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From YouTube: Buncombe County's COVID-19 Update (April 20, 2020)
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Community Update for COVID-19 for Buncombe County on April 20, 2020. For more information about local efforts towards the COVID-19 pandemic, you can visit onebuncombe.org.
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The
role
of
Public
Health
will
continue
to
be
on
surveillance
of
covin
19
and
contact.
Tracing
contact
tracing
is
a
basic
public
health
practice
of
identifying
and
interviewing
the
close
contacts
of
individuals
with
an
illness,
in
this
case
coded
19,
assessing
them
for
symptoms
of
the
illness,
connecting
them
to
testing,
if
indicated
and
isolating
them
from
others
to
prevent
further
spread
of
illness.
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Thank
you
dr.
mullendore
good
afternoon
is
dr.
mullendore
stated
one
of
our
goals,
for
our
community
is
to
do
what
we
can
to
prevent
our
healthcare
system
and
our
healthcare
providers
from
becoming
overwhelmed
too.
This
effort
in
coordination
with
Buncombe
County
emergency
services,
the
city
of
Asheville
in
the
Skyland
Fire
Department,
have
established
Quick,
Response
Teams.
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These
firefighters
will
have
the
capability
to
assess
the
person
who
is
having
the
non
life-threatening
medical
emergency
to
be
able
to
provide
treatment
to
be
able
to
assist
with
the
person's
medication.
The
firefighters
will
also
be
connected
with
providers
and
physicians
that
can
connect
with
that
person
with
telehealth.
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The
addition
of
these
Quick
Response
Teams
will
also
need
to
be
protected
themselves.
Just
last
week,
Buncombe
County
emergency
services
received
a
large
supply
of
personal
protective
equipment
from
the
North
Carolina
emergency
management.
Also,
today,
we
received
a
large
supply
of
personal
protective
equipment
from
the
dogwood
trust.
These
additions
to
our
personal
protective
equipment
supply
will
give
us
a
high
level
of
confidence
that
our
first
responders
will
be
protected
and
that
our
rate
of
use
of
personal
protective
equipment
will
not
exceed
our
supply.
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Buncombe
County
has
been
working
diligently
to
develop
an
adaptive
response
to
slowly
and
carefully
reopen
aspects
of
our
community
in
a
phased
approach.
Think
of
slowly
opening
a
faucet.
We
can
slowly
ease
restrictions
for
the
community
for
retail
for
restaurants,
but
if
our
data
and
leading
indicators
show
us
that
we
are
seeing
a
surge
of
cases,
we
as
a
community
will
have
to
be
prepared
to
re-implement
these
restrictions
very
quickly
for
a
period
of
time,
this
process
of
slowly
opening
the
faucet
and
quickly
closing
it.
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The
governor's
executive
order
is
set
to
expire
on
April
29th,
our
Buncombe
County
stay
home.
Stay
safe
order
does
not
have
an
end
date.
We
can
anticipate
for
the
models
in
conversations
the
state
is
sharing
with
us
that
by
April
29th
governor
Cooper
will
decide
to
extend
most
of
the
statewide
mitigation
measures
into
May.
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When
we
are
aware
of
the
governor's
intentions
going
forward,
we
will
assess
them
through
the
lens
of
what
are
the
best
actions
for
Buncombe
County
North
Carolina
is
a
diverse
state,
and
the
governor
must
make
plans
that
encompass
the
entirety
of
the
state
locally.
We
have
the
privilege
of
being
able
to
focus
on
Buncombe
County.
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So,
as
the
governor's
guidance
changes,
we
will
assess
every
single
proposed
change
and
determine,
if
is
in
the
best
action
to
protect
and
safeguard
public
health
in
Buncombe
County.
It's
important
to
keep
in
mind
how
fast
this
entire
situation
continues
to
unfold
and
that
the
numbers
and
trends
we
look
at
today
may
be
very
different.
Next
one's
there.
I
also
asked
that
everyone
take
a
moment
to
consider
the
consequences.
If
you
move
to
open
things
up
too
early
or
too
fast,
we
risk
losing
all
the
gains
and
advantages.
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We
know
that
the
stitching
of
that
parachute
has
been
painful,
we're
acutely
aware
of
the
impacts.
Those
decisions
have
had
for
individuals,
families
and
small
business
owners,
but
you
don't
get
rid
of
your
parachute
when
you're
still
1,000
feet
in
the
air.
You
keep
using
it
all
the
way
to
the
ground
if
we
get
rid
of
our
parachute
too
early
we'll
go
into
another
freefall,
and
if
we
have
time
to
throw
another
one
it'll
be
smaller
and
more
painful.
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Finally,
over
the
last
several
weeks,
we've
been
talking
about
the
great
job
that
our
local
nurses,
doctors
and
health
care
providers
are
doing.
We've
talked
about
the
great
job,
our
first
responders
law,
enforcement
and
firefighters
are
doing.
I
also
want
to
take
a
moment
to
give
a
sincere
thank
you
to
our
many
local
heroes
who
also
choose
to
serve
and
to
care
for
those
who
are
affected
by
these
uncertain
and
difficult
times.
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We
want
to
thank
our
local
community
connectors
into
Asheville
Housing
Authority,
who,
in
partnership
with
manna,
Food,
Bank
and
other
selfless
nonprofit
organizations,
make
sure
our
community
needs
are
being
met
during
these
trying
times.
We
would
not
be
able
to
do
this
work
without
you.
Thank
you.
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As
we
depart,
we
want
to
remind
people
in
our
community
that
we
care
about
the
help
of
everyone
in
our
county.
Here
we
embrace
the
values
of
inclusion,
cooperation
and
working
together
as
a
community,
and
we
need
you
with
us
working
together
as
neighbors
as
families
and
as
a
community
to
get
through
this
time
of
uncertainty
and
to
overcome
these
challenges.
So
thank
you
for
tuning
in
today
for
being
engaged,
we
will
provide
the
next
community
update
on
Thursday
at
2:30
p.m.
thank
you.