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COVID-19 Briefing for the City of Watertown, SD - 04-20-2020
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B
C
Good
afternoon
today
is
April
20th
2020
in
our
state.
We
are
up
to
1685
cases.
We
still
have
seven
deaths,
connington
County
remains
at
13,
total
cases
and
now
12
have
recovered.
The
state
is
posting
the
number
of
negative
cases
as
well.
We
have
372
negative
cases
in
Coddington
County,
which
is
three
point.
Three
eight
percent
of
our
cases
are
testing
out
is
positive.
That's
not
very
many.
C
This
stays
a
little
bit
higher
at
13
point
6,
7
percent
of
the
cases
testing
out
as
positive
I've,
been
receiving
feedback
on
the
emergency
resolution
and
ordinance
that
the
city
passed
back
in
March
and
I've
gotten
input
on
both
directions
from
people.
Thinking
that
we
should
have
closed
down
more
businesses
to
people
thinking
we
shouldn't,
have
closed
businesses
down
and,
of
course,
there's
a
a
very
good
argument
for
both
sides.
Of
that.
This
is
something
that
is
of
a
deep
concern
to
me
and
to
the
City
Council.
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We
want
to
do
what's
right
for
our
community
and
we
think
that
the
controls
that
we
have
exercised
are
working
and
that's
why
the
numbers
are
low.
If
we
relaxed
the
numbers
could
go
up,
but
we
don't
know
and
if
you
would
like
to
help
the
council
decide
what
to
do
in
these
matters.
Your
input
is
welcome.
There's
a
council
meeting
tonight
that
starts
at
5:30
and
you
can
watch
this
council
meeting
live
on
the
city's
website
or
on
gov
TV,
and
if
you'd
like
to
provide
input,
we're
doing
council
meetings
differently,
they're,
mostly
virtual.
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If
you'd
like
to
join
the
council
meeting,
you
can
call
605
three:
oh
five,
four
three
five
five
and
enter
the
ID
number
for
the
conference:
seven:
five:
nine:
three:
five:
six,
seven,
four:
seven
hash
tag
and
that
will
get
you
in
you
can
provide
your
input
and
we
do
want
to
hear
it
and
we
want
to
do
what's
right
for
our
community.
So
please
don't
hesitate
to
participate
in
the
meetings.
If
you
don't
want
to
call
in,
you
can
always
reach
out
to
your
council
member
or
to
me,
and
we
welcome
that
input.
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D
Thank
you,
Mary
Karen,
it's
great
to
be
here
for
Lake
area
tech.
This
is
work
day
25,
you
know
counted
a
38
since
the
governor
gave
the
first
order
to
close
our
buildings
to
the
public
and
since
that
time
we've
the
staff
and
students
like
Gary
Texas,
done
a
phenomenal
job
of
moving
online
and
responding
to
the
situation
and
we're
providing
the
same
high
quality,
Lake
area,
tech,
education.
Now,
in
a
virtual
environment,
we
have
just
three
weeks
left
until
graduation
and
that's
really
important.
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That
means
that
we,
you
know,
are,
are
stepping
forward,
but
we
also
have
a
lot
of
planning
to
do,
because
this
year's
graduation
would
be
our
53rd
annual
graduation
and
it
will
be
a
virtual
ceremony.
It'll,
be
on
Friday
February
on
Friday,
May,
8th,
sorry
and
it'll
be
completely
virtual
and
it'll
be
at
whatever
time
the
graduates
would
like
to
get
on.
D
In
other
words,
it's
not
going
to
be
a
ceremony,
everybody
at
4
o'clock,
but
rather
everything
will
be
there
and
the
graduates
can
go
through
the
ceremony
in
their
virtual
environment
at
their
and
their
families
leisure
in
time,
and
we
hope
that
we've
putting
some
together
that
that
will
hopefully
be
it
honor,
not
only
the
tradition
and
the
magnitude
of
this
important
event
for
our
graduates,
but
also
that
it's
meaningful.
But
it's
very
special
and
we
hope
to
have
a
couple
surprises
in
there.
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Also
this
year
our
graduation
speaker
will
be
Senator
John
Thune,
and
we
look
forward
to
to
some
other
cameo
appearances
that
they
will
hope
you
will
enjoy
everybody
at
Lake
area
tech
understands
and
shares
the
disappointment
and
not
having
able
to
a
live
face
to
face
graduation
ceremony
in
May.
We
are
talking
about
potentially
having
a
face
to
face
ceremony
in
the
November
December
timeframe,
for
those
that
want
to
take
part
in
that,
so
we'll
be
working
through
that
and
and
seeing
what
our
interest
is
of
this
year's
graduates
and
doing
something
like
that.
D
But
let
me
talk
about
some
of
the
other
things
that
Lake
area
tech
is
doing
yet
along
the
lines
of
the
of
what's
going
on
Cove
in
nineteen,
our
robotics
department,
many
of
you've
heard
Brooks
Jacobson,
Bob,
Moore,
Bob,
poor,
I'm,
sorry
and
and
Chad
Kent
are
working
hard
with
a
number
of
partners
on
3d
printing,
not
only
facial
shields,
but
also
mass
and
even
some
little
devices
that
help.
So
you,
the
mask,
won't
wear
on
your
ears
quite
as
much.
D
This
all
started
with
a
grant
from
our
community
foundation,
but
Tareq's
Worth
industries,
Raven
Industries
in
Sioux
Falls,
has
joined
in
and
they're
all
working
together
to
print
this
PPE
for
our
for
our
workforce
providers,
our
law
enforcement,
even
some
of
the
other
people
that
are
providing
other
services
around
around
the
city
and
the
state.
So
right
now,
they've
already
produced
2,600
facial
shields
and
500
mass,
but
the
demand
is
still
out
there.
D
Then
we'll
start
into
even
building
a
little
stockpile
and
giving
them
out
to
other
folks
that
need
PPE
as
they
do
their
their
tasks
in
this
new
environment,
and
so
some
of
the
key
recipients
that
have
received
the
Mast
or
the
shields
have
been
prey:
Lakes
health
care
system,
adventure,
South,
Dakota,
Department
of
Health
life
escapes
in
Sioux,
Falls
of
air
in
Sioux
Falls,
as
well
as
the
Veterans
Administration,
both
in
Watertown
in
in
Sioux
Falls.
If
you
want
to
help
there
are
some
areas
we
need
some
help.
The.
D
What
we're
having
a
critical
shortage
of
is
elastic,
not
the
big
wide
bands,
but
we
do
need
about.
You
know
the
3/8
or
the
quarter-inch
wide
bands
of
a
elastic
to
that
hold
both
the
mass
and
the
facial
shields
in
place.
If
you
have
any
of
that
or
if
you
have
large
rubber
bands,
we
can
use
those
that
that
call
continues
for
that,
and
so
we
look
forward
to
to
working
through
and
continuing
to
be
able
to
meet
this
critical
need.
D
Our
energy
department
Scott
light
Heiser,
Patrick,
Curley,
Brady,
Brock
old
they're,
all
working
very
hard
on
hand
sanitizer
with
glacial
lakes,
energy
and
then
once
they
produce
it.
Glacial
lake
energy
is
providing
all
the
ingredients
that
go
into
it
and
then
office
peeps
is
delivering
all
that
in
coordination
with
a
Coddington
County
emergency
response
and
that
those
are
if
this
is
being
done
along
CDC
guidelines,
but
also
with
the
help
of
Prey
lakes.
D
Iv,
tri,
tri,
state
and
and
valley
queen
cheese
are
providing
things
like,
for
example,
containers
that
this
all
needs
to
go
out
into
so
really
appreciate
all
the
partnerships
that
we're
seeing
even
have
borns
group
stepping
forward
to
help
us
print
labels
that
need
to
go
on
to
the
to
the
hand
sanitizer
and
they
produce
250
gallons
here
at
Lake
area
tech,
but
glacial
lakes.
Energy
as
a
whole
has
been
has
been
the
catalyst
and
providing
over
2,500
gallons
of
hand
sanitizer
across
the
state.
So
really
a
big
effort
and
a
strong.
D
D
D
The
Minneapolis
area
called
Midwest
cams,
Gibbs
cams
and
as
well
as
Dakota
Automation
here
in
Watertown,
to
be
able
to
produce
mass
at
a
much
higher
volume
and
rate
than
what
we
can
do
with
3d
printing
3d
printing
takes
about
three
or
four
hours
per
mask
and
when
you
blow
mold
them,
you
can
make
them
in
about
a
minute
and
they're
a
little
bit
more
pliable.
So
we're
really
looking
forward
to
that
coming
online.
D
We're
also
veiling
services
of
not
only
our
equipment
where
it
can
be
needed,
but
also
we
have
some
highly
skilled
personnel
that
are
teaching,
for
example,
our
nursing
personnel
or
our
own
master,
neural
level,
nurses,
but
also
we
have
firefighters.
We
have
paramedics,
we
have
the
law
enforcement
students
and
faculty,
so
those
are
all
being
available
available
to
the
response.
Should
they
be
needed
for
the
search
and
a
number
of
our
equipment
is
in
fact
the
new
building
that
were
we're
just
going
to
come
online
here.
D
D
We
continue
to
innovate,
finding
better
ways
to
do
not
only
the
online
but
our
education
in
general
and
we're
finding
that
you
know,
probably
when
this
as
we
go
along
we're
looking
for
better
ways
to
do
business
in
general,
we
probably
will
not
go
back
to
business.
The
way
it
was
there
will
always
be
changes
that
are
driven
by
this
new
ways
of
doing
things,
and
so
we're
really
capitalizing
on
this
new
environment
and
and
looking
forward
to
how
we
can
be
more
innovative
in
how
we
deliver
education
in
general.
D
But
we
stay
very
vigilant
on
the
basic
things
of
you
know,
making
sure
that
we
wash
our
hands
making
sure
that
we
are
using
PPE
when
needed,
that
we
are
wearing
masks
and
so
forth.
Doing
the
social
distancing,
because
you
know
I,
couldn't
be
proud
of
the
way
our
staff
and
students
are
doing
with
this
is,
as
in
a
whole
as
a
whole.
D
We've
had
no
cases
in
Lake
area,
tech
and
no
cases
with
our
students,
and
we
found
we're
just
am
I-
am
just
amazed
at
the
way
this
community
is
stepped
forward
and
really
protecting
the
group,
that's
at
risk
and
and
making
sure
that
we
don't
see
the
the
widespread
and
then
and
this
spread
to
our
elder
population
and
so
forth
and
I
know
that
that's
coming.
It's
not
just
happening
it's
coming,
because
a
lot
of
people
are
sacrificing
and
I
understand
that.
E
Dear
Krister,
friendly
local
public
opinion,
this
is
a
question.
This
was
something
that
my
colleague
was
aware
of.
That
someone's
been
asked
is
the
possibility
of,
or
feasibility
of,
opening
up
tennis
courts.
I
mean
I
mean
as
part
I.
Don't
know
it's
party,
well
the
exemptions,
I
guess
I
guess
were
your
thoughts
on
that.
Well,.
C
C
A
Be
I
was
just
looking
back
here
through
some
notes.
It
looks
like
Cottington
County's
infection
numbers
have
gone
up
by
two
over
the
last
couple
of
weeks
and
right
now
we
have
everybody.
That's
tested
positive
in
Cottington,
County
has
recovered,
with
the
exception
of
one
person.
I'm
just
wondering.
A
Are
these
numbers
prompting
more
people
to
get
in
touch
with
you
and
say
it's
time
to
get
some
of
these
businesses
reopened
again
I'm,
seeing
you
know
all
the
news
reports
that
you
see
about
the
protests
that
are
going
on
in
some
of
the
larger
cities
and
and
people
want
to
get
back
to
work.
How
would
you
kind
of
characterize
things
here?
Well,.
C
I'm
I
am
receiving
messages
from
people
wanting
to
know
when
we're
gonna
open
up,
and
can
we
open
now,
look
we
don't
have
cases
and
but
I'm
also
getting
messages
from
people
saying
stay
strong.
We
haven't
seen
our
surge
yet
and
I
have
to
lean
very
heavily
on
the
medical
community
whom
I
meet
with
every
single
day,
so
the
unified
command
group
thinks
it's
too
soon
to
back
off
of
our
controls,
but
we
are
actively
talking
about
it
and
the
City
Council
will
be
discussing
this
tonight.
C
So
it's
it's
not
something
that
we
put
in
a
box
and
put
the
box
on
the
shelf.
This
is
something
we
think
about
every
minute
of
every
day
and
nobody
knows
the
answer.
We
want
to
do
the
right
thing.
We
don't
want
to
cause
a
surge
by
relaxing
on
the
standards
that
we've
set.
It's
kind
of,
like
I,
saw
on
Facebook
somebody
equivalent
it
to
jumping
out
of
an
airplane
and
the
parachute
opens
up
and
it
slows
the
fall.
So
do
you
take
the
parachute
off?
F
Oh
right,
if
there
are
no
other
questions,
I
want
to
thank
mayor,
Karen
and
Mike
for
joining
us
today,
and
especially
thank
you
to
our
community
for
donating
and
spending
all
of
your
time
and
resources.
I
know
I'm
grateful
as
well.
I've
also
received
a
cloth
mask
as
a
health
care
worker
and
it's
very
much
appreciated.
So
thank
you
and
join
us
tomorrow
at
three
o'clock.
Unless
there
is
a
conflict
with
the
governor's
briefing,
then
we
will
push
it
till
3:30
have
a
great
night.