Bruce representing California's congressional district. I wanna thank everybody out there in Facebook, friending us today. I know there's a lot of questions going around here hosting this Facebook on Hall to ensure we get your pressing questions but I wanna ensure you the federal state and local governments think they can working to make sure that we're helping the American people so today I am joined by Doctor Sergeant Matthews, the Chief medical officer at Saint Junior here in Fullerton, California, and I'm also joined by. Cloudy Skinner, Who's the director of invention specialist at Center, so I wanna thank you both here today and both to say a few words about yourself. I appreciate that. Thank you. Congressman. I'm Doctor Sergeant Matthews. I'm from Saint Jude. It's a 320 bed hospital city of Fullerton and the neighborhoods we are part of a province health system that's about 50 hospitals in the West Coast, the and be here to answer any of your questions. I'm Claudius. Dinner and a nurse by background and I've been at Saint Jude Medical for 40 - one years, so I've changes very excited to be here. I'm gonna discuss. I mean how we're prepared this challenge of Kobe in 19. So thank you Doctor Matthew Thank you Doctor Sanford with me today against Ninth Congressional District on Facebook Town Hall. We're here today to answer questions so to it we've collect from our Google form Facebook and calls we've been getting from our office. we'll try answer as many as we can so let's go ahead. let's start with we'll start with asking our dogs for a basic over about the virus and we have a chance for folks wanting to learn with including what symptoms for and best practices for protection can be Doctor Center. It's Corona virus is a group of wireless. what wireless means venom itself small particle that can cause infection, Corona actually like a crown when they look at it in the micro. Scope it looks like a sponge crown, and that's where the word Corona comes from Corona causes just a common four of them are homeless. Other three are like little one is SARS secured respiratory syndrome that was sold in 2002 and then in 2012 we are immersed NEA are just Middle Eastern prison that animals be covered covered this stands for for Corona and VVIP form. And disease and 19 is the youth covered that's covered coronavirus. Some of them are really homeless, but this one can be little and so symptoms are fever percent of the Corona virus. Infection Code 19, Get fever another one off and shot these are the three most important symptoms Fever of partners of breath and other. some of the people also get pain essentially is a flu micronized like it's very hard to distinguish for flu. That's 19 symptoms. prevented so we know the number which prevent the spread it always keeping our hands so good hygiene if you are places good healthy home as well is very important in all the things if you mom when you are five years old show you use good health hygiene brushing after using the bathroom um also really important every second and environment is just great even in the hospital and next thing you know we seen a lot about social distance the developing yourself separated from others about That spread and avoiding hand hugging right now, we should be able to get back to the virus. It is combatted great as a coach and how comparison how did we get here paired to the 1918 flu pendant let me tell you one thing that if there is multiple people, it's called break if it goes beyond that area. It's called an epic and if it goes to Montreal all over the world, then it's called a pack and which are called covered 19. come from the most common great origin is topic from the animal market and who China and a virus ah there many animals and sometimes is jam animal to human and that is the I know when you talk about ah viral ad very close to the animal lab and China policy theories proof about that accepted theory that it's in China that's what originated according to the so far the spanish spanish effected five people actually it is so many more people so just almost like one human effected find a million suppose to have killed fifty million to a million people they came about two point five it really wiped out quite operation world I think to many countries okay the next How many have been confirmed in our I can actually answer that information that we California 470 - 211 deaths. please had a hundred and 40 - four cases. there's one death. Orange County 20 - nine cases no. San Bernardino really had the cases so far. so the next question I have symptoms or ticket tested where do I go when will testing Mobile to the general public without all Doctor skin and what should somebody have symptoms so the first thing you should do if you're having symptoms as contact your primary practitioner at the time, the Cat Department is not all individuals with mild symptoms, fever and cough be trusted number one. There's not really enough test kits available for that right and also we really home stay home. Take yourself. however, that's the time when contact CPS and you may be referred to emergency departments that urgent or emergent, and then we may want to. So you really go through your practitioner at this point you know that right now, I know you've probably seen the US through testing facilities that point through there is a pilot program going on right in Northern California and how that works to expand to the state. but you know what your doctor says Doctor Skinner said. There's not a test out there. you know hearing we're trying to get more out there into the public haven't been a bigger way to the hospitals yet to the testing facilities. so we're just taking from. You have a cautions me to make sure you carry yourself and stay stay home just wanna cloud. there was something that new drug testing it wasn't entirely accurate. How did they just a power of their own patients with meet criteria, one tested and and they're great supply of they may open it to the general public. so there was some news that was not that people did to me to be supported because they have enough kids to so look at that. Yeah. you know, Doctor Matthews, which is that's the important thing that people know there's not enough task suggest. Anybody wants to get tested you still have to be referred by doctor and you know, showing the symptoms to your doctor Nest right, so I think I hope the next three weeks as promise I public officials. we will in some test that very, very useful three people and reassure people with the disease. don't know what to do our next question but currently treatments available for the group and if none when we expect one that says no not milk, Santa is no treatment for specifically the Corona virus you know there's anti-oxidants have not been. You have the Corona virus. it doesn't work. We do get to the hospital and if you have a bad demoniac antibiotics to penetrate them, there's nothing specific for having said that there is a whole bunch of treatments one of the knees Gilly add has a drug called where it was tried against Ebola again without much, but it seems to be in miles helpful the Corona virus. There is gonna be available and we are all hoping for. Patients sick of community be successful this time of year you know people actually previous HIV drugs have writers drugs. These are all medications that they are trying and regional has another. That's another company. That's also there's certain companies I think to try to treatment and we're really hoping companies those things I don't know if there's about it, I can talk to later right now. really there's no tree. There was one there was a new site and the people are stocking up on Clorox with malaria drug. that is indicate may be useful bus not studies don't do that doctor supervision that can be side effects to you just have to consult your doctor or things evolved talk about the vaccine see yeah so the vaccine you know there are many produce max and proper scene is this even if I see now and I tell you to take it you want it has to be tested on humans and knowing there is no so when you give it a millions of people even if you have a nine zero zero one a lot you cannot have central normal people take a medication may I may not side effects because I don't have a disease but you are normal they don't want to risk event until you are sure that it doesn't have a major so these tribals who take us no one who can produce the vaccine in three four months it has to take like one year any one year take a little longer so the problem of the vaccines we gonna be hundred percent sure that side effects are solo every time basically back Fast track There's really no possible from and I said there's really nobody get in one year. It's not possible. Thank you doctor next question. What is social distancing? what's important to flattening the curve so social distancing is actually sensors off that the his spray of a sneeze can travel up to six feet. avoid that this is transmitted avoid that six feet space wheels from the invisible construct something else. Those tensing, if you do distancing like this like this if you do social dancing higher flatten flatten it out. that means people get sick overtime if all of them comfortable in a short period of time, it allows the hospital system completely arms that won't be enough. That's not an isolation to spread it out. So when you do listen, I think people get in. it's only a matter of time, but they had over several months or two months. They won't be enough and that's the reason social said. It was really proved in the Spanish Saint Louis. Outfield Saint Louis distancing so it took social things seriously, not even at parades and everything during that just difference piled up in Philadelphia, two weeks of no social dissent and Saint Louis, the mortality and the death rate. so we're doing now as usually important, not to over the hospitals and if you're gonna get infected at least be able to get treatment, you'll be a doctor to see you. we'll have a hospital manager that social distance for the community to have a little resources for you. Just ask you doctor Matt. make choices patients so it is going up really fat yesterday in one day one day for people died four five zero twenty percent workers twenty percent are affected not may not be set but then they have to make drugs nutritions do you wanna give it an ATM forty year old solve resource allocation those are hard-boiled hope in this country we don't have to come and that's the importance of social and saying if you do it they also started it and the curve is rising a scary part is that weeks behind it Today was 450 people it may be possible and the wireless train or something, and that doesn't happen social distance and cover band that is pretty scary. so please your financial distance and that really take this one. What is Congress doing to respond to the crisis So far, Congress has passed a one was for eight point $3 that actually gonna provide resource he can do the research development for the vaccine. that Doctor Matthews was talking to some of that funding is all go to local and state health agents as well as a small business. There was one million one billion stimulus, their first stimulus package there that directly meant for small businesses to help get through this crisis. Some of that money is looking to be spent to to buy that the personal protective equipment the mask or our health care professional and treating them as well as leaders week the House passed about Senate passed it today that is really meant to help the American people. that's the bill that you've. That's gonna make sure that that we're receiving being reduced lunch will get those meals right. Wick Snap it's exam unemployment well for for people that have made offer for it's gonna make sure that we provide family leave paid leave to whether you need to take care of yourself. a loved one or even your child is home from school right now, which we know children are home from school, especially here in the third and throughout California and through the but important. This is gonna make sure that everybody that needs it that has been prescribed the test by doctor will be able to get that test. They have insurance or not arch for that test for the second building and there's more to come we still have stimulus packages that we need to do both to make sure that we take care of you know businesses small business. We're really to make sure that we're taking her can people can found the government for support and so we'll keep working at and we'll let you sure we keep us more. So thank you for the question. you know that we we wanna get text based on. I gotta check you but that's still being worked out. you know there's some theories there like you know. so we're saying really we should base it on the yourself or know Jeff Basil seller check we should really focus on those that that they need, but there's some urgency as well and in order to get checks are saying. well, we just need a great body been no decisions. Checks or if there are gonna know that's something that right now we are currently on a stimulus. that's gonna you know support the American worker that's gonna help businesses and help industry too but also gonna be done and I'm sure that first we are taking the American people and then they're not gonna be buying stimulus package that may go to thank you. you're welcome and maybe alright next question. Well. The next question is mental health and our mental health and isolation and you're hearing this in the news. You're reading it articles a lot of seniors and you know rely on the senior citizen for lunch. you know they have companionship. but now they're have stay in some what can we do to to you know to keep their healthy during isolation? Yeah big challenge, giving them time that some of the problems with mental illness you have navigators community to help identify who who had were also being part of the large system that we currently we do have resources and help with mental health and mental health. A good heart was actually. The caregivers could provide money towards it provide for a nation or mental health has needs setting for from needs and spread infection in those so this is as we great problem in our community and I'll try and around about a helper better care to that social and saying does not mean not social that we can still be more than their iPads iPhones instilled connectors as you know, most houses have visitors mainly social and it could be a time of. We got admitted to the hospital is doing everything possible to help this aspect have you been giving people iPads and the phones too We got to preventing exposed and not experience also. yeah time to make sure you're picking up actually making a phone call. but you know I wanna stay too long. don't give out a number of 273 top if anybody feeling in the Middle of a mental health crisis, and they need to call the National suicide prevention, the flying again that number 273. We've already been inspired creative way people have been using Doctor, Matthew said to stay connected. you know she was scheduled to participate the Chino Valley Unified Festival because of the pandemic, but these kids got together a film themselves doing improvements. so get out on the Internet. look for these performances. I think there's a lot of celebrities that are too that are out there putting because their concerts so made it pick up the phone Sensex so now but support for this not being a rent mortgages are those that Or getting laid off a large amount of families live with no savings, No government issued order Monday night authorizing local government ban evictions of homeowners unable to pay their rent for mortgages because they're out of work or down more from the good protect their getting affected right now. The order also pushes banks to hold off for closing potential commercial properties would provide relief to landlords landlords elections so that we are. Out there doing things I guess it's all state local federal governments are working together to make sure that we are taking care of people and looking out for them. We're already several signal district order If you have any personal circumstances, please feel the district office or local legislation, Moon qualifications point and can expand pay time off. We already passed that was just passed by the Senate today, the President will soon be law expands insurance forever. We're looking about we're looking into doing with that state will be doing this pain programs as visit the California Development Department DA dot Gov information. The next question I think for you doctor if someone has Chris are they kept symptoms so navigate just before symptoms start just the influenza and there also is some clinical case. We're just not feel well for a future really can't identify being sick. You're just off maybe but still fever look for so you probably had a virus problem having symptoms social distance. that's skin or possibly true. Sometimes people can spread them. There's no way to prevent stop. You maybe infection, which is why it seems like those surround and you know that's pretty 80 percent of people that is true taking social decrease speed at which everybody gets it and most people serious 80 percent through like 20 point will need medical care and only as far as like 10 percent will pay more advanced care in the. House The mortality rate of the fatality rate is supposed to be around one percent one person compared to the general. the regular food that we have now as per cent so ten percent most of the morality is about age of sixty first not all about the age of sixty one this is symptomatic spread but no way that we can stop the prevent this virus spread around that was leading to so after that somebody is been exposed then according themselves for fourteen days could target the food after that I don't know I am sorry so you will get the get something To it, it's not being tapped extensive. The theory is immune for one year. You can then get it back. That's not proof most men. Maybe you live community for one year just to know you need to balance even if you get it, you can go and not do social distance and God is still wash your hands. Always good to know next question from our seniors in we're too afraid to go with food first of all you can dial 211 the Central story. Helping you to resources have any issues gets you can always call my office and we will have we knows on wheels program and vibrant here in the thirteenth Congressional District has made it a lot easier for individual you can send somebody to cut food for you if if you feel better than doing that, you know meals on wheels great program and if you need you need to go and to get you can always pick up delivered for you. Whether send somebody to pick up for you but you know if you know the lot of the markets. Or you know deliveries, I do deliveries they have to use you can order Ralph or your market, maybe close to you and arrange delivery as well for groceries. Alright so next one if we get cold virus symptoms and what do we call her Doc asthma If you toward disease, you should call primary care provider doctor a set of these colder viral symptoms. so when you start feeling of doctrine know I of course is have been with my illness. so you know catch what decision and let them know you care from there, but we know he stayed home and isolate yourself if young and healthy. Like Blue, you do if you have the flu, it's no different for young and healthy if you're older than you after, but you really don't even need to get to work. You feel really call your doctor. Most people play you do with the flu and alright. the next question is another do you think it take out food or or to go you cannot get from food. It's not food borne disease. It is not you can get it from the personal serving you the food, but you can't get it from the food itself. Absolutely well know we're great. Just a lot of the restaurants and bars are pretty much all closed for district right now. Some are still doing the drive thru so if you feel that urge to get something to go out to eat you have to pick it up. you know I would say when you do go to the supermarket because you're in a relationship should be careful and maintain your distance as well, Yes, as the doctor said, We can't get food so don't feel that crash diet. Alright. So now, what are you doing something that was brought up? By you know councilman that I talked to that make sure that the state has taken to address remember a while ago they would be able to take over hotels and motels at me. that's what kind of with them to do is to have in gathering the homeless by putting them in these so they can have shelter so they can be out there or be in a facility where they can shelter in a way and kind of you know you have the social distance from the South select themselves. now the. Government needs to do our part we need to provide them which we will do. We're making sure that's part of any package that I will keep make sure that keep pushing that need to take this vulnerable. I already sent the appropriations Committee urging funding for our homeless programs that had to ensure they vote efforts so next question Leaf rate of a team is necessary to where I'm asking public fights Doctor Match before at least one percent covered as fast skin puzzles. really we write. Out of the public right to assistance and staying away from others that are not within your generally. It is not recommended to work in public places if we keep that social safe without a map right thing, I will say just to add as we know of mask or one of those items short supply vamp up the the manufacturing of these man. It's very important that we make sure that what we have they're available to our first response and to our medical professional to hospitals cuz they're in constant contact with the individual possibly be needed. So we need to make sure that they have the personal protective that thing that they can see so don't wear a mask. You don't wear a mask out in public, make sure that we save those for the professionals out there who need them. Alright. So next question what economic assistance provided to help them people trying to stop corporate bailouts, which I put in the situation. So already I supported legislation to provide emergency loans for that was in the eight point Three million dollars team that we've asked a couple of weeks ago, small business interested in loans can visit SBA right where they can call my office to be connected. that website is website. It's a disaster loans VA dot Gov. Please go to that website and check it out and they're using his SBA loans. so we're trying to make it much more people access to this. They need this, you know, but we got any do any still gonna take care of the people's priorities Speaker Pelosi that's my priority as well stimulus packages to take care of. we gotta make sure that food restrictions on this. so what I'm advocating that we sing so make sure that any business to making sure that they're hanging their employ. Use in making their goal has to be their top and make it that they're taking care of workers taking care workers is Marty and that's what I'm gonna carry in Washington make sure you do that before we take care of big business. we take care of our and our small businesses. so next question Saint Jude Hospital the crisis they affirmatively is definitely ready for the trading preparing and we are way ahead of the curve since we have a Modifier command Center where we track every. it's a people can call him back to supplies it's like along the comments and really very capable our CEO said all that so healthy if you lose the workforce we use any support for so we are absolutely ring said that power we can get overwhelmed it's part of we then all the hospitals in the area we get all that's where we need support uh the government and make sure that these personal protective equipment and tests are really shortest now we will protest all are providers or the patient and because of that ah you know we put an isolation if you don't have that till the test results coming to the emergency cannot be because we don't have adequate supplies test kids and they have to be sent home so we are as ready as and I am hoping that we won't be overwhelmed any other hospitals in other countries have been Let's go different. We've been preparing years way prior to the outbreak in Africa, we annuals buy annual drills. We have a stock of emergency equipment should it's suddenly the emergency manager was in prevention so that we understand this role and we will know how to set up this Emergency command Center and get hands on on deck to really help the care they stay safe. Stay safe great a lot of work area. Prepare so Saint Jude is very prepared. Alright the next question age children that received school. What are the you know Most of our districts have sent their children in school right now, but you know someone districts have a larger that that depend on those meals at school for food, they're they received a lunch our grabbing at the school districts. You can check your school decide to see where those meals are distributed, but that was part of hockey that we did again that messed up. Pass last week, the Senate just pay and Senate. I'm sure we'll either sign tonight. I mean President signed tonight or tomorrow including package was to make a week maintain that schools can still continue to feed the children receive these breakfast and lunch on a regular basis. so thank you very much for that question. What are we doing to make our health professionals have the size and protect themselves? that's a good question. You know my office has already helped out providers out. we cannot offices who provide these supplies to our my colleagues and Congress and Defense competitional supply effort you might have heard on the news today that the Department of Defense is giving us that they've had in storage vendors that they had available to hospitals or to make sure that help fill this gap number. that is gonna be we can fight. We're also continuing to we're gonna fund any. we have that that we have to eat the personal protective equipment that is needed by clinics and our first responders out in the field and that's probably has we have been. From Amazon and lose from homes, protective gear just to stock up and we even have a while we're waiting for supply chain improving, but there will be used like 1200. It's a 20 percent has increased. We will so we are doing everything to get on. Yeah appreciate it right in the in the government is working on that to make sure we kinda get it and develop, he said. 30 'clock right now more mask and to make sure that we get the materials out there that's needed bar our health next did you cancel your regular medical? Both doctor's appointment? Yes, it is recommended any non essential doctors Answer. We want to take all those resources for mental areas, move them in to use for resources that can be utilized to care for those acutely ill. it also canceling it's almost elective surgeries. We didn't blanket cancel, but there are some urgent for example, breast cancer can all month. We really don't know when doing this. medical appointments cannot wait three months four months we have longer even trying to do but sometimes they have cancelled you know it's a very difficult time so we allowing the providers the physicians to correct the patients and then cancelled because even after come back in three months old and we can do everything in couple of days we have to meet again so we are doing the best we can minimize exposure where all the avoid bad patient or concern suffering so she would like to say I understand there actually have Next month, so I should cancel that with my physician cancelled right now considered a non essential. Yeah, There's one more thing our providers at Saint Jude help now so they can call you. you can support health through your doctor ideally and communicate with them. I think the government also relaxed a lot of regulations for telling medicine, especially for seniors who act who's telling health and sitting in a risking being exposed to any other patient. Alright, let's take some that are coming in as we just saw on Facebook the first question if I have an employee with a how do I allow them back to work? I was you know deployed. that's been sick how to precaution and make sure that individuals are right become so the setup for dissolve says that an employer must be off work for days or through the last few honest that not have a fever for this and that's without reducing medicine but an employee but It goes through or runny nose. You have to exclude that do not call the Corona fever shortness of breath and kill us. They need to be explored prognosis on your car for only a sore throat to continue to work on their mask. Okay, but they all need to be at home. Alright great. next question. is there a coordinated effort with area retailers to ensure people have quit food and supplies? I know we're all seeing on the. A lot of pictures of involves you know I I was kinda joking with some of my friends, The only person who drink and now I can't find any almond milk anywhere on the shelves but you know everything that we're hearing from parties and the ensuring us in front of the markets and the supply chain. There is adequate food there this is kinda put this situation to where everything is just they've been overwhelmed right now and they have stuff this type of this is what you would around Thanksgiving or around Christmas and they were very. That right now, so there is food and it's just taking a little bit up there on the ship. so we wonder that we get we will keep you going to keep you informed if we hear anything but you know, please you're out there shopping. take what you need. I need the to be overstocking or or or and supplies so that other gifts. they really put our most vulnerable if they can't food or size and there are you know the market. I believe some of them are actually holding class for the communities like seen. Citizen there ahead of get in there early to they need. Alright. people have died down like they've done in a complete lockdown trucks and will they be grocery open and will they be supplied again? That's what people are worried if there's a two lockdown, but I get my grocery, don't think we've gotten to that point yet will be a total lockdown and some rumors floating around social. just shut everything for two weeks and nobody would be able to get back some that's not right now out here all three San Bernardino encompass. We're asking people. To go out and do to stay home if they don't need to, but our groceries are gonna remain open or are these aren't to be anybody down anymore, but you can stick out from a number of those or go through the drive thru so the food is still gonna make sure that instead of 40 meetings away from our most vital community, the is out there. We just gotta get back and this is a holiday season right now. Alright. Number one, we have a bunch of people ask about how we can get tested. what criteria, therefore people to get tested if they think they're contracting right now, it's once again feel if you don't have a minimum fever to get tested wise, you have to Reserve it. you know patients suspicious so great is we don't have a fever. They will test you serious, so we'll be testing other than admitted by the emergency room doctor. If you really wanna be testing one of those drivers testing centers just wait at home until you get to one of these symptoms. Yeah discrimination. Still go home and wait it out until if you get more severe than contact your PCP or your primary care physician and seek medical care for the most part, taking care of at home breaking fluids care for the flu. Alright the next question for for governor the governor they're going to help somebody exist is true what happened to the people of any kind of funny promoters as I said early, making sure you're putting me in people. it never will that we are probably gonna have some companies to the direction that the economy we are headed you know a recession even possibly depression, but now we need to make sure the American people stimulus package. We do working people first that you and that's coming and that's what I'll be working so we've been going for a little while I wanna thank all out there on famous getting your questions. I'm create this use for being here to help answer your question in regards to how we can best protect what we need to do and really exciting a lot more The viruses. And how it really kind of infects people so thank you all again. we're gonna make sure that we keeping you make sure you keep checking our website. We can can view continuous update of what's going on whether it be with legislation or whether it be with what you need to know about preaching the health of your family and yourself. Thank you very much and we'll talk thanks.