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Austin in Phase 2 = investigative

Travis Co. test from yesterday is still pending.

Dr. Epscot (or something) Committee named to evaluate mass gatherings - churches, schools and spring events. They will not be closing SXSW because people will still travel here for it (huh?)and they won’t have the city structure for safety and remind them to.... wash their hands. This disease is bad but not as bad as Ebola. Mortality is .7% including China so is substantially less than that outside China.

Some woman - Do what your mama taught you to wash hands, cover coughs, stay calm and carry on.

Gay city council guy - SXSW will not be cancelled (singing Money, money, money, mon-eeeeeey). Most important thing to do is wash your hands, bow to one another or elbow bump.

Question session:

Holding large events like SXSW won’t increase risk. Wash your hands. Increase person to person distance. As crowds grow, distance decreases (DUH!!!). Even shutting down SXSW people will still come and there won’t be any hand sanitizers available for them. Cancelling large events will lead to job loss.

They may decrease numbers of people at certain venues to help with social distancing.

Infected individuals will be monitored. Dr. issues control order - you may not go out, blah, blah.

DHSH lab will be the lab to run and evaluate CV tests. (and Dr. coughs).

Public announcements can be issued when looking for tracing “if you were in X place at X time please contact us”.

Wash hands. Don’t go to work when sick.

Known prone compromised issues - nursing homes.

They have three sets of guidelines but didn’t explain it. Criteria has been loosened but sometimes travel history before accepting it might be CV.

Encouraging businesses, IT, to consider working at home.

The end.