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From YouTube: County of Santa Clara Public Health: COVID-19 Update with Dr. Sara Cody - April 15, 2020
Description
Dr. Sara Cody, M.D., Health Officer and Public Health Department Director for the County of Santa Clara, provides an update on the fight against COVID-19.
Recorded April 15, 2020.
The City of Cupertino would like to express 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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C
Evelyn
Howe
lead
public
information
officer
with
the
County
of
Santa
Clara
Emergency
Operations,
Center
I'm
wearing
a
face
covering
right
now,
but
I'm
going
to
remove
it.
So
it's
easier
for
everybody
to
hear
me,
and
especially
our
American
sign
language
interpreters.
Today
we
are
ensuring
social
distancing
in
our
Emergency
Operations
Center
and
wearing
the
face
coverings
that
we've
asked
you
all
to
to
wear
as
well,
but
will
remove
it
for
ease
of
speech.
For
today
this
morning,
I'm
joined
by
dr.
C
Sarah
Cody,
our
health
officer
and
public
health
director,
but
before
we
turn
to
her
I
wanted
to
provide
you
an
update
on
cases
in
the
county
of
Santa
Clara.
As
of
last
night,
at
5:00
p.m.
we
have
1793
confirmed
cases
of
kovat
19
in
Santa,
Clara,
County
and
65
deaths.
We
know
that
yesterday
there
was
a
system
issue
with
the
data
reporting,
so
the
data
dashboards
were
not
updated.
Yesterday,
they
will
be
updated
later
today
to
reflect
both
days.
Both
yesterday's
case
count
and
today's
case
count.
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The
case
count
that
I
provided
is
the
most
accurate
as
of
5:00
p.m.
yesterday.
Additionally,
our
laboratory
testing
dashboard
will
be
updated
as
well
later
today,
because
that
information
was
not
available.
Yesterday
also,
yesterday,
we
added
an
additional
dashboard
on
our
data
site
that
includes
the
number
of
confirmed,
kovat
cases
associated
with
long-term
care
facilities.
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We
have
a
particular
emphasis
in
effort
in
a
just
addressing
cases
and
potential
outbreaks
in
long-term
care
facilities
and
are
providing
that
data
to
you
on
a
daily
basis
of
the
total
number
of
cases
and
facilities
that
have
one
or
more
cases
associated
in
the
long-term
care
that
could
be
a
staff
or
a
resident
long-term
care
facilities
include
skilled
nursing
homes,
assisted
living,
independent
living
and
boarding
care
facilities.
So
we
hope
that
information
is
of
use
to
you
all
and
now
I
wanted
to
turn
over
turn
it
over
to
dr.
Cody.
C
D
You
for
the
question
in
California,
the
local
County
Public,
Health
Officer
has
the
authority
and
the
power
to
make
decisions
and
those
decisions
are
made
in
the
interest
of
the
public
to
protect
the
public's
health.
So,
for
example,
the
orders
that
we've
had
here
in
Santa
Clara
County,
starting
with
the
ban
on
mass
gatherings,
order
that
I
issued
on
March,
9th
and
culminating
in
the
shelter-in-place
order
that
I
issued
alongside
colleagues
around
the
Bay
Area
on
March
16th.
Those
are
Health
Officer
orders
and
they
are
to
to
protect
the
public
health.
C
D
We
know
that
our
shelter-in-place
order
here
in
Santa,
Clara,
County
and
across
the
region,
has
made
a
difference.
We
have
been
able
to
slow
the
spread
of
the
novel
coronavirus.
We've
been
able
to
not
only
prevent
infections
but
hospitalizations
and
deaths,
but
we
also
know
and
I
think
that
the
figures
that
Evelyn
just
shared
really
highlight
that
this
that
we
still
see
increases
in
our
case
counts
every
day.
We
see
increases
in
fatalities
every
day
and
we
are
by
no
means
out
of
the
woods.
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D
So
I
also
want
to
address
and
acknowledge
that
the
shelter-in-place
order
also
has
health
harms
right
sheltering
in
your
home,
not
being
able
to
work.
If
you
can't
work
from
home
children
not
being
able
to
attend
school,
all
of
those
things
have
an
impact
as
well.
So
what
we're
doing
and
what
we're?
Looking
at
is
we
evaluate
the
shelter
in
place.
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Order
is
looking
through
our
health
health
lens,
as
we
always
do
to
try
to
understand
what
are
the
bennett,
health
benefits
of
the
shelter
in
place
order
and
what
are
the
health
harms
of
the
shelter
in
place,
order
and
trying
to
navigate
as
we
go
forward?
What
the
best
route
is
to
overall
offer
the
best
protection
for
the
people
who
live
in
our
county
and
who
live
in
the
region.
Thank.
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So,
as
I've
said
many
times,
the
most
important
thing
that
each
of
us
needs
to
do
is
to,
to
the
greatest
extent
possible,
reduce
your
contact
with
other
individuals.
So,
of
course,
wherever
you
live,
you
have
contact
with
the
people
in
your
household.
That's
your
stable
group
as
much
as
possible,
try
to
stay
with
your
small,
stable
group
and
not
have
any
contact
that
you
don't
absolutely
need
to
have
with
others.
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There
are
a
number
of
people
that
we
don't
have
a
sighs
number,
but
a
number
of
people
with
the
infection
who
never
have
any
symptoms
at
all.
So
just
trying
to
determine
about
who's
infectious
and
who's,
not
based
on
their
symptoms,
misses
a
lot
of
people
either
because
their
symptoms
haven't
yet
developed
or
because
they're
simply
not
going
to
develop
symptoms
and
I.
D
Think
that
really
underscores
why,
while
the
reason
for
our
the
shelter-in-place
order
and
why
it's
necessary
and
why
it's
in
fact
effective,
because
it
reduces
the
chance
that
any
one
of
us
who
might
be
infected
passes
it
along
to
someone
else,
and
that
is
still
incredibly
important.
It's
important
now.
It
will
be
important
a
month
from
now
and
probably
longer
Thank.
C
You
for
reminding
us
of
the
importance
of
our
individual
actions
to
the
collective
good
of
protecting
lives
and
protecting
health
of
our
entire
community.
So
thank
you
for
joining
us
today
and
I
wanted
to
remind
everybody
that
the
health
officer
order
for
the
inventory
and
reporting
of
large
quantities
of
personal
protective
equipment.
The
deadline
for
that
is
today
at
11:59
p.m.
so
please
visit
our
website,
as
at
SCC
PhD
org,
slash,
CV,
19
PPE
to
find
those
minimum
reporting
requirements
and
to
report
on
that
online
survey.
There.
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The
reporting
form
is
available
in
multiple
languages
on
that
website
and
all
individuals,
entities
and
businesses
that
have
large
quantities
are
required
to
report
that
PPE.
That
information
allows
us
to
know
what
we
have
available
locally
within
our
community.
So
as
we
move
forward.
Unfortunately,
fortunately,
we
have
not
seen
yet
a
large
surge
on
our
Hospital
capacity,
but
as
we
prepare
for
that,
it
allows
us
to
know
what
PPE
might
exist
already
in
our
community.