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We understand that there is a lot of fear and anxiety right now in our communities. We are all living it and we are all seeing it. YOLO County has been communicating and collaborating with city's schools, school districts, colleges, health care professionals, community members and more. YOLO County has been sharing information and providing resource is and prevention tips to the public through public service announcements. Social media email over the phone. Our Cove in 19 Web page, which is www dot YOLO county dot org's slash corona virus and more. Because there is so much anxiety, we want to remind people to be kind to each other and show compassion because we are all in this together with your next speaker, Yellow County Public health Officer Dr Ron Chapman. Thank you, Jenny. Appreciate all the media being here so we can inform the public what's going on. As Jenny said, we have our first confirmed case of Kobe 19 in YOLO County for privacy reasons to respect the privacy of the patient, I'm only able to share limited information. The information I can share is the patient is an older woman I can share with you that she has been hospitalized and that she's doing well. I can share with you what we know about the virus. We know that at least 80% the vast majority of cases of Kobe 19 of Corona virus are mild, meaning that people have a runny nose, a light cough get better after a few days, and they never know that they've had Corona virus. There's growing evidence that Corona virus is already in our community, and it has spread widely. This particular patient was what we call a community transmission. It means that she didn't have any high risk factors for getting Corona virus. She picked it up in the community, which again is evidence that Corona virus has spread widely. The folks that are most impacted and get the severe forms of infection are the elderly. And so the folks that we're seeing, for the most part, who are hospitalized in the unfortunate fatalities, the best that we're seeing worldwide are in the elderly. We're working very closely with our local health care providers with the school systems with other and agencies. Attendees were all working together partner to help protect the public from the Corona virus. We're working with the Center for Disease Control and the California Department of Public Health. It's been shared that we've declared a local emergency. You're gonna hear more details about that shortly. I do want to share that when we have people that have known risk factors, such as being exposed to somebody that is confirmed as a Corona virus. We know who those people are. We're contacting those people, and we've actually had dozens of individuals who have been at home quarantine over the last 6 to 8 weeks. In fact, we've had upwards of 30 people who have done their 14 day quarantines and have been released from their quarantine. They've not had any symptoms of the Corona virus. The most important message that I can share is just like when a person has the common cold or the flu. People need to stay home when they're sick. You don't want to come to work. You don't want to send your Children to school when they're sick, because that just continues to spread the infection. When people are sick. If you have a cough, you need to cover your coughs or you're not spreading the infection. You need to wash your hands regularly throughout the day for atleast 20 seconds. And lastly, there's a lot of questions about masks. We're in a shortage of mask. The general public should not be wearing masks. There's no benefit to doing that. We need to save our mass for the health care workers who on the front lines taking care of the people who are sick with Corona virus. At this point in time, we're not talking about closing schools or businesses. As the evidence grows regarding community wide spread, we're gonna be asking people to consider canceling non essential events, and we'll be talking more about what that means as the days go on.