President Trump, VP Pence address coronavirus concerns at White House

Today is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an evil killer opened fire at a Molson Coors Brewing Company plant and claimed the lives of five people. Several people were injured, some seriously injured, our hearts break for them and their loved ones. We send them our condolences and we will be with them. them and it's a terrible thing, a terrible thing, so our hearts go out to the people of Wisconsin and to the families. Thank you so much. I just received another report from a large group of talented people about the virus that is circulating in various places. of the world that we have made through some very good early decisions, decisions that were actually ridiculed at the beginning, we closed our borders to flights that came from certain areas that were affected by the

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and they hit quite hard and we did it very early many times.

A lot of people thought we shouldn't have done it so soon and we did it and it turned out to be a very good thing and the number one priority from our point of view is the health and safety of the American people and that's how I looked at it when I made that decision because of Everything we've done, the risk to the American people remains very low, and we have the world's greatest war experts here, the people other countries turn to when things like this happen. We are ready to adapt and we are ready to do what is necessary as the disease spreads, if it spreads, as most of you know, the level that we have had in our country is very low and those people are improving or we believe . that in almost all cases they are improving, we have a total of 15.

We received some from Japan, you heard about that because they are American citizens and they are in quarantine and they are also improving, but we felt we had an obligation to do that, they could have been up to 42 and we found out that it was just an obligation that we felt we had, we could have left them and that would have been very bad, very bad, I think the American people and they are recovering from the 15 people, the original 15, as I call them, eight of them have returned home to stay home until they fully recover, one is in the hospital and five have fully recovered and we believe one is in pretty good shape. and it's between the hospital and going home, so we have a total of 15 people and they are in the process of recovery and some have already fully recovered.

We start by looking at certain things we've been working on. with the hill very carefully, very strongly and I think we have a very good bipartisan spirit for the money, we were asking for two and a half million and we think that is a lot, but the Democrats and I suppose Senator Schumer want us to have much more than that. and normally in life I would say we'll take it we'll take it if they want to give more we'll do more we'll spend what's appropriate hopefully we won't have to spend as much because I really think we've done a great job keeping it to a minimum and again we've had tremendous success, tremendous success beyond what people would have thought now, at the same time there are some outbreaks in some countries, Italy and several countries are China has some difficulties, do you know where it started?

I spoke to President Xi, we had a great conversation, he is working very hard, I have to say he is working very, very hard and, if you can count on the reports coming out of China, the spread has been quite a bit the infection seems having gone down in the last two days instead of going up, it's actually gone down in a case where we think we can be, it's a reliable thing, it seems to have come down quite a bit on the money. that is being negotiated, they can do whatever they want, I mean, they can, we will do both and we are requesting two and a half.

Some Republicans would like us to get four and some Democrats would like us to get eight and a half and We will be satisfied, whatever it is, tomorrow we will bring in a highly respected specialist who actually works in the State Department and who has a tremendous talent for do this. I want you to understand something that surprised me when I saw it. he spoke with dr. Fauci on this and I was really shocked and I think most people are shocked to hear that the flu in our country kills 25,000 to 69,000 people a year, which was shocking to me and until now, if you look at which wing comes to the United States from China, which was done from the beginning, we are testing people and we have been testing at a very high level people entering the country from infected areas, we have quarantined those infected and those who are at risk, we have many excellent quarantine facilities.

We are rapidly developing a vaccine and they can talk to you, professionals can tell you that the vaccine is working well and then talking to doctors, we think this is something we can develop quite quickly, a vaccine for the future and coordinate with the support of our partners we have excellent relations with all the countries that were talking about a fairly large number of countries summits one person and many countries do not have any problems and we will see what happens, but we are very, very ready for this anything, whether that it's going to be a breakout of major proportions or whether or not we are, you know we are at that very low level and we want to keep it that way, so we are at the low level as they improve, we take we will take them off the list, for which very soon we will only have five people and we might only have one or two people in the next short period of time, so we have had very good luck at Johns Hopkins, I guess so. a great well respected place, they did a comprehensive study on the country's best and worst prepared for an epidemic and the United States is now ranked number one, we are ranked number one for being prepared, this is a list of different countries that I don't want to get in your way, especially since you do such a good job.

This is a list of the different countries. The United States is ranked number one most prepared. United Kingdom Netherlands Australia Canada Thailand Sweden Denmark South Korea Finland this is a list of the highest rated. countries of the world by Johns Hopkins we are doing something else that is important to me because it has been excellent in many ways, but it is also very good in health care and we really follow it very closely in many states when Mike was governor Mike Pence of Indiana have established excellent health care, they have a great system there that many other states have really looked at and changed their systems, they wanted to base it on the Indiana system, he is very good and I think he is I am really very expert in the field and what I have fact is to announce right now that I will put our Vice President Mike Pence in charge and Mike will work with the professionals, the doctors and everyone.

The rest that is working, the team is brilliant. I've spent a lot of time with the team over the last few weeks, but they're totally brilliant and we're doing really well. Mike will be in charge and Mike will report to me. but he has some talent for this and I will ask Mike Pence to say a few words, please, thank you, thank you, sir. President Trump made it clear from the first days of this administration that we have no higher priority than the safety, health and well-being of the American people and from the first word about a corona virus outbreak, the

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took unprecedented steps to protect to the American people from the spread of this disease, has been briefly told, but the establishment of travel restrictions, the aggressive quarantine effort of returning Americans, the declaration of a public health emergency and the establishment of the task force The

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has taken a whole-of-government approach as the former governor of the state where the first case of MERS emerged in 2014.

I know well the importance of presidential leadership, the importance of administration and the vital role of state and local associations. Governments and health authorities in response to the potential threat of dangerous infectious diseases and I look forward to Mr. President to serve in this role, I am bringing together all members of the corona task force that you have established HHS CDC DHS on Department of Transportation and State this team has been under your direction Mr. The president will meet every day since it was established, my role will be to continue to bring that team together to provide the president with the best options for action to ensure the security, well-being and health that the American people will also continue to extend. to governors, state and local officials, in fact, in recent days, the White House met with more than 40 state county and city health officials from more than 30 states and territories to discuss how to respond to the potential threat of the corona virus that we will be working with them in renewed ways to make sure that they have the resources to be able to respond and as the president said, we will add additional staff here at the White House to support our efforts on behalf of the president, we will work with them as well.

Members of Congress to ensure that resources are available for this entire government response and we will work very closely with Secretary Azar and his team who have done an excellent job communicating with the public to ensure that the American people have the best information. . on ways to protect themselves and their families and also for the public to have the most timely information about the potential threat to the American people, mr. President, as we have been informed while the threat of a spread of the corona virus to the American public remains low, you have directed this team to take all necessary measures to continue to ensure the health and well-being of the American people and the The people of this country can be assured that under your leadership we will continue to bring the full resources of the federal government in coordination with our state and local partners to ensure the health and well-being and effective response to the corona virus here. in the United States of America with that the president has asked me to recognize the Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex a czar and also the deputy director CDC a doctor a Shaka for the people of Vermont, well, thank you sir. vice president and thank you mr.

President for bringing together your public health experts here today and for your strong leadership in keeping America safe and I just want to say that I couldn't be more delighted that you've asked the Vice President, my old friend and colleague, to lead this whole thing. government approach. with us under emergency support function number eight as of today we have 15 cases of kovat 19 that have been detected in the United States with only one new case detected in the last two weeks we also have three cases among Americans repatriated from Wuhan and 42 cases among repatriated Americans who had been trapped in the Diamond Princess in Japan.

The president's early and decisive actions, including travel restrictions, bought the United States incredibly valuable time. This has helped us contain the spread of the virus. Handle the cases we have and prepare for them. Faced with the possibility that we may need to mitigate the further spread of infections within the United States, the president's actions taken with the strong support of his scientific advisors have proven to be appropriate, sensible, and well calibrated for the situation. We are grateful for the hard work that health care workers, first responders, communities, state and local leaders have participated in the response so far because of this hard work and the president's leadership, the immediate risk to the public US has been and remains low, our containment strategy has been working at the same time.

Each of our experts and leaders have been saying for more than a month that it remains true that the degree of risk has the potential to change rapidly and we can expect to see more cases in the United States, which is why we have been reminding Americans . CDC has recommended that the American public and especially state and local governments, businesses and other organizations educate themselves on how they would respond should the situation worsen, we are encouraging Americans to learn what future steps might be necessary to stay safe. in their communities. Knowing these possible steps now can help keep the risk low for you in your community.

Americans can find helpful information at CDC dot de / ko vyd COV ID 19 and we are working closely with government and private sector partners to educate them about preparedness. Finally, we have begun working with Congress to secure the funding we need. There are five main priorities in the White House's request to Congress that The White House made on Monday that these priorities are first expanding our surveillance network, second supporting state and local governments, third and fourth developing therapeutics and vaccines and Fifth, manufacturing and purchasing of protective equipmentpersonnel such as gowns and masks as president of the president's

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task. strength I am committed to providing regular updates of our coordinated interagency process.

Our top public health leaders, like those with me here today, speak to the media many times a day to inform the American public that the Trump administration will continue. Be aggressively transparent and keep the American people and the media informed about the situation. and what everyone can do about it. I'm going to leave the floor to dr. and shook him, the doctor shook him, he is the senior career official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the principal deputy director with a career of more than 30 years at the CDC.in public health and as Ivenna headed the Body in charge of the Public Health Service of the States, so dr.

He shook. I will deliver it to you. Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary, as you know, this has been a difficult and challenging time and our hearts go out to the people who have been directly affected by the virus and to all those who have been working tirelessly to respond to our aggressive response strategy. containment here in the United States. has been working and is responsible for the low levels of cases we have so far, however, we expect more cases and this is a good time to prepare. As you heard, it's the perfect time for businesses, healthcare systems, universities and schools to take a look at their pandemic preparedness plans, dust them off and make sure they're ready, and we have a lot more information on the website. the CDC and in partnership on how to do it, but it's also a very good time for the American public to prepare and for you to know what this means for you the coronavirus that we're talking about is a respiratory virus that is transmitted in a similar way The common cold or flu is transmitted through coughs and sneezes and that is why those common sense measures that we tell people to take every year with the flu are important here: covering your cough, staying home when you are sick and washing hands.

Tried and true measures, not very exciting, but really important ways to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses, so this is the trajectory of what we're seeing in the coming weeks and months is very uncertain, but many of the steps that We have taken over the past 15 years to prepare for pandemic influenza and our experience during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic reminds us of the types of steps. that our healthcare system, our businesses, our communities and schools may need to take, we are in this together, the entire government, public and private sector, and the CDC wants to make sure you have the best information available every day, thank you , I just want to give you a very quick update on my name is dr.

Tony Fauci I'm the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH, just a very quick update on the development of countermeasures in the form of vaccines and therapeutics. I told this audience at a recent press conference that we have a number of vaccine candidates and a prototype to give you an idea of ​​the time frame of a vaccine and what its impact could be now and in the years ahead, I told them that we would have a vaccine that we would test to see if it is safe and if it induces a response that you would predict would be protective in about three months, I think it will be a little less than that, it will probably be closer to two months, which would then take about three months to determine if it's safe and immunogenic, which gives us six months, then you go from a trial that is phase one of 45 people to a trial that involves hundreds, if not thousands, of people to determine efficacy as soon as possible. possible.

An efficacy trial would take an additional six to eight months, so Although this is the fastest we have gone from a virus sequence to a trial, it still won't be applicable to the epidemic unless we really wait a year to a year and a half, that means two things, one: The answer to contain it is public health measures, we cannot rely on a vaccine for the next few months or a year; However, if this virus, which we have every reason to believe, is quite conceivable to happen, it will last more than one season and it will arrive. come back and recycle next year, if that's the case, we hope to have a vaccine and then finally and briefly, therapies, there are a number of antiviral drugs that are being tested a few days ago we started a randomized controlled trial of a quorum of drugs of severe death that has antiviral activity in vitro in an animal model the good news is that it is a trial that is randomly assigned to placebo or standard treatment and drug and standard treatment, which means that we will know reasonably soon if it works and, if it does , we will do it. then have effective therapy.

I just backed away like once, like he was a great gentleman, a great leader. It is an incredible country. They treated us very, very well and we really enjoyed it. A lot of tremendous progress was made in terms of the relationship. Our relationship with India. It is extraordinary right now and we are going to do a lot of business with India. They are sending billions of dollars now to the United States, but they would rather talk about this right now. The CDC said yesterday that it believes it is inevitable that the virus will spread in the United States and it is not a question of if it agrees with that assessment, but when.

Well, I don't think it's inevitable, it probably will, possibly it will, it could be on a very small level or it could be on a larger level. level no matter what happens we are fully prepared we have the best people in the world it is seen that according to the study we have the best prepared people the best people in the world Congress is willing to give us much more than what we are asking for it is good for a change but we are totally ready willing and able is a term we use is ready willing and able we have we're going to be very well under control now it can grow and make it a little bigger it may not grow at all we'll see what happens but regardless of what happens we're totally prepared please about the three main restrictions that you implemented, many travel restrictions that you can impose on burning China right now as the virus spreads in Italy, South Korea, right? planning in those countries, well, Justin, you know I'm the president of the United States, I'm not the president of other countries, other countries on the list that are very respected in what they do in terms of what we're talking about. but I really want to be responsible for this country if that means putting a very strong situation on the border so that people cannot enter our country from a country that is infected, that is what we are doing and we have already done it. with numerous countries, but we have to focus on this country.

I don't think it's right to impose on others, but if others don't care or we think they're doing it incorrectly, you know we're dealing with global health and we have great people and the CDC helps other countries give them recommendations on what to do, but they are working in their countries, we are working in our countries, and so far, from our point of view, it has really worked very well. Please clarify, are you considering restricting travel to and from South Korea, Italy and other countries that have been affected? Well, we can do it now. It's not the right time, but the right time and we're checking on people as they come in specifically for the issue.

The problem we are dealing with, so we are finding that many people who come from South Korea have been greatly affected. Italy has been in a pretty difficult situation. China It's obvious what happened in China, but again the numbers seem to be leveling off and going up. in China, which is very good news, so we'll see what happens with the coronavirus response. Today, Secretary Hayes R testified that he did not believe it was necessary, they were going to execute it from HHS and you have done it yourself. I've been downplaying this, so why do they now select the vice president as vice president?

He's in management, but I have everyone report to Mike. Mike has been very good, very knowledgeable. Anyone who knows anything about healthcare, you look at the Indiana model and it's been a huge success, it's been a tremendous model in terms of healthcare and this is really an offshoot of that, so this is blue. I don't see my cases being Mike's as part of the administration, but I do have them report to Mike. Mike will brief me and in some cases they will brief both of us as well. I will go to meetings a lot depending on what they want to do and the message we want to convey, but we have done a really extraordinary job.

When you look at a country of this size with so many people arriving, it is by far number one in the world in terms of people arriving in a country and we have a total of 15 cases, many of which are almost many in one day, you I will tell. most of whom are fully recovered. I think it's actually a pretty impressive brand. Now we took in 40 people who were Americans and also recovering, but we brought them in, so I call I have a different group, but we felt like we had an obligation. to US citizens outside the country we are trying to return to, we thought it was very important, the stock market has taken a big hit in the last few days, what can be done about it? and whether the CDC is right in saying that the differential is inevitable.

Are you going to deal with stock market and economic issues for some time? Well, I really think the stock market is something I know a lot about. I think it took a hit, maybe for two reasons. I think they look at people. that you saw decline last night and they say if there is even a chance that that could happen, I think it will really be affected by that and it certainly was affected by this and I understand that also because of supply chains and various other things and people is coming in, but I think the stock market will recover, the economy is very strong, the consumer is the strongest it's ever been or the consumers are amazing there and it's amazing, that's why we do well in other countries, not even before the virus.

They are doing very well, other countries have not done very well, our consumer is very, very strong, very economically powerful, yes, cities like the ones we saw in China and what would have to happen for you to accept it. We don't have plans on a much larger scale. If we need to work with states, we are working with virtually all states and we have larger scale plans. If we need it, we don't think we'll need it, but you know you always have to do it. be prepared and again Congress is talking to us about funding and we are getting much more than what we asked for and I think the best thing we can do is accept it, we will accept it.

How much money are you willing to give to Congress? We are doing well, we will see if the states will take care of it because the states are working very hard, we have hospitals and states that are offering rooms and they are building quarantine areas, areas where people can be kept safe, we are working. very good with the States, it is a very important part, so my attitude of Congress wants to give us the money so easy, it was not very easy for the wall, but we achieved it if they want to give us the money and we will take the money, we will make a good I work with him, yes we will get protective equipment like masta etc and if so what is the value of US? doing to increase man's production, well, we can get a large amount, in fact, we have asked for a large amount in case we need it, we may not need it, you understand, but in case we are faced with the worst of the cases.

We will be ready very quickly, but I don't think we will ever be close to that. I really don't think we're going to be close to our borders being very controlled. Our flights from certain areas. We are talking about a very controlled market, I don't think we will ever get close to that place. Go back to the stock market per second. Travel-related stocks have been especially booming here in recent days. What would I say? Telling Americans who right now are looking forward to summer or the next few months and saying to themselves: Should I make plans for summer?

Should I travel abroad? Well, I hope they can do it. We think we hope so. They'll be in good shape by then, but you know they'll have to stay a little flexible. Yes, I would say that travel-related businesses would certainly be hurt right now by the time this ends. Hopefully it will end sooner rather than later and I think the business they lost will pick up at a later date, but you know, right now I think they probably won't go away. to China they are not going to go to certain countries where the problem is much greater than in the United States, what they are going to do is keep people at home and they are going to travel to places that we have, we have the The best thing is that it is the country with the most tourism in the world, so instead of leaving our country and leaving our shores, they will stayhere and again when you have 15 people, the 15 in a couple of days will go down to almost zero, that's pretty good. work we have done Speaker Pelosi is incompetent, she lost Congress once, I think she is going to lose it again, she raised my poll numbers up to 10 points.

I never thought I would see that so quickly and so easily. I'm leading everyone we're doing. great, I don't want to do it that way, it's almost unfair if you think about it, but I think she's incompetent and I think she's not thinking about the country and instead of making a statement like that where I've been routinely hitting her. Instead of making a statement like that, I should say that we have to work together because potentially we have a big problem and maybe it will be a very small problem. I hope it is a very small problem, but we have to work. together instead he wants to do the same thing with Brian Chuck Schumer he comes out and says the president is only asking for two and a half billion dollars he should have eight and a half if this is the first time you've told me that we should take more normally we have to take less and we should work together, he shouldn't make statements like that because it's very bad for the country and for Nancy Pelosi.

I mean he should go back to a district and clean it up because he's number one, if you look at the percentage, he was one of the best in the world and now you look at what's happening and I'm just saying we should all be working. Together you are trying to create panic and there is no reason to panic because we have done very well these professionals behind me and here and there and here and in some conference rooms I just left a group of 45 people who They are the most talented. people in the world, in parts of the world, ask us in a very nice way if they can participate and help them, so Nancy Pelosi should be a man, she knows that's not true, she knows that's all they're trying to do is to gain political advantage.

It's not about political advantage, we're all trying to do the right thing, you shouldn't say this is terrible, President Trump isn't asking for enough money, what a stupid thing to say to say if they want to give us more money, that's fine. 'We will accept more money. Some Republicans think we should have more money. Okay, we'll take more money, but they shouldn't demean the people on stage, who are the best in the world. They're not degrading me.' We are degrading the best healthcare professionals in the world and the people who do exactly what we are talking about.

His campaign today sues the New York Times for an opinion. Is it your opinion or is it your argument that if people have an opinion contrary to yours? that they should be sued well when they have a completely wrong opinion like the New York Times did and frankly they've been very wrong in recent years so we'll see how that allows that to work in court. beyond an opinion that is not an opinion that is something much more than an opinion they did something bad and more will come I hope so because Shinzo Bobby is a very good friend of mine I love the people of Japan and I hope that is the case Be in good shape since you know that there are several people in Japan who have been infected.

I heard they're doing a very professional job, which doesn't surprise me at all with Shinzo and all the people you have. I know Japan. very good, I think they're going to handle it very well, it's a little tight, you know, it's a little tight, they spent billions of dollars building one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen and their Prime Minister is very proud of it, I hope. everything is going to be fine, we hope so President, the CDC doctor just talked about dusting off preparedness plans coming from you, it carries more weight, do you think US schools should prepare for a virus Perona, right?

I think so. I mean, I haven't specifically talked about it with the different doctors, but I think so. I believe that all aspects of our society must be prepared. I don't think we'll get there, especially with the fact that we're falling. not up, we're going to go down substantially up, but yes, I think the school should be preparing and you know, prepare just in case the words are just in case we don't believe we're going to be there, we don't believe. we will be close again and again if you look some countries are going down it is starting to go in the other direction this will end this will end look at the flu season I said 26,000 people I have never heard of a number like that 26,000 people going up to sixty nine thousand people , doctor, you tell me before sixty-nine thousand people die every year from 26 to 69 every year from the flu.

Now think that the results of all this stuff that everyone is reading about so far are incredible. and part of the problem is you want to keep it the way it is, you don't want to see panic because there's no reason to panic, but when I mentioned the flu I said I actually asked several doctors and I said it's This is like the flu because people dies from the flu and this is very unusual and it's a little bit different, but in some ways it's easier and in others it's a little bit harder, but we have it so well under control, I mean, we really have done a very good work mr.

President, you mentioned the stock market earlier to get back to that, just to be clear, the Dow Jones fell over 2000 points this week, are you suggesting that was overblown? Our financial markets overreacted here. I think the financial markets are very upset when they look at the Democratic candidates standing on that stage making fools of themselves and saying that if we ever have a president like this and there's always a chance it could be an election, you know who knows what will happen, right? No? I think we're going to win, I think we're going to win by a lot, but when you look at the statements made by the people behind those podiums, I think that has a huge effect, yes, it has to do with, I think so, I think Yes, but I think you can add a little bit of liquidation to what they're saying because they're seeing the potential, you know, again, I think we're going to win, I feel very confident about it, we've done everything and a lot more of what I said we were going to do. for what we've done, what we've done is incredible with cutting taxes and regulations and rebuilding our military, taking care of our veterans and giving them choices and accountability, all the things we've done to protect our Second Amendment, I mean , They consider that the Second Amendment was going to destroy the Second Amendment when people see that and say this is not good, then you add that I really think that is a factor, but no, this is what we are talking about, it is the virus.

That's what we're talking about, I think in terms of CNBC and in terms of Fox Business, I think that's a factor, yeah, and I think after I win the election, I think the stock market is going to boom like it's never boomed before. . like it did, by the way, after I won the last election, the stock market the next day went up like a rocket, the travel restrictions regarding when are we at a point where we don't have a problem, you know, no we're going to loosen travel restrictions, that's what saved us, if I hadn't had Mike allude to it, if I hadn't made the decision from the beginning not to take people from a certain area, we wouldn't be talking about this Either way, we would be talking about many more people.

I have been infected, I received a lot of pressure, I mean some people call me racist because I made a decision very early and we had never done that before as a country let alone early, so it was a bold decision, it turned out to be a good decision but I was criticized by the Democrats they called me racist because I made that decision if you can believe we all have to work together we can't say bad things and especially when we have the best team in the world and we really gave it an early start, we gave it a very early start we can get money and we can increase it if we know all the people, we know all the good people, is a question I asked the doctors before some of the people we eliminated. they have not been used for many years and if we have a need we can get them very quickly and instead of spending the money and I am a business person I don't like having thousands of people around when I don't need them and get them back very quickly for example , we will bring in some people tomorrow who are already in this great government that we have and very specifically for this we can build very, very quickly and we have already done it.

I mean, we've really developed, we have a great staff and I'm using Mike. I'm doing it because he's in the administration and he's very good at doing what he does and as it relates to this so far, so far, your victim with you. The administration is only testing fewer than 500 people, and health officials wonder if that's enough compared to other countries that have tested more than tens of thousands of people. Are you planning to test more people? Well, we're testing everyone we need to test. We are encountering very few problems, very few problems. Now you treat this like the flu.

In fact, I could ask one of the doctors to come and explain it to you. You want to wash your hands a lot. You want to stay if you are. you don't feel well if you feel like you have the flu stay inside, quarantine yourself, don't go out, but there are certain steps you can take that won't even be necessary. You know, this is when you get infected, it's very light. I don't even know there's a problem, sometimes they just get a cold, sometimes they get something that makes them not feel quite well and sometimes they feel really bad, but that's a bit like the flu, it's a bit like the flu normal that we have.

We have flu vaccines and we will essentially have a flu vaccine for this pretty quickly. Yes, go ahead, two weeks ago, Mr. The president, you're the acting director of the OMB, you were in this room and you were talking about what you expect GDP growth to be for next year, you said it was 3% and We've talked about the effects of the curse on the supply chain going up. In the financial markets, are you still confident that you will see that kind of economic growth? We will have tremendously low unemployment, we are setting records and that was, in fact, the administration, as you know, the lowest average unemployment of any administration in history and our numbers are very low very good 3.5 3.6 but not really You can see what this does in terms of GDP, it could affect it, but that's irrelevant compared to what we're talking about, we want to make sure it's safe, safety number one. but this would let you know an impact on the GDP, but we are still very, we are doing very well, but this I will tell you what has a big impact.

Boeing has a big impact. How did that happen a year ago? All of a sudden that happened, I think that took half a point off us, to a certain extent, you even know it's a huge undertaking. I think Boeing we had the General Motors strike that had a huge impact on GDP and of course we are paying interest rates. I disagree with the head of the Federal Reserve. I'm not happy with what that is because he has kept interest rates that President Obama didn't have close to the numbers and yet if you look at what happened, he was paying zero, we are paying.

The interest is more conservative now and, frankly, people who save their money now get a return on that money instead of getting nothing, but I think you know where, with the highest of all, we should be paying the lowest interest rates and when. Germany and other countries are paying negative rates, meaning they literally get paid when they put money in. I mean, they borrow money and get paid when it's paid back. Who has heard of this before? He said first, but we didn't. So I totally disagree with our Fed. I think our Fed has made a terrible mistake and it would have made as good a difference as we have made even without the 2000 points and we started at 16,000 and we will be at 28,000. without reaching 30,000 we have had increases like no one has seen before but we are doing well but we have to be careful, we are doing well anyway in other words, even despite the 2000 points it sounds like a lot and it is a lot but no It is nothing, it is very little compared to what we have raised but we will be watching it very closely but we have been harmed by General Motors we have been harmed by Boeing and we have been harmed by we have been harmed by My opinion is very bad on the part of our own Reserve Federal, which has also created a very strong dollar, which is a good thing about a strong dollar, but it makes it much more difficult to do business outside of this country, thank you sir, yes, several of your online followers have adopted these Theories or beyond these theories that the CDC may be exaggerating the coronavirus threat to harm you politically.

Rush Limaugh the other day said that this has been advanced to weaponize the virus against you. You don't need my supporters, you're just my people who aren't. support, right, I think, and I would like this to end. I think people know that when Chuck Schumer gets up he said that he did the same thing with a couple of trade agreements that are agreementsphenomenal, now everyone has recognized phenomenal deals before him. I ever saw the day when I didn't even know we were going to make a deal, they said, what do you think of the China deal?

I don't like it I don't like it he talked about tariffs I left the tariffs at twenty-five percent, when two hundred and fifty billion dollars said he had eliminated the tariffs, I didn't even know about the agreement and I was out there criticizing it because it's a natural thing to say, but when There is especially talk about something like this, we have to be on the same team this is too important we have to be on the same team the CDC is trying to hurt you that no, I'm not leaving it the CDC is all no, they have been, they have been working very good together I think beyond that, they want this to go away, they want to do it with the least disruption and they don't want to lose lives.

I see the way they work on this channel, these people behind me and others in the other room are amazing people no I don't see that at all thank you thank you making a blank sir. Person, I thank you tonight, you are minimizing the risk of danger from the virus. Are you telling Americans, except those who are sick, not to change any other view of their behaviors? No, I think you always have to look. I do it a lot. Anyway, you've probably heard: wash your hands, stay clean, you don't necessarily have to hold on to every handrail unless you have to, you know you do certain things you do when you have the flu.

I mean, you see this the same way you see the flu when someone sneezes. I mean, I try to escape sneezing as much as possible and a man approached me a week ago. He hadn't seen him in a long time and I said how are you? He said, "Okay, honey, hug me, kiss me." He said you're good, he says no, he said I have the worst fever of the worst flu and he hugs me and kisses me, so I said, excuse me, I went, that's what he does by looking, man, so you have to do that, you know , this is, I really think doctor, you want to treat this like you treat the flu well and you know it will be, don't ruin it with a bad question, you said you wanted a total travel ban in quotes, you said Obama was a poor tugboat, a stubborn fool, not for doing it. he said just stop the flights you fools, he also said it was a total joke, quote unquote, appointing someone to lead the Ebola response with no experience in the medical field, now look, listening to a lot of what he had to say, you're doing.

Listen carefully because this is a very different problem than Ebola. Ebola disintegrated you, especially at the beginning. They've made a lot of progress now with Ebola, but with Ebola we were talking about it before you disintegrated. You have Ebola, that was it. one is different, very different, this is a flu, this is like a flu and this is a very different situation than Ebola, but we are working on a ball right now because of the way we are working in certain areas of the Congo , the Congo has Ebola and largely caused by the fact that they have war and people can't get there, now we can treat Ebola because at that time it was infectious and couldn't be treated, nobody knew anything about it, nobody I had heard of something like that.

This is a very different situation and in the last few minutes you have questioned some of what officials working in your administration behind you have said about the risk of the crota virus and its spread. Do you trust your health officials? To give you information that you trust, your instincts, I don't think they said, they said it could be worse and I said it could be worse - are you all something? No, I don't think it's inevitable. I don't think it's inevitable. I think we are doing a very good job in terms of maintaining the borders and changing the conditions of allowing people in in terms of controlling them and also that is one of the reasons why I am here today to spread the word to people .

I can still know that they're going to know no, I don't think it's, I don't think it's inevitable, I think there's a chance that it could get worse, like a chance that it could get substantially worse, but nothing is inevitable, we still have it. It's your birthday, that's right, Brazil, right, Brazil, and there are a lot of Americans in Brazil now for Carnival, what are your

concerns

and what are the procedures and practices you plan to implement while those Americans are trying to return? Yes, we have very strong people. coming from Brazil now it only has one case it is a big country but it only has one case but it is still a case we deal very well with Brazil the president is a very good friend of mine in fact he ran exactly it is called making Brazil great Again, That's what he said, we get along very well.

I know you're very excited to know that we get along very, very well and we're working with Brazil, but we have much worse cases than Brazil, you know, you have Italy and you have In other countries where they have much more than one person, right now they have one person, recently, a person in Brazil, but Italy is a deeper problem and we are controlling the people who come very, very strongly from Those and at some point we can cut them off, you know, at some point, depending on what happens, we can cut off certain additional countries like we have had to do with China and we hope to be able to open it up to China as soon as possible and We hope that the numbers that we have been getting are true in China, where it has really stabilized and started to go down because eventually, sometimes that's going to happen.

Go ahead, you've repeatedly said that I think the federal government is very prepared and you're ready for this, but if you think the secretary and czar is doing a great job, why did you feel the need to make a change and put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of federal response? to the spiral because I think the secretary is doing a fantastic job, but he also has many other things. I mean, we're working on a lot of things together if you look at his agenda of what he's doing, including drug pricing, and I think it's maybe the most complicated job we have in government and I want him to be able to focus on that and Mike he's very good at it, they're going to work together, they're going to work very closely together and I see both of them in management them all the time so it really works this is in a czar this is not going out and getting someone who's never been in I have two people in management who are very talented and it's something I feel good about.

I don't want to. Don't skimp on the horses. I have very talented people. I want to use them in this because I wanted to stay low or as low as possible. China at the beginning of this outbreak, the Chinese Communist Party covered up that it has been the general Consensus of everyone, how can President Z and the Chinese Xiaomi imagining the fourth coming and the fourth can now be legitimately trusted? Well, I can tell you this. I talked to him. I spoke to him very recently and he is working very hard on this problem. he is working very hard and they are very tough and very smart and it is significant, it is a significant group of very talented people who are working and they are calling Dr.

Qi, they are calling our people, we are dealing with them. We are giving them certain advice that we actually have through global health, we have it too and we have a lot of our people forming that group that went there, no, he is working very hard to make it very easy for me to say, now you know, no. No matter what he says, I can really tell you that he is working. I had a long conversation with him the other night. He is working very, very hard. He wants this thing gone from China and gone fast and he wants to get back to business. usual which has a mortality rate of about 0.14 excellent this has a mortality rate between 3% we don't know exactly if and fluids higher than that the flow is much greater than this is spreading or will spread native life in the communities that is expectation that worries you because I have seen what worries them for now because we are ready for this is what it is we are ready for this we are really prepared we have like I said we have had we have the greatest people in the world we are very prepared for this, we hope it doesn't spread, there's a chance it won't spread and there's a chance it will, and then it's a question of what level we're at so far.

I've done a great job when you have 15 people from all over this world coming to the United States and all 15 people are better or close to being better, that's pretty good, there have been many cases of price gouging in mask sales. medical equipment and so on, should the government be investigating that? Thinking of a message, if you tell me that's happening, we would definitely investigate. We don't want that. Yes, are you working with China right now, specifically in what areas do we also work with China? We just did the most important thing. trade agreement in history, we made two of them between us, the MCA and the agreement with China, it is the largest in history, the relationship with China is very good and I can tell you that again President Xi is working very hard and wants this problem with the greatest intensity. how can you work thank you all thank you