grant kolfax for their continued leadership during this challenging time. would like to start with what happened over the weekend and i'll start with, basically, reiterating some of mayor breed's points. although we're generally pleased with what we're seeing as our city and people if sa in san fro continue to shelter in lace pla, we've seen issuing worth repeating and i'll start with deloris park. we anticipated we would have more people out this weekend with good weather and we've had reef learelief and we put out me officers and more volunteers and work with other city entities. but deloris park and other popular parks in the city, we cannot let up. now, it is ok to go to the park and be with members of your own family, make sure that you have your face coverings with you as the health order calls for. what's not ok is to be in large gatherings or groups with people outside of your household and that is still not ok. and we are asking that you continue to social distance but what we're seeing in deloris park and other parks is that people are having picn

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 m

grant kolfax for their continued leadership during this challenging time. like to start with what happened over the weekend and i'll start with, basically, reiterating some of mayor breed's points. although we're generally pleased with what we're seeing as our city and people if sa in san fro continue to shelter in lace pla, we've seen issuing worth repeating and i'll start with deloris park. we anticipated we would have more people out this weekend with good weather and we've had reef learelief and we put out me officers and more volunteers and work with other city entities. but deloris park and other popular parks in the city, we cannot let up. now, it is ok to go to the park and be with members of your own family, make sure that you have your face coverings with you as the health order calls for. what's not ok is to be in large gatherings or groups with people outside of your household and that is still not ok. and we are asking that you continue to social distance but what we're seeing in deloris park and other parks is that people are having picnics in

grant kolfax at the department of public health and they have been instrumental in helping us to do the scenario planning to get prepared for any scenario and, in fact, get prepared for the inedge abilitthetheinevit artge. we are happy to report that as far as we know, they are all doing well. we've done dozens of interviews that our contact tracers have done and we also have 41 staff people in self-isolation as a result of the potential exposure. so far, the good news is that of each of the covid positive cases we've had, none appears to have been transmitted from one sfmta employee to another. this is a much better position than the dire situation that our counterparts are experiencing from detroit to maryland to new york and others. so we will continue to work hard to follow the dph's guidance to the t in order to do the best that we can to protect our workforce, rooted in the latest available science. we'll also recognise that while on the one hand we need to follow the science in order to help protect the health of our workers, we also need to recogniserecognise this is a teg time