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From YouTube: County of Santa Clara Public Health: New Order Related to Medical Grade PPE - April 8, 2020
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The County of Santa Clara is committed to maintaining the health of our entire population. Today, the County of Santa Clara Public Health Department is announcing a new order related to medical grade personal protective equipment (PPE), sanitizing supplies and ventilators and how the public can help us prepare for a potential surge.
Recorded April 8, 2020.
For more information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Cupertino, please visit https://www.cupertino.org/coronavirus
B
Good
morning
my
name
is
James
Williams
I'm,
the
County
Council
for
the
County
of
Santa
Clara.
Thank
you
for
joining
us.
We
do
have
an
important
announcement
today
regarding
the
efforts
that
the
county
is
taking
to
address
personal
protective
equipment
and
ventilator
inventories
and
assistance
that
we
are
asking
for
from
our
entire
community
in
that
endeavor
I'm,
going
to
be
turning
it
over
in
a
moment
to
dr.
Sarah
Cody.
Our
public
health
officer,
we'll
also
be
joined
this
morning
by
dr.
C
Thank
you
and
good
morning,
everyone,
it's
nice
to
see
everyone.
Thank
you
for
being
here:
I'm,
dr.
Sarah,
Cody
health
officer
for
the
county
of
Santa
Clara.
So,
first
just
a
quick
update
as
a
five
o'clock.
Yesterday,
our
County
had
recorded
one
thousand
three
hundred
and
eighty
confirmed
cases
of
Cove
in
nineteen
and
forty
six
deaths,
while
I'd
like
to
say
that
we
won't
have
any
further
cases
or
deaths
to
report.
We
know
that's
not
the
case.
C
We
know
the
virus
is
widespread
in
our
community
and
that
we
will
continue
to
see
more
cases,
hospitalizations
and
deaths
in
the
days
weeks
and
months
to
come,
but
before
I
announce
today's
new
order.
I
do
want
to
share
that
some
signs
that
our
collective
action
to
shelter
in
place
has
been
protective,
has
slowed
the
spread
and
has
enabled
our
health
care
facilities
to
prepare
and
likely
has
prevented
deaths.
C
However,
we
must
continue
to
prepare
and
we
must
continue
to
do
everything
in
our
power
to
prevent
additional
hospitalizations
and
deaths
and
to
protect
our
community,
so
today,
I'm
announcing
a
new
order.
This
order
asks
all
businesses
and
individuals
to
report
on
a
one-time
basis,
inventories
of
personal
protective
equipment
and
ventilators
we're
only
asking
individuals
and
businesses
to
report
if
they
have
above
a
minimum
amount
and
we'll
go
into
more
detail
about
that.
C
So
the
intent
of
this
order
is
to
ensure
that
we
have
comprehensive
collective
information
about
what
PPE
resources
exist
across
our
community.
We
know
we
need
PPE
to
protect
healthcare
workers
first
responders
and
other
medical
staff,
so
they
can
continue
to
deliver
critical
health
care
services
to
everyone
in
our
community.
Thank
you.
B
So
I'm
going
to
take
a
quick
minute
to
describe
a
little
bit
about
what
the
order
does.
What
it's
asking
for
from
our
community
first
I
want
to
emphasize
that
this
only
applies
to
PPE
and
ventilators
above
minimum
quantity
and
that's
laid
out
in
the
order
itself,
but
we're
asking
all
entities
and
individuals
in
our
community.
You
have
inventories
above
these
amounts
to
fill
out
a
form
on
the
website.
It's
available
in
multiple
languages.
We've
tried
to
make
it
as
simple
and
easy
as
possible
for
people
to
do
so.
B
Sanitizer.
Those
are
the
kinds
of
quantities
that,
where
we're
asking
people,
of
course,
you
have
less
than
those
quantities.
There
is
no
reporting
requirement.
What
we
are
trying
to
seek
is
information
on
significant
inventories
of
PPE.
In
addition,
we're
asking
people
who
may
happen
to
have
powered
air
purifying,
respirator
hoods,
controlled
air,
purifying,
respirators
and
related
systems
in
much
smaller
quantities,
and
those
are
relatively
rare
for
people
to
have,
but
people
do
have
those
or
if
people
have
any
supplies
of
ventilators
that
they
also
report
those.
B
Many
of
them
are
not
being
used
right
now
and
getting
this
awareness
will
help
us
know
what
supply
we
can
source
here
locally,
so
that
we're
not
as
reliant
on
scarce
state
and
federal
supplies,
and
so
that
we
can
do
what
we
need
to
as
a
community.
But
again
the
reporting
requirement
is
only
for
those
amounts
in
excess
of
the
minimum
thresholds.
B
So
it
will
be
only
used
by
the
county
for
public
health
purposes.
This
will
not
be
public
information,
people's
proprietary
information
on
what
supplies
that
they
have.
That
will
remain
confidential
again.
People
will
can
provide
this
by
going
to
our
website,
which
is
the
public
health
web
site,
SCC
PhD
org,
slash,
CV,
19
PPE,
and
the
survey
is
available
in
multiple
languages.
It's
not
just
in
English,
but
also
in
Spanish
Vietnamese
Chinese.
B
D
We
are
preparing
for
a
possible
scenario
in
which
we
might
need
more
PPE
than
is
currently
available
for
those
who
are
providing
care
to
patients
affected
by
covin
I'd
like
to
emphasize
that.
Currently,
our
hospitals
have
supplies
to
continue
caring
for
those
patients
and
we
continue
to
receive
supplies
to
fulfill
requests
for
support
from
various
health
care
providers.
D
A
primary
goal
at
this
time
is
awareness
awareness
on
our
side
to
know
what
exists
locally
and
awareness
within
the
community
who,
by
people
and
in
business
entities
you
might
have
items
of
use
and
who
might
not
even
realize
that
those
items
could
be
of
use
in
health
care
settings.
We
would
also
encourage
conservation
of
these
items
and
the
use
of
alternatives,
if
feasible,
so
that
we
can
conserve
these
important
personal
protective
equipment
items
for
those
taking
care
of
patients
with
kovat
19.
D
For
those
who
wish
to
consider
a
donation
of
items,
we
would
direct
you
to
the
VMC
foundation
website.
The
VMC
foundation
is
collecting
donations
for
entities
across
our
county,
including
each
hospital
in
our
county.
When
the
need
arises.
I
would
note
that
some,
if
you
offer
a
donation,
there
might
be
some
time
required
to
receive
a
response,
because
we
are
prioritizing
first,
those
items
that
are
in
greatest
need
and
those
where
the
quantities
are
the
highest.
D
E
Thank
you
and
good
morning,
my
name
is
Mike
Wasserman
Santa,
Clara,
County
district
1
supervisor.
The
county
is
anticipating
a
shortage
of
PPE
and
ventilators
PPE
personal
protective
equipment
and
ventilators.
Once
again,
dr.
cody
and
the
entire
team
is
trying
to
stay
ahead
of
the
ball,
get
ahead
of
things.
Their
anticipation
is
that
we
likely
will
find
a
shortage
of
personal
protective
equipment
and
ventilators
going
forward
at
the
rate
we
are
without
other
supplies.
Coming
in,
we
are
planning
for
the
worst.
We
are
hoping
for.
E
The
best
I
want
to
express
my
strong
support
for
the
actions
of
public
health
officer
is
taking
today
to
protect
frontline
workers
and
patients.
The
order
is
about
protecting
the
people
who
protect
us,
we're
sheltered
at
home.
These
people
are
out
there
on
the
front
lines
protecting
people
who
are
infected.
We
need
to
protect
the
protectors.
We
have
a
shortage
of
critical
PPE
that
is
needed
to
safeguard
our
health
care
professionals
to
allow
them
to
provide
quality
care.
Everyone,
government,
the
public,
businesses,
large
and
small,
all
play
a
role
in
addressing
this
challenge.
E
E
Again,
we've
been
thinking
about
the
victims
and
we
need
to
we've
been
thinking
about
the
people
who
will
get
infected
and
we
need
to.
But
while
all
this
is
going
on,
those
first
responders
are
out
there.
They
have
left
their
families
to
be
out
there
to
protect
those
most
in
need.
Santa
Clara
County
was
one
of
the
first
in
the
nation
to
have
a
confirmed
case
of
kovat
19.
Our
healthcare
workers
and
first
responders
have
been
battling
this
crisis
for
more
than
two
months
now.
We
owe
them
a
debt
of
gratitude.
E
We
owe
them
the
equipment
needed
to
work
safely
to
protect
us.
This
order
is
another
opportunity
for
the
business
community,
the
public
and
the
county
to
come
together.
We've
done
a
tremendous
job
of
this.
So
far,
please
fill
out
the
PPE
survey
that
you
heard
about,
and
let
us
know
what
supplies
you
have
so
we
can
plan
ahead.
We
need
to
know
if
we
have
a
lot
of
something
or
a
shortage
of
something,
and
we
need
to
know
where
those
some
things
are
so
that
we
are
prepared
when
the
need
comes
to
address
them
appropriately.
E
F
Good
morning,
thank
you
very
much:
Vice
President
lost
men.
My
name
is
David
Campos
I'm,
a
deputy
County
Executive
and
along
with
Evelyn
Howe
I'm,
serving
as
co-lead
public
information
officer
for
the
Emergency
Operations
Center
we'll
take
questions,
but
before
we
do
that,
I
want
to
note
a
couple
of
things.
First
of
all,
we
have
multilingual
speakers
ready
to
be
interviewed
with
different
languages
to
make
sure
that
our
communities
are
monolingual.
F
C
So,
with
regards
to
masks,
I
have
not
issued
any
orders
mandating
masks,
however,
across
the
state
and
in
many
places
across
the
country.
We
now
understand
that
covering
your
face
is
one
very
important
layer
of
protection,
but
in
addition
to
hand-washing
keeping
areas
clean
and
maintaining
a
distance
but
I
want
to
say
the
masks,
including
the
many
masks
that
people
are
making
that's
to
prevent
the
wearer
from
inadvertently
spreading,
particularly
if
there's
someone
who
doesn't
have
symptoms
or
has
mild
symptoms.
G
F
C
Our
shelter-in-place
order
and
the
collective
actions
that
that
everyone
living
in
our
community
has
taken.
We
know
that
it
has
slowed
the
spread,
it
has
flattened
our
curve
locally,
and
so
we
know
that
we've
lengthened
the
doubling
time.
The
number
of
days
in
which
our
cases
double
has
gone
from
around
three
days
before
the
order
to
probably
two
weeks
or
maybe
even
a
little
bit
longer.
So
that's
the
good
news.
G
G
C
We
know
that
the
timing
of
the
action
is
incredibly
important,
and
so,
when
you
act
early,
just
as
the
curve
is
taking
off,
you
can
prevent
you
can
slow
things
down
and
and
that's
what
we
did.
We
also
know
that.
So,
if
you
take
action
early,
you
can
prevent
cases.
Early
action
is
also
extraordinarily
disruptive,
as
we've
experienced,
both
socially
and
economically.
But
if
you
wait
and
take
action
later,
you
get
the
same.
D
So
the
question
was:
if
we
can
quantify
the
need,
including
how
many
items
of
PPE
we
are
going
through
per
day
or
a
burn
rate.
I
wish
I
had
an
easy
answer
for
that.
It's
it's
complicated
because
it
not
only
depends
on
evolving
approaches
to
how
PPE
is
used,
for
example,
when
patients
with
Kovan
19
are
cared
for
together
in
a
in
a
specific
unit
of
a
hospital.
D
For
example,
some
of
the
items
of
PPE
can
be
reused
as
healthcare
workers
go
about
their
day
during
their
shift,
and
so,
even
as
we
think
we
might
have
adequate
numbers
to
predict
need
the
evolutions
such
as
cohorting
patients
together
in
units
within
a
hospital,
can
change
that
the
need
the
prediction
of
need
also
changes
with
the
volume
of
patients
and
it's
particularly
the
volume
of
hospitalized
patients.
So
what
I
can
say
is
that
for
each
patient
who
is
hospitalized,
we
know
that
there
are
multiple
items
of
PPE
consumed
per
day.
D
Multiple
pairs
of
gloves,
multiple
and
95
masks.
Multiple
gowns
care
teams
are
also
changing.
So
in
traditional
medicine,
a
patient
is
cared
for
by
maybe
20
different
individuals
entering
the
room,
and
so
some
of
our
models
of
usage
have
been
based
on
that,
but
as
our
patient
volume
and
patient
characteristics
change,
some
of
those
care
teams
are
also
changing.
D
Limiting
the
number
of
people
who
are
essential
for
going
into
the
room
performing
work
for
patient
care
in
team-based
care,
where
you
might
have
ICU
nurses
and
non
ICU
nurses
working
together
to
care
for
a
range
of
patients,
and
so
taking
all
those
things
into
consideration.
We
are
estimating
our
need
those
those
projections
evolve,
as
the
situation
evolves.
G
D
The
initial
intention
was
for
those
who
have
been
hospitalized,
but
we
have
expanded
that
to
those
who
have
tested
positive
in
the
community
and
need
a
safe
place
where
they're
not
exposing
others
and
where
they
can
receive
some
medical
care
from
the
physicians,
nurses
and
EMTs
paramedics
who
are
on-site,
we
had
been
fortunate
that
we
were
able
to
open
the
facility
before
we
had
a
high
level
of
surge.
So
it's
given
us
an
opportunity
to
outline
the
process.
D
Workflow
is
there
to
best
keep
the
staff
and
the
patients
well
cared
for,
and
so
we
are
nowhere
near
capacity
right
now.
We
certainly
still
have
capacity,
and
we
don't
expect
to
be
at
full
capacity
by
next
week,
which
is
actually
very
fortunate
for
us
to
continue
preparing
for
a
time
of
increased
patient
need.
G
B
Thank
you,
David
I
just
wanted
to
emphasize
again,
because
we
need
people
to
actually
go
and
take
stock
and
look
at
this
go
to
the
website.
Scc
PhD
org,
slash
CV,
19
PPE.
That
website
lists
the
minimum
quantities
again.
Most
people
will
not
have
amounts
above
the
minimum
quantities
and
we've
got
some
of
those
amounts
listed
here,
but
this
is
only
some
of
the
categories.
If
you
have
significant
inventories
of
PPE
or
if
you
have
any
ventilators,
you
need
to
fill
out
that
form.
It's
a
simple
form.
It's
available
in
multiple
languages.
B
We
tried
to
make
it
like
I,
said
simple,
but
you
do
need
to
fill
out
that
form
we'd
like
you
to
fill
it
out
as
soon
as
possible,
but
no
later
than
April
15th.
So
again,
everyone
should
think
about
how
much
PPE
they
have
think
about
whether
they
have
any
ventilators
if
they
have
any
ventilators
or
if
they
have
any
significant
stocks
of
PPE
go
to
the
website
fill
out
the
form
and
that
will
make
a
huge
difference.
We
also
have
information
there
as
mentioned
earlier,
about
how
to
donate.