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From YouTube: County of Santa Clara Public Health: Holiday Safety Guidance - November 25, 2020

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Santa Clara County is now in the purple tier (Tier 1), the State’s most restrictive tier. Today, we will be sharing advice on travel and recommendations to keep you and your loved ones safe this holiday weekend.

Recorded November 25, 2020.

The City of Cupertino would like to express its thanks to the County of Santa Clara for the use of their video materials during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For more information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Cupertino, please visit https://www.cupertino.org/coronavirus

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Good morning my name is corina herrera public information officer here for the emergency operations center in santa clara county. We will take off our mask just during the segment so that you can understand this more clearly and asl can interpret for us today.

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We will be talking about holiday safety guidance and staying up to date with multi-language information. We have ricardo romero morales who's, our lead information officer here today with us and before we go into questions with ricardo.

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I would like to let you all know that here at our emergency operations center, we have uh around-the-clock staff working to get the latest information out to our county community and all the information can be found on our website and since march of this year we have a language access team, comprised of 15 people working every day to ensure our spanish-speaking vietnamese speaking tagalog, chinese and american sign language. Community members can access our information and get the latest updates.

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Our website has been translated in multiple languages as mentioned, and we, you know, we have many languages in our community, but we know that those are the five most commonly spoken languages and we're growing as we go. The language access team, also, films, multi-language, uh public information, uh public service announcements and the most up-to-date information plus we have weekly radio shows in chinese and vietnamese as well and so now to go into our questions with ricardo. Thank you for being here. Welcome again.

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Thank you karina good morning.

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Good morning, let's start off with uh some of our communities, are, you know, unfortunately, still considering traveling right um for the holidays? What would you what would you say to them if they're still considering the travel.

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We want to let you know that cases here of cover 19 are increasing in santa clara county, we're seeing over 400 cases a day of cover 19 case cover 19 cases. So we are urging you to cancel your travel plans. We know that uh we all want to go see our family visit, our loved ones get away for a week.

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But at this point we are strongly urging you to cancel your travel plans. We care about you, we care about your loved ones and we care about the community.

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If you must travel, if you must, we are reminding you to continue to wear your face covering during your travels, maintain more than six feet apart, making sure that you alert people that you're going to go visit them before you show up to their place and also make sure that you are able to self quarantine once you return and also make sure that you're getting a flu shot before you leave.

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Thank you, and would you say there are some activities that put someone at higher risk of covert 19.

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In terms of activities that can put somebody at risk of covet, 19 include no. Maintaining social distance in this case would be spending time with people without a face covering less than six feet. Apart, mixing different households gathering indoors uh and just ma, and just not following the guidelines that the county have been putting in place.

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Thank you, as you mentioned, you know, cover 19 is very real in our community. Our numbers, are, you know higher than they've been, um and I know a lot of uh youth are coming back from college. You know it's kind of inevitable traveling, but at the same time you know, maybe they can say you just uh never know, but sometimes there is, as you mentioned, inevitable traveling. Can you tell us if we have that in for our families? What can we do? Can you remind us.

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If you're coming home, we are recommending that you sell quarantine for 14 days and get tested around day, seven make sure that you get a flu shot and please please please continue your work to wear your face covering and maintain more than six feet apart.

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Thank you uh and unfortunately, as you know, we see the numbers you know, even though we have these directives, some people are still not following um and some you know are essential workers and have to travel. Can you tell us about the different modes of traveling and how to travel if we have to travel, whether it's by car or public transportation or travel.

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If you, if you're traveling outside the bay area, we're recommending it that you travel by car with people that you live with at this point, uh if you mix somebody uh from a different household uh we're trying to let you know that that could be a high risk activity and make sure that you are rolling down those windows. The purpose of that is because we want air to flow fresh air to flow through the vehicle which will decrease the chances of contracting covenanting.

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Thank you now. Can you remind us of those that are at higher risk of serious illness? Can you remind us of who who those people could be.

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Absolutely so people who are at higher risk at this point, everybody can be exposed to covert 19 and the symptoms vary from mild to severe. However, people who have medical exis, existing medical conditions or people who are over the age of 65 could be people who can get it the worst and who can get even hospitalized. We're also seeing a high number of hospitalizations here in santa clara county, and if we continue to to see this hospitalizations going up. At this rate, our hospitals will be reaching capacity in less than three weeks.

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Now is there an area to look, for example, I mentioned you know some of our children are coming back from college et cetera. Is there somewhere that people can look to see if there's certain areas with higher number of cases?

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You know in regards to traveling, or even you know the the child coming home and then going back? Is there somewhere where people can look at to see and compare the cases of where they're visiting.

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Yes, so they should be visiting uh their local website uh at the public health department of the destination that they're going to be visiting. It is important for them to know whether copenhagen is spreading in the places that they're visiting if they're traveling. But again I want to emphasize that we are recommending for people to cancel their travel plans in this case. Make sure that you know how severe the situation is at your destination.

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Thank you therefore,.

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We also recommend for people to quarantine once they come back to the bay area once they come back home and make sure that they also get tested around day seven and get a flu shot.

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Thank you so remember. Quarantine and a lot of us don't have that time. So stay home. um What recommendations do you have for holiday gatherings? Still, you know people are still calling their family members trying to figure out what they're going to do. What recommendations do you have for them.

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So we're reminding people that the best way or the best practice is to celebrate with people that they live with people who they live under the same household that they can cook at dinner together. They could also do virtual dinners with larger family members who are do not live in the same household now if they want to do a gathering.

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This is moderate risk. We are recommending for it to happen outdoors with no more than three households, and this is including your own household, so you can invite up to two more households and just remember to keep it outdoors. Keep it short, no more than two hours make sure that you continue to wear your face covering and maintain your uh your social distance of more than six feet. We also recommending it to keep it stable, so uh don't go to multiple two hour gatherings outdoors during uh during the holidays.

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Thank you um any other general information about how our community can maintain safety during this time, especially since our numbers are going up at an alarming rate.

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It is alarming we are seeing an increase of cases, as we have never seen them before, and we are asking you not to lower your guard. This is a time to protect ourselves, to protect our loved ones and to protect our community and the way that we can do. That is by continuing to wear our face coverings, maintaining our social distancing of more than six feet, and also remember that outdoors is safer than indoors.

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Please avoid traveling as much as possible and please do not gather with people that you don't live with.

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Thank you now um we know black friday is coming up. We like to shop. You know some of us look forward to that day. All year long, can you tell us what the county is recommending around that? What are some of the best practices.

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Yes, so as I continue to mention- and uh I'm saying it over and over just because I want people to know this- is that uh cases and hospitalizations are rising dramatically here in santa clara county.

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We are seeing over 400 new cover 19 cases per day, so that is alarming and in efforts to reduce the spread of kobe 19 in our community, we asked people to shop online during black friday, and this will help avoid gatherings at the shopping centers at the malls at the grocery stores. And let's also remember that we are in the purple tier and what that means is that we now have limitations capacity limitations.

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So it's 25 capacity in retail stores and 25 capacity also applies to malls and 50 capacity to grocery stores. Now the the compliance unit or the compliance team will be going out during black friday to check on those businesses who are not being compliant with the capacity limitations directive or with the social distancing protocol.

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We will be issuing fines to those businesses who are not being compliant and because this is uh black. Friday is one of those events that can lead to a super spreader event. There will not be a grace period, people will be fined and they will have to pay the amount, and this can range from 250 to 5 000 again, there will not be a grace period and we're urging people to please help us identify those businesses as well.

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By calling our business call center at 408 one five: five: zero zero. They can also visit a our portal to file a complaint, and that is scc covetconcerns.org and there they can also file a complaint to report a business.

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Now we have been saying that education is our first approach. This right here and the media coverage that we've been doing about around black friday is your education component to black friday.

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During black friday day, we will be issuing fines, so please, please be safe and also as a reminder for people, people who work with the compliance unit. They have their own county badge, so they can identify themselves and we will never ask you for cash or we will never ask you for your credit card information or your personal information.

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Such as your social security number or your id number so, and also, if you have questions about whether somebody does work for the county, you can always call our business call center to verify their identity and that phone number again is the.

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408-961-5500 also corrina. We want to remind our community that we're doing all of this effort and taking all of these steps to ensure that everybody's, safe and healthy, we want everyone to have a happy and safe holiday season. Thank.

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You, for you know, coming again and keeping us updated, and I want to express my deepest gratitude to our language access team again, um you know who worked so hard to get. You know these facebook lives in the various languages. uh The different radio shows public service announcements. Media interviews translate the documents newsletters to meet everyone's needs, we're doing our best to get the information out in all the languages that I mentioned, and we are going to be closing today. Our team put together a slideshow of our members of the language access team.

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Remember there's about 15 of us. We didn't get to have everybody on the slide show, but we do want to give our gratitude to all of the team. Thank you so much.

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