THE RES PROTESTS OF GEORGE FLOYD MINNESOTA. LET'S LISTEN IN. GOVERNOR SUNUNU: A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL RECOGNIZING THE SOCIAL INJUSTICES, THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD AND THOSE SURROUNDING ISSUES. WHILE IT WAS NOT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, IT'S A NATIONAL ISSUE, IT'S SOMETHING THAT DOES HAVE TO BE DISCUSSED AND AS WE'VE CONTINUED TO SAY, IT'S NOT A ONE-DAY CONVERSATION, BUT A CONVERSATION THAT IS TO CONTINUE WITH REAM ACTION BEHIND IT AND THOSE ORGANIZERS, I THINK, DID A TREMENDOUS JOB HANDLING THAT EVENT, MAKING SURE IT WAS PEACEFUL, MAKING SURE IT WAS OF THE RIGHT TONE AND HUNDREDS OF FOLKS SHOWED UP AND IT REALLY WENT OFF VERY, VERY WELL. WE HAD OBVIOUSLY HEARD THERE WAS THE POTENTIAL FOR DISRUPTIVE INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE GOING TO COME IN AND CAUSE POTENTIAL PROPERTY DAMAGE OR DISRUPTION TO THE COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW, WE WERE PREPARED. WE REALLY WERE. AND I JUST ALSO WANT TO SAY A BIG THANK YOU AND HATS OFF TO THE ENTIRE TEAM. I THINK THE CHIEF AND THE ENTIRE TEAM OF THE MANCHESTER POLICE DEPARTMENT, STATE POLICE WAS THERE, NATIONAL GUARD WAS THERE. RESOURCES, THE FOLKS OUT AT NASHUA POLICE DEPARTENT. A LOT OF DIFFERENT POLICE DEPARTMENTS ACTUALLY CAME JUST TO BE THERE, TO MAKE SURE THAT SOME OF THE INSTANCES THAT WE'VE SEEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN A VERY NEGATIVE WAY WERE NOT GOING TO HAPPEN HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, THERE WAS EXTREMELY MINOR DAMAGE, A HANDFUL OF ARRESTS BUT AGAIN THAT WENT OFF VERY, VERY WELL AND MY HATS OFF TO CHIEF CAPANO AND THE ENTIRE TEAM FOR WORKING IN A SEAMLESS MANAGER TO MAKE SURE INDIVIDUALS, PROPERTY AND THE COMMUNITY WAS PROTECTED AND SAFE. THAT WAS ANOTHER ACTUAL, GOOD NEWS STORY OF THE NIGHT I THINK. WE KNOW THAT THERE COULD BE MORE. THERE WILL BE F MORE EVENTS SCHEDULED, I THINK ONE IN KEENE, MAYBE TODAY IN PORTSMOUTH AND SOME THAT WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE STATE OVER THE NEXT DAYS AND WEEKS AND WE THINK THAT CAN BE A VERY POSITIVE THING TO BE SURE. WE'RE GOING TO BE READY IN EACH OF THOSE INSTANCES WITH, AGAIN, THAT COMBINED TEAM AND COMBINED FORCE TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE PROTESTS AND THAT VOICE IS HEARD IN A VERY POSITIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE WAY, BUT IF THERE ARE GOING TO BE ADDITIONAL ELEMENT THAS THAT TRY TO COME IN WREAK HAVOC IN A COMMUNITY AS WE DID LAST NIGHT, WE'LL CONTINUE TO BE PREPARED AND PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES. I GUESS WITH THAT, WE'LL TURN IT OVER TO PUBLIC HEALTH. >> THANK YOU, GOVERNOR AND GOOD AFTERNOON. JUST VERY BRIEFLY UPDATE ON THE PUBLIC HEALTH NUMBERS FOR TODAY, AROUND COVID-19. THERE ARE NOW MORE THAN 6.4 MILLION CASES OF COVID-19 GLOBALLY, INCLUDING 1.8 MILLION CASES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. WE WILL BE ANNOUNCING AN ADDITIONAL 47 CONFIRMED COVI COV CASES HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, BRINGING THE TOTAL OF 4,795 PEOPLE, RESIDENTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE THAT HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED AND DIAGNOSED WITH COVID-19 IN THE STATE TO DATE. THERE ARE AN ADDITIONAL SIX PEOPLE WHO HAVE REQUIRED HOSPITALIZATION FOR THEIR ILLNESS, BRINGING THE TOTAL TO 468 INDIVIDUALS. THAT'S ABOUT 10% OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE BECOME INFECTED THAT HAVE REQUIRED HOSPITALIZATION AT SOME POINT DURING THEIR ILLNESS AND THERE ARE SADLY, NINE NEW DEATHS RELATED TO COVID-19 THAT WE ARE REPORTING TODAY, BRINGING THE TOTAL TO 265 PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED. SIX OUT OF THESE NINE INDIVIDUALS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES. AND AGAIN, I THINK THESE NUMBERS HIGHLIGHT THE BURDEN THAT COVID-19 IS HAVING ON OUR MORE VULNERABLE POPULATION, SPECIFICALLY, OUR LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY RESIDENTS. OUT OF THE 265 PEOPLE, TOTAL INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE DIED FROM COVID-19, CLOSE TO 80% OF THOSE HAVE BEEN RESIDENTS OF LONG-TERM CARE, OR CONGREGATE LIVING FACILITIES, AND SO THAT CONTINUES TO BE AN ACTIVE AREA OF WORK TO TRY TO CONTROL THOSE OUTBREAKS AND PROTECT THOSE MORE VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS. REGARDING SOME TESTING NUMBERS, WE HAVE TESTED APPROXIMATELY 76,000 PEOPLE FOR ACTIVE COVID-19 INFECTION, THAT'S THE PCR-BASED TEST, THE NASAL SWAB, IF YOU WILL, THAT IS THE APPROPRIATE TEST FOR DIAGNOSING SOMEONE WITH ACTIVE COVID-19 INFECTION. WE CONTINUE TO AVERAGE AROUND 1,700 TESTS PER DAY. CURRENTLY, THERE'S OVER 1600 PEOPLE UNDERGOING TESTING IN OUR PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY. WE HAVE CONTINUED TO TRY AND MAKE TESTING AVAILABLE TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, SO THAT WE CAN RAPIDLY IDENTIFY AND ISOLATE PEOPLE WHO ARE INFECTED AND DO OUR PUBLIC HEALTH CONTACT TRACING TO TRY AND CONTROL SPREAD OF COVID-19 WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES. COVID-19 IS STILL OUT THERE, SO PLEASE CONTINUE TO TAKE THE APPROPRIATE PRECAUTIONS WITH PEOPLE ARE OUT AND ABOUT WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES. AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO VERY CLOSELY FOLLOW THE NUMBERS AND TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT NOT ONLY THE VULNERABLE PEOPLE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES, BUT EVERYBODY FROM COVID-19. THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO HAND THINGS OVER TO THE COMMISSIONER. >> THANK YOU. I HAVE A COUPLE OF BRIEF UPDATES. UNDER LONG-TERM CARE, I HAVE NO NEW OUTBREAKS TO REPORT TODAY. WE WILL BE RELEASING OUR COVID-19 RESIDENT AND STAFF, SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE PROTOCOL TODAY. WE DISCUSSED IT WITH OUR LONG-TERM CARE PARTNERS BY TELECONFERENCE TODAY, SO THIS IS OUR TRANSITIONARY WEEK, WHERE OUR BASELINE TESTING PRETTY MUCH ENDED LAST WEEK UNTIL LAST WEEKEND. SO OUR SERIAL TESTING STARTS THIS WEEK. SO OUR NEW LAB PARTNER WILL TAKE OVER TOMORROW, BUT WE'VE DONE A HOST OF TESTS IN THE LAST THREE DAYS WITH OUR LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY AS SURVEILLANCE PROTOCOL. BUT STARTING TOMORROW, MACO MEDICAL LABORATORIES OUT OF NORTH CAROLINA WILL BE TAKING OVER OUR SURVEILLANCE TESTING PROGRAM. WE WILL BE ORGANIZING IT, AND INDICATING WHAT FACILITIES ARE TO BE TESTED AND AT WHAT TIME FRAMES, BUT THEY WILL BE SENDING ASSESSMENTS TO THE FACILITIES. THE FACILITIES WILL BE SWABBING BOTH RESIDENTS AND STAFF, COURIERING THE MACO MEDICAL LABORATORIES WILL ARRANGE FOR A COURIER TO BRING THE SPECIMENS BACK TO THEIR FACILITY AND THEN THEY WILL BE REPORTING THE RESULTS. THIS IS GOING TO TAKE A HUGE WEIGHT OFF OF THE SHOULDERS OF OUR PUBLIC HEALTH LAB THAT'S PROCESSING PROBABLY GREATER THAN A THOUSAND TESTS, I KNOW ON SUNDAY-MONDAY, RECEIVED BETWEEN 1500 AND 2,000 SPECIMENS JUST IN THOSE TWO DAYS, SO IT WILL SHORTEN OUR TURN-AROUND TIME AND THE LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES CAN EXPECT A SHORTER TURN-AROUND TIME WITH THAT CONTRACT TOO. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TESTING, I'M JUST ANNOUNCING EXPANDED TESTING CAPABILITY IN THE NORTH COUNTRY. WE HAVE CLEAR CHOICE AND LITTLETON REGIONAL HOSPITAL THAT PARTNERED TO STAND UP A NEW TESTING SITE ON THE CAMPUS OF LITTLETON REGIONAL HOSPITAL. THEY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO OVER 125 TESTS PER DAY. BOTH THE PCR TEST AND THE ANTIBODY TEST. THEY PREFER YOU MAKE AN APPOINTMENT, BUT YOU DO NOT NEED ONE. YOU DO NOT NEED A DOCTOR'S REFERRAL AND THEY WERE OPEN MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FROM 9:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M., SO YOU CAN SWING BY THERE IF YOU'RE IN THE NORTH COUNTRY, LITTLETON REGIONAL HOSPITAL, SWING BY THERE AND GET YOUR TEST, EITHER TEST, AND IF YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION ON THAT CLEAR CHOICE WEB SITE HAS ALL THE DETAILS AND A PHONE NUMBER TO CALL. THANK YOU. >> GREAT, WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH COMMISSIONER AND AGAIN JUST TO REITERATE. WE WANT FOLKS TO GO GET A TEST, IT'S OPENED UP. IF YOU WANT A TEST, YOU CAN GET A TEST, WE ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO DO THAT, EVEN IF YOU ARE ASYMPTOMATIC, HAVING THE INFORMATION ABOUT THOSE FOLKS THAT MAY BE ASYMPTOMATIC, KNOWING THERE ARE A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS OUT THERE THAT TEST POSITIVE THAT SHALL ASYMPTOMATIC AND MAKING SURE IF FOLKS ARE POSITIVE THAT THEY'RE NOT CARRIERS, UNKNOWING CARRIER TO LOVED ONES OR OTHER FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY. IT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT, SO WE'RE ENCOURAGING EVERYONE, STEP UP, GET A TEST AND AGAIN, JUST, NOW THAT WE HAVE THAT RESOURCE AT OUR FINGERTIPS, THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO REASON NOT TO PUSH THE LIMIT A LITTLE BIT AND UTILIZE THE TOOLS THAT WE DO HAVE. I WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE TOO, AND WE GO THROUGH SOME DATA. WE TALK A LOT ABOUT DATA WHEN WE DO THESE PRESS CONFERENCES SO WHAT I THOUGHT WE MIGHT DO IS GO THROUGH A SUMMARY OF SOME OF THE KEY QUESTIONS WE GET. I'M A VISUAL PERSON MYSELF, I LIKE MY CHARTS AND GRAPHS AS A MATHEMATICS GUY AND JUST SO EVERY DAY, WE GIVE THE DATA POINTS, BUT NOW JUST TO BE ABLE TO STEP BACK EVERY COUPLE WEEKS AND SEE WHERE SOME OF THESE TRENDS ARE GOING, AND WHAT WE FEEL ARE SOME OF THE KEY DATA POINTS, THE METRICS THAT WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT AS WE BOTH FLEX OPEN AND TRY TO GET A BETTER ASSESSMENT OF THOSE AREAS THAT COULD BE HOT SPOTS, THAT COULD BE SUPER CLUSTER TYPE OF EVENTS, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE, SO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. WE ALWAYS WANT TO BE VERY TRANSPARENT. WHAT WE SEE, WE WANT OTHER FOLKS TO SEE AND HOPEFULLY UNDERSTAND. SO I'M GOING TO DO MY BEST TO GO THROUGH THIS. SO WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS PROBABLY THE MOST COMMON DATA POINT THAT WE LOOK AT, WHICH IS THE PERCENT POSITIVE OF TESTS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. YOU'LL SEE EARLY ON HERE, THESE -- THIS IS WHEN WE WERE DOING VERY FEW TESTS, SO THE NUMBERS WOULD ACTUALLY MOVE VERY, VERY WIDELY, IF YOU WERE ONLY DOING 100 OR 150 TESTS A DAY, IT WOULD JUST TAKE A FEW EXTRA POSITIVES TO REALLY SWING THOSE RESULTS, BUT AS WE STARTED TO INCREASE TESTING CAPACITY, YOU CAN SEE THAT OUR TRENDS KIND OF FOLLOW THAT TYPICAL, YOU KNOW, SPIKE UP HIGH AND THEN NOW WE'RE CLEARLY ON THE BACK END OF THINGS. AGAIN, THIS IS I THINK ONE OF THE BEST TOOLS AND RESOURCES THAT WE REALLY HAVE. OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS, YOU'LL SEE HERE, IN THIS AREA, IN THAT AREA THERE, WE ARE CONTINUALLY BELOW THE 5% RANGE. 5% POSITIVE. IT SPIKES UP AND DOWN A LITTLE BIT. COULD THIS MOVE BACK UP? ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY IT COULD AND I IMAGINE IT WILL AT SOME POINT FOR ANY VARIETY OF POTENTIAL REASONS. BUT YOU KNOW, WE'LL BE CONSTANTLY USING THAT DATA, IT'S REALLY MORE ABOUT THE DATA AS OPPOSED TO MODELS AT THIS POINT. WE LIKE TO LOOK AT OTHER STATE'S DATA AS WELL AND WE TRY TO MATCH THE TYPES OF DATA THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT WITH OTHER STATES IN TERMS OF PERCENT POSITIVES OR HOSPITALIZATIONS WHATEVER IT IS TO SEE WHERE WE ARE. WE ARE STILL AS DR. CHEN MENTIONED, WE STILL ARE IN THE NORTHEAST. I BELIEVE MASSACHUSETTS HAD ONE OF THE HIGHEST NUMBERS IN THE COUNTRY YESTERDAY OF POSITIVE RESULTS. THEY'RE D. ON THE DOWNSWING, WHICH IS A VERY GOOD THING, BUT THEY STILL HAVE A LOT OF HIGH RESULTS AS WELL AND SO WE JUST HAVE TO BE ANY COGNIZANT, THAT WE HAVE SO MANY FOLKS THAT EITHER CROSSED OVER THE BORDER ON A DAILY BASIS, WORK IN MASSACHUSETTS, OR HAVE FAMILY IN MASSACHUSETTS, OR WE'RE VERY TIED TO THAT, SO YOU CAN'T IGNORE IT, BUT THESE ARE -- I SEE THESE ARE VERY GOOD RESULTS AND AS THE ORIGINAL GUIDANCE DOCUMENT THAT WAS PUT OUT BY THE C.D.C. AND THE PRESIDENT, SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, WHETHER YOU GET ABOUT TWO GOOD WEEKS OF A POSITIVE TRENDS OR NO TREND UP, THEN YOU THANK THAT NEXT STEP, THIS NEXT GATING STEP TO OPEN SOMETHING UP AND LOOK AT DATA FOR A COUPLE MORE WEEKS AND THEN YOU CAN OPEN THINGS UP AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. YOU CAN SEE, WE'VE HAD THESE COUPLE STRINGS HERE OF CONTINUAL -- A COUPLE GOOD WEEKS THAT KIND OF COME AT A TIME. MY SENSE IS, AND THIS IS, I MEAN, JUST LOOKING AT WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IN OTHER STATES, WE'RE GOING TO BE BOUNCING AROUND HERE BETWEEN 2%, 3%, 5% POSITIVES FOR A WHILE BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY FOLKS THAT ARE ASYMPTOMATIC THAT WILL LIKELY COME UP POSITIVE. WE'D LIKE TO SEE IT AT ZERO, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN ESSENTIALLY GOING TO SPIKE UP, SO WHILE WE OPEN SOME OF THESE THINGS AS PART OF OUR ECONOMY AS WE FLEX OPEN DIFFERENT PARTS OF OUR ECONOMY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT AND MAKING SURE THAT WHATEVER THE NUMBERS ARE, THEY'RE MANAGEABLE AND THEY'RE MANAGEABLE -- MANAGED IN TERMS OF THE HEALTH CARE STANDPOINT. OH, THIS IS THE ANTIBODY TEST. AGAIN, JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO, STARTING IN EARLY MAY, I GUESS THAT'S, WHAT, FOUR, FIVE WEEKS AGO NOW, WE GOT -- WERE ABLE TO TAKE OUR FIRST ROUNDS OF ANTIBODY TESTS ON ANY GIVEN DAY. THE BLUE IS WHAT YOU'RE SEEING THERE, THE NEGATIVE TESTS, THE ACTUAL, THE WHOLE NUMBER OF NEGATIVE TESTS THAT YOU'LL SEE ON ANY GIVEN DAY FOR THAT SPECIFIC DAY OF ANTIBODY TESTING, THE LITTLE WHITE ON THE TOP IS THE NUMBER OF POSITIVE TESTS AND REALLY WHAT WE LOOK AT HERE IS THIS YELLOW LINE, THE ORANGE AND YELLOW LINE, WHICH REALLY CONSISTENTLY AT ABOUT KNIFE% AND AS WE'VE BEEN REPORTING HERE, IT'S CONSISTENTLY AROUND 5% OF POSITIVE FOR FOLKS GETTING THAT ANTIBODY TEST AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY HAVE HAD SYMPTOMS BUT COULDN'T GET A TEST EARLY ON, OR MAYBE HAVE BEEN ASYMPTOMATIC BUT WANT TO SEE IF THEY HAD THE COVID ANTIBODIES WITHIN THEIR BLOOD STREAM, MEANING THAT THEY HAD IT ASYMPTOMATICALLY AND NEVER KNEW AND THAT'S CONSISTENTLY ABOUT 5% AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO AGAIN, USE THIS AS WE GO FORWARD TO SEE IF THAT NUMBER IS MOVING UP OR DOWN, MAKING SURE THAT THOSE TESTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT NEED THEM. THIS I BELIEVE IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARTS ACTUALLY. THIS IS THE HOSPITALIZATION, RIGHT, THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE USING OUR HOSPITAL BEDS, SPECIFICALLY FOR COVID, OR FOR NONCOVID INSTANCES, SO THESE ARE INDIVIDUAL DAYS HERE AT THE BOTTOM, AND THE GREEN LINE YOU HAVE HERE, IS THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE NON -- USING HOSPITAL BEDS THAT ARE NOT COVID RELATED, SO EVEN WHILE WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE COVID CRISIS, APPROXIMATELY, A LITTLE UNDER HALF OF THE AVAILABLE BEDS, MAYBE ABOUT 40% OR SO OF THE AVAILABLE BEDS IN THE STATE WERE BEING USED AT ANY GIVEN TIME FOR NONCOVID RELATED ITEMS. THE BLUE LINE UP HERE IS THE NUMBER -- OUR CAPACITY FOR HOSPITAL BEDS IN THE STATE, SO YOU CAN SEE BACK HERE AND ALL THE WAY EVEN UP TILL NOW, WHICH IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GRAPH THERE, THERE'S A LOT OF CAPACITY. THERE'S A LOT OF BED CAPACITY HEIR, WHICH MEANS AGAIN, IF WE WERE TO HAVE A SURGE, IF OUR NUMBERS WERE TO SPIKE, AS LONG AS IT WASN'T ANYTHING TOO LONG AND TOO SUSTAINED, AND WE WERE ABLE TO GET CONTROL OF IT, WE DO HAVE THE CAPACITY TO MANAGE VIA OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, WHETHER IT'S THE NEED TO HOSPITALIZE SOMEONE, VENTILATORS, IC'S, AVAILABILITY, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE AND THE YELLOW LINE AT THE BOTTOM IS THE REAL NUMBER OF COVID BED. THAT'S THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE USING A COVID BED AT ANY GIVEN TIME AND OUR CENSUS HAS CONTINUALLY BEEN AROUND ABOUT 100 FOLKS OR SO, GIVE OR TAKE, YOU KNOW, 10 OR 20 ON ANY GIVEN DAY. VERY CONSISTENT USE OF THE HOSPITAL BEDS. WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY VERY INTERESTING GIVEN THAT OUR SPIKE THAT WE SAW IN OUR PERCENT-POSITIVE CASES AND THE REAL KIND OF SURGE THAT WE HAD WITH COVID HIT AROUND, RIGHT AROUND HERE, RIGHT IN KIND OF THE MID TO LATE APRIL RANGE, RIGHT, BUT EVEN THEN, THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS THAT NEEDED HOSPITALIZATION WAS FAIRLY CONSISTENT, WHICH IS QUITE INTERESTING ACTUALLY. AGAIN, INDICATING A LOT OF FOLKS THAT HAD COVID OR TESTED POSITIVE, EITHER WERE ASYMPTOMATIC OR HAD MILD SYMPTOMS OR SYMPTOMS THAT COULD BE MANAGED AT HOME AND BEGIN, THAT'S A GOOD SIGN. THAT'S A SIGN THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, IF THEY WERE TO TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID AND OBTAIN THOSE SYMPTOMS, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE CAN MANAGE IT THROUGH SOMETHING AT HOME AND THROUGH QUARANTINING. AND THOSE THAT DO NEED ADDITIONAL HOSPITALIZATION OR SUPPORT SERVICES, MORE SEVERE SUPPORT SERVICES, WE HAVE THE CAPACITY, SO THIS IS SOMETHING WE WANTED TO MONITOR VERY, VERY CLOSELY. FOR ME, THIS IS WHERE IT FELT APART WITH CHINA, THIS IS WHERE IT FELL APART WITH ITALY, SOME OF THE COUNTRIES WE SAW IN EUROPE WHERE THE SYSTEMS WERE COMPLETELY OVERRUN. TO TAKE A STEP BACK IN MARCH, THAT'S EXACTLY WHY WE STARTED ALL OF THIS. THAT'S EXACTLY WHY WE STARTED PUTTING A LOT OF RESTRICTIONS ON OUR ECONOMY AND OUR COMMUNITIES SO THAT WHAT WE'RE SEEING VERY ACTIVELY ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD THAT HAD WE GONE THROUGH THE COVID EPIDEMIC BEFORE WE DID, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN AND IT DIDN'T. HATS OFF TO THE PEOPLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE FRANKLY TO MAKE SURE WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE THE RESTRICTIONS SERIOUSLY, BEND THE CURVE, A FLATTEN THE CURVE AS WE SAY AND ALLOW SOMETHING THAT WAS MANAGEABLE. YOU KNOW, I HAVE FRIENDS THAT LIVE IN ITALY AND THEY WERE TELLING HORRIFIC STORIES OF INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE GETTING COVID AND DYING AT HOME, NOT EVEN A CHANCE OF GETTING INTO A HOSPITAL OR HEALTH CARE FACILITY, IT WAS A REALLY TRAGIC SITUATION, WHICH IS WHY WE HAD TO TAKE SUCH DIRE MEASURES, BUT YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO MAINTAIN GOOD MANAGEMENT OF OUR SYSTEM, BE CONSISTENT ABOUT IT, AND NOW I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF CONFIDENCE THAT WE CAN TAKE SOME MANAGEABLE, SENSIBLE STEPS FORWARD TO START FLEXING OPEN. ALSO, THIS IS SIMILAR TO THAT LAST GROUP, THIS IS THE HOSPITALIZATIONS, THE NEW HOSPITALIZATIONS ON ANY GIVEN DAY. SO FOR EXAMPLE, ON MARCH 21, THERE ARE ABOUT SIX HOSPITALIZATIONS. SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE OVER TIME ESPECIALLY OTHER THAN THE LAST WEEK OR -- OVER THE LAST WEEK OR SO HERE, THE NUMBER OF HOSPITALIZATIONS HAS BEEN MUCH LOWER. WE KNOW THE FATALITY RATE IS STILL A VERY UNACCEPTABLE, THAT ONE IS TOO MANY, AND OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS, WE'VE HAD NINE, 11, IN THE 10 RANGE ON FATALITIES. WE'RE ALSO LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE VIRUS AND THE LENGTH OF STAY FOR INDIVIDUALS IN THE HOSPITALS IS I THINK IT'S LONGER THAN I HAD ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATED. IT CAN BE WEEKS AND WEEKS AND WEEKS, SOMETIMES OVER A MONTH, SOMEONE MAY BE IN A HOSPITAL BEFORE THEY RECOVER. AND OBVIOUSLY, THE MOST AFFECTED DEMOGRAPHICS IF YOU WILL ARE THOSE THAT ARE ELDERLY, OVER 60, 70 YEARS OLD, THOSE WITH UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITIONS, UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT GET MOST SEVERELY TAKEN BY THE SYMPTOMS AND NEED THAT HOSPITALIZATION AND HEALTH CARE CAPACITY, BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS, AT LEAST OVER THE PAST WEEK OR SO, WE'VE SEEN SOME PRETTY LOW NUMBERS IN TERMS OF THE NUMBERS OF INITIAL HOSPITALIZATIONS AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN STAY ON THAT PATH. SO THESE GRAPHS, COMMISSIONER HAS BEEN GREAT ABOUT PROVIDING SOME INFORMATION ON LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES, SO THE NEXT TWO GRAPHS, HE'S BEEN GIVING A LOT OF THE INDIVIDUAL DATA POINTS, BURR WE WANTED TO KIND OF VISUALIZE A LOT OF THAT INFORMATION, THAT THE COMMISSIONER HAS BEEN GIVING, SO THIS IS THE PERCENT OF LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES WI WITH COVID IN THEM, THE PERCENT OF FACILITIES THAT HAVE COVID. UNFORTUNATELY IN MASSACHUSETTS, THEY WERE OVER 50%. OVER 50% OF THE FACILITIES HAVE COVID IN SOME FORM. NEW YORK, 38%, RHODE ISLAND, 36% AND NEW HAMPSHIRE, 29%. SO AGAIN, WE'D LOVE TO SEE THAT NUMBER AT ZERO HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. WE'RE NOT THE WORST, WE'RE NOT THE BEST, IT'S NOT ABOUT COMPARING OURSELVES TO OTHERS. IT'S REALLY ABOUT MAKING SURE WE'RE PROVIDING EVERY PRESOURCE AND TOOL THAT WE HAVE IN THE TOOLBOX TO THOSE FACILITIES, WHERE THE HOT SPOTS ARE, ALLOWING THE STAFF TO HAVE FLEXIBILITY AND MAKING SURE THE PATIENT ARE GETTING THE BEST CARE WE CAN POSSIBLY PROVIDE WHILE KEEPING THEM SAFE AND HOPEFULLY AVOIDING NOT JUST A SINGLE CASE BUT AN OUTBREAK, WHICH WE CAN SEE CAN HAPPEN VERY, VERY QUICKLY AND UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS THE LONG-TERM CARE FATALITY DEATHS DUE TO -- AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE NUMBER OF BEDS. SO IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU TOOK ALL THE LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY BEDS IN THE STATE OR ALL THE INDIVIDUALS USING A BED IN THE STATE, WHAT IS THE MORTALITY RATE OF ALL THOSE INDIVIDUALS ACROSS-THE-BOARD. UNFORTUNATELY, PLACES LIKE CONNECTICUT, MASSACHUSETTS, RHODE ISLAND, ALL OF THEM WELL ABOVE 6 PASO ROBLES. NEW YORK, 3.5%, A DEATH RATE IN THE LONG-TERM CARB FACILITIES. MAINE, DOWN ACROSS THE STATE P4% AND NEW HAMPSHIRE AT ABOUT 1.5%. SO AGAIN, YOU KNOW, GIVEN OUR PROXIMITY TO PLACES LIKE RHODE ISLAND, CONNECTICUT, AND MASSACHUSETTS, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO MANAGE THE SITUATION VERY, VERY WELL IN OUR LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES, BUT WE KNOW THAT BETWEEN NOW AND THE TIME WE GET A VACCINE, FOR NOW AND QUITE A LONG TIME, THIS IS GOING TO BE AN AREA WHERE WE CONTINUE TO FOCUS OUR EFFORTS, OUR TOOLS AND OUR RESOURCES BUT AGAIN, IT'S, YOU KNOW, 1.5% OF FOLKS IN LONG-TERM CARE WE'VE LOST TO COVID-19. THAT'S A TRAGIC NUMBER TO BE SURE AND SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO KEEP AN EYE ON AND KEEP MANAGING TOO. SO I HAD A COUPLE CHARTS HERE, PEOPLE ASKING ME ABOUT ECONOMIC DATA AND THIS IS KIND OF AN INTERESTING ONE I THOUGHT. IT'S MORE OF AN INTERESTING ONE. YOU CAN KIND OF READ THIS IN A COUPLE DIFFERENT WAYS. THIS IS THE TRAFFIC COUNT ON I-93. SO HOW MANY CARS ARE ACTUALLY ON THE ROAD ON ANY GIVEN DAY, THIS COMES FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, AND THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE OF THIS YEAR VERSUS LAST YEAR. SO FOR EXAMPLE, BACK ON FEBRUARY RIGHT AT WHERE WE WERE LAST YEAR IN EARLY FEBRUARY. RIGHT ABOUT HERE IT WHERE WE HIT THE FIRST SIGNS OF THE COVID E COVIDEPIDEMIC, RIGHT ABOUT HERE WHERE WE PUT THE STAY-AT-HOME ORDER IN PLACE, YOU CAN SEE OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, THE NUMBER OF CARS ON THE ROAD DROP PRECIPITOUSLY, TO THE POINT WHERE WE ONLY HAD HALF THE COURSE EVER CARS ON THE ROAD. THIS IS INTERESTING, IT'S NOT JUST CARS COMING INTO THE STATE FOR TOURISM, INDIVIDUALS THAT MIGHT BE DRIVING TO WORK, EITHER WITHIN THE STATE OR OUT-OF-STATE, I-93 IS KIND OF THAT, YOU KNOW, VERY HIGH TRAFFIC CORRIDOR, WE HAVE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. AND IT WAS -- EACH BEEN USING IT AS A PRETTY GOAT METRIC IF YOU WILL AS TO KIND OF WHERE WE ARE. NOW, SLOWLY, AS WE START OPENING THINGS UP AROUND THIS POINT HERE, WE START COMING BACK, IN THIS AREA HERE, YOU KNOW, THOSE FIRST COUPLE WEEKS AFTER WE REALLY BOTTOMED OUT AT ABOUT HALF THE NUMBER OF CARS ON THE ROAD, EVEN BEYOND THAT, I THINK PEOPLE WERE IN VERY MUCH A HOLD MODE, THE STAY-AT-HOME ORDER WAS VERY MUCH IN FULL EFFECT. SOLELY, I THINK FOLKS STARTED COMING EITHER BACK TO WORK, FEELING A LITTLE MORE COMFORTABLE, LOOKING AT SOME OF THE, AS WE ALLOWED, CERTAIN ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES TO STAY OPEN, SOME OF THEM FLEXED THEMSELVES OPEN A LITTLE BIT AND THEN RIGHT INTO THIS TIME RANGE HERE, WE START FLEXING THINGS OPEN A LITTLE MORE IN TERMS OF THE ECONOMY. MY GUESS IS IT LOOKS LIKE WE'VE BASED ON LICENSE PLATES, THAT'S ONE OF THE FEW WAYS WE CAN TRACK IT, WE HAVE HAD A FEW MORE FOLKS OVER THE WEEKEND COME UP OUT FROM OUT-OF-STATE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TOURISM, LODGING, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THESE THINGS THAT CAN DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY DRAW PEOPLE OUT OF MASSACHUSETTS OR OUT-OF-STATE OR ANYWHERE, FROM A LOCATION THAT MIGHT BE HIGH -- HAVE A I HUER IMPACT OF CO -- HIGHER IMPACT OF COVID THAN WE DO HERE, WE ALWAYS SAY, FOLKS IN MASSACHUSETTS, MAINTAIN YOUR STAY-AT-HOME ORDER IN MASSACHUSETTS, YOU HAVE ONE THERE, WE HAVE ONE HERE. WE WANT YOU TO COME UP TO NEW HAMPSHIRE EVENTUALLY, BUT NOT RIGHT NOW. THERE IS MORE TRAFFIC ON THE ROAD. IT'S NOT SPIKING UP TOO FAST, IT IS SPIKING UP SLOWLY, PEOPLE ARE FEELING COMFORTABLE ABOUT GETTING BACK ON THE ROAD AND BACK TO THE WORKFORCE. THIS IS THE WORKFORCE. THIS IS OUR LABOR FORCE. AS A LOT OF FOLKS KNOW, WITH IT COMES TO UNEMPLOYMENT, N NEW HAMPSHIRE, EVEN BEFORE THE C.A.R.E.S. ACT DID IT, WE EXTENDED OUR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, WE WERE VERY AGGRESSIVE ABOUT IT, WE HAD ADDITIONAL UNAPPOINTMENT UN -- U OPPORTUNITIES, DUE TO REASONS OUT OF BUSINESS'S CONTROL THAT WOULD ULTIMATELY AT LEAST TEMPORARILY BE PUT OUT OF WORK AND OUR NUMBERS SPIKED REALLY, REALLY HIGH BECAUSE WE WERE MUCH MORE AHEAD OF THE GAME THAN OTHER FOLKS. THIS IS WHERE WE ARE COMPARED TO OTHER STATES IN THE COUNTRY. YOU'LL SEE THE ONES IN MORNING, THE OTHER NEW ENGLAND STATES, NEW YORK IS AROUND -- I'M NOT SURE WHERE NEW YORK IS. NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY, I THINK NEW JERSEY IS HERE. BUT THIS IS OUR UNEMPLOYMENT ESSENTIALLY OUR CONTINUING CLAIMS WEEK OVER WEEK, SO WHAT THIS REALLY IS, IS THE PERCENT OF LABOR FORCE, SO WE HAVE ON ANY GIVEN TILE, 700, 75,000 PEOPLE IN THE LABOR FORCE -- 750,000 PEOPLE IN THE WORKFORCE. WEEK OVER WEEK, THESE ARE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE CONTINUING THEIR CLAIMS, RIGHT NOW IT'S AT JUST UNDER 15%. I THINK THIS PAST WEEK IT WAS JUST OVER 100,000 PEOPLE. I THINK WE PEAKED OUT. I'M DOING THIS OFF OF MEMORY. ABOUT 116,000 INDIVIDUALS IN A CONTINUING CLAIM WEEK AND WE'RE STEADILY GOING DOWN. WE'RE A LITTLE OVER 100,000. WE'RE NOT SURE WHERE THE END OF THIS WEEK WILL COME IN, MAYBE UNDER 100,000, BUT THE NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS WEEK OVER WEEK IS CONTINUING TO DROP, WHERE WE'VE BECOME ONE OF THE LOWEST IN NEW ENGLAND, WHICH IS A GOOD SIGN THAT THE ECONOMY IS COMING BACK, BUT YOU KNOW, WE DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO JUMP RIGHT HERE PEOPLE, BECAUSE THAT PROBABLY MEANS WE'RE OPENING UP A LITTLE TOO HARD, A LITTLE TOO FAST AN EVEN, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WE OPEN RETAIL, IF YOU'VE BEEN TO ONE OF THE MALLS, SIMON'S MALL STAYED OPEN, WE DID FLEX RETAIL OPEN. RETAIL STORES CAN OPEN, BUT IF YOU'VE BEEN TO THE MALL, ONLY ABOUT HALF OF THE STORES HAVE CHOSEN TO OPEN, SO EVEN AS WE FLEX THINGS OPEN, THERE'S STILL THE ABILITY FOR BUSINESSES THAT MIGHT SAY WE'RE NOT READY YET FOR A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT REASONS, SO EVEN IF YOU WERE TO OPEN EVERYTHING BACK UP, WE KNOW IT IS GOING TO TAKE TIME TO REALLY GET BACK TO THE STRENGTH OF THE ECONOMY THAT WE HAD. WE HAD AS MANY FOLKS KNOW, ONE OF THE STRONGEST ECONOMIES IN THE COUNTRY. WHICH IS SOMETHING TO BE VERY PROUD OF. WE STILL HAVE GREAT FUNDAMENTALS, WE HAVE GREATLY QUID IT'S, NOT JUST AT THE -- LIQUIDITY, NOT JUST AT THE STATE LEVEL BUT THE BANKS, THEY ARE STRONG AND VIABLE, WHICH GIVES US CONFIDENCE, AS WE FLEX THINGS OPEN, WE'LL BE ABLE TO COME BACK STRONGER WITH OUR ECONOMY. PEOPLE ASK ABOUT THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS AND I WANTED TO SHOW WHERE WE WERE RELATIVE TO TODAY, JUST UNDER 15% OF WHAT WE CALL OUR CONTINUING CLAIMS AND WHERE WE ARE RELATIVE TO NEW ENGLAND, WHICH IS AGAIN -- AND LET ME TAKE A MOMENT HERE AND ALSO SAY, YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY IT BEFORE, HATS OFF TO THE FOLKS AT UNEMPLOYMENT. THE DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY HAS GONE SO FAR ABOVE AND BEYOND, YOU KNOW, IN YOU LOOK AT HOW WE'RE PROCESSING OUR CLAIMS, I CHALLENGE THEM. I SAID YOU'VE GOALTEND TO BE FASTER THAN OTHER STATES, WE'VE GOT TO EXPAND OUR OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYMENT MORE THAN OTHER STATES, WE'VE GOT TO SIMPLIFY THE PROCESS FOR INDIVIDUALS BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE AND WE HAVE. WE SIMPLY PROCESSED CLAIMS AT A HIGHER RATE, FASTER AND BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE AND THERE'S ISSUES HERE AND THERE HE DOESN'T MEAN EVERY CLAIM ISN'T PROCESSED IMMEDIATELY, DOESN'T MEAN SOMEONE DOESN'T NEED MORE PERSONAL ATTENTION. THE FACT WE HAVE THE CALL CENTER WITH OVER 200 PEOPLE. THEY'VE DONE A TREMENDOUS JOBS AND I HAD GOVERNORS CALLING ME AND ASKING HOW WE'RE DOING IT SO WELL. FRAUD WITHIN THE SYSTEM AND THAT'S BEEN AN ISSUE NATIONALLY LATELY. RIGHT NOW, OF THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CLAIMS THAT WE'VE PROCESSED IN TOTAL, SINCE THIS ALL STARTED, OVER 100,000 PER WEEK FOR THE PAST COUPLE MONTHS, WE MIGHT HAVE UPWARDS OF BETWEEN 5 AND 10, 5 AND 10 CASES OF FRAUD THAT WE KNOW OF. UNITED STATES LIKE WASHINGTON THAT PAY $300 MILLION TO NIGERIA. I MEAN, THAT'S JUST A FACT, BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THEY JUST WEREN'T READY, THEY WEREN'T PREPARED, DIDN'T HAVE INDIVIDUALS ON THE FRONT LINES THAT WE HAVE IN THE STATE. HATS OFF TO THE FOLKS AT EMPLOYMENT SECURITY, THEY HAVE DONE AN AWESOME JOB. WE HAVE 200 PEOPLE IN THE CALL CENTERS. IT DOESN'T WORK PERFECT, WE GET IT, BUT BY GOSH, IT WORKS BETTER THAN MOST. I WON'T SAY WHICH STATES EXACTLY. THERE HAVE BEEN A COUPLE STATES SAYING LOOK, THEY ARE 100,000 CLAIMS BEHIND, 250,000 CLAIMS BEHIND. RIGHT NOW WE'VE PROCESSED ALL BUT 3,000 OR 4,000 CLAIMS, WHICH IS ABOUT AVERAGE, BECAUSE SOME OF THEM TAKE A LITTLE EXTRA TIME, A LITTLE MORE ONE-ON-ONE UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE OF THE COMPLEXITIES OF PEOPLE'S WORK ENVIRONMENT. WE'RE IN GOOD SHAPE AND I DON'T MEAN TO GO ON TOO MUCH. HATS OFF TO THEM, THE PEOPLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SHOULD BE PROUD WE HAVE SUCH A GREAT SYSTEM. THAT'S IT. I'M A DATA GUY, I COULD GO ON ALL DAY. I WANT TO GIVE FOLKS A LITTLE TASTE OF SOME OF THE METRICS WE LOOK AT OVER TIME AND WE'LL KEEP UPDATING FOLKS AS WE GO ON IT, WHERE WE ARE WITH OUR TRENDS, NOT JUST OUR DAILY DATA POINTS WE LIKE TO BE. WE LIKE TO BE AS TRANSPARENT AS POSSIBLE. WHAT WE KNOW, WE WANT YOU TO KNOW AND AGAIN SHARE IN THAT