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s that have connected with each other during this crisis, there is no doubt that this has been a difficult journey for everyone and this was a difficult week, we buried more dead this week than in any other week during this crisis and we diagnosed almost 3,000 more Angelenos this week alone, but in the midst of tears facing the tragedy that we have, you have stepped up, you have been incredible first responders, you have shown the heart of the city and you have shown the guts of Los Angeles. Angels, you have shown love and for that I am very grateful, there is a lot of

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that people are starting to frame and I know it has been difficult for a lot of people, but I want to make it clear that while those stories can be found that that is not what We're seeing. 99.9% of Angelenos are doing the right thing even across this nation.

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s, but it's not about politics or partisanship, it's about people and it's about perseverance. your courage, you know, I said at the beginning of this that I wouldn't wait a day longer than necessary to take sometimes scary actions to save lives, but I also want to assure you that we won't open things up even once. one day earlier than necessary but we will not wait one day longer than necessary we will continue guided by health professionals by science by doctors we will not play any games with your life or lives but we will do what is right for the lives of Los Angeles now and in the future, so let's move on to today's data.

Today's data snapshot will also offer a comparison of where we were a week ago and then we'll move on, as I usually do, to some announcements and

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s. In the last 24 hours we have lost four thousand five hundred and ninety-one Am

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ans, to put it in perspective, that is more in a single day than we lost in the entire Iraq war. We are experiencing more deaths than 9/11 every day in the United States. Right now, in Los Angeles County, we had 567 new confirmed positive cases. 19 cases today bring our total to 11,000,391, this is a five percent increase since yesterday, a week ago, today there were 475 new cases on Friday and a total of 8,000,430 cases in the city of Los Angeles, those numbers are 241 new cases, bringing the total to over 5000 for the first time 5000 and 93 also a 5% increase and a week ago there were only 200 new cases and a total of 37 87 cases and today we found out 40 new deaths in all county, while lower than yesterday, a number unthinkable just a week or two ago, brings our Fallen Angels total to 495 people, which represents a 9% increase since yesterday.

We will continue with the numbers, but I want you to say. One thing we cannot quantify as a loss is incalculable and we know that for all who are suffering, this is not about numbers, this is about the life of a loved one and our hearts ache alongside you and I want to think again this city. and to all of Los Angeles for your response to this crisis in the way that you have saved lives today our deaths are doubling every seven or eight days and we are making progress, we have really said it, in the last four days we have seen the highest number of deaths reported since the beginning of this pandemic, so we still have a long way to go.

The data point that I haven't discussed above is our mortality rate, which is the number of people who die from positive cases that are diagnosed today, that number is four point three percent in Los Angeles County now that may change because if we know that there are more people who are positive, even more than were tested, that may decrease, but at 4.3% I want to compare that to our seasonal flu mortality rate of only 0.1% today is 43 times more deadly than our seasonal flu and as we learn more about kovat as testing helps us get a more complete picture, we expect that number to change a bit, but if you listen to the scientists, you will know how dangerous it still is. this and why that number is so important in determining our decisions personally and as a city collectively.

Our strategy continues to be guided by physical distancing, aggressive testing and precautionary measures to stop the spread and your quarantine and isolation when you know that. you have symptoms or of course you are positive so as we get closer to the weekend and I know it's a good weekend it seems like outside I have this number in mind because kovat 19 doesn't care how nice it is The climate represents a risk for everyone. one of us and it kills to make sure our hospitals remain below capacity as part of how we are saving lives too, as we see in places from northern Italy to our tragic images in New York City when there are not enough resources, enough beds, enough medical services. staff enough personal protective equipment people can die, but there is good

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here still in Los Angeles County, our general emergency hospitals have 1551 beds available, including 1300 and 9 intensive care beds and 242 ICU beds, and we have an inventory that we have grown and now have.

There are 1119 ventilators available and we need people who are infected, even if they are asymptomatic, if they feel a little unwell, but they say I have this, we need you to get tested, we need you to get tested, not only because it is important for for know if that COFF you have or that fever you have even if it's mild is kovat 19 versus something else, but we need to know because if you don't know, you may not be ice from the people you love or when you go out because they think you're fine and that kills people that kills people you love that kills your neighbors that kills your housemates that kills your family so please get tested even if you have mild symptoms last week a week ago we had 19 locations citywide testing In the county there are now 30 and I want to thank everyone in the city who has been working on this and especially our county partners who have just turned up the volume and gone to many more cities and neighborhoods to make sure that everyone has a place to take the tests. close to them to drive or walk through our city and county sites last Friday we had the capacity to test 6000 people and we had tested about 37,000 total at those sites today we have the capacity to test almost double in just one week 12,000 people per day and by the end of today we will have evaluated a total of 67,000 people, almost double what we had just a week ago.

There are about one hundred and forty-five thousand tests being done per day in the United States and with a capacity of about 12,000 in a county that only has three percent of the population, that is something to be very proud of and I want to thank to all the volunteers and firefighters, to everyone working to get the tests, to the lab technicians who are fixing them, and to everyone who is going to get tested. for making sure that Los Angeles can continue to increase that capacity because we are working to not only save lives but livelihoods and when you get a test that helps us all, again, go to the city of

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organization Los Angeles, eliminate testing anyone with any symptoms any age anywhere in the county can get a free test we know how difficult this has been and how many people are suffering when it comes to our livelihoods in fact the USC Dorn-sized Economic and Social Research Center showed that less than half of Los Angeles About 45 percent of county residents still have jobs in early March, which was 61 percent, so look how dramatically This has affected Los Angeles and people need to pay their bills, they need to pay their rent and I want them to know that there are resources available. that not enough Angelenos are signing up if your employer has reduced hours or closed operations in this crisis, you should apply for state unemployment benefits immediately and we know that federal rules have also changed, so people who are independent contractors can now Applying for unemployment and not having a job does not necessarily mean having no income, so visit the state Employment Development Department at EDD ca.gov, which is EDD ca.gov and if you need help navigating the application, if you never have completed before, call Enter one of our city's job centers or call 3-1-1 and we will connect you there to your nearest location and remember for those of you who still want to work in an industry critical that you're hiring today, whether it's at a grocery store or making deliveries or at a hospital, go to that portal that we created at the beginning of this because there are still jobs available on the jobs portal dot org, which is the jobs portal org.

Working families have been greatly affected by this emergency. and it has also highlighted all the inequalities we have in our society, the work that still needs to be done for racial and economic justice for those members of the community who have underlying health issues, how hard it has been hit, and of course, We know that among the most affected vulnerable population are Angelenos who are homeless, our homeless neighbors know this was a crisis long before Kovat Nineteen arrived. We are already facing this crisis with record investment building more shelter beds than any city in the country, more than two thousand of them in an 18-month period, but tonight I will enact some orders to help accelerate the work we are doing to extend our affordable housing and make sure fewer people become homeless or homeless, so all housing department deadlines related to affordable and supportive financing will be met tonight.

Housing will be expanded for people who need affordable housing or those experiencing homelessness, ensuring that affordable housing development can continue without any penalties caused by missing deadlines and that funding does not disappear due to this crisis. We need that housing that we need in every apartment. and every bed we can build and with this virus touching every part of our community, we are doing everything we can to keep those without a home safe. We have profiled many of them in briefings at the hundreds of hand-washing sanitation stations. and having soap on the street, Porta Potty is the test that we are doing and I believe that we continue to need more screening and treatment to help Angelenos who are experiencing homelessness, so as of Monday I am proud to announce that our city will increase. a deployment of street medical teams to help fight kovat 19 among angelenos experiencing homelessness will send field teams to provide rapid results field testing for people showing symptoms health and wellness screenings and high-density encampments that they have already started and I believe they are at Over a thousand visits already and advice and guidance on effective physical distancing on the streets will offer transportation to new shelters and hotel rooms to bring homeless people inside and we will send additional resources, nursing staff additional county and homeless outreach workers to Skid Row. and our fire department will establish a high-capacity pop-up testing clinic in that neighborhood to deliver rapid results and has physically distanced waiting rooms and provides direct referral and transportation to isolation and quarantine beds, all of this means that if we encounter someone who is living on the street or in their car, someone who is in a shelter and who is sick, they will be able to get tested right away and see if their symptoms are related to Kovat 19 and, if necessary, they will be able to call a service medical emergencies to immediately get homeless people to safety, we can do this thanks to our skilled workers throughout the city and county, who I want to thank our skilled firefighters and police officers, the brave work of our service providers, outreach staff, nurses and medical professionals, our partners in Los Angeles.

The Homeless Services Authority and the Department of Health Services and our leaders at the unified homeless response center that runs all the time, even before this crisis, from our Emergency Operations Center, who are coordinating this bold strategy and our work to serve Angelenos experiencing homelessness. It doesn't end there, we are already increasing beds and services at our recreation and park facilities, now with over 850 beds and more opening soon they are at 95% capacity and tonight we will be launching our first trailer program using Los trailers given to us by the state, one of the first cities to put them into operation, will be used to house homeless Angelenos who are in the highest risk level one category, meaning asymptomatic people, so not yet They are sick. those over 65 years of age havechronic medical conditions or both, the first ten will be opening on the Woodland Hills Recreation Center campus and our goal is to provide over 300 trailers throughout the city in the coming weeks, as you can see, we are implementing every resource to help the people who are most vulnerable and susceptible in this crisis, so along with those trailers and those shelter beds, we rent hotels and motels to house those who need shelter, so let me

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you on that as well, the state, the county and the city ​​have We have currently secured 24 hotels and motels with 2,400 rooms throughout the county for tier one Angelenos who are most at risk of dying from this virus but do not yet have any symptoms to keep them safe, seniors and people They are already sick and we are.

We are currently negotiating with more than two dozen additional hotels; in fact, I believe some of them are being signed even as I speak to add thousands of additional rooms across the county in the coming weeks. This has been a monumental effort and I want to thank everyone who stepped forward for the Cities and Counties Project Room Key effort and the financial assistance we got from the state as well as FEMA, which is reimbursing us a good part of those rooms and my ambassador to the industry, John Vane, people like the hotel owner who wrote to my office this week and said that the project room key allows us to not only serve the most at-risk Angelenos, but also reopen our doors and rooms and re-employ our hard-working team and staff in service. win-win-win is a win for our health it's a win for the homeless and it's a win for the employees who were laid off or had no hours and she's right so tonight let me talk to all the hotel owners and operators and motels in Los Angeles County.

We need you, contact us and be part. of this movement, make your employees pay, help us solve this kovat 19 problem and find a permanent solution to homelessness in Los Angeles County. If you want to be a part of this, go to the City of Los Angeles organization's clipping rooms. I have also spoken to you. about our progress in building a Medical Help Center in the South Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center, which is usually busy with visitors and conventions, but due to Covert 19 we have no business going on now and our Help Center medical that I can now announce is ready to receive patients as needed we built this center to ensure that our healthcare system can handle a potential increase in 19 kovat cases will care for low acuity patients and free up beds in hospitals in our region will be there if we have a surge in any of our homeless encampments or Skid Row and we are working with local medical staffing agencies to add nurses, certified nursing assistants and other medical staff so far because you guys have done a great job flattening the curve , our hospitals have been able to handle the volume of patients, but as I have said our numbers continue to increase even if they increase more slowly and people are entering hospitals faster than they are leaving, so if we see an increase in cases from Kovat 19, this is an excellent insurance policy, the Medical Help Center. is ready to absorb patients from hospitals and we have started with initial 175 beds for Kovat negative patients and if the need arises, we are ready to expand the number of beds available and pivot to absorb Kovat positive patients.

In other areas of the Convention Center, putting this Center together is a testament to that collaboration and that spirit of love that I mentioned to our state partners Cal OES and Cal Fire, who helped us secure a federal medical station and who are providing very important services . National Guard California National Guard who helped deliver and establish the LAFD station who led construction on logistics, the Smith Group architecture firm who provided renderings of a pro bono space and the county who offered crucial guidance along the way and i want to thank andrew leka, former executive director of good samaritan hospital, who we hired as senior administrator of the medical help center and dr.

Lydia Lam of Los Angeles County and USC Hospital, who we hired as the medical director of this facility, finally allowed me to also recognize LAPD Commander Phil Font Aneta, who came out of retirement to oversee this project. LAFD Chief Andrew Worden and Captain Chad Richardson and Chris Wynn who coordinated and managed the logistics of this exceptional undertaking and I would also like to thank an additional person on my staff, Jason Crockett, you are doing an incredible job, Jason , and thank you, we pray that these beds are not used, it

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us all greater assurance that we are prepared to care for Angelenos no matter what happens in the coming weeks.

Being prepared also means being ready to provide assistance to all of Los Angeles. That's what our philanthropic efforts throughout Los Angeles are all about. You heard last night about Corps every night. They find out what we are doing at the

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's box and on Tuesday as I mentioned we began accepting applications for Angelino cards, no-fee debit cards that provide direct financial assistance without prejudice to the most affected families in our city and we are still counting the final numbers, but after applications closed for this round last night, as I said, the more money we raise, the more we can give, it seems that in just three days over four hundred and fifty-four thousand one hundred and seventy-six applications were submitted.

I want to be clear that for now these are more than there will be cards, but with your help we can continue to add more and this week we will begin sitting down with those families and those applicants to make sure we can get those cards out as soon as possible. as soon as possible to relieve stress, alleviate that pressure and alleviate some of the bills that people have, so we will contact applicants who are moving forward in the process to let them know the next steps and we will also send them text messages and emails . those who are not receiving cards at this time, it will be done randomly, but they will still remain in the mix and as we raise more dollars we will be able to reach out and give them more, but also be aware of the scams that were run.

Such big national news we had people from all over the country trying to get these cards too and no official will call you and ask for your information like a social security number or a bank account, if you get a call like that just hang up. We have more people in need than resources right now to help, so please give the

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's fund the org slash Angelino and thank you to so many people who have heard about this development and have contributed more money, even doubling down earlier. donations, we are all in this together and we will get through it together, finally let me say a conclusion.

I know how sad this week has been. Many of us have spoken with families of the fallen, with people who could not support themselves. your loved ones when they died as a result of kovat 19, it left more families in mourning, a parent or grandparent, a friend and we are here to grieve with you. One of the cruel things about this is that we cannot be together in some of the saddest moments of our lives we are suffering we are worried but I want you to know that we are not powerless we have the power to help each other we have the power to change destiny of this city we have the power to change the direction not only now to overcome this crisis but what kind of city we want to build from this this Sunday through bylaws.

I'll be giving my annual State of the City address and going a little deeper into what this means and what we might do in the coming days, but I want you to harness the power you have to not feel powerless or alone, but to feel powerful as part of this City of Angels, so stay safe and stay. healthy and please stay home thank you and all the strength and love to each and every one of you. I'll be happy to answer questions and our first question is Steve Gregory's line with KFI news, please go ahead, hello Steve, hello, good evening.

Eric, thanks for taking the call. I just had a quick question about foot traffic like that, where there's a lot more traffic on the highways and on the roads, and there was two weeks ago three weeks ago and it's really starting to become an everyday occurrence. and more people are getting more gold and I wonder at what point it fits and turns well, there are two things we look at, one is cell phone data, not individual cell phones, we don't have that. and I don't want it either, but to the anonymous data of where people move and that's stayed pretty consistent, there's no doubt that we see that and I know you could be talking about parts outside the city, we've even noticed a trend, For example.

Along PCH, that's one of the few areas where you see the beginning and end of the day still in yellow, where everything else is green. Every once in a while you see red on a highway, usually because of an accident. We see at rush hour still some places that are quite full, but not close to where it was before, so we rely on the data, but there is no doubt that we will not hesitate if necessary. We saw this week for example at the skate park in Venice Beach and there were people there so we had to put sand in the skate park to make it unusable for now, when we get out of this we will clean up that sound, we haven't hesitated where There are businesses that continue to flaunt the law today, we had the first power outage to a tobacco store in Reseda that five visits later still refused to close, so we have quite a few tools to use.

We continue to enforce the law. We appreciate people telling us these things, but I would underline what you said for anyone who said Oh, it's been four weeks. I'm leaving the house more, please no, that's not only bad for your health, it's bad for everyone's health and it could kill someone. You may feel like you haven't gotten out much, but you could. being asymptomatic on a carrier from a trip you made to a market where there was another asymptomatic person or who was there and should not have received it, that's how things explode quickly and, as we said, a projection that I will continue to share with you if we lift the We'll see everything tomorrow and told everyone to get back to normal 95% about it, it's estimated that 95 percent of us would have coded 19 exposure by August 1.

I don't have to tell you what 9.5 million people in this county are going through. in the next four or five months covering 19 would mean for our deaths, our mortality rate, our hospital capacity, etc., so also, hopefully, stay home because we are having those conversations and putting pressure on our state and federal governments and working together with the county. about where we can write the rules of the road, get our blood tests done, figure out the ways we can move forward and I want to say two things that I mentioned last night because I want to use different language because I think people can misinterpret it. when we need more testing or we talk about things like immunity passports, those are things in other countries that companies and other places said that to work here we need to have, we will always do this with the values ​​of our society, making sure that we are not a state police, we are not going to become an authoritarian state, this depends on the good behavior of the people and we need some law enforcement, but we are not going to start taking data from people, we are not going to surveil people, sometimes that word surveillance. is used everything that means is a medical term, we need to know how many cases there are and that is done through blood tests, so it is more situational awareness or case tracking and I think those things are going to dictate what we can in the next weeks. with dr.

Ferrer has talked about this a little bit publicly, you know, if we continue like this at some point in May, we may see some things potentially being relaxed with new rules with very careful safeguards about what stores open or some of the things we can go back to. but that has to be designed very carefully with our public health professionals and even in the best case scenario it's still a couple of weeks away at least, if not more, so we need to make sure we continue with this because I guarantee it to everyone the ones that are going out and thinking, hey, I can drive or walk or put myself in a little bit of danger, it takes about a week or two before you see those numbers go up and if I'm here in a week or two weeks or three weeks I say you know the curve is no longer flattening you're going to see this spread even further and none of us want that so stay home thank you next question Sheriff's Department sopossibly change the most important question is can you look at the day that you have given us and what we will see today and if we continue to follow the numbers as you are seeing them now and the projections, could we start?

I think we could, Robert, but that depends on everything. so I know that every time I say this, the headline usually comes up and people click on it, like when I was asked my opinion on whether we would be in stadiums in a private meeting and suddenly it appeared on the front page of CNN that we were There will be no sports by any means, so I want to make it clear that this is a snapshot of today, but I absolutely believe it is possible and I want to give people hope that the work we are doing will actually have an end. but I want to be clear: that's not turning on a light switch, it's not everyone going out, there are people who are still very vulnerable, there are new rules that we have to write because we are going to have to interact in public spaces. and workplaces and potentially schools in a new and different way, but I think it's something that's in the realm of what we're seeing in Europe, which was a couple of weeks ahead of us in terms of infections and cases, some places that They have been as successful as we have with our physical distancing measures and other initial measures that I am very proud that we have taken, we are starting to look at that, but the headlines can be misleading.

Someone said that Germany is opening up. Are we ready? Germany, in certain places, in a very limited way, is opening up. Denmark has opened some schools, but the kids are separated and it's just getting started and they're experimenting to see what happens, so I think it could be realistic, certainly, in terms of dating, it's something we can use, we've certainly cited companies and the we have referred even more to criminal proceedings rather than a citation and with a little more force behind it than simply giving someone a ticket, not my preference, although it is not what I want to make Los Angeles and as long as We continue to advance steadily.

We will tell people they should stay home. We are willing to do it if necessary. But we'll do it in conjunction, I think, with the county and Public Health and see what's most effective. and as long as we continue to see the data that this is an exception, not the rule, we will continue to use public education, we will continue to let people know that there are consequences and we will not do it unless things get bad, I think. towards that level, thank you, next question, so I will return with lists that we do not know because it will depend on the size of the families, they are 700, 1100 or 1500, depending on that, part of that will depend on what we have proposed.

I think it was 10 million last time marked but it could be even higher, hopefully we'll go even higher and continue to try to add more to that, that was the goal and I think we achieved it, but we're hoping to get some of those checks that were I promised and I think it's in the bank now and my goal is that every time we can, if we can double that, we can help twice as many people, if we can triple that, we can help three times as many people and I would really encourage those of means who can this is a time to go deeper if you have savings or you've been lucky with your life and you have millions of dollars this is a time to share that I think for many of us my wife and I have done We know that everyone has given, Whether it's five dollars if they can or a thousand dollars if they can or 20,000 or some people who may have given millions and I'm very grateful to them, but that will depend on how much, but we're up there. to ten million, I'm sure that already a second with widespread testing there is no magic number where we can start testing people who are not symptomatic at all and you know that, because you have that point: 10 million people to test and while our capacity is probably among the top five cities in the country and one of the top cities in the world, frankly, now unfortunately we don't have anywhere near ten million tests that we could do to test people with the chili viral tests frequently , like once a week. or even once a month, so it's still a while away, but we may get there if we continue to build at this pace, be in a place where everyone who is symptomatic can be tested and is not complying with all those tests that we will start to do. notice. symptomatic people, especially that situational awareness that I mentioned, knowing how many people actually have it and I hope that we can offer some of that testing with the blood tests that were being done because remember that blood tests are a historical snapshot.

Have I ever had kovat 19? the blood test will show the antibodies generated in response to that, but it doesn't tell you if you are contagious or not, at the same time the virology tests show you if you are contagious at the moment, if you have symptoms or not, and if we could give them to you. to the same people that we were able to see there are some people who come forward and show evidence that they had it but are not contagious or vice versa, some people are contagious but the antibodies have not been created yet, so we can consider using it to advance the work that what we are doing will help us get to a place where we can more quickly open different parts of the city and then the third state of the city.

I just have to say stay tuned. I don't want to give the speech now that I have to give on Sunday, but I will tell you the values ​​behind it: this is an immensely difficult year, we will have to make cuts in our basic city services, we will have to tighten our belts and share the sacrifice as city ​​workforce that some of the most important things that have been established in this crisis of our values, but also our priorities must continue around public safety, health and housing and lastly, I want to challenge our city ​​to not just think about trying to rebuild the old city, but how do we take this moment and this tragedy and from it find some triumph in a way that we can rebuild a city that not only recovers economically but is more just for people of color who don't have the same starting point? line that other people ask for the poor and immigrants for people who have suffered violence for children who are in schools that do not have the same education as other schools those types of questions are something that I am going to ask, it is something that I am going to do.

I'm going to propose this Sunday and challenge us not just think about getting through this but getting through this stronger and better than before thank you Liz next question please have they been arrested with only time please some challenges our fight to close hotel rooms for people without home downtown, near Skid Row, you know? Have you determined whether you have the legal authority to force hotels and housing for homeless people or anyone in an emergency, even if the owners of these hotels do not want that to happen? We have made some good progress. I'm hoping that some of the things that we were talking about earlier in terms of some of the contracts that are being negotiated now will be announced next week, so that was a priority and I think we've made some progress downtown. .

I have the authority that we have the financial obligation in those places as well. I can take property as part of the emergency powers, but we are responsible for that and it can be a long, drawn out struggle that sometimes is more. More expensive than good negotiations and I won't take it off the table if I have to and we are falling short. I think this week we finally saw some really good progress and there has been some heroic work by the county and the state that led to this. It's not taking anything away from them.

I'm so glad we were able to add John Vane as the guy who sits down and talks to more hotels and motels and it's not just in the city of Los Angeles of course it's countywide but I won. Let's not hesitate if we dry up and suddenly get to a point where we don't have new rooms or we're not keeping up with the number of people that are willing to come in, then that would definitely be on the table for the next question. Hi, hi, Clara, hi, I didn't think you were talking about that. I'm wondering and taking a page from my colleague Steve Buerger on the other side of the county, but I'm wondering if you would consider, you know, you know, a voluntary pay cut, council member, other.

I preferred not to always talk publicly about these things, but since you asked me, I donated the equivalent of my salary this month to the Danja Lino fund to help Angelenos who don't have that, I think it's a show of bravery and a spectacle. of solidarity and something I will continue to do in this crisis absolutely, but I don't know about other council members, next question, yeah, that's a good point, we didn't always have one where we didn't need to and we always continued. The Public Health Council of the city from the county excuses me, but there is no doubt, I want to make it clear that there is no team that says that if we are working in hotels we cannot open shelters or vice versa, to open shelters we cannot work .

In hotels, we have to do both at the same time, but there's no doubt that it's not just in Congressional shelters where people can get sick. The hotels we've seen around the country are places where this can spread as well, there are shared HVAC systems, etc. so they're not perfect, but I think they're better as long as they do two things, they have the same kind of services there and they assume some kind of health in a congressional environment, it's easier to do things like provide food, have nurses check temperatures, etc. that in hotels and motels where people come and go and not everyone is there and you don't always see it, but I think hotels and motels are absolutely a great solution and one that we got into was originally the state said "hello." We're going to do this with the counties and we said can we help, as one city and the county absolutely said we welcome them and other cities are also doing the same thing in some cities that they've opposed, but we don't have to name them. tonight, but most of them.

I have stepped forward and together with the county we said we realize this is an emergency, so yes, I have personally spoken to people. I'm willing to answer the phone with any hotel or motel owner, but so far, the pace I really want the story to follow. Not that it's been difficult, this has been a really good week for getting hotel rooms. If you told me just a couple of weeks ago that you get over a thousand rooms in a single week, you have a couple thousand or a few thousand more ready to sign that. It would have been difficult for me to believe, but I really believe that the momentum has started, although it has been a long time, we are generating a lot of interest, we are signing a lot of contracts, we won't always be able to tell. where they must be clear because they remember that they were not only for people who are homeless, but sometimes a mixture of people who are not homeless and/or who are suffering from domestic violence and we had direct contacts.

I spoke to the owner of a hotel. for example, that helped us make sure that we had a hotel for victims of domestic violence because no one was going to move out of the shelters, absolutely look, we're going to be, we're going to be looking together and it was great to see the announcement from the governor of his economic task force and some great Angelenos who are serving on that. I have been speaking in depth with the county and dr. Ferrer, president of Barger, on what our efforts should be here locally because I think we can lead in several of our industries, we can write the rules potentially for the country in the world on entertainment and music, how do we get back to filming how would we have concerts even if there is no audience, sports like that and fashion is one of those areas that we have talked a lot about the clothing industry, my grandfather was a tailor, that is the reason why I am here today because the opportunities that the city gave her in the garment industry and we have to make sure that we don't lose those jobs and lose them permanently, so protecting her was the first part, as you mentioned, these are the face coverings that the sewers and sewing make. machines, people here who are helping to fill a need and hopefully be able to put those people back to work, but I hope that as we see the new places that we will open in the rules that we write, this can be one of the The first industries that can go back to work because it is possible to space people safely, it is possible to protect them and that will also help us as dr.

Ferrer said at a certain point people need to buy some clothes for their kids, we have to look at our retail establishments and while it's very different, we may have temperature checks, we may have a phase for people to come in to stores, that's the kind of thing that I think we can start to see rays of light in the future in terms of other things. I would say only other PPE is useful. I know the materials are difficult to obtain for medical grade, but there are people who need protection, not onlymasks. but in places where they may be exposed, people who drive taxis and rideshares, people who clean hospitals and things like that, that's another area.

All of that can be done if you are interested in a business through La Protects and we can connect you with a lot. more than just making face masks and knowing that it really is a priority for us to save this industry to recover quickly and the number of low-wage workers that are there that are really suffering right now in the best way that we can. helping them is helping them get back to work so thank you very much Kate next question please with the testing we have done some and we are working with all of our homeless services providers especially the medical providers to do proactive testing on the streets and that includes people that we can test before they go to shelters, there are medical checks before someone comes in when cases occur, we have the county public health department there and we follow their advice and it has worked like It's supposed to be from the beginning. when I spoke with dr.

Ferrer and his guide also said that it was much better to have people off the streets and in collective shelters, as long as they were separated and screened before entering, than to have them on the street, but he also warned that there will be people who took cover. 19 I have positivity, but with people having face coverings, people are spaced out appropriately, it's a lot better than on the street, so far it's worked like it's supposed to, but in terms of going there and testing everyone, it we have done. In cases where someone tested positive, but not proactively, we didn't have enough testing for that yet, but as I mentioned, we are starting to do targeted testing for people who are on the streets and who may be living in shelters, especially here. on Skid Row with a pop-up window that will work and that will allow us to carry out those tests.

We have also spoken to some shelters that are privately run and have been able to provide them with testing to proactively do for the groups they are a part of. from the shelters, so I will answer this in English. I think people for the most part have really embraced this and I want to thank you because you know there has been a public health crisis called homelessness long before Co 4:19 and the best way we can begin to serve is to have more and more people come into their houses, there is never 100% agreement and those who oppose and sometimes have louder voices, but other than a case or two where I have spoken with supervisors about the cities, they have accepted this and Ya You know, sometimes some of the motels we're talking about have been problems, they've been places of prostitution or drug use, they've never had security on site the same way these never had services on site the way they that these do, it's actually an improvement to consider using them as shelter instead of some of the uses in the past, so I would say we can save a life and we can transform a life and in terms of the rooms themselves, there are two There are different types of them, there is a level one which is for people who have not had any symptoms yet and we keep them safe because they are very vulnerable and there is a level two for people who do have symptoms and who have tested positive 19 covered.

Those are for homeless people as well as people with homes who may not have anywhere else to go during the quarantine, so in Española, okay, let's eat, environment that is important and all the cities in Los Angeles County They accept our rooms and hotels as easy motels. poor as people who are experiencing a case madeExperion expiry and oh they're gonna make in the NC a-- loss movie people of los angeles medicine safe place where we can have security food and with other medical it is better in West's communities to have the sermon OCR Manos del sky gays in hotel is a motel is then asked is you know scam pimentos caminito stoned a Covidien UAS a very big threat I hope that the communities can not only do this but with the county and the state we can find more to Beunos of this so tele estimate the is that they can give this is tabata Sione's to the city the county because also its employees can work and this is good for the health for the health of US economy a-- e against the in D hence iya thank you thank you one more Spanish question I understand forever so in English firsts our lives have changed fundamentally but I hope not permanently and I know in my bones it's not permanent that this will not be the way of the future forever and that our diligent and hard work to respect the order safer at home has made sure that lives are have been saved and that days have been shortened when we will return to being outdoors it won't happen in one day and it won't happen all at once but it will happen and I think what's changed is a couple things too for our children this will be the fundamental moment of their childhoods this will be like their 911 this will be like their Challenger disaster these moments in time that are seared into us our earthquake here this will be like all of those put together and extended days feel like years today and I hope that one day years will seem like days and we remember these dark days we'll be proud of them and I hope that the last thing that changes is not just the economy but that if we come back together that we will see a changed attitude towards one another look I'll be honest with you I think a lot of people feel like we're at that moment where this might start to fray I'm confident that we all can lead away from that that this doesn't have to go back to us hating each other because of what party were a part of or what color we are or what religion we have that we practice we can't go back and let this be a tribal moment or a desperate moment we have to remember the best moments of this crisis which 99% of the time has been when we've helped a neighbor shopped for a senior given a donation to a food bank made sure that someone who is our son or daughter isn't scared and that we apply that to making sure that when this crisis is over that we make sure that every kid has the same start that we don't drown people in college debt that we don't t have more homeless on the streets of this city than anywhere else that our immigrants are not forgotten I hope that's what will change in a positive way from this so simply a Stickley sees has changed our lives know as normal but the new normal no babies will be Luck's conditions of OE but balancer was dreams of tomorrow I hope that during this Chrissy's stay Brown for nasa's holiness for example poor nurse was a hose this is like but I won't say wound care remote OS is Laz Diaz most important of his Hooven food but after this disaster I hope that we can remember ah the plus AK Actos the generosity of love that we will have a series where immigrants s son Istanbul expect rice the people in the streets do not exist and we have the whore Nadal I can be our master sakti two days in a step is he maybe in this city I am also very proud to be the mayor of this city of Los Angeles but we need to be Ecuador ma his name and octa like the Los Angeles that we are he if this is the result of this time it is a very big victory during a very big tragedy too and I 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