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and that breaking news is Governor Rhonda Santis is about to update us on the Corona virus from here in central Florida. Let's get to this press event and listen in live. Now the governor is speaking all right. Well, good morning or afternoon kind of lose track. Nowadays, this is an important part of the state's response to the Cove in 19 virus. This is a state logistics response center. We've had it since about 2007 and a lot of other states have have copied it. But this is almost 200,000 square feet of climate controlled warehouse space. Also almost 20,000 square feet of logistics and command level operations, offices, conference rooms and supports area. Today, this is going to be running 24 7 It's been making a lot of deliveries around the state today. It's gonna be round the clock until we get on the other side of this, and so they'll be employees here nonstop. The National Guard has been great and assisting us with what we're doing. This response is very heavily dependent on a lot of key medical supplies, and so these things like the N 95 Mass so that health care workers are protected were also distributing them to nursing homes and assisted living facilities so that any staff that comes into contact with our elderly residents is wearing a mask and we can mitigate any transmission in those centers, and that is really important. So we're gonna have how much? Probably by within the next week. How many math do you think will be have been over a 1,000,095 mass Love Million's Maur over the weeks after that? Um, this is very cut throat right now. I mean, the distributors most of the stuff being directed to New York City because of what's going on there. But Jared's doing a good job of getting a lot here for the state of Florida. So when that stuff comes in, it's distributed out to the county's the emergency operations outfits in the counties, and then they're able to work with local government. The hospital's, uh, whoever may need some of this, and so we understand that's important for health care workers, personal protective equipment, eyes probably the number one issue. There's, ah, people just look and see. Okay, we only have so much any time one of these people patient comes in that may be infected. They've gotta wear the peopIe because if they don't and they're exposed, then they have to self isolate for 14 days. But not just that anyone they had close contact with, particularly their co workers. We'll have to self isolate for 14 days. And so, ah, lot of hospitals are rightfully concerned about ending up with a lot of their key people in self isolation. So we want to avoid that. We want to give folks the ability to protect themselves. Obviously, we also don't want him to get infected as well. So sending this stuff out is very significant. We've also done everywhere has quote testing kits, but what is in short supply is the collection swab to take the sample so the state labs can run the test. We have other clear certified labs throughout the state of Florida who can run the tests. We just need to have enough collection swabs to be able to get the sample and then send it to the labs. So we have mawr trickling in every day again. A lot of the supply being distributed to New York City or diverted to New York City. But but that's something that's important. So the site today that you're seeing people go through at the Orange County Convention Center that was a partnership. That's the federal government providing supplies on and then stayed in local administering it. The federal government on Lee processes 250 swabs a day out of those sites. So just so people know that's their rule. We get a site down in Broward County with the National Guard and Memorial Healthcare. We got it up to about 750 a day that's been going on for many days, trying to get more test results. The test results are important because one people are antsy and this is an invisible enemy. We don't not a lot. We don't know about it. If someone has symptoms, particularly those who are 65 older, who have a serious underlying medical condition, they want to know. So this is an easy way for people to have access to a test and go through Ah, and then most of the tests 90% even amongst people who are symptomatic in amongst people. Most of these tests are given to people who tend to be older and symptomatic. And even with that, 90% of the tests come back negative. And so. But I think people it's good for their peace of mind to be able to see that and know what's going on. We in the state of Florida, I have asked all seniors 65 older and anybody with a serious underlying medical condition to stay at home. This is Ah, this group of individuals are the ones who suffer the worst consequences if they contract the virus. And obviously people have talked about the elderly but an underlying medical condition. If you have some of these conditions, like diabetes and some of the other things you lung problems, you could be 30 years old or 40 years old. But that underlying condition it's not doesn't react well if you get infected by the virus. And so it's not just elderly. It's also serious underlying medical condition. And you know, our recommendation in our public health advisory is to stay at home for the next two weeks. We'll see how the data comes in and see what it's looking like and obviously be able to reassess. But that's really the best way that we can prevent bad outcomes here in the state of Florida. And if you're somebody just in the general public, but particularly in those groups, um, you know, just assume as your whatever you're doing, anyone you come in contact with, potentially could have it. And so keep keep a safe distance from people, wash your hands and just understand that this is not, ah, virus like a like a measles where, um, you know it can affect 10 12 people very easily. This is one that really, if you're in close contact, you know that's when you're more vulnerable to it. And so avoid crowds. Avoid close contact with people who may end up assume some people may have had the virus. We've also done all the CDC mitigation measures statewide. Those were pretty sweeping mitigation measures. And, um, we did that as part of the president's 10 day AR 15 days to stop the spread, and then different communities have done additional mitigation measures. South Florida is basically down to essential businesses. Everyone else is staying at home. I know here in Central Florida, they've done something similar on we've supported working with the local communities to apply an approach that makes sense for their. We have other parts of the state where you still have just sporadic cases, and we still do the containment measures and we still do other mitigations. But but that approach will be different on also, say, in terms of the challenges that we're facing right now, I think people realize that the kind of the epicenters of this thing has shifted. First it was Wu Han China, you know. Then it went to Italy, and now the epicenter worldwide really is New York City. And so we're really rooting for New York to get through it. You know, we hope that they're able to, ah, to keep people in good health. Obviously, they have a lot of cases, but what's happened is, and it's a problem for Florida is once the shelter in place was issued, people started flee in the city and they started getting on flights and going places all across the world. Will the United States, I should say? But many of those flights are here in Florida, So just as an example, you go back to March 17th flights from the New York city area to Orlando. There were zero flights. The 18th one flight 19th 1 flight, the 20th 9 flights because the order had been announced not enforced. But then, once you get beyond that, starting March 21st in each day 29 flights to Orlando, 38 flights, 40 flights 44 26. So that's a lot of traffic of people from the top hot zone being brought into Florida's communities. And so once we saw that these flights were were that this uptick? I issued an executive order requiring everybody arriving from the New York City area to self quarantine for 14 days. We have National Guard and some other health folks at the airports. All these folks are having their in for their have to provide information. They have to provide a place where they'll be self isolating on DDE that is enforceable under the executive order so they could face adverse consequences. My sense is, most people will want to self isolate. I think they want to listen to directives, but in case they don't, you know we're gonna have an ability to deal with it. But I also know when I talked with Dr Burkes about this. This virus has been circulating vary widely in New York City for certainly weeks and maybe more than that. And so I've also issued an executive order that any Floridian anybody in Florida right now who has been in New York City area for the last three weeks should self isolate and should identify any people in Florida that they had close contact with and let them know that they had come from the hot zone on that. These folks should check their their symptoms. Att, The end of the day, we've got 21 million people. Plus here got a lot going on. We're working diligently across the state to be able to ah, win this battle. This makes it more difficult when you have more people flooding in. Um, when they were given a stay at home Ah, shelter in place. Order. So, please, please, if you're one of those people who have come from the hot zone, Dr. Fauci said yesterday, you know, you have a much higher chance of being infected coming out of that region than anywhere else in the country right now s Oh, please. You need to self isolate. Yeah, that's the requirement in Florida. And if you do that, then I think that will be ableto work and keep our current residents safe. Um, and the White House is also on board. With this, the vice president issued directions about regardless of where you're going, if you're leaving the New York City area to make sure yourself isolating for 14 days and so that's very, very important. So we have this Orange County center here that you'll have people I was visited earlier. People are going through guard Did a great job. We also have some of the folks that the M has procured in terms of nurses and medical technicians who are working on a contract basis. Some of these people are from other parts of Florida, someone for other states, and they're here to be able to help help us with, with the needs here, go in, going forward. We also have testing site at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Dade County. As soon as we get enough collection swabs were probably gonna open one up at the Marlins ballpark down in ah, down in Miami Dade. Duval County has a test site at the Jacksonville Jaguars Stadium. It's run, run very well. And then Broward Memorial testing site in conjunction with the Florida National Guard in my office. We opened that last week, and it's been doing about 700 to 750 swabs a day. S Oh, that's very, very important for folks down in Broward who have, You know, we've seen community spread there. But then now we also have people flying in, and you know, we think that that's going to exacerbate it. And so it's really important to be able to identify the people self. I have them isolate on and try to blunt the spread of this thing. And then finally, we have a test site at the village is, uh, here in central Florida and it's in conjunction with U F Health. U F Health is doing a great thing. They are doing typical clinical swabs for people that may have symptoms, but they're also doing a research project s Oh, it's gonna be more random testing to try to figure out how widely dispersed this virus. Maybe nobody really knows whether people can acquire the virus and really not even know it and then pass it on to other people. So how many people out there who get it are just without symptoms and never even think about it? And then, if that's true that they could do that, are they contagious in that point? So they're gonna be looking at all those, and they're gonna try to get a handle on. How widespread would this be In a place like the villages? Now they they're doing all the social distancing. Restaurants are closed everything. But that was a very active community on, and so it'll be interesting to see. But that helps us inform on some of the policy in terms of what we're doing here. So we continue to work hard on all of this. I think right now, if you look at the total number of cases you have ah, strong number, maybe not a majority, but certainly close in southeast Florida on the three southeast Florida counties Broward, Miami Dade and Palm Beach. And, uh, you know, that's something that we're looking at very closely, particularly now, if new people are coming in, who may be seeding additional infections in those areas and other parts of Florida on with that, I'm gonna let Jared Moskowitz given update on some of the other logistical efforts that are being undertaken by the state of Florida. But the message is I think, uh, just just continue everyone just working hard and staying safe if you're 65 or older, if you have a serious underlying medical condition, staying at home is what the State of Florida is recommending for you. Um, and if you do that and you'll limit close contact with people, you know, you're gonna have a really, really good chance of coming out of this thing, all right? And for everybody else is out there in the fight, particularly our health care workers are first responders. I thank you for working very hard, I can tell you in Tallahassee, everyone's been working seven days a week, no rest. And I know that's true in all these places throughout the state of Florida. So you have my gratitude for what you're doing, Jared

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