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Today, two of the County’s leaders in the COVID-19 response address top questions and concerns related to the latest shelter-in-place order, which has been extended through May.
Recorded May 1, 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.
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C
Good
morning
and
welcome
to
live
with
the
County
of
Santa
Clara,
my
name
is
David
Campos
I'm,
a
deputy
county
executive
and
I'm,
also
serving
as
co-lead
public
information
officer
for
the
Emergency
Operations
Center
for
the
county.
We
are
here
today
with
James
Williams,
who
is
the
County
Council
for
the
County
of
Santa
Clara.
But
before
we
begin
our
discussion,
I
want
to
provide
first,
an
update
of
Cova
19
cases
in
the
county.
C
We
have
2179
cases
of
infections
that
have
been
reported
in
113
deaths
and
again
our
hearts
go
out
to
the
families
of
those
who
have
passed.
I
also
want
to
note
that
today
is
May
1st
in
many
parts
of
the
world
they
celebrate
workers,
and
today
we
want
to
send
a
big
shout
out
to
all
of
the
essential
workers
of
the
County
of
Santa
Clara,
who
are
out
there,
keeping
you
know
things
going
in
the
county.
So
thank
you
for
what
you
do
and
then
before
I
begin.
C
I
want
to
note
that
I'm
wearing
my
pin,
my
census,
pin
and
the
reason
that
I
have
this
is
that,
even
though
we're
going
through
this
crisis,
we're
still
trying
to
complete
the
census,
Santa
Clara
County
right
now
has
the
highest
response
rate
of
any
county
in
the
state
of
California.
We
want
to
keep
it
that
way
and
those
of
you
who
haven't
responded
to
the
census.
C
Please
make
sure
you
do
so
so
I'm
here
with
James
Williams
James
you're,
the
County
Council,
you
run
the
legal
department
in
the
affairs
of
the
county,
and
one
of
the
things
that
you
do
is
to
to
represent
the
health
officer
and,
in
this
case,
put
the
thoughts
and
the
guidance
of
the
health
officer
into
a
document
which
is
this
revised
order
that,
and
so,
as
the
person
who
helped
draft
that.
What
do
you
want
people
to
know
about
this
revised
order?
Cheryl.
D
Thank
you,
David.
You
know
as
an
attorney,
we
can
often
get
kind
of
caught
up
in
in
details
and
technicalities,
but
one
of
my
first
principles
as
a
lawyer
is
to
first
apply,
try
to
apply
as
much
as
possible
common
sense
and
judgment
and
I.
Think
that's
really
true.
When
you
think
about
what's
going
on
here.
Why
do
we
have
a
shelter-in-place
order?
D
C
Thing
that
I
forgot
to
mention
that
I
want
to
note
is
that
we
actually
were
using
face
coverings
before
we
started
this.
This
Facebook
live,
but
we,
of
course,
do
to
conduct
the
Facebook
life
to
make
sure
that
the
American
sign
language
interpreter
could
interpret
we're
not
wearing
them
right
now
in
terms
of
the
big
changes
in
the
order.
What
are
the
highlights
for
folks
who
are
wondering
what
is
different
today?
You.
D
Know
the
the
this
order
does
begin,
some
gradual
easing
of
shelter-in-place
and
the
two
major
areas
for
that.
Our
construction,
us
all
construction
activities
allowed
to
resume
and
outdoor
businesses
and
those
areas
were
chosen
by
the
health
officers
with
respect
to
construction,
because
they're
very
detailed,
careful
safety
protocols
that
are
outlined,
one
set
for
large
construction
projects
and
another
set
for
small
construction
projects
and
that
industry
is
used
to
having
adherence
to
very
strict
and
significant
safety
standards.
Also,
many
of
those
activities
occur
outdoors
with
respect
to
outdoor
businesses.
D
It
is
believed
that
there
is
less
risk
in
that
context,
with
out
having
air
circulating
kind
of
a
closed
environment,
and
so
that
is
the
place
of
to
begin
some
easing
gradually.
They
are
closely
going
to
monitor
indicator,
so
one
of
the
announcements
was
that
there
would
be
five
indicators
that
they'll
be
looking
at
and
closely
tracking
as
things
progress.
But
those
are
the
two
main
categories
that
are
opening
up
on
Monday
and.
C
D
Oh,
so
there
is
some
opening
up
of
outdoor
recreational
activities.
We
all
know
the
weather
is
gorgeous,
and
this
is
beautiful
time
of
year,
outdoor
tennis
courts
will
be
opened,
but
only
for
play
with
folks
in
your
household
or
living
unit
and
I
know.
Another
question
has
come
up
related
to
golf
and
one
of
the
challenges
a
little
bit
has
been
the
interaction
between
the
local
orders
in
the
state
order
and
whichever
is
stricter
controls.
D
Is
correct
so,
through
this
weekend
the
existing
order
does
remain.
It
was
important
to
make
sure
that
there's
a
little
time
in
part,
so
that
facilities
can
actually
have
these
social
distancing
protocols
in
place
and
rigorously
adopted.
That's
why
there
needed
to
be
some
time
to
stand
that
up.
Another.
D
The
language
was
clarified
to
say
that
does
include
summer
programs
and
educational,
recreational
programs
for
those
children
and
there's
some
important
criteria,
one
of
the
most
important
of
which
is
that
it
has
to
be
with
a
stable
group
of
no
more
than
12
children
and
that's
really
important,
because
there's
still
a
lot
that
is
being
learned
about
out.
The
extent
to
which
children
can
be
vectors
for
the
spread
and
so
keeping
that
stable
group
of
12
ensures
that
if
there
is
a
Cova
infection
that
it's
not
spreading
to
many
many
many
cascading
sets
of
families.
D
C
D
You
know
we're
really
trying
to
learn
the
lessons
from
history
and
if
you
look
at
the
1918
pandemic,
which
is
I,
think
the
closest
analogy
that
we
have
to
this
unprecedented
situation
when
people
kind
of
declared
victory
prematurely
and
said
well,
we
only
need
face
coverings
and
nothing
else,
and
this
even
happened
in
San
Francisco
in
1918.
There
was
a
huge
second
spike
of
cases
and
that
a
huge
number
of
fatalities
and
other
illnesses.
D
The
other
thing
that
we're
learning
as
the
science
is
getting
better
and
better
about
what
this
disease
does
is
that
there
are
a
lot
of
other
risks
that
we're
learning
about,
including
to
younger
folks
who
otherwise
seem
healthy.
And
so
it's
really
important
that
we
remain
true
to
the
basic
principles
as
I
mentioned
at
the
beginning,
and
that
is
that
we
are
still
in
a
mode
of
shelter-in-place.
It's
difficult
for
all
of
our
families.
It's
difficult
for
my
kids
and
my
family
to.
D
But
this
is
the
tool
that
we
have
and
it's
been
extraordinarily
successful
and
we
don't
want
to
lose
that
progress
that
we
made
through
our
collective,
extraordinary
sacrifices
and-
and
so
that's
the
the
goal
and
together
we
can
achieve
it
and
together
we
will
continue
to
be
able
to
move
forward.
This
community
is
so
resilient,
so
outstanding.
We
have
great
leadership
from
dr.
C
Final
question
that
I
have
you
talked
about
the
indicators
and
in
a
way
they
provide
a
roadmap
for
moving
forward.
Just
briefly,
how
does
that
work?
Is
there
one
that's
more
important
than
another?
How
is
that
analyze
that
I
know
that
we're
going
to
provide
information
going
forward
about
each
one
of
them
in
our
progress,
but
how
does
that
work?
Yeah.
D
You
know
it's
it's
a
totality
right.
Each
of
these
things
represents
something
that's
important,
that
the
health
officers
in
the
bay
area
believed
was
a
critical
metric
to
look
at,
but
there
are
other
things
too.
So
it's
also
not
an
exclusive
set
of
things.
You
know,
like
I
mentioned,
the
science
continues
to
evolve,
but
these
are
some
core
things
that
we
know
we
need.
We
know
that
our
health
care
workers
and
other
first
responders
need
PPE.
We
know
that
we
need
to
make
keep
careful
track
of
hospitalizations.
We
know
that
we
need
robust
testing.
D
C
Thank
you
very
much
for
joining
us
today
and
there's
a
lot
more
information
on
our
website
about
the
order.
There's
a
FAQ
s
that
answer
many
of
the
questions
that
people
are
asking.
We
also
have
information
in
multiple
languages
and
feel
free
to
contact
us.
We
have
a
team
of
people
in
the
public
information
office
that
are
ready
to
respond
to
your
questions,
Santa
Clara
County.
Thank
you
for
your
sacrifice
for
all.
We
are
collectively
doing
stay
safe
out
there
and
thank
you
very
much
for
joining
us.
Thank
you.