Trump And Coronavirus Task Force Hold Briefing At White House

American lives saved, we are going to save many American lives and we are in control of our own destiny, so maintaining social distance, practicing vigorous hygiene and staying home are the most effective ways to win the war and escape danger. As you fight this battle from home, we are working with the best scientists, doctors and researchers around the world, we are racing to develop new ways to protect against the virus, as well as therapies, treatments and ultimately a vaccine, and we are I think from a medical standpoint there's a lot of progress, at the same time we're also racing to provide relief to American workers and small businesses, as you know.

I want to remind small business owners across the United States that the Paycheck Protection Program is launching. Tomorrow nearly three hundred and fifty billion dollars in loans will be available to small businesses, including sole proprietors. These loans are up to 100 percent forgivable, as long as employers continue paying their workers. They have to take care of their workers. Additionally, we want Social Security recipients to know that if they are not normally required to file a tax return, they do not have to file to receive the direct cash payments that will soon be distributed to American citizens. The Treasury will deposit the money directly into the bank accounts and don't forget, I will always protect your Social Security, your Medicare and your Medicaid, we are protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and I always will.

I would like to now invite the SBA administrator, Jovita Carranza, who is doing a fantastic job. She's going to be very busy in the next little while and Secretary Steve Minuchin will say a few words about these vital initiatives and then we'll move on to the attack on the virus itself and please, if I can stay in Jovita, thank you, thank you, mr. president and mr. vice president secretary notion Ivanka Trump and everyone with whom I have been working closely on this effort small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and the president has put the country's 30 million small businesses front and center in the effort to response and we are working hard to get money to them quickly, this is an unprecedented effort by this administration to support small businesses and we know there will be challenges in the process.

Secretary Minuchin and I are working together to ensure that our partners' feedback is heard and the public and private sectors must work closely to ensure that small businesses and their workers across the country are prioritized. This administration wholeheartedly believes that if you are a small business, you are a critical part of the economic fabric of this country and your viability is critical. For the economic well-being of your employees at the SBA, we are working around the clock to support small businesses, ensuring that we are prioritizing emergency capital for small businesses that are suffering economic harm as a result of this unprecedented situation, This relief will help stabilize a small business sector by providing businesses with the financial resources they need to keep their workers employed and keep up with their daily operating expenses today.

I want to make sure small businesses across the country are aware of the protection program. Paycheck and how they can benefit from it, simply put, the Paycheck Protection Program is to help keep employees on payroll and small businesses open. The SBA will forgive the portion of the loan that is used to maintain employment and certain other expenses. We are working closely with lenders so businesses can go direct. Paycheck Protection Program from your local lenders adds to the substantial work the SBA has done and will continue to do to help small businesses, including providing advances on SBA disaster loans and forgiving loan payments. existing SBA loans over the next six months.

Programs can be found at sba.gov and we will update these resources periodically. Our hearts go out to those affected by this terrible virus. Our communities across the country are stepping up and we will get through this together at the SBA. We know that every phone call. The email or application sent has a small business owner, their employees, and the communities they support on the other end. Our most important goal is to enable small businesses to keep their employees on board and keep their businesses viable through this unprecedented disruption. I want to reiterate the importance of patience in this process as we work together to ensure that businesses can access the necessary credit.

We will continue to work around the clock, as we have with our federal and private sector partners, expanding capacity and working to make our systems as robust as possible. possible to meet the needs Thank you sir. president Thank you mr. president Thank you mr. vice president thank you Joe Vita sir. President, you have made it clear to us that now we must execute, we need to get money to small businesses and American workers and that is what we are doing, the SBA and the Treasury committed to launching this program tomorrow and when Jovita says that the People work literally 24 hours a day, we had both teams working until four in the morning and we started working again today.

We've heard feedback from lenders, community banks, regional banks and spent the last 24 hours making this system even easier, so this will be up and running tomorrow. I encourage all small businesses that have 500 people or less. Contact your lenders. Any FDIC institution will be one to do this. Any credit union. Existing SBA Lenders and FinTech Lenders. You will get the money. You will get it the same day. use this to pay your workers, please bring your workers back to work if you let them go, you have eight weeks plus overhead, this is a very important program. I am pleased to announce that we are going to increase the interest rate on these loans and again the interest rate paid is part of the program the bar does not have to pay this at 1% we had announced that it was going to be 50 basis points we have heard from some community banks smaller than their deposits cost even though the government borrow at three or four basis points, this is on average a 90 day loan to make it attractive for community banks, we have agreed to increase the interest rate again.

I encourage everyone to adopt the Paycheck Protection Program. I am also pleased to report the economic impact payments. I previously said this would take us three weeks. I am pleased to report that within two weeks the first payments will be direct deposit into the taxpayers' account and as the president said last night, the president authorized me to say that anyone who has security recipients will not need to file a new declaration of taxes and they will have to if we do not have their direct deposit information, we will create a web portal so they can do it, it is a very big priority, the president.

He has made it clear that we want to get this money quickly into his hands. I am also pleased to inform you that we continue to work closely with the Federal Reserve. We are in the process of designing a new service we call the Main Street Lending Service. We are also looking at facilities for state governments and I am also pleased to report that the employee retention credit is up and running. The first $10,000 of salary gets a 50% credit which is $5,000 per person and for everyone who has withheld someone, you can get that money right away, you can deduct it from what you owe the IRS right away, if you don't owe us money, you'll get a refundable tax credit to get you up and running.

I am also pleased to inform you that we have the program up and running. We are currently accepting applications from airlines, cargo companies and national security companies, so thank you very much, mr. president whose team mr. The secretary of a Chase Bank today sends a letter to its business customers saying they believe they do not have the necessary guidance from the Treasury Department's SBA to be able to accept loan applications starting tomorrow. The need is clearly enormous, but at least an important one. The bank says they are not yet fully trained to be able to help your well-being.

Yesterday I spoke to all the CEOs. I had a conference call with them and we got some really good feedback from them about what they needed as I said people were working until 4:00 o'clock. I think we just published in the Federal Register the new guidelines for lenders. They have assured me that the banks will be in the process starting tomorrow. Now again, it's going to take a little bit of time, but we've committed that this will be available tomorrow and I encourage all businesses to rest assured, go to the Treasury government. They can see the information they need immediately on that call and that there is a tremendous power struggle between Treasury and the SBA and that processing of forms has ended. is what they tell me the lenders are actually opting out because they can't make enough money to even pay back the loans so how are they going to make sure these small business owners get the capital they need to survive now yourself, first of all?

I assure you Jovita is here Jovita used to work for me as treasurer, there is no power struggle. Jovita and our team, as I said, worked together until four in the morning and started work at 7 o'clock again. We have simplified the form. and I can assure you that on five points I have told these bankers that they should take all their merchants and put them in the branches so they will never have another chance to earn five points on 90-day fully government-guaranteed loan checks directly into deposit direct The IRS now says take four to five months you are saying two weeks let me be clear I don't worry I don't know where you are hearing these things.

I told him it would be three weeks. now, committing to two weeks, we are meeting our commitments, the IRS, which I oversee, within two weeks, the first money will not be in people's deposits, it looks like they will come out pretty quickly, the question is, so people who They do not have direct deposit. and there was a statute, well, it was released today by the House Ways and Means Committee that says that process could take up to five weeks, which takes it until mid-August. How long is that not going to take five? Let me tell you when.

Obama sent these checks. He took months and months and months. I assure the American public that they need the money now. What we're going to do is again, if we have your information, you'll receive it within two weeks. Social Security. We will receive it very quickly after that, if we don't have your information, it will upload it to the simple web portal. If we don't have it, we will mail you checks. We can process a lot of checks, but we don't want to send checks in this environment we don't want people to receive checks we want to put money directly into your account secretary this is for I assume both you and the administrator there have been some anecdotal reports of business people trying gain access to the online site to submit the applications, the websites have crashed.

I've heard of webinars going offline because there are too many people on them, so how will they be ready? They know tomorrow to get these loans that we have brought. a lot of outside resources at the SBA and us to make sure there is additional capacity, like I said, we heard a lot of good feedback yesterday to streamline this process, it will be up and running now, let me be clear that that doesn't mean everyone is going to go get their loan tomorrow, but the system will be working. We encourage people over the next week to register.

You can continue right now. You can enter the website. See what information you need. Very simple process. Affair. Have you been in contact with the leader? McConnell and Speaker Pelosi on their differences right now over another stimulus package. I talked. I spoke with the leader. I spoke with the president. I have talked to the president constantly when the president is ready and he believes we should move to the next stage. We are ready, the president has talked about the issue of infrastructure since the campaign. I think you know it's a big priority for Hip and again, if we run out of money for the small business program, we will immediately go back to Congress to increase it.

Let me tell you that we are going through something we have never done before, where the government shut down large parts of the economy for health reasons. Our economy was in very good shape. Our companies were in very good shape. There are three ways. that Americans are going tobe protected for small businesses their businesses will pay them through this program direct deposit also increases unemployment so we realize that unfortunately there are many businesses that because they are not in business for a short period We are again working with the states to improve unemployment and as soon as the medical professionals and the president give the go-ahead, we are going to have a ton of liquidity, we have about six trillion dollars, this has never been done between us and the Federal Reserve to put in the economy to support American workers in American businesses, in addition to the unemployment numbers we saw today, these three were signed before social distancing guidelines were extended for another month So what additional relief are they going to give Americans? since they are out of work for all these extra weeks and what are they waiting for?

Well, in designing this program we thought that we had liquidity for about ten weeks and that is what we have designed and again I think the president has been very clear. If we need to go back to Congress to support the American economy and American workers, we will do it, Mr. secretary secretary has become restless Pelosi has formed a select committee to oversee the distribution of recovery funds and says he wants to make sure those funds are spent wisely and efficiently. Do you think that select committee is necessary? you know boththe parties wanted us to have oversight they wanted us to have transparency we have full transparency we have an Oversight Committee where the spokesperson can choose someone the leader can choose someone I think there are five people on it and again that committee will review the money that we are spending and again we support full transparency taxpayers should understand how we are going to support this economy and the secretary of labor the second senator Murkowski has asked you to consider providing loans to energy companies under the Carrot Law, the bill of phase three, what are your thoughts on that, would you consider making those loans to energy companies?

Thank you and let me clarify. I have very limited ability to make direct Treasury loans. I can make them for passenger airlines, cargo airlines, contractors, and national security companies outside of the ones we work with. with the Federal Reserve to create broad-based credit lines, which we will do, so our expectation is that the energy companies, like all of our other companies, will be able to participate in broad-based credit lines, whether the corporate line or Main Street line, but not Treasury direct loans for those who do not have bank accounts who do not have direct deposit information on file with the IRS how long would they have to wait to receive their check?

Well, for people who don't have direct deposit again. We will have an easy way for you to place it. We can do it continuously. I think you'll know in a couple of days, when they deliver it to us. We will send the money. We realize that there are people who are unbanked and again we are working with all the digital prepaid debit card companies, we are working with all of them to make sure that we have a process where all Americans get their money quickly. This money is of no use to people if it appears in four months and we will fulfill that promise, please, it is a matter of us that perhaps not months quickly, but a matter of weeks and not months, that is correct, very where it is can make direct loans is to airlines, how much does the Treasury Department expect from the federal government? participate in overseeing airline operations in terms of what routes they reduce, how much they operate, what they do with their employees and life, so there are very strict requirements that are built into the bill again, this It was a bipartisan requirement, whatever. what we do with the airlines, they have to support substantially all of their employees, so again, any money we give them will go to paying their employees.

We are going to work with the Secretary of Transportation. There are requirements to maintain certain routes, so again. We have a very clear process, we have hired three external advisors who will be financial advisors and three law firms will be publishing that information shortly and I want to thank them all are basically working for very, very little money, they couldn't work for free. So they basically agreed to work for what they would sign up to work for charities, so again, no big fees for bankers. We have a great team of three lawyers and three financial advisors who will help us advise people.

When you publish the information first, they will give you the names and the contracts, so again at this time, in addition to Blackrock, again I am happy to announce, we have PG in the PJT partners, okay, he is going to do the passenger. Airlines Mullis and company will handle cargo and contractors and Perella Weinberg will handle national security and there will be three law firms announcing shortly that they will be working in each of those sectors and again let me make it clear that we need to do this quickly. Airlines need money. We are going to work very closely with the Department of Transportation and do it quickly.

In fact, we have already received contracts from many people. There is guidance on the web. Total transparency. I've asked for requests on the airline issue again, only Speaker Pelosi and others have said that the government taking stakes in those airlines should not be a condition of the federal government providing payroll support specifically, which Is your response to what I talked to the president about last time? night about that this was something that was highly negotiated between the Republicans and the Democrats the president was personally involved in us he was on the phone with us many times Mitch McConnell mark Meadows senators on both sides there is a specific line in the bill that says that the secretary refers to me will determine the appropriate compensation so that this is not a bailout for the airlines and I will be working once we receive advice from our financial advisors, we receive the requests from the airlines.

I will work very closely with the president and We will make sure that we strike the right balance, not a bailout, taxpayers will be compensated, but these airlines are national security issues. We want to keep our airlines under control for the administrator, if not, for you, as well as for some small businesses, restaurant owners for example. find that laying off their employees so they can start collecting unemployment is better for both them as business owners and their workers. What incentives do you have now to keep your employees on the payroll if no one comes to your restaurant?

Well, the incentive you have and we want American business to stay intact. The incentive is that these are loans that turn into grants, so if you're a business owner and you're a restaurant, you can hire your people and get money for your medical services. them on the medical plan you get money for rent you get money for electricity so you're motivated we want you to have a business that you can reopen quickly when appropriate so that it doesn't cost the business owners anything you know when people talk about that I can't imagine any American worker who had a job being offered to keep it, they won't want to have it and let me be clear, we've also talked about this unemployment issue, you can only get unemployment. if you don't have a job, then unemployment is intended for those people who are medium or large companies and we are very understanding of the fact that these companies cannot afford it and for those people the enhanced unemployment will be an important benefit, but we want to make sure that 50% of the American work

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are small businesses of less than five hundred people, the president, the vice president, the administrator and I want to make sure that this part of the economy is ready and intact when we are ready to reopen.

There's a certain category of small businesses that you're most concerned about: restaurants, hair salons, things like that. That's a great question. We are concerned about every small business. There are 30 million small businesses that we are really focused on and working feverishly on. to make sure that we can get the funds available to them as quickly as possible, so that's 30 million small businesses and the other businesses are being treated with the PPP with paycheck protection. There was also a disaster as we call it the damage or the economy. Injury disaster loan and then there was an advance associated with that particular program, so to answer your question, we are concerned about all businesses and as the secretary indicated, we are seeing that employees are ready and not lost in this process where we want. that companies remain intact because they represent half of half of the GDP, so if we spend a trillion to support 10 trillion or 11 trillion, I think that is a significant investment and that is what we focus on.

I just want to make a comment to explain because I want to make sure that everyone understands this, if you are an independent contractor, if you are a sole proprietor, you are also eligible for this, now that the program will not be operational until next week, but again, This is a very broad program. definition of small business, so if you are an independent plumber, if you are an independent contractor, you are covered by this slightly more complicated program, you have to go to your bank and give them more information, but starting next week that part The program will be running also charities, also very large charities, the vice president and the president make sure that we cover small charities in this, although there are some technical problems, but yes, it includes religious organizations, this is under the PPP Yes, the new one.

SBA program, they're covered, thank you, okay, that starts right away and they start handing out checks. Many people will recover their businesses quickly. I hope we see that great little complicated businesses are actually great businesses, so I appreciate that. to both of you and please, we have some great gentlemen, let me say, great gentlemen, that's right, thank you very much, today my administration is also issuing new guidelines to protect older Americans who remain the most vulnerable right now. Nursing homes should have suspended entry of all medically unnecessary ones. staff today, we further recommend that all nursing home facilities, apart from the same staff, care for the same group of residents consistently to minimize any potential spread and we also urge facilities to designate separate areas for healthy and sick residents and this It is a practice we will likely recommend in the future long after the enemy is gone this particular enemy is God we are also doing everything we can to provide relief to our great veterans we take very good care of our veterans under my leadership Secretary Wilkie will use any authority at your disposal to extend benefit deadlines and postpone debt collection, we are now performing over 100,000 corona virus tests per day, no more than a hundred thousand tests per day and these are accurate tests and they are moving quickly , which is more than any other country in the world, both in terms of raw numbers and also per capita, the most the FDA has also authorized the first

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antibody test developed by selects a key step that will help identify to people who have recovered and to understand their immune response and their immune system A few moments ago I directed Secretary, Tsar and Acting Secretary Wolf, to use all available authority under the Defense Production Act to ensure that manufacturers mystics have the supplies they need to produce ventilators for patients with severe cases of CO VI D 19 you know what is true, become a very famous term Co VAD kovat this action will help General Electric Hill ROM Medtronic ResMed Royal Philips and VY air medical to overcome supply chain bottlenecks that were threatening the rapid production of ventilators we have for more than one hundred thousand being built right now or will soon begin, we anticipate issuing more orders under the defense production act in the very near future, In addition to the one I just signed against 3m for face masks, we just signed an element of the act against 3m and hopefully they will be able to do what they are supposed to do.

I just spoke with Mary Barra from General Motors and she said that very soon they will be ready to start production of the ventilators. They have a lot of fans that they have committed to building and they will start very, very quickly. FEMA continuesDelivering resources to areas hardest hit by the virus, including New York, in addition to the 3,000 beds they were already providing to the Javits Center, the Department of Defense is adding another. 48 ICU beds Governor Cuomo is being asked to eliminate this facility and it is a large, beautiful facility that would become a Kovat hospital and we hadn't done it yet, we hadn't thought in terms of doing it, but there is real demand for it. is for that and we had meetings about it with the

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, we had meetings with the military and I have decided to say yes, I am going to do that, I will sign and accept an affirmative answer so that we can It was not anticipated that it would, it is a 2500 hospital or 2900 that can be easily installed built in Javits Center, so we are going to turn it into a coveted hospital and it will be staffed by military and federal government personnel and based on the fact that I agreed, we had two other facilities that also they were applying and that they would be in Louisiana and also in Dallas and we will do what we talked to the governor of Louisiana, we talked to the governor of Texas and we told them we will staff those hospitals again above and beyond, but okay, we have to do it too. the United States.

NS Comfort is docked in New York to accept non-Kovac patients. To date, FEMA has delivered over 4 million n95 mask respirators and think about those 4 million, 4 million, don't forget we are a secondary source that the states are doing. and we are supporting them, but we have received four million n95 respirators, 1.8 million surgical masks, 460,000 face shields, 1.4 million gloves and 4,400 ventilators just for the city and state of New York, and some of them now they are being sent I spoke with both Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio a moment ago and some of them are being sent to the city.

All of America stands with the people of New York in this time of need. It is definitely a critical point, but we also have other critical points and we are taking them, guarding them very strongly, very powerfully, we have the best people in the world in those places and I think the federal government has not only acted early but has acted quickly and professionally, there are no people like this, doctors, nurses, first responders and their healthcare providers who want to help New York in this critical time should visit the website nyc.gov barra help now nyc.gov barra help now need help now they need people to help them we have great facilities and we have built a brand new large facility but we need helpI need help for professionals so if you are in an area that is not as affected and you are a doctor, nurse or healthcare worker please visit that website and we would really appreciate your help.

New York City needs it. Louisiana for Michigan needs you, do what you can do, those are very strong flashpoints, they need help in recent weeks as the virus has spread and the economic hardships have continued, we have seen Americans come together with an altruism and incredible compassion. I want to remind everyone here in our nation. capitol especially in Congress that this is not the time for politics endless partisan investigations here we go again I have already done extraordinary damage to our country in recent years you see what happens it is witch hunt after witch hunt after witch hunt of witches and in the end the people who carry out the witch hunts have been losing and they have been losing by a lot and it is not the time for witch hunts, it is time to defeat this enemy.

Conducting these partisan investigations in the middle of a pandemic is a huge waste of vitality. resources time attention and we want to fight for American lives, not waste time and increase my numbers in the polls because that's all they're doing, because everyone knows it's ridiculous, so we want to focus on the people of this country, even in the people of the world we know. "We will be able to help them because right now it is an example that we are building a lot of ventilators that are very difficult to build, but we are building thousands of thousands of them and many of them will come at a time when we win." I don't need them as much because it takes time, it is very complex, very expensive and we will be able to help outside of our country.

We think we can help. That is something that cannot easily occur since the citizens were united by shared ties. of national love, loyalty and affection, there is no earthly force more powerful than the patriotic pride that stirs in our hearts and that is so true, the work that everyone has been doing is incredible, everyone, they do not sleep, they do not go to bed, times Nothing you said to someone recently in the work group How many hours have you slept in the last few days? The answer was none. None. In a neighborhood in Massachusetts, citizens emerge from their homes every night at eight o'clock from their porches and sing.

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from street to street to their small town in a spirit of patriotism and reminding all Americans that we are all in this together, we will fight together and we will win together. I'm going to win this now what I would like to do is go out, we have a meeting on the subject and I will go out just for a few moments, I'll be right back, we will respond. some questions, but there are very hardworking people who have done an incredible job, led by Vice President Mike Pence, head of the

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Brooks and I will be right back, so I'll see you in a little while. I took a test we just left. This is from the White House doctor. It's possible he just left. I had it done this morning and I took it it took me literally a minute to take it and it took me I think it was 14 or 15 minutes I went to work I didn't wait but I said it took me 14 minutes or something like that to come to the conclusion and he said the president gave negative for kovat 19, so that's the second one. I think I picked it up really out of curiosity to see how fast it worked and fast at work and it's a lot easier.

I have done both and the second one is much more. nice Jeff I can tell you it's a lot nicer so I'll be back in a bit and Mike please take over thank you thank you so much everyone he'll be back. Thank you, mr. president, the White House

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task force met today, but that same day the president summoned all key elements of our supply chain team to the Oval Office for an update on the progress we've been making , working literally 24 hours a day to make sure that our healthcare workers, the people on the front lines, have the personal protective equipment and also the ventilators to be able to meet this moment and today you will listen to the people who are literally working every day to make that happen.

Dr. Deborah Birx is also with us; will reflect in a moment on the progress we are making by analyzing data every day, looking county by county, state by state, consulting with governors and local health officials in At this time more than 1.3 million tests have been performed and , as you all know, about 236,000 Americans have tested positive for the corona virus and now the losses are more than 5,000 Americans and our hearts go out to their families, beyond that we have focused not only on ensuring that testing is done but keep supplies flowing as the president just announced that he made the decision today to deploy thousands of n95 masks directly to public hospitals in New York City and our team will talk about that in a moment and so will the president.

We took the unprecedented step of directing the Department of Defense to use military medical personnel to operate all Kovan facilities at the Javits Center in New York, the New Orleans Convention Center, and the Dallas Convention Center, and we have informed to each of the governors. of those states today that their requests we were making those military medical personnel available to operate at all Kovac facilities, but we emphasize that people in that community who believe they have been affected or have contracted the corona virus to contact their provider of local healthcare, we anticipate. In the New York area, your local health care provider will make the decision whether to transfer you to the Javits Center and, in all cases, will simply consult your local governor's guidance on the best way to receive the care that all American has the right.

To go beyond that, let me tell you that we have been working on the FEMA procurement process to not only deploy but also gather personal protective equipment and in just a few moments you will hear from Admiral John Pelagic about the extraordinary progress we have made in deploy not only the strategic national stockpile, but also identify on the commercial market in the United States and around the world literally millions of n95 masks, surgical gowns, gloves, protective equipment and at this point we have distributed about 7,600 ventilators and today you will hear specifically about in the states that have received those ventilators, we're just this team that's really acting in an inspiring way and literally working with dozens and dozens of people on the FEMA stabilization task force to make sure that we leave no stone unturned to find the supplies we need, let me tell you that today you will hear from Jared Kushner, senior advisor to the president of the United States, but someone who was directed by the White House Coronavirus Task Force to work with FEMA on supply chain issues. supply and in recent weeks.

He has been leading a task force alongside FEMA that has literally identified millions of medical supplies across the country and around the world and we are grateful for their efforts and his leadership. Finally, you will hear from Peter Navarro, who will explain the president's action. took today using the defense production act, but as you hear details today about the medical supplies that have been distributed, those that have been purchased, those that made available ventilators distributed to hospitals and those that are available, let me remind you To all Americans, you can make a difference by ensuring every patient receives the treatment they deserve.

Every healthcare provider, every doctor, nurse and nursing assistant has the protective equipment to provide the care you would want your family to have. by putting into practice the president's 30 days to curb the spread I mean, we want you to take seriously the president's Korona Kettles guidelines for America first to protect your own health to protect the health of your family to protect the health of your community we know that many people are asymptomatic and people who literally do not know they have the corona virus but have the ability to infect others, we want you to practice these social distancing guidelines using a drive-thru in a restaurant washing your hands regularly , but as we focus on supplies today, make no mistake about it, all Americans can ensure that our healthcare workers and, more importantly, Americans fighting the coronavirus have the equipment to support their treatment by putting put these principles into practice because the fewer Americans who contract the corona virus, the fewer Americans will have to enter our health care system and that will continue to preserve the capacity of our health care economy, so we thank the millions of Americans who responded in the first two days of 30 days to slow the spread and I am absolutely confident that in the coming days, all Americans will do their part for their health, the health of their family, the health of their community and to ensure strength and vitality of the best healthcare system in the world.

Let me introduce you to Jared Kushner to talk about the work he's been doing with FEMA to ensure a strong supply chain to meet this Jarrid. Thank you, mr. vice president and thanks for his great leadership in the task force and thanks to dr. burks and dr. Falchi has also not been working with you these last few weeks, when the vice president first asked me to help the task force with different tasks, I asked the president what he expected from the task force and how I can best serve him and the group work, what the president asked is that all the recommendations we make be based on data.

He wanted us to be very rigorous to make sure that we were studying the data by collecting data. A lot of things in this country were happening very quickly and I want to make sure that we tried to continue to update our models and make sure that we were making informed decisions and informed recommendations based on the data that we were able to collect and gather. The president wants to make sure that we have the best people doing the best jobs and making sure that we have the right people focused on all the things that we do.needed to happen to ensure we can deliver in these unusual times for the American people.

The president also instructed me to ensure that I break down all necessary barriers to ensure that the teams can be successful. This is an effort where the government is doing things it doesn't normally do, where we're pushing hard, where we're acting very quickly, and the president wants to make sure. that the White House fully supports the different people who are leading the different lines of effort to ensure that we do everything at the speed that the president demands the president also wanted us to make sure that we think outside the box, make sure that we are finding all the best thinkers in the country, making sure that we get the best ideas and that we're doing everything we can to make sure that we can keep Americans safe and make sure that we end this quickly and in the best way possible. balancing all the different aspects that need to be thought about as we do this, this is really a historic challenge;

We haven't seen anything like this in a long time, but I am very confident that by bringing innovative solutions to these difficult problems we will make progress today, we are

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the president. Earlier, he asked me to come out and talk a little bit about what we've been doing in the supply chain working group that Admiral Plug Check has been leading and what he's been very impressed with is the we've been resourceful in finding products in all over the world and all over the country and we are finding ways to solve all the different problems. The president has been very practical about this.

He really he has commanded us to leave no stone unturned this morning. Very early this morning I received a call from the president. He told me that he was hearing from friends of his in New York that the New York public hospital system was running out of critical supplies. He told me that this morning I called Dr. Katz, who runs the system, asked him which supply made him most nervous. He told me they were the n95 masks. I asked him what his daily intake was and they basically called me on that number. Admiral Bluff Check made sure we had the inventory we were going for. to the president today and earlier today the president called Mayor de Blasio to inform him that we were going to send a month's supply to the New York public hospital system to make sure that frontline workers can be sure that they have the n95 masks that they need to happen next month we will do similar things with all the different public hospitals that are in the hotspot areas and we will make sure that we are constantly in communication with the local communities, one thing I will say simply Based on the data, we have been receiving a lot of data from different governors and from different mayors and from different cities.

One thing I've seen FEMA do very, very well over the last week is that we're now getting real. time data from many cities, people who have requests for different products and supplies, many of them do so based on projections that are not realistic projections, the projections change every day as we see the cases and we see the impacts of the shutdowns of spread effort that this task force recommended and the president has been pushing for, so I think we'll see that, hopefully, there will be an impact from that and the task force has been working very hard through the FEMA group with the Admiral to check to make sure we are getting supplies to people before they run out and making sure we are doing it appropriately.

I would like to introduce you to the control admiral, who before we get to this, I assume he is still the deputy director of logistics for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I received a call from one of the senators saying well why don't you put a big military man in charge of logistics in the supply chain and the defense production law and I said well the president already did it, this is the best man I have we have in the country for supplies and logistics the task force came together 13 days ago at FEMA and formed a team really under the direction of the vice president that includes people from FEMA OMB, FDA, HHS, the White House and from all over and what have done in the last 13 days.

It has been truly extraordinary, we have done things that the government has never done before, faster than ever and what we are seeing now is that we find a lot of supplies in the country, we have been distributing them where we anticipate that there will be needs and also trying to make sure that we get to the places where there are needs so we can tell them that the people in the task force are working day and night, there are a lot of people in The government we recognize the challenge that the United States faces right now.

We know that many people on the front lines face the fear of wanting to have the supplies they need and our goal is to work as hard as we can. to make sure we don't let you down, so I just want to thank everyone and with that I'll introduce Admiral Fluff Jack, who is doing an incredible job. Thank my Lord. president, so today I'm going to cover a couple of topics, a couple of five things, the first thing I'm going to talk about is resources pushed out of the federal government and then I'm going to talk about this airlift that you may have heard . about we talk about data like you said we are mr.

Kushner is absolutely right, we are trying to be data-driven and then I'll talk a little bit about how we're trying to expand the industrial base here to meet this challenge, so the first thing I want to talk about is surgical masks. So we've all quickly stated the numbers here, so I'm about to go through several different slides to give you the scale and magnitude of the federal resources that have been used to solve the problem, so 27.1 million surgical masks to the state. governments for n95 masks nineteen point five million and 95 masks, so if you were at a local hospital that was running short, you would look up because the federal government has pulled resources for protective gloves 22 point four million 22 for 4.4 million pairs of protective gloves for face shields 5.2 million face shields for ventilators we have sent to the states over seven thousand six hundred ventilators and I think when I came here the numbers changed slightly, I think now it's seven thousand six hundred and forty given to these states based on the parameter of these states, so we wanted them to have some numbers now, as we have indicated, we have ventilators in the national stockpile, we are pulling out ventilators, we are

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ing back ventilators to signal the need. but we are also purchasing fans, asking the industrial base that produces approximately before Kovac approximately thirty thousand fans a year, we are going to work over the next few months until the end of June to acquire one hundred thousand and thus one of the tools that we are going to anticipate that we will need we have already executed them: all the suppliers that we are buying from will potentially need help in their supply chains with their suppliers, we could qualify the orders, we could help them. ahead of everyone else in that effort, so I think mr.

Navarro will talk a little more about that later, so let me talk about the airlift, so it doesn't normally take approximately thirty-seven days to arrive from overseas, load the product, bring it to the United States and distribute it, that's approximately thirty-seven days. so to prime the pump, so to speak, we have lined up on an airlift to get product here faster, working with our major suppliers as they work to fill orders to get more to healthcare workers. Now we are working to align transportation with product and one of the things we are also doing is the team that works for me or that goes around the world to find bags of personal protective equipment that would not otherwise be in the supply chain of US hospitals that will also be doing these flights, six completed and a number scheduled 28 28 flights scheduled here in the near future we are working on some days we will have one flight some days there may be two flights multiple flights in the next few days these 28 or as far as I can see in a couple of weeks We again tie the product to flights to create volume in the supply chain here faster than the 37 days.

I'm going to leave that out since I talked about some other items, so let's talk about New York City and public health hospitals. I think it's there. I called the president of New York City Health and Hospitals. As I speak, popsicles are forming. They are loading a truck. I gave an address here in New York City an hour or two ago and one of our distributors is making that happen and delivery will be made tomorrow. On the data front, this is almost unprecedented, this is a commercial supply chain with six or seven major health equipment distributors.

We brought them all together and said we have to make informed decisions and we're going to help make informed allocation decisions, so within the matter of days feeding into your business systems, your enterprise resource systems, I brought in a tool, a supply chain tower that the Department of Defense was using to manage a supply chain for a very complex weapons system, their data gets into a data breach, we have a tool to be able to use their data and see it, can I know what product is coming in, what their orders are, what they are filling and what they are not filling, and seeing the volume in the supply chain and understanding what they are doing up to At the county level, we are working to potentially take it to the hospital level, so these two hundred something n95 respirators we took a look there in the supply chain we said we can't, we have the volume to do that, I called the distributor and they are making that happen, we anticipate that as the hot spots across the country, we anticipate that these suppliers will follow our instructions, helping them allocate the product to the right place at the right time, so if I talk finally about expanding the industrial base, so the vice president who is at Walmart the other day told you: I want to play this game , how do I do that?

I got the call and we provided them with specifications. You know Walmart is going to use their suppliers to cut fabrics and make gowns, but that's not always the case. We have many people who want to help. We think you'll see in the coming days the defense production law being used creatively to help people who aren't doing this today. To do this, we essentially have clues, yesterday's number was 210 believers that could probably grow today that we are working with to find how each of them might need help getting into the game that is not in the game to increase performance to through the healthcare market again, the president gave me a task to reach more healthcare workers now and I took it seriously because I don't need that from the president, that direction to move, but I have family in New York. my sister is a nurse practitioner at a hospital in Westchester and my niece is a nurse at a hospital on Long Island and I have other healthcare professionals in the family so I have a hand in this game.

The president asked me to hire more health workers. I'm going to take more to health care workers. The 200,000 are going to leave. They will be delivered tomorrow. What Jared announced, what the Admiral just unpacked, is that pallets are being loaded right now to ship 200,000 in 95 hours en masse to New York. From York City to the public health hospital, so to the public health warehouse in New York City, all help from healthcare workers is on the way. The tools and data you have at your disposal. Where is the traffic jam? Where have you been? Have you identified it?

Well, we have millions more PPE coming out the door, as everyone knows, the front line is unknown. In this way, we put a lot of numbers. Miok said if you're not a, you're in a hospital and we're not seeing PPE. I would look at the state level first and the reason is because, according to the governor and also the fact that we haven't seen any numbers on what goes to the private sector, can you tell us? What percentage of the supplies on these large cargo planes go to private companies versus FEMA versus the state's image percentage?

So this product that we are moving is primarily a commercial product that would enter the commercial system and be distributed through financial commercial transactions between hospitals and to these distributors to clarify that explains why the states say they are bidding like they are on eBay because the Supplies go to the private sector and then you have to go there to get them, that's how things usually work. so I'm not here to disrupt a supply chain, let's say, look at these six distributors six seven, they have between six hundred and seven hundred warehouses, they have trucks togo to the hospital door every day, we bring products, they are filling orders for hospitals. nursing homes as usual.

I'm putting volume on that system. I would say we have the data now for the last time, so we gathered this data element in the last 13 days. Now I see the truth about what is in the supply chain and I would say that there has been some abnormal behavior. Well, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say FEMA officials told them the ventilators the government ordered won't be ready until June, which is well after the expected peak in the Production Act memo of defense signed today will do anything to accelerate? Yes sir, will sir do it? Tovar, we will talk about how we are in line to receive several thousand ventilators in the month of April and several thousand more ventilators in the month of May, increasing again to a large number in June, starting from an industry that produces around 30. 30,000 annually to a very large number and different states have more pressure and urgency depending on the structure of the case we marry, we marry where CDC where is the demand for kovat: what is there in this commercial system that we are providing? these to the commercial system and we are making allocations for the most urgent needs. 13 days now we have the data, now we can make informed decisions and therefore everything I need, need, need, I now know the volume that has been happening and must also be happening in this thing that you talk about, although you alluded to the fact that there's possibly some shady business going on that the product is here in the United States and it's coming here, yeah, and it's coming here, it's coming from China, it's in warehouses.

It's made here in the United States, it's in warehouses, but it goes to the highest bidder, so what can be done to keep those products here in the United States and not go overseas where companies make a lot of money and are distributed to the most critical? Places here in the US I would love to know how to finish because the doctors I have talked about questions. I mean, yeah, let me give you the broader view of the DPA that will directly address that what we essentially have is a nation at war, we have a wartime president behind me.

The Defense Production Act is one of the most powerful weapons this administration can use to fight the invisible enemy of the virus. When I spoke to you last week, I explained the three points of the compass that the DPA can use to attack the first is mobilization. of the industrial base, this may involve things like repurposing, say, a distiller like Pernod Ricard from liquor to hand sanitizer. It may also involve expanding production, meaning Honeywell, which makes n95 masks, opens a new factory in Smithfield Rhode Island over the second. At the resource allocation point of the compass, we have two problems.

If you look at the manufacturer itself, what we want to make sure is that the supply chain, which can be seven levels deep, has enough components in that supply chain so that we can make what we really want. you need it and then once it's done you also want to make sure it gets to the right people and then the third point of the compass that addresses what you're talking about is basically breaking up. I call it hoarding critical or threatened material. so let me go over what the president did today in terms of strong action, what we have done the EPA on those three points, the first order that President Trump signed was vigorous, Swift, it was the GM order that ordered GM manufacturing ventilators in Kokomo Indiana in Trump's time, that is, as quickly as possible, since the president mentioned that he had spoken today with Mary Barra, CEO of GM, which is moving forward at the same time as the Ford project is moving forward in Ross and Ville Michigan and I've issued a challenge to those two companies: Ford versus Ferrari, this is Ford versus GM, let's see who puts out those fans first.

Now the second point of the compass that these two orders addressed today is this allocation of resources, the ventilator companies. They themselves express concern that in this rush to build ventilators there would be pressure on that supply chain, so the day they requested that we do it and the president used the DPA to give this gentleman here is one of the strongest gentlemen in the world in terms of applying things is to give him the ability to prioritize that supply chain for the Bennett ventilator manufacturers and he will do things like give them what's called a defense procurement do rating that will allow them to get what they need now, the second order that the president signed today has to do with the other part of the equation, which is once they get things right, they go to the right people and This is a three M order and, to be honest, In the last few days we've had some problems making sure that all the production that 3m does around the world gets back here to the right places, so what's going to happen with the signing of that order and Trump's time is that we're going to to solve that problem with 3 million probably tomorrow at the close of business because we cannot afford to lose days or hours, not even minutes, in this crisis that is now the third part of the If this gets to the issue of hortie, the president was here with the commander in chief, but we have a sheriff in the city - the attorney general and he stood here with the general bar of the Jena tournament and became the bill bar.

I said I was going to go out and arrest them and guess what three days ago the Department of Justice went into a warehouse in Jersey, took the PPE and the beauty of that, the beauty of that, not only did they confiscate us, but within hours they They turned around and handed it to him. health professionals in New York and New Jersey that's a beautiful thing that's a beautiful use case of the profound now what's going to happen tomorrow is the presidents are going to sign another order that's in the works this is interesting there's a black market emerging that you've described where we have people bidding against each other, the brokers come in, they are bidding and bidding on all this different PPE, which is driving up the price and guess what you know where the domestic sources are going here they are being exported when President Crump found out about that . said that's not going to happen on my watch anymore, so tomorrow we're going to introduce that order and what it's going to do is empower Customs and Border Protection with the help of people like the post office and Express Mail shippers like UPS to "Basically , an agreement on that issue, so we are going to crack down ruthlessly and I would say to the hoarders out there, the brokers are trying to make money off the misery of people in this country all over the world, that has have to stop, but you." If you have inventory, what you need to do is pick up a phone and not call someone around the world, call FEMA and tell them we have some things, we'll give them to you at a fair price and we'll be done with it because those things. it absolutely has to stop so that's yeah that's what we're going to be looking for and when we hear cases like this we're going to aggressively issue order after order to take strong action now before this is not my role. answer a lot of questions, but let me say one more thing before I leave the podium.

It's a story that I would love to share with you today because it illustrates again one of the key principles of this president in this vice president, which is marrying the full force of the federal government with the full power of private enterprise and just two days ago We at the White House received an urgent SOS from the chief of police of the NYPD and now they are in a situation because of the pressure on their resources where personnel, like their homicide detectives, had to go to houses and deal with the Cova problems without protective equipment, now the beauty of this president is that thanks to his leadership we were able to solve that problem on two phones. calls two phone calls the first was to Phoebe Novakovic at General Dynamics Phoebe, can you call Tom Kennedy at Raytheon?

I need you to basically pick up all the knotted suits, find whatever gloves you can, this president under your leadership and that volunteer efforts and the pride and patriotism that you talked about earlier, that we got 4,000 knotted suits on New York television in 16 hours. It is a new record in the Trump era, at the same time as a second phone call was made to Terra Angle at Pernod Ricard. and Laura Lane at UPS were on the same phone call, said Tarrant Lord, we have this problem, they need hand sanitizer, literally, within two hours we had 50 gallon drums, 6,000 gallons of hand sanitizer on a UPS truck heading to the NYPD and probably I came in today with Kono's promise that they will continue to supply the NYPD throughout the course of this crisis, so it's a beautiful thing that America is coming together, we're becoming a stronger, more united nation and I couldn't be more proud of it.

This president, this administration, these guys up here, we are doing a great job organizing the supply chain and my promise to you is that the president will use that DPA to make sure that Americans actually become healthcare professionals and get the PPE. the medications, everything we need, so let me stop there. I don't think it's my place here to answer a bunch of questions. One of the things this crisis has taught us is that we are dangerously overdependent. a global supply chain for our medicines like penicillin, our medical supplies like masks and our medical equipment like ventilators that we have right now, as we speak, more than 50 countries have already imposed some forms of export restrictions on their country against the rest of the world and what we are learning from this is that no matter how many treaties you have, no matter how many alliances, no matter how many phone calls, when push comes to shove, you run the risk as a nation of not having what you need and if there is any demand by the president through secure American borders and a strong manufacturing base, strategy and philosophical belief, is this crisis because it underlines everything we see there, so the American order that is going through the process would do a couple of things, just I would say no during this crisis because we don't want to alter anything.

I want to be very clear about this, but going forward, after this is over, the VA DoD HHS and this government are purchasing from Americans four essential medications, our medical countermeasures, and the medical supplies and equipment that At the same time, we need to deregulate to that we can get the FDA and the EPA to facilitate domestic manufacturing and then innovate because the key here is to have advanced manufacturing on American soil that can surpass other countries so that we don't have to worry. about competing against cheap and exploited labor, lax environmental regulations, different tax regimes and massive subsidies from foreign governments that are actually directly attacking our industrial base, so bear with that sir, they are the other priorities we have right now or the DPA and what the task is. might be doing, but if we learn anything from this crisis it should be that we will never again have to depend on the rest of the world for our essential medicines and countermeasures and by the way, we have eliminated them, to be honest, I have also stopped taking orders since certain places and in a couple of places, like we had a big order destined for Italy for important equipment and some ventilators, and I was going to Italy, they placed the order a long time ago and I said you have to let it go, they had an order and there could have been cut according to the Law.

I could have cut it. I said no, I can't do that. You have to let it go. You know they have big problems. We had an order for Spain. and I said: let it go. I could have stopped it. I said: let it go. We will be fine. I said, let it go so it works that way. Also another thing that refers to your question many times and we have said this to the governor's microphone, we have been very strong about this. If you think there is a bidding going on between the federal government and the state, please let us know and we will withdraw immediately or you will withdraw and we will lower the price.

Know if we are bidding among ourselves. said find out who it is and generally you know everyone knows and they notify us and they notify us and we will abandon or they will abandon, but we have another problem there, 151 countries, beyond the states, there are one hundred and fifty-one countries that have this problem and They are also placing orders. It's really a mess now, soon the hardest thing is the fans because, you know, it takes a while to build them and we have a lot of them, we have thousands of them being built right now, soon they'll be worth about $5, but right now moment are very valuable and we are going to send many of them, in fact, that is why General Motors called before Mary, that is why others called.

Two days ago they called to say that they are all in production and that they will begin to arrive in a week and a half, but there will be a time when we are going to accumulate reserves forTRUE. the states should have been building their reserves we have almost 10,000 and our reserves and we have been building and we have been supplying them the states should be building we are a backup we are not an order clerk we are a backup and We have done an amazing job like e.g. Who ever heard of a governor calling, sir?

Can you build us a 2,500-room hospital and we will build it? Can you build us four medical centers? We build it. Can you deliver a boat? The hospital ship. with a thousand rooms and we did it and we did it in Los Angeles; we have been an incredible job, these people and thousands of people behind them, but we are back, ideally those hospitals would have had all this equipment, ideally those hospitals would have had all this equipment. The states should have had all this equipment and I think they will the next time they hear the case where three years ago they could have gotten thousands of ventilators at a very affordable price and a certain state decided not to exercise that right because it wanted to. to build a road or they wanted to build something else because you're talking about a lot of money.

I think it was a billion dollars, but you're talking about a lot of money for something that may never happen because normally with a ventilator other than in a pandemic or an epidemic, you wouldn't need anything like this. The hospitals have three ventilators. The big hospitals make do with it and now they want thousands. I mean, they want thousands of ventilators. You call a governor and he. I'll tell you, sir, could you tell this 40,000 vent to anyone who's ever heard of something like this, well they've done a job. Let me tell you when Secretary Minuchin spoke they want you to call, not calm, but sba.gov is fine for the application and to get information, okay, so it's SBA for small businesses, sba.gov, okay, if you don't mind Yes, let's go, thank you sir.

Thank my Lord. President, I want to follow up on a question from yesterday about stations denying the expansion of Obamacare's special enrollment period in the wake of this pandemic. In his own words, Vice President Pence did not respond for five minutes, but the people facing this pandemic disease and, worse, most of the experts. say that having health care is critical to the health and financial well-being of our nation. Can you assure Americans tonight that you will reopen Obama's health care market capacity? It is possible that it can be covered at this time of combination. Well, we're doing better than that.

Yes, no, I understand. the question and we're doing better than that, we're going to try to get a cash payment for people and we're working on the mechanics of that with the legislature, so we're going to try to get them a cash payment because just opening it up doesn't help that much, so we're going to figure it out, so we're going to try to get that certain group of people, it's a certain group of people, a cash payment. I just asked you before about what. However, it happens when states compete with each other for this well, they have that and they have to figure it out.

What they should do is they should have done it long before this pandemic hit. They should have been on the open market just buying. There was no competition. could have made a big price that states have to stock up on is like one of those things that they waited, they didn't want to spend the money because they thought this would never happen and their shelves in some cases were empty and by the way, in some cases where they weren't, they got great service, they did a good job, but in some cases their shelves were empty so the best they can do is when times normalize and hopefully they will soon and in fact , you will have a lot of excess. material because a lot is being made right now in terms of protective equipment, protective suits, a lot is being made, in six months it will be sold at the right price and they will be stockpiled for next time, but we are doing it. and the admiral has done a fantastic job.

Senator Schumer wrote a letter today and he says he should appoint a military manager, sit tight Chuck, if you knew a little more, we have one of the most respected people in the military, the admiral. he is what he does, very professionally and in charge, but Chuck didn't know that, he is fine, Jeff, mr. President, you tweeted this morning about your call with Saudi NBS. Some people have said that the figures you cited, between ten billion and ten million barrels per day, are not what they are accepting. Can you be more specific? about I don't know what they are going to do, I think they could agree to something more than that, look at Russia, now you, Mr.

Russia, yes, we said that actually Russia talked about ten million barrels. Russia and Saudi Arabia are fighting over this and as everyone knows, it is really killing an industry, seriously hurting Russia, seriously hurting Saudi Arabia. I said this is easy, it should be easy and it can be ten and it can be more than that. In fact, they told me there could be ten. like I told someone before, it could be ten and it could be more than that, maybe it's fifteen, maybe it goes up to fifteen, it could go up to fifteen and you know there's a tremendous oversupply right now when the industry was so.oversupplied before the virus and when the virus hit they lost thirty five forty percent of the world and it's amazing that you can't get a ship now, all the ships are loaded to the brim somewhere in the ocean, there are storage tanks .

We're not even shipping the storage tanks, so it would be great for Russia, it would be great for Saudi Arabia. I hope they make that deal, but that's what they told me, they said, they said, they said they're swollen. I guess I hope it's soon. I think hopefully they'll announce something soon now Kennedy will snap. Can something happen that doesn't happen? I suppose in which case there is another alternative, but I prefer not to see that alternative. I hope they can reach an agreement. I want to I think they both want to make a deal and they are both smart, they love their countries, they want to make a deal, it's good but it's also good for the world if they do it because you save an industry, move on, go back, what do you do?

Do you mean tax payments? I'm going to put the bike down because we went over this very specifically. I'll let you talk about it Mike because you answered correctly. Thank you, Mr. President, as I said yesterday, the president has made it a priority to ensure that no American has to worry about the cost of coronavirus testing and we have been working every day to make sure that Americans do not have to worry about the cost of treatment and at At this point, the White House coronavirus task force is working on a proposal for the president to use part of the $100 billion that we are making available to hospitals to compensate hospitals directly for any coronavirus treatments they provide to uninsured Americans.

While we're working through the details of the president making a final decision tomorrow, we expect an announcement, but the president made it very clear that we don't want any American to worry about the cost of getting a test or the cost of getting treatment, and we We have expanded coverage through Medicaid. We have expanded coverage through Medicare health insurance companies across the country, including Blue Cross, and today we announced that all Medicare members will waive all co-pays for coronavirus treatment before the estimated 30 million Americans without sure start. The president has directed the coronavirus task force to find a way to make sure that they know that we will find a way to pay for their coronavirus treatment and the president will address that and announce that tomorrow yesterday you said that you spoke with the governor of Florida, Ron, destroy. us before he uttered his stay at home, where did you advise him to utter that word?

No, but I talked to him about it and he wants to do what's right for the people of Florida. He has been a great governor. You can see that just by his popularity. which is extraordinary, we are proud of him, he has done a fantastic job and made the decision, but we spoke before he made this decision. Yes, I also said that he is considering including people suspected of shedding a virus or who tested positive. Therefore in isolation centers and they eat so they did consult but I have not heard that wish. Thank you sir. President Evany Valens of the New York Post a few hours ago Matt de Blasio, the mayor of New York, said that New Yorkers who leave their homes must wear masks and can also wear masks when they are with other people.

Are you considering that type of recommendation? at the federal level and if so, how would you prevent a Russian and 95? Well, I think they're going to put out regulations about it and if people want to comply with them, frankly, I don't think they can. I do not do it. I think they will be mandatory because some people don't want to do that, but if people want it as an example in the mix, if people want to use them, they can. If people want to wear scarves, which they have, many people do, they can do that. in many cases the scarf is better, it's thicker, I mean, you can do it if, depending on the material, it's thicker, but they could if they want.

Now recommendations will come out, we will see what that recommendation is, but I will say that they can. They pretty much decide for themselves at this point, not only because of Dr. Burks, but to the surprise of even the Surgeon General, he has talked about several studies that show that masks, plus they may not even be useful in protecting people , they can actually increase illness rates because people touch masks and themselves. Talk a little bit about the limit, maybe I'll attack you first and you could mention that other point, Joseph, thanks. I hope you learned in today's conference that we are triangulating data that we know from case numbers, testing numbers, supply chain numbers to create an integrated picture so that we can really support hospitals in their needs. and I think that level of granularity is really critical.

Second, I just want to make it clear that we really applaud the governors who are looking at the entire state. or a whole Metro approach and what do I mean that the United States when we started this had about a hundred and sixty thousand ventilators across the United States and another 60 to 70 thousand anesthesia machines, which is about five times what most of the European countries? but it is a question of distribution according to need and I really applaud the governors who are bringing together their public hospitals with their more private hospitals and their visibility throughout the state because what we tried to talk about yesterday is that each state, each county is different and so we're looking at it at that level of granularity and as we move through this epidemic, the needs need to be very tailored to those counties and, frankly, to those hospitals.

I mean, there's a reason why the president and mr. Kushner has been heavily involved in figuring out what public hospitals need. The reason is that public hospitals sometimes have the weakest supply chain because they are often not as attractive to private sector distributors or may be too busy meeting needs. that patients are really aware of their order forms and their supply chains, so really listening to the community that is on the front lines of this fight and getting feedback from those specific communities no matter where they are and listening to care workers frontline medical because it is their reality is important to all of us, whether it is the mayor, the governor or the federal government, and if they say they need something, we have to work together to provide it and that is what you see with this triangulation every The county will get through this differently and that will allow us to address these vital issues that protect frontline healthcare workers and protect patients through ventilators to make sure the supply chain is aligned with the need as such. as it happens now. very good data to be willing to work on at that level of granularity and that's what we've been working on to really develop that level of granularity to ensure that, so I just wanted to say one other thing about testing. give you the final data of what we are seeing, we appreciate the groups that are reporting, not everyone is reporting yet and this is part of our attempt to understand at a very granular level that we have two states that are 35% positive and that is New York and New Jersey, which confirms very clearly that it is a very clear and important hot zone.

Louisiana, although 26% of its tests are positive. Michigan Connecticut Indiana Georgia Illinois, so that should tell you where the next hot spots will hit at 15. % causal and then Colorado DC Rhode Island and Massachusetts are at 13% there are a significant number of states still below 10% each. which I didn't talk about California and Washington remain stable in arate of 8% so what we're finally seeing is Testing is improving. More tests are done. There is still a high level of negative results in states without hotspots, allowing them to do more surveillance and containment and then prioritize this new rapid testing kit in those areas that may not have the same access as India.

Health Services and to the public health institutions and to the public laboratories of the state of Houston so that they can use that and start to lean towards surveillance now we know that our people are waiting for tests and they are waiting for tests because when these areas became very when we arrived to the log curve, we prioritize people whose testing decision would be critical to their care, so we prioritize hospitals and we prioritize nurses, doctors, and frontline workers, which means that if you went through a drive-thru or if you went through your doctor, you might have to regulate that delay, so what I tried to give you is how we are using the data in a very granular way and so there is data experiential when you look at the communities that have often used the time. mass in general for personal protection when they themselves are sick and have worn their masks in public and we have looked at the rate of this Kovan 19 in those populations and then we are looking at the scientific evidence to bring those two pieces together, let me say one thing, though the most important thing is social distancing when washing your hands and we don't want people to have an artificial sense of protection because they are behind a mask, because if they touch things, remember their eyes are not in mass, so if you touch things and then you touch your eyes, you are exposing yourself in the same way, so we don't want people to feel like I'm wearing a mask, I'm protected and I'm protecting others, you may be protecting others, but don't get a false feeling of security that that mask exclusively protects you from becoming infected because there are other ways in which you can become infected due to the number of asymptomatic and mild cases that exist. there and that's why this concerns us and that's why the mask debate continues because we don't want to when we're trying to send a signal that every person in this country needs to stay six feet away from everyone who needs to be washing their hands. hands constantly and know where they are to send a signal that we think a mask is equivalent to those pieces, so when the notice comes out it will be an additive piece if it comes out instead of saying it's a substitute for and we want to make sure that everyone understand that it is not a substitute for the presidential guidelines that have already been published and to be absolutely clear, there is a lot of evidence that we are seeing, but experts say that my number of these tests could be producing false negatives, so I have Roshan Abbot for us, but up to one in three tests could be providing false negatives.

There may be elections that would be almost impossible without having 35 percent positive. If that were true, I would have a hundred. percent positive or sixty-six percent positive, so what I can tell you is that the number of positive tests is very closely with the number of diagnosed cases, so I won't look into it. I look at Roshan Abbot's numbers every night. We trend exactly the same way and that's important when you're validating data to actually validate it. Is the same? Other words. I'm looking through the test sites to see if there are any consistencies. Is there an anomaly to make sure what you simply want?

I was asked specifically, so I'll go back and take a closer look at it. I haven't seen that kind of anomaly. This is the same platform that is used across the country and that is a range from what I reported: 3% positivity to 35% positivity and that range also reflects what we are seeing with the hot spots and the number of cases and Frankly, I mean, we hate to talk about it, but it also tracks hospitalizations regardless of diagnosis and the mortality that we're seeing, so all those pieces validate together like people might get a false sense of security or that maybe we're not seeing all over the well.

I tell them that I am still missing 50% of the data in the reports. I have 660 reported tests that we have performed. 1.3 million, so they exist and could be those sites, so we need to see the bill that says they have to report that we are not yet receiving one hundred percent of the tests. Collecting samples from the president took 1 minute. Results were reported within 15 minutes. I realize you are the president of the United States, but when will everyone be able to get a test that works so fast and gets results so fast? These are new tests and we have prioritized groups that we believe have the least access to testing. now and who do we mean by that we mean the Indigenous Health Service?

Often found in remote rural areas, governors of northwestern states may not have the advantage of these high-performance machines that are often found throughout the East Coast and in high elevation areas. metropolitan areas of Colorado and then along the West Coast, so we have prioritized 15-minute presidential testing to Public Health and Indian Health Services labs so they can support testing in nursing homes and other areas where We believe that surveillance is absolutely key, so at this time when they are prioritized that way, yes, 1200 of them are going to go out that way, those tests must be done in order from every way, yes , okay, so in terms of moving very quickly, I'm glad you asked that because today there are already 18,000 of these machines on the market and we're trying to figure out exactly where each one is because, as you can see, that gives you an amazing flexibility, because if people allowed them to lend to a state that is at a critical point or to a state wherever you want. doing additional surveillance 18,000 tests 18,000 machines is a huge number and it really gets to your question about how can we prioritize what we have at the same time that we're putting out what's new and therefore really figuring out if they should go to how Can we ask to the communities, because they will be in the community, to share those machines with the community that needs the tests now?

I think it's a really incredible question that really needs to be answered in the next 24 hours, when clarity on face covering guides you. said it's still a point of debate you said they will use the phrase the guidance if it comes out is the guidance that comes out and what if in Windsor taking the advice of CDC consultation our leading health experts and we present the CDC guidance just remember it's not a substitute for everything they were asking people to do and just do that with everyone across the country when we say we're not looking at gatherings of 10, we wanted to be clear if you have a family of 10, we don't.

We don't want them to be separated, but we don't expect people to have dinners, cocktail parties. I mean, I know you've seen the slope in the United States versus the slope in Italy and we have to change that slope. change the logarithmic curve that we're on, we see that country after country has done that, what it means in the United States is that not everyone is doing it, so we are only as strong as each community, each county, each state, each American that follows the guidelines for a t-shirt and I can tell by the curves and how it is today that not all Americans follow it and that's why this is really a call to action we see Spain we see Italy we see France we see Germany when we see others starting to bend their curves we can bend ours, but it means everyone has to take the same responsibility as Americans.

This is the president, the convinced president got a quick follow-up on oil, please, in his talks with Russia and Saudi Arabia, did he have to make any concessions to get them there? agree to reduce their production, as if they agreed to reduce US production. Well, we do not discuss that they want to do that which is good for their countries and we do not discuss that until the dismissal, the captain of the USS Theodore tells us after raising red flags about the Cova 19 outbreak on his ship it seems like he's being punished for trying to save the lives of the sailors under his command so we're going to wait a little bit because I understand it as a press conference from the Secretary of Defense about that, but you know that no, I don't agree with that at all, not at all, not even a little bit, yes, thank you this morning, you said again that New York got off to a late start and that they should have pushed harder. but governors and other state leaders say they trust the federal government to assess the situation and how risky it is and they want to know how they would have known to start Zuma without their guidance, whether they would have experts and, frankly, long after we came out and talked about it Look, how would I have known to cut off China?

I cut China very early and if I didn't we would have a chart like you wouldn't believe so how would I know to do it? How would I know what to cut? Europe. I took Europe out very early. I mean, a decision has to be made. People knew some bad things were happening and they started late and some others started late too, but we cut China if we did. Not cutting China, we would have been in big trouble and we cut it and you know, we cut it very early, go ahead, I'm the point for sure in a separate question that came from a colleague who can't be in the room on the point of the sure if they are going to have a roll call if there will be an opportunity for the insurance companies if in fact the hospitals will be compensated for uncompensated care if the insurance company will also be compensated for their extraordinary expenses that they may have or are they assuming that cost well We have not discussed it but we are talking to them, you know, getting them to not pay co-payments in the case of the big ones was something tremendous that is a lot of money.

We gave up, but we are discussing that with the insurance companies. We inform you that it will be quite fast. Yes, go ahead. Question about Japan, sir. They are expanding their entry ban to include the United States. Are you planning to take any similar action to ban? Japanese citizens coming to the US as a result of this crisis, well, we're seeing a lot of things and a lot of different bands, we have more bands than anyone else, we had bands when bands weren't cool, if you remember at the time. The beginning of this administration was for different reasons, but we've had gangs long before people thought about gangs.

When I did China, it had never been done before I was the first to do it. Remember that never, from what I read, everything In the documents this had never been done, this is a terrible thing and four weeks later everyone was saying we were lucky to have done it, so we are looking at it, no, we heard that and I think it is good that they do it. We're trying to protect your country and we have to protect our country and you know the decisions should be left up to the governors or if you're considering and selling the entire nation stay home so today the governor of Georgia finally issued a suspension. -order at home that says individuals could have been infecting people before they felt sick, but we didn't know until the last 24 hours that it is that ignorance the music that raises.

Governor Brian Cap, he is a good governor and he has to do it. make your own decision about it. He let the states. I think we're about 85% positive on that. If you look, I think about eighty-five percent of states have to stay home. Brian is a great governor. Is it his decision? In the end he made that decision, he decided to accept it and they are doing well and the state is doing well in many ways. Yes, go ahead, please, he couldn't force him away from Emily. Well the day we learned the question. Regarding the Russian plane that landed at JFK with medical supplies, has the US asked the same from Russia or is it just accepting it?

We are accepting it. It was a very nice offer from President Putin. I talked to him the other night when I told you and they had excess medical equipment stuff and I'll take it, I'll take it, I think it's very good, we've had some from China, we also help other countries, we like to do that, like I said before , if we have excess things. we let him out, we let some out where, frankly, they had orders and I didn't want to stop the orders, it was a very nice gesture on behalf of President Putin, so I could have said no, thank you or I could have said thank you and it was a plane large with very high quality medical supplies and said: I will take him and bring more help in his honor.

I think what have we ordered? But he was very kind. It was part of the call. he suggested that he said we have it, plus they have great difficulties with this virus, plus, as you know, Russia, I thought it was a very nice gesture on behalf of President Putin. He could have said no, I don't want it or he could have said. I'll take it and you know what I said, I'll take it except for the scope. I think even if they sent the things we need, I accept it. Good gesture, again. I don'tworries Russian propaganda not even a little.

In addition, he offered me a lot of high-quality medical supplies that I accepted and that can save many lives. I will take it every day and you will continue to support the people of Iran, given the fact that they are so affected by fauna5 oh, they are very affected, they are very affected in many ways, they are very affected, they do not influence their economy, with their military and obviously with the virus that they are very tough on, would you consider easing them? sanctions to allow in medical supplies they haven't even asked us to do it, we know that sanctions affect the people, not the government, you know what they haven't even asked us to do that, if you want, I would love to meet and let's I'd love to fix the whole thing, but I doubt they're realistic.

How can a person in Tehran pick up the phone and call you? I think they will love America. I think Iranians love America. I think they would love it. I love being free. I think they would love to have some of the things we have. Know. I remember Iran many years ago. My friends were always in Iran. They were doing real estate deals in Iran. They built beautiful buildings everywhere. The apartment buildings in Iran were very successful and then one day that came to an end, but you don't want the red people to remember it was a long time ago, but not that long ago, they remember it and I tell you that they love America , they love what we represent and we are not looking for a chair, we are not looking for the government to take charge of the change of government, you know this country has been through that many times, that does not work, people encourage other countries. to the core may be worried remember what I did, yes, what I did is I posted it very publicly regarding Iran.

I said if they need help regarding the virus, we would love to say we have the best medical professionals in The world would love to see you encouraging maybe giving your support because there are a lot of countries that you know encouraging and discouraging. They have been a very hostile country. They made a deal that President Obama should never have made. It was a short-term agreement. deal giving you one hundred and fifty billion dollars giving you one point eight billion dollars in cash green times do you have a global responsibility? No I don't have a moral responsibility to help them if they ask me if they need help I would certainly consider different nations that need help, that depends on the United Nations.

I'm talking about us and what happens is that if they wanted help because they have a very large case of the virus, a very, very large case, it is one of the worst in the world, if you believe it. what you're reading and it turns out that I believe what I see and what I know and if they wanted help, we gave them help. Yeah, you had a question in the back for Jerry. You talked about a granular approach to receiving data in these different states. to try to figure out what they need, the president just signed into law BPA in ventilators and masks.

Are there any signs across the country that might indicate that there are things other than masks and regulators floating around on the rise in terms of meat like hand? disinfectant, for example, sure, so the first issue that we've been dealing with was actually ventilators, which were number one, number two, and number three in every state. What we've found is that people have a lot of these requests. Based on the modeling and what we've been trying to do at FEMA is tell the states that if they want ventilators, we need to see them first in their state right, so, for example, in North Jersey, they'll go down south.

Jersey and are finding fans and trying to relocate them to where they have their hot spots. The second thing we did is ask them to research alternative ventilators, dr. Burke talked before about anesthesia machines and the ability to convert them into ventilators, so we're asking people to be resourceful within their states before coming to the federal government. The third thing we've been asking states is to provide what their daily utilization rates are so everyone orders everything. A congressman got a call from the local hospital from him saying, I need 250 ventilators and he said, well, you don't have a kovat patient in four counties, why do you want 250 ventilators? and he says, well we just want to be safe, we're very nervous right now, so what you have all over the country is that a lot of people are asking for things that they don't necessarily need right now and the work of FEMA and a cat from Admiral Bluff. has been trying to make sure that we get real data from the cities of the states so that we can make real-time allocation decisions based on the data and right now what's happening is a lot of the different cities and states are providing FEMA says we're talking to them daily, they're updating that information daily and that allows the federal government to make much more informed decisions about where they place the ventilators.

There is also a situation where in some states FEMA allocated ventilators to the states. and there are cases where cities are running out but the state still has a reserve and the notion that the federal reserve was supposed to be our reserve, they are not supposed to be state reserves that they then use, so we are encouraging the states to make sure that they are evaluating NEADS, they get the data from their local situations and then they try to fill it with the supplies that we have given them, same with the mask, so the n95 mask is actually an item. which wasn't used as often in the medical profession before this, it was mostly used for illnesses, so in talking to a lot of doctors and hospital administrators, they were saying that they were actually using a very low percentage of n95 masks, with the president the vice president.

What the president was able to do with Congress was get the waiver to be able to expand the pool because many of the masks were used to postpone the construction industries. There is now a much larger pool of masks in the country. There was a reserve that they distributed. based on where they anticipated a lot of the need would go, but a lot of that is still stuck in the states and hasn't gotten to the right places within the state, so I would encourage them when the governor says that the As the federal government doesn't has given them what they need, I simply urge you to ask them if they have looked within their state to make sure they have not been able to find the resources, unlike other countries, much of the medical system in the United States is a private government , not public, controlled, so you must get the data of what is in your state.

Look at it that way and then make sure they are resourceful in doing it and also ask them what their utilization rate is because if a governor asks for more ventilators and if the federal government sends them more than they need, the goal here is not to have ventilators in a warehouse where there is another state where there are people who need them, so what we are trying to do is make informed decisions based on data both about the ventilators and any other supplies that we can get to make sure that they go to the people who need them.

They need them, you know, what if you could weigh in on the reports that, I'm sure you know, were anonymous White House officials who described your role as something like running a shadow task force, how do you describe your role, how do you, how do you describe the qualifications that you bring to the table? Yeah, I would just say very simply, look, the president asked the vice president to lead the task force, the vice president asked me to help him. I have actually been serving under the direction of the vice president. president, he has asked me to get involved in different projects, the vice president, I talk probably sometimes five ten times a day, but all I do is the direction of the vice president, if some people talk to you, it means that I am probably not informed about what's going on, but I can assure you that I'm talking to dr.

Dr. Burks. Falchi, the vice president and the president several times a day to make sure I am achieving and focusing on the goals that the vice president considers priority, which triggers the shipment of a ventilator from the national stockpile to a state, in other words, how someone is sick. It has to be getting one of these national ventilators, that is not the problem of it working, that is not the criterion you have, the states basically put in the applications and give us their utilization code, their utilization percentages, so it is a very simple formula. States should know how many ventilators they have in their states, and by the way, some governors talk to their senators and they don't know what's in their state.

You know some governors that I will talk to and they will know the number. many fans they have in their state because that is the first thing a good manager will do. What many voters are seeing now is that when you elect someone to be mayor, governor or president, you're trying to think about who he's going to be. a competent manager during times of crisis, these are times of crisis and certain people are seen to be better managers than others, so what I would say is the way the federal government is trying to allocate is trying to make sure hey, you have your facts right, don't ask us for things when you know that when you don't know what you have in your own state just because you're afraid you asked your medical professionals and they don't know that you have to do it. take an inventory of what you have in your own state and then you have to be able to demonstrate that there is a real need so we pre-positioned a lot of things as most governors didn't know what they needed but FEMA has a joint command with Admiral Bluff, controls Admiral Joe Wah and Pete Gaynor, where every two hours when their requests come in, they evaluate the request, everyone votes on the request, and then if there's something they want to elevate to the task force, they bring it to the vice president making a recommendation, literally tracking hospitalization cases on a daily basis interacting with the governor and the health systems and that informs our supply chain decisions.

Yes, I really want to thank the health commissioners and everyone who has been submitting hospital data and myself. I think it's really critical and important for all of us. New York City has been providing information to New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and certainly Louisiana about these hot spots and that allows us to see where they are with the increasing number of cases that they are in. curve what you can predict and really ensure that people get what they need when they need it, so I think a lot of the governors now and the health commissioners have been I had to use 20 like harass 20 people a day now I have enough for the next three days, if that doubles, we will see our hospitalization rates stabilize, but we still think there will be many more in the next few days, that is the information that they then translate into providing as a ventilator, so when you see the fan numbers Coming out, they will come out in 50 and 200 because I think from the beginning we sent a big bolus and then not all of them, even today, have been fully utilized, so we want to make sure that every state and every hotspot they can be calm. that the ventilators are there for them as they go through the curve and I think to date we've been able to do that and I think that's what's important to me is that people have what they need when they need it and get out there with people that they have The ventilators needed have been able to get ventilators and I think that's our goal with the governor and the mayors to make sure that that continues to happen, but that means we all have to work together and I think that's what has been really important in recent weeks.

People are no longer making generic requests, they're making data-driven requests because they know exactly what's happening in their hospitals when you were here a moment ago and talked about the curve and what you're seeing and your concern about it. people are not respecting social distancing and the guidelines that in your voice you seemed to be quite concerned about um the curve has changed enough at this point where between one hundred thousand one hundred thousand and two hundred forty thousand people likely to die if that were changed. up at all no it's just when I look at what so we're at week two point two in our guidelines and I guess what I expected when the president put out guidelines that said don't go to bars don't be in groups anymore. of ten people when we said that more than 16 days ago that was serious and then you could see what happened subsequently and you can see the number of people who have been infected since then because people were seeing infected today and in the hospitals today we are infected after the guidelines came out, that's what we're worried about and we're worried that no, we're still in this and that's why the president extended it for 30 days, but we have to get out of this.

I have to start looking at this, whatever you're talking about just a few states, because a lot of those states are dead, Pat, and yes, there are states that are completelyflat, but you know, every change in the curve is a new Detroit, a new Chicago, a new. New Orleans, a new Colorado, they change the curves because suddenly it increases with the number of new cases because you have a certain projection of new cases and then another whole city reaches the top where they are in their log phase, so those those of the ones that I talked to that had positive results greater than 13 percent, all of those, all of those states, all of those counties are in log phase, which means there are a lot of counties that are not and we're really excited. about those counties that have been testing and they're still pretty flat and hopefully maybe on Sunday or something like that or sometime this weekend we can go around all the states and the curves again so you can see where you know that California and Washington are still stable, but We are watching very carefully because we see that it can go from this to this very quickly and when this should no longer happen in new places if people are doing social distancing by washing their hands not gathering in large groups more than ten yes and you have many realities Flatliners, I call them amazing and you have a couple that is difficult to know, no, I don't mean that, no, no, thank you sir, I don't want to, in fact, I want to praise the states. that and I think I want to be able to call them and show them their graph so they can see that they have had consistent small cases that they are testing and they are doing a lot of testing and their percentage of positive tests is under five percent, I mean we have a whole group of states that are testing and their positivity rate is less than five percent.

We know what it looks like on the logarithmic curve, you're at 13 percent, then 15 percent, then 26 percent, then 35 percent. that's what we're trying to prevent and it's the metropolitan areas that are absolutely crucial in this, so if you're in a metropolitan area, okay, you're in a small town, make sure all your friends and family follow the guidelines, that's the best we can because I saw those pens when they were five hundred short and the fact is that yes, we compare it to Italy in one place, we have a lot of places that are doing very well and I think that's what it means that she didn't mean everyone. of them, so when you write your long story maybe you write it correctly, you're talking about one state and another state, you know it's going through a tough time, and they're closely associated and, by the way, people are doing a job very Good job including the people who live there but when Deborah was talking about Italy she was talking about one and then the other was lower and then you have mostly states that have been amazing so she wasn't talking about the average of everything what was it.

Speaking of an individual state, I think it is still better than Italy. Italy is going through difficult times, by the way, Spain is going through difficult times. France is going through difficult times, but our general state is as if there are many different countries everywhere. We have many of those. the countries are doing a phenomenal job, they're really flat and I think that's what you meant, I don't know, I don't want to, I don't want to, but no, that's what I understood, she met, yeah, business about that. However, because the coronavirus is present in all 50 states, you said before that when you implored mayors and then governors to take this seriously, you said that once it appears, mitigation efforts are too late, So how does that square with this notion that some states? they are doing well, I mean the virus doesn't change, they stay better, they don't touch each other, they are not whatever, they don't go out, not in groups and some states are probably not as good or for whatever reason or They also live a lot longer close, you know that New York is very dense and you know that California is also quite dense and they have a very good track record so far, we hope that it doesn't increase, but it is very flat, we have states that are I'm doing incredibly well, I mean, when I looked at some of them, I looked at some states that I would have thought maybe wouldn't have done as well and they're really flat, I hope they stay that way.

I hope they say that, you want those. The states need to indicate that line I want them, no, no, but we never mentioned about Italy and our country. She wasn't referring to our country, she was referring to a state. She's encouraging people to do a better job of following this social distancing schedule, that's what I. I get it, so I get it. I'll let her say it, but I think everyone should be excited about how most states are doing. others, for some reason, are taller, that's different, but you can't condemn people who live on a flat line with people who live in a place where there is a big obstacle or a bigger obstacle or more similar to Italy, where they have some very unique problems.

To be fair, Italy has some very unique problems, but if you want to raise, why don't I bring you the whole deck again and we'll break down the states so you can see them because you really have to see each one. state separately, that's why I started with there are states that you've heard me talk about how worried I was, these are states that before the guidelines were released or right after the guidelines were released, I mean, they can check it out on the website if you go to the health data body that the governor clarified on the closure of his states in terms of social distancing, hand washing, bans, takeout and can align that with the presidential guidelines and not all states when the presidential guidelines came out.

They immediately followed the presidential guidelines, not all states did, there are states that may also have received many more seeds from outside communities, which is certainly one of the problems facing New York and New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The virus entered from multiple places. in those states it was not detected from the beginning and they have a very logarithmic curve. What I'm saying is even one of those curves in one county in one city is too many so I'm passionate about everyone following the guidelines because of outlier curves maybe that was a better way to present outlier curves in specific counties is for make sure and that doesn't happen anywhere else, you would feel better if all states stayed home or well, I think most states have.

I think that if one death from this is one death too many, I mean, I come out of epidemics and pandemics, we know what to do, I know that we do not have a vaccine and I know that we do not have a therapeutic, but we know it. what can be done and others are doing it and the majority of people in the United States are doing it it's our communities it's all Americans that have to make these changes and I know they're really hard and I know it's hard to remember them, I mean I have to tell myself every day because I'm surrounded by very important people that I never touch anything and now I'm like paranoid about touching things.

I'm sure you all are too. I mean, we've gotten to the place where We're not going to your places in Pebble Beach, we're going to the right one. That's outdoors because I mean you're nosy to protect your reporters. I mean, I understand that we are all trying to protect each other and we all have to adapt to this new reality that we find ourselves in now and I think that everyone is trying very hard and I just ask that you try very hard over these next 28 days because you will a big difference, we see that evidence and it's like having a vaccine or a treatment because we know what works and we're asking everyone to apply what works and I know it requires incredible attention to detail because you know that when you forget or do something, it's like you've ever done it and that's the level of care that's needed to help us in many states.

They started low and slow and then stayed at a good level. Some really held themselves at a high level. Some from Louisiana, for example, were low and slow and looked great. I was watching it because you know it's kind of a place where people go. with Mardi Gras, which is an interesting point because after Mardi Gras it was low and then all of a sudden it went up very quickly and now it's one of our real hot spots in certain areas of Michigan Detroit, which seemed like it was working quite a bit. well and then all of a sudden it went up so you have that too but I will tell you we have states that have been really incredible in the fact that they have stayed so low that no you haven't seen the rise. and I hope not, I hope not, and you have a couple who for many different reasons and that's no one's fault, but they are at a higher level, but I think very few, I mean, I can say I think most of people have followed the presidential elections.

You can call them whatever you want. I would never use the word dicta because if I used that word I would be in a lot of trouble. In fact, you'll get me in trouble. Only, I even mentioned that idea. "Okay, but we make a recommendation and I think they've done a good job, maybe they started a little bit later, but maybe there were also more difficult states, but I think on average we've done really phenomenally as a country." ". I've done phenomenal because when you looked at that graph the other day I don't know if you saw it, I guess you saw it, everyone in the world saw it, but you look at all those lines at the bottom, one color after another, all different representing different ones. states, everything was full at the bottom and then there were two that were at the top, but I don't know, almost all of them were very low, so there were a lot of people listening and I just wanted to click because I don't need headlines tomorrow and neither do the country because I don't want for this country to work so hard and then the press, in this case, maybe misinterpret something because they may have.

When I heard it, I was surprised at first. also, but I understood what Deborah meant, but I think it's very important because I think it's very important that you be precise. Another thing, kind of brief, so what I discovered is that when the governors call me, I mean, I think in all cases they have always been so kind, very kind, and I have seen and heard them say thank you very much, you have done great job, fantastic job on a case, thank you, thank you, thank you, then I'll see the governor normally from the front office. party in almost all cases except maybe one but in almost all cases they are very generous they are very kind they thank me everything is great we are doing a great job and then I will see them on television and as a different person and I realized that there are some people because of politics that if they say we want a thousand ventilators and I say no, Jim, I want to give you five thousand ventilators, they will say thank you, you are the best president that ever lived and then I see them quoted in a newspaper or I see them in a program and they say that the president did not help me.

I am very disappointed in the president and we have a lot of that. They are very happy when they talk to me so I see it but there are some people if they asked for five hundred of something and if I gave them five thousand they will tell me how well the president is doing we don't like the work in my face they are very kind, but sometimes I guess They assume I don't watch it or something, but I watch it very closely, yes please, that's especially for Jared. He was wondering if he could address what the federal government is doing to protect more than just people.

I can't really tell you about the age, but there are a lot of young people in prison, some people in some states. I haven't done that at all, but some states are letting people out of prison. Some people are coming out who are very serious criminals in some states. and I don't like that, I don't like it, but it's a city or state thing in certain cases, as you know, I think maybe Philadelphia comes to mind, so we'll see, you have to see what's going on and we're not. I don't like it when people don't like it and we are investigating whether I have the right to stop it in some cases.

Okay, six point six million Americans filed for unemployment last week. We haven't heard you talk much today. about what they're going through, so I think it was just a minute. I think it's terrible, so look, four weeks ago we had the largest economy in the history of the world, the largest in the world, the largest in the history of the world that we had. the most jobs in the history of the United States, almost 160 million jobs, and then one day I get a call from Deborah, it was fantastic, then from Dr. Chee, and he said, and she said, we have a problem, I I said what's the problem and they said maybe we have to close it I said close what they said close the country I said what is that all about and we discussed it today and probably not since 1917 did we come to that conclusion and she is a fantastic person, a brilliant person And this is what she knows, I said, has it ever been this bad?

I think I can represent that you said no and part of it is a contagion, it's so contagious, it's like if you sneeze, I probably understand it, who has ever heard of something like that? and this very talented reporter is running away, he's fine, he's out of here. I don't blame you, but it's very contagious and probablyWe've never seen something like that in terms of that except 1917, so that was over a hundred years ago, but that was, you know, it's been written about many times, it was horrible, whether it was 75 million people or 100 million people. I have heard from 50 to 75.

I have heard from 75 to 100, but it was tens of millions of people now that we have the advantage of communication this could have been just as bad, I mean, here we can read on the Internet, we can see what to do , we can have these meetings that you can watch on TV, which you do, a lot of people are watching, a lot of people are watching. and they say, gee, social distancing, but in 1917 they didn't have that option, you know, they didn't know what to do, they just noticed that people were dying everywhere, think about it, 75.2 billion people died, a lot of people in this. country died I always for me it's great it's a great question how come more people didn't die in this country and they say that it actually started in this country and went to Europe and we lost a lot of people but relatively we lost very few? compared to Europe, this is a terrible thing that happened and what is happening now with people and jobs, so think about the position I am in, we have all built together, everyone, not me, everyone, the greatest economy of history and, suddenly, people arrive. that we respect, we know it and here is what they were right, everyone questioned it for a while, not all, but a good part asked what they said, let's keep it open, let's write it down, if we did, did you see the other graph and if it is true or almost true or maybe not true enough the number was 2.2 million people would have died 2.2 million people would have died in a short period of time in fact the graph could have been even shorter.

I always notice that horrible one where it goes up, it actually goes down a little faster, it could have ended faster and 2.2 million people would have been lost, so they come and say we have to close like Jay & Ice, you know what what that does to the structure of this country. for people who had great jobs, a great family, no problems with money, their 401k, everything is perfect and all of a sudden they go from that to not having a job in a day than they ever would have thought and then you see six million people unemployed, unemployment figures are increasing. released and you see six million people and it's an artificial shutdown, it's not like we have a massive recession or worse, it's artificial because we shut it down, think about what we're doing, we're saying don't go to work and we will. paying you everything is the opposite it was always go to work and earn a lot of money and do it well and the American dream because of a hidden enemy we are saying don't go to work and we are going to pay you look at the money two billion dollars and we will probably make more.

I think infrastructure would be a fantastic thing. You want the restaurants back. you give deductibility. Do you understand what that is? you give deductibility to companies where they go and use restaurants. They will be bigger and better than they were before, you know, people don't know, a lot of restaurants closed when they ended deductibility and then they started doing well, but they had fewer restaurants, but the restaurant boom was when they had deductibility , what corporations. I could use them for an entertainment that was a great thing, but they closed it and then they closed it again and it wasn't the same, but you want to get it back, do that, but infrastructure, we borrowed our money now at zero, you know if? we were paying five percent four percent three percent it's a different game to borrow we can borrow long term four zero literally zero you know that because we are considered the safe investment around the world they want money in the United States that's where I want money, so I know better than anyone.

I just know what they're going through and it's horrible, but you know what I want to do. I want to be able to recover them quickly. When this is over, it will be the day that we will celebrate because everyone will go to work and I think we will have boom times. I think it will be great and we have learned a lot about borders. We have learned about dependency in other countries. We have learned. So, so much so that I think we really have a chance to be bigger, better and stronger and I think it will come back very quickly, but first we have to defeat this enemy, so I'll see you tomorrow.

Thank you so much.