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thank you for joining me today as we give an update on our state's response to koban 19 I'm here with Secretary of Health jerome lothric secretary of science dr. casey Schrom Secretary of Commerce Shaun Copeland and Chad Warmington the president of the Oklahoma State Chamber thank you so much for joining me today guys we're here today to explain how and when we will get Oklahoma back to open let me be clear we will do this safely responsibly and based on the data in our state from the beginning it has been my attempt to do two things number one protect the health and lives of Oklahomans especially our most vulnerable population and number two to mitigate the impacts to Oklahoma's economy and get Oklahomans safely back to work you might have heard me say that what we do in the month of April will greatly determine how fast Lee how fast we get back to work in the future the 15 executive orders that I signed starting back on March 15th were designed to protect our Hospital capacity flatten the curve and secure more PPE Oklahomans you have done a fantastic job we have flattened our curve and we've developed a plan to increase the hospital surge capacity and we have made tremendous progress on PPE the White House guidelines have four main gates that we had to get through before we could start opening up our economy I want to show you some graphs on how we're doing on each one of them one of the gates is treating all patients without crisis care in our hospitals our total hospitalizations peaked at 560 back on March third and has continued to didn't trend down for the entire month of April to be clear the graph is tracking people in the hospital with confirmed Cove at 19 or people in the hospital that are being treated for covin like symptoms we currently have 298 people in hospitals for kovat across our state but we have more than 15 times those amount of beds available across our state gate number two as designed by the White House is a downward trajectory of documented cases and our new cases are continuing to decline daily reporting varies because of testing on the weekends so we track these on a seven-day rolling average you can you can see how these are turning down these numbers are trending down even as we continue to test more and more people across our state the White House also has two other gates we are tracking them as well influenza-like illness and koban like syndromic cases are also in the downward trend as I mentioned before we will use data to make decisions on when and how to safely reopen responsibly our plan to open up and recover safely indical includes a significant focus on testing and tracing we know that this virus will continue to be around for a long time we're not out of the woods yet this virus is still in the United States it's still in Oklahoma people will still come in contact with this virus that is why social distancing and taking precautions like wearing a mask is still really important as we continue to take a measured approach enhanced testing and tracing allows us to better respond to people who gets and quickly identify who needs to be isolated so we can control the spread of the virus I want to be clear when it comes to reopening our economy protecting the health of Oklahomans remains my top priority we have we have put together a group of industry professionals from across our state and they have been working with my governor solutions task force and our health advisors to develop a way to get back open safely I'd like to invite Chad Warmington to give you an update on this process as he's been our chairman of this committee Jeff Thank You governor it was an honor to serve as the chair and continue to serve as the chair of this group the governor gave us a very narrow focus at first the narrow focus was get Oklahoma Oklahoma open safely priority number one once we get oak oklahoma open safely we can start talking about restoration and restoring the economy and that is obviously a big importance to the business community of Oklahoma he identified some strong business leaders that we put on this across the state of Oklahoma crossed industry sectors they asked a lot of good questions they wanted to know right from the very beginning talk to us about the health metrics are we on pace for all those things and how does how is the state measuring those outcomes we were very satisfied with the answers that we got and we were able to move on to now do we need to talk about phasing in the opening of the Oklahoma economy and I think we're still ready now to really ready to move on to the restoration part once we get open for business you can't open if you can't open safely we can't get out of the restoration portion and that is exactly what this group is focused on and we're proud to serve the governor and we're proud to continue to serve the governor and talk about the next phase which would be restoration as well thank you so much jad thanks for all your efforts and all of your other members on that committee that's very very helpful for all of us in the state of Oklahoma like the white house guidelines Oklahoma's planned to open up and recover safely has three phases we will not move to the next phase until the data tells us that it's safe to do so I want Oklahomans to know that even as things begin to open it is so important that we continue to practice social distancing keep washing your hands stay at home if you're feeling sick this is a careful and measured approach designed to protect our most vulnerable while safely easy Oklahomans back to work with that being said let's talk about phase one based on the data Oklahoma should continue to follow safer at home guidelines if they are 65 or part of a vulnerable population continue to maximize our physical distance from others while in public avoid social gatherings in groups or facilities that do not readily allow for appropriate physical distancing and minimize non-essential travel based on the data employers should create plans to allow employees to return to work in phases common areas like break rooms should remain closed when possible it's also important businesses honor requests of employees who are part of that vulnerable population for special accommodations starting on Friday personal care businesses can reopen for appointments only if they adhere to strict sanitation protocols and are in communication communities that do not have more restrictions in place this includes hair salons barber shops spas nail salons and pet groomers these businesses must maintain distance between customers and encourage customers to wait in their car until it's time for their employment to avoid congestion in the lobbies or their entrances grocery stores should continue to maintain special hours to our most vulnerable populations they have done a great job and it's so important that they keep keep those special hours for our most vulnerable or elderly populations starting on May 1st the following businesses can open statewide if they adhere to strict social distancing and sanitation protocols restaurants dining rooms movie theaters and sporting venues and gyms places of worship can reopen for in-person meetings or worship provided that staff and volunteers wear masks when interacting with the public they abstain from serving food or coffee sanitized between services and keep their nursery areas closed during phase one bars need to remain closed more specific guidance will be available on the Department of Commerce website this is important if our hospital and our incident rates remain manageable for 14 days we will then move to Phase two but only if our data tells us it's time phase two elderly and vulnerable Oklahomans should still follow safer at home guidelines non-essential travel can start resuming employers should still close common areas and gathering places phase two allows for organized sports activities to reopen under social distancing and sanitation protocols bars can operate with diminished standing room occupancy with social distancing and sanitation funerals and weddings can resume with more than 10 people children's areas and nurseries and places of worship can reopen in phase 3 if our Hospital if our hospitals and incident rates also continue to remain manageable for another 14 days then we'll move into phase 3 we will provide more detailed guidance of phase 3 when we are into phase 2 again we are making decisions for Oklahomans that are based on the data in our state and to protect the health of Oklahomans I've been on the calls with dr. Fauci from the White House Task Force and he has talked about how reopening will not be like flipping a light switch on and going back to normal our plan is a measured approach and we will continue to watch the data each day and we'll pull back if we need to let me be clear we need to continue to practice social distancing and keep doing our part wear a mask if you're in public we will continue to watch the data every day and we'll we will pull back if we see our cases spiked our hospitalizations increase there is light at the end of the tunnel and it's starting to get brighter every single day as we do more testing and we continue to watch those curves flatten so thank you Oklahoma for taking this seriously and doing your part to get it to this point god bless you and God bless the great state of Oklahoma and we'll open it up for a few questions so just like it's been today these are these are guidelines for our communities and our businesses have been doing a fantastic job of adhering to these guidelines most churches as you know are going to been online and these are guidelines I have no doubt that our churches are going to adhere to this and are going to follow these guidelines as they safely reopen after May first we really do yes I've been on the call with with Mayor buy on mayor Holtz and we've done some calls with the municipal of a municipal organization and all the mayors across the state again for those communities that don't have more restrictive guidance like I said we're encouraging some of those barber shop nail salons by appointment only that they can open on Friday for the communities that have some more restrictive guidelines in place then that will have to wait until May first but I'm giving guidance for all four million Oklahomans for the folks in Lawton and Guymon and Bartlesville and McAlister just like we are for Tulsa and Oklahoma City [Music] well will we think that most of the mayor's will line up with our with our orders on May 1st and we'll cross that bridge when it when it on May 1st if we're seeing some more restrictions but right now you know we're gonna let some municipalities make some decisions before May 1st and then after May 1st it's our intent to really move to phase 1 all across the state we think we have pretty much brought buy-in and the data really confirms that because the whole goal of this was to protect our hospital capacity was to get prepared for the surge was to flatten that curve and Oklahoma's we have done a fantastic job with that and so the data says that we can do a measured roll in now at this point [Music] sure I'm gonna ask dr. Shrum to update on the testing yes so I am aware of the report from the White House and and we are in communication with the White House and some clarifying some communication when you look at maximum capacity for the state and what we've put in place and of course we're we're struggling with supply chain just like everyone else across the state but our maximum capacity within the state for PCR testing daily is about 30 13,500 roughly and then with the and that's around 48-hour turnaround time now that always depends on reagent and then our capacity through our contracted labs which you know turnaround is between 2 to 5 days would be about 33,000 tests so we if you look at what we had what we started out in mid-march we were testing in the hundreds today where we've tested over 45,000 so we're expanding that very quickly we are we've stood up 80 testing 80 swab sites and we still have not exceeded our capacity to turn those around within our labs so we are feeling very good we are clarifying the data that was sent in the way that it was interpreted through the White House to clarify those numbers we're having conversations with them and clarifying based on the platforms that were reported every platform has different capabilities and so we need to make sure that they actually have the right numbers with the correct platforms of the various testing capabilities within the state yeah so I do you know we feel very strongly about the PCR testing which is the test that actually is looking for genomic material through the nasopharyngeal swabs a lot of you know different things around antibody testing the one thing that we are recognizing that everyone is having challenges with is that we need testing capabilities and so those tests are rolling out very quickly those tests antibody testing is great for surveillance until we get more information they are not diagnostic they don't determine immunity but we do know that that people who have antibodies have a decreased risk so so there are a lot of you know different lab platforms out there from you know point-of-care testing antibody testing to the actual serum testing and there are some variation and so you know you just don't fully understand we don't have you know we haven't had enough time to follow those to say this is how long immunity lasts when you have antibodies there's some cross reactivity with you know other coronaviruses that we don't have enough information to - but what it can tell us is that what the prevalence is for sure I mean when somebody has antibodies to the corona virus we know that they have been exposed so it is good for surveillance in in again just letting us know what's going on in the community and particularly with asymptomatic cases [Music] and they died at oakwood supposed to die on another helmet 3,700 yes so so those that obviously are hospitalized or known cases we're really looking at what are the underlying comorbidities if there are some questions you know in those cases are going for autopsy or going through the medical examiner's office they can do swabs and freeze those for five days I think right now you know obviously when you you know look at New York their prevalence rate is a lot higher than ours we we have put that into our plan of educating the medical examiner's offices it's been in close contact in doing educational with with our funeral homes across the state to help people understand what that may look like in the future but currently we aren't testing every single person who expires outside of the hospital and assuming that it's Kovac we're looking at those on individual basis of what their comorbidities might be in the complement and diseases that they have Hair Salons and doing nails how do you do that safely customers are still concerned about right so the guidelines that are being set up we're asking people to wear masks both customers and in those who are providing the services and adhering to certain guidelines as far as disinfecting areas for for work and I think someone else might be able to speak specifically to those guidelines if that's what you're asking okay yes to answer your question we went through we're using the CDC guidelines as a minimum and then in addition to masks at disinfecting the areas after each client that they see taking the temperature just to make sure so so we're adding in many instances on top of what the CDC is requiring what I would encourage everyone to do is look at the guidance for each individual industry so it's going to depend upon we're working with each industry association we're looking for best practices for each one for a hair salon certainly it would because you're right there together so if you can't practice social distancing and maintain at least six feet apart then we were encouraging math to be [Music] [Music] you know we will when May first rolls around we're going to open up obviously the the restaurants and in a certain manner I'll get with the legislature to find out if we think it's appropriate to have open the Capitol back up you know if we if we have social distancing and people are feels comfortable
coming in and maybe that's the possibility I know at this point is closed down to the public but when the legislature gets back in here that's a definite possibility your team you track legislation do you have concerns about the idea and they when its notorious that things appear at the last minute anyway do you have concerns no I don't think so I think the you know the business community and lobbyists and general folks that spend their time up here at the Capitol are doing just what businesses are doing all the state they're able to communicate with their but their legislators or staff just like we are through teams meetings zoom meetings and whatnot the ability to communicate is still there you don't necessarily have to be in the building to communicate those ideas and principles and I think that's part of what this group is going to do for the governor as well as we're taking that feedback on the things that we need to do when we move into the restoration phase and I think we'll be able to be helpful in communicating those message that the governor his team so I don't think it's gonna be a problem at all again they'll make the right decision based on what the capacity of this building is and what's safe for the legislature but I think Oklahomans in general will be able to communicate very easily with their legislative leaders perception but I also think you know we got to put as the governor said the health and safety of Oklahomans first and that dad goes for the legislature as well and again if there wasn't a way to communicate with legislative leaders and leaders and staff and the governor then that would be a problem but we I think we all know there is the ability to do that and I think those lines of communication have been very open and I think that's part of why the governor engaged us that our businesses leaders from across the state if you look at the industry sectors that are representative it's pretty comprehensive they're gonna be able to give feedback to legislative leaders the governor and the secretaries to make sure that those opinions and those needs are being met I'm not concerned about it at all survey says maybe you know that doctor yeah because we rolled those out in a red yellow green phase on the non elective surgery so I'll let dr. Shrum into that yes so so on the elective procedures and the way that that is actually stated is that if they have the ability to have appropriate protective equipment and that they want to go ahead and open that up that it is available for them to to open those procedures and each one of those offices and Clinics obviously you know can can visit with the dentist that they're working with and have those conversations in in their clinics individually [Music] this is what secretary advantage that kind of trends will be monitoring yes thank you there's really we look at a whole multitude of data points not really on a daily basis but there's two that are dispositive relative to our advice on the governor's behalf as two phases they are one when the influenza like illness starts to trend downward and then to our career our hospitalizations are and so really when we look at those two data sets it's very simple for us to be able to see the trend of a line now that won't necessarily tell us exactly what we should advise the governor but those are two data points that we look at again it's hospitalizations and I said influenza like its incident rate so incident rate and hospitalizations are the two things that we'll be advising the governor on again we look at those with respect to the curvature of the line and insofar as those are remaining what we say at a manageable level and there we just bear statistics in mind if they're at a manageable level then we'll proceed to the next two-week period if not then the governor will have that information at his hand and can make the policy decision right the reason that question was even if it's trending upward to some extent does that automatically mean that we would curtail the next activity again we've stipulated it's a manageable level and that you can think I think in terms of our surge capacity as an example it was never the case that if we hit a specific number it was always the case that if we had what we thought to be a number that we could manage its in that respect but we think about this I think that's a similar mindset into how we advise the government here yeah I authorized the National Guard to go in and do a deep cleaning throughout all of our nursing homes we also have 11 TAC teams that are going in to do a testing tracing antibody cases and my directive was I want all 17,000 patient or nursing home folks tested across our state for the antibody and for the positive test so we can trace we can isolate the National Guard is is involved with our nursing homes along curve term care facilities even on a dresser last week and which you have a clear picture of the budget are you gonna read thank the $40 for getting education you still think of the food programs you mentioned or general education so nothing's changed on the 40 million 40 million was was given to the executive branch to benefit the education in the state of Oklahoma and that's exactly how those funds will be dispersed during radiation during these 30 parts of this whole situation so if everyone they were to make these stricter ratings I believe when you go in is they know you can do this with women estate congratulations diversity what it is my intent based on this data so you've got to remember this we we've put all of this all the executive orders in place everything that we've done is to flatten this curve everything we've done it's not only flatten the curve but also to prepare for the surge and the hospitalizations to get ready for PPE to protect our health workers we have gone from 560 we peaked in hospitalizations it's really important for Oklahomans to know we had 560 people in hospitals on March 30th and we've had a nice load decline since then today we have 298 across our state we have 4600 hospital beds available in our state and so the whole idea was to was to flatten that curve we have Oklahoma has done a great job so there's always going to be critics on when you could open up and should you delay delay further so that's why it's about a measured approach and watching that data and so it's my intent as governor is to give guidance across the state to every citizen to every municipality and we'll deal with that on May 1st when it comes if there's still certain things that we're still seeing the data where it is today then we'll make that decision and I'll be on the phone and we'll be able to handle that I'm sure with with it with any mayors and the mayor's have a tough job too and that's why we want to give everybody guidance up until May first but at that point we really want to move into phase 1 thank you
