White House briefing I'm a corona virus pandemic here is the president to the FDA so the states are very much involved they have been involved from the beginning but we're setting it up as much as we can and the testing procedures are going well and within a short period of time all of the private labs will kick in this never been done before and it's it's gonna be something very I think it's gonna be incredible if it's done properly and these are great companies these are among the greatest com
panies in the world actually so the state's going to be dealing through themselves and with local government local physicians local everybody they're also dealing with us but we have a tremendous testing capacity today we're also announcing a dramatic expansion of our Medicare telehealth services Medicare patients can now visit any doctor by phone or video conference at no additional cost including with commonly used services like FaceTime and Skype a historic breakthrough this has not been done
before either in addition states of the authority to recover telehealth services for their medical patients and by doing this the patient is not seeing the doctor per se but they're seeing the doctor so there's no getting close during this time we will not enforce applicable HIPAA penalties so that doctors can greatly expand care for their patients using telehealth so the penalties won't be enforced we encourage everyone to maximize use of telehealth to limit exposure to the virus it's been a v
ery successful method of communication but never used on a on a scale like we're going to use at telehealth and you'll be able to also better maintain Hospital capacity by doing this earlier this morning I spoke with executives from America's fast food industry Wendy's McDonald's all of the the big ones Burger King and they were great we're talking about the pickups in light of yesterday's guidance you heard to avoid eating or drinking at bars restaurants or public food courts we discuss the imp
ortant role that the drive-thru pickup and delivery service can play in the weeks ahead so that's happening and they have been fantastic they have been absolutely fantastic and they've been doing it already but they're keeping it open and smaller staffs very capable people and very capable companies and they're doing it pick ups our guidance yesterday urges Americans to take action for 15 days to help stem the outbreak so it's a 15-day period I guess now would say it's a 14-day period it's 15 da
ys from yesterday and we're asking everyone to work at home a possible postpone unnecessary travel and limit social gatherings to no more than 10 people by making shared sacrifices and temporary changes we can protect the health of our people and we can protect our economy because I think our economy will come back very rapidly so it's 15 days from yesterday we'll see what happens after that if we do this right our country and the world frankly but our country can be rolling again pretty quickly
pretty quickly we have to fight that invisible enemy that I guess unknown what we're getting to know what a lot better today the Senate has taken up coronavirus legislation that includes free testing for those who need it as well as paid sick leave and family medical leave for work is affected by the virus we're also committed to getting small businesses a support that they need in fact one of the things we talked about with the fast food operations we spoke to the chairman and CEOs of all of t
he companies but one of the things we discussed is exactly that getting small businesses support and flexibility that they need for themselves and for their workers and that's being worked on right now at my direction secretary minuchin is meeting today with senators on additional stimulus packages I can tell you who's meeting with them late until the night last night and for a big part of the day yesterday and tremendous things are happening there's great spirit tremendous spirit and I can say
that for Republicans and Democrats I can say that with respect to Governor Cuomo we had a great talk this morning we're both doing a really good job and we're coordinating it and we agree you know different states need different things and we we agree on that 100% but with a very good talk and I think we're right down the same track and it's going to be very successful New York has a pretty big problem I guess would be the number one hot spot that's no fault of anybody's it's just the way it is
but we're working very closely together we're also getting FEMA very much involved they've been involved but now we're getting them to a different level and we'll have everything ready we're dealing with the Army Corps of Engineers should that be necessary we have them working in some cases on standby in other cases but my conversation with Andrew Cuomo was a very very productive one and a very good one I appreciate that we're giving relief to affected industries and small businesses and we're e
nsuring that we emerge from this challenge with the prosperous and growing economy because that's what's going to happen it's going to pop one day we'll be standing possibly up here we'll say well we won and we're going to say that sure as you're sitting there we're gonna say that and we're going to win and I think we're going to win faster than people think I hope later today I'll meet with the leaders from determined tourism industry as well as industrial supply retailers and wholesalers to di
scuss their critical roles as you know I met with the department store people all of the retail as the big ones including Walmart and others and it was great meeting they're stocking up their stores like they have devastated before we're trying to get people to actually buy less if that's possible buy less don't take everything just buy what you need for a while it's going to stay open all hours of the day and they've really been they've been fantastic we're taking aggressive action now as one n
ation and one family so that America can rebound stronger frankly stronger than ever before and we recognize that while many American workers can work from home many others cannot many of our health care providers first responders and men and women in the food service and manufacturing are showing that they're showing up and standing up to provide us with the goods and services we need so we want people to stay home where they can but in many cases when you talk about food service and manufactur
ing certain items in particular they are they're going in and they're practicing all of the safety rules and regulations that we talk about so with that I'd like to just introduce our trade vice-president Mike Pence he'll say a few words and then I'll make some other introductions thank you very much Thank You mr. president good morning it should be very clear to the American people that President Trump has initiated not only a whole-of-government approach but a whole of America approach and the
president's interaction even today and through the course of this day with leaders in industry around the country reflects that we're not only bringing the full weight of the federal government to bear but the full way of the American economy and I know I speak on behalf of the president when I say how inspired we are at the way the American people have stepped up in the way that American businesses large and small have stepped up has truly been inspiring our task force met this morning and we
continue to focus on president Trump's priorities of testing prevention and supplies and in that category I'm pleased to report that that while testing is available in all 50 states as the president just indicated through the swift action of the FDA at the encouragement of governors around the country now state health authorities can authorize labs in their state and expand existing testing capabilities but also in connection with the FDA's action which you'll be more about in a moment we now ha
ve continued to expand the public and private partnership that the president forged with vast commercial laboratories around the country increasing access to the high-volume high throughput coronavirus testing that is that is greatly expanding access even as we speak also our task force received a report this morning on the progress that the US Public Health Service and FEMA are making working closely with state governments and also partners in the private sector like CVS Target Walgreens and Wa
lmart to expand remote testing sites around the country and we'll have a full report later this week as those come online it's important the American people understand the testing is happening all over the country but all of our health experts wanted me to tell the American people you don't need the results of testing to know what you should do and president Trump's 15 day coronavirus guidelines our advice for every American in every community they're the result of the best guidance of CDC and o
ur health experts and as the president said we continue to urge every American over the next 15 days to put into practice the principles in the president's coronavirus guidelines by every American practicing these principles we believe that we can slow the spread of the corona virus in fact our experts have told our Task Force that if every American acts on the president's coronavirus guidelines we could see a substantial reduction in the spread of the corona virus but as the president said it w
ill take all of us to do it so if you feel sick stay home if someone in your house tests positive keep the entire household home especially if you're a person with an underlying health condition we urge you to stay home and practice social distancing from people though social gatherings of more than 10 people use drive-through as the president discussed with leaders in the industry today and every American especially practicing common sense and good hygiene for the American people as a whole the
risk of serious illness remains low but we're asking every American to partner with us in this effort to slow the spread of the virus and aspects chillie to be mindful of seniors or others with serious underlying health conditions for whom the threat of the corona virus can be very significant and very real as I said the president has continued to push our task force to bring a whole-of-government a whole of America approach and we continue to be inspired the way our nation's governors and nati
on businesses are responding we spoke just yesterday with the leaders of every broadcast network in America that will soon be unveiling a public service campaign using CDC guidelines and specifically as we work on the issue of supplies meetings yesterday with Department of Defense officials about excess supplies the president and I will be meeting today to speak about the supply chain for hospitals we would make one specific request and that is we would urge construction companies to donate thei
r inventory of n95 mass to your local hospital and forgo additional orders of those industrial masks because of what the president asked to be included in legislation moving through the Congress today those industrial masks that they use on construction sites are perfectly acceptable for healthcare workers to be protected from a respiratory disease but we're asking construction companies that our president knows very well from his background we're asking them to donate their n95 masks to their l
ocal hospitals and also forego making additional orders it's the president's direction we will we will continue to do whatever it takes we'll continue to marshal the best of the American people the best of all the people behind me the people behind them our state and local officials and we will get through this and we will get through this together thank you mister I want to thank Chad Wolfe and Homeland Security the job they did at the airports was really incredible they screened thousands and
thousands of people O'Hare got backed up but a little bit but they got him out and but everybody was screened and screened very carefully they didn't want to rush it I think was 13 airports and it was it was an incredible thing then they had a big surge also from the UK and Ireland and that went very smoothly but they did a fantastic job they work long hours and they did a fantastic job I'd like to introduce the evolution and then I'm gonna ask Steve to leave because he's going to the hill he's
been working very hard with the Senate and with actually with the house on a very very big bold package it's gonna be big it's gonna be bold and the level again of enthusiasm to get something done I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it so state minuchin please Thank You mr. president I'd like to announce some very significant actions that the president has approved today the first I would say is earlier today I sent a letter to Fed Chairman Powell approving his request to use 13-3 a
nd what that will do is the Fed will be setting up a special purpose vehicle which the Treasury will invest 10 billion dollars in from one of our funds that will enable the Fed to guarantee the purchase of a 1p one commercial paper going forward that is a one trillion dollar market and is critical to American workers it's critical to American business and it's in critical to American savers who have a lot of that money in money market funds so we heard loud and clear there were liquidity issues
this is very significant and will create I don't think we'll need to use it all but we have the ability to have the Fed purchase up to one trillion dollars of commercial paper is needed that has already created significant stability in the market today the second thing I would say is you know we've previously talked about deferring IRS payments the president earlier this morning authorized me to announce this program I have previously announced we would defer 200 billion the president suggested
we increased that to 300 billion which will we will be doing now let me just be clear on the specifics we encourage those Americans who can file their taxes to continue to file their taxes on April 15th because for many Americans you will get tax refunds and we don't want you to lose out on those tax refunds we want you to make sure you get them many people do this electronically which is easy for them and easy for the IRS if you owe a payment to the IRS you can defer up to a million dollars as
an individual and the reason why we're doing a million dollars is that covers lots of pass throughs and small businesses and ten million dollars to corporations interest-free and penalty free for 90 days all you have to do is file your taxes you'll automatically not get charged interest in penalties now of course any American has the right to extend their taxes we're not taking that a right but the president has asked us to go up to 300 billion dollars that's also an enormous amount of liquidity
in the system the third thing is the President and I worked on a very significant economic stimulus plan thank you for being available last night and throughout this morning and I will be presenting that to the Republicans in the Senate this morning and also discussing that with the house we look forward to having bipartisan support we're now working with the Senate to pass this legislation very quickly and these will be payments to small businesses we've talked about loan guarantees so two cri
tical industries such as Airlines and hotels and we've also talked about a stimulus package to the American worker you can think of this as something like business interruption payments for the American workers thank you do you have any questions or the secretary of the Treasury say a stimulus package for American workers do you mean direct payments to Americans are you talking about a payroll tax holiday although the president likes the idea that the payroll tax holiday I will tell you what we'
ve heard for many people and the president has said we can consider this the payroll tax holiday would get people money over the next six to eight months we're looking at sending checks to Americans immediately and what we've heard from hardworking Americans many companies have now shut down whether it's bars or restaurants Americans need cash now and the president wants to get cash now and I mean now in the next two weeks I will be previewing that with the Republicans there's some numbers out t
here they may be a little bit bigger than what's in the process we've had discussions with all the airline CEOs this week the airline CEOs have had conversations with the Senate and the house as the president said I was up with a subset of the Republican senators last night I've discussed that with them I think as you know this is worse than 9/11 for the airline industry this is they are almost ground to a halt the president wants to make sure that although we don't want people to travel unless
it's critical we want to maintain for critical travel the right to have domestic travel I'm not gonna comment on the specifics I will tell you we're very focused there's a lot of workers the this is strategically important to us and we'll be working with Congress on the airline industry we'll be in good shape yeah go ahead thousand dollars tax to every American it's increasing support Republicans and some Democrats for that would you support that going to everyone or would you support some sort
of income restriction on who gets a check well I think it's clear we don't need to send people who make a million dollars a year checks okay but we like that's one of the ideas we like we're gonna preview that today and then we'll be talking about details afterwards well I think I think we're going to do something that gets money to them as quickly as possible that may not be an accurate way of doing it because obviously some people shouldn't be getting checks for $1,000 and we'll have a pretty
good idea by the end of the day what we're going to be doing how was the mechanics of this work and we've been talking about a payroll tax holiday some five hundred billion dollars worth was floated to me today but so how would this idea of sending people to check work would you would that be sort of an advance on what they would pay actually again we want to make sure Americans get money in their pockets quickly we want to make sure small business owners have access to funds we want to make sur
e that hotels airlines we have an entire package will be laying out those details later today yeah I have to say this there are four different ways you can do it that's a four you can hear me well enough and magic keep it okay those are very important people come to think especially your people look we have four or five ways we can do it four ways in particular I think there's a fifth possibility but there are some very good ways of getting the money out and getting it out quickly payroll tax is
one way but it does come over a period of months many months and we want to do something much faster than that so I think we have ways of getting money out pretty quickly and very accurately we have to do this now so this is now week we are gonna work with the Senate who's in session right now actively we will continue to have conversations with the house I've already spoken to Speaker Pelosi once today this is stuff that needs to be done now the president has instructed me that this is no faul
t to American workers for medical reasons we are shutting down parts of this economy and we're going to use all the tools we have as I've said and what tools we don't have we're going back to Congress but it's a substantial number going big the expression we could do it two ways we could keep going back every day or every week we're going big and that's where Mitch McConnell that's the way he wants to go that's the way I want to go I think we want to get it done and have a big infusion as oppose
d to going through little meetings every every couple of days we don't want to do it that way we want to go big go solid the country is very strong we've never been so strong and that's what we're going to be doing we don't want with this invisible enemy we don't want Airlines going out of business we don't want people losing their jobs or not having money to live when they were doing very well just four weeks ago so we're going big and that's the way it'll be and that's the way everybody seems
to like it on the hill any other questions today was any type of emergency assistance discussed on that call a lot of restaurants have to close even if they are doing delivery they're not making as much money as they would with a full house let me make two comments on on the restaurants and the president understands this this was emphasized this morning first of all we want to make sure that the states allow the drive-thru portion of these fast foods to stay open particularly in a time period wh
ere we're telling people don't go to restaurants these companies feed a big part of America and I expect they're gonna feed a bigger part of America the second thing they asked me to emphasize I wasn't going to do it now but as long as you asked many of these companies have apps you can order ahead of time that way when you get there it's as simple as they'll have it packed they can give it to you as social distancing and it'll be very fast so we expect that they will be able to feed a large par
t of the population and in regards to support I will say a lot of these businesses are small businesses or companies franchisees 500 or less and we have a specific program we'll be unveiling that helps all businesses small and medium-sized businesses of five hundred and Lessing's question regarding of Marriott corporation that announced that it is furloughing thousands of individuals because of the impacts of the coronavirus rule your legislation I hope so that's one of the reasons why we got to
act very quickly because we understand whether it's the airlines hotels for good reasons to protect the United States on medical issues these businesses are shut down and the president wants to make sure as I've said we will use all the powers we have you saw this today trillion dollars of potential liquidity into the market and the powers we don't have we're going to Congress and I will say there's a lot of bipartisan support for these issues so I'm going to apologize because I have to go deal
with some other I do want to comment on this okay we absolutely believe in keeping the markets open okay Americans need to know they have access to their money after September 11th the only reason why the markets were closed was because the technology was disrupted I've been on the phone with the major banks with the New York Stock Exchange everybody wants to keep it open we may get to a point where we shorten the hours if that's something they need to do but Americans should know that we are g
oing to do everything to make sure that they have access to their money at their banks to the money in their 401ks and to the money in stocks so I want to just be very clear we intend to keep the markets open and the banks are record-setting Slone so we have we have that which is a much different event than what we had not so long ago [Music] mr. Chun mr. president you mentioned the army corps of engineers of the conversation with Governor Cuomo people used in New York is going to run out of hos
pital beds are you prepared to mobilize your kness to increase capacity yes we're starting to we're studying the process and it's a process we hope it's not going to be necessary but it could be necessary the state is working on it very hard themselves but we'll probably supplement what they're doing and given that many of the precursors for our pharmaceuticals come from China and there have been destroyed as there have been supply disruption that supply chain has been broken to some degree you
expect that we could run into a shortage of prescription drugs no I don't see that at all and I think China has every incentive to make sure that things work well Jonah wants to make sure that things work very well they have every incentive to do so Jeff the governor of Ohio has called off the election that was supposed to happen today the primary election do you agree with that decision and what steps are you taking to ensure that elections going forward if this pandemic I continues that electi
ons will be able to happen including the course to think one of the fall well the governor Ohio is doing a great job he called that off and we'll see what happens as a court case and it hasn't been fully determined yet but if he called it off I could understand that because you know he's definitely somebody that knows what he's doing we'll be seeing what very soon you know they're going by the rule of ten as opposed to 50 and it's pretty tough I would say probably you could violate that if you w
anted to for an election I just think an election is a very special thing he's going to chose he chose a different date I think a date sometime in June but that would be a decision that would be made by him he felt it was necessary the courts are somebody's challenging it so the courts will ultimately decide elections we're still in this situation from now two months ya know what I'm doing Jones very simple we're getting rid of this virus that's what we're doing that's the best thing we can do b
y the way for the markets for everything it's very simple very simple solution we want to get rid of it we want to have very as few deaths as possible this is a horrible thing you look at what's going on with Italy we don't want to be in a position like that but a much larger because we're a much larger country we don't want to be there and I think we've done really well I think we've done well I think the states have done well we're all working together the best thing we can do is get rid of th
e virus once that's gone it's gonna pop back like nobody's ever seen before that's my opinion but I think it'll pop back like nobody's ever seen before please facilities put the Army Corps of Engineers build and also what specific measures are you taking to try to increase the number of ventilators in the fight we've ordered massive numbers of ventilators we have by any normal standards we have a lot of respirators ventilators we have tremendous amounts of equipment but compared to what we're ta
lking about here this has never been done before and yesterday I gave the governor is the right to go order directly if they want if they feel they can do it faster then going through the federal government now we've knocked out all of the bureaucracy it's very direct but it's still always faster to order directly and I gave them that was totally misinterpreted by the New York Times on purpose unfortunately but the the but it's very important yes please a president directed us to work with the D
epartment of Defense there's two ways that DoD can be helpful in terms of expanding medical capacity I know the governor of New York has asked us to look at the Army Corps of engineer which could perhaps renovate existing buildings but the president also has us inventory especially we spoke with a Governor Inslee yesterday in Washington State we have resources in that part of the country that we could move and as governor's make these requests we will process them bring them to the president but
there are two different lanes that VOD can provide in addition to many medical supplies to augment our national reserves and the president has tasked us to to evaluate and make available and to consider every every request from governor's for either field hospitals expanding facilities or the Army Corps of engineer that could retrofit existing buildings the Army Corps is very prepared to do as we say and we're looking at where it's going but and they do call them mash hospitals but the field ho
spitals go very quickly there we have them we have all of this equipment in stock and we're looking at different sites and a few different locations and we're not going to need them in West Virginia where so far I guess they have none still none still none West Virginia Big Jim the governor's you must be doing a good job that's what's reported well that's all that I just see West Virginia is the only one that has no cases so obviously that's being treated differently than in New York or Nora Cal
ifornia different parts of California I do say this so the the Army Corps of Engineers is ready willing and able we have to give them to go ahead if we find that it's going to be necessary we think we can have quite a few units up very rapidly I'm gonna work with Governor Cuomo I'm going to work with a number of the governor's governor Newsom has been very generous and is in his words and I'm being generous to him to because we're all working together very well and and I think a lot a lot of ver
y positive things have taken place we're talking to California about different sites but we can we can have a lot of units up fairly quickly if we think we need them I think what I'll do is I might ask Seema to say a few words on the telehealth and then we can get back to this place Sheila Thank You mr. president and as the president announced earlier we are doing a dramatic expansion of what's known as telehealth for our 62 million Medicare beneficiaries who are amongst the most vulnerable to t
he corona virus and we're acting in accord with the appropriations bill that was signed March 6 as well as the president's emergency declaration last week and this action is a part of our broader effort to ensure that government requirements rules and regulations don't get in the way of patient care during an emergency and today's announcement builds on the significant progress of the president has already made over the past three years around telehealth services and while we have allowed for vi
rtual check-ins full telehealth benefits have been restricted to those living in rural areas established patients and just for those brief visits but no longer Medicare beneficiaries across the nation no matter where they live will now be able to receive a wide range of services via telehealth without ever having to leave home and these services can also be provided in a variety of settings including nursing homes hospital outpatient departments and more and thanks to the leadership of HHS will
also be temporarily relaxing certain HIPPA requirements so that doctors can provide telehealth with their own phones and we'll be using enforcement discretion when it comes to collecting co-pays so that cost won't be a barrier this is a part of our larger efforts around mitigation and as we are encouraging Americans to stay home whenever possible we don't want our Medicare policies getting in the way and so consider the implications of this perhaps an elderly patient with diabetes needs routine
checkup and it says nothing to do with the coronavirus and so with our new telehealth benefits this person who's not really who's at risk for the corona virus doesn't have to venture outside their home they can talk to their doctor via Skype and they don't have to risk exposure to the virus and they can receive that care from the safety of their own home it could be another Medicare recipient who's experiencing mild flu-like symptoms and instead of leaving the house and sitting in a waiting room
full of other vulnerable people they can also receive advice from their doctor from their home and this shift is very important for clinicians and providers who over the coming weeks will face considerable strain on their time and resources and now Medicare patients who don't absolutely need to come in to an office won't have to and this allows the healthcare system to prioritize for care for those that are more that have more needs or in dire need and preserves protective equipment as well sta
te Medicaid agencies can also provide telehealth services without federal approval and so we're asking all states to make this available as well and we've also asked private insurance companies to expand their telehealth benefits and make it clear to their providers and their members what they cover as our nation seeks to balance the twin imperatives of getting Americans the care that they need during this outbreak and limiting the spread of the virus the impact of this historic action simply ca
nnot be overstated in an emergency those on the front lines shouldn't have to worry about federal rules and red tape hamstringing them when they need flexibility above all else and we're doing everything in our power to make sure that that doesn't happen I also just want to briefly mention that because of the president's emergency declaration we do have the ability to provide a lot of Medicaid waivers and Florida was the first state to be approved we were able to do that in a matter of days than
k you any questions where do senior citizens go for instructions on how to do the Telo they should call their doctor's office and their doctor's office can tell them how to do that I'm also you know there may be some of our Medicare members that may not have access to equipment so we're asking family members but to help with this but also respecting the requirements around social distancing and if any of those family members or neighbors have symptoms they should obviously stay away be posting m
emorisation that's correct I used way to do it if you post and they can also call our 1-800 Medicare number and they can also get information those phone lines are open thank you we're going like dr. Burks well thank you very much as we talked about earlier this week the commercial system is rapidly advancing in the testing capabilities as of today our public health laboratories meaning the CDC and the public health labs have reported out 30 1878 tests so almost 32,000 tests the clinical laborat
ories the association of clinical laboratories have reported out 20 27,000 tests and most importantly of those 27,000 during the cumulative period of time 8200 of them were yesterday this is showing the dramatic ramp as the high throughput comes in we don't have the numbers this morning from the American Hospital Association which means all the individual Hospital laboratories we will have that up coming in the next day or so and then ambassador birx will have this whole process a fixed under wi
th the legislation that everything will roll up into a common reporting probably by the end of next week in terms of our drive through laboratories again these are blossoming all over the country by individual states the ones that we are heavily involved in and really pushing equipment to we expect over the next few days to begin setting up 47 of these in approximately 12 states the material is already palletized and being shipped to the locations most cities have the specific locations some do
not but it's still going to a central receiving and we know that we'll be deploying at least 140 commissioned Corps officers about half of the sites have reported their requirements about a hundred and forty officers will be going we expect that to go up so this is going on the way we expected we did a trial site yesterday with a full mobile unit for driving through with full PPE we had a lot of kinks in the system as you can expect that's why we do a test before we go out into the field don't e
xpect these to be a hundred percent perfect the moment they come they're going to be adapted to the state the local situation but we're very confident that these will add testing to the already very robust health care system and commercial system Thank You mr. president and this has never been done before and it sets a great roadmap for future should we have something like this in the future I hope we don't but it's never been done before and they've done an incredible job and again we're workin
g with the states and relying on the states we have to because they they have its point of sale that's point of sight and we're in I think just about every instance getting along really well with the with the states if I could dr. Burks if you could say a couple of words please so I think what you've been hearing from us is to find solutions that are high-quality and sustainable based on the front line workers and governor's request and I those come in on the governor's call we've been immediate
ly responsive to those and that's the the level of red tape and bureaucracy that we have removed I think that point about sustainability and quality is very important because as the president says we're creating a roadmap for a different level of functionality for future pandemics our flu pandemic preparedness plan was a plan now we're seeing where we have to revise where we have to create new avenues of research and new avenues of work to really ensure that the need of the American people can b
e reached we were adamant about having a high quality test based on our commercial vendors over the next few months you will begin to see that other tests that were utilized around the world we're not of the same quality resulting in false positives and potentially false negatives these tests were studied and studied by the FDA to really ensure that they are that level of quality and we've given the states the permission to ensure that same level of quality now I wanted to say one minute on the
testing testing should not be used as an assessment of your risk we are asking every single American no matter what your generation from Z and up to X and Millennials in between to really ensure that your following these guidelines we here every night of people who are not in work moving that time into bars and other areas of large gatherings if we continue with that process we will fail in containing this virus so every single generation has a role to play we're asking our older generation to s
tay in their homes and we're asking the younger generations to support them in social contacting through videos and other Skype type functions or just the simple telephone we're asking the younger generations to stop going out in public places to bars and restaurants and spreading a symptomatic virus onto countertops and knobs and grocery stores and grocery carts I heard an innovation last night and this morning again on the news I really want to applaud the private sector who are now creating s
enior only shopping times I think that's extraordinary I think that shows what America brings and I think other countries will learn from us about how to really protect seniors in this type of way I'm hoping that carries through to next year when we have our flu epidemic where we can really have a very different prototype for a file of the amount of mortality that we have during flu that we never talked about anywhere from 15,000 to 45,000 individuals are lost every year if we learn how to do th
is well and sustain some of those core changes we can change the way respiratory viruses not only for this but the future affect Americans it's a big thing a question on the clinical data so we've had now early 5,000 people test positive we've had 90 deaths or so when are we going to know the data of who those people are who has been infected what the ages are what the pre-existing conditions are how serious it was both for those who have been tested positive but also those who have died well yo
u're singing my sheet of music I'm very data oriented so thank you for bringing up this issue of data I really want to applaud HHS we had a discussion about this several days ago they've made calls in to Seattle and California to really understand that and also importantly to understand how many of their patients needed ventilators how many of them needed oxygen support how many of them needed and what they needed could we predict early someone who was going to have a more difficult course these
are all the questions we're asking right and answering right now we did get an early report back from Santa Clara and Seattle we're digesting it we just got it this morning we're looking at that carefully because we think that roadmap is very important to other communities we have not discussed this with New York yet we do know from other countries and that all is available online that profile you can see that mortality under 30 is extraordinarily low the mortality across the board outside of W
uhan is now settling somewhere around 0.7 but that should not be reassuring because it's much higher in people with pre-existing medical conditions even if young and people that are older with pre-existing medical conditions and so we still want every American focused on doing what they can do today to change the course of this pandemic to making that data public so we will all know we're committed not only to making it public but to have a website that everyone can see in real-time there you ar
e signaling a much more aggressive posture toward containment mitigation now in many states have been very aggressive but there is a small number of states that has not have not issued public guidance to their residents is it important for the success of the effort that 100% of the states be forward leaning on this and if so mr. president what would be your message to those states that have not so that's why the vice president and the president yesterday issued those critical guidelines as I sai
d this morning on Fox and Friends you can look at them as with guidelines you can look at our requirements and you can look at him as the president asking every American in every state to follow those that's why we put them out at the federal level we wanted to make sure every American knew what they could do today to change the course of this epidemic I think it's empowering I think it says all of us have a social responsibility to each other and that's why we believe that every mayor and every
governor should be instituting these guidelines that came from the White House and the President of the United States and we've been very tough in those states I know exactly who you're talking to we've been very tough in them thank you you've been telling us for days now that millions of tests have been sent out so why have fewer than 60,000 people actually been tested I think you will see different numbers this week you heard just at 8,000 remember all of these tests the high-speed tests were
approved last Friday last Friday night and last Thursday night I think if I could talk to thermo Fisher and the other groups that have these platforms out there do not rely on a pull technology push out those tests because we can only make them available groups have to order them so I we've been talking to thermo Fisher one of the key platforms to push out tests based on need and not wait for orders that's a great question I know part of it is getting the test out right now I think the Admiral
and others are working on getting the the issues related to getting the tests conducted obviously that does take time he is working on innovative solutions that are creative and sustainable that will be a game changer in testing but we don't have the data yet this is a critical comparator can you do it yourself can you actually sample yourself these these are the kinds of things we're working on right now and he's getting the data and the states are actually doing a lot of us the governor's and
the states are doing a lot of it with even our tests okay thank you can you give us a sense of how long these tough new restrictions will need to be in place until we start to see the rate of this virus going down and also can you speak to this study that as many as 2.2 million people in the United States could die if there weren't this type of action by the government taken I think you know models are models and they're based on input and they're based on infectiousness without any controls I c
an tell you we've never seen that level of infections that modeled up to that 2.2 million and mortality so we are looking at that we are having a particularly model meeting tomorrow I think that's really going to be important I've dealt with a lot of modelers in my time they're wonderful people but they all have their favorite inputs and they all have their favorite integration functions so we're evaluating all of those so we can integrate and create the best model for the United States based on
the best data and that first set of recommendations you saw were based on what we could do today to prevent anything that looks like that if I could just say one other thing to the hospitals and dentists out there things that don't need to be done over the next two weeks don't get it done if you're a person with an electric cert elective surgery you don't want to go into a hospital right now there's a lot of distraction there's a lot of people doing a lot of other things to save people's lives
so let's all be responsible and cancel things that we can cancel to really free up hospital beds in space and then let's do everything that we can to ensure that we don't need the ventilators because we've protected the people who would have needed to use them ability of more actions like for example limiting travel within the United States argument it's possible it's possible we'll see how it goes a lot of it's been great cooperation with local governments states we'll see how it goes it's goin
g it's going right now pretty well yeah place good defense production act to get more of those medical supplies different well we're able to do that we have two right now we haven't had two but it's certainly ready if I want it we can do it very quickly we've studied it very closely over two weeks ago actually we'll make that decision pretty quickly if we need it we hope we don't need it too big step you know when you save the stage in particular three states need some help and some states you k
now have two people three people no people in the case of again West Virginia so we're looking at it very closely we've taken it apart fifteen different ways it's a very difficult thing to do it's a very big step and if we need that step we'll take it okay first question a lot of people have got travelled to places that are considered hot spots yeah Caribbean Mexico that sort of thing over the next few weeks would you recommend that they follow through with those plans I would just say enjoy you
r home stay I would just say right now we we have to get this problem fixed and then we'll get back into business real really quick will open up our country will open up our society the world will hopefully open up we see areas of the world that are that haven't done well and we see areas that are doing very well and I would put us in the category of doing very well for a country so big I think that I would recommend that they just enjoy their living room I'm not happy with those people if they'
re not but you know those people are being shouted down by other people they know they're being it's almost like self policing people went in there are a couple of instances I guess probably more than a couple where people are not happy when they see others doing what they're not supposed to be done we have to get rid of this we have to win this war and ideally quickly quickly there's the longer it takes it's not a good situation and I'm not even talking about the economy I'm talking about the l
ives of a lot of people yeah please did yeah I think it's all the work in progress what President Trump has made clear to industries around the country is that we're gonna do whatever it takes we understand this is an extraordinary moment in the life of our nation it's the reason why the president brought in leaders of the financial sector airline industry he'll meet with all new additional industry leaders today in tourism and hospitality but he has tasked the Secretary of the Treasury to work
with members of Congress in both parties to make sure that we construct the kind of economic support that will allow those industries to weather the period of the coronavirus and then to come back stronger than ever before we've had we've had such incredible I don't know it's almost the word spirit is the best word it's like a spirit the banks have come in and the banks are doing things that they would have never done they're working on extensions and lots of things that they wouldn't have done
copays with regard to the insurance companies I mean for them to be doing what they're doing you know all about the co-pays they would have never done that and they did it they were in my office they I would say the 11 biggest in this country I guess probably the 11 biggest of the world the big ones all the big ones and they they did things on copay that nobody would be doing that they wouldn't have done in a million years but they're doing it there's a great spirit going on right down with the
country so you want to yes please dr. pouchy dr. pouchy you said you like being accused of overreacting because that is an indication we may be doing things necessary to beat this bend the curve how long do you think it will take for you to be confident that yes we're bending the curve or no or not you know I can't give you a firm number on that because the dynamics of outbreaks in some respects are predictable historically they do this and that we don't know because this is really unprecedented
I mean of all the outbreaks that I've been involved with over the last at least 36 years and then going historically back we've never had a situation where the mobilization of all the different components travel restrictions internal the containment mitigation financial assistance public health assistant testing so we don't really know but the one thing I do know I do know that if you look at models with all of their vice institutes of models is that when you have input into the kinds of mitiga
tions and things that we're doing we're gonna see a hump instead of a peak I would be really surprised if all the things that we're doing and and this is really a a comprehensive approach I was struck as I was listening to everyone make their their presentations that you know I'm a scientist I'm a health person and I'm a physician who sees patients so I look at it from one particular standpoint but what I'm being impressed by is that this is really a comprehensive thing that has multiple compone
nts to that all of them got to succeed if we're gonna get to that end point that I've described multiple times from this podium so I hope that if everyone does their job we're gonna be able to give you a number and say you know we've seen that inflection and we're coming down I would hesitate to do it now to be honest with you because it might be misleading and I don't want to be misleading I just want to say one other thing because I heard dr. Berg say it and I think we need to say it over and
over again when I was young a long time ago I felt that I was invulnerable the way I think many of us feel were invulnerable and when we're asking the young people to help us with this mitigation strategy by staying out of staying out of the restaurants really trying to distance yourself don't get the attitude well I'm young I'm invulnerable you are well in some respects you're certainly less vulnerable than I am however which you might inadvertently do and I know you don't want to do that you d
on't want to put your loved ones at risk particularly the ones who are elderly and the ones who have compromised conditions we can't do this without the young people cooperating please cooperate you know that question keeps coming up and I'm not gonna evade the question but I want to make a point we tend to think that we're not gonna be able to mitigate or contain without testing they complement each other in some respects but they're separate channels even if we had no testing we should be doin
g what we're doing now the question are asking so I won't evade it is specifically would it be important outside of a doctor patient coming in together of knowing what's out there what might be under the radar screen the answer to your question is yes so let me tell you what the CDC is doing right now they're going out there and part of their program is to get a feel for what is there that wasn't initially thought to be corona virus that was thought to be something else when you do that you're a
lso going to get a feel of what the penetrance is in society so we are heading with the high-throughput things that you've been hearing about to get an answer to your question he believes that cool CFP in terms of infection in 45 days you know it's possible I mean I I know that the governor has been really I I believe doing a really good job of trying to stay ahead of this 45 days is not unreasonable you have to be careful when you get a number you own the number and then if the number doesn't c
ome out you're in trouble and that's the reason why from our standpoint from the federal government we're talking about a range so within that range it isn't like you want to be correct for the sake of being correct to something and then have to back off okay so what's happening I mean if you look as metaphor it's kind of like a race against a virus if left to its own devices will do this and us trying to somehow blunt that now you could see the virus going up and up and your affect your your wo
rk what you're trying to do may actually be having an effect but you may not see it because it'll still be going up and as you're trying to implement your your interference with the virus you may not realize that you actually interfere me and I'll say wait a minute it's still going up what's going on you've done nothing but you don't know whether it would do this versus that so the answer to your question it probably would be several weeks and maybe longer before we know whether we're having an
effect it may be at the end of the day we'll see a curve that would have been way way up but I wouldn't like put us to task every few days what wait a minute it's going up is it working or not that would be really misleading if we do that guidelines which were one of those guidelines was a recommendation against gatherings of ten or more people and today the governor of Alabama issued her own guidelines what is your recommendation for people of Alabama people across all of the country as far as
the guidelines that were announced yesterday by the family okay so the one thing we don't want to do is to get hung up on the difference between ten and twenty five I think you might agree with that when we give guidelines they're only guidelines we sit down we look at the data as dr. Burke said we're data-driven and we say on different models ten looks good if someone wants to do 25 we're not gonna fault them but if someone wants to come to us and ask us what we think the best is we stand by th
e numbers it isn't perfect it isn't precise math it's assumptions and it's data that make you get your decision but this is the United States of America there's a lot of free enterprise there people do their own thing and quite frankly I don't think there's a big deal difference between ten and twenty five we got many many more important things to worry about than that difference said that there's an idea of floating around the administration to cut taxes for companies who would be bringing thei
r supply chickens back to United States he said he specifically liked immediate hundred percent right Oscar structures equipment he said you haven't endorsed that yet would you endorse about you looking at many ideas that's one of them frankly and we're looking at creating incentives for companies not only that type of company but other companies we're also looking to help companies such as the airline industry within the airline industry and we'll be doing that we will be doing that this is not
their fault and they've been very understanding actually and we're gonna be helping them we will have a very powerful airline industry and it'll start up as soon as this is over we'll we'll have those we'll have those planes ready to go so we have to help them during the short term with very important difficult choice whether it's shutting down society or overwhelming the healthcare place down is that something that we look at every model we've relied on the very talented people and there's no
better team that the people be behind me and I will say that all of the people that have done those models are all in constant touch with dr. Burks and Tony and everybody that you've been hearing so much from over the last couple of weeks we've looked at we've looked at many different models and the model we have is we want to save a lot of lives we want to save a lot of lives if we get too steep in that curve you're gonna lose a lot of lives perhaps unnecessarily now we're gonna find out if eve
rything has a risk we're going to see but if people do what we're telling them to do what we're asking them to do you're gonna see the saving of a lot of lives now Boris in UK yesterday you saw what happened it looked like they were gonna get different way but that he went away of similar I guess simpler I don't know exactly but I would say we had a conversation yesterday similar to what we're doing so a lot of people seem to think this is going to be we are we are looking to save the maximum nu
mber of lives everything else is going to come back a life is never going to come back but everything else our economy is gonna come roaring back you're gonna know we're gonna know we're gonna all know that day if somebody was asking about the day when will you know when will you know we're gonna you know all of a sudden we're gonna say wow that's looking good that's looking good that's looking good and we're gonna be on the other side of the curve and that's a day that we look forward to okay y
ou saw this week though that that made you decide that yes now at the time to implement these much more stringent social distancing measures oh I don't think so this is where we were going I really think from the beginning this is where we were going this is what we had in mind we were just we're just going step by step that was the next step the next logical step as dr. foutch she said and I think very importantly one of the most important things when you write the history of this was the fact
that we closed it down to China and Europe but in particular China we closed it down to China the source very very early very very early far earlier than even the great professionals wanted to do and I think in the end that's going to be but that will have saved a tremendous don't some people did note that your tone seemed more somber yesterday you talked about that August timeline did you see a projection some people thought perhaps that two million potentially I may be prompted part of that wa
s there a shift in tone I didn't think I mean I have seen that where people actually liked it but I didn't feel different I've always known this is a this is a real this is a pandemic I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic all you had to do is look at other countries I think now it's in almost 120 countries all over the world no I've always viewed it as very serious there was no difference yesterday from days before I feel the tone is similar but some people said it wasn't
I mean I don't think in terms of recession I think in terms of getting it out because when we're finished with the virus we will win we will win and when that victory takes place our economy is going to go through the roof it is so pent up it is so built up it is so ready to go in a in an upward direction but we have to knock out this enemy this is a really tough enemy but we have to knock out all of us that's all of us so I don't think in terms of recession not recession it's words we have to
knock out this and we will have an economy I actually think we'll have an economy like we've never had before it's all pent up I think the question about about the actions that the president authorized beginning in January when he took the unprecedented step of suspending all travel from China the efforts to issue travel advisories for portions of Italy and South Korea and then to begin screening all the passengers the efforts regarding suspending travel for Europe and what went into effect at m
idnight last night adding the UK and Ireland - that have all been informed by the experts that are surrounding us what the president asked us to do from the very beginning as dr. Burks and dr. Fauci often say is let's follow the data bring the president the best options in response to what is actually happening on the ground but but with regard to yesterday's a 15 day slow the spread plan our team unanimously brought to the president these very strong recommendations for every American because w
e truly believe we are at a point in this epidemic in our country when we can reduce the number of people that actually are exposed to or contract the coronavirus but will continue to bring the best data the best evidence and the best recommendations frankly of the best health experts in the world and the president will continue to make decisions that put the health of America first in other words reduce the number of people that die that's what we're trying to do and when you do the steep curve
a lot of people are gonna die a lot of people you know the worst ever they say 1918 and I don't have to go into the numbers but they were unbelievable numbers had they known and had they done what we had now it would have been a very much different story it would still be tragic but it would have been a very much different but that was that was the one that people write about that was an incredible that was an incredible pandemic like we haven't seen but we have we have done something that I ho
pe hopefully we will all have made the right moves we're all in this together including you and we want to see fair press and and I tell you what it's been generally speaking I think it's been it's been a great thing to see it it's been very very the the getting along with Democrats getting along with Republicans for the Democrats themselves there's been a lot of spirit there's been a lot of things happening that I haven't seen happen in the first almost now three and a half years it's been very
nice to see that's one of the good things but what really the good thing is we have to knock it out we have to win and we want to keep that slope as low as possible because that's a lot of lives in there let's go back there somebody that then you get one this had a huge impact on China's economy as well have you ever seen any indication from officials there that they're going to have trouble meeting the purchase agreements part of the things one deal particularly the agricultural life well they
need our product very badly and no I haven't received any one good relationship with China I have not received anything to that no we have a signed agreement they're going to be buying and they have been buying a lot of product over text and she talked about options available to the United States including VA hospitals right Department of Defense medical treatment facilities and even hospital ships at what point do you tap in to those options well I'll know the point and by speaking with Govern
or Cuomo and other governors we're gonna know the point it's gotta be different for New York that it's gonna be from you know Iowa or from Idaho or from West Virginia frankly or for you know it's it's different New York he's got a big problem the state of Washington is a big problem California has some big problems everyone's doing a good job but we're gonna know when it will be and I believe it'll be more spot that it will be it's not going to be the whole thing it's going to be spots there are
some hot spots that are in trouble big trouble and there are other areas that are in no trouble at all they watch it on television they don't know you know it's just not affecting them and that's they're lucky they're lucky but there are areas of the country that don't have much of a problem and some that don't have any problem they're not gonna have a problem with hospitals but some areas like New York California state of Washington they're going to have some difficulty and when we see that co
ming we're going to be in there were already making preparation for it Senator Marco Rubio of Florida your trade adviser Peter Navarro have been recommending an executive order that would ensure that the raw materials for pharmaceuticals and medical devices are manufactured here in the United States we were getting some indications last week that you were close to signing this executive order can you tell us what we're looking at different things John I don't want to say exactly right now China
has been sending us everything we need but we're we're looking at some alternatives yes we are looking for alternatives and we have other places Ireland does a lot of work for us you know that in that world in the pharma world a very tremendous producer and we are looking to bring a lot more back home I've been excuse me you know me for a long time I've been talking about this for many years long before I decided to run for president I've been talking about this and we have to be able to take ca
re of our country and that was one of the many things on the list so we'll be talking about it but we are we are discussing it in Marco's very much involved and Peter is very much and a lot of people are involved and a lot of people feel that way but we'll be discussing are you considering not to the United States the United States of course are you considering closing the land borders in the United States and also you know Canada has not closed it to the United States so we're working very clos
ely with Canada and but they have not closed it they have closed it to the world but they have not closed it to the United in the u.s. land border I don't want to say that but we are discussing things with Canada and we're discussing things with Mexico quite honestly and again the relationship is outstanding with both outstanding we just signed our deal u.s. MCA and the relationship is very strong the others have criticized you for using the phrase Chinese virus how do you feel about that you go
to continue using that phrase well China was putting out information which was false that our military gave this to them that was false and rather than having an argument I said I have to call it where it came from it did come from China so I think it's a very accurate term but no I didn't appreciate the fact that China was saying that our military gave it to them our military did not give give it to anybody phrase stigma no I don't think so no I think saying that our military gave it to them c
reates a stigma well we're gonna help they need help look let's face it you know they go from having record-breaking years this is the third year of record-breaking year's travel and tourism airlines everything they were doing record numbers ordering new planes building new hotels everything was really hunky-dory and then one day we hear about this rumor in China and then we find out it's much more than a rumor and then all of a sudden we make a great decision to close it up early it would be a
whole different world we a whole different world but we make a decision to close it up to China and all of a sudden tourism and and then we close it up to Europe which you know people never heard of this before I'm not sure that that's ever been done I know that when I made the decision to close it to China people told me that's never been done before but it was a great decision we make good decisions so I'll tell you my best decision the people behind me are total pros all over the world they'r
e respected dr. Burks Anthony who's become wears it to become a major television star for all the right reasons now he's just so professional so good the people that we have working here have been incredible and they're totally respected the Admiral has been incredible having to do with the testing incredible and he's he's viewing this as testing also for the future we're building a platform when we took over this platform first thing the Admiral said was this wasn't that designed for what we're
talking about millions of people it wasn't and it's nobody's fault it's not like who could have ever predicted a thing like this but we broke it down and it's really gonna be an incredible system and it is now a great system I just I just want to say these are incredible people standing behind me they're the most respected in the world every country that you've mentioned today so far has called them and they call them all the time for advice there's nobody better than work we have a good job mr
. president yesterday we were being told that the payroll tax was going to comprise the line share fiscal stimulus right we also had the markets fall quite dramatically yesterday and we did that what was it about the payroll tax did that inform your decision what in what in what made you make that change and when did you make tension well I didn't make a change we'll look at the payroll tax and we're looking at various other forms of getting money to people and the payroll tax is something that
I've always liked problem is it does take a period of time you know months before they really see something and we don't really have months in terms of people living you know a lot of these you have you have people that work on tips you have people in our it's a large number of people it's a tremendous who would think this right but and they do nicely they work very hard but they work on tips we have to take care of our people we don't want to have people suffering during this period it wasn't t
heir fault that this thing all of a sudden was upon us so we're looking at various we're also looking at payroll tax you know it's possible it's also possible we'll do a percentage of payroll tax and then other things but we'd like to be able to get money to people you know we're very lucky our country is doing so well we can do this and we can do it easily but we have to do it and I have to say Mitch McConnell if you look at Mitch and Kevin and the whole group and it's been it's been incredible
how they're reacting how Congress is reacting how whether it's the House or Senate how they're they're moving and I'm talking about Democrats and Republicans but we've had tremendous leadership meetings and they want to see it done right and they do want to go big I think the only big is important I don't think we want to go up there every day with a different idea a different concept oh gee let's worry about the airlines let's do this one you have a big problem with the cruise ship industry it
's a industry that was setting all sorts of Records two months ago that all of a sudden there's nobody on the ships okay so we have to help these these are great industry these are going to be taking care of people and passengers and and for years to come and paying tremendous taxes tremendous taxes for years to come so we have to make sure that this is done yes mr. president what you refer to just a short while ago about politics in your address to the nation you said we have to put politics as
ide stop the partisanship and unified together this morning you criticize the Democratic governor of Michigan yesterday was the Democratic governor of New York you've attacked Obama you talked to be attacked by in fact every day except one since that address you've lashed out at a Democratic leader are are you could have set the example they only do that one I have to respond I watched her on television she said something that was false and therefore I did do that and I will continue to do that
if they're not gonna play fair because you know they have the media on their side I don't I just have me and if they're not gonna play fair all gonna do that if they are gonna play fair there's gonna be nobody there's gonna be nobody better than Donald Trump in terms of bipartisanship but if if they're going to say things that are false like the story that was written yesterday a lot of people I don't know somebody I think I know who but they taped the conference call that I had with the governo
r's was a good call it was fine I assume somebody's going to tape it they handed it to various people and one of it was the New York Times and The New York Times chose to write totally inaccurately about it it was a disgraceful thing was bad journalism but you know they do a lot of bad journalism but we respond to that and actually people get it people get it no I want it to be bipartisan and nobody's going to be better than me but when they attack me or the people these incredible people behind
me I'm not gonna let him get away with it I can't do that okay how about one or two more questions go ahead please well you can do a national lockdown hopefully we're not gonna need that we think of everything I mean we have every idea that you mentioned we've thought of and you know it's a very big step that's a step that I mean in one sense would work it's a very big step it's something we talk about but we haven't decided to do that please mr. president would be the determining factor is for
you to take that action it would have to get to a level I just don't think it's gonna be an action that we're gonna take I don't think I'll talk but Anthony all of the people standing behind me would get together in a room plus some additional x' and we would make a decision but I don't think that's a step that we're going to be one more question you didn't have one did you come on financial assistance to Boeing and airplane suppliers like GE we're looking at that we're certainly looking at Boe
ing Boeing got hit hard in many different ways Boeing never had a problem for four years they were they were an incredible an Incred it was unthinkable what happened with respect to Boeing unthinkable probably I would consider it the greatest company in the world prior to a year ago now they get hit in 15 different ways and they have different management I've met the new people running Boeing I think it's going to be outstanding but yeah we have to protect Boeing we have to absolutely help help
Boeing they were doing a job they were getting it was coming along well and then all of a sudden this hits so obviously when the airlines aren't doing well Boeing is not going to be doing well so we'll be helping Boeing yes mr. president before you leave on what John was saying if you've called for people to leave politics out of this Joe Biden said the World Health Organization offered testing kits that they had available to the United States and to give it to us now we refused it we didn't wan
t to buy them PolitiFact says the whn member made that offer can you tell us well that's what I'm gonna let I'm gonna let Tony answer that question or some whoever's best at answering that but I do have to say when you talk about politics i watch the debate not too exciting but what they said about me and we've done a great job when you talk about not not being bipartisan what they said about me and if you look at swine flu the the whole thing and I guess it was 2009 and what they did and the mi
stakes they've made they were terrible they were horrific mistakes 17,000 people died and I'll be honest they shouldn't be criticizing because we've done a fantastic job the only thing we haven't done well is to get good press we've done a fantastic job but it hasn't been appreciated even the the closing down of the borders which had never been done and not only did we close them but we closed them early the press doesn't like writing about it so we've done a poor job on press relationships and
you know I guess I don't know who to blame for that I don't know maybe I can blame maybe I can blame ourselves so that I will blame ourselves but I think we've done a great job I think we've done a poor job in terms of press relationship but let me have somebody answer your question I tried to cover this in the answer when I talked about quality of kids and our quality analysis runs through the FDA so all of these platforms we have asked people to submit and we've asked States to quality control
so I mean that anybody could submit their tests to us we don't buy tests that haven't been quality controlled and they show us the data either show us the data upfront or show us the data after they've been running them because quality testing for our American people is pair to us it doesn't help to put out a test where 50% or 47% are false positives imagine what that would mean to the American people imagine their level of concern now and telling people that their false positive we take this s
ame approach to HIV imagine telling someone they were positive to HIV and they weren't so that is our bottom line the customer the American people first and so any of these groups can submit their testing kits through our regulatory processes but without that and without a plan we are not going to accept tests that have not been studied by us good answer I'm just gonna emphasize a little bit more on that when I became involved in the testing world I called as senior officials at the WH o as I co
uld find to understand what the situation was and as far as I can tell from sources that should know no one ever offered a test that we refused what I heard - this was this is a research grade test right research grade test that was never submitted was not approved not submitted to the FDA that was supplied in tens of thousands of quantities to a hundred countries in the world okay so I think there's a lot that people are saying about this this is based on rumor and myth nothing was offered that
we refused it was a research test that was not approved and again there was a small number that we have greatly surpassed in a very short period of time so number one nothing was offered number two it was a bad test otherwise it was wonderful listen thank you very much no he made a massage all right president Trump concluding a rather lengthy briefing on the corona virus and the government's response including economic measures to lessen some of the blow to many of the businesses that have been
hit hard as well as individuals including the president approving the Internal Revenue Service to defer tax payments also discussions going on regarding a greater stimulus regarding some of the industry's hardest hit let me go right now to Stephanie ruhle our chief economic correspondent to kind of lay out some of the important news we heard on that news conference Thank You Lester it was President Trump and his Treasury secretary Steve minuchin that gave us sort of the most tangible takeaways
Steve minuchin who's going to be presenting before the Senate today among other things in the stimulus package some sort of rescue I don't want to call it bailout for industries including the airline industry the hotel industry what we don't know is will there be any requirements around that will there be requirements that for some of these companies not to let go so many workers we know that Marriott has already furloughed workers we learned that today something else that stood out was this ide
a we had heard it from Mitt Romney we heard it from Jason Furman an idea to write an actual check pay the American people Steve minuchin talked about it and said it's more like a business interruption payment for all of those people who have been economically impacted actually write them a check immediately now he did say something that wouldn't be for all Americans he said for example people making a million dollars a year wouldn't get a check but that's the first time we've heard something lik
e that from Secretary of minuchin and while the payroll tax is still on the table it's something that the president is interested in it sounded like from Secretary of minuchin that would be something possibly down the line and what was needed immediately was to get cash in hands of so many Americans because remember if you don't have any money and maybe you're sick or your child is sick you'll still be willing to go to work because you need that paycheck getting paid like this might help save us
from that yeah and certainly he stressed several times this is an amine it's solution they're trying to come up with right now to get that money to people who are already hurting because I'm all this Stephanie thank you let me turn to kristen welker she's at the White House a number of a number of your questions the president responded to Kristen what sent out to you well a couple of takeaways Lester in addition to everything that Steph just talked about President Trump today essentially announ
cing expanded testing also expanded telemedical services so essentially people can get medical services from their own homes president Trump essentially acknowledging that these robust actions are necessary because there is a concern about the death toll increasing from the coronavirus now a couple of questions that we still have here to what extent is the federal government going to help States as they try to make sure that their hospitals are stocked with the equipment ventilators hospital bed
s that they need for example president Trump not getting specific about that but leaving the option on the table to take some type of robust executive action to make sure that that happens the president though also talking about expanded mobile units so that people can get treatment and also get tested now this does come against the backdrop of Treasury Secretary Stephen ushion on Capitol Hill trying to get that big bailout package passed I asked what the timeline of that looked like is this som
ething that they could get done by the end of the week and that price tag that we've seen that 850 billion dollar price tag they wouldn't confirm those specifics but the president saying we want to go big we don't want to do this in a piecemeal fashion we want to help industries that are hurting right now like the airline industry like the hospitality industry so they are working on multiple fronts to address not only the health issues but the economic issues I asked the president about recessio
n he again didn't back away from that term but said his focus right now is essentially on helping businesses and the economy to rebound Lester Kristen thanks let me bring in our medical correspondent dr. John Torres it was clearly reporters in the room all of us are hungry for the answers when is this over when do we peak when do we know this is working and we couldn't get an answer and obviously this is it's a very difficult thing to get an answer for but what was your takeaway in terms of the
ability to keep the American public engaged and to understand how important these measures are and I think that's one of the important points they made here is that it's really hard to give you a specific answer and they were hesitant to do that because they know if they set a certain number of days that you know 30 or 45 days later we hold their feet to the fire and said you said at this point this would be better and it's not necessarily so they know this is going to be a moving target they kn
ow it's something to have to keep a firm eye on but there are a few things they made specific points about number one they said testing prevention and supplies are the one things are working on in form of supplies what they said to construction companies which I thought was pretty interesting its construction companies please donate your n95 masks to hospitals around you and don't order any more right now because they are absolutely gonna need those and they also told everybody if you have a doc
tor's appointment if you have a dentist appointment right now if it's elective don't do it hold it off because we want you to stay home so certainly call your doctors or your dentist's office and say can I do that can I hold it off but what they're trying to do is get everybody to understand that these measures they've had these guidelines for the next couple weeks or something that everybody needs to take very seriously and they pointed out a few groups saying it you know you don't want to go t
o bars if you're not working you don't want to go out and about with friends you want to stay home so we can get to sunder control alright dr. John Torres thank you very much life in this country changing day by day we can show you a picture right now of what Times Square in New York looks like here in New York City it's Tuesday and there's barely a car on the street normally that's one of the most bustling spots in the country filled with people but things have changed and of course we'll conti
nue to watch all this while
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The people who have to keep working and can’t stay home and chill should all get bonuses.
It is good to see the US following the lead of Australia by introducing elderly only shopping hour at the supermarkets.
Am i the only one who goes straight to the comments looking for the briefing instead of watching the whole video?
I think besides the checks going out, there should be a moratorium on mortgages, credit card payments and car loan payments for at least two or three months.
I think this gathering has more than 10 people.....
Bail out the CITIZENS NOT THE CORPORATIONS!
I think large companies can survive a few weeks with less business, it's the small companies and self-employed people that will suffer immediately and long-term, help them, not McDonalds etc..
i like how our leader says "things" 5 times in one sentence when my english teacher tells me not to say things once
Sweaaar that lady in the back looks like she’s doing Morse code with them blinks
Anyone else think it's ironic they have a gathering of 50 people less than 6ft away from each other to talk about the response to COVID?
Sh*ts gettin' dark when all the beer and doritos are gone.
ok ok its happening......everybody stay calm........STAY F****** CALM!!!!* -Michael Scott
To anyone reading this don’t give up on yourself keep pushing and learn from your mistakes
"We will not enforce applicable HIPAA penalties." Does this mean a free-for-all on ALL patient health and treatment records, or 'just' the patient data generated during these new treatment encounters?
Idk... dude wit the glasses look scared af😭😭😥🤦🏽♂️
I have been very critical of Trump throughout his presidency and his initial handling of coronavirus. However, I have to give him credit on how he's responded the last couple of days. I am pleasantly surprised about the safety measures he's taken and proposed relieves he is pushing through. Also, his highly criticized and controversial travel ban doesn't seem that bad anymore after the entire world decided to close its borders. I really appreciate his honestly with the American people the last couple of days. We want to hear the truth about the situation no matter how bad it gets. The last couple of days Trump really displayed strong leadership. I hope he keeps up the good work.
Who else is quarantined and sitting at home? 🙋♀️
These people are not standing 6 feet away from each other.
I'm a nurse in New York and yes I'm still working. We haven't gotten a influx of patients yet but I just wanted to tell everyone to stay safe and not to rush to hospitals unless it's a emergency.