- Joining us now to discussthis further is healthcare

logistics expert, Dr. Larry Kaplan

and the pleasure to have youwith us today, Dr. Kaplan.

- It's my pleasure to be here.

- Well, let's pick up withthe latest developments

that we were just talkingabout out of California.

Should churches be treateddifferent than businesses

when it comes to reopening?

- Well, churches, in myopinion, churches are essential.

And from a from a healthcare perspective,

the work that churches havebeen doing and keep in mind,

churches are not closed.

The buildings may be closed,but churches not closed.

The work that churches havebeen doing is, in many ways,

not only essential, but it'salso healthcare services,

supporting mental health,supporting drug and alcohol abuse,

supporting domestic violence,

supporting there's a host of things

that the church does that,

in my personal opinion is is essential?

So I differ greatly from the findings.

I think that we need churchesmore than ever right now.

- Well, everyone is trying to figure out

how to safely open their businesses

in their houses of worship,

what steps or steps are most important

and are there any things that

perhaps the average personwouldn't be thinking about?

- Yeah, in my dogshealth is an organization

that's been helping get

we've a logistics health organization.

So we've been delivering care

for the US military for 25years, school based programmes.

So we have a lot ofexperience in in getting care

to populations where they operate

and making sure that that gets delivered.

Churches can be openedtoday in away that allows

the church to function theway it normally function

as well as maintain the healthissues that we've worked

so hard to try and andprotect the country from the

expansion of COVID-19.

So there there are a number of policies

that can be put into placevery rapidly for churches

to go to, to open up

and open up at close to normal capacity.

- So what are some of those steps?

- Sure, so the first thingthat the church would wanna do

is we wanna put into placean actual written plan

and and we want the planto be available to the

parishioners, so they understand exactly

what's going to happen.

We've instituted in other cases

is the prisoners can goon to their mobile devices

or to their computer andfill out a health survey

and a social history survey that notifies

that lets the church know that

this person doesn't have any symptoms,

and that they haven'tbeen exposed to anyone

who is potentially COVID-19 positive,

because the first thing wewanna do is try to keep people

who are positive from going to the church

in the first place.

We wanna try and keep it as a safe place

from the transmission of infection.

The next thing that- we do that

- because churches arethere to help people

you don't want them to findthemselves in a situation

of harming themselvesmore than helping them.

We got to leave it right there.

We're out of time, sir.

But thank you so much for yourtime and for your insights.

- Okay, thank you very.