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I don't think the coming executive Emmerich they think that arrested everybody has been just great throughout all of this on we know that the challenges there. Still, I want to talk just a minute about the challenge, the national challenge, because that's clearly one of the things that setting the stage for all this, not only in other person, country, but certainly here. We continue to be in urgent need for the personal protection equipment, as well as for the testing re agents and other things to make sure that our citizens can get tested and ultimately, the personal equipment is very, very important in the event, which I would love to say. It is unlikely, but is probably likely that we're going to see an increase in hospitalization. Just this morning we had a cabinet meeting at the city level and both the police department, the fire Department, we talked about the need for the personal protection equipment and how important this is. So I'm gonna continue to urge everyone at the national level. Certainly our state leaders, who have been very, very good to work with to do everything they can to make sure that we get these materials, these materials are very, very important because when you look around the world and see which countries have been able to do this most effectively, the common denominator appears to be. The quicker you can get the testing, the quicker you can get people getting the systems and hot at the local level is I said we had a Cabinet meeting this morning, and since then we've lifted our parking restrictions in the city. We realized that there's a lot of hardships for people right now. The the handicapped parking restrictions are still in place, but almost all the other parking restrictions have been lifted, so people don't have to walk long distances and they don't have to worry about that. So please refer to our Department of Public Works website to determine exactly what your situation is there. But the overriding message remains the same, and that is stay at home as much as you possibly can. The more social isolation we have, which is, I think for some people, very contrary to their essence, I think the more effective we're going to be in dealing with this issue. We know the numbers are continued to rise the state numbers came out today, another tragically another dramatic increase in numbers. And the numbers continue to climb here in southeastern Wisconsin as well. So there's a lot of work to be done, but I urge people to stay calm. This is a time to spend time in your homes. This is the time to if you've ever wanted to binge watch your TV. This is your time to binge. Watch your TV. Uh, clean your basement. Whatever you want to do. Take advantage of this. We're gonna get through this. You Oh, thank you, Mayor Burton. This is kind of George Christiansen. First of all, I want to commend the mayor for his hard work and also account executive and the emergency operations team that he has assembled for the proactive leadership. They exhibited. Really, really incredible. Thank you. Is your county flirt on? The executive director of the Market County Election Commission, I managed two distinct and very important departments. The clerk's office in the office of the Election Commission. I'll talk a little bit about the clerk's office. First of all, in order to show the safety of our customers in the general public, there are Office Clerks office is going to be suspended and already has suspended all counter service. With the exception off marriage license, I still need to fulfill that state mandated a constitutional duty. And, uh, I don't expect and hope people will consider coming in to apply to be married. But if they do, they have that right. My office will be open for Denny and 2 p.m. beginning tomorrow, and we're holding take marriage license applications by employment. So I'm actually the public in the mediator, please, for people to our website. For additional information. Second, the Election Commission. The Market County Election Commission. First of all. What? Sarah person. Late in the evening of Tuesday, March 17th I was informed that employees that is with market town, the Election Commission and tested positive for Kobe. 19 buyers Bye Notification of this event. I immediately conferred with various professionals, including, but not limited to the director of Office of Emergency Management for the West Theo Liam to be the oil medical director. Dr. Weston, health directors from the cities of Milwaukee. Um oh Christ, which is where the patient lives, and Greenville, which is wild and several is to gather information and initiate next steps, including identify all potential employees and customers would be for me and not with this individual. I also first called every member of my staff in the courts offices. Well, Electric Commission. The good news is that this individual actually had not been in the courthouse since Tuesday. March Step she was she was on vacation. The 10th and 11th 12 11 12 13 should not become symptomatic until Senator 14 and she actually she was exposed on Thursday. Well, nevertheless, I'm went to the 18th which was yesterday. I was informed by the Oak Creek Health director that or the steak I lines open. 19. Only individuals who had contact with an infected individual within two days of initial symptoms need to self warranty. Therefore, no staff from the county clerk's office nor the Election Commission office, whatever is, and no one else in the four courts will put at risk as a result of this exporter. In this confirmation, I'm happy to report that this individual is at home recovering nicely, which is really what is the most important and chews off 60. And so she was at Everest, and she just I'm also reminded everyone that the authority and the responsibility to conduct local election results dressed conduct mobile electric rests in the hands of each municipality within what more could County Elections Commission role is to provide support and report those results. My elections director is Giulietta Henry, and her entire staff has been working diligently to fill our role to ensure that this election runs as smoothly as possible. Despite these down two times, we're continuing to monitor. The situation, Of course, is we know exchanging daily, and we will update the public and media as we hear more. We've also set up a border information hotline as part of our Border Educational Outreach campaign. Aboard get more information. That number is 278 vote once again to 788683 I've also been working worked closely with the county executive's office in administration to address any religious issues as they relate to elections. For example, county parks facilities have been closed all over. I've worked with Zach in the parks director. They any parts facilities that are fully places on Election Day will be open and voice sanitized, so there's nothing to worry about about that. In addition, earlier this year, the market Tony Border Supervisors adopted a resolution, and it was signed by the county executive. Thio allow more employees to be released with a two from the work of science to train and work is overs. This will allow county employees. We're not in high risk groups to step in for lows that maybe this is very similar to a city. Want a program modeled after conclusion when the polls open it or close at 8 p.m. On April 17th April 7th on Election Day. We're just asking the public and the media to please be patient. Do not expect results to be rolling in two hours. There are so many absentee ballots they're coming in that it is going to take some time the most important things during this election in any election years exercising your right the vote and doing so in a safe manner, having your vote counted and having the election results reported. Thank you. You know Dr Mark Westerner Yuan, I am. Can you hear me? Ok, great. I am going to try to share my screen here. Tell me if everybody is able to see that yes, we can get. So this is the new track board that Milwaukee County specifically the Office of Emergency Management has put together. I think it'll be a really great resource for our entire community, so to walk through it just very and this will be public facing. So this will be on the website of the Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Management in the near future. Republic facing on, I'll just real briefly walk through it. It's fairly self explainable, but you can see the total confirm Milwaukee County cases. So this is part of my, uh, update here. So 64 confirmed cases we do break it down by municipality. If you don't see a municipality listed, it's because there's no cases in the municipality that will continue to populate eyes more. Come along. Ah, the right. We're happy that at the moment we have no confirmed deaths in Milwaukee County. But we, ah ah, do have the age breakdown just below that. That helps us to track the age of people who are positive for covert, especially because it seems to have much stronger effect on the older population. And then, perhaps most significant, to watch is in the lower right corner there, Which is the trend on, unfortunately, reduce your trend in Walker County continuing to rise, we leave off the current day until tomorrow. Just cause cases continue to be brought in to the lab and run by the lab. So we will populate the 19th today, uh, during the day tomorrow and this will get updated continuously. Um, throughout Thea throughout the day. Ah, and then in the middle, you can see the map. It's reminiscent of the Johns Hopkins map. Um, certainly we chose a different color, but you can see the circles will get larger as more individuals are diagnosed. Importantly, we did break this down by census region, and so the dot sits at the middle of the census. So we're certainly not identified any individuals. Um, and it does not lie over any individual residences or anything like that. It just sits in the middle of the census tract. And indeed, as you zoom in, uh, the dots disappear if you were to, If somebody were just log in and think, Oh, let's see whose house that is. The dots do disappear. Um, as you scroll in, Um, this will be again public facing. You can play around. There are some interesting overlays. It'll become more interesting Heat map overlays, alderman, district supervisor districts, your health departments And then if you scroll over, the health department will have their contact information. Ah, And then, of course, we're always, uh, interested in equity. And so we do have, ah, race and ethnicity information that could be, ah, over laid as well a cz well as agent income. To get a better understanding of how Cove in 19 is really affecting our community. The hope here is that this map will provide resource is for our well, there we go for our hospital systems for our health departments for fire departments. But it will also be public facing to inform the public. Um, so they have a better understanding of what's going on in our community. That's the first update. The second update. I wanted to give eyes based on our fire departments. So, um, all 15 fire departments in our county are working together to organize a plan to respond to possible covert 19 patients that engaged the 911 system. This response has been geographically distributed throughout the county as a regional response plan to ensure equity among our population. Continue to work on the process to ensure ah, continuity of the robust, timely and expert response to emergency emergent patients in need. And, uh, and that will be coming out in the near future. It's continuing to be planned and finalized, but we want to ensure that our fire department is able to function effectively and efficiently. S so that is my update for today. Thank you very much. Thank you. Dr. Weston. Dr. Boyle, Everyone. We have 41 cases right now. You just want you just went off right now. So if you want to just take it from the top, okay? Okay. Oh, the update for the city of our key is 41 cases at this point in time again, we continue to learn more if we get more updates on cases throughout the day. So you might see these numbers changed by nine o'clock. 10 o'clock. Um, I also wanted to highlight our laughs. Productivity. Since we began testing on March 5th, we have tested 647 specimens for 587 patients. And I know lately we've seen a huge spike, and numbers of specimens have been sent to the Marquis Health Department Lab. Yesterday we had 115 specimens process for 100 and 10 patients. And that's using the new criteria that the state Department of Health Service is provided. That four tiered system really looking at individuals that are health care providers or individuals that are in the hospital home with cocotte 19 like symptoms again, the symptoms for covert 19 Our flu like we're looking mainly for, ah, fever of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher a clown. Other respiratory distress, including shortness of breath and fit teak. Um, we also highlighting the state's update about low level testing, our low priority testing if someone presents with these flu like symptoms. But they are not being the point of respiratory distress, where they need emergency care that they are to isolate for 14 days and, um, consider themselves infected now that we have community spread of covert 19. Another point that I wanted to update you on is related to the states guidance. A number of updates were provided today. One was related to, uh, updating the isolation and home, uh, monitoring our quarantine orders. So the CDC provided an update as faras clearing individuals that are patients or positive for covert 19 of being free of some things for three days. Oh, are 72 hours and that needing to take a fever, reducing medication or, uh, being free of respiratory distress or symptoms and also looking at the time period passed these symptoms. So looking at a seven day clearance mark, another update from the state is related to restaurants and bars that they wanted to provide some clarity regarding takeout orders so that information is available on the state's website again, the state Department of Health Service's. There was also some updated guidance on quarantine and self monitoring for health care providers and first responders. A CZ. You know, more and more individuals that are working to keep the community safe and try to reduce the spread of Kobe 19 may inadvertently be. It's supposed to the virus through their occupation. So we're looking at individuals that are directly and exposed the duration of exposure and determining them to be high risk and them needing to be on a 14 day quarantine and then individuals that have traveled that we're looking at, Ah, revising that are loosening that up a little bit now that we have community spread. So again, these updates are available on the state's website. The focus on protecting our first responders and health care workers is extremely important. As we continue to try to suppress or flattened the curve of covert 19 in the community, we will be focusing on doing more outreach a spot especially for those individuals in our community that are most sent. Risk a little, um, looking at ways for us to, uh, provide outreach in a more innovative way. As the Health Department has scaled back on, many direct service is aside from those that were required to provide by law and lastly, this up, they wouldn't be complete without a reminder and how to prevent clothing. 19. So individual precautions. If you're under the weather, please stay home all right, washing your hands for 20 seconds and with soap and water. If that's not available using alcohol sanitizer, that's at least 60% or greater. Um, not touching your face, hands or mile. Ah, And then, of course, social distancing is important. The six feet rule that were promoting also okay from the help of permanent, as well as the state of limiting gatherings to 10 persons. So even though you may have nine people, but making sure there's social distancing in the room the 60 feet apart and make sure you're cleaning and sanitizing, thank you where things might start to get dicey. So if you have questions, please unused your line. If you can't do that, I need everyone but that as we all know, you have a question. You passing out a mayor. This is Derrick Rose with Channel 12 on. It's also for Crew Safely as well. We've seen areas like Racine County in Washington County changed the way that they handled their law enforcement, um, face to face interaction with people who call 911 for service and their law enforcement goat. Respond to scenes or respond to Holmes. What changes specifically do we have for Milwaukee police, Milwaukee County sheriffs and other law enforcement first responders in Milwaukee County? When it comes to answering calls for service to 9 11 this is Mayor Barrett and again in our cabinet meeting this morning. We discussed that with both chief Morales and Chief Rolfing. Obviously the police department and the Fire Department are gonna continue to deliver. The basic service is to protect the health and safety of the residents of our community. But that also means, though, is things that are not as pressing are not going to be occurring as much. And to the extent that you're gonna be pressures on our police department in our fire department, I think of that in the next day or two. But we could do is we can arrange for a public briefing from both our police chief and our fire chief so that they can go more into the specifics of what our residents can expect. But in again, in terms of emergencies, we continue to want you to call if there's an emergency. I will stress in particular for those individuals who call 911. This is not the number you call if you think you might have a covert 19 this is not the number you call. It's not emergency response system for that. Please work with your provider. If you don't have a provider, obviously go to one of the urgent cares or use one of the other safety nets. But 911 is not bear to be responding 29 to covert 19 calls unless their emergency. If it's an emergency, you call the number. If it's not an emergency, you don't call the number again. I don't want to discourage anybody from calling 9 11 if it's an emergency, but I think what you'll hear our health commissioner and others say if you have the symptoms, that may not be the time when you call that in terms of public safety in the police. Of course, if there's something that requires the police to be there immediately, do not hesitate to call. But I think it's appropriate. Now, in the next day or two, I'll talk to the police chief and the fire chief, and we can have a session like this to talk about changes on a more mundane level of I wouldn't say any of the work that he was mundane s so that people have a sense What? Yeah, this is, uh, Chris Abeley at I was just thinking, as you were saying that Maren, thank you for the update that maybe we can, uh, having both roll thing and Morales explain this in a session, but I can have her. Nell there from the Sheriff's Department is well, just cover all this.

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