. @OCFLMayor says prior to social distancing, cases were doubling every 2 days, now they're doubling every 3.8 days

Goal is to get it to doubling only every 4-6 days

Demings says he's suspending pursuit of the sales tax for transportation- until after the pandemic is over

. @MrFrankTorres would be interested to know I asked the mayor about this when I talked to him on Wednesday- at that time he said he was still committed to it. At any rate I had to cut that from the interview for time.

. @orlandomayor says another member of the Fire Department has tested positive for #coronavirus

Dyer says the city has received 2,000 N95 masks from Home Depot. Also thanks JL Distilling for switching to making hand sanitizer

"Our shared efforts to stop the spread should remind us of how connected we are as a community, how intertwined we are"

Yolanda Martinez, OC Health Services, says now's a good time to check with your primary care provider and find out if they offer telehealth check ups

Dr. Raul Pino says if we continue at the same case expansion rate, we could hit 1,000 cases by next Friday.

[A couple days ago he said we could hit 500 cases by today. Orange County's on track to go over 600 by the end of today]

The County's tested 6,000 people.

Two other people who died were women who were over 80 years old, in an assisted living facility. "They both died in a clinical setting," says Pino

"The assisted Living Facility is of high interest to us. We all read what happened in Washington State. We don't want that to repeat here"

Dr. Pino says the facility was inspected by the health department and there was nothing wrong with it.

. @SheriffMina says another deputy tested positive- now 2 deputies have #coronavirus. They're self quarantining at home.

Mina says they haven't made any arrests relating to the curfew or stay at home orders

Mina- call to report non-compliance with stay at home / curfew orders (but use non emergency number)

. @OCPSnews superintendent Barbara Jenkins: "My prayer every day, is that our youth will not be unduly traumatized by this pandemic."

Jenkins-- grab and go meals are available at 52 sites

592 employees serving 200,000 meals a week

198,000 launchpad log-ins per day (that's the remote learning platform the school uses)

Jenkins says there are plans to distribute laptops to kids who do not have them

$85,000 has been donated to help families in need- gift cards for families who need groceries, hotspots for those who don't have internet access

Back to Dr. Pino-- positive rates for testing in the county remain about 10%

How many people have recovered? Dr. Pino says it's hard to get an exact number on that.

Mayor Demings says Orange County is only getting a fraction of the supplies it's requesting from the state-- 14% so far. Demings said he was on a conference call with mayors of major counties this afternoon

"None of us are getting the high percentage of the mission requests that were submitted to the state. That includes requests for personal protective equipment, for hand sanitizers, collection kits, testing kits "

Demings talking about how to deal with med surge: "Maybe we need a MASH type unit here within the region that we will divert people to"

Demings sounds quite disappointed to put the penny sales tax on hold "I've been working on this for a year"

Demings says it's not possible to get it on the ballot per the statutory deadlines set by State of Florida

But- he says there still needs to be something done to solve Central Florida's transpo problems

He acknowledges the chances of it passing this November if it were to make it onto the ballot are not great, given people are going to be hurting economically