California Coronavirus Update by Gov. Gavin Newsom

let's talk now to the governor at that press conference this afternoon JB Pritzker my friend the governor of Illinois 21 of the 24 largest student loan servicers in the state of California have agreed to a 90-day forbearance on student loan debt affecting to more than 1.1 million Californians with loan debt will now be burden-free for the next 90 days. There will be no impact on your credit rating. There will be no late fees or penalties and real support in terms of implementing new payment plans for future processing. I want to again congratulate JB for his leadership in organizing this framework is deeply important for student loan borrowers in the state of California and I just want to applaud those 21 of those 24 loan providers or servicers for their willingness to step up come forward and help those who are struggling to pay their student loans.

Debt The second debt-related announcement I wanted to make was related to the Cares Act. Many of you have received Cares Act checks. Some people receive $1,200 checks, those with children, additional contributions of $500, but many of those checks, if they had debt, are garnished by debt collectors that we just signed. I just signed an executive order moments ago, literally, that that will no longer be the case. The executive order denies the ability of debt collectors to garnish your Care Cares Act dollars, it is also retroactive, so if your debt collector and you garnished those contributions, those checks you had to return, so that comes in effective immediately and I just want to thank my legal team for putting together that framework over the last few days that we've been crafting that executive order and moving forward on a principle that I think is appropriate given the economic circumstances and that's the nature of this crisis emergency for individuals and families.

Now is not the time to garnish those emergency tax checks. However, there is a caveat because we have a family first approach if you owe child care, if you owe spousal support this does not apply to you and if you are a person who receives a check but has a responsibility to the victim or the account the victim, that will continue as well, but for everyone else, no debt collector can accept those direct payments. longer in the state of California and we are confident that you will be able to recover any of those contributions from the feds that may have been withdrawn by those same debt collectors, so student loans will have some relief for borrowers at least during the next 90 days. 1.1 million from the state of California and all those who have debts linked to the Cares Act.

We hope this also provides some relief to that second announcement. I also want to express my debt of gratitude to a group of doctors who a few moments ago at noon today. I just took off from the state of California and flew into LaGuardia tonight. 14 doctors work in partnership with a CMA Tuva medical group doctor organization for a group that organizes doctors there, joining these 14 doctors, two doctors from UC Davis who are already in New York will work with the city of New York and its hospital and health system dr. Mitch Katz, who may be familiar to some of us here in the state of California, used to run the healthcare system in Los Angeles, formerly in the city of San Francisco, runs it at least for the healthcare delivery system most great of our country. at the subnational level and that's New York City, we're working in partnership with him, Mark Gally, who knows Mitch very well, helped organize this partnership in this collaboration, so 16 doctors are leaving today and at least not they join. 2:14 They leave today and will arrive tonight to help. support over a two-week period the needs of our fellow Americans in New York City.

I just want to express again my deep gratitude and my debt of gratitude to your willingness to really face this moment in a deep and meaningful way. I also want to simply extend my gratitude, it has not been highlighted. I wanted to make sure that UCSF had already sent 20 doctors and nurses for a similar purpose, so now there are 36 doctors and nurses from the state of California deployed in New York and again it is the spirit of our times the spirit of this moment and for those who may be discouraged by him saying no wait we need those doctors and nurses let me remind you of the announcement made yesterday to lift our stay at home orders and allow elective surgeries to go into effect once again or at least be done in our health care delivery system in our hospital system because of the work we have done to decompress the system increase the total supply of alternative care sites so that we can meet our needs and face a potential increase going forward, one of the great benefits of these doctors coming to the front in New York is what they will bring back, which is a deep understanding and knowledge of what is happening at the most acute point of the crisis in this country and they will convey all to apply this here in the state of California, so this is an incredible opportunity for all of us in California, not just the generosity of these people to another state, and again, this is a wonderful thing and I am very proud and pleased. to make this announcement today on behalf of those doctors on behalf of those systems and those provider groups and just again express my gratitude, it's two weeks and then two weeks of quarantine, so it's a sacrifice of a month of these people, that It's a big deal and again thank you I also want to thank you yesterday announced that the president was expanding his support for new swabs to get more samples increase our testing capacity.

Today we learned that one hundred thousand swabs that he pledged this week are arriving 90,000 and we will begin distributing them. them in the next day that is very encouraging. I know it's not the hundred thousand, but they told me they'll make up that hundred, that 10,000 next week when the 250,000 arrive, so the promise promise made promise conversation kept 90,000 on track to be distributed. Tomorrow I also want to extend, in terms of numerical considerations and depth of numbers, my thanks to everyone who signed up on the Californians for all dot ca.gov website. Remember that just two days ago we received a call asking for people to offer their services as volunteers. time and stress their passion and their sense of purpose to a cause larger than themselves and we would relate that cause geographically to an area of ​​interest.

Over 22,000 people on the first day alone signed up and visited that site and I just want to thank everyone. of you who did that and all of you who are thinking about it, just remind Californians from all over ca.gov that the websites available to you can roll up your sleeves and know how to do a little phone banking to help food banks such maybe go to a blood bank and donate blood or provide other types of talents and support and again it is a dynamic site and one of the first offers and one of the most impactful things that the first group of volunteers is doing is making the neighbors Make phone calls to neighbors in particular. to seniors who are struggling with social isolation, others are making food deliveries, but even those phone calls are a huge help and make a big difference.

I also want to express gratitude to the people at EDD, a lot of attention to unemployment insurance in this state, but only since March 15th only since March 15th the state of California has distributed three point nine four four billion dollars about five or excuse me about four billion dollars of unemployment insurance has been distributed three point nine four billion dollars curiously coincidentally to three point nine million people just since March 15th and I say that, to make this point clear, None of us are naïve about the responsibility we have as a state and as an Administration to make sure the call center is cleaned up and we do more to continue processing those claims.

Nearly a billion dollars in claims have been distributed since Sunday, just to give you a total of what's in the millions that have been processed in just a few weeks. We had more than 1300 people. I announced that they were reassigned over a week ago. the phone lines operate eight to eight and seven days a week, not just five days a week from 8:00 to noon and in that process we continue to process more claims and address some of the anxiety around having access to an individual human being. answer the phone, we are adding a few hundred more staff to that task and we have some business process improvement strategies that we are organizing with the California coverage, many of the best practices that we are taking from their call centers and from our Board of Taxes.

It's interesting that everyone comes. We are together again not only to increase the access points but also the quality of the interaction, so I just want to avoid that, let you know that we are working overtime so that we have a wonderful team led again by Julie Hsu and start every morning call. and she reminds everyone that we are in this, we are doing more, we have to do better, we understand that we have to do better, but I just want to express my gratitude for the close to four billion dollars that they have. processed since March 15 alone for what is worth 3.3 million people have filed claims since March 12.

You may be wondering why we have distributed 3.9 million checks in only 3.3 million people have filed claims. Those are the people who were in line before March 12, but on March 12. marks a time when we started to see a huge increase in the total number of requests and in the total number of requests, speaking of requests every day, it was requested to

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you appropriately on the total number of lives lost due to this virus, a number of ICU hospitalizations and as well as the number of people who tested positive, let me briefly review yesterday was the deadliest day for this virus in this state, one hundred and fifteen human beings lost their lives, families destroyed, it was the deadliest day deadly in the state of California, no I don't say that out of feliu I certainly don't say it cheerfully I don't say that except in any way to do justice to those individuals each one of those numbers represents a family represents a life lost and a journey that their families they will be in their loved ones, that is very different than before that loved one passed away, but it is also a reminder that we are not out of the woods yet.

I know there is a deep desire for people to make calls every hour saying it's time to reopen consider the deadliest day in the state of California the last 24 hours 8.5% increase in the total number of deaths we saw an increase of 5.6 percent in the total number of people who tested positive in the state of California, but there was some positive news despite those numbers and that was during the first day that we have been adding up our number of hospitalizations, a number of ICU patients, we saw four things happen at the same time, as I mentioned a few days ago, we saw the first thing happen at the same time. time and that was the number of hospitalizations and the decrease in the use of IC together that happened again today hospitalizations in the port point 4% and decrease of 1.2 percent in the ICUs, but what happened was also significant which was also a significant number of what we call PU is that these are people under investigation and both for hospitalizations and for our ICUs, we saw that people under investigation also decreased, so the four categories decreased just reinforcing what we advanced yesterday: some stabilization in that curve, but with the deaths and the positives still increasing again, I warn people that We are out of the woods and that is why I continue to encourage you all to do what you have done that led to that stabilization, leads me to announce that those four categories are beginning to decline and leads me to promote the call of physical practice. social distancing and appropriate use of masks when physical distancing cannot be practiced seen in the supermarket or elsewhere look, we are entering a very warm weekend the most beautiful weekend as long as you love warm weather since January at least more since possibly last summer in the state of California, that means that people are likely to want to go to the beaches, parks, playgrounds and take a walk and I anticipate that there will be a significant increase in volume, but I also think that if there is and people are not practicing physical distancing I will announce it in about a week these numbers will increase again I don't think anyone wants to hear that I don't want to share that information, but that's really less on me, it's more on all of you . and in group pressure, social pressure,make a phone call in the next few days, maybe you have a teenager or a nephew, niece and you think, you know what I should check with Bobby and just say, "Hey, I know you probably want to." to get to the beach, but just be careful if you do, make sure it's open and if it's not open, you know, respect the rules, if it's open, just respect social distancing, practice physical distancing, let's not dream of regretting and I just want to do it again. encourage people to be safe, stay home as much as possible and practice physical distancing.

II I will continue to practice what we preach and that is constant and endless

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s on our thinking on how these six indicators that we highlighted yesterday and one deeply highlighted in the tests work. what those indicators are telling us and how they are guiding us in terms of next steps and next announcements yesterday we made that first announcement again to begin to lift our stay at home order, that is a positive sign, but it was the indicator that gave us that light green gave us that signal we need to see other green lights and those other indicators give us similar guidance in terms of making decisions it will not be a letter I receive a tweet it will not be the expression of frustration that I receive and you all share in terms of the order to stay At home, it will be those dying indicators that will drive our decision making, not the dates, we do not debate the dates, we look at the facts objectively, we are not ideologues, I am not a I am very aware that this state, as I often say, has many parts, not a single body, and I recognize the differentiation not only between regions in this state, but even within the cities and counties of this state and we monitor that, we mark it and we understand it in detail and we see that nuance and that dad has agreed and compiled everything through that lens of these six key indicators and what a roadmap to recovery and I can assure you in real time and I hope that every few days we will make announcements as we change again, move the dimmer up and down, not this light switch because there is no such thing as reopening and going back to normal. normal with caveats its reopening with conditions this virus we are not immune to this virus there is no vaccine for this virus there are no therapies that have yet been identified that we can distribute manufacture at their scale to mitigate the impacts of this disease the disease killed more people in the state of California in the last 24 hours than in any previous 24 hours, we still have more positives in this state every day, so the disease continues to spread and we must continue to spread the word of vigilance and keep our values ​​among ourselves and again , the value we hold dear is the notion that we are all in this together, it is not individuals, it is individual acts on behalf of a collective community that will save lives and recover the economy much sooner than we would if we had attacks. and it begins, so I assure you that I really want to start this engine of this economy and I close it before opening it to questions.

I want you to know that we had a wonderful conversation yesterday. I had the privilege of receiving advice from all the living former governors of the state of California, two Republicans and two Democrats, we spent an hour together talking about their ideas and strategies, their unique experiences when facing budget deficits and economic challenges, earthquakes, fires, floods, so many things were very familiar in the state of California and then we had a conversation with some of the best-known icons of business and social justice and we had a notable conversation with former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen providing guidance on economic recovery and growth.

Apple's Tim Cook talking about the best. practices of how they reopened overseas, particularly in China, and what those conditions look like, what the triggers look like, all of that helps inform us and I socialize it with you to know that this area is part of a deep focus and a passion deep, and you know. No, I don't want to talk too much about my own experience, but I remind many of you of my business experience. I didn't start in politics in politics. I started as a guy who put pen to paper and got 17 investors. $7,500. every part time employee, Pat Kelly, small business right out of college and was able to grow that business, over a dozen businesses throughout the state of California that I was pleased and proud in my past to have been a part of , so I say this is an expression of passion in a sense of determination my passion for entrepreneurship my passion for economic growth and the energy that we all want to see restored to the state of California I share that and I share the deep anxiety that many Of you are feeling in that space final words because those companies are also being affected in ways that I think deserve even more attention and should be highlighted.

I couldn't be more pleased with the announcement because of the incredible leadership of our leader, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in partnership with those in the Senate. and others will receive this new stimulus or see more money from the PPP. This is the small business loan program and forgiveness program. California got nine point seven six percent of those federal dollars less than what we should have in the last round. We hope to do much better. In this next round we have two SBA loan programs, as you remember, we were the first to apply for one of them as a state, the first to get the waiver, first to give one of those SBA loans an economic injury account in which we have really surpassed.

In that account and in another SBA account, which is the disaster assistance accounts, we receive fourteen point seven and twenty-six point eight percent of those federal dollars, so we are doing well with the SBA loans, not we did so well with the PPP loans. Let's say to make this point clear, we have the opportunity because of this upcoming stimulus to bring even more money into the state of California, those loans, our lives as well as our dreams, and people put everything on the line as entrepreneurs and are just trying of waiting and working on this so that they have a place that we can go, those who are unemployed, and that those businesses remain is critical to our economic recovery, so I highlight it as a point of emphasis because we are emphasizing the requests for those loans and the distributions of those loans and we just want to make sure that the business men and women that are there know that we want to support them and have their backs. go to kovat 19 dot see a gov covet 19 see a gov to links to those three loan and assistance programs and I remind everyone of the final words before I open up to the questions that we also created an additional loan program for microcredit for businesses that don't receive these SBA loans and this federal PPP program that we have.

Loans distributed that are already in that account, 73% of them have been to women and minority-owned businesses. That's exactly what we were hoping to see: people, these micro-businesses, these small family businesses that otherwise wouldn't have banking relationships. We don't have lending relationships, we don't have the traditional under the radar financial services industry relationships to be able to use I Bank and try to apply for those loans, and we're encouraged that we've already seen those loans distributed in The state of California has a lot more work to do in that space and we look forward to continuing our partnerships with the Senate and Assembly.

Bob Hertzberg. Senator Hertzberg leads the economic working group in the Senate. Some wonderful ideas are already being presented. I'm really looking forward to the partnership. As we develop a roadmap to recovery together on the council in partnership with our Assembly and Senate leaders, I also know that we care deeply about extending microcredit to small businesses and Economic Opportunity across the board. of sectors in the state of California, so that's the overview of the day, of course, happy to answer any questions. Hello Governor, can you give us an idea of ​​how many counties and cities have reached out to you about their reopening plans and their kind of process for reaching an agreement with those communities?

I think a lot has been written about many of the counties and most have made their wishes and requests public, boards of supervisors have sent letters, mayors have sent letters of sale, legislative leaders have sent public letters and he received them, but I read about them and I say. That with love because I have recognized the spirit of the moment and there are many, I don't know the exact number, but I think you have all written very comprehensively about this and it is not surprising that there are many others in real time. that may have come in the last few minutes there is a deep desire to know when and as I said it is not a date it is an indicator and it goes through the prism of these six specific indicators and that is the response that we have when we have those conversations with the leaders The county and business leaders went to the Rotary Club leaders with the Mayor's City Council members and said, look if we can work together and we can work to advance our collective cause of safely reopening by making sure we're all checking off the same list. then we'll be able to make some progress on easing our stay-at-home orders sooner instead of chasing people who come forward only to find out that maybe they went too early and too fast.

I don't even need to remind you. Just interesting the national conversation we're having about other states and even the president commenting on a particular state where he felt it was necessary to reconsider those recommendations. It's just an expression of the obvious that we're all trying to figure this out. in real time, but at the end of the day for us it is not a top-down process, it is a bottom-up process that recognizes that each region is unique and distinctive and we really want to think about this at a regional level as a framework for regions grow together again, but we have We have to stay together as much as possible, but I recognize that more than 480 cities and 58 counties are a challenge and we are going to try to manage that challenge as effectively and efficiently as we can.

Carmody Pearson Fox 40 Hey, I hope you try, the question is about maximizing the Existing capacity, for example, just in Sacramento has a maximum testing of over 350 people, but they have been averaging about 200 initial appointments per day. 155 people were tested if they never reached their testing schedule or capacity, and yet they will too. I have made an effort to get more people tested; However, as people are screened for an appointment, even if you say you have symptoms and pre-existing conditions, people are still told they do not qualify and there is also a list of essential workers that is your priority. for healthcare and corrections first responders nothing about grocery store workers are like postal workers or journalists other people were out and about so when asked about criteria for testing the county basically says it depends of the state, as they are testing at less than half capacity.

Should those screening standards be relaxed and what oversight is there to ensure all testing sites and future capabilities are maximized? As you know, we formed a testing working group over a week ago. They are very organized and work deliberately through that testing protocol. daily and make adjustments. I'll just give you one example of those 90,000 swabs for specimen collections that work through this working group process in terms of how they will organize that distribution. Yesterday we made the announcements of the expansion of six additional sites with verily in partnership with verily and we also made an announcement two days ago about lifting the criteria and she in terms of who was prioritizing for testing symptomatic individuals, not just symptomatic, that we throw through a multiple lens where the first state in the country to do that to make that announcement and begin to move forward on a loosening of those guidelines very directly along the lines of your question, so the answer is yes, we are adjusting those guidelines and have done so and making sure to socialize them at all times. our entire testing system, but the idea is simple, we have people who work as lVNs and a young individual may not have any symptoms, but they may actually have the disease and are spreading the disease.

We believe that those vulnerable people are individually, but also among their friends and family. and professionally, they should be part of our testing strategy, so focus on that subset. We've lifted that lid in terms of testing priorities and expanded them, and that's certainly helped. I also want to extend theexpansion, not just really, really, as one of our many providers, but yesterday we made an important announcement: optimal service at 80 additional sites, these are end-to-end testing sites, they will be distributed throughout the state of California, rural parts of the state, that's happening in real time those 80 sites are going out today tomorrow Saturday Sunday Monday you're going to see these things set up and you're going to see a real loosening of criteria and restrictions.

Significant increase in the total number of tests, more than 400. Currently 82,000 tests are carried out. We are getting closer and closer to that goal of 25,000 tests each day. We have to do much better than that in the next 30 days and 60 days even better. We have the Abbott announcement that we made yesterday. We followed up with Abbott. Yesterday there was a question about serology testing. I made an announcement and I appreciate it. One of the reporters wisely said: Did you say that 1.1 million serology tests that you have obtained from Abbott and she was right were 1.1 million today only in natural form? -and-take as we work with Abbott not only on serology but on the PCR tests of which they were acquiring more tests there, they are ready to start distributing them, it is not months away, it turns out that they are ready to send those tests to the states, so it's both PCR tests that you mean by verily and then these serology tests that you'll see significant expansion.

I will only remind you briefly and this is an extension beyond perhaps your interest and your inquiry directly, but as you know, it is well written that two zero-scale surveillance tests have been carried out in the state of California: the Stanford test for more than 3,300 people earlier this month and the one held in partnership with USC in Los Angeles County. They continue to do more surveillance and the one at Stanford generated a lot of attention for a lot of different reasons, but again, that's also part of the broader testing ecosystem, not just diagnostic testing but also antibody testing and also community surveillance.

That's also part and parcel of everything that's happening in this space, but the good news is that 2,000 tests per day in March now average over 16,000 per day on the way to 25,000 by the end of the month and then multiples of that very shortly. Then the governors thank you for taking our phone call, if you continue to talk about the May model, we have not seen the data or the evidence or these indicators to support where that data is and also you know that we, as journalists of course, We have so many questions throughout this pandemic that we often don't respond via phone call or email unless we happen to be called during these briefings, how else can we get answers to our questions and those of our viewers? ?

Well, I have a whole team of people and they give me an update on queries, so we answer dozens and dozens of questions every day, some cases every hour, to the extent that yours, heaven, will try to fix it. I appreciate your recognition that every day and I make myself available to you to the extent possible for these midday press conferences and in addition to that, as you know, we try to make ourselves available for radio programs, TV, I mean, everything whatever we can do that doesn't get in the way of doing our job. work, so I'll make sure that we were answering any questions that you may have, but specifically to your question and thank you for it regarding this May model.

Not sure specifically which May model you are referring to, we posted our modeling. update last friday, we will do it again very soon, but i have dr. Ghali here and when you don't have the answer to a question, it's always better to defer to someone who does, so let me ask dr. Ghali comes closer and perhaps knows more specifically about the Mae model you are referring to. Yes, good afternoon, thank you for the question we had in recent weeks. We engage in a conversation that shows how our modeling works. Around May 20, we also talked about how in recent weeks we've looked at our real data, so I remind you that we've created a lot of models and we've used one in California to help guide our planning and thinking, but we always come back to that we're actually seeing on the ground for We've looked at those models and we've looked at our actuals, we see that our actuals are actually going up at the lower end of the range of what our model showed and so we're continuing in that range and We are seeing what is very slow. increases even to the point of calling it a plateau in our cases, well actually, in our ICU hospitalizations and as our testing numbers increase, we expect to see the same thing in our cases, so as we find out that those are exactly the data that fits into our indicators that allow us to make announcements like those made yesterday about the reintroduction of health services that have been delayed during this stay-at-home order period, so we continue to analyze those models, but we we guide both by what those trends will be in the future and to a large extent. through real data seen today next question Carla Marinucci politics I've got Nurse Joy here, Ms.

McConnell has caused a storm by suggesting that hard-hit states should get federal help in future legislation that they instead consider bankruptcy, we have heard from both governors. The governments of New York and New Jersey today responded strongly to Governor Cuomo, saying New York could send billions more. Kentucky takes billions more out of the federal fund. California is also a donor state, but you thought it had been silent on this until now. What you have not been silent about but we have not had the opportunity to speak directly. I expressed similar sentiments. Other governors have Democratic and Republican governors.

As you know, Carla, we have long been clear that California has been a donor state. Something interesting. This is no longer true after the salt tax reform. California is actually slightly below that normal position where we contributed a little more salt, it actually set us back slightly, but it's generally true that these larger blue states are disproportionately subsidizing some of the smaller ones, even the smallest ones. larger red states, not the case in all circumstances, but neither here nor there, and look, my reaction is this on behalf of tens of thousands of men and women in uniform, our police officers, our firefighters, our sheriffs, the people who literally save lives, the people who lay down their lives. every day, the heroes we highlight often and appropriately, the nurses, so many of our frontline people who care for our children, our teachers, the heroes who have been recognized in this particular crisis on behalf of all of them , hundreds of thousands. if not millions, let me tell you that your comments were offensive number two, I will just say that states are laboratories of democracy, cities are laboratories of innovation, if you care about democracy in innovation, you care about states, you care through the cities, I hope and hope that he.

I will withdraw his comments, governor. I have a question about the future of education. I know you are one of the many parents who hope to have your children return to a regular school in the fall, but even during the good times, many of California's schools were overcrowded, so I wonder if you can paint us a picture of what education is really like in the era of social distancing and how you pay for it. We had hoped to be able to move forward with this school, but this year that felt a little short, that would have helped not only modernize the existing buildings, but provide a higher quality educational experience.

A big interesting part of that was ventilation systems that would have helped with airflow and given us more capacity and more resources for more broadband and the like. but unfortunately the owners didn't want to support that at this time because of the economic uncertainty etc. so we'll have to work around that and around that, but the good news is that one of the big dynamics in situations like this It's that it forces an innovative mindset into an innovative spirit and we really start to think about tomorrow very differently, with more clarity and more conviction. I was having a specific conversation after our economic recovery task force meeting on broadband for all, not with platitudes but to deliver on what we have been promising and promoting.

It seems like decades in this country and what specifically will be needed was highlighted in your question about distance learning and those disparities. It was highlighted by my wife's work with the superintendent of public education going out and raising money to purchase over 70,000 tablets and Chromebooks. and computers to help children connect something virtually or physically when they are at home, so it only underscores the imperative to answer the question in the immediate term to continue educating our children through the end of this school year and then address Your needs with a Summer Slide will be even more acute this year and we are already working to figure out what it will look like in the summer and then also prepare for a future in which it will be more dynamic, more iterative, and will frame a focus not only on teaching to a test, not just the drill-and-kill model of those who lecture and then repeat and write down what they are told, but a dynamic framework around creative thinking, around the expression of creativity and self in a broader awareness of what education really is.

It's not just about teaching to the test and I know our teachers recognize that and want to unleash that in our education system as well and I think we're at a stage now where those conversations that have been isolated are now taking place. public in a way that I think will allow us to process a very exciting and lively future of education that will move forward in years, which otherwise would have taken decades if it had not been for this governor crisis, we have trapped students into remain. Weeks have passed without learning since the closure, some districts were not prepared for distance learning, while others found it difficult to keep children engaged.

Is the state doing anything to provide more oversight now or in the future if we get hit with a second wave in the fall, yeah, look, we have to do better. I think we've had four, three or four conversations like this and our press conferences with the superintendent of public education with the president of the school board just a few days ago, the one that included my wife. To directly answer the question you just asked today, we didn't wait for the question, we tried to get ahead of it even a few weeks ago with the guidance that we provided to all of these districts, guidance that, by the way, was shared with the National Governors Association.

However, as a best practice for other states in our Union, the guidance is not distributed equitably in terms of ability to meet it in smaller rural districts across the state and we know it, which is why the primary intent of public education is that of the president of the School Board and others work in partnership between workers and management. I've been doing everything I can to do more and do better because we recognize that those gaps persist and we recognize how detrimental every day that gap advances, how significant the gap is in terms of cumulative impact on a young child's trajectory in life. of a little boy, that's why he specifically just bows before his summer questions and we're already starting to figure out what we can do.

You always have this Summer Slide in terms of education and obviously that's a tsunami this slide year. backwards if people aren't even getting the basic curriculum and the kind of basic support that they deserve right now, so look at the hundred and eight plus thousand high quality Wi-Fi hotspots that are part of this and all of these new Chromebooks and other things that we're doing that's part of this, making sure that these guidelines are our dynamic, we're doing webinars almost every week, there's a webinar that we've actually put on Dody about special education, all of that that's fine, but we need to do more and I recognized that in the spirit of your question, you talked about the fall marking a real sense of urgency to make sure that we build that architecture over this summer and we don't wait at the risk of getting questions like this again in four or five months and our children will not.

I don't deserve to be asked these questions without having the ability to get answers so I appreciate your inquiry and know that it is a point of deep passion for us and if I hadn't taken a look at what my wife and the superintendent talked about a few ago days come back, you're on our website and learn a little more about whatthat we're doing more substantively and specifically to address that question, so look, I want to once again address this question, that's the elephant in the room, it's a question for all of us. are asking and that's when, although to your extent, this state of California is ready to respond, I'll let you know what the indicators say, when the indicators turn green, I'll be live and I'll let you know in real time. what our thinking is and what our directives and guidelines should be, but that is determined by one thing and that is that you, each and every one of you, continue to take this moment seriously, not just sit back and say, well, you know, I've had enough.

This cabin fever I keep going It's a beautiful weekend you know whatever If I get sick I just remind you that your individual actions impact others and I not only want to keep you healthy and safe, I want to keep others, you come in touch, say, particularly our seniors, particularly someone who you may come into contact with at the grocery store and who may look young and healthy, but who may have gone through major chemotherapy or some other issue that you may not see visibly with your system immunological, where your decision can impact their lives just consider those interactions consider those examples again this is not a republican or democratic virus it is not a rural virus or an urban virus people in Kern County people in San Bernardino people in Tulare with what is happening are skilled nursing facilities this this don't know Geography is impacting every part of the state of California, not just the big coastal cities, not just New York, not just California, so I continue to offer this, please stay home , stay healthy, stay safe and connected to other people who need you and who need you. your emotional support and, to the extent that you can always contribute your time and attention, please check out that website Californians for All ca.gov take care of yourselves everyone, very well, Governor Gavin Newsom concluding a press conference this afternoon calling yesterday the deadliest day in the state of California 115 lives lost took over 19 and an increase of 8.5%, so the fight is not over yet.

The governor also announced a couple of things that could help people financially and provide some relief in the future: A 90-day forbearance on student loan debt, so there will be no impact on credit scores, nor will there be late fees or penalties. This affects 1.1 million people in the state of California. The governor also gave an update on the Cares Act. Just today he signed an executive order that prevents debt collectors from garnishing those emergency checks that are meant to help people during this crisis, he mentioned, although if you're asking for child or spousal support, this doesn't apply to you on the the tests, says that ninety thousand swabs will arrive in the state and will be delivered tomorrow the tenth. a thousand more will arrive soon.

He also says they may start to lift restrictions on some of those tests, so that's the latest this afternoon. Stay with KPIX 5 News on cbsn Bay Area, we're always available 24/7. a week on KPIX comm alan keyes now back to regular programming