remind everyone, as we roll out our slow-streets program, that it's imperative

you obey traffic laws, slow down and share the roads with pedestrians and bicyclists. as always, i want to encourage people to report crime when they see it, particularly violent crime. and report your crimes in a way that will decrease our face-to-face contact with either officers or each other and prevent the spread of the covid-19 virus. you can always call 9-1-1. we will always be there for crimes in progress. if you need to, you can use our new text 9-1-1 service and, again, i would like to reemphasize that was really designed in mind with victims of domestic violence who sometimes aren't able to make those calls, those land-line calls or cell phone calls because of the circumstanceses they're in. so please take advantage of the

text 9-1-1 service if you need to. for those crimes that have already happened and for nonviolent or property crimes, please call our nonemergency number at (415)553-0123. you call 3-1-1 or utilize or website to request a report or file a police report. and with that, again, i would like to thank everyone for their cooperation up to this point and please, let's stay the course. we know it's not easy. it's difficult for all of us, but please stay the course. and i believe we'll open it up for questions. >> the first set of questions are for mayor breed.

>> thank you, madam mayor. the first question is from sf chronicle. >> question: the city is woefully under the goal set by the board of supervisors emergency ordinance to lease 8,250 hotel rooms by april 26th. why did the city fail to meet this goal and what is the city doing to meet that goal? >> as i've said time and time and time and time again, there's a difference between a goal and what we all desire to do and what reality is.

and in the age of social distancing, it has been way more challenging than it has ever been to serve an already-challenging population. and the challenges with our homeless population, in particular issues around mental illness and substance use disorder and getting people to just comply with some basic requests like wearing masks or staying six feet away from not only one another but even the people that are trying to help has been very difficult. and when we look at the capacity needed to build up hotel rooms and san francisco, what we have done in the time period we've been able to do is, i think, in comparison to other major big cities has been remarkable. the fact that we have in our possession over 2,000 hotel rooms, where we have almost a

thousand homeless people who are housed has just been a very difficult thing to do in general. and we will continue to do everything we can to provide as many hotel rooms as we possibly can to do a couple of things. , move people out of our shelter systems and thin out some of our shelters and to move folks in those hotel rooms, people who are not housed, to make sure that our first responders and healthcare workers have access to those ohio tel hotel rooms, . we need to make sure there's delivery, check points for each location so that anyone just can't walk into one of these

hotel rooms, that people are getting on the elevator one person at a time and they're not in each other's rooms. i mean, the management alone of any one of these locations requires a significant amount of staff and although we've worked with a number of nonprofit agencies and people who work for the city, we've had to expand the number of people who are able to help us in this regard. i want to really take this opportunity to thank people who work for other city agencies like the department of public health and people who work for rec and park and the public library, people who may not traditionally work with this population, but all city workers or disaster service workers and so they are the ones that we have had to rely on and we have had to train and make sure that they have personal protective equipment and the necessary resources and understanding in order to work in a different capacity than what they were

hired to do. so as i've said again, over and over and over again, there's a big difference between our desires and what we want to do, because i don't think there's anyone in the city who doesn't want to house homeless people, period, whether it's a pandemic or not. but we are in a really challenging situation at this time. so i have to be realistic. the reality is, we can't do so safely without making sure that we have the people and the resources and the things necessary in place to keep the folks that we're serving safe and the people who are actually working in these locations safe, as well. it is very, very challenging and this is new territory for us in the age of social distancing. we have to be more responsible than that. >> thank you, madam mayor. the next set of questions are

for dr. grant kolfax, the department of public health. your first question from the san francisco chronicle. >> question: whatmetrics matter most when it comes to determining when to return to

normally see in the bay area? >> there are a couple of metrics in san francisco regionally and they are metrics suggested by experts across the country, public health experts and scientists. one of the key metrics i mentioned was a sustained decline in the number of people hospitalized and i'm talking about significant reductions over a period of two weeks, because that's the two week period, the incubation period of the virus. we node to increase our testing rates and whether we have outbreaks and test a large number of people because of an outbreak, but in general, we need to increase our testing to two or three times what it currently is. so that's a key piece we nee.

we need to ensure our hospitals across the system maintain surge capacity is that in event of an outbreak, we can rapidly respond. and then among the other metrics, the fourth key metric is having sufficient ppe, personal protective equipment to be able to maintain our efforts and then to ramp them up rapidly in the event of an outbreak. those would be some of the key metrics -- those are some of the key metrics we are looking at. another key piece is ensuring that businesses and other entities have a good data and science-driven guidelines as we relax -- and and when we relax the stay-in-shelter order. >> thank you, and next question is from trisha at the chronicle. >> question: do we have the

full scope of infections in san francisco if the city does not count people who have registered addresses outside of the county? >> so right now we have 12 123 cases of covid-19 in our skilled nursing facilities in san francisco and 65 are in central gardens. the county of residents is the place where the death is recorded. so if somebody has a different county of residents but is staying at a long-term care facility in sanfrancisco, we would not count that as a death in san francisco and vice versa is also true. we've had some deaths among san francisco residents who have been in other county facilities. i would emphasize that our largest, if not the largest skilled nursing facility in the countries, l laguna honda hospil was over 750 residents, all of those are residents of san

francisco as a requirement to be able to stay at laguna honda hospital. >> as a followup, does the city coincidencount everyone else the day. >> so, again, deaths are counted as the county of residents and as our outbreak investigations, when we are providing number of cases, those numbers are provided regardless of whether the person has permanent address in sanfrancisco or a primary residence outside of the country and they would not be counted on the daily tracker or as a sanfrancisco case if they maintained a primary residence in another county or jurisdiction. just to add again, that's basic

data rules across the state and so we are adhering to those principles. >> thank you. the next question is from sf bay. >> question: what criteria did the city use on deciding to john k. kennedy park? johnf. kennedy drive? >> ensuring people had the education and tools they need to keep themselves and others safe, a recognition that social distancing in, and we need more open space for people to go in a more dense space. we continue to strongly recommend wearing masks if

you're social instancing significance feet or more. but we felt that the public had the tools and the education that they needed in order to socially distance responsibly and wear face masks responsibly when they're outside and that was the reason we felt that it was time to open this space to the public. >> next question is from ron lynn, l.a. times. the number of new cases are starting to decline in the nine-county bay area but week-over-week deaths are not and the number of hospitalized people have been flat. why are we not making more progress in reducing deaths in hospitals. >> so josep overall, the deathsn francisco, well, one death is too many, we have had a relatively lower number of deaths than many other regions in the country and i'm thankful for that. one of the key issues is that

the deaths lag, the cases to some degree. over the course of the illness, it can take, unfortunately -- it can take weeks for people suffering from the illness to require more incentive care and, unfortunately, in some kay caseo die. so the number of positive cases, the number of hospitalizations will be consistently less -- i'm wassorry, the deaths will be consistently behind the hospitalizations in increase in a number of cases and so it's a matter of the pattern of the disease. i think what is also important is that the hospitalization rate has stayed relatively stable over the past two weeks, which is a positive sign as we find more positive cases. obviously the most we test, the

more cases we will find, which is why it's so important to look at the hospitalization rate over the next two to four weeks with a hope that that curve will decline. deaths, i think, will continue to increase over the next two to four weeks just because of that delay and when we see deaths over the course of the disease. >> next question is from ktvu. >> question: what are the criteria by which this sanfrancisco department of public health and other departments of public health across the bay area are using to determine whether to extend and when to lift of the newly extended order? could we see a further extension? >> so i think, what i focus on what the new normal will be and i can't say when that new normal will be. i think that we need to, again, see some of the changes in the data that i've talked about

today, the reduction in people living with covid-19, the increase in testing, our ability to monitor the epidemic and get ppe. we have to reiterate that the situation has been fluid for weeks and months now and we just need to keep following the data and science while ensuring we're developing guidelines for what the new normal will look like. i think for the foreseeable future, high adherence to wearing mask and other facial coverings in public and ensuring people social distance whenever possible, those will be important criteria moving forward and we need to work with the business community and other key stakeholders to figure out what guidelines need to look like as we potentially loosen

the shelter-in-place order in the coming months. >> thank you. the next set of questions are for dr. kahn, homelessness and supportive housing. your question is from fox news. you've talked about the challenges of keeping

unchallenged individuals in hotel rooms for 14 days, especially if they don't want to. what are you doing to make sure they stay in there for the allotted time? are there incentives being offered? >> thanks for that question, mike. i think you all heard the mayor speak about the challenges of staffing hotels across the board. the 14 days would be specifically related to somebody's medical need to isolate in quarantine. many individuals in our hotels are staying for longer than that and certainly, there are challenges. i think about this myself, if i was told to go to a hotel room and not leave for a long period of time, how challenging it would be for me. and then if you add on the complexities of somebody who hasn't been living indoors, something with a mental health or trauma background, a substance abuse issue, certainly we know these compounding layers of trauma and medical health needs make it difficult on top of it just being difficult for any of us to stay in one place for that long.

we've been having really tremendous success as we get better and better at operating hotels and we know from operating permanent housing across the country that people want to be housed and they want to be safe and if you can meet their needs with food and comfortable spaces to be and enough information and contact, people will absolutely kind of connect to where they are. i think part of the challenge in our hotels is that we can't connect and so things we know are really successful in permanent housing, meals together and events at christmas time and other holidays can't happen. and so, what we're doing to answer your question is meals are served three times a day, of course, and we have people calling into check on people by phone and increasingly, we're looking forward -- we've been piloting and we're looking forward to rolling out a really

big volunteer program where you can be kind of a buddy to somebody staying in a hotel and you can form a tight connection with phone. and we know that people have things to do. people have access, generally, to television and to food and to a comfortable place to be. and we mostly get stories people who are so grateful to be there and their only question is, will they be able to stay in place for the entirety of the pandemic and what will happen to them afterward? while there are a few exceptions, we're getting much better at it and we thank all of our guests. as the mayor did, we thank the dsws and hsa staff who are out there ever da everyday operatine hotels. i was told the held of the library is employed as a site monitor. so it's really, really hard to do for everybody. i, too, wani don't want to sugt

this. this is one of the hardest things to do and this is part of the challenge and we're learning together to make this work. >> thank you, director. that concludes our questions for today. thank you.