St. Pete Chamber presents: "Coronavirus Impact Insights." Kim Green 5-20-20

On this episode, Kim Green, owner and CEO of Green Savoree Racing Promotions joins Chris Steinocher, CEO of the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Joe Hamilton, publisher of the St. Pete Catalyst.

But first, Steinocher takes listeners through the Florida Chamber Scorecard for Pinellas County. He says the outlook is optimistic, as the percent of positive tests cases hovers at less than 2 percent, despite the 14-day average of positive cases continuing to increase. The positive cases are now around 20 per day, just short of the Pinellas County’s peak of 25 positive cases per day in April, though testing has widely expanded since then.

Hamilton encourages listeners to keep a macro perspective of their own choices and their own household, rather than a micro perspective of the state or country as a whole.

Green Savoree Racing Promotions holds four of the 17 Indy Car races of the season, including the Firestone Grand Prix, held in downtown St. Petersburg, usually in March. This year, the Grand Prix was cancelled late in the game, as the Covid-19 pandemic bore down on St. Pete. The race has now been rescheduled for October.

Green shares the experience of cancelling the Grand Prix, and the 72-hour whirlwind involved in choosing whether to keep the race on or cancel it, and the many players involved in that decision-making.

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