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One of the best places that is modeling what we can expect in the coming weeks from the University of Washington. They revised their national projections today and instead of the 30mm ventilators, for example, needed in the coming weeks, they said it could be as low as 19,000 ICUs. The beds that just four days ago had been projected at 40,000 in terms of need have now been revised downwards to 30,000 ICU beds and, overall, the additional 260mm beds that were being projected just four or five days ago were placed in one hundred and fifty. forty-one thousand beds, this is still a huge task, a huge task for Los Angeles, in the hospitals in our area, for California and for the entire United States of Am

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a, but the point is not to pat ourselves on the back, but to give them the latest and the best.

The best information to ensure we continue to maintain physical distancing. One of the biggest changes is that the University of Washington now assumes physical distancing will continue. That doesn't happen simply because

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s or governors say it should be done, it happens because it is done. These numbers, these projections are literally in your hands to see how many lives we could potentially save with these lower numbers, the fewer hospital beds and ventilators we have to expand and finding out that this is in your hands here in California, it showed that There are 11 people hospitalized for every death compared to New York, where there are four people hospitalized for every death, which was good

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in California and may also reflect that in New York there are so few beds that only the people admitted are the ones who are admitted. they are closer to death, but it still shows what the hospitals are doing and I want to thank all of our hospitals and all of our health care providers in Los Angeles County who we have been working with to try to expand those hospital beds and “I've seen some good numbers today: 1,616 beds available, including 318 ICU beds available, and 1,012 ventilators available.

This is even as you will hear from the boss that more transports and more people have been arriving at the hospitals. We have seen the city grow, so "We are growing capacity faster than the patients are coming in a little bit, but we can't give up, unfortunately the projection from the Washington study showed a steeper peak, even if it will come sooner with Cumulative deaths of 81 thousand nationwide, that is a staggering number, let me think about 81 thousand Am

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ans who will perish and because it will come sooner it means it will be more acute and also a higher death toll sooner.

The reality of these increases means that we have We have to do everything we can to build capacity, but I want to also thank Governor Newsom for recognizing that this is a struggle across the United States and saving and saying sending some of the ventilators we have while we wait for our peak to hit New York and elsewhere. that they need them right now to save lives and anything we can do. To help in that effort we will do to support that also in this time of crisis we need all the help we can get and we are providing all the help we can offer that's why that we are planning for this peak that we have not yet achieved and as we partner with our state and federal counterparts, the USNS, which is in port here in Los Angeles, why we are working with the medical community hand in hand to expand the beds and spaces, is also one of the reasons we are working with Cal Fire and the California National Guard to build what is now called a Medical Assistance Center at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

We already have 250 beds in operation. Thank you to the National Guard for helping us set that up, thank you to us, HHS, for sending that mobile hospital and we should expect to start admitting patients early next week, again providing more space and more places for medical patients in Los Angels be so that we can deal with those that are coming. kovat 19 cases we pray that these beds will not be necessary, but we fear that they will be and it is great to have them in place and to have the Convention Center where we can also expand that capacity, so let me move on to both things tonight.

I wanted to address who has kovat 19 and how we find out and then secondly what we can do to continue to maintain our physical distance. Let me start with the tests. We all know that testing is the most important tool to know who is kovat 19. positive and we have come a long way in a short period of time and I want to thank the county. I want to thank so many people who are here today like um and some people like Jeff Carell, my deputy

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for Public Safety. that they have been working around the clock burning the candle at all four ends making sure that we have testing centers, drive-thru centers where none existed before and that they started on Friday, March 20 with a single testing center that the fire department at their training center opened in their parking lot we now have 13 testing sites throughout Los Angeles County, seven of which are in the city and six in neighboring cities as well and so far we have completed over 21,000 tests at those centers alone self-service tests that are at the top of 31,000 in the previous weeks and have since been carried out by providers, hospitals and laboratories together.

Los Angeles County testing is now 52,000 tests and that represents 40% of all testing in California in a county that accounts for less than 10, sorry. less than 25% of the population this week we expect to perform 18,000 more tests through providers and 18,000 more through our centers 36,000 more tests this week alone and this growth is a testament to our partnerships with the county and the city working together other cities a non-profit emergency community response organization there is a group called Community Organized Relief Effort Corps that has been extraordinary and I want to thank you for helping relieve some of our paramedic firefighters who can return to respond to calls to fight fires and be there for medical emergencies and in return, these volunteers can help ensure people get tested and we continue to increase operations and capacity.

I told you a few days ago that as soon as we could open the door to more people with testing, we would and I would. I have good

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to announce on that front tonight. It's probably the question I get the most from people. When can I get tested? I'm not over 65 and I have a compromised immune system or serious medical conditions and that's what the algorithm has been eliminating those people who needed the test the most have been getting it, but tonight we were able to expand it so that now anyone in the county and anyone who wants a test can request it, so there are no longer limits.

That doesn't mean we'll have a test for everyone tomorrow, but it means our capacity is now greater than the number we're meeting the requirements we had, so sign up today to see if you can get a test and it doesn't matter if you live in the city of Los Angeles or one of the county's other 87 cities or unincorporated areas, visit the LA City

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organization today and, thanks to our county-city partnership, you'll be able to register before the end. of the week, as I mentioned, we will be on track to complete a total of 36,000 tests between those centers and our providers.

This is great news and you should discuss it today with our top public safety officials here tonight and with our focus. Regarding emergency response, I also want to quickly address the questions our police and fire departments are receiving and provide some

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s on law enforcement. This is the second part of my speech, which really talks about what we can do to continue to have the discipline of staying at home and I remember telling you that we had a rating of a from a company that shows how little movement they are doing. to residents of cities across the country.

I have some bad news, which is that last year we were downgraded to a C. This weekend we went back up to a B-but we have to do better, we have to make sure that people don't start making mistakes, they won't give long walks outside your neighborhood are only having the most important trips to the grocery store to exercise right there in your neighborhood or to get your medications or for critical workers to go to work, but everyone else stay home and in that sense it's very important that you avoid large gatherings, I'm sure The boss will talk more to this boss in a minute, but the majority of Angelenos overwhelmingly did the right thing, but now is not the time for a house party, Please don't put your lives or other people's lives at risk by going to a meeting because we have gotten reports that in the city they will literally kill people, they could kill you or someone you love.

The Loyola Marymount pole I mentioned earlier, which now supports more than 1,500 Los Angeles County residents and should be ready in about a week. I wanted to share a little bit of that information that showed that while 90 percent of us do this the right way, 10 percent still leave the house when they want and 5 percent to socialize, this is not a time to socialize. , socializing could kill someone and Don't think you can leave whenever you want, we have strict recommendations and our order only allows critical business workers and those critical trips that you can take in the neighborhood, but otherwise, please stay home and if you think that your home is immune to this.

We also saw in that survey that now 50% of households have someone with a serious medical condition or a compromised immune system and/or someone over the age of 65; In other words, the most vulnerable people are in 50% of the homes and that's how it goes. Going out and coming home and thinking that everything is fine can kill one of those loved ones that live in your house and I think a lot of people think that This is still a disease of the elderly, but if you look at the county numbers, we have 34 percent of the cases. They are people from 18 to 40 years old and 43 percent of them are from 41 to 65 years old, so if we look at that together, it is 77 percent of the cases, our people who have less than 65 seconds work on this pleasure to work with the city to ensure that they comply with safer at home orders and I want to thank some people who have done that last week, our farmers markets when we suspended them stepped up and stepped up in a big way and I want to thank Streets LA, one of our departments here, the Office of Street Services who worked closely and 31 farmers markets are now approved. 16 of them were open yesterday and I thank the market vendors and operators for taking quick action to ensure good food is available for people, but also ensuring we do it safely. and if your local farmers market is not approved, go to them and tell them to present their plans on the streets la la city org / kovat.

We have also had over 1,000 visits from our business ambassadors, these are our city employees and some volunteers from our crisis response team proactively went out into the city and observed people who were not complying with the orders, since on a Friday Overnight LAPD visited 722 businesses that were not complying with the safer-at-home order and issued 37 compliance requests. The vast majority of that minority of companies that we have to complain about, 92% of them have complied and less than 1% have received complaint requests. Third, let me clarify that there is no real monetary reward for being responsible in this crisis when I said please.

Give us that information, the reward is saving lives, so if someone you love, and maybe even yourself, helps with the current blood shortage, I wanted to tell people, please, if you can, and we are authorizing this, according to the order, something you can leave. what house to do please if you are healthy and able consider being a volunteer blood donor this will save lives and you can find out from the Red Cross blood organization where that is happening there is adequate personal protective equipment and we We'll make sure you get in and out of there safely, but you can help save a life and we're going to need that blood in the coming days.

Let me turn it over to the boss to say some things that he's really going to talk about from where. He's like that, we don't share microphones to say a few words about crime reduction and additional

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s from our Police Department. Thank you, Chief Moore, for everything he's been doing, Mayor, thank you and on behalf of the minimum LAPD we want. First, I want to say thank you to the vast majority of Angelenos who are safer at home and who are complying with the mayor's directive. They are aware of acting responsibly. It is through your work tostaying safe at home which will allow us to overcome this pepper in this pandemic. as quickly as possible, one of the attributes that I have been asked about frequently in the last four weeks is what the impact of the pandemic has been on our crime rate in cases of violence and other crimes here in Los Angeles and it is The One area of ​​benefit, so to speak, from these terrible viruses that cause terrible injuries and pain in our society is a 23% reduction in crime here in Los Angeles over the last month.

We have seen reductions in crime in almost every category except automobiles. robberies and that it is common, strange, a strange area, but violent crimes, property crimes, people staying home in their neighborhoods, taking care of each other and exercising social distancing, allows us to have a safer city, Additionally, in our traffic crimes, we have seen some increases. in vehicle traffic speeds on some of our highways, where we have directed our officers to begin increased enforcement efforts, we have seen a reduction in overall traffic collisions, hit-and-runs, collisions related to DUI, pedestrian collisions, so Angelenos are safer at home is a safer place.

City now, in terms of an area that I saw in a newspaper article today that people took into account is because people are staying home and spending more time together, what does family mean? What does violence look like? What are the cases of just the ability of people to get along in their home and do we recognize that in times of stress, in times of upheaval, family violence can increase? I am happy to say that to date last month we have not seen the increase really manifest in reported crimes. Domestic violence. Crimes are actually down 11% from the same period last year.

However, in an effort to make sure people understand that while our ability to have reception operations and have officers be available for an individual and face-to-face meeting has been compromised, we want to hear from victims of violent crimes. and family violence there is no excuse for the pandemic or any other emergency to have to sustain that or endure it this week we will convene several victim advocates from the domestic violence advocacy community to sit down through a virtual town hall to ensure what the hotlines what the hotlines are like what are you hearing from people reaching out and asking for help and support and we want to remind every victim and every survivor of family violence that we have a place for you that we have a place for you you don't have to be in At home you don't have to be secluded or isolated with someone who is committing violence against you with that mirror, be glad for what he was saying.

One last thing you asked me to talk about was people's compliance with essential and non-essential duties and again the vast majority of Los Angeles is showing the best they can. angels, but in the 37 individual cases in which we have filed a criminal complaint with the City Attorney, we expect to see fines and criminal proceedings for that, this is not only a responsible person, he is endangering, not his own employees, but to everyone else in that community and I'm proud. of the Municipal Prosecutor Fuhrer and his work in prosecuting those people: holding them and bringing them to justice and with that we will pay it back thank you, thank you very much boss and thank you to the men and women who are serving us during this thank you to our lawyer from the city, Mike Feuer, for the charge he has filed to let people know we mean business and we hope to hear from you at a future briefing as well and if you didn't hear that from the chief Secure your car, you don't know why, but make sure Whoever is stealing cars there are a lot of people home so be careful there are a lot of eyes on you please report it if you see it and for anyone who is stuck. in a domestic violence situation, like I said a few days ago, and you may be afraid to pick up the phone where you are, you can use your phone now to text 911, first dictionary to have that and you can text text with the help you need and we will do it.

I'm sure you will get what you need and we have expanded our domestic violence services and beds in this period to be ready for anyone who needs a safe place to be. Let me turn it over to Chief Ralph Drossos, who leads our fire department, he does an extraordinary job. job and I'll get the numbers from the chief, in terms of the number of LAPD people who have tested positive for undercover case 19, but even in the face of that, for the first responders who are often the ones who the ones who are transporting have actually You've done a wonderful job staying healthy, making sure we have the medical services we need, and innovating.

It's this fire department that has helped lead everything from the testing we've talked about doing to monitoring what's happening in our hospitals, we're so grateful you're here tonight Chief: Thank you from Russ, Mayor, thank you for the opportunity to share with you what the men and women of the City of Los Angeles Fire Department are doing to contribute to this battle against the corona virus pandemic. We have been tracking the number of corona virus cases since January and We have seen a steady increase in the trend of the percentage of 911 who went to the hospital last week.

Our percentage was a little over 35% so it is aligned with all the studies and research that is being done in terms of the state of the department our staffing level is excellent it is better than we have ever advised all of these I am sure That contributed, but our people always want to step forward when the people of this city are threatened, so on top of that, to bolster our staffing, we have accelerated the graduation of our current drill for our class of firefighters. Approximately 50 firefighters will finish their training early so we can put them back in the field this Sunday.

As of April 12th now, in terms of our daily call load, we're seeing a trend of about 10% below our daily average or the daily average is about 1,368,911 calls every day, so we're down 10%. below average in terms of transporting patients to the hospital we are seeing a decrease in the range of 35 to 40 percent and our theory is that people are reluctant to go to the hospital for obvious reasons, they were afraid of contracting the virus so that right now that is really helping us, we anticipate that trend will change in the coming days and weeks the next area that we are involved in let me talk about the testing that we have had 13 members of our department tested positive 12 jurors and one civilian a who we have been sending very aggressive messages to our firefighters learn to know that when you approach a patient you should assume that everyone has a

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disease, so we must use the appropriate personal protective equipment.

We have also made videos on frequent washing of fire stations and cleaning twice a day, twice a day. We do temperature checks on all of our firefighters if their temperature is over 100 point four degrees, we send them home sick, we can't afford to have anyone spread the virus, on top of that in the testing area, we have staff to testing site from day one. I'm very proud of our people, it's something we've never done before, but we realized we had to do this to protect lives and property, and our people have been incredible, but as the mayor said, we anticipate we'll need them. in the future to staff ambulances and fire trucks, so I'm glad we're transitioning that mission related to that.

Today we have something that is completely new. We've been working on it for a year and a half and it was funded through Mayor Garcetti's Innovation Fund, that's our telemedicine program and what it allows us to do is have doctors on our office floor so that when a call comes in at the 911 we can transfer that call to a doctor who can do an assessment on the patient and he uses FaceTime to look at the patient so he can do a visual assessment and ask questions and today we had, like I said, we launched the first time this morning that I saw in operation and someone called who was worried about the symptoms of the corona virus they had the whole obvious set of symptoms, so we told that person to go to a testing site tomorrow we did not have an office we did not have the threat of contaminating the firefighters contaminating the hospital staff we help reduce capacity in emergency rooms which will be more and more important as the days go by during this pandemic, so we have been doing a lot and we are very proud of our people, we ask you to do what you asked the mayor: stay home, use all safety precautions. so you don't have to dial nine one one thank you very much boss.

I think everyone can see why we are so proud of this fire department, how innovative it is and its leader, dr. Eckstein, who helped us with telemedicine and our testing, as well as his counterpart, Dr. Kazan in the county who together have really worked to expand our testing capacity. I promise them the numbers and the boss whispers them to me boss. More on LAPD today there are 47 LAPD personnel out of nearly 13,000 who have tested positive and 250 people are in quarantine who may be someone who has someone in the household or who has been exposed (someone has been exposed but has not tested positive and thank you) to the chief justice for really highlighting how we can help preserve medical resources by making good interventions early on and thank you. to our police officers who are helping in a friendly manner in the force but are ready to be tough if necessary.

Any company that does not comply with our home security system. Order a couple more things and then we'll be open to questions and both bosses. are available for questions, as well as mr. suhaka yen but as we prepare for what I know I started with good news in terms of numbers and that's really a credit to all of you for reaching a single digit increase but it's just a day this will still be a week difficult and Even as we see the number decreasing, I want to make it clear that the numbers continue to increase in the last two or three days.

We have had more cases than in the first 23 days, so there are more people who are getting sick and that is something. to keep in mind to motivate you to continue staying home, but I am also encouraged by the bravery of all kinds of organizations and individuals and I would like to highlight a few of them, one of them is the International Medical Corps, which is based here in Los Angeles and works around the world helping with everything from Ebola to medical emergencies, we see continents and oceans away and they are helping us increase our hospital capacity here in Los Angeles.

Thank you for deploying field medical units outside of USC County Martin Luther Hospital. King Community Hospital in Willowbrook, all of you UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar and with the support of Providence st. Joe's health is obvious, the Medtronic foundation and Martha and Bruce Karsch have come together to really use their expertise where they are and generally go from this moment the crisis is here in our backyard, we are very grateful and I want to I want to thank my colleague Kathryn Burger and the entire Board of Supervisors, Hilda Solis, who has been helping so much to ensure that we have new hospitals open, but I want to thank Chairwoman Barger for her key role in securing these field units for the International Medical Corps as president. of the Board of Supervisors, she has been a steadfast ally and a great leader in this as well and last week the pink superstar raised awareness about the severity of kovat 19 because she survived, her positive results came in, she overcame this, but that's not all What he did, he not only bravely shared it, but he also stepped up to support Los Angeles' frontline work in the face of the crisis with a generous donation of $500,000 to the mayor's fund without being asked, as well that thank you rosa, you are a true angel in the City of Angels and thank you for helping those who are the poorest among us get food to shop are health care workers to take care of children how our seniors receive food is truly extraordinary and another extraordinary pillar of our community is the weingartz foundation who also stepped up with their own donation of half a million dollars, they have been with us in many things, from the fight to end homelessness to helping to expand our summer nighttime lighting program, but I am very grateful that Weingard, under the leadership ofmy dear friend and his CEO Fred Ali once again answered the call when we needed help and by supporting the Angelino campaign and the mayor's fund led by Matt Johnson and Rick Jacobs, my wife Amy Lane Wakeland, whom I want to thank for all the calls you are making, you are helping. our neighbors who are going through extreme financial hardship, this has been very difficult and many people are not included in federal aid, so please continue to give and give generously to the mayor's fund la dot org.

We know that physical distancing saves lives, but we know that We need more than just help to stop the coronavirus, we have to help make sure that we not only save lives, but also try to preserve livelihoods. I have also been overwhelmed by the response from private companies who have been tremendous during this companies like Facebook offering $1.5 million in cash assistance and advertising to small businesses to keep them in business and for people to shop online at local businesses that are here and especially minority and women owned businesses. What it means to be an Angeleno doesn't just mean the most incredible sun and those beaches and those mountain trails that we will travel together again.

It also defines our hearts. I have often said that Los Angeles is not simply a place that embraces diversity or inclusion, this is a city where everyone belongs and it is time for us to continue to show that we all believe we belong here and that we all believe it is worth it. save, preserve and promote the lives that are here and that is what you have been doing and I am very grateful as mayor of the city of Los Angeles to be a part of doing it side by side with you, I am very proud of how you have stepped up to the plate. front, so proud of how you've done it.

I stayed home very proud of the way you have helped each other in the midst of this crisis and I know that we will remember this as one of the darkest moments in our history, but one of the brightest moments when it comes to our spirit and what you've been able to do, like I always say, stay safe, stay healthy and stay home, strength and love to Los Angeles and with that, happy to answer questions, any of us, the first question please, we have our first question from Alex's Lion. Michaelson, please go ahead, hello Alex, hello, we keep hearing across the country that the next two weeks are going to be, in terms of the worst weeks, what you're seeing for Los Angeles modeling specifically and on the subject of testing.

Great, we're getting more tests, but what about the test results? How quickly will you get any updates on that big question? So the centers that were the testing that we're doing through the testing centers that the city and now the county is running directly, we get them back pretty quickly, 24 to 48 hours, occasionally on the weekends, it could take three days, which is in huge contrast to what we had in many private laboratories that did everything they could, but we are so overwhelmed that it took five, six, seven days, sometimes even longer. Someone called me and they were still waiting two weeks later for their test results and that doesn't help us from a public health perspective, it doesn't help people to be able to do the right thing, so the ones we're running are getting really good results. and fast.

We have worked and established with local laboratories and are trying not to create new partnerships where we cannot get those results quickly. So far, everything is good on that front in terms of the projections from the University of Washington study that I mentioned that if California had projected it, just four days ago they are projecting that the peak would be in late April or early May, now They say it will be mid-April, but I would say for Los Angeles, in Southern California, I would caution because we are having a disproportionate number of cases here, as you remember, in Northern California they increased earlier, so I hope that maybe it's an average what they're projecting for the state, but for us it's probably a week or two later, so we're still looking at that same time toward the end. this month at the beginning of May if we maintain physical distancing if we do not maintain physical distancing everyone's bets are off and I was reading recently about San Francisco in 1918 during the influenza outbreak how they declared victory because they had a few very effective weeks of physical distancing and keeping people at home wearing masks, all of that and they went back to work too early and had a very deadly second spike that happened almost immediately, so we're going to work very closely with the doctors, the health officials public that even when we're doing well, it doesn't mean we'll stop seeing that, but we hope it maxes out the screenings we have in Los Angeles, maybe a week or two later, next question, please, next question It will come from Marybeth's line.

McDade from KTLA Channel 5 News, please go ahead, Mary Bess, yes, hello mayor, so I'm a little confused about this. If we're now listening to county health officials and yourself, okay, so we're going to have This spike is very dangerous two weeks ahead, so are we having two surges now or are we afraid there's going to be a surge this week? and the next and then again at the end of April at the beginning of May? That's one thing. Number two, do we believe that if we follow the protocols that are in place regarding social distancing and staying home we can avoid a surge? and then, I'm sorry, number three, we keep hearing every day about an increase in the number of cases, but we are It's not about those confirmed cases, how many have recovered now?

I will try to get you those numbers on the recovery, they have been difficult and I have asked for the same things and it is different accommodations, we have private hospitals, we have public ones. hospitals, we have nonprofit hospitals, we have research hospitals and teaching hospitals and I know county public health is trying to track that as closely as possible, but I can't report that tonight in terms of the recoveries and that's a often...because obviously we're getting all the positives, but not always the negatives, and if people you know are at home with other symptoms, that's hard to track as well, but I'll see if I can get it in terms of both things that are there.

They are not two things and I will try to explain them again. I said last week that there are two things we all need to track: the rate of increase increases, how quickly it doubles and doubles and doubles, while the doubling rate can decrease? It means that we are still not accumulating more cases because remember that the current 7% on a much larger base means many more new cases than we had just a couple of weeks ago, when the percentage increase, the rate of increase was maybe 20 to 30 percent. We are still adding fewer cases, so a spike refers to the maximum number of cases or the maximum number of deaths and we can expect that to happen in the coming weeks even as the doubling rate slows due to what we are doing and your second question.

Could we have another spike and can what we are doing absolutely save us from that? If we all went out right now we would be guaranteed to see a spike, if half of us went out we would have a spike if 25% of us did that. they have a spike, so these numbers matter, even a person can spread if they go to a grocery store, if it's a place where right now people have to do critical jobs or critical places they have to go to, for so we expect a peak of the absolute number of cases will still hold in the coming weeks, although we hope to have reached the doubling point faster and that is really in our hands.

Hopefully that is behind us now, but it will only be behind us if we continue to stay home. I hope this clarifies the next question. Please, thank you, our next question will come from Steve's line with KFI news, go ahead, thank you, thank you, good evening Mayor, a couple of things, Chief Terraces, could you clarify something that you said in your opening speech? He said if a firefighter has a temperature of 104 degrees or higher, he sends them home. Can you clarify that and why it is so high if that is the case? Because that's not what the medical professionals tell us and also the mayor, can you tell us what he knows regarding the state? and I know you said it ironically and all, but can you tell us how many snitches have come forward, how many people have actually filed complaints, they're called non-essential business concerns and also what are the top complaints that the mayor's office is getting from residents right now what are the top three concerns you are getting from residents thanks Steve the answer to your first question is 100 points for not 100 and 100 points for being okay because on the playback it sounds like 104 degrees Okay thanks , I'm sure we sent it home much earlier, but thanks, yes, it was ironic.

He shouldn't have used the word Rewards, they were snitches. Please accept our thanks because we are not trying to get people to tell on each other. and put people in jail, and that is certainly not the approach we are taking. We want to know where people are falling short and we want to send ambassadors to appeal to people's better angels if they are better angels. work maybe a visit from a police officer will be friendly if that doesn't work then we are prepared to press charges and file them there is not a single thing we are getting on the mayor's helpline but there are a lot of rental inquiries from both landlords As a tenant, there are a lot of inquiries where people want to know where they can get tested and sometimes they ask about test results, sometimes from outside the city of Los Angeles as well, so we try to help.

You also ask about the Small Business Association loans that come from the federal Cares package and we'll talk about that later in the week, but we're working together with the county to help as many small businesses as possible because it's a race for that money. and a lot of smaller businesses that don't bank with the big guys and gals that are the ones making these loans really need help because they may not have been previous customers of one of the big banks, but they deserve to have that money and they deserve to keep your employees employees too, so we have a wide variety and maybe tomorrow what I'll do is analyze the top four or five that we got that day and also give you statistics, okay? next question please, our next question will be from Claudia patoot Oh, with KMX Newsradio, go ahead, hello Claudia, hello, I have a quick question for two pants and then a couple of questions for the mayor, so if you could talk about the Boss, LA County told the paramedics. to delay the transport of cardiac patients according to the time owners of Los Angeles, the city has done something like that and then I'll be back with the questions for tomorrow.

Yes, Claudia, the protocol that the Department of Health Services publishes requires that all health care providers in the county comply with that directive, so the directive that the Los Angeles County Fire Department is following is the same that we're following and it's basically further clarification on when someone is in full cardiac arrest. Now we are instructed to continue performing CPR and then when we stop and the person recovers, we call it Ross return of spontaneous cardiac circulation. Sorry, return of spontaneous circulation. We must wait five minutes to see if it continues. If it doesn't continue, we can continue. go ahead and pronounce so we're following the same protocol okay sorry it's really hard to hear you guys on the conference call instead of the live stream when we ask questions so I think you're done answering so a couple of questions for the mayor that he last spoke with. week about considering issuing an order requiring people to wear face coverings when going out.

I'm wondering what the status is on that and also if you could expand on your comments about considering restrictions to keep people within your neighborhood. Allow me. Let's start with masks and I've been consulting very closely with Barbara Ferrer, who is my guide on this, and let me say right off the bat one thing about masks that she's concerned about and that I want to expand on when she has a cake. The mask that you have to wash at night when you get home is not something that you put on and take off all the time and leave it because it can actually spread germs if you put it on a counter, put it in a safe place on top of your clothes.

Not only do you know, wear it all the time if you're running or biking alone because she said you don't have to have it, it shouldn't be a medical mask and be very careful to make sure you keep it. clean maybe if thatIt means buying a pair and changing them every day so that you can wash one and dry it on the day off, it is very important to make sure that we use it correctly and that it is used correctly when you are going to interact with strangers. to prevent their droplets from going towards them and reduce that incident, so it's when they go to the grocery store, it's when they interact with people in the pharmacy, it's when they find themselves if there are critical workers in those situations where you may be able to spread this if you are an asymptomatic person but potentially carrying this in terms of order on the mandate that we are still consulting with the county.

I don't think we have an order for You've all seen some places in Riverside and San Diego, look at that, but there are a lot of concerns. I think doctor fir has positive benefits that could emerge, but we're looking at that in certain settings and I think we'll have more. we'll talk about that in the next few days, potentially in those retail environments and other places where there are still people and then you had another question, I think maybe it was the - both in the face coverings, we'll text you and my team will tell you.

If I missed one next to a question, please, and our next question will come from the line of Leslie Marin with CBS Kato, go ahead, hello mayor, you mentioned about opening up testing to everyone and then I noticed that a tweet. That said, testing would be open to anyone obviously showing symptoms. Can you go ahead and clarify? Yes, I'm glad you asked that not everyone has to get tested. We are opening up by saying that you are no longer restricted to only those who are 65 years of age or older and/or those people who have pre-existing medical conditions or compromised immune systems, so now it is for people with symptoms and people who will go through That's why they will still be asked those questions if you say no. have any symptoms are not being tested at this time.

I will be very clear about this and we hope that there will be blood tests and other tests that will help us in the future to be able to see if people have been carriers etc., but at this time this is just so that people know that they don't have to live in the city you can be anywhere in the county first and secondly if you have some of those symptoms you can do this and get a test even if you don't fit into those categories okay thank you we'll move on to the next question, the next question will come along the lines of: Conan Nolan with KNBC televisions, what are you doing?

Hello mayor, it's a pleasure to see you, so about the things you said before. dealt with how many people had stopped staying home but we're actually traveling and that the university had gone from an A to a C now back to a B - two things I wonder if your office does any kind of analysis or if there is any availability and some way to try to figure out why that is and the White House coronavirus task force and dr. Deborah Birx had said that this is such a critical period this week and next that she actually advised not going to the grocery store and I noticed that you said that was one of the reasons you might leave your house.

Could it just expand? I continue with that and that lends itself to this week not being as critical here as it can be nationally. I don't think it's still a critical week wherever I can. Please do not go out if you can order food if you can. you can do things that we advise whenever possible it is not a trip a necessary trip it should only be if it is a necessary trip if there is any other way to stay at home please stay at home Claudia I remember your other question I will link it to this is if you Whether or not we would ask people to stay in their own neighborhood, we still can't do that or do we have a law enforcement mechanism.

We are also not a country where luckily we monitor people's cell phones and where they are at all times and we don't I think we're going to do that in the short term, but it's through public education and our public health directives which are to encourage people not to drive around town to exercise, to stay where they are and to walk around the city. block, even if that means walking a lot because we want to try to contain that movement where we go from A to C and now to B. It wasn't because a lot of people have started to fail, but other places are doing even better.

We need to make sure that, as we saw in the LMU survey, the 5% who think they can go out and socialize can't, aren't. allowed to just go out and socialize the 10% that say I go out whenever I want use a little discretion maybe I won't do it in a bad way, but think carefully, as long as I'm not working, I will go out whenever I can limit those trips because any external exposure can have the possibility of spreading this, so we will really emphasize that next week we will not tell people not to eat or go to the supermarket, that is not our advice here. and that's based on what we get from our Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, but the more times we can exercise that discretion, the more likely we are to make this shorter and, like I said, the deeper we do this and The shorter it is, the sooner we can get back to life as we knew it, the more slides we will have and the longer it will take, it means this will last even longer thank you, next question, thank you, follow up on Claudia's line, please go.

Go ahead, I think I remember it, so how good Claudia? What kind of test again? Surely the tests at Stanford we have some universities doing that people here are waiting to get blood tests that are reliable. It's absolutely something we're looking at, it's not. ready for prime time I think sometimes we hear the reports and people say well why can't we start tomorrow? We have to make sure that the tests are correct, that there are no false positives that many of the first ones had, and that they are expanded. The first 50,000 blood tests, some of which we're talking about antibodies, were already, and reasonably, destined for the East Coast, so it will still be a few weeks before they are ready to be available, but I hope we have the technology medical, not just the technology, but also the ability to go out and see who had kovat 19 and who didn't get tested because there is a suspicion that many people may have been carriers for this, may have the antibodies and may be better prepared to return. work before, although the second point is that there is also research that is not definitive about whether you can get it a second time or whether you could transmit it even if you have had it, so of course we want to make sure that we get a little more direction when respect so that people couldn't, even if they weren't going to get it again, we're not spreading it or putting people in danger of getting it a second time, so we're still a long way off.

The tests that are being carried out are really academic tests and medical tests to see how we can accelerate this, but it will be a little thanks Claudia. Next question, you have another question. Well, our next question will come from Elizabeth's line of truth. LA Daily News, please. go ahead Liz, hello mayor, I have three questions, sorry, first I wanted to ask you about the supplemental paid sick leave ordinance and since the deadline is tomorrow for you to sign it, I wanted to see if you plan to find it and why has it taken you so long? find it so far?

My second question is about the fact that this month is usually when the city budget is released and I was wondering how that process is going and how you are dealing with the changing economic conditions when I am trying to make the financial projections in which it's budget based and also my third question is about getting an update on testing among the homeless and also what criteria are you using to know who can take a test. I don't have numbers, although I asked for the numbers and I hope to receive them the next day on the number of people who have been tested and who are homeless people who said we are not going to develop the criteria that we are giving. to the clinics that serve people and to the organizations that serve the homeless with health care so that those doctors, those relationships that people have, especially among vulnerable people who might have pre-existing conditions and other things that make them especially vulnerable people will be the ones who will administer those tests, so it's not through the testing centers, it's done directly by those who know the people who are living on the streets, in cars, or in shelters best, but I'll try to get them a few.

The second budget period is extremely dynamic right now, we will deliver it on time, but our projections, even the first ones, for example, our hotel tax are down 37% and that is assuming people return to hotels by the end of This year, it may be even deeper. I have already said that there will be a hiring freeze, we have told all departments that anything new they are going to do will not happen, so I share that with my bosses here, they know that we are really up to our bones and we will have to look at the next year in in an extremely sober way, I mean, if we look at unemployment potentially at 20 percent per second, only after the Great Depression, when it was 25 percent, can we assume that the sales tax will be reduced perhaps up to 10%, these things can seem like small numbers, they are hugely critical.

What that means. The number of officers who may have overtime to be able to cover when we have crime surges or emergencies like this. What it means for our fire department. What it means for our basic city services. they have ramifications and we can try to continue to do everything we can to keep those city services running and I have guaranteed you one thing: at first this city will not close, but it will be a radically different budget and then in terms of paid sickness. leaving one hundred percent supportive was something that the government, the federal government, did not add for people who are employees of companies of 500 people or more.

I spoke today with the president of the council. I think there are some technical changes because it was done in a hurry because it was necessary to do it quickly. and I thank the council, especially the president of the council, Martínez, for her work and for leading this, but making sure, for example, that companies that offer the same amount are not penalized and, if you are a great employee, it already

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30 days that people can take paid leave and there's not this added to that so a couple of things that we're going to have to do we're trying to determine if that's going to be done by the council tomorrow or if it's just done for clarification in order, but we will have the next question tomorrow please, and our last question from the gentleman comes from Verado scenarios, please continue, thank you for answering our questions.

Our first question is what consequences commercial landlords may face if they are trying to evict their tenant for not being able to pay the rent and what rights do tenants of these businesses have if they cannot complete the rent during their health crisis thank you and it is just a English and the only response in Spanish and I go to my comments in Spanish and the bosses go back to the other work they were doing as well, so during this emergency we established that it was one of the most far-reaching orders in the country that landlords cannot evict to commercial tenants as well. and they will have three months to pay the rent, so it is prohibited.

If there is someone who has a landlord threatening a victim, please contact the city through 3-1-1 and we will make sure to document it, but we will make sure that they are contacted and informed about what the law is. I would also encourage commercial landlords and tenants, just as we have done with residential ones, to talk to each other. We know it can be difficult at times, which is why it is important to document this and me. We know that many mom-and-pop landlords have to pay their mortgage or else this is something of a collapsing domino for those of us who want to make sure restaurants and stores stay open and tenants stay in their homes. , if that is so. person can't pay their mortgage, then that home is not there and it will probably be taken over by Wall Street, which will make it even less locally owned, less community wealth here, so I've said from the beginning that I certainly hope and the applications 100% support federal assistance and in the next round of federal legislation I hope we can see that assistance to the banks that our taxpayer money given to the banks should go towards potentially allowing people to have not only deferred rent but also potentially served.

To me, that would be an appropriate use of our federal dollars for banks to allow mortgage holders, whether they are an apartment owner, a homeowner, or a commercial owner, to be able to skip a few months and then thatIt would be something that would mandate that they have to pass it on to their tenants and many people have asked us in the city can they just mandate that no one has to pay rent? We can't, we don't have that power and that whole series of dominoes would collapse, but I support that if we are providing federal assistance to the big banks, for example, that should come with those conditions, but in the meantime I document, I will say it briefly also in Spanish during this Croesus, the emergence thanks to the Zetas.

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