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County officials discuss the action earlier today by California Department of Public Health to permit the County to move forward with its planned July 13 Health Order. The action also addresses recent questions about outdoor dining. Full Transcripts: https://pastebin.com/Fm99k4V1
Recorded July 7, 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,
everyone,
my
name,
is
David
Campos
I'm,
the
co-lead
public
information
officer
for
the
county
of
Santa,
Clara's
Emergency,
Operations
Center.
Thank
you
for
making
yourselves
available
for
this
press
availability.
I
know
that
it
was
last-minute
notice,
so
we
are
gonna
be
hearing
today
from
first
our
public
health
officer,
dr.
Sarah
Cody,
then
that
will
be
followed
by
our
county
executive,
dr.
Jeff,
Smith
and
then
wrapping
it
up
will
be
the
president
of
the
Board
of
Supervisors
president
sandy
Chavez.
C
D
Thank
you
again,
I'm
dr.
Sarah
Cody.
Thank
you
for
being
here.
This
is
just
a
brief
announcement
to
make
sure
that
we
all
have
a
shared
understanding
and
are
on
the
same
page.
So
last
night
we
submitted
our
revised
variants
to
the
California
Department
of
Public
Health,
and
it
was
approved
and
has
now
posted
on
the
website.
We
work
closely
with
a
California
Department
of
Public
Health
over
the
weekend
to
ensure
that
we
met
the
metrics
and
met
the
criteria
and
ultimately,
we
were
approved.
D
What
this
enables
us
to
do
here
in
our
county
is
to
have
flexibility
so
that
we
can
apply
our
new
Risk
Reduction
Health
Officer
Order,
with
some
flexibility.
So,
for
example,
we
want
to
continue
to
enable
outdoor
dining
and
with
this
variance
we
can
continue
to
allow
outdoor
dining
as
well
as
some
other
sectors
and
activities
we
can
enable
them
to
come
online.
They
would
not
have
been
able
to
come
online
without
the
variance
I
want
to
just
talk
a
little
bit
about
this.
D
New
order
talked
about
it
in
previous
days,
but
I
want
to
state
again
the
purpose
behind
the
order,
and
that
is
to
shift
our
thinking
to
Risk
Reduction
thinking.
We
know
that
this
pandemic
has
been
with
us
for
a
while.
We
know
this
pandemic
is
going
to
be
with
us
for
a
while
longer
and
at
the
end
of
the
day.
Mother
nature
is
in
charge
and
we
must
adapt
so
the
core
principles
that
underlie
our
Risk
Reduction
order
are
the
following
one
outdoors
far
safer
than
indoors.
D
D
D
The
last
thing
that
I
want
to
say
is
that,
throughout
this
pandemic,
the
environment
has
been
changing
rapidly
around
us.
I
can't
think
of
a
time
when
it's
felt
like
we
finally
figured
it
out
in
its
stable
and
this
week
and
today
are
no
different.
What
we're
seeing
now
is
that
our
cases
are
rising
they're,
rising
more
dramatically
than
they
have
even
last
week.
D
Over
the
weekend,
for
example,
we
had
somewhere
in
the
neighborhood
of
450
new
cases,
reported
in
a
two
day
period,
so
this
new
order
does
not
mean
that
we're
open,
let's
get
back
to
our
lives.
What
this
new
order
means
is
we
need
to
do
our
lives
differently.
We
need
to
conduct
ourselves
differently.
We
can't
we
know
that
we
can't
be
100%
in
our
homes,
sheltered
all
the
time,
but
when
we
go
out
to
engage
in
business
or
to
engage
activity,
we
must
do
it
differently.
D
If
we
don't
do
it
differently,
our
cases
will
continue
to
accelerate
and
we
will
be
in
big
trouble.
So
we
are
trying
to
change
behavior
right
here
right
now
and
bend
our
curve
down
again,
and
this
new
risk
reduction
order
is
going
to
give
very
specific
guidelines
on
exactly
how
to
do
that
and
they're
all
based
on
those
principles
that
I
discussed
thanks
and
I'm
going
to
turn
it
over.
E
Hello,
I'm
Jeff
Smith
I'm,
the
county
executive
of
the
County
of
Santa
Clara
I,
wanted
to
emphasize
a
few
points
that
dr.
Cody
was
making
applying
for
a
variance
and
grant
and
getting
a
variance
granted
does
not
mean
that
the
virus
is
doing
better
or
the
disease
is
doing
better.
As
a
matter
of
fact,
it's
doing
much
worse.
E
Over
the
last
few
months,
it's
become
pretty
obvious
that
the
real
problem
with
the
transmission
of
this
disease
has
to
do
with
gatherings
large
gatherings
that
have
happened,
a
Memorial,
Day
and
other
time
periods.
We
just
had
a
lot
of
large
gatherings
over
this
last
weekend.
That's
the
problem
that
we're
trying
to
resolve
with
personal
responsibility.
Obviously,
closing
a
restaurant
doesn't
stop
somebody
from
having
a
large
gathering
at
their
home
and
the
virus
has
passed
through
those
large
gatherings.
E
So
no
one
should
get
the
idea
that
we're
moving
in
a
positive
direction
with
the
disease
we're
going
in
a
negative
direction,
but
there's
the
recognition
by
dr.
Cody
that
we
need
to
take
a
different
perspective.
Rather
than
focusing
on
business
sectors.
We
need
to
focus
on
personal
responsibility,
so
stay
distance
stay
outside
wash
your
hands,
don't
contact
people
that
you
don't
have
to
make
sure
if
you're
sick
you
stay
inside
and
isolate
yourself.
F
F
One
of
the
things
that
I
realized
is
that
this
was
another
opportunity
for
us
to
have
a
conversation
about
this
new
direction,
and
one
of
the
points
I
want
to
make
is
that,
as
a
reminder,
all
of
the
businesses
in
our
community
that
are
allowed
to
be
opened
need
to
submit
their
social
distancing
protocols
to
covin
19
prepared
org
before
Monday
the
July
13th.
That
is
really
important
because,
as
dr.
F
Smith
said,
while
we're
very
interested
in
people
taking
personal
responsibility
for
themselves
and
the
health
of
their
families,
we're
also
interested
in
making
sure
that
businesses
and
other
places
that
people
are
going
to
be
going
understand
what
the
rules
of
the
road
are
in
terms
of
creating
a
much
safer
community.
I
also
wanted
to
say
thank
you
to
the
governor
at
a
statewide
level.
This
has
been
an
incredibly
challenging
issue
to
be
able
to
manage
kovat
19
and
at
a
local
level.
I'm.
Very
sorry,
for
the
confusion,
this
is
all
caused.
F
I
just
want
to
say
that
this
is
our
first
pandemic.
I
hope
we
don't
have
another
one,
but
we
are
learning
while
we're
going.
You
all
are
very
helpful
to
us
because
you're
creating
opportunities
for
us
to
have
communication
with
the
public,
and
we
just
want
to
say
thank
you
for
that,
and
let
me
just
close
with
this
last
thought:
what
risk
reduction
means
is
that
all
of
us
are
responsible
for
our
health,
the
health
of
our
families
and
even
the
health
of
our
community.
F
When
we
wear
masks,
they
don't
protect
us,
they
protect
others,
and
the
kind
of
County
I
want
to
live
in
is
one
where
everybody
in
our
community
knows
that
they
have
an
obligation
to
protect
themselves,
their
families,
but
we
also
recognize
that
we're
part
of
a
community.
So
please
wear
your
masks.
Wash
your
hands
often
try
not
to
touch
your
face
and
I
just
want
to
emphasize
the
last
thing
that
dr.
Cody
said
is
we
need
to
limit
the
amount
of
interactions
we
have
with
other
people
limit
it
not
eliminate
it
but
limit
it.
F
C
G
C
D
So
to
your
question
regarding
masks,
two
things
one
is:
there
is
a
statewide
order
for
face
coverings,
so
that
applies
across
the
state,
including
in
our
county
number.
Two
is
our
orders
do
require
face
coverings
within
the
protocol,
so,
for
example,
if
you're
inside
in
a
business
part
of
the
social
distancing
protocol
requires
that
business
to
ensure
that
everyone
inside
the
business
is
wearing
a
face
covering.
D
So
that's
already,
it's
already
there,
it's
already
in
the
law
as
to
how
it
is
enforced,
how
frequently
and
how
easily
that's,
of
course,
more
challenging
and
which
brings
me
to
the
really
important
point,
but
this
is
about
every
single
person
in
this
community,
taking
every
single
opportunity
to
prevent
the
spread
of
Kovan
every
single
time.
You
limit
the
number
of
interactions
you
have
with
other
people.
You
keep
a
distance,
you
wear
a
face
covering
super-important.
D
Every
single
one
of
us
needs
to
think
about
this
every
single
day
with
every
single
interaction,
and
that
is
the
only
way
we
are
going
to
keep
each
other
safe.
That
is
the
only
way
we
are
going
to
keep
head
room
to
do
really
important
things
like
get
kids
back
to
school.
That
is
the
only
way
we're
gonna
get
through
this
long
haul
and
it
is
gonna,
be
a
long
haul.
Thank
you.
G
D
Have
more
cases
reported
every
day
right
now
in
early
July,
then
we
had
at
anytime
in
April
when
our
cases
were
accelerating.
The
difference,
however,
is
that
we're
much
better
prepared?
We
have
vastly
vastly
more
testing
so
much
greater
ability
to
find
people
who
are
infected.
We
have
a
vastly
improved
infrastructure
to
do
case,
investigation
and
contact
tracing
and
help.
People
know
that
they're
infectious
and
safely
isolated
in
their
homes,
our
our
Hospital
and
health
care
system,
is
also
much
better
prepared,
but
I,
that's
a
very
important
point.
D
We
do
not
want
to
have
to
use
the
capacity
that
we've
built
in
our
healthcare
system.
We
want
to
prevent
infections,
that's
that's
the
the
ultimate
goal,
so
we're
better
prepared
in
our
healthcare
system,
but
we
really
don't
want
to
have
to
use
it.
We
want
to
keep
them
open
so
that
anybody
else
with
any
other
kind
of
a
health
concern
that
requires
hospital
level
care
can
feel
completely
comfortable
going
into
the
hospital
receiving
care.
We
want
to
that's
the
way
it
is
now
and
that's
how
how
we
would
like
to
keep
it.
C
G
C
To
simply
say
that
I
think
that
that
would
communications
over
the
weekend
and
you
know
we're
not
going
to
speculate.
We
have
had
ongoing
conversations
with
the
state
and
we're
grateful.
That's
President
Chavez
noted
to
the
governor
in
the
state
for
working
with
us
to
get
us
to
this
point.
Thank
you
very
much
and
again
we'll
be
available
for
monolingual
interviews.
Thank
you.