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Santa Clara County Public Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody provides update on COVID-19 in Santa Clara County.
Recorded August 5, 2020.
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Today
we
are
going
to
have
a
briefing
from
the
santa
clara
county
public
health
officer,
dr
sarah
cody,
who
will
be
making
some
brief
statements
and
then
we
will
be
happy
to
take
questions
into
the
spanish
language
media.
We
will
be
available
to
answer
questions
after
the
main
press
conference.
So
with
that,
let
me
introduce
dr
sarah.
C
C
Good
morning,
everyone
it's
a
good
to
be
with
you
good,
to
be
back
here.
Thank
you
for
standing
as
far
back
as
you
are,
because
I
do
have
my
mask
off.
I
haven't
seen
you
all
in
a
while,
and
I
just
wanted
to
give
you
an
all,
an
update
as
to
where
we
are
with
coven
19
here
in
in
our
county,
and
we've
brought
some
pictures
to
try
to
make
a
point.
C
D
C
C
In
early
june,
we
began
gradually
easing
restrictions
and
reopening,
as
did
other
counties
around
us,
and
what
we
saw
was
first,
a
gradual
increase
that
really
began
to
accelerate
in
late
june
and
right
up
here
through
mid-july.
So
I
want
to
tell
you
a
little
bit
about
this
acceleration
as
well
as
what
this
red
part
means.
C
So
here,
when
we
opened,
I
think
it
was
not
just
that
more
people
were
out
and
about
in
businesses
that
we'd
reopened,
but
I
think
that
people
got
a
sense
that,
because
things
were
open,
that
it
was
safe
right,
but
the
truth
is
that
coven
19
is
still
circulating
widely
in
our
community
and
circulating
silently
person
to
person
to
person.
Until
then,
it
shows
up
in
someone
who
becomes
very
sick
and
lands
in
the
hospital.
C
So
I
think
that's
probably
what
what
was
happening
as
far
as
who
are
these
folks
who's,
who
is
more
likely
to
be
getting
infected
than
others
we're
seeing
a
couple
of
trends
here.
They
are
also
seen
in
other
areas,
and
that
is
one
people
who
are
younger
under
the
age
of
35
rates
are
increasing
much
faster
in
that
group.
Similarly,
rates
are
increasing
much
faster
among
the
latin
x
community.
That's
true
in
our
county
and
it's
true
in
surrounding
counties
as
well.
C
Here
you
can
see
in
mid-july.
You
know
it
looks
like.
Oh.
Maybe
things
are
getting
better,
maybe
miraculously
something
happened,
but
the
truth
is
in
this
red
area.
We
just
don't
know
because
the
state
cal
ready
system,
all
of
the
laboratory
reports,
go
into
a
state
system
and
then
are
reported
to
each
county
they're
having
some
technical
issues,
they've
gone
back,
maybe
as
far
as
mid-july,
and
so
this
we
just
don't
know.
We
don't
know
if
our
cases
are
rising,
plateauing
or
decreasing,
and
so
we
are
very
anxious
for
this
issue
to
get
resolved.
C
C
This
is
a
shorter
time
period.
This
is
just
the
beginning
of
july
until
now,
and
what
you
can
see
is
that
in
the
first
few
weeks
of
july
the
hospitalizations
were
increasing
and
then
in
the
last
week,
or
so
they
have
plateaued
so
they've
kind
of
stabilized
the
last
report
we
had
169
people
with
coven
19
in
the
hospital.
Those
are
the
blue
bars
in
the
red
bars
sort
of
superimposed.
On
top
those
numbers
represent
new
patients
with
coven
19
hospitalized.
On
each
day.
C
C
C
There's
a
lot
that
we
don't
know
about
the
virus,
but
there's
a
lot
that
we
do
know
and
one
of
the
most
important
things
that
we
can
do
is
to
always
wear
a
face
covering
if
you
walk
outside
of
your
home,
without
your
face
covering
on
it,
should
feel
weird
you,
it
shouldn't
feel
right.
It
should
feel
like
being
in
a
car
without
a
seat
belt.
You
must
wear
your
face
coverings,
anytime,
you're,
outside
your
home
number,
two,
whenever
possible,
outside
is
better
than
inside.
C
We
know
that
this
virus
is
spread
both
by
droplets,
as
well
as
aerosols,
when
you're
outside
you're
much
safer.
The
people
around
you
are
much
safer.
So
if
you
combine
wearing
a
face
covering
with
being
outside
with
keeping
a
distance,
then
you
will
keep
those
around
you,
safe
and
and
the
people
that
you're
with
will
keep
you
safe.
C
The
second
thing
I
wanted
to
emphasize
this
is
a
very
human
human
reaction.
We
all
feel
a
bit
safer
with
people
that
we
know
we
feel
safer
with
our
family.
We
feel
safer
with
our
friend,
but
coven
19
doesn't
really
care
and
so
you're
not
actually
safer.
Just
because
you
were
the
family
member
or
just
because
you
were
a
friend
and-
and
you
have
a
very,
we
all
have
a
very
human,
a
tendency
to
move
physically
closer
to
people
that
we're
comfortable
with,
but
that's
how
kovid
spreads
from
person
to
person.
C
C
How
inconvenient
that
is
for
you
right!
So,
just
as
we
had
back
in
february
and
march,
when
we
didn't
have
enough
testing,
we
felt
blind.
I
would
say
that
right
now,
we're
back
to
feeling
blind.
We
don't
know
how
the
epidemic
is
trending,
so
it's
not
just
inconvenient,
but
this
lack
of
data
doesn't
allow
us
to
know
where
the
epidemic
is
heading.
How
fast
it's
growing
or
not.
C
The
problem
seems
to
be
with
the
the
sort
of
juncture
between
electronic
laboratory
reports
coming
in
and
and
the
routing
they're
not
getting
routed
the
way
they
need
to
be
into
the
cal
ready
system.
Apparently,
the
state
is
still
working
on
a
diagnosis.
The
diagnosis
is
not
yet
clear
and
that's
about
all.
I
know
I
will
say
that
our
county
has
offered
to
help
in
any
way
that
we
can,
and
so
we're
actually
looking
to
see
whether
we
have
some
expertise
here
that
we
might
lend.
E
C
I
don't
have
any
particular
updates
on
costco,
but
what
I
will
say
is
that
we
have
a
team
within
our
special
investigations
group
that
investigates
work
sites,
and
I
want
to
highlight
a
couple
of
things
that
are
important
and
that
is
in
many
cases
a
large
work
site,
such
as
a
costco
you're,
inevitably
going
to
see
cases
because
the
people
that
work
at
the
costco
live
in
the
community
where
covet
is
circulating.
C
So
the
fact
that
a
large
company
like
costco
has
cases
may
mean
only
that
they're
large
and
probability
alone
would
dictate
that
they're
going
to
have
workers
with
cases
or
it
may
indicate
that
there's
a
spread
in
the
workplace.
So
that's
a
really
important
distinction
to
know,
and
I
don't
have
any
particular
updates
on
the
costco
situation.
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C
We
also,
of
course,
need
to
stay
with,
with
your
help,
increasing
education
with
everyone,
it's
to
keep
up
the
work
that
everyone
has
already
done
and
to
to
assist
everyone
in
shifting
their
mindset
to
a
long
game
right.
We
have
to
be
changing
our
behavior
for
a
very,
very
long
time.
If
we
see
that
the
cases
are
rising
and
they're
rising
fast,
then
we
may
need
to
put
more
stricter
controls
into
place,
as
we
did
back
in
march
to
really
turn
it.
F
There
are
some
about
testing
and
the
time
does
take
for
some
of
the
results
to
come
back.
More
specifically
we're
hearing
from
folks
some
of
the
barely
sites,
they're
not
getting
results
for
two
weeks
at
a
time,
but
you
can
provide
your
thoughts
on
that
any
concerns
there
and
secondly,
as
we're
seeing
more
people
out
and
about
and
cases
jump
among
some
of
our
more
vulnerable
communities.
C
Home
so
as
far
as
testing,
we
too
are
hearing
and
documenting
that
there
are
lengthening
turnaround
times.
The
turnaround
times
varies
quite
dramatically
by
lab.
Some
labs
are
still
getting
a
turnaround
time
of
24
to
48
hours
and
some
are
taking
well
over
a
week.
So
there's
a
lot
of
variation
and,
as
everyone
knows,
a
turnaround
time
of
a
week
or
more
doesn't
really
help
the
person
being
tested
because
they
don't
know
their
status
and
at
that
point
our
ability
to
make
a
difference
with
case
investigation
and
contact
tracing
has
really
evaporated.
C
C
There
is
not
a
particular
way,
of
course,
to
enforce
mask
wearing
inside
someone's
home,
but
if
there
is
a,
for
example,
a
family
or
a
multi-generational
household,
anything
that
that
household
can
do
to
protect
the
more
vulnerable
members,
either
a
separate
room
or
mask
wearing
by
members
of
the
family,
for
example,
that
might
be
out
of
the
house
more
work,
doing
essential
work.
That
would
add
protection
for
vulnerable
family.
D
Back
members
hi
dr
cody
asking
for
my
colleague,
kenny
choi
who's
looking
in
remotely
today,
two
days
ago,
new
waiver
guidelines
released
by
the
state
three
weeks
ago.
You
strongly
encourage
elementary
schools
to
look
into
this
process.
What's
the
message
now
to
schools
that
are
interested?
What's
the
update
on
how
many
have
initiated
the
process,
how
many
schools,
private
versus
the
public.
C
As
you
may
know,
the
data
regarding
coveted
transmission
in
children
is
still
a
little
bit
on
the
scant
side.
There
were
a
number
of
early
studies
that
were
suggesting
that
children
were
more
less
likely
to
spread
to
each
other
and
less
likely
to
spread
to
adults,
and
that
was
the
reason
why
the
state
put
this
waiver
process
into
effect.
Subsequently,
there's
been
a
few
other
studies,
small
that
suggests
that
maybe
children
spread
more
than
the
earlier
studies
suggested,
and
so
we
are
still
encouraging
elementary
schools.
C
That
can
can
that
can
put
safeguards
into
place
to
look
into
the
waiver
process
and
we
are
actively
working
with
them.
I
don't
have
an
exact
number
on
the
number
of
applications,
but
it
certainly
skews
heavily
towards
private
schools.
There's
not
that
many
public
schools
that
have
applied
and
expressed
interest
in
a
waiver.
At
this
point,
I
I
want
to
make
one
more
point
about
schools
and
about
this
epidemic
curve.
The
best
way
that
that
we
as
a
community
can
get
our
children
back
into
school
for
in-person
learning
is
to
crush
the
curve
again.
C
That
is
the
best
way
that
we
can
get
our
kids
back
to
school,
because
when
there's
widespread
transmission
in
the
community
teachers
don't
feel
safe,
parents
don't
feel
safe
staff,
don't
feel
safe
and
whether
there
is
safe
or
isn't
safe.
It
matters
a
lot
about
how
the
community
feels
and
when
we're
back
as
we
were
in
may,
with
very
very
low
case,
counts
and
we'd
really
suppress
the
transmission
people
felt
safer.
It
was
safer
and
that's
the
way
we
can
get
our
kids
back
to
school
and
that's
what
we
want
to
do.