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at Stanford and Princeton and many other university colleges as well as large companies have returned funds to us and in some cases I have held funds that I reviewed and we are pleased to report that the funds have not been disbursed or are around three hundred and fifty million dollars and or they haven't gone off or we've renegotiated it and they don't get them so in a couple of cases they send them back and they send them back immediately so I think that was very nice. I want to thank those who volunteered in particular because they acted very quickly and decisively and agreed when they heard the facts that they shouldn't get it, so we really appreciate that from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and other institutions.

The bill also includes $30 billion to support small businesses. lending institutions serving distressed communities and helping countless Black and Hispanic American small businesses as we continue our battle against the virus. The data and facts on the ground suggest that we are making great progress in 23 states. New cases have decreased in the peak week by forty percent. of American counties have also seen a rapid decline in new cases 46 states reported a decrease in patients showing

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-like symptoms, that's a big number for America to continue to gain momentum, all citizens need to remain vigilant and We all understand that very well, we have gone Many times, this includes practicing good hygiene, maintaining social distancing and the voluntary use of face coverings.

My safe and gradual reopening of our economy is very exciting, but it does not mean that we are letting our guard down in any way, far from it. continued diligence is an essential part of our strategy to get our country back to work to get our country back we are winning this and we are going to win this and we are going to continue to watch, we are going to watch the invisible enemy very closely with each passing day we learn more and more about this enemy DHS scientists have published a report that offers a series of ideas about how the virus reacts to different temperatures, climates and surfaces The findings confirm that the virus survives better and colder, drier environments and does not fare so well in warmer, more humid environments.

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before long. That was a great report you gave and he's going to If we talk about how the virus reacts to sunlight, you just hear the numbers, you won't even believe them. Trials of kovat 19 have been going on and it has been approved in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and China, it's great news and we are going through a lot of trials, we have a lot of brilliant minds working on this, both From the point of view of the vaccine as well as therapeutics, we must be careful in all conditions, but we will do it, we are very close to a vaccine. unfortunately we are not very close to testing because when testing starts it takes a while, but we will do it and I want to thank the head of Science and Technology at DHS, Bill Bryant, for what he is going to do and what he is going to say and The report that he is about to give, I think it will be something that no one has ever heard, it will be completely new information, very important information, my administration continues to leverage the defense production act to dramatically increase manufacturing delivery. of critical medical supplies, we finalized three contracts to produce 39 million more and 95 masks in 90 days and as you know, we are also using a sterilization process, some great equipment that will sterilize the masks up to 20 times per mask, so it's like ordering 20 times more masks and it is working very well, we just want the hospitals and institutions where many people are not using them, they are so used to receiving a new mask that they do not want to use it.

If we want to go and get a new one right away, we are asking them to use the sterilization process just as good up to 20 times. Consider that, in addition to increasing our domestic assembly lines, we also have air transportation of almost 750 million personal items. protective equipment to the United States through our airlift project, which has been an incredible thing to see, it is truly a military operation, the vice president is now providing each governor with a comprehensive count by county, breakdown of personal protection distributed privately and this is the team. and things that are amazing if it's personal protective equipment it's amazing and everything is new and at the highest level we are getting only the highest level and we are also looking for essential equipment within your states and it is being delivered to different states quickly.

And while we're talking this way, the governor should know exactly what is being delivered through a private sector supply chain within his states, as well as through the project airlift. We are trying to get it immediately from the plane to the state where we can. To do that, we took him to our facility and we took him to the governor and we are receiving him quickly and we are notifying him very strongly so that they know that he is there. The governor can use this information to quickly ensure materials are obtained where and when. They are necessary today.

I also want to extend my special thanks to our nation's incredible County Emergency Management teams who have been working tirelessly for weeks, around the clock, to serve their communities, help distribute critical supplies, and save countless American lives. . We salute these heroic officials on the front lines as we continue to develop potential therapies. The FDA has recently launched a national effort to expand access to donated convalescent plasma from the blood of those who have recovered from the virus. The blood from these donors contains antibodies that can potentially reduce the severity of the disease and those who are sick and, frankly, those who are very sick, nearly three thousand patients are now enrolled in the expanded access program receiving transfusions across the country. country and I want to thank all the people who recovered for what they have done, as I said yesterday, they raised their hands when they could barely walk and said: I want to donate blood, I want to donate whatever you want because we want to help people, it's really incredible, there will also be convalescent plasma.

Used to make a concentrated antibody treatment that does not have to match a particular blood type, this concentrated antibody treatment could be used as a preventive measure to prevent healthcare workers and other high-risk populations from contracting the virus in the first place. place. very large Clinical trials of these products are scheduled to begin in a few weeks and perhaps we can have a solution fairly quickly. I urge Americans to get involved and keep doing what you're doing because again we want people who are or have recovered from

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to contact their local blood and plasma donation center to find out how they can help and they've been great and I appreciate it.

My administration is also partnered with leaders and we have really been establishing great partnerships with leading technology companies and scientific journals to create. a database of 52,000 academic articles about the virus that can be analyzed by artificial intelligence. Leading AI experts are now using this wealth of data to gain insight into potential therapies and we are collaborating with technology companies, universities in our national laboratories to leverage American supercomputers in the search for treatments and vaccines that search continues and I believe They will see it in the future, they will see that it is very successful, ultimately it will be a tremendous success.

Great progress is being made at a rapid pace, at a pace like no other, we are hopeful that with all the power and resources of American science and technology and with the courage and devotion of the American people who have been so incredible, we will put an end to this plague and together we will achieve the full measure of American strength. and power and prosperity our country will do fantastically well, you see what is happening, there is a pent-up demand in our country to get back to where it was and maybe even better, and that is what is going to happen, so that with that.

I would like to ask Mike Pence to step up as vice president. He say a few words, please. Mike. Thank you Mr. President and good afternoon, today the White House coronavirus

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met and while our hearts go out to the families of those who lost their lives to the coronavirus and those fighting serious illnesses, today our team directed by dr. Deborah Birx tells us that data continues to show promising signs of progress in the New York metropolitan area, New Jersey, Connecticut, Detroit and New Orleans appear to have passed their peak and we are seeing steady declines in hospitalizations and cases in regions across the country, our only The bottom line is that we are reaching the United States because the American people have put the president's social distancing guidelines into practice because they have been listening to and adhering to the guidelines of state and local officials. progress in a very real sense by exposing Americans to the coronavirus and, in no small measure, saving lives.

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truly believes that mr. president that if we continue these mitigation efforts in the coming days as states implement their policies, including gradual reopening that will preserve those gains, we believe that by early summer we could be in a much better place as a nation with much of this coronavirus epidemic behind us. Today we also had a conference call led by Secretary Ben Carson and HUD leaders regarding the president's announcement yesterday that he is repurposing the White House Revitalization and Opportunity Council to focus on the M of coronavirus in minority communities. Secretary Carson will convene the council in the morning and we will report on his progress tomorrow afternoon.

We want to thank more than 270 leaders of organizations dedicated to sheltering the homeless and improving the lives of people in our urban communities, not only for being with us today for the way they have partnered with our administration and partnered with state and local officials to put the health of all their constituents first, as the president mentioned. You will receive a report that our task force formally received this week from Bill Bryant of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate that will describe, as the president said, encouraging news about the impact that heat and sunlight have on the coronavirus , which will increase the confidence we feel about next summer on the subject of testing, at this moment we have reports of four point nine.

Three million tests have been performed across the United States and there is encouraging news as states have been engaging commercial labs at a higher level across the country yesterday. Our commercial laboratory system performed over a hundred thousand tests in a single day, so we are beginning to activate all of them. capacity and tomorrow, at the direction of the president, our task force will convene a conference call with all the governors in the nation to talk about the progress they are making in testing and we will hear from governors about the practices and methods they use . are employing to significantly increase testing after our capacity and lab briefing last Monday, for example, Governor Mike DeWine just announced that Ohio testing has been greatly expanded after the FDA approved the new extraction reagent Fisher's thermal and said in his words that the share price probably doubled.

Perhaps even tripling testing in Ohio virtually overnight, Gov. Tim Waltz of Minnesota announced along with the state's health system, the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota what he described as a breakthrough for rapid widespread : Was able to test more than 20,000 people using a molecular test. per day Governor Kim Reynolds of Iowa launched the Iowa Testing Initiative that will triple testing capacity by partnering with Noemi Health and Domo. She also worked with the University of Iowa Hospitals to leverage increased capacity and Gov. Eric Holcomb and Gov. Andy Beshear of Indiana and Kentucky, respectively. Both announced additional locations for drive-thru testing.

Our priority has always been to focus first on those affected by the corona virus and then on those extraordinary healthcare workers who care for your needs every day and I know Mr. President, how proud you are that our men and women in uniform have accompanied our healthcare workers in the hardest hit communities and know that the American people areproud, just as today, FEMA reports that 35,000 National Guard members have been deployed across the country to assist in our coronavirus response, Governor Kevin of Ohio has actually deployed the National Guard to hospitals across the state to assess protective equipment and hospital capacity and report it to State Emergency Management and FEMA and Governor Greg Abbott of Texas actually mobilized more than 1,200 National Guard members and forty-five teams to provide greater access to testing Along with the National Guard under the direction of the President today more than 4,500 active duty military doctors, nurses and physician assistants were deployed across the country yesterday. 1,013 medical professionals from our army were deployed in 19 hospitals. in seven states to support these incredible healthcare workers and with 4.4 million more Americans filing for unemployment last week, I joined the President in welcoming the House's passage today of the Paycheck Protection Program that will support working families, will allow small businesses to keep people on the payroll for a period of two months but also as requested by the president included seventy-five billion dollars to help hospitals across the country and in that spiritthe president and I We will continue to urge across the country, given the unique burden placed on hospitals, we are now encouraging states to restart elective surgeries wherever possible, whether statewide or county by county.

We recognize the role elective surgeries play in local finances. hospitals and we will work with states to allow, in that regard, Executive Governor Doug Ducey issued an executive order not long ago allowing elective surgeries beginning May 1 for hospitals that meet certain readiness criteria and the Governor of Indiana, Eric Holcomb, is allowing elective clinical procedures to begin on April 21 finally mr. Chairman, the task force received our first report today on the state's reopening plans at this time. 16 states have published formal reopening plans. 13 of them have actually been released since you revealed the US opening guidelines to our governor in the nation last week and to your point mr.

Presidential states are beginning to make those plans, and we are encouraged to see so many states taking the phased approach to reopening their economies that is envisioned in our guidelines for opening up America again, for example, Governor Mike Parson and Missouri announced the “show me” program. strong". The recovery plan has two initial phases aimed at protecting the most vulnerable. Gov. Tom Wolf announced that the plan for Pennsylvania beginning May 8 will end a stay-at-home order only for parts of Pennsylvania, but the plan again requires regions to have fewer than 50 new positive cases per 100,000. over a 14-day period and also sets out a gradual reopening roadmap.

Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon updated her framework for reopening by making three phases again county-by-county and Gov. Brad Little of Idaho launched the rebound. Idaho in just the last few days that will consist of four phases and will require specific criteria that Idaho and businesses need to begin reopening. The president with the guidelines to open America again, the states are making plans and under his direction, our task force will continue to work very closely giving them the data and giving them the resources to be able to implement those plans in a safe and responsible manner. . So with that let me finish where I started and say thank you to the American people.

The progress we are seeing is a testament to what all of you have done for our extraordinary healthcare workers. A partnership between the federal government and the state. and local official and I trust also thanks to the prayers of millions of Americans every day, all of that combined, we are slowing the spread, we are protecting the most vulnerable, we are saving lives and in every single day we are one day closer to opening United States again with that mr. president I would love to call the bill Bill Bryant heads the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate and we will now make a presentation on his recent study.

Thank you, mr. vice president Thank you sir. president for this opportunity to do this today good afternoon everyone my name is bill Bryan and I lead the Science and Technology Directorate of the US Department of Homeland Security. Over the past several months we have intensified the department's efforts to identify and deliver information that informs our response to the undercover 19. NT is working to identify, develop, implement and deploy the tools and information to support our response to this crisis. As part of our efforts, we are leveraging the unique capabilities of S T's national biodefense analysis and countermeasures center to study. the biology of the Cova 19 virus, this Center is a high biocontainment laboratory located in Frederick Maryland, it was established in the early 2000s in response to the Ameri Tracks attacks and where we study, characterize, analyze and develop countermeasures to the threats biological benefits to the country in which we work.

In close collaboration with the CDC, FDA, HHS, and also with our colleagues at the Department of Defense and many others, yesterday I shared emerging results of our work we are doing now with the coronavirus task force and today I would like to share certain trends that we believe Which are important. If I may have the first slide, please, and as our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that sunlight appears to have in killing the virus both on surfaces and in the air, we have seen a similar effect both with temperature as with temperature.

Humidity we are also increasing the temperature and humidity, or both, are generally less favorable for the virus, so let me illustrate it with this first slide. If you look to the right, you'll see the term half-life with a bunch of timestamps there. First let me tell you what half-life is. We do not measure the virus in terms of how long it will live on the surface. We have to measure the decay of the virus in terms of its half-life because we don't know for sure. elements that we don't know how long a person expects when they spit, when they sneeze, whatever the case may be, we don't know how much virus is there, so that has a big influence on how long the virus lasts.

It's going to be alive and active, so we measure it in half-life because the half-life doesn't change, so if we look at a half-life of 18 hours, which basically says that every 18 hours the virus, the life of the virus is cut short. . in half, so if you start with a thousand virus particles in 18 hours, you will go down to 500 in 18 hours, then you will go down to 250 and so on, that is important, as I explained the rest of the graph. If you look at the first three lines when you see the word surface, we're talking about non-porous surfaces, stainless steel door handles, and if you look at how the temperature and humidity increases without the sun involved, you can see how dramatically the half-life of that virus decreases, so the virus is dying at a much faster rate just from exposure to higher temperatures and just from exposure to humidity.

If you look at the fourth line, you inject some sunlight and inject UV rays into it. that the same effects on line two at 70 to 75 degrees with 80 percent humidity on the surface and look at line four, but now you inject the Sun, the half-life goes from six hours to two minutes, that is the impact of UV rays. It has in the virus the last two lines are aerosols what it does in the air we have a unique capacity. I was discussing this with the president before leaving. He wanted me to convey to him how we do it.

I think the only lab in the country that has this capability, but if you can imagine a Home Depot bucket, a 5-gallon Home Depot bucket, we were able to take a particle and this was designed to develop a design honed by our people by end when we were We can take a particle of the virus and suspend it in the air inside this drum and hit it with various temperatures, various levels of humidity, multiple different types of environmental conditions to include sunlight and we can measure the decay of that virus. while suspended in the air, that's how we do our air assault tests.

We worked with the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and actually developed a larger drum to do more testing and four times the size, so this is the capacity we bring to the table. this effort, in short, within the conditions we have tested to date, the virus in saliva droplets survives better indoors and in dry conditions, the virus does not survive as well in savate saliva droplets and that is important because many of The tests that are being carried out are It is not necessarily done number one with the coca 19 virus and number two with saliva or respiratory fluids and thirdly, the virus dies faster in the presence of direct sunlight in these conditions and when you look at that graph, you look at the aerosol. breathe it, put it in a room at 70 to 75 degrees, 20 percent humidity, low humidity, lasts, half-life is about an hour, but you go outside and it goes down to a minute and a half.

A very significant difference when hit. with ultraviolet rays mr. President, while there are many unknown links in the Cova 19 transmission chain, we believe these trends can support practical decision-making to reduce the risks associated with the virus if I can have my next slide and when it is detected while it appears, you will see A Several practical applications, for example increasing the temperature and humidity of potentially contaminated indoor spaces, appear to reduce the stability of the virus and additional care may be warranted in dry environments that are not exposed to sunlight. We are also testing readily available disinfectants.

We've tried bleach, we've tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus specifically in saliva or relief fluids and I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes. Isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds and that's without manipulation. By rubbing just bring it in and when you leave it, you rub it and it disappears even faster. We are also looking at other disinfectants, specifically looking at Cobra 19 virus in saliva. This is not the end of our work as we continue to characterize this virus. and integrate our findings into practical applications to mitigate exposure and transmission.

I would like to thank the president, thank the vice president for his continued support and leadership of the department and for his work in addressing this pandemic. I would also like to thank the scientists not only in science and technology and at the end back, but the scientific and research and development community in general, thank you very much. A question some of you are probably thinking if you're totally interested in that world, which I find very interesting, assuming we get to the body. with tremendous light, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful, and I think you said that hasn't been verified but you'll try it and then I said, assuming you bring the light inside the body, you can do it through the skin or some other way and I think you said you were going to try that; sounds interesting, right, and then I see the disinfectant that kills it in a minute, one minute, and is there some way we can do something like that by internal injection. or almost a cleansing because you see that it enters the lungs and does a lot of things, so it would be interesting to check it so that you have to go to doctors, but I find it interesting.

We'll see, but the whole concept of light, the way it kills it in a minute, is pretty powerful. I see, please, we'll be in a better place by early summer. Does that mean you'll need to extend social distancing? guidelines until then we can go beyond that we're going to have to see where it is and I think people will know you'll know I'll know I think people will know just said Oh common sense at some point We won't have to do that, but until that we feel is safe, we are going to extend it. You have 23 cases with new cases, 23 states where new cases are declining, what does that mean about when the country can safely reopen to normal? period, yes, but it means that we are going to look at those cases very carefully.

I think we've all gotten very good at that, we've gotten good at tracing, we see where the cases are, where they're going and we'll be watching. that's called containment, at a certain point we're going to be able to contain and you know, when you see this, a lot of people have been talking about summer, maybe this is one of the reasons why I once mentioned that maybe air goes with heat and light and people didn't really like that statement, the fake news didn't like it at all and I just dismissed it as a suggestion but it seems like that's the case because when it's on a surface that would last a long time when that surface is outsidedisappears very quickly dies very quickly with the Sun yes, go ahead, you said yesterday that you would study Senator McConnell's suggestion that many states declare bankruptcy against the alien, yes, we will look into it and I have been looking into it.

I've been talking to a lot of the different senators, but I don't want to talk about that right now, it was a very interesting presentation, go ahead, Jeff, well. I wanted to talk about McConnell's suggestion that eight states equals what I just told you. I'm not talking about that. I'll talk about it later. I'd like to talk about that if you're more interested. Brian, yeah, thank you when he started his presentation, he described this as an emergent result. Does this mean his study is conclusive? Is there more work to do? We continue. For example, on the aerosol side, he notes that the numbers were twenty percent humidity.

We are seeing higher humidity levels. We would be expected to have an even greater impact on the virus. We are looking at other types of disinfectants, so as a scientific community we continue to study. To understand the characteristics of the virus, we have seen it in the US, they are hot and humid, like New Orleans for example, let me explain if you look at the corona virus as a chain with many links. Well, what we have done through our study is that we identified some of the weak links in that chain on which the transmission of the virus depends.

We identified that heat and humidity are a weakness in that chain. We have identified that sunlight, sunlight, UV rays, are a weakness in that chain that does not. Let's take away the other activities, the guidance from the White House, the guidance from the CDC and others on the actions and steps that people should take to protect themselves. This is just another tool in our tool belt, another weapon in the fight we have. we can increase it and in the summer we know that summer-like conditions are going to create an environment where transmission can be decreased and that is an opportunity for us to get ahead.

The president mentioned that the idea of ​​the cleaners belongs to the fleets of all America. There's no scenario that it could be a person in a jacket, you know? I'm here to talk about the findings we had in the study. We don't do it inside that laboratory. Our lab's rejection of an almost blatant sterilization of an area might work. maybe it won't work, but it certainly has a big effect if it's on a stationary object, simplifying to months by saying it would be better with the warmer weather and the sun coming out, more and more people would be outside than staying inside their

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At home, it would be irresponsible of us to say that we feel like summer will wipe out the virus completely and then if it's a pitched battle and people are ignoring those guys, that's not the case, but we have the opportunity to move forward with what we know now taking that into account in making decisions about what opens and what opens and any other conditions of humidity and lack of humidity that would have an impact so that on the surfaces where it can be collected it dies quite quickly. in summer while in winter I would not appreciate it very much, yes, mr. president, when you are exposed to ultraviolet rays, take a playground equipment, for example, ultraviolet rays hitting a playground equipment will kill the virus when it hits it, but underneath where the sun doesn't reach if someone touches that and They had it in their hands it could still be there, it has to be indirect light from UV rays and your hands are exposed to the sun, that will kill it like a piece of metal or something else, no I don't want to.

Saying that it will do it at the same rate because it is a non-porous service, but what we do know is that we looked at the worst case scenario and the virus lives longer on non-porous surfaces, so it doesn't. live so long so in theory what you said is correct this is correct, yes, sir. House governors who are opening their states are working to incorporate the findings of this study into those guidelines. I would let it be the governor's decision, this is a decision, this influences his decision process, as I mentioned, with knowing this knowledge and having this. knowledge as we continue to study and learn more about what the virus does and how it reacts could affect how a governor will look at what he opens in a state, how he opens it, what environments these things open in, but I'll leave that up to to the governor to make that decision, obviously remember that the advice is to stay home for the summer.

Could we turn that around and say that it would be much better to be outside? Would they raise him or the humidity that Washington brings in August? Would not go. Contrary to the earnings that have been issued at this time, I plan to tell you that if I have an event with my family, I do it in the entryway or in the backyard, not inside the

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with my children, how much more? research how much longer it takes to get conclusive results, but we were able to get the virus for the first time in February, that's when we started testing and it's a science based approach, science is a process that the doctor can attest to They don't necessarily align with goals and objectives and other things, it is what it is, but now we are starting to get results and every week or two weeks we start to discover something new and different, and by talking to the work group and to the vice president, he already asked us to come to him whenever we found new discoveries that could be shared with the public.

Yes sir, can you compare notes with your counterparts and other foreign governments? or in private industry they might have been studying the same thing and their findings show the same result that you found here. We have a very good partnership with many of our allies. We worked closely with them on this particular issue. authored a document, call the master list of questions, if you go to the DHS S&T website, we've already had about 17,000 views on this document, it actually describes what every country in the world is doing to fill certain knowledge gaps that do not exist.

It doesn't exist within the virus and what we do know and that's really what drives and drives the scientific community. Saying what we don't know now so as not to duplicate what other people have done, which is why we have defended that document. It is well referenced. and I invite you to analyze what the federal government would have to do to take advantage of that time. If there is some kind of summer education with this virus, what would the federal government have to do to take advantage of that time? Be better prepared for a possible resurgence.

I think a lot of people will come out suddenly. The people who didn't want to go out will be good to me. This was a very interesting meeting that we covered. great detail and these are incredible people, we could call it a laboratory because that is essentially what it is, it is a super laboratory, there are a lot of things happening in that laboratory, a lot of very interesting things in the laboratory, would you do it in other areas of what the government should do with testing, for example, or other things like that to be prepared, which went back into the hole, why would you take advantage of this summer?

It's actually a very good question, it's something that the task force has already begun to discuss and that we are If it is a combination of factors, let me say again that the States put into practice the guidelines to open the United States again, they implement plans safe and responsible to open their economies along the lines that the president announced a week ago today, people continue to adequately carry out social activities. distancing ourselves as recommended in each phase which, combined with some of these findings, could well give us a break from the coronavirus in the summer and our team is already talking about working continuously through this summer every day, we are increasing testing every one.

Daytime airlift flights are arriving in the country. I can promise you that, under the direction of the president, we will not relent in making sure that our hospitals have the equipment, they have the personal protective supplies for medical personnel, we will not relent in the development of therapies by our big pharmaceutical companies is moving forward. towards a vaccine as soon as it is possible to make it available to the public and there will be no respite in continuing to expand testing more than anyone else in the world, but by next fall we will have a wide range of testing with a variety of different means and it is for That is what we say with confidence that if the corona virus reappears at any time next fall or next winter, we will be prepared to deal with it, identify it, do contact tracing. and isolation to ensure that we address this epidemic in the same way we address infectious diseases mr. president on the topic of medical research why have you stopped promoting hydroxychloroquine we have had a lot of very good results and we have had some results that maybe are not so good I don't know I only read about one but I also read a lot of good ones so I don't know have done at all and I would say it's great for malaria and lupus and other things and we'll see what it is, but I guess Deborah, they have a lot of studies going on on that, so we'll do it.

We will be able to do it now we have over 26 million new unemployment claims in five weeks, yes, how the vice president talked about how this summer will improve, what his economists tell him about the timing of when he will take the lead in the US to the corner economists, well let me go week, we know the rest of the question, so I know a lot about economists and the answer is they have no idea. I think I have as good an idea as anyone and I believe our economy will start. to recover substantially as soon as the states open up and that's happening as we speak and it's actually very exciting and people are excited to see it because our country has to get back to work, they want to get back to work, you see. that whether it's a demonstration or just talking to people, they're going to get back to work and they're going to get back to work very quickly.

The states are advanced. I look at Gavin Newsom. It was disagreement. He was very kind today. He wrote a beautiful statement. about we sent him many many things that he needed good things different things that he needed we have it we are careful they have done very well in California you know they are doing very well in Florida they are doing well in many places, New York and New Jersey were badly affected. They are doing very well. I spoke again with Governor Cuomo and Governor Murphy. They are doing a great job and this is what we have to see.

They got hit hard, everyone close together, tight end, people don't realize that New Jersey is very tight, you realize that because you've been covering this for a long time, but very tight, New York obviously It's very tight, I think they're doing a fantastic job. For the most part I'll be able to tell you when it's all over, but a lot of the governors have done a really excellent job. Some I don't think I have to be honest, but we will talk about the future. Yes, go ahead. In a new interview with Time magazine today, Dr. Kouchi said the US is not in a position where we can say we are where they want to be with respect to testing capacity.

He said we need a lot more testing capacity as well as testing, so why does he keep saying we have tremendous testing capacity? national strategy that goes beyond just following you what the states are doing, the interest is yes and the answer is as you know and as I have said many times we are very advanced and testing other countries they are calling us to find out what we are doing and by the way, within After two weeks you will see numbers and you will see different forms of tests, just like we came up with the Avid Laboratory machine that gives you in five minutes what everyone wants, everyone asks, can we get it, except you?

We can only do them very quickly, but as you know, we have done more tests than all the other nations combined and that is a big statement, and you know when you talk about different tests and different things, we are also a larger nation than most, so what when you look at the statistics because statistically we are doing phenomenal in terms of mortality in terms of all the different elements that you can judge when you look. Germany and we are doing very well, we are very precise in reporting the figures, in fact. We'll go one step further, as you know, in New York they added quite a few deaths to a list that was made in New York and they added a number of deaths that were very, very accurate and then you'll see certain lists from other Some countries are so obvious just from look where obviously the number is ridiculous in the form of bass because they are not accurate counts, they are not even close to accurate counts, in fact, it is insulting to look at them, so we have done much more testing than anyone else anywhere in the world and Within a short period of time you will hear about new tests that are going to come out that will be incredible.

I just don't, no, I don't agree with him on that, no, I think we're doing a great job testing. I don't agree if he said I don't agree with them, yes, considering ways to increase production. of that Abra traffic, yes, well, they aredoing it, I'll tell you, Steve, they're doing it at a level they've never done it before. Abbott is a big company, it's a very big, very respected company, they came up with this. machine where you do it I've done it both ways I've done it this way and I didn't like it and I've done it the Abbott way where you literally just knock and five minutes later you know the answer and we use them in the

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I believe that you have been given that opportunity, which is much more pleasant than the first way you looked at it. We are manufacturing hundreds of thousands of machines, the advantage over the other tests and laboratory tests. so we can do millions and millions of those tests, it takes a day or two, but you know, because it's really a delivery situation more than anything else, the test itself is done quickly once it gets to the lab, but as we have discovered and as I think you will never regret in the room we have many laboratories we have we have so many laboratories nobody nobody many governors did not know that we have this capacity but we have many laboratories throughout our country, all states have laboratories and some have many of them, so I think we'll come up with things as time goes on when I started we ended up we started with nothing essentially what we started with a failed test a test that didn't work It started with a test on very few people, not millions of people, The problem is that if we did 350, if we did 350 million tests, one for each person, the media would say, "Oh, you should have done two for each person, no matter what you do." It doesn't make any difference, it's like ventilators, I talk about it all the time, no one mentions ventilators, one of the most difficult things, uh, ventilators and now we are making thousands a week, thousands of ventilators and they are calling from Mexico, they are calling.

Today I have received four calls from many countries. Would it be possible to send ventilators? Good. I received four calls today. I received three calls yesterday. No country is equipped like us. We have 11. We have 11 different places manufacturing fans. Our country, as you know. It doesn't need them now our governors are very happy, but that's different from testing because with testing you can always say oh, we need one, no, I think we've done incredibly well, obviously, with ventilators, would we also have 500 million masks? -millions of masks that will be here very soon, we have made millions of masks that we have ordered millions of myths that have arrived and been distributed.

We gave a hospital in New York City 300,000 masks before the virus, they were using 10,000 and now we got them 300,000 and they got rid of them very quickly, which is pretty much fast. Did that happen? Because? Because masks became very valuable. I say how that happened. But we did it. We've done an incredible job and we've worked with the governors and when the governors couldn't again, they're the. front line when they couldn't get something like fans, they couldn't get fans, they could have bought it, you could have bought it, but most of them, many of them chose not to, so they all needed fans, we did the job.

I have, I will introduce the team when we are done with this whole nightmare, this whole curse, this whole plague, but the team that worked on the ventilators was amazing and the team that worked and it's kind of interchangeable, but the team that is working on the testing They are really an incredible team, they are brilliant people and they are doing it for the country, they are not doing it for other reasons, some have been very successful, they are doing it for the country, yes, the house has not gone beyond that. The relief bill was here.

I'm going to sign it tonight, since you know there's no help for states and localities in that bill. Mitch McConnell, of course, has talked about states seeking bankruptcy protection. He also referred to his office. This is the idea of ​​18 states. It's a blue state bailout, what do you say? Do you agree with that or do you agree with Governor Cuomo that this is a vicious attack on these states that are being attacked, but certainly some people see it that way? I talked to Mitch about it. I have talked to numerous senators about it and we are working with senators who are on the other side of the issue and we will see what happens, but we are looking to do what is right for the people of In this country we are looking to do what is right for a particular state and we will see what It happens, but it's certainly the next thing we're going to discuss because some states, to be fair, haven't done it very well. many years before the virus came, you know you can't blame the plague, this horrible plague that came and all of a sudden you know they can't blame, you look at Illinois, he had a lot of problems long before the virus. came in and we'll talk about it, it's going to be a topic for a period of time and right now we've made this incredible deal for workers and small businesses and I'm so happy that Harvard wasn't covered we actually never sent them the check but they were very nice about it.

We never sent you the money the old way, where's the check? the new way sent them the money and we didn't send them the money and they were very understanding and very nice about it, as were Princeton and Stanford, as were other schools that just don't partner with this money, as well as big companies, as you know, a lot of them were a relatively small amount of money compared to the whole very small amount of money compared, but we want it to be fair, we want it to go to the people who are supposed to go to ideas that will be great for the people of this country. and if we can help the states, we are always going to help the states, now there are different ways to help the states, some are better than others, so we are looking, it is interesting that the troubled states are blue, it is interesting, You know?

If you look around, I mean the states that seemed to have the problem were Democratic and Jersey was affected by this, you know there were a lot of problems long before the plague came and you already knew there were a lot of problems long before the construction site. came, I talked to Governor Cuomo Bevin, I talked to Governor Murphy about this, I talked to Gavin Newsom about this and we talked to a lot of people about this because it's probably going to be next on the list, a lot of people understand very well what Mitch is. he's saying and they also understand the other side of the issue and I'll talk about that, we're going to do what's right for our country, what's right for our country and what's right for a lot of wonderful people, okay?

Yes, President, after the presentation we just saw that the heat and humidity are dangerous for you by making people think that they would be safe if they went out in the heat considering that so many people are dying in Florida considering that this virus has had an outbreak . in Singapore, places that are hot and we are good, the new headline is Trump: people must go out, that is dangerous, here we go, the same group as always, ready. I hope people enjoy the sun and if it has an impact, that's great. I'm just listening to this. It's not really the first time, I mean, there's been a rumor that you know a really nice room or you go out in the sun or you're hot and that has an effect on other viruses, but now we're getting it from one of the big guys. laboratories of the world I have to say covers a lot more territory than this, this is probably something relatively easy speaking for you.

I would like you to talk to the doctors to see if there is a way to apply light and heat. to cure you know if you could and maybe you can't maybe you can't again I say maybe you can maybe you can't I'm not a doctor but I'm like a person who has a you know what never Have you ever heard that heat and light in relation to certain viruses yes, but in relation to this virus it is certainly fever? Yeah, it's good when you have a fever, it helps your body respond, but not like I haven't seen it, I think it's a great thing to see.

I mean, okay, Mr. Lee, you're the president and the people who tune into these briefings they want to get information and guidance and they want to know what to do. They do not look so well. I'm the president and his fake news and you know what I'll tell you, I'll tell you very nicely, I know, I know you well because I know the guy, I see what he writes, he's a total fake, so are you ready, are you ready , are you ready? It's just a suggestion from a brilliant lab by a very, very smart, maybe brilliant man, he's talking about son, he's talking about heat and you see the numbers, so that's it, that's all I have.

I'm just here to present talent. I'm here to present. ideas because we gain ideas to get rid of this and if he is good and he is good, Johnson & Johnson is working, they are also working together, there are many companies working together on a vaccine, so if they think that scales, they can scale it up. Manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies could do it quickly if we had a vaccine, it will scale up very quickly. In fact, some of Johnson & Johnson's companies are already scaling up before they have the final answer. If you are doing this, you will save a lot of time;

The normal thing is to expand it later. I have to say the FDA has been fantastic. Stephen Han dr. Han has been fantastic, they are moving quickly, would you say time scale when it's not a time scale because then the media, the so-called lamestream media, will say you said a time I don't want to say times. because every time I say a time, if you don't hit it, they'll say, so I don't want to talk about time, but I will say that tremendous progress has been made over the last month. That's a very quick question you talked about.

Boris Johnson this week I wonder what it sounded like, what it was like, when do you think they called me all the packages a few days ago. I'll tell you, it sounded amazing. In fact, I was surprised. I thought it would be like Oh, Donald, how are you? I was ready to go I was able to I'm very surprised to tell you this is like old Boris tremendous energy tremendous Drive surprised me a lot because he called me almost you know pretty close to when he left the hospital I think he's doing very well I think he's doing very well, he was so smart and energetic, pretty amazing, he's an amazing guy, he's a friend of ours and a friend of mine, he loves our country, he loves his country a lot, but he loves our country, he respects our country and them. lucky to have him there, please could you contact Kim Jongmin directly, but also that you were working to find out if those reports about him being an impossible medical problem were true.

I wonder if you don't either, I hope he's not on medical treatment. Problems, I hope anything from here, you would have been in a war with North Korea if he hadn't been elected president. Remember that I was going to be the one who took us to war on my first day in office. Okay, here we are, look. What happened? Withdraw, we will bring people home. We are not going to serve as police officers around the world. I don't want to be cops all over the world and yet I have really built up our military to a level that has never existed before. built that before everyone is recognized by face, go ahead, I think the report was incorrect, let me put it that way.

I think the report was done by a network that was incorrect. I've heard they used old documents, but that's what I heard. I heard that the report was an incorrect report. I hope it was an incorrect report. I don't want to say that he pointed me out just a little bit about that, so you haven't made any contact just to make sure they're worth it in Korean. I don't want to sit, I won't say that, it's okay, we had a good relationship with North Korea, the best you can have. I mean, we have a good relationship with North Korea.

I have a good relationship with Kim Jong-un and I hope. he's fine and someone would say oh that's terrible, no that's not terrible. I hope he's okay and I think it was a false report made by CNN. The problem is that you know the truth well, so you know, as far as I'm concerned, I want to go. I want to go to CNN, it's fake news, don't talk to me, go ahead, please, okay, next question is the first one. Could you talk about your decision-making process about the Georgia generation? Well, you know, you know, yesterday you said you totally got Georgia. concern I had a good conversation with the governor of Georgia in a week, you talked and you didn't convey this type of message, whether they convey the message.

I didn't like the fact that he's giving up certain things. I want the states to open more than him. He does a lot longer than him, but I didn't like seeing the spas at this early stage, as ordered by the doctors, that's a correct statement Deborah. I didn't like seeing the spas opening, frankly, I didn't like seeing a lot of things. happening and I wasn't happy with it and I wasn't happy with Brian Kemp. I wasn't happy at all because I could have done something about it if I wanted to but I say let the governor do it but I wasn't happy with Brian Kemp spas beauty salons tattoo parlors I know that's dead and by the way I want them to open Excuse me Excuse me I want you to open and I want him to open as soon as possible and I want the state open but I wasn't happy with Brian Kemp I'll tell you right now yeah, go ahead with class to fightwith you that's why not and you know you didn't define me at all that's your language he didn't define me you know what? happened I told him you make your own decision I told him I told him you're not in the guidelines but I'll let you make your own decision but I want people to be safe and I want people in Georgia to be safe and I I don't want this to blow up because you are deciding to do something that is not in the guidelines and I went to Deborah and dr.

It was a foul for her and other people and they weren't excited about it and I could have stopped it, but I decided and we all agreed that they should watch it closely, so we'll see what happens. I told him very clearly. I told him Mike was there. he said do what you think is best, but if you ask me if I'm happy with it, I'm not happy with it, and I'm not happy with Brian Kemp, please continue with a question for dr. Burks, if he will allow me, mr. The President on the rate of decline of the curve in US opinion and the Vice President tonight talking about significant and promising progress.

Could you talk about the rate of decline in cases? Information from other countries that would inform us about the decrease. Yes, many of them. You and I have spoken to all of you from this podium about the weekend difference in reporting, there is often an increase on Mondays if you look at Mondays over Mondays, if you look at the seven day reports, we are starting to go down, we have many things that we had. a long, flat spike driven largely by New York, which accounts for about 45 percent of cases as New York declines, the rest of the country will see an even faster decline.

I mean, although we've had outbreaks, we've had outbreaks in specific prisons, we've had outbreaks in specific nursing homes, we've had outbreaks and specific facilities and when that happens, that adds up to 300,400 cases on that single date, so we do a very careful monitoring not only of what the country is doing. but what each state is doing, each county is doing and we look at the Delta changes in all the counties to find early warning signs for these types of outbreaks because we want to show that we want the entire country to go down, but we also want to prevent the outbreaks before they look forward to the November elections, you are given the risk of the flu and the chronic problem believes it is a risk, there will be some, there will be a lack of agreement, as legitimacy is the results in a very close election and people start to say: well, a lot of people can go vote.

I can't tell you what's going to happen there, yeah. I have a great question. I can't tell you what's going to happen. a sleepy guy in the basement of a house who is being given free rein by the press who doesn't want to do debates because of kovat and a lot of things happened well and I saw a couple of interviews and I was like oh, I'm looking forward to this, but they're keeping it protected because of the corona virus and it doesn't move, it doesn't move too much and then I saw what the press does to the Republican Party and for me in particular we had the largest economy ever created.

We were doing this is a month in Africa. We were doing numbers like we had never done before. The best employment numbers for African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Americans, ever seen in the history of our country our employment numbers are the best in the history of our country almost one hundred and sixty million people the stock market record numbers many, many times during my tenure many, many times, but now we have a country that we had a shutdown because of this and frankly, if we didn't shut it down, we would have lost millions of people, possibly, but we certainly would have lost a million people.

Take the high number and cut it in half, cut it in half again, but if it had been six hundred and seven. One hundred and eight hundred, take a look at the farce out there, take a look at this horrible scene of hospitals with dead bodies and black body bags, multiply that by 10, 15 or even 20 because that would have happened, so we did the right thing. Until now we did the right thing, until now we have considered it right, we have mobilized as if it were a military operation and it was very much a military operation between ventilators and tests and so many other things of which we have had many good partners, not all good partners. but we had a lot of good partners gavin newsom today he thanked us a lot gavin newsom california thanked us a lot for getting him all the things he needed so he could move forward and continue doing the good work we got we will give it to him today tomorrow we will give him even more it would have been more difficult for him to get it that for us we agreed to get it we received it on time he said promises made promises kept in fact he said that in a statement today we have done a good job, we have received very little credit for the great work we have done thanks to the media because, in my opinion, the media is not honest media, much of it not all, we have excellent reporters, I have tremendous respect, but much of the media is not honest, so I cannot tell you about the elections, there is a Democratic Party and a large part The media automatically gives the guy a pass, he's been given a pass, regardless of whether or not he's going to be the nominee, I have no idea, but he's getting a pass and the media isn't covering the great work we've done.

Whether it's Mike's task force, which has been incredible, whether it's the way we've mobilized in a war-like operation to build these incredibly complex and very expensive ventilators, they're very expensive to build and very complex, The work we have done has been incredible work and I am not talking about myself, I am talking about everyone, I am talking about the generals. Admirals Debra and Tony and now Bill, I'm talking about something we hadn't heard today, so I can't tell you what's going to happen with the election. I think if we hadn't gone through a fake deal with Russia, Russia and an impeachment hoax, it would be a total hoax from the day I was elected, but you know it wasn't the day, it was many months before I was elected, This has been a witch hunt that was illegal, it was an illegal witch hunt, it was illegal and with all that, I'm fine because people see that we are doing a great job and they know that we will continue to do a great job if we had an honest press , this country would be even better, thank you so it was.