'I think the most important thing the federal government needs to be focusing on is making sure that every city in America, large and small, has a playbook,' said Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.
With more than 118 infections and 18 deaths in the greater area as of Sunday, Seattle is the center of the worst coronavirus outbreak in the United States, and the first city in the country to be hit by it. To fight the spread of the virus, Seattle has begun an aggressive plan using partnerships with Google, Microsoft, Amazon to permit employees to work from home and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help fill the need for broad virus testing.
We are very fortunate that Seattle has some of the most innovative companies in the world with some of the best researchers and thinkers. We have a very sophisticated healthcare system and health research centers here. We are at the point now where there is a great private-public partnership so we can outsource some of these very complicated issues in a way where experts can come back to us with data, information, and recommendations.
Number one, we didn't see how quickly the disease was spreading, because of the lack of testing. Second, we were unable to determine the breadth of the spread in the community, so it was harder to develop strategies. So we had to rely on the research scientist and modeling, to take research they were doing...
Q: COVID-19 has exposed the inequity in communities. Seattle schools, for example, have 17,535 students who qualify for reduced or free meals. How are you balancing minimizing contact, while doing things like keeping schools open to provide services to the most vulnerable members of your community?We knew at the outset that we had a similar problem showing up in both our healthcare system and in our economic system.
I think that we will continue to hope that the message we got from the Vice President is what happens. It is so critical during crises, that we speak as one government, so the public knows what to expect and what's going to be done.
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