Great. Probably right here on this side, okay. Mayor On the mayor. Becky Chris Doctor Johnson. think we need to range. I might make it tight. Yeah there you go. Wassup Health officer Outside voices cuz it's not okay. That's right. You gonna miss me, You missed me. Yeah. Yeah, I just. think the boys club Well, good afternoon in here what we wanna discuss is obviously extremely important. It's extremely important to County and to the respect immunities that each of us live in we're here to discuss about the Corona virus and we'll be talking about some of the due diligence has been done by the staff the support getting some of the people aren't to standing with us or the city of Chattanooga Fire Chief Chief Hammond and Chief Robbie from the Chattanooga Clinton that are plentiful rolling. We're doing is also I just wanna make aware we did hear that that Corona virus is in the state of Tennessee. the good news is that the group that you see here as well as some other people that have been involved in the work. we have been doing this for several weeks and preparation meeting can only and to discuss the wood situations and looking at some worst case scenarios. So there's some people today they play in that and we're very. Very fortunate the County that we got such a talented group of people experience that have been addressing this issue and and several meetings about it said. I'm gonna mention to tell that general members of the Commission for members of the Commission Commissioner Mark Mackey Commissioner Sharp come here again people that really realize this they were just notified actually about an hour and a half ago about this President. So we're grateful they're here to my left your right is Becky Barnes, who's our men. Health you'll be hearing from Doctor Hendricks is here with us as well. He's our health office and he's been obviously heavily involved also emergency management as you can imagine there, but it may be if if now break of the roadway Operations Center Immigration Center in the Act of getting Horses court to be able to address the complete with us to hear the decision. They've been working with our health, obviously an event that we have an outbreak here. I mean those would be directed and and preparations have been made as to how we have students as well. Mayor Burke would be he's in San Diego. He did talk with Carrie. His chief of staff is just joined us but chatting the other municipalities are being kept in for long because this is an extremely situation again, you know, putting the emphasis the fact that the cases they've seen I know, the governor said today so so far have been mild. For has been some out West but again look at what we're talking about in in this region, so having said that I'm gonna turn it over to our administrator of public health in the Bank. Martin Thank you. thank you. We know Paul Blake has concerns about a virus did not change and we share those concerns before I touched that we tend to emphasize that today we have no case in Hamilton County we have been anticipate. We will the most important thing I want to stress is that there is no evidence of communes bread in Hamilton, they could come. We're preparing for that possibility now, let me talk about some of the actions that we can well from. First we've close communication with the Department since this virus for merge one earliest roles in one that needs to do is mom returning trafficked areas feel questions on approved for Coven 19 testing, and it's a general questions for medical for the public working with and meeting with local partners update. Our emergency plans their plans to fit this specific outbreak. We're pushing out information to pub to the public and our emergency responders as new updated info. Is available in to this and we also created a source team to provide education and planning assistance to businesses schools, daycares nursing homes faith-based Institutions Restaurants, University colleges universities, and then that's will also grow. We're also cross training our staff for surge capacity today we. Activating our hotline calls and that number is 4232098 38 three and it will be staffed Monday through Friday, eight to four and we will expand days and hours if needed. We also have health made able to compensation and provide educate those risks to know that we have a long relationship with Hamilton County Office of Management Hamilton, Kind of emergency management and Homeland Security and conduct planning sessions drills. And preparedness for such as this many years responding to a black, This is what we have been planning for. Also, I wanna talk about Hamilton County government. we are across all set in Hamilton County government to be prepared for different spending Rolls safety net roles for Hamilton County government, but in addition to that the preparedness activity and talking about talk about every individual in Hamilton County is important and will play a role in protecting the intervention. Bread This is ease things may sound simple, but they are vitally important. wash your hand open water. It's so been water table use hand sanitizer. Avoid close You were sick, touching your nose and mouth Stay home if you're sick to put others your coffees with your sleeve elbow and discard a meat clean and disinfect frequently touched up so touched objects frequently and then I wanna end it. With were available with the health Department regarding 19 and we have our hotline that you can call which is 4232098 38 three and it over to Chris. They come director Chris Adams County Mercy Management Homeland Security. we've been planning is Becky said for Watson and it's Steve was as Becky said. Every individual can play a major role in preventing flu season cold season and Corona virus washing your hands 20 seconds and I like my sons where they dip it just a couple seconds in the gummy. you need actual your hands. 20 seconds rinse thoroughly underwater so going to proper techniques that starts with each individual to make a difference in in containing we first thing we start looking at so we start with our dispatch so dispatchers were trade. 911 initiate protocols probably a month about three questions that they'll screen every color to gather such as traveling outside the United States, where the end things like that, and we urge everyone to be honest about if you fall outside the United States, that's critical information to heaven in the health care field and they'll take that information and get back to the first that information will be relate honors and they'll know if they need to take the proper measures to have the proper permit for going in and we're trying to with the least of the building at the time so instead of going in, maybe just two going. Has our medical director and also initiated some protocols where he would like for one person to actually going to treat the patient. So we minimize expose that way. so and it's not to that point yet, but we plan for the work for the best emergency management. so we're gonna continue to do that and we hope nothing nothing else goes for that. We're we speculate as Becky said that it's just a matter of time. forget a case here in the County. so if we do, we're gonna prepared we're looking alters. we're looking at we're working with hospital very closely with the health Department all the way through this and we're. The first is what they need to do and and it's a it's a team effort here. but at the individuals we wanna do plans, which is in the operations and so you can make your own. We call it a coup so a couple talks about order success who's in charge of somebody who's neck? How will you so you can have a good plan for your own, but you also businesses can plan only governments, which were all working plans. The last couple we started on that so that keeps make sure that function it can make sure that we can keep working families can keep working in their home, but you need to have a good plan on what you do as as our you know for our. Kit is getting all the time, but by having for 30 days and trying to have that store you go change your clothes. You don't really know what we're gonna get into in the future. so I always have a plan so having said that we're planning and right now. we've got people standing in planning and we're ready for the worst, but we're we're hoping that with scenarios but we'll train and be ready and having that I'm gonna turn over to doctor Johnson. Things I think much has been said first of all the safety of our children is our first and most critical focus and features great job every single day under the direction of our schools to ensure that safety is I wanna assure the public that that is always the case. We've been working hand in hand, our custodial contractor that they are really working with under the guide and professionals the high-touch areas and disinfecting as appropriate. teachers or so we're going some work at in schools to provide sources. Schools to ensure that able to disinfect on a daily basis appropriate as directed of the other thing I would encourage parents to do as parents if you have sick children. you make those decisions at at the home level but encourage students that are sick to home and obviously to be fever free return for at least 20 - four unmedicated we're also preparing for worst case scenario and we've got some online platforms in such that will allow us and afford us the opportunity to make And learning continues to take place throughout our community and within our public schools and so that is extremely important to us. The last thing that hasn't been said before obviously, the the partnership and leadership of our County officials and you see them standing here our school County mayor and the direction I've been it's so critical key and we appreciate the collaboration that is always shown in Hamilton County and we'll continue to make their direction as we do work of keeping our children safe. Okay, we'll take a few questions before we begin. I just can't say thank you and particularly to our kitchen as early as Commissioner Bakers joined us and I have noticed that we were gonna do this press conference special. Thank you to all of our officials each other as well. they had even less time, but we really thought it was important people here today to be able to hear from people to see faces to know that Hamilton County be taking this chronic versus extremely seriously and. Looking at the pricing of what we've been doing the event of the worst case scenarios with that, I'll open it up for some questions. Yes, ma' am. Can you tell us if anyone in Hamilton County has been tested and if so how many people have been different to manage their have no residence? Hamilton County been tested, I wanna make the caviar we facilitate conversations between providers and at Tennessee Department of Health cuz they make the final decision providers could Direct Day To my knowledge, there are no Hamilton County that includes the possible concern about possible case singer. I can't speak to that. I mean what I said No Hamilton County to my knowledge. That is that is what I know. I believe at the Regional Health Council meeting, Y'all did discuss that South where they just not residents of him. I'm not really sure what you're going to pull it up. I'm not sure in the past, there's been some conversations and. I think at one point, I thought the person was gonna be too thin. It turned out so they're being monitored monitored. Yes. yes. Yes, we have monitored in the community as our returning traveler from affected areas that are wired to self quarantine. I'll try to find it but I guess we that's what it was, but people that have been monitored and I mean I don't know. I'll try it. Yes. yes. clearly we have been monitoring monitoring these are people that are healthy. They haven't been says that have some disease. We hear them for 14 days after they leave the affected area to ensure they don't cover not team but like I said knowledge no not test. Been done but residents can do more into that a little bit like they choose to be self is that a requirement like what types precaution taken from that point on. we'll talk to that or do your bath, you wanna know exactly what we do. They're not sure I mean, are they required to be quarantined if they feel like they need to full bright at the epidemiology at the health Department. It's my Department that's responsible for creating of these people. The first thing we interview them. And figure out what directors are and they are required to be monitored. They're required contained we'll check in with them for every other day depending on the respect and then they also are to notify of Allison empty rooms around how those people particularly looking right now, not many current. Can you get back and like between four okay or any students from Hamilton County who are or any of the monitors or any concern to monitor these not sick that they were monitoring these people that have tried to affected coming back to the US. so if we're sick that would be a different scenario now that's right around the corner. we have several places he hates about people here. What is the recommendation do or you know we'll be monitoring those folks who go in the town for not monitor in the US. Develop symptoms, I wanna know about that after their doctor would talk to us consult possible testing is the hotline on for people who wanna ask questions or is that a place we can go to call if they feel like they do have symptoms, they could do that it would be trained from the hotline and bring people apartment if someone called symptoms. Can people choose to did on their own accord now that where we're at or no not at this point, there were physicians the state Health Department to a posting okay to get tested correct have to have symptoms. Anyone else, Oh, this is where Doctor Dot know that the students of our school like you mentioned some online. if you know you can't worry about that and all 180 of our instruction days because the student achievement is a focus one of the things that we have started simply, we have inclement weather board understands technology one of theirs about the plan all students in Great have a crawl we actually are now about our technology into metro great bands so as we moved towards provide. Technology and making technology more accessible for our students from a position just named one of the things we did from an inclement weather. I don't line assignments that are readily available for the cross great bands, entry, Middle and high, and we've done that as we climate weather we also have a system which is a platform that allows features to deploy assignments, but also student success those assignments that is pretty good in grade six through 12 so but we have that. The capability to push out a more robust experiences throughout the community and will be leveraging that if if you do rises soon, sanitize or every night, what what was in that process? to this period, whether it be desks things things like that and areas of our team here our chief operations overseas offices Justin Robinson our lead of Fortnite School Health Sheriff equities and student support Doctor Martin and so here they are. Our custodial they call it, fogging classrooms and and such and I've really been pressing on them as we would of any of affection and think about the food. if you think about you know that when that begins to spike and their additional expectations that are taken for fountains door knobs so obviously with this situation will be going even deeper and and Internet throughout our district would that be like once a day twice a day like they're gonna be like a period. There's absolutely a schedule in which that transpires. Well, I can just thank you that came out in this, including the pub so wanna make sure that the city I've got enough awareness and education about we are that they feel compared to be able to as anybody in the country. we're preparing the event that we start to see any with the virus. Thank you again for being thank you.