department of health has made sure both individually tested as quick as possible. both tests came back negative. i appreciate the step and department of health and agency for healthcare administration are working around the clock to ensure the elderly population throughout our state stays safe. we have issued mandatory regulations regarding any worker involved in a nursing home come assisted living facility or serving the elderly and that's not just medical. if involved in food preparation that going to have to wear a mask. i think the fear with the one test the death in broward, that was potentially transmitted by someone who was asymptomatic and was working on the steps i appreciate secretary myahew acting quickly for that. i think the number one priority ipad, over the last week, is to have more robust testing capability in the state of florida. we have started doing testing in state on february 22. prior to february 22, anyone that was tested, the samples had to be sent to the cdc in atlanta. that obviously took quite a bit of time. these labs in miami, jacksonv

. >> resolution authorizing the department of public health to accept $3 million from the tipping point community for creation of new psychiatric center for two year period beginning january 162020 through january 15, 2020. two. resolution authorizing the director of property to lease real property located at 11567 valencia street for $404,000 per year for three years with an estimated commencement date of mar1, 2020 to expire on februar. >> thank you very much. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you. colleagues. these two items will allow the department of public health to open a 30 bed shelter at 1156 valencia street. it is to extend a $3 million grant to help fund creation of the 30 bed community hummingbird facility. two is to enter a lease with salvation army for use of 1156 valencia for a term of three years. soon after i took office in the summer of 2018, i visited the city's first and still only hummingbird place located on the general hospital campus. it is a 24 hour behavioral center with 29 beds serving homeless people with mental illness. with an estimated 4,000 unhoused in san

national average for seasonal flu vaccination is 49%, whereas the actual recommendation from the department of health and human services in the healthy people 2020 is to reach 70%. we recognize that there are shortcomings and gaps with regards to that infrastructure, that entails public health departments, health care, commercial entities as well to ensure that population is vaccinated. >> and do you want to speak about why flu vaccination is so -- such an important part of our response to this threat? >> so in particular, we are currently in the midst of, you know, the flu season and we still have high activity across states. you know, it's important that we know that the best way in particular to prevent the flu is through flu vaccination and many of the preventative measures we talk about with regards to hygiene and hand washing and staying home when sick, that those are similar types of preventative measures and guidance that we're providing as it relates to covid-19 and the novel coronavirus. as we think about what may be needed down the line with regards to the types of interventions, really bu

questioners to know we have members of our unified team here, department of health, fema, department of the directors.nd so any questions that you have to direct to them as well, just know they're in the room. so why don't we open up the line for questions? the questions.p jonathan with a.l. unmuted., your line is caller: hey, governor. that r office said today under the executive order on medical procedures hat that would cover elective abortions. i was wondering, how do you define elective? there any sort of ep forcement -- enforcement components to that? you check and make sure these procedures aren't happening? governor lee: the executive certainly was crafted in personal rovide protective equipment. that's what that protective -- executive order was established for. for the suspension n the health care facilities across the state for nonelective rocedures so we can preserve the supplies necessary to serve that are sick and potentially at risk of their lives. it's very important we do that. reason we suspended nonelected surgeries. specifically, about nonelective abortion and othe

health care provisions going forward. all of this is keeping perspective and that our response is timely and we are taking care of the folks in our communities. reporter: does the department of health know if the ninth inmate who escaped, can you confirm she is having symptoms and is the the county jail she's in being kept safe? >> i can indicate that she has been tested. we do not have test results. we'll take every precaution as we would with any other patient who is potentially at risk. reporter: on the -- i'll do this one short. do you think beauty salons are essential business right now? governor noem: we have not defined essential and nonessential businesses. what i have asked, what i have put out as a direction to the state of south dakota is that we need to be innovative in how we care for our customers. i have given the guidelines to the states that we should not have groups of 10 or more co-locating, that if businesses are going to operate, that they need to reform how they do business and keep interaction and hygiene recommendations from the c.d.c. in mind and comply with them. this is something that i discussed on my phone call with the mayors earlier was that

the city of san antonio, including the mayor and two city council persons, as well as the department of health and human services and the defense department to discuss the ongoing mission and any concerns that the city might have. any time officials at every level of government are working together, whether it's in response to a natural disaster or a public health emergency, coordination is the key. you've got to make sure that everybody is operating on the same page and regularly sharing information, something that was a challenge in the beginning and remains a challenge today. at one point, we were able to get everybody in the same room to discuss not only the response to the virus but the steps to be taken to protect the general public in the surrounding area. of course, that work doesn't start and end at lackland in san antonio. hospitals around the state are facing a great deal of pressure and uncertaincy surrounding the virus and working to make sure they are prepared to treat potential coronavirus patients without impacting their normal operations is an urgent concern. last week, i help

these employees, when i asked the port, cruise lines, state department of health the department was not forthcoming. didn't direct the cruise lines to notify the passengers. instead of being forthcoming with me, i couldn't get a straight answer from department of health and they said they were going by c.d.c. guidelines. dr. redfield, what are the c.d.c. guidelines for notifying people who have been potentially exposed to a confirm coronavirus case. shouldn't passengers on the ships worked by the port everglades employees who have coronavirus been notified so they could take precautionary measures. they still haven't been otified. dr. redfield: thank you very much again for both your concern and question. i know you got a chance to speak to admiral read yesterday about that. c.d.c. last night i spoke with the princess cruise ship about this situation. they agreed to send a notice to all passengers on the ship. where the greeters have worked. we are obviously in contact today with the florida health epartment. we would concur that individuals that have been exposed, particularly in a

the latest figures from the department of health for this country have just emerged in the last few moments of nine o'clock this morning. the department of health is now talking of 273 positive tests for coronavirus as of this morning. that fit figure was 211 so it has gone up by 62 since that last announcement. the total number 23,500 people have been tested in total, so the vast majority of those obviously by definition given the number of positives turned out to be negative but we are now talking about 273 positive tests in the uk as of nine o'clock this morning, and of course to patients who tested positive for coronavirus have sadly died but those of the latest figures from the department of health, now looking at 273 positive tests in the uk. we we re 273 positive tests in the uk. we were talking about lombardy moment ago. one of the people who will be affected by the italian lockdown is peggyjohnson — a british ex—patriate currently living in the village of montaveckio in lombardy. she spoke to us about how her daily life will change. there is no social interaction, they don't want a

they do the testing, then the department of health gets the information, the basics. they have been doing that. there is going to be a little bit of lag in the information as we see more drive-through testing. when that gets sent to private labs, they will get a text message and people will know before the department of health knows what the result was. at that point, the investigation would begin. on the private side, they have done 2050 tests. if you go back 10,000 -- 10 days ago, that's an increase of where we were. i think we need to do way more tests than that. that was one of the things as soon as we declared the state of emergency, you had the hhs kit. i asked for as many kits as possible. we have distributed 2500 test kits. each can do a number of tests. is overl for 2500 kits 600,000 individual tests. what i have learned is getting a test kit doesn't mean you can do the test. you have to get other parts. the department of health and dem distributed 200 negative and 200 positive controls. that's another component to do in the test. we are also working on making

yesterday, the owners of pasadena boat works donated 14,000 respirator masks to the maryland department of health. and a group of baltimore city residents has come together to form a quarantine response network, to run errands and check in on their elderly neighbors. in places like hampden and charles village and winchester. in these times of anxiety and uncertainty, the people all across our state always look for ways to reach out and help their neighbors. to encourage that generous spirit, today, we are launching a new maryland unites website at governor.maryland.gov/marylandun governor.maryland.gov/marylandun ites to highlight the ways and opportunities marylanders and volunteer in assisting their neighbors and their communities in the days and weeks ahead. i spoke yesterday with gail mcgovern, who is the national president of the american red cross, who told me that they are experiencing a severe blood shortage across the country and here in maryland as a result of covid-19. the red cross has implemented additional precautions and strict protocols to ensure the safety of donors and staff, and

he mentioned a few things, which we have deployed the department of health resources. we are working on the additional quarantine sites they feel like they will need to be made available. team already on the ground. we are on top of that situation. we need the community's help. do you expect the number of cases to go way up over the next couple of weeks? absolutely i do. i believe as we said early on when we did not have many results the more we test, the more we will find. we saw that today. that will continue. working 24/7 on this in our state and comparing that to other states and cities around the country so we can gauge how that situation continues to move and we will do ournd continue to based decisions on that data and the advice of our medical community. how close are we to capacity on icu beds and ventilators? the coronavirus task force has taken an inventory on resources to see what we have available now and also to think through the needs in a week, the next two weeks, and potentially further out. we have a great team and there's many people working on that i

staffs from allied health programs for the duration of the emergency. these folks at the department have been working around the clock. this is very labor intensive when you're talking about these types of investigations and so these new hires will assist current operations but we need this additional assistance because these investigations go on not just when someone shows up to a county health department, even when samples are being processed by private labs, there are still investigation that's happen once those test results come in. so we think that that will help with the state's effort to combat further spread of this virus. i also want to make another point. as you see the department of health reporting different infections that happen throughout the state, we're going to continue to obviously do that, do it as timely as we can. now that you have a wider variety of testing capabilities, if somebody goes into their doctor's office, the doctor takes the sample, sends it to lab corps, lab corps is going to send a text message to the person. they may get a message saying they're

i want to thank the new jersey department of health. commissioner, chris, your staff have been outstanding in helping us through this and even helping us get this site up and running. i can't thank you enough. to the members of fema, thank you for being here. thank you for putting boots on the ground to help us here where it's needed the most. to the colonel, thank you so much. thank you to the national guard. thank you for having your folks here, helping us. truly appreciate it, colonel. to the other colonel, the superintendent of the new jersey state police, i've known colonel callahan for some time, and i can't thank him enough for having the support and the folks here to help us as we navigate through this. and i know that he'll be here with us throughout this entire process. to the ems folks -- and governor, i hope you don't mind that mine's going to be more thank yous. the ems folks, they've been standup. without them, we wouldn't be where we are today. so, i really have to give a big shoutout to the ems folks. to the bergen county

the five county health department are integral parts of their respective districts. itable quarters are provided for district offices, such as those in albany and buffalo. full-time district health officers are in charge of each district. civil service qualification for each officer include a medical degree, a postgraduate course in public health, and five years full-time experience. >> the district officer is the commissioner representative. he is available for technical advice -- he has available for technical advice. available are nurses, engineers, and clerical staff. full records are kept in all district offices, including tuberculosis registries. district officers complete the program through local offices and county health commissioners. there are frequent conferences with local health officers. epidemics, there are temporary assignments from other districts or the central office. district staff are flexible and not subject to local authorities. an important function of the district officer is the primary -- the preliminary field post academic training for care

it is important no local government puts any rules in place without first checking with the department of health so the department of health and make sure they are consistent with the rules we are about to put in place. continuing, and is ramping up. there are many rumors, part of peopler, the anxiety, spread rumors. maybe you are going to quarantine new york city. we hear new york city will quarantine itself. that is not true. that cannot happen. it cannot happen legally. no city in the state can quarantine itself without state approval. whatsoevernterest and no plan whatsoever to quarantine any city. we contained new rochelle, we did a containment zone on new rochelle which was misunderstood. in newwas contained rochelle. around newo cordon rochelle. you could come and go as you wanted. the containment referred to the virus. all we did in new rochelle was close the schools and close places of large gatherings. nobody was contained within new rochelle and nobody will be contained in any city in the state. that is a deep breath moment. strategy ist of the dealing with the health care system. thi

smith: the backlog is not at the department of health lab or at some of the commercial labs. there were some of the first that announced they would be doing this testing. i think they just got flooded. they operate across the country. i think they got more samples do. they could possibly they had a reagents issues for a request, stopped doing it, now they are back on again. some of the stronger ones have had pretty good turnaround and we gotten results from them within two days. it is not the same across all the commercial labs, but depending on which lab a hospital or clinic was sending two, they might have significant backlogs with their commercial lab. beinger: as far as tests waited to be analyzed -- waiting to be analyzed in arkansas? dr. smith: i have no way of knowing. the tests that have been sent off and have not been analyzed because we found out -- find out about those at the department of health when the lab results come to us. for the most part, we have an electronic laboratory reporting. basketball? the governor brought it up. dr. smith: if the governor wants to

reporter: i have a question for the department of health. can you hear me? my question is, can you send more details about the woman in prison, i mean you said she's isolated where is she being housed? how is she being treated? what's the level of her symptoms? >> the inmate we discussed yesterday continues to do well. she remains in isolation. at the women's prison. we're following all medical guidelines with that patient as we would advise any other health care provider and she remains in isolation. any other inmates that would have symptoms we'll treat like we would treat anybody else. we'll do testing and make sure that they stay in isolation as well. reporter: by isolation, do you mean she's in solitary? >> i can't speak to the actual housing cell that she's in. i can tell you she's isolated from other inmates at this time. reporter: how many other inmates and staffers are being isolated because they came in contact with her? >> we are currently working with all potential individuals that came in contact with this inmate, including staff as well as othe

we have the structure in place that we can stand up and work with in the maryland department of health to augment the different counties out there. we are an agile force. we have a lot of capabilities. there are things we have not even discovered yet that we are capable of doing. people ask for help and we figure out a way to get it done. reporter: [indiscernible] i'm going to have to defer to the maryland department of health. they are the ones that have that mission. we assist them when they are ready to distribute it. thank you. announcer: it is easy to follow the federal response to the coronavirus outbreak at c-span.org/coronavirus. trust the spread throughout the u.s. and the world -- track the spread throughout the u.s. and the world. watch briefings and hearings with public health specialists anytime, unfiltered, at c-span.org/coronavirus. by appropriations and budget reporter jennifer shep to talk about legislation signed by the president. "trump signs coronavirus aid package with one more to come." tell us what was in the measure and what to anticipate beginning possibly as e

the department of health regulations for the time being, the department of health says how many beds you can have in .he room more beds into existing hospital. to make sure those beds are staffed. staff, we, reserve are reaching out to retired nurses, doctors, medical schools, to build up a reserve capacity. you have to anticipate that some hospital workers will get sick during this so you need a reserve capacity for that basis. howdy do you create new hospital beds? create newou hospital beds? people in current hospital beds and move them into a current system. who need a lower level of care. second, the federal partnership is the key. as we discussed yesterday, the state cannot do this on its own. we do not have capacity or the workforce. we are ambitious and aggressive but the most important thing in life to know is to know what you cannot build new this many days. we need the federal government's i had all stop conversation with the president yesterday. it it -- was an open and honest conversation. the president on -- and i agreed yesterday look, we are fighting the same work, an

important that no local government puts any rules in place without first checking with the department of health. so the department of health can make sure that they are consistent with all other rules that we're about to put in place. is gation is continuing and ramping up. there are many rumors out there, part of the fear, the anxiety, people spread rumors. well, maybe you're going to quarantine new york city. we hear new york city is going to quarantine itself. that is not true. that cannot happen. it cannot happen legally. no city in the states can quarantine itself without state approval. and i have no interest whatsoever and no plan whatsoever to quarantine any city. will you contain the new rochelle? we did a containment zone on new rochelle, which is actually misunderstood. nobody was contained in new rochelle. there was no cordon around new rochelle. you could come and go in new rochelle as you wanted. the containment refered to the virus. l we did in new rochelle was close the schools and close places of large gatherings. so nobody was contained within the new rochelle. and nobody is g

ne of the most important departments alongside health is the department of human services. love to ask commissioner carol johnson to about what her department is up to to fight this battle. carol. johnson: thank you, lieutenant phy, governor, colonel, for your help during this difficult time. frontlineing with the health and social services workforce to support the response. our priorities are the health individuals wehe serve. the health and safety of our workforce and the health and of our f the workforce critical partners in communities state.the first, through medicaid's long-term care program and our to sion on aging, we help support seniors across our state who are home-bound, or those who home-bound because their congregate site has closed and limited natural community support. hat means the home health aides, private nurses are a caringl workforce that's for our older, vulnerable residents, in addition to in nursing homes, but as homes ntly, in their across the state. we're working to support older care nts and their providers in maintaining these services and worki

just want to bring you the latest figures from the department of health here in the uk. tested on the situation with coronavirus. we are hearing according to the uk department of health, 120,000 776 people have been tested for coronavirus as of 9am this morning. of those tested, 17,089 have revealed positive results and as of five o'clock on friday yesterday, of those hospitalised in the uk, 1019 have now died. that figure up from 759, soa now died. that figure up from 759, so a rise there of 260 deaths here in the uk. those figures just coming into us from the department of health. let's look elsewhere now. in spain, the death toll from the virus has risen by more than 800 overnight. it brings the total of those infected to more than 5,600 people. the increase of 832 deaths exceeds yesterday's record breaking one—day figure for fatalities. spain has now more than 72,000 people infected with the virus. 0ur correspondent guy hedgecoe is in madrid with the latest. clearly these latest figures make for pretty grim reading. the latest figure of 832 dead over the last 24 hour

of 2020. that order coming down from the health department. it comes after the county received two additional cases of local transmission from coronavirus over the weekend. two cases the past couple of days. they are talking about four cases that set them off. they want to go ahead and shelter in place and all individuals in the county are ordered to shelter at their homes. this is very similar to the cdc guidelines the rest of the bay area is adhering to. maintain social distancing of six feet. you can take a walk and get exercise, but do not go into businesses or other people's homes and stay away and stay at home. at the live news desk, back to you. >>> there have been 12 coronavirus related deaths in california including the first death of a homeless person in santa clara county. >> with the shelter in place order in effect, the race is on to find shelter for those with no place to go. >> reporter: it was a nightmare scenario. a case of coronavirus in a homeless encampment. >> concerns are many. death is a possibility obviously because this

under a district plan of administration. 20 state health districts and subdistricts are now in operation or will be in operation at an early date. the five county health departmentsre integral parts of their respective districts. suitable quarters are provided for district offices, such as those at albany and buffalo. a full-time district health officer is in charge of each district. civil service qualification for each officer include a medical degree, a postgraduate course in public health, and five years full-time experience. narrator: the district officer is the commissioner representative and authorized to act. he has available for technical directors. besides the dust or to officer the average staff includes a district supervising nurse, one or more engineers, supervising public health specialists and , clerical staff. full records are kept in all district offices, including syphilis and tuberculosis maintained according to each state. district officers complete the program through local offices and five county health commissioners. there are frequent conferences with local health officers. one serious epidemics or unusual circumstances occur, assistance is

if you are a regulated health you, by, we are asking order of the department of health, to make that ventilator available. we will purchase it for you. you could lend it to us, but we need ventilators. anyone who has them now, please call the u.s. department of health at that number. there are a lot of medical offices that have ventilators that are not operational now. they are just in the office. we need those ventilators. are to this war what missiles were world war ii, right? rosie the riveter? we need ventilators. that is the key piece of equipment. we can get the beds. we will get the supplies by hook or by crook. but ventilators -- it is a specific piece of equipment. these are people with respiratory illness. we need the ventilators. opportunity to make a difference here is to flatten the curve, flatten the increase in the number of cases, as we have talked about. flatten the increase of the number of cases coming into the hospital system. is byst way to do that reducing density. density control. the density control valve, right? that is what we have been doing all along. we ar

grant colfax with the department of public health to provide us with an update and the collaborative efforts between the san francisco department of public health and our public hospitals and the hospitals that exist here in sfrichk. -- san francisco. >> thank you, mayor. good afternoon. i am dr. grant colfax, director of public health for san francisco. over the last few weeks, mayor breed and several bay area counties announced an unprecedented order, requiring residents to stay at home in order to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. since then, many other counties and the state of california have issued the same instructions, as have multiple places across the country. i want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who are taking this order seriously, and as seriously as this situation calls for. your efforts to stay home and maintain social distance is and will save lives. i want to emphasize that. social distancing is and will save lives. i know there are people out there who would lead you to believe that our efforts are too aggressive, but i cannot stress enough just ho

unlike other states of emergency, this declaration allows the department of health to direct specific health care action in these extraordinary circumstances. we are moving forward using the advice of health officials and emergency health officials at all levels of government. we have learned of supply shortages at specific hospitals. i want you to know we have taken immediate action, working with officials to secure more tests and critically needed materials from the national stockpile. we are coordinating supply delivery to health care facilities in need and we are grateful for all of those who have offered up their inventory to help others. your sacrifice is literally saving lives. earlier today, the centers for medicare and medicaid services issued new guidance to the american health care workforce, asking for a delay in elective procedures to conserve supplies and to free up medical staff. the department of public health and emergency management agency and i urge all health facilities to follow this guidance, as well. there's no doubt that, without a question, we will need these

deaths in the united states so far have been from the seattle area on its web site the state department of health reported 9 deaths 8 in king county one and should know homeless county. washington state is now reporting 27 confirmed cases of the virus. the santa clara county public health department is providing new guidelines to the community to try to protect people from getting sick. >>officials say the risk of severe illness begins to increase for people over the age of 50 and then it goes up from there people with underlying medical problems are also likely at a higher risk. the highest risk group affects people over the age of 80 for people at higher risk officials are recommending they avoid any mass gathering, including concerts sporting events and parades our coronavirus coverage continues on kron 4 dot com there you'll find a link to the interactive map. a special report on how to stay safe from the outbreak and a timeline of events from the initial reports of the virus to today. you can find all of this in our section dedicated to the coronavirus on our website kron 4 dot com. in the s

. >> resolution authorizing the department of public health to accept $3 million from the tipping point community for creation of new psychiatric center for two year period beginning january 162020 through january 15, 2020. two. resolution authorizing the director of property to lease real property located at 11567 valencia street for $404,000 per year for three years with an estimated commencement date of mar1, 2020 to expire on februar. >> thank you very much. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you. colleagues. these two items will allow the department of public health to open a 30 bed shelter at 1156 valencia street. it is to extend a $3 million grant to help fund creation of the 30 bed community hummingbird facility. two is to enter a lease with salvation army for use of 1156 valencia for a term of three years. soon after i took office in the summer of 2018, i visited the city's first and still only hummingbird place located on the general hospital campus. it is a 24 hour behavioral center with 29 beds serving homeless people with mental illness. with an estimated 4,000 unhoused in san

the department of public health is sending health inspectors to conduct inspections at sros. how many are checking and what are you looking for or not looking for? >> so we are focus on a number of things, but particularly with regard to hygiene, making sure that the procedures are being followed and making sure that we're doing outreach and education to the community, around the social distancing order and making sure that people have the information they need and, also, making sure that people have the information they need in the event they need care. they know who to call, when to call and to get the help from the public health department, their community and other healthcare providers and systems across the city. >> and this is a followup, if there are unsafe conditions, what will you do? will you move people out? >> we're looking at focusing on the conditions are as safe as possible and if peopl symptoms, they are protected and that they're provided with resources and physical spaces that allows them to self-quarantine from their community and other people that they may

the commissioner of the department of health, judy person kelly. to her right the department of camino bowl disease director -- the partner of communicable disease director. dr. lipsitz. and my chief innovation officer, beth novak. to her left, the superintendent of the state police, colonel pat callahan. joined byhonor to be the director of the department of homeland security and preparedness, jared maples. i mentioned yesterday, back to beth, all the great work that beth's team is doing to keep our portal going and growing. i asked her to join us today to give more color on all that goes into making that portal work. the overnight numbers. since we met yesterday, we have received another 2000 -- 2289 positive test result, bringing the statewide total to 11124. judy will give you more color on those positives and brought demographics, including county of residence. digits, asinto five we protected we would be soon. we are at about the pace we expected. is ain another itself recent to continue social distancing and all the other efforts we are colle

now we will have an update from a doctor susan philips with the department of public health. >>thank you and good afternoon, i'm doctor says and philip deputy health officer and director of disease prevention and control for the san francisco department of public health. we all know the coronavirus emergency is continuing to change rapidly. i want to thank mayor breed for her leadership and supporting the unprecedented shelter-in-place order that was issued by our health officer doctor tomas aragon and also issued by the health officers of the 5 other boats populist bay area counties we believe that this aggressive action is necessary to preserve health and will save lives. and we think the people of san francisco for their cooperation which we can see just outside of city hall and on the streets of san francisco right now. we know it's not easy but we want to thank san franciscans for doing what they can to help preserve lives. our stay at home orders very broad and we know that there will be a lot of questions that that come out of this. because they'll be distancing steps t

wisconsin is supporting missions for the department of health services. louisiana, our officers are assisting the office of homeland security and emergency preparedness. arecivil support teams supporting the local department of health with drive-through testing stations. two weeks ago the california national guard started this delivering test kits to the grand princess cruise ship. this is just a sample of the efforts we are supporting across the country. we expect the role of the national guard will continue to grow to meet the needs during this pandemic. we remain flexible and committed to whatever mission we may be called to do. i want to thank all of the first responders for their service during this difficult time. everytinue to rise to challenge and work with our partners to keep our nation safe and remain true to our motto always ready. i look forward to your questions. mentioned theu 2000 guard members who have been called up. is there any discussion you are having other than the possibility of mobilizing the guard under federal authority? what is

we have done quite few tests if you count department of health and also the commercial lab. there are some of our neighboring states that are in much worse situation. they ran out of it. this is a problem across multiple states not just ours. [indiscernible] >> the backlog is not at the department of health lab. it's not at the umas lab. it's with some of the commercial labs. lab corps and quest were some of the first to announce they'll be doing this kind of testing. they operate really across the country. i think they got more samples than they could possibly do. i think they have stopped doing this. now they're back on again. some of the smaller ones have had pretty good turn around time. we've gotten results from them within two days. it's not the same across all commercial labs but depending on which lab a hospital or clinic was sending to, they might have significant backlogs with that commercial lab. >> how many tests waiting to be analyzed? >> unfortunately i have no way of knowing the sample that have been sent off and not yet been analyzed. we find out about those a

they told her to call the county department of health. she did. the county department of health sent her back to her primary care physician. she said she couldn't get an answer. she couldn't get a test. and while she's feeling better, again, her concern are all the other people in her community. and she wants to make sure she is being responsible and doesn't want to infect anyone unknowingly. >> all right. erica, thank you very much. and i am going to go now to sanjay gupta. he is here with me tonight along with director of the stanford health initiative and former cdc control detective and dr. william schaffner professor at vanderbilt medical center. so what does that actually mean in practice? is this words? or is this more? >> we don't know. i mean, there's been presidential emergencies declared before. you typically think about them in the wake of storms and things like that. and in some ways, this is being treated like a storm. you know, we can sort of see what's coming. we got to sort of prepare for that. but i think there's two big issues. e

abroad, and they are coming back, even without symptoms, the schools need to work with the department of health to understand if the student should be quarantined at home for a period of 14 days prior to them going back to school. they would also work with the department of health to get recommendations about if any students develop symptoms, what should they do? what would be the things they should do at the school to make sure that other people are safe and not exposed to the virus? host: i know we are talking about children, but let us add in these college-age students were going on spring break right now. should that cause any concern for their age group as they go into their spring break destination and head overseas? guest: isn't it amazing that this virus picked the worst times to emerge. over the chinese new year, and spring break with all the schools and college students. the overall number if we look at ages affected, in a very large series. looked70,000 patients at, less than 1% were under 10 years of age and another 1% were 10 to 19 years of age. overall, it was 2% in this group tha

i want to thank the folks to my right, department of health the commissioner. thank you both. to all of your colleagues. to my immediate left, beth novak thank you for everything you have done. to make that website a reality to make it even more powerful. colonel pat callahan. again, the we will leave this is for tomorrow, we will put out anything that you need in terms of overnight data. electronically, if we collectively make the decision, and ultimately that will be in my hands that we need to be with you physically in person if there is this report, or if we need to get on the phone. the team will get the word out. otherwise, we will be back together monday at 2:00 p.m. in this very room unless you hear otherwise. i want to repeat an end where we have ended most of these gatherings. to say, unequivocally, that we will get through this together. not without a price to pay as we have already seen. 140 precious lives have been lost. bless each and every one of them. we will not come through this unscathed, i'm sure we will not come through this without mistake, but we will com

waiving department of health rules, waiving department of financial services rules, how many more beds can we get in those hospitals? we're working on that aggressively. at the same time identifying new hospital beds. the army corps of engineers was with us yesterday. we had a very good meeting. we are looking at sites across the states to find existing facilities that could expeditiously be turned into healthcare facilities. and again what i said the federal response is very elcomed. i want to thank the president, he said he would bring the army corps of engineers here and he rought them here the next day. i spoke to him last night to follow up on the meeting. so this is going forward aggressively. we are also going to take a bold action by the necessary action that, offering 90 day relief on mortgage payment, waiving mortgage payments based on financial hardship, meaning if you are not working, if you're working on only part time, we're going to have the banks and financial institutions waive mortgage payments for 90 days. that will be a real-life economic benefit. will also be a str

public health departments -- this is very important. public health departments spend a lot of time preparing for situations like this. that's why i have a public health emergency preparedness department and the c.d.c. in our state has funded us preparedness. what does it cause us to do on a daily basis? we are building relationships. as they say in life, the first time you meet somebody is in the middle of an emergency. you want to know your partners so you establish that ongoing relationship to where when you have a situation that comes up like coronavirus or maybe in our market like a tornado or south of us hurricanes, so that's -- we want to be that trusted partner and i think we are that trusted partner in our community. now, we also talked about -- the other day, what do you do if this thing gets large and you have to maybe close your schools or community events? how will you make those decisions? well, the answer in tyler, texas, may be different than washington, d.c. or the state of washington. each community is going to have to make those decisions about when do they c

right now the department of health at the three labs in tampa, jacksonville and miami can do it combined. 300 patients per day of samples. we also have the capacity to do another 100 tests per day with a clea certified labs throughout the state. the goal is to have 50 of these certified labs throughout the state processing about 100 per day. so that would be a good increase in our capacity should that be necessary. you also have the private sector that is stepping up efforts, quest and labcorps. they don't take the samples for the tests, but they process the tests and come up with results. so those are collected, shipped out every night. they test all through the night and they're trying to get the results back within a 24-hour period. by the end of next week, both companies will be doing about 20,000 samples a day nationwide. obviously florida will be a part of that. so that is something that will be beneficial as well. i also want to stress if you're somebody who is experiencing symptoms of covid-19, fever, shortness of breath and you speak to a physician and you think you should be te