the public health department released a statement, i'm quoting now, the risk of trimmings is extremely low for individuals who aren't in close proximity for over an extended period of time. the public health department is following up on cases with close contacts. risks would be higher when sitting in close proximity to a person for multiple hours versus quick contact by passing an individual in a mall. now, we just spoke with a college student who is concerned about exposure but will still get on the airplane this morning because frankly he wants to get out of santa clara county. >> i go to santa clara. there's a lot of cases here. there's no classes, though. i'm just trying to get home so i can like not be in this area. so i'm concerned right now, i guess, but like i'm just trying to get out of here, you know? >> where is home? >> orange county. it's bad there but not as bad. >> the coronavirus is everywhere, as far as i'm concerned. i don't personally, i feel sorry for anybody who has immunity problems. but it is what it is. i guess i'm a fatalist. >> reporter: the union who represe

you raise an important point and question and one is a recognition you have that public health departments at the state and local level are our first line of defense, where they are public health consequences. what we have seen, however, is that there really has been a longer term underfunding of public health and there have been cuts that have really impacted public health departments at the state, local, tribal, territorial levels. we look at, for example, the public health preparedness grant administered by the cdc that that has experienced cuts over the years, 20%, more than 20% over the past decade, where the hospital preparedness program which has been cut in half since 2003. these are important funds to really be able to support public health over time, to be able to continue to have the type of emergency preparedness response infrastructure for surveillance for the workforce. it's very difficult to hire individuals for the short term and guarantee they're going to be able to stay on board and build that training and capacity within the public health departments. there also is a nee

public health professionals doing the day to day work. but one thing that is so important is the public information officers. the communication officers of health departments p why are they important? it does not matter if you are doing all this could work over here. if the public doesn't know and understand what it means for them and public health issues can be complicated. so really thinking broadly about the types of resources and people we need in the health departments to deal with to get you the information you need, it is good for the cio's and public health information officers. station -- two states and localities have money to pull from? funds sometimes is where they pull it from. washington state yesterday million-something to push out into the response. trying to figure out is there a way we can reprogram to work on this he echo one of the areas -- on this? one area where the skill sets are overlapping is disease can medication specialists. transmittable diseases, tuberculosis -- is there a way we can take you off that fruit no to do this instead? -- thenty executives whole point is that we need to make sure we do not have people just sitting t

we will make to close anything would have everything to do with recommendations from our public health department in order to focus on protecting public health. >> one final question for doctor colfax. >> this question is from the la times. could doctor colfax explain why the surge would come in the next week or two and is that still plausible? >> right now we have 279 cases of diagnosed covid-19 patients in san francisco. we have had three deaths. i cannot predict when the surge will come and how high the surge will be. our efforts are to flatten the curve. we have taken early aggressive and science informed efforts to flatten the curve as much as possible. over the next two weeks using the data from our community, the expertise of the scientists that we are working with, we will have a better sense where we are in that curve. i cannot speculate. if i could see the future, i would tell you right now what we need, where we need to be, where we will be in two weeks and what we will need to do to address that in two weeks. again, from what we know today we are as prepared as we can be. we will cont

public health threats. we also recognize to, that this is an important area that not only involves the public health sector. so often we think about these health threats is isolated to public health departments and yet these are issues that really require a multi sectoral approach. and one in which we engage engage from business sector to education sex, or the health care sectors and others, what are really involved and have a seat at the table as well as community in really thriving preparedness and response. when we think about the federal government can be doing is really helping to support that capacity for state and localultl health departments, ensuring that therereva is stability and that funding so that the type of coordination, that expertise and capacity drivi can continuee built in state localities to do exactly asked for example, doctor dots have spoken about,t, is havingco a force that is trained,cont having laboratoryos capacity the surveillance that is needed. you also touched on how the flu, vaccination is a proxy measure for our ability to vaccinate a large population once the measuto vaccinate abecomes in u available. can you expand on that? >> yes. you know, the flu and wh

allen rock or any other district because that's the protocol we are all following from the public health department. so the only ones that can determine that this is a case of coronvirus is only the public health department. and that's the only one that can tell us with certainty whether a case is this matter. >> what do you do with the kids though. >> at this point we follow the directions from them. depending on the case, what they are saying is that we have to sand advertise completely the classrooms, and interestingly enough, as of two days ago because news is evolving. i want to remind people about that tonight. what i say tonight might not apply tomorrow. >> changing. >> that's a disclaimer. as of today if this happens we are supposed to sand advertise and there will be an issue of quarantine for the family. and all of those steps and guidelines come exactly from the health department. >> if the school closes down what do you do with the children then. >> we follow exactly what any other emergency situation, we will alert the parents about the situation. we will wait for the amount of time wh

in 2009 we had much stronger local and regional public health departments and we were really very fullyc health and hospitals and general practice. i am worried about that now because it has been so weakened and local public health budgets have been cut by 30%. public health departments are half what they were ten years ago. it is difficult to do something about that in the short term. also environmental health. preventing the spread of this, the sort of hygiene we are talking about, gel dispensers and all of that. most restaurants do not get inspected because we hardly had any environmental health officers. environmental health in this country is very weak. we need to strengthen environmental health to strengthen environmental health to prevent the spread. this is an emergency. the prime minister is preoccupied with his new relationship and has been invisible. public health england has been in somebody needs a kick up the backside. on that note, thank you very much. thank you very much. the louvre in paris has closed for the day, as france attempt to stop the spread of the virus. there

the agency says it is working with the cdc, the california department of health and the public health department. do you have any concerns about going through security? >> no. >> reporter: why not? >> i guess we're trying to -- everyone is trying to take care of everyone, so we're all trying to make sure everybody is okay. >> no, no, i don't think so. hopefully they're taking care of those people. >> reporter: and earlier this morning the head of the tsa tweeted out and i'm partially quoting here, he said we're working with local health officials to take containment steps. as far as the airport is concerned they are aware of the situation and they're following the protocols put out by the santa clara public health department as far as stopping the spread of the coronavirus. reporting live in san jose, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> a lot of concern at airports including here. a live look at sfo where they're getting a better idea of the impact on international travel into and out of sfo. passenger numbers are down 30% from the same time last year in the international terminal. aus

we are working in close partnership with the county of santa clara and his public health department. we fully support today's order to protect the health and safety of our entire community. we also encourage all community members to not merely comply with mandatory orders but to follow the best thinking from public health experts on how to reduce the transmission of covid - 19 and protect our most vulnerable residents. this includes encouraging those who are sick or higher risk for serious illness to stay at home and to observe the county's public health officers guidance. i want to also urge residents to focus on the guidelines of our public health professionals. we know there is a lot of information flying around social media. there is a lot of rumor and conjecture. it is important we remain calm and focus on the best information we have on the best science that is informing our public health professionals. tomorrow at city council meeting i will be proposing a temporary moratorium on evictions in san jose for renters may not be able to pay their rent because of lost wages resulting

we also reminded them that the state and local public health departments are the leaders in this country on any type of response like this. we get our information from them they are experts. we provide background support and we provide a lot of infrastructure and we provide 80% of the funding for their work. they really are trusted local source of authority in this space. we count on them for the members of the house the senate and the public should count on local state and public health leaders also. i'm going to stop and we'll take your questions but i want to ask dr. fauci if he could say a couple words and we will open it up for questions. >> thank you very much mr. secretary. i just want to address one issue which we continually get asked about and i would like to clarify it at that and that's a question we get asked about what is the risk to the american public? i think you have to divide it into two general areas. when you look at the country as a whole what is the risk of actually getting infected with the coronavirus. the risk in the united states as a whole is still low. when y

so that's part of what our public health department is doing is able track that. they tracked that before the coronavirus it's 11 of the things we do just in general with her general health mission just attract that type of thing. whether those tests are publicly available at have to defer to you about that information and how readily that is. >> it hasn't happened yet. so tumor questions. reporter: [inaudible question] so i'm in a separate limit doctor antonia step in if i'm wrong. the coronavirus is a new virus. we have never had any experience with it before. we have a coronavirus family, things that cause the common summer cold for example. but this is a new organism. a test had to be developed specifically around the dna, doctor correct meets and rna that's what you're really testing for it's a different type of acid in the cell. as a different bag within the virus itself you're testing for unique to this virus to be able to determine that it's coronavirus and not the flu is that accurate doctor customer so that is correct. it is a genetic sequence for the rna

. >> reporter: tonight public health departments across the bay area are saying more cases of covid-19 are expected. so now is the time to prepare for increase community spread. a trip to buy essentials looks anything but routine. in many parts of the bay area this weekend, check out the toilet paper aisles at target. many shoppers picked up cooking necessities. at a walgreen's, there were no hand sanitizers left. it was the same story at walmart. tonight paul picked up the last of whatever basic essentials were left. aheridn't have water, didn't s. >> reporter: the increased de reported two alre workers are positive for the coronavirus. spending test results from the cdc. they attended to the first coronavirus patient. >> they cared for the patient while at the hospital well before there was reason to suspect the person had coronavirus. >> reporter: they asked for providers to protect themselves more aggressively with any patient with respiratory disease. >> one thing we learned about the coronavirus, many people who can pass the virus who show no symptoms and many show symptoms that

we also reminded them that the state and local public health departments are the leaders in this country on any type of response like this. we get our information from them. they're experts. we provide background report. -- background support. we surge in to help them. we provide a lot of infrastructure. of course we provide about 50% of the funding for their work. but they really are a trusted local source of authority in this space. we count on them, members of the house, the senate, and the public should count on our local and state public health leaders also. i'm going to stop, and then we'll take your questions. but i want to ask dr. fauci if he can say a couple of words. then we'll open it up for questions. dr. fauci: thank you very much, mr. secretary. i want to address one issue we continually get asked about. i would like to clarify it a bit. the question we get asked is, what is the risk to the american public? you have to divide it into two general areas. when you look at the country as a whole, what is the risk of actually getting infected with the coronavirus? the risk in th

thursday, thcalifornia of department of health said gatherings ofle200 peop or more should be postponed or canceled until e end of march. joining me is the officer for the public health department and laura. welcome to you both and what are the main takeaways that ifrgo president trump's national emergency declaration today was this ideae of early week we could have half a million more testing kits going out arou the country. we have 330 million people in the u.s. so doctor, starting with you, do you think that's going to make a difference? >> i think it will help expand the ability for testing, and it will be other commercialways to increase it as well. and i think we need to prioritize those of higher risk. were your main takeaways from the conference? it seemed more like a pep rally atimes quite frankly. >> yeah. it was one of the more measure trfb things we've seen from donald trump, and i appreciate the q & a at the end where he was colabing with our governor. that was kind of interesti. and it was this tone of american exceptionalism and sort of placing the blame on other countries and highlightingofhow wonderful a response we've seen here when a lot of

the public health department announced the first covid-19 death here in santa clara county. a woman in her 60s had been hospitalized for a number of weeks in mountain view. she happened to be the third reported case in the county. had not traveled internationally and had no known contact with an infected person. the decision made by universities like san jose state to curtail the possible spread. bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thanks, bob. a lot of us wondering what it means for kids sports and church events and what not. some bay area schools are already closed. others are rethinking their policies in the wake of the outbreak. san jose state has stopped in person classes though campuses do we main open. some bay area high schools are temporarily closed. lowell high should reopen tomorrow and marin schools remain open but some believe that could change at any moment. >> probably not a question of if but when, honestly. we've seen school closures, we've seen all of this. some more aggressive than others. >> if you look there at the bottom of your screen you'll see that ti

. >> reporter: yesterday the public health department announced the first covid-19 death here in santa clara county. she was a woman in her 60s, had been hospitalized in mountain view, was the third reported case of covid-19 in the county. had not traveled internationally and had no known contact with a traveler or infected person. coming up at 5:00 the the public health department to cancel large social gatherings here in the south bay. reporting live at san jose state, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much, bob. santa clara county's latest death, the one, and only one. a spike in cases prompting health leaders to take extreme measures. gatherings of more than 1,000 people now banned countywide for the next three weeks. this will affect those san jose sharks games. the team reviewing how it will handle upcoming home games. businesses surrounding the shark tank, though, they're feeling stunned. >> we get a ton of business and it's going to be a big blow to us. >> we've seen a rapid increase in cases not linked to travel or to known confirmed cases of covid-19. >> the c

. >> 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 santa clara county public health department would not tell us when the infected employees worked here. which is frustrating some passengers. >> certainly, any nondisclosure is not good for the public. >> the lack of information is also greating several congressional and local leaders, including congresswoman, and the san jose mayor, both are now calling for tsa to release vital information about the three employees who tested positive for covid-19, including exactly where they were posted and their shift time. >> reporter: even though 42 tsa employees remain quarantined tonight, the security checkpoints are still open. now, santa clara county public health department just released a statement a few minutes ago, saying that it does not recommend the closure of the airport. but what it does recommend, that anyone who has severe illness or could possibly be at a higher risk of severe illness, from coronavirus, avoid all air travel. reporting live, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> it is a move to keep people who may or may not have the coronavirus out of hospital.

public health. >> thank you very much. as mentioned, i'm director of the california department of public health. and i want to start by my condolences as well to the family members and loved ones of our patient who passed away from covid-19. as public health officials, weed a hoped that california could be spared this loss. but you we've been planning and preparing for it for the possibility of it for a long time. currently as mentioned california now has 53 confirmed cases. these cases do spread out across the state. but i want to really emphasize that for the health of the general public in california, the risk remains low. i know and i acknowledge that in placer county this morning the local health official noted that the risk in thatmuty increased. this is a quickly evolving situation and just as infectious diseases move across different populations at different rates, that indeed is also happening here. so while the risk to the health of general public in california remains low he, i encourage you to pay attention to notices from your local health authorities regarding the risk in your comm

monitored and that all precautions are being taken to protect their health and the health of the public. the department of public health began testing for cases that meet the cdc criteria on monday and continue to do so 7 days a week in an abundance of caution mayor london breed announce recommendations by public health to prevent possible exposure of coronavirus on saturday, the city's recreation and parks closed the golden gate park senior center and canceled an open house at san francisco lawn bowling club fears spread its. >>faster than the actual disease. so. he was at the wash, your hands because in bay view an entire festival had to move inside the senior center changing the event to take out only when the mayor announced that really needed to make sure that we're taking care, especially a frail elders and that they shouldn't be in large congregate settings health officials are urging residents not to panic san franciscans should remain calm. >>but also take increase precautions to prevent transmission. washing their hands. >>staying home and isolating from other people if they are ill san franc

public health departments are giving them different information so they don't have a lad handle on it. we need to get that testing under control. it might not affect me because it's not going to affect treatment, but from a national standpoint it's going to tell us where we need to put our resources and how we need to attack it in certain areas. >> if i show up on my doctor's doorstep right now and i have a runny nose, do i get tested. >> they're going to ask you what is your exposure and what symptoms do you have, they will probably have to call the public health department and they will make a decision and the test gets done in the doctor's office and it gets sent to the public health office and that means a delay. they're starting to come out with commercial testing. i think it's going to be faster once that comes out, but it's not there. >> kristen, as we noticed some of the things the president has mentioned has been brought up on capitol hill and debate. how much will require congress to act and how long would that take? >> reporter: there is certainly bipartisan agreement they

so we have significant good news over $60 million in the department of public health as of six-month. and our human service agency $20 million. i'll talk about each of the departments in a membership and what is going on -- in a minute and what is going on there. i'll talk about taxes overall, but the big news is the continued strength we saw in the first half of the fiscal year related to transfer tax. we saw a number of large properties trade hands in the year, with payments in excess of $20 million for a single transaction, so we had a lot of strength there. under the way the city's reserves work, that volatile revenue, a significant portion, ends up deposited into a one-time reserve. and like i talked about most -- i'll talk about in a second, most other taxes are trending toward budget. at least as of six-month. and there is some weakness in hotel and some in admissions tax as of the six-month mark. this is showing a picture of all the major tax revenues that we feel in the general fund. and you can kind of see on the far right chart -- column, how the 6-month projection various

again, they used to be recording this all at the cdc when they started sending it out to the public health departments around the country, it became each individual public health department reporting in, which we've been calling. ultimately, sounds like what secretary azar was describing was there will be an i.t. sort of communication between all this, but it's not there yet. so it's forcing all of us to sort of goff sort of go to the individual public health departments and call them. it will be further magnified when the commercial maps come online, which it keeps getting delayed because it was a million tests last week that went out. it sounds like they're in the process of going out. 75,000 tests is the best number question get that are out there. but, again, fewer than 6,000 people actually being tested. >> also the phone works at hhs and just like it works here. the phone does work there. and knowing where they have been tested is important for epidemiology. >> yeah. >> this is an important thing to know this information so you can make informed decisions about what's school districts to close a

we have the public health departments in each of ohio's 88 counties and over the country. we had the best in the w world until president trump began to try to gut the cdc and nih. for the global health security, but he repeats that. for two years, president trump left us without the team that is supposed to manage the pandemic. there were about 40, an admiral and also a doctor, his job was to survey the world and look around for potential illness outbreaks, look around for potential pandemics. it might have been sars, it might have been the ebola or the resurgence of polio. i sent a letter more than 600 days ago in 2018 telling them to stop dismantling the infrastructure. now we are all paying the price for the decision. we see the real-time consequences. this was unilateral. we disarmed, we unilaterally disarmed against the world we know that international tuberculosis is a problem. we know that international hiv aids is a problem and malaria is a problem. we work against those. one of the things i'm proudest about his book we have done about public health. we lead the cha

and a santa clara county public health department to monitor the situation as well as thelth and safety of our employees and the traveling public. michelle says she may stay home for the time being because of all the virus developments. >> i went through tsa and didn't have any physical contact with anyone in there, so i am aware of that. this is my new way to say hi. no more handshaking. >>> a live look now for us at sfo where we're getting a better idea of the impact from the coronavirus. on international into and out of sfo the airport leaders say passenger numbers are down 30% from the same time last year in the international terminal. the latest airline to cut back on its flights is australia's kwanzaa reducing its load. >>> warriors president will meet with san francisco mayor london breed this morning to talk about leaving the doors of the chase center open during the outbreak. last night the ws hosted the clippers and there were a lot of empty seats. but some san francisco leaders believe the team is ignoring better judgment by allowing fans to show up not to menti

according to the san mateo county public health department it learned from atria that six residents aren the hospital. three of those residents have tested positive for coronavirus. atria has suspended non-essential visitation and appointments. county officials say the facility has outbreak precautions in place, including taking residents' temperatures twice a day. the county says it's now partnering with state officials to make sure residents' needs are addressed. this is a senior living and memory care facility. the coronavirus is particularly dangerous for the elderly. and in a communal living environment containing the spread of the virus is a big concern. here in san mateo county there are 80 coronavirus cases and one death. now, i did call the front desk tonight to see if we could find out more about how all of this unfolded. i was told the facility is closed to visitors and i would need to speak with the executive director. reporting live in burlingame, jean elle, nbc bay area news. >> okay, jean, thank you so much. >>> we want to bring you some breaking news out of las vegas. th

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 m

public health response. so mitigation efforts allow us to stop and slow the spread of the disease in our community. so that's all about social distancing, staying at home. the efforts that the public health departments are doing right now are to slow that down. >> when you look at the bay area, in my regular life in the course of a week i'm in at least three bay area counties. one said no gatherings. another there's nothing happening that affects me. how do you navigate your life when there are many standards being adhered to. >> i note cdc and public health department are working in coordination to get that in place. what we're doing is prep sponding in the month to what we're seeing on the ground. cases of certain counties having different responses, that's because they're responding to the epidemiology. what i see now we're getting clear guidance so we can expand a more uniform approach. >> is anything you've seen an overreaction? >> i think what i who say is we know how to control this virus. it's covering your cough. it's doing the basics that you were preferencing earlier, washing your hands, using that alcohol hand gel. we all have a part to play in stopping this outbreak. we have to take it

that number. >> zero. >> this is how many tests were done at public health departments yesterday. >> eight. >> eight tests total between the cdc and the public health departments in this country yesterday. now, there may be some that were done at commercial labs. although, those are still up and, you know, getting up and running. but, you know, we're talking thousands and thousands of tests that were being done a day in these other places. this is their own website. we have been monitoring this. first, we had to call these public health laboratories ourselves to get the real numbers because we couldn't get them off the cdc site. eight tests. are we ramping up? no. we don't have sight on this right now. we don't have clear vision on exactly how widespread this is in the country. >> as we talked about previously, sanjay, the reason this is called covid-19 is this happened in the fall -- the winter of '19. and our government has known about this at least since the end of december. and so we would -- listen. anyway, let's move on. i want to talk -- i want to talk about march madness right

our city. >> reporter: hours earlier, mayor london breed and city leaders revealed the department of public health lab revealed positive tests for a man in his 90s and a woman in her 40s. in we do not know at this point how they were exposed to the virus. >> reporter: the health department is looking to the patients' histories and contacts to help slow the spread. >> the cdc and state will determine the most appropriate lock for the ship to berth. >> reporter: meanwhile, they're not sure if the cruise ship off the coast of to will even dock here. >> california state health department and the governor's office of emergency services with the u.s. coast guard are working to determine if covid-19 is presence t on the ship. >> reporter: now of course the high school will get a good cleaning over the weekend. and then families will be updated on what to expect before monday morning. reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> a san jose preschool is closed until monday, after a teacher tested positive for the coronavirus. in a letter sent to parents, a teacher at action day p

administrators of the hills burke school said the public health department said the campus is cleared to resume care classes after it completes a thorough cleaning. schools across the area say they are monitoring student health carefully but parents are the first line of defense. >>> keep them home. we also would like parents to tell us what symptoms they are seen. >>> we have been sending her to school with hand sanitizer trying to be as prepared as we can. >>> as far as closing schools if there is a case connected to a campus san jose unified will follow the local department of public health recommendation. >>> our health is in our own hands. almost literally. watch them frequently and remember to get the backs of your hands in between your fingers and of course underneath your fingernails. water temperature does not matter. doubled the old rule of thumb to wash for as long as it takes to sing happy birth day twice. most importantly avoid touching your face. >>> stay with us for the latest on the coronavirus including our online map that tracks the global threat in real time. >>> sa

public is that now is the time to prepare, not panic. prior to being elected i worked as a senior advisor at the us department of health and human services and the office of the assistant secretary for prepared to spend response. in that role i worked in the department's response to public health emergencies like the bold and the zika virus. i remember feeling the weight and gravity of our work on the american people and the world were looking to us. the threat was great but we took it with resolve, with focus in with coordination. our communities were less stronger and we must do that again. that means insuring and all of god response that builds sustainable capacity within our local public health system. that is essential as it is rely on expert and putting them directly in front of the american people to communicate about steps that they can take to minimize the risk of infections and to prevent transmission to others. we need to support the essential role of state and local public health officials with more sustained funding. i convened a call with those in my community last friday to gather information of what they're seeing and hea

she said as they continue to contain the disease and focus on individual cases the public health department is also taking a look at broader public health measures. the virus is generating a weeks worth of activity every hour. >> this is moving so fast. we each have so much information. it's incredibly important we stay calm and we stay unified. we minimize the chaos as much as possible. that enables us to focus. >> santa clara county has 43 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 21 of those cases cannot be traced to travel or related to another case which is why more aggressive action needs to be taken. starting tomorrow large gatherings of 1000 people or more will be banned in the entire county and will stay in effect for three weeks. the order does not apply to normal operations airports, shopping malls and centers or other spaces were 1000 people or more may be in transit. it does not include grocery stores for offices. commercial labs are now coming online and that will allow more high-volume testing to be done which will help them understand the scope and magnitude. >>> you can keep up to

the best public health infrastructurin the history ofte disease control, cincinnati when the safety and health, only one of its kind in the world. and we have our county public health departments in each of the ohio 88 counties in all of the country. they have the best in the world until president trump began to try to get the cdc. he refused to fill key public health officials . positions. and this is unbelievable, if you think about it i know senator young the presiding officer had concerns about that. he got wind of the white house's entire global health security team two years ago preliminary be decorated for two years, president trump left as without the team that is supposed to manage pandemics . in with the means, and means that there were about 40 people led by an admiral use nimby, also doctor in his job was to survey the world and look around for potential illness outbreaks. to look around for potential pandemics. might've been stars, or a bullet, might've been resurgence of polio. it might been at any number of things. his job at the white house, where rich enough company and we can do this, we protect our own people. and if we don't, we see what happens. in his job

local governments are then burdened with deciding how big do we want our public-health staff department to be? you can talk about policymaking. >> you have a very sophisticated public health system in minnesota, regularly ranked among the top three in the country. here is the observation you make that i like a lot. first of all, health in all policies. we are responding in how the government -- we are observing how the government response to covid-19. this is not just about underfunded public health apartment alone. in this is every agency having a role to play with emergency response efforts. we will learn from covid real quick where we see the fire outbreaks. you need the real gamut of what the government can do in terms of responding effectively. here is the reality that we don't recognize outside of that emergency. we government working towards these objectives and policies consistently, regularly. it's about housing and urban development and transportation departments. it's about labor and insurance initiatives if we are better to recognize health in all policies as a key initiativ

i will say that the public health department e is good on not only the front lines very much the policy that we needed thus far. from the very beginning of social distancing to the reduction in attendance at events, we brought it from 1,000 down to 100. and impression that was good to do. and we are in a situation though where we're very happy that we have built up significant reserves in the county and happy that the states -- it comes in very handy in the next couple months. >> thank you very much. that is silicone valley strong.org if you want to get involved in that. sup supervisor, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >>> up next, ways to et treat and prevent coronavirus but government, is it getting in the way? the investigator group trying to cut red tape. >>> bay area labs are working overtime to find a cure of a treatment for covid-19. but local scientists tell us they are waiting for a funding that is too slow for the current emergency. here is reporter steven stock. >> reporter: this research lab at uc berkeley has the tools and the talent to help find a cure for covid-19. >>

and the santa clara county public health department to monitor the situation as well as the health and safety of our employees and the traveling public. michelle yan of santa cruz says she may stay home for the time being because of all the virus developments. >> i went through tsa, and i didn't have any physical contact with anyone in there, so i am aware of that. and this is my new way to say hi. no more hand -shaking. >> reporter: we're still trying to find out if there is also going to be any sort of staffing shortage here at sjc for the tsa because we don't know the number of employees who are now home in isolation. still, raj and jessica, many questions to be answered tonight. live at sjc, ian cull, bay area news. >> the questions just continue to mount. thank you, ian. >>> new at 11:00, another campus following suit. cal state east bay now suspending in-person classes starting tomorrow. the majority of courses will be redesigned and back online by monday the 16th. >>> stanford is taking it one step further, not just the winter quarter. in-person classes have been

we will make to close anything would have everything to do with recommendations from our public health department in order to focus on protecting public health. >> one final question for doctor

we have our county public health departments in each of ohio's 88 counties and all over the country. we had the best in the world until president trump began to try to gut the c.d.c. and the n.i.h. he refused to fill key public health positions. most importantly, this is just unbelievable when you think about it and i know senator young, the presiding officer, had concerns about that. he got rid of the white house's entire global health security team two years ago. let me repeat that. for two years president trump left us without the team that's supposed to manage pandemics. now, you know what that means? it means -- there were about 40 people at the white house led by an admiral who is an m.d. and also a doctor. his job was to survey the world and look around for potential illness outbreaks, to look around for potential pandemics. it might have been sars. it might have been ebola. it might be resurge ens of -- resurgece of polio. we do this. we care about the world. protect our own people. if we don't, we see what happens. his job was to continue to look rn a the world and look -- a

> reporter: meanwhile the health department ordered a quarantine for laguna honda, one of the largest nursing homes in the country run by the san francisco department of public health. no residents can leave campus, no visitors since march 6th, when the first 2 staff members tested positive. now there are 5 positive cases. 4 are nurses, the 5th doesn't work nopats hsted resident positive, but only 15 have been tested out of 780 residents. >> unfortunately the virus is circulating in the community. >> reporter: an infectious disease expert at uc berkeley says nursing home residents are especially vulnerable to the coronavirus. in fact, it's a nursing home that's at the center of the outbreak in washington state. he says keeping family away is really tough on the resident. >> it clearly has a toll. i leads to loneliness and potentially depression. so it's difficult to enforce those rules and regulations and limitation, but it's really important. >> reporter: joe vazquez, kpix 5. >>> a gate agent at the oakland airport has tested positive for covid- 19. officials say the agent last worked sunday in terminal 2 and used the men's restroom at the terminal. he also

my question is, why is the department of health numbers reported different than the locally reported numbers? your national public health department eported 355 positive cases yesterday. but today the department of health still reporting 188 cases. is that a lag p, we should be expecting in all ounties, not just some of the larger some? governor lee: i'll let the you more about that. she knows more about the data. >> thank you for the question. discussed yesterday, you're exactly right. there is a lag in reporting. a disclaimer on our website that says we report of data a, every piece that we have by 2:00 p.m. every day. so i would caution you to expect some local numbers to be ahead of hours. but please be reassured we will those in our numbers but there may be a lag. sergio we'll go to public. from national your line is unmuted. sergio: thank you, good morning, our nswering you are uestions -- our questions today. the governor of kentucky said someone was positive after a party.irus is this something you see? o you know if it's one of our cases? because of the coronavirus party? state do what can the young peop

according to california department of public health. th department reports 23 cases. >>> they're tracking how they got the virus in the first place. >>> today hundreds of passengers from the grand princess cruise ship were isolated at travis air force base and they will be released. they were quarantined 14 days after the emergency docking in oakland earlier this month. seven of the 115 passengers tested positive and have been moved to medical facilities off the base. another 191 are still waiting for the test results but are being released because they have finished the mandatory quarantine period. another 560 passengers declined to be tested and are also being released today after the quarantine period. more than 1300 passengers on a cruise ship dock in elizabeth are awaiting to disembark. the government says passengers of the fansaia must stay on board before they're tested for the virus. starting tomorrow passengers not from portugal will be taken to the airport to board the flights. no passengers have reported any simple toms. >> no

the san mateo county public health department sawrites that burlingame has outbreak precautions in place, and that includes taking temperatures twice a day of the residents. senior citizens are vulnerable to developing complications if they contract covid-19. 18 people have contracted the virus here in the area and one person has died from it. >> thanks for the latest there, bob. >>> 5:02. by midnight all bay area counties will be under a shelter in place order. it's to try and slow the spread of the coronavirus. we are joined downtown by sharon. it's quiet out there now. >> reporter: that's for sure. we just saw city workers driving by, and we see starbucks employees getting ready to open for business. i can see from experience, living in a county that has had shelter in place for two days, you will see more vibrant neighborhoods today. people are getting out more and walking their dogs, and exercising together as a family. business and employees expressed uncertainty about what to come with the shelter in place today. >> we are just trying to cram everybody in and get everybody settled