do it and we will do it We will break the back of this You know I haven't said this I don't think since I've been here But folks do say this behaviors though you've got it right behave as though you're you're tested positive at one level that's an awful way to think about it But it's quite it's white It's quite convincing when you think about it that way If I had it I wouldn't remotely want to come closer than I am to Timur Judy or toe patter end or to any of you out here That's the way you've got to think about this There is no silver bullet that we can load to make this go away overnight As I've said many times this is a war and wars like this are not won in one day or one month or probably even in a few months It will take all of us over the coming weeks to stay disciplined in our social distancing disciplined in our hygiene and disciplined in using our basic common sense and that's always going to be the case Never mind the fact that on Sunday for the overwhelming amount of our Christian brothers and sisters We begin Holy Week which is the most sacred time of the year and obviously historically a time of gathering We cannot allow that to happen And on Wednesday next Wednesday begins Passover for our Jewish brothers and sisters So this is always good advice We're gonna have to be especially vigilant during these religious holidays I've said this so many times it's going to require all nine million of us to do our share to do our part And if we do unequivocally we will get through this knot unscathed Sadly look at the 646 lost blessed lives but we will get through this and we'll be stronger Is one New Jersey family than ever before A couple of notes on testing If I make a reminder that the PNC Bank Arts Center drive thru site which were operating in partnership with FEMA will be open tomorrow Saturday April 4th starting at 8 a.m. For symptomatic health care workers in public safety First responders on Lee you must show credentials on your way in and again you must be exhibiting symptoms of respiratory illness Also we're proud to report that Cumberland County has brought a testing site online for its residents at the violin campus of Rohan College Cumberland This site is being run is a partnership between Cumberland County in the Complete Care Health Network This site is open by appointment only and you must obtain authorization for a test for these visit Complete care NJ dot or GE and click on Request an appointment then complete the form and choose Cove in 19 telephone screening as your reason for visit someone will get back to you again You must be a Cumberland County resident and in Essex County the drive thru facility for county residents at week Wake Park will be providing tests next Monday the sixth Wednesday the eighth and Friday The 10th screenings are by appointment on Lee for Essex County residents only who are symptomatic for more information on that visit Essex Cove id dot org's That's Essex Cove it Dot or GE I think County Executive Jovi Di Vincenzo lives on the phone with yesterday who's been dealing with this himself God bless him and he sounded great so we have him in our prayers Freeholder president dear friend Brendan Gill and vice president Other dear friend Wayne Richardson in the entire Essex County leadership team I got my new list of testing sites I counted 42 sites with the assistance of my uh friend Brady O'Connor 42 sites across the entire states Some folks by the way think about testing as though we were in I don't know what you're some sort of nirvana that would all love to be in but we haven't been in since moment one I mean my Lord if I see something else about why can't you be South Korea I've loved to be South Korea I would love to have universal testing When you look at the paucity of supplies that we have is a nation including the specimen collection supplies the personal protective equipment When you look at the challenges between dedicating health care workers to testing versus the care of those who were sick we're not operating in a world that we theoretically are in We're operating in a world where this is the hand we've been dealt And from moment one we have made a cold blooded decision overwhelmingly to test with limited supplies nationally symptomatic persons A That's the right thing to do because they're sick and they need to know whether or not they've got this And Judy's gonna have an updated information on the positives versus the negatives in a minute But it's also the most robust data that the health professionals I can get And thirdly it's a fact of life given a limited resource world So with all due respect of the folks out there who were chanting you know we're not South Korea believe me yours truly knows this better than anybody I would love to have enough stuff to universally test We never had that from Moment one and no state in America has been more aggressive and testing folks the New Jersey has I don't think California has many more thousands test tested completed than we do and they have over four times as many people as New Jersey has just to pick one one example Now listen all bets are off If some of some of the innovations come to pass you've seen some good press around Some developments at Rutgers of late I mentioned we mentioned Abbott Labs in small scale recently If some of these innovations and inventions come to pass at scale that all bets are off will be the first state in America universally test But until then we have to play the hand we're dealt And as we have been asking all along we're still asking for volunteers with prior medical experience to join our team and assist our efforts Please go to Cove in 19 dot NJ dot gov slash volunteer to join You ready for this The 7539 folks who have already signed up and to each and every one of you we say thank you And I use the phrase Judy didn't disagree We're in a massive matchmaking process between needs on the doll We could use Dolly Levi here between needs on the one hand in our health care system And then folks over here of raise their hand in particular by specialty by geography et cetera switching gears for a couple of other thoughts Before he turned it over to Judy yesterday I had a couple of very good calls last evening In fact I had a good private call with Apple CEO Tim Cook to thank him once again for the enormous lift that Apple has said New Jersey's way I reiterated our thanks I tried to get from him a sense of what he was saying He's working from home by the way Ah in so many cases as so many of us are on we had a good conversation in particular by about what they were seeing in China and whether or not you know what sort of a recovery were they expecting what sort of level of any ongoing health challenges there were again I want to thank Tim I want to think New Jersey's own Lisa Jackson again for being huge with us I had a very helpful call last evening with Dr Tony Fauci obviously an American hero known to all of us by the way from Brooklyn but married to a woman from Livingston New Jersey is he reminded me um I'd say with Dr Fauci his sort of world view of how we should behaving in the policy when he rattled off best practice policy policies stay at home in a particular social distancing it matches It matched up almost identical to the approaches that were taking in New Jersey we both agreed a huge key here is gonna be compliance And that's why Pats report every day matters so much It's why we need each and every one of you each and every one of us all of us not just most of us And right now it's overwhelmingly most of us what we need all of us to comply with the stay at home social distancing Ah that we need to get through this and we each compared notes about about the need for compliance to stay ahead of this to flatten the curve It was a great conversation with a guy who's forgot more about this than I'll ever know he's an American hero Frankly he looks at us is very much part of the metro particularly the North the metro New York as Judy and I have discussed a lot reality and he didn't want to hang his hat on this but it looked to him like we're sort of a week ish behind New York as they go through the reality they're going through I think that matches up pretty much with what we've thought we're targeting early week I hope Monday Judy and I hope Monday to get into much more Moneyball data stuff about what we're seeing and where we're headed but I want to thank you I want to thank not just Tim Cook and the other private sector players who have helped us up but Dr Fuck She was extremely helpful And there are some jersey It's not just Dr Fauci is married to a gal from Livingston but there's some other Jersey folks in the White House and I want to give them a shout out We're in a regular back and forth with Jared Kushner who's a Jersey guy I had a very productive conversation this morning with Kellyanne Conway another jersey in this case gal Uh and I I would just say more often than not whether or not we're getting all we need is a separate question and separate matter from our folks laying down there anything remotely partisan in trying to come together and do the right thing And it's my experience that we are We all are and I think that's a tribute to our state and to our nation Now separate switching gears I know that many residents have experienced delays in trying to file for their unemployment benefits Whether that's from the online lags or long in person Wait times over the phone Thio Each of you please understand that the Department of Labor is working with volumes literally many tens of times greater than usual They're pulling out every stop to try to get to everyone as quickly as possible and to keep that website up and functioning In fact I'm told that the department was able to successfully process 33,000 claims yesterday Please do not give up No one is gonna be denied one penny of the benefit they deserve including I might add the additional $600 per week through July for 31st as provided by the Federal Cares Act And if you're calling by phone when you do get through please remember that the person on the other end of the line is there to help you and is probably also Justus anxious for their family safety Let's all be good to each other Let's be kind to each other and understanding of one another of asked Labor Commissioner Rob Sarah Angelo to join us my hand tomorrow Is that correct That tomorrow's briefing it will be here Attn One PM tomorrow unless you all here otherwise and in fact I'll give you a quick forward Look right now will be here at one o'clock tomorrow We will unless there's riel news to break in which case I will personally commit to be on a phone or in front of you We will make our the sad data reality available to you online on Sunday And I said last Saturday unless there was news to report And as I walked in here last Saturday the president you may recall was considering a quarantine of the of this area We were We were within a hair of actually seeing you live on Sunday that did not come to pass so again tomorrow one o'clock here Sunday will be on paper and by uh by email distribution Unless you hear otherwise And Monday we will be here at 2 p.m. Because we have the White House video call before then So that's just a quick sense of the future And by the way we said this before for those of you who want to work and help us get through this emergency the job's portal at our Cove in 19 dot NJ dot gov website contains more than 44,000 active job listings from 540 plus employers when it was launched on March 23rd Not that many days ago it had 8000 jobs from a few dozen employers The site now also has improved search functions so that job seekers can more easily narrow their search is either by industry or geography Since we put it up just a couple of weeks ago the job's portal has been accessed and I've got this data here by more than there with me UH 410,000 unique users It's been visited more than one million times So if you lost your job due to this emergency there may be another one out there waiting for you against simply Goto Cove it 19 dot NJ dot gov and click Jobs Portal underneath the search bar Or you could go directly to the website at the bottom jobs dot cove in 19 don NJ dot gov This portal has been the result of a tremendous partnership between the Department of Labor certainly but to Tim hats off to you in the Economic Development Authority the Office of Innovation under Beth No Vex extraordinary leadership and our private sector partner Yes ext I want to give them another shutout We cannot thank each of you enough cove It 19 dot NJ dot gov also has a truly unique feature It's called Ask a Scientist While we're posting all the public information from the Department of Health and others we know there are some questions that don't have a catch All easy answer So the Office of Innovation in partnership with the Federation of American Scientists has put on the site the ability for you to submit a question directly to an expert who will email directly back an answer A couple other just quick highlights on this extraordinary website I mentioned the amount of folks who have gone on who are seeking jobs as well as employers who have jobs Um the overall traffic users Since the site was launched 2.2 million users on this site which is extraordinary The business information hub which Tim knows well users over 350,000 individuals who have visited that site since launching which is extraordinary not to mention all the folks have already mentioned the symptom Tracker's got almost 200,000 hits a CZ we've discussed now switching gears to pee pee Yesterday we were informed that Tito's handmade vodka is sending us a shipment of 432 gallons of hand sanitizer in addition to 3000 much needed masks and 2000 justice needed gloves for our frontline health responders not the normal context of which were referring to Tito's handmade vodka But I want to give them a huge shut out for that Additionally last night I was contacted directly by Tom Marital of you B s is a good friend who would for me that his team had sourced an additional 10,000 in 95 masks and will be delivering them directly to pat and team at the Office of Emergency Management That's on top of contributions that they have already made I did not acknowledge and should The director of the Office of Homeland Security Jarrod Maples is with us As always we are literally going around the world not just around the state of the country in terms of trying to source personal protective equipment and ventilators in particular In addition toe lots of traffic that I've personally been involved with in New Jersey in America within the past 12 hours active engagement and deep engagement not just by me but our teams with counter parties in the People's Republic of China in the Republic of China and Taiwan in Germany just to pick three places outside of the lower 48 I've said it many times and I and everyone up here are doing all that we can and I want to give pad of Big Shut out here to get the P p e supplies and other key equipment like ventilators that we need I raise this every single day either with a member of the White House team and I mentioned some of their senior members but also with the president himself with the vice president or any again any members of their team And we've had good success and beginning to C P p e and ventilators flowing to New Jersey from the national stockpile we need more and we're doing all that we can to source more peopie and ventilators not just from the national stockpile but from anywhere we can find it on the private market But so much of our ability to win This fight rests on the many Many donations were received from corporate citizens and individuals around the state across the country and around the world and we cannot thank you enough And this is as good a time as any to remind everyone that if you have a any peopIe to donate please let us know by going to Cove in 19 dot NJ dot gov slash peopie Donations again covet 19 Done NJ dot gov slash peopie donations and we will gladly reach out to accept Accept Everybody who donates is a hero But the heroes in our state come from all over Yesterday I asked for you to start sharing with us some of the good news stories happening around our state using the hashtag n J Thanks you hashtag and J Thanks you mind Let's tomorrow Put that one up in lights on the slides Everybody could see it I knew By the way our New Jersey brothers and sisters have not disappointed a couple for today I want to give a shout out to a nurse at Newbridge Medical in Paramus Victoria she McCluskey who is with her team And there's Victoria She's with her team on the hospital's designated cove it 19th floor She's just one of literally thousands of nurses and doctors and health care professionals putting themselves in harm's way to save lives And we cannot thank her and her colleagues enough Another hero Lakewood resident in business leader Sam Stein His company Complete Care operates nursing homes across our state He has donated 15 ventilators that he had in reserve to Jersey Shore Medical Center and at his home community He is working to spread the word that everybody needs to stay in Please God folks stay home until live by our stay at home directive So hats off to each of Victoria and Sam and the other heroes out there again Please share your heroes with us Hashtag NJ Thanks you And finally I want to give a huge shot out on Mass to a tremendous group of workers who had been on the job throughout this emergency making sure that the products and supplies we need get to us and I'm talking aboutthe women and men of the International Longshoreman's Association who are at our ports New Jersey is 1/4 state So much of what we need whether it be medical supplies or groceries wouldn't get to us if it were not for these brave folks working in our ports at the International Longshoreman's Association They are at the head in so many ways of our supply chain They've been working as hard as ever and they deserve a huge thank you I was on with its leader Harold Daggett this morning and Harold and I want to give Harold and his family a big shot out toe All the brothers and sisters of the eye L A And I learned something this morning that Harold and I are both lifelong Elvis fans that he shared on Elvis Nugget with me this morning So to all of you in each of you have taken toa heart are need toe work together to get through this Thank you Social distancing frankly at times is not a whole lot of fun And it does take a bit of work to remember to do it We understand But we're seeing tremendous compliance across our state We need to bat 1000 folks and where we don't see compliance where we're cracking down we will continue to crack down and let there be no doubt about that and we'll hear that from Pat a little bit Is I noted earlier Dr Fauci said Clearly not just the policies that were doing which line up almost seamlessly with his recommendations And I think in fact seamlessly But compliance of those policies particularly on social distancing is absolutely key So each of you please say Stay safe Please be smart This is without question the fight of our lives This is war It's nothing less than that And you win wars again as we've said it before Not by panicking but not by business as usual by being smart aggressive proactive shooting straight with each other about what the facts aren't By the way as we've been saying for many many days if not weeks it's going to get worse before it gets better I love to say it won't but it will love to say we'll be through this tomorrow or next week We won't But if we all work our tails off if we show that courage that we're showing if we comply at 100% if we do the little things as well as the big things this is the fight of our lives And we will win this fight unequivocally together stronger than ever before As one New Jersey family bless you all Please help me welcome the woman who needs no introduction The commissioner of the Department of Health Judy per securely Thank you Governor Good afternoon everyone Well we know that cove it 19 can cause serious illness and hospitalization particularly for those who have underlying conditions such as heart disease lung disease kidney and diabetes This week CDC released data that confirmed that there are higher percentages of patients with underlying conditions admitted to the hospital and to the intensive care units than those without chronic illness so that that bears true in our statistics as well The CDC study included smoking as a factor that my place individuals at higher risk for severe disease and death Well we already know that smoking and vaping can cause damage to lungs in this new data is just another reason And you know I can't help myself to give up those habits and protect your health I also want I also want to address the upcoming religious holidays Normally many of us would be preparing to congregate for religious service is and family gatherings However I want to as the governor did urged the residents to abide by the ban on social gatherings I know this will be difficult We understand that while this may be disappointing to many who look forward to spending time visiting with relatives and friends it is imperative to limit face to face interaction in an effort to slow the spread of this virus which causes Cove it 19 We hope our faith leaders will reach out to the members of their congregations and remind them that they should not be gathering for religious service is or for meals until the ban is lifted I cannot think of another time when we need each other more so we encourage leaders to notify their congregations of any live streamed or televised service is that may be available and provide them with suggestions on how they can create meaningful celebrations at home without gathering with others Social distancing is vital to slowing the spread of covert 19 We must all take this seriously It is Theo only tool in our tool kit All residents need to take steps to protect not only their health but also the health of their loved ones particularly vulnerable populations You may not feel sick but it is possible that you could transmit Cove in 19 to someone you love As the governor mentioned we are reporting 4372 new cases for a total of 29,895 cases in the state 113 of these cases Sadly our deaths for a total of 646 deaths Three of the new cases are from long term care facilities Of the 646 deaths 59% or mail 40% or female 34% have documented underlying conditions in the state We've completed a total of 64,000 827 tests with 27,219 testing positive for a positivity rate of 41.99% slightly up from yesterday's rate of 41.11% 19 of the deaths were from Essex County 16 from Hudson 14 from Bergen 11 each from Passaic and Union 10 from Mama eight from Middlesex seven from Ocean six from Somerset three for Morris County and one each from Burlington Camden Plaster Mercer and Salem And we are still determining the county of residence for two additional deaths And as I said three are from long term care facilities We offer our condolences to all of the families who have lost loved ones of the new cases The county breakdown that I have to date is Atlantic 25 Bergen 576 Burlington 73 Camden 61 Cape May 10 Cumberland five at 6 328 Gloucester 15 Hudson 382 116 Mercer 91 Little Sex 309 Mom with 256 Mars 163 ocean 231 Passaic 370 Salem five Somerset 77 Sussex 24 Union 351 Warren 33 And we're still gathering details on over 1000 outstanding cases Currently we have 3000 and 16 individuals who have tested positive for covert 19 in our hospitals That's 3000 and 16 We have equally the number of p you wise persons under investigations awaiting their testing results The 3016 represents 12% of the total hospitalizations in the state today Of those that are hospitalized 1000 227 or 41% are on ventilators As the Cove in 19 Outbreak continues to affect our state we all know that residents are feeling concerned We all are the state local and healthcare partners Air working around the clock to implement efforts to protect the public and our frontline health care workers Please do your part by continuing to follow social distancing steps And as the governor reminds you practice good health habits Stay home when you're sick Wash your hands frequently with soap and water for 20 seconds many times during the day Avoid contact with people who are sick even if they're in your household Cover court coughs and sneezes Avoid touching your eyes nose and mouth and clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces For more information I encourage you to call and Jay to 11 or visit Cove in 19 dot NJ dot gov Your great resource is for the public to get information So in this spring the holiday time of reflection all of us in state government offer our thoughts and urge you to stay safe Stay connected and stay healthy Thank you Judy Thank you As always for extraordinary leadership a couple of things to make sure I've got it Positives of the 375 long term care facilities Positives I think you said 132 of them right Just over 1/3 And you and growing You've seen that number I think it was about eight days ago That was in the teens A CZ I recall uh number one number two The positivity rate is up a little but it's basically been in a similar neighborhood plus or minus a couple of percentage points right Ah And again as we remind everyone to things about testing number one these air of symptomatic people And again I've got Judy and Ed who are experts over here But they're of symptomatic people which means they are less healthy than the average New Jersey And by definition they're not entirely symptomatic But overwhelmingly they are uh secondly is Dr Tan would want me to say if you were here that just cause you didn't test positive if you're sick you're still gonna you know use your head here Don't be Don't be silly about that Take care of yourself And again we've said this before We're now 13 days since the most aggressive steps we've taken we had taken a whole series of aggressive steps in terms of shutting the state where 13 days away from that Perhaps the New York Times map we showed earlier is beginning to show indications from that But it's also fair to say the positive test results were getting now because the labs heir so backed up are also dated Uh maybe a week or two as much So I think we're all As I said we're gonna be getting more data heavy early in the week And that's not a coincidence because Judy's already started tow Give you a sense of that in terms of the number of folks for instance who are hospitalized But it's also not a coincidence It's also consistent with the time period I think that we feel like the data is becoming more meaningful Two other quick things before I ask Pat to come in on compliance Total cases The top five counties This has largely been where it's been Bergen number one Foreign away Essex to Hudson three Union four the SAIC five So you've sort of got that Uh northeast cluster of counties are leading the way Not only my hand What I'd love to get tomorrow the hashtag NJ Thanks You slide to make sure no one could see it I don't know whether or not uh my boss to the right here would agree with this but the New York Times is doing a county by county Are you increasing How long is it taking you to double cases versus not that map This is way too early to draw conclusions but that map is interesting to look at Perhaps tomorrow we could look at it just as we looked at the American map today which we should by the way we should regularly show that I'm not sure we have to show it every day that's being updated daily Let's also look at our county map to give folks a sense of what that looks like That okay with you Um Pat Callahan Thank you for everything Quick report on compliance and any other matters you've got Thank you Thank you Governor on the overnight in Blair's town a pub owner recited her second offense She was also site on March 22nd for Seif serving patrons in Independence At a domestic violence call officers were advised by the woman involved that she had tested positive She was later determined that she had not She was charged with assault and also creating false public alarm In Newark Those police officers issued 228 summonses overnight and closed nine businesses and Lakewood A subject was cited for operating a retail clothing store and violation of the executive order And another subject was cited for selling alcohol out of a U Haul truck and in Atlantic City in response to a shot spotter activation Atlantic City police located that motor vehicle made a subsequent motor vehicle stop and recovered a 38 caliber revolver a CZ well as controlled dangerous substance And all five of those subjects were arrested and charged with those charges Ah and to date 79 indict a ble offenses have been charged in relation to the executive order Governor Pat Thank you I mentioned in a radio interview this morning and the input that I had this morning turns out to not been entirely accurate that a particular hospital had received some ventilators in the not quote unquote none of them were working It turns out some of them in fact are working But could you give 30 seconds Because this has come up for questions I know Nationally the stockpiles been under criticism for ventilators that aren't necessarily working Could you maybe walk through just real quick What do they look like when we get them and and why It's hard to predict whether they're working on and then secondly what the private sector might be doing to help us up Thanks Governor As And I think police might have asked it yesterday Uh and I think the report although 15 Well first I'll speak to how they're arrive here They're in a sealed package which is sanitized So to go in and take them apart and really to have our logistics folks Still when that would be inappropriate anyway because I'm not so sure they would know that it was functioning or not But yesterday I believe it was a total of 14 at two different hospitals experience issues with missing parts and malfunctioning ventilators I believe eight of those six were able to be repaired by staff on hand We are as the governor advised working with the private sector to make sure that there's a process in place that we have the model numbers the brand numbers and that this outside company could assist us And not only this the assessment but in the repair repair of any of those ventilators should to be found inoperable on being opened up like we're not ready to go live with who the particular partner is whose preferred right now But it's a player in the region and when we are well we've got our teas Cross denies daughter will let everyone know who it is Thank you Pat and thank you again Judy for your leadership and for everything So this is not just a health care crisis It's an economic crisis I saw Governor Cuomo say that New York was broke I think that was his quote today at his press conference on I feel his pain This is an enormous challenge at the state level but more importantly two workers out there who have lost their jobs Uh the abruptness I mentioned the article the other day folks 70% of folks that forget the region It was Dallas showing up at a food bank first time that ever got in their lives It's hitting so broadly and it's really hitting small businesses And God knows we need the feds So the federal money and support and the programs that come out of the bill that the president signed a week ago today is gonna be incredibly important We can't do this on our own But to the credit of Tim Sullivan and his team of the Economic Development Authority they weren't waiting for the Feds Toe Act They had already begun to put programs in place We announced them last week and I'm honored that Tim would join us today Just walk through again exactly what it is we're doing and what sort of reaction we've had from our small business community By the way let's say it again Small businesses employ about 60% of the people who have jobs in this state so this is incredibly important to be there for them So please help me welcome the CEO of the Economic Development Authority Tim Sullivan Thank you Governor it's and it's Ah it's an honor to be here and I'm standing All of my colleagues were here every day doing the frontline work of respond to this crisis and thank you on behalf of all $9 million Just thank you to you governor and to the leaders around the around administration They're working on this night and day a CZ governor said Obviously first and foremost this is a public health crisis but right behind it it's It's an economic crisis You could see that in the data on the unemployment filings 350,000 new claims in New Jersey alone in the last two weeks we did a survey in advance of the rolling out the programs that governor just mentioned We did a survey of small businesses about 10 days ago so this data is already a little stale We got 2000 responses two weeks ago 73% of them were already reporting a significant loss of revenue and more than half had either had to undertake layoffs or were strong in range of having a contemplate reduction of their staff in response to what's going on And so the pain is very riel Obviously the human suffering is first and foremost all of our minds But the pain and the small business part of the economy is very real And from the governor on down we recognize that that's a real priority here as we as we seek to stabilize small business through this challenge So the governor announced last Thursday a package of programs that the D A is is administering with our partners all throughout government I'll throughout the administration It's a $40 million direct package of supports from the E T A which we think will leverage or results in a pool between 75 $100 million of public and private support for small business here in Jersey is the governor mentioned That is a first wave in advance of what's coming down from Washington are coming up from Washington Um and what the private sector will be doing via the banks But we thought it was important to get some programs up and running It's a money on the street The the programs we announced last week that the governor announced last week were a grant program a loan program and supporting the banking sector primarily of the community development finance institutions so that they could lend on and make more money available to small businesses We really we wanted to stretch the public dollars that we wanted that we could put into this effort and leverage that amount of money as best we could in advance of a broader set of resource is from the federal government that we're thrilled to see beginning to roll out The first of those programs was was a grant for the small for the very smallest businesses folks with 10 employees or less The smaller you are the likely you are to be hardest hit by this and have had fewer resource is to be ready for this and for the suddenness that the governor just described That's a $5 million pool of up to $5000 per company We opened the application window for that this morning at 9 a.m. We were expecting that to be oversubscribed I don't think even in our wildest imagination did we think it would go a CZ quickly as it has a 10:16 a.m. We had 10,000 applications for that grant program as of 1 30 we had 16,500 applications for that grant programs that we are way over subscribed I don't know the We'll begin We're reviewing them as we speak already We will hopefully make awards as early as next week and have electronic transfers of money So the grant recipients by the end of next week um I wanna give a shout out to Beth Novak and her team By the way the Office of Innovation the technology partner and innovation partner in all this because that has so far so far at least on maybe it broke in the last 45 minutes But so far so far it's gone well from it may have It very well may have but so far so good through the 1st 16,500 or so applications The next program behind that is a zero interest loan program It's a $10 million pool of up to $100,000 per per per company for companies under $5 million in revenues Again trying to focus to get a little bit larger in our area focus with lone resource but not not large businesses By any stretch of the imagination We announced earlier today that we're going to publish the application for that on Monday the sixth and then take applications first thing in the morning on the 13th We like the model of giving the application out in advance They're not not overly complicated but they're not as simple as a grant application Let folks get their ducks in a row get their paperwork together and have that application we ready on April 13th There will be other programs to come as part of the package that the governor announced last week including direct support to the community government financed institutions and they'll be making their own programs available out through their channels The good The additional good news is that there are significant federal resource is on the way the paycheck protection program or PPP opened for business and I believe nine AM as well this morning I don't have any real time data on that but that's a $350 billion Programs of dwarf star are five million quite a bit that's nationwide That's through the S B A That's through the private sector S B A partner banks that's up and running as well as the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program that turned on as a result of the governor is seeking a declaration of disaster Going back I believe about two weeks the we know that the all these programs can be challenging for folks to even make sense of what I qualify for How do I apply one thing we've done on the the business portal that the governor mentioned earlier at CVI dot business that NJ dot gov There's a wizard you can enter your information about You know I'm a small business in X Y Z industry with however many employees And here's what you might be eligible for from either the state or the SP A programs We've also wanted to make sure that consistent with how we try to do things always in good times or in crisis make sure that communities that historically had the biggest challenge accessing these kinds of resource is our focus in a priority particularly communities of color our veterans and small early stage companies that we entered into technical assistance contracts with thing African American Chamber of the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of the Statewide Veterans Chamber and a group called rising tide capital out of Jersey City to help make sure that folks can navigate particularly SP a programs the ordinary course ones and the cares acts ones a cz well And so we're going to see those programs up and running and um and be brought to bear because we know there is such significant pain in the marketplace And so we're going to continue to do whatever we can to be supportive and against stabilizers many businesses as possible so that as we come out of this whenever we come out of this a CZ many of them are are ready to go and ready to get back in action serving our communities and employing people again Thank you Tim Thank you And thanks for your leadership in the Economic Development Authority The whole team Thank you You know I think we're doing is much and I think we're as Proactiv and as innovative as any American state through the Economic Development Authority But there's no amount of money that we have that can come close to making folks hole and allowing them to get back on their feet again So the federal money is again I think you're leading the way unlike any authority like in you in the country But we're nowhere without the feds and we've had countless conversation certainly since last Friday but also over the past several days About the need to have is much flexibility on the federal direct money to come in two states to allow us because this is a great example We're at the point of attack We're trying to be there as best we can for somebody's lost their job a small business that's gone off the rails somebody who's sick perhaps maybe critically ill and we're going to continue to be there But boy do we need the federal government to come in in a big way and back and fill essentially the enormity of both the expenditure as well as the lost revenues that we're going through We're not unique but as a hot spot ST Second highest cases in the country were only behind New York in that regard so we need not only what was done last Friday and signed last Friday by the president but that can't be the last step there is There is still a ways a significant ways to go in terms of federal support to states like ours to allow us to continue to react responsibly and aggressively for our people and our businesses So Tim thank you Before we go to questions I read a bunch of newspapers every day and I read a mentioned David Brooks before I was one of the last people in America actually reads the physical newspaper duty You too Okay we're the last two in America Eso Here's the article I cut out Charlie you don't do this You're on a tablet I'm sure your personal device I'm sure you are Uh but but that the article is mental health in the age of Corona virus And he makes too points in one of which we've made consistently the other I want to thank Christine Norma buyer for giving us a window and Carol Johnson before her The the point that we've made that is sort of the fulfilling one is that we're finding extraordinary ways to come together up and down our state and across our country Indeed even as we're isolating even as we're distancing ourselves from each other this father Jim's notion of social solidarity really is what's happening is as a reality just as much a social distancing And there are examples of this up and down the amount of viral communication no small V viral communication that we've had the sort of the feeling that we all have that we're all in something together This happens once every 50 or 100 years and we know this is a call to arms This is a call to each of us that this is our moment that we have to step up together all of us in matters big and small I was wishing Michael a guy named Michael Hines from Burlington County His mom is a very distinguished public servant Ah happy birthday today 12th birthday What's he doing He's having a virtual lemonade stand sale not not even sure I understand how it's working but he's giving all the money all the proceeds to a good cause He raise $1600 by bringing together three virtual lemonade stand But the other point in this article the more sobering one that we cannot ignore and we've not hit nearly as often and we need to and that's on me is for folks who are subject to depression for folks who were in a household where sadly child abuse or domestic abuse of any kind is more prevalent For folks who have addictions just to pick those categories this is a really challenging time So while most of us maybe through this crazy paradox of social distancing and at the same time coming together in common cause this is a world of hurt we heard for Christine yesterday that the amount of reported Ah child abuse numbers for March was off dramatically Would like to think that's because the reality has changed Sadly it's more likely than not because kids weren't around teachers or coaches or nurses A CZ there would have been had school but in session So as we are as we are coming together over here let us also remember that there are brothers and sisters out there who are under enormous stress an enormous challenge We've got to be there more than ever before for them as well So with that we're going to start with John So Matt you don't have toe pull a hamstring today getting across to the first we're gonna sweep across once I'm a given the clock give a quick buzz around opportunity but we're not going to sweep back So let's do that once if we could just in the interest of time John Fire away I have a couple of quick ones and then several on modelling We're getting a lot of calls from people with family members and long term care facilities there frustrate with the lack of information from local health department from the administrators of the facilities And they're wondering what you can do to make information about which facilities public They're really struggling to find out about their family members in these homes Can you talk a little bit about the the use of the antimalarial drugs at all In treating Kobe Patient Are their protocols for private ambulance companies for taking patients out of state toe hospitals of their choices or anything about what's going on You've talked a lot about triaging and where to go in terms of tiered facilities There are four counties in New Jersey that are not giving town by town breakdowns of cases Should they be doing that or is that a good thing for them to doing Which counties out of uh Mercer Union on but I've lost track when you when you can Okay um on the modeling You the chime model you've called a snapshot in time is it all depends on the data you've given nearly two weeks into the social distancing Have the variables in the chime model change for you Can you update us on Will we see a new curve model At some point you mentioned today the number of people on ventilators which seems somewhat high Ventilators is a factor in the chime model Is that helping you change the projections at all Uh yeah and just Well we see new curves at some point Based on what the data you've gotten so far Is that it Um I'm sure you could go on but uh well uh Judy it's a couple of general comments from me and then turn it to you and head for most of this Um again Judy said this and I want to just two things that have been said about long term care facilities I guess three things Number one We appreciate the concern people have There's no question about that We have that we have similar concerns Secondly these are overwhelming amount of cases This is a residence for these individuals So that information from coming from the government side uh you know there's a certain amount of I think quite rightfully discomfort with that But thirdly I think as recently as yesterday there are obligations that these facilities have for reporting any outbreaks That may happen not just Cove in 19 but any outbreaks That may happen Judy reiterated I believe as recently as yesterday that the requirement that obligation that these facilities have it is first and foremost their job to do that And I just wanted to go right to the end because most of this is gonna be completely in Judea and Ed's hands I mentioned where we're going to beam or data heavy early week and I would just say as a general matter speak for me not medical expert bear with us because I think we're gonna be talking much more to the data early next week not just because we want to make sure we're comfortable with it as we have said and we've shown the curves was shown are based on historic compliance a supposed to specific realities The maps we showed the map we showed today of America Israel The county map that I'd love to show perhaps is released tomorrow Israel in terms of how often cases of doubling et cetera But it's also not a coincidence because you rightfully point out John we're now going to be tomorrow a couple of weeks Hence from the most aggressive steps we've taken with that Judy over to you Sure just a couple of things on the chime model The chime model is just one of the models that it's out There were actually through the Innovation Center looking at the model ah that they're using in New York and kind of trying to bring them together But in the chime model that changes every day as we get more information So I want to talk about the vents 41% of our hospitalized individuals right now are on ventilators I thought that was lower than expected I think I heard you say it's high I thought it was lower s O That tells me that patients air coming probably into the hospital Um sooner than later So they're being supported in different ways that are perhaps helping them or um 41% I had thought in the beginning it would be 50% we are planning for actually for every critical care bed a ventilator So we have to break down How many in critical care Hominy or not But 41% is to me a number that we could work with And um what was it wasn't what was it about The counties Therefore they're not providing town by town breakdowns than upper body one town by town Breakdowns of cases That's okay We don't We let the county's That's a clue what they want to get really a county call But could we run that town mind What about an anti malaria They the court I'll let the Clark when hydroxide Clark When Um Dr Ed Thank you Uh the anti malarials hydroxy Clara Quinn and Clara Quinta are certainly being studied with great interest at this point You know we're still very early in this process There are some very small studies that have come out of France and China that are somewhat conflicting as to how effective they are are or maybe and unfortunately answer still is it's too early to tell for sure uh they are not likely to be Miracle drugs meaning and something like you don't give this to somebody who is deathly ill and they're going to be cured in a couple of days But anything that could help this point certainly would be welcome We're supporting the studies that are going on in New Jersey right now We feel the use of these drugs within a clinical study that what that can give us the specificity that we need is a good thing Judy how about any protocols regarding private ambulance companies I believe you asked John about taking people in or out of state Now we do not have protocols that supersede the request of the um the person that in the ambulance But um it would be under consideration Uh if we wanted to decrease movement Maur may I May I add a little bit more color to the conversation that I think is somewhat relevant for the general discussion of general questions that John is asked And then we'll go to a lease and then we'll go back Ah a little bit more color on the conversation with Dr Fauci A couple of questions and I'm sure this is something he would feel us comfortable saying privately as he would publicly Are we Are we collectively right to say a vaccine that's safe and scalable in the next year to year and 1/2 is a is a window that is reasonable Yes Ah Secondly is it fair to say that there will be therapeutics that air affirmatively uh uh applicable Thio had to use a That's the right word But say by the fall into winter Ah yes affirmatively Yes there will be on That's consistent I think with a fair amount of what we heard And Matt was particularly interested in this because Matt reminds me it's very constitutionally difficult to put state troopers pattern National Guardsmen at our borders and not let people in from other states I've mentioned this over the past week that I'll be damned if we're gonna put our state through hell Ah and then have folks coming in from states that had lax or lower protocols and come in Ah and his answer to that is aggressive You know God willing once again order of events cracked the back of the virus through staying at home Begin to slowly responsibly open back up again Both economy and society And he made the point which Judy has made before And we've discussed publicly and privately At that point contact tracing becomes hugely important contact Tracing isolating quarantining That's the way you solve the riddle of folks who are somehow if you start to see something bump up again which would discuss before John Thank you Elise Thank you for those hospital and vent numbers They were very helpful How are you verifying that The supplies you're ordering exist You're dealing with faraway suppliers If you do acquire supplies from say China how long does the supply take to get here Um is it requiring a little bit of detective work to know who you're dealing with And have you backed off any um any purchases Because you were suspicious of any anybody offering it Also our masks and gloves from the federal stockpile arriving in good shape I know Elsewhere in the country there were issues Uh Governor you've said that New Jersey has spent tens and tens of millions of dollars on P p e I'm wondering whether you have a more precise figure Uh also have you started to collect the events and other supplies from the ambulatory centers and elsewhere That's it Let me start And maybe Pat you should come in behind me And then Judy anything you want to add to that Um we have a very arduous nimble quick and in mat plaque You may want to come in here if he sees us differently but we uh trust but verify eso We verify aggressively upfront And I would say sadly the overwhelming amount of Leeds who have gotten him I get them personally even today x weeks months into this I get multiples a day Sadly more often than not thes don't pan out Is that fair to say That's true Governor we have a whole procurement team into the governor's point It is daily that it's the I know a guy I got I got a 1,000,000 ventilators I got 100,000 masks and that vetting process although sometimes valid sometimes they over promise and I think would under the liver had we gone down that road Can I speak to the cost of the people 100% and then when you finish someone actually on our task force called Last Night Led by the commissioner we directed again thinking about the recovery at the end of this process that just about all of those purchases come through three Office of Emergency Management Attn This juncture we're in the middle of doing a 75% of the $27 million that we've spent so far Police The FEMA has been gracious to advances the 75% cost year which is unprecedented So I think that I take a moment to thank FEMA for that which will keep our certainly our cash flow and budget authority up so we can continue to make purchases That's where that is the least were answer to that weekly from both O m b and each individual departments We can make sure we reconcile and that we get every single dollar that is eligible to us I would add Yes it does take some amount of detective work we've got You know I think virtually everybody in our front office is in one form or another right now not to mention obviously people in health and state police and others We're full time on this So for instance the entire economic team that Tim deals with Joe Kelly and all his team are literally vetting I was on just now I'm checking my phone with something in terms of timing This is not China's Japan The these air largely masks They are uh estimated to be mid month So April 15 Ah we find ourselves increasingly I think dealing with people that we know and we have had some amount of confidence in and and I think we're much more quickly able Now that we've been in this for some number weeks I don't if you all agree with me that were more quickly able to suss out the real from the fake there were a lot of folks out there who either literally don't have it and just want you advance me a $1,000,000 and we'll give you the details or ones who are just jacking prices up through the roof But there are legitimate players out there Um and you asked masks and gloves Have they been in good shape I believe we think they have right there on constant order and different dates of delivery 4 to 6 weeks is is general shape They're in when they get here Oh yeah We had no issues as far as any peopie that's been received and your question on ventilators I'm sorry Have you uh started to take any ventilators or other peopie from the ambulatory centers and elsewhere We have not done that yet at least But that uh process through administrative order is in place We do have a protocol as to how that would actually not only from the paperwork side but from the operational side Take place But I did mention Sam Stein was my example today there are folks who have voluntarily given us are given the health systems But I think you mean have we come and we had to commandeer it And the answer is not yet Not yet You want to add to that You're just that in addition to what the colonel said the attorney general in the U S Attorneys have announced a joint task force One of the things they're looking at his procurement fraud and we are actively cooperating with that effort Thank you sir Do you have a question My name is Oscar came down from Mama Takano Um I was wondering if it will be a rental relief for New Jersey Which relief Rental for rent for the government Yes So we're asked this a lot And uh renting is not as straightforward as I have a mortgage and I have a mortgage payment due So let me just uh remind folks what would put in place and then I'll ask Matt to give any more color So number one most people rent from someone who has a mortgage Virtually every mortgage player that we could think of nationally as well as State Chartered have granted a 90 day holiday It's up to the person who's got the mortgage toe work out what that looks like with the mortgage bank and mortgage provider in the overwhelming amount of cases And we hope this is the case and I want to make sure this is a call to arms here that the three month holiday is not due on the 91st day We want that to be do tacked onto the end of the mortgage 10 2030 years out We expect landlords who are getting relief over here from their mortgage lender to provide symmetrical leaf to the folks who are renting from them and we expect that to happen Secondly you may recall that we I signed the law a couple of weeks ago No one is allowed to be thrown out of their house in fact for either foreclosure eviction