WATCH LIVE: President Trump addresses coronavirus outbreak at news conference – 2/26/2020

Thank you all very much, thank you very much before we start. I would like to express my deepest condolences to the victims and families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Earlier today, an evil killer opened fire at a Molson Coors Brewing Company plant, claiming the

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s of five people. of people were injured, some seriously injured, our hearts break for them and their loved ones, we send our condolences, we will be with them and it is a terrible thing, a terrible thing, so our hearts go out to the people of Wisconsin and their families, many thank you. I just received another piece of information from a great group of talented people about the virus that is circulating in various parts of the world.

We've made some very good early decisions, decisions that were actually ridiculed at the beginning. We closed our borders two years ago. The flights came from certain areas that were affected by the corona virus and it was quite tough and we did it very early. A lot of people thought we shouldn't have done it so early and we did it and it turned out to be a very good thing. The important thing and the number one priority from our point of view is the health and safety of the American people and that's how I saw it when I made that decision. , because of everything we've done, the risk to the American people remains very low, we have the greatest war experts really in the world right here, the people who are called upon by other countries when things like this happened, we were ready to adapt and we are ready to do what is necessary as the disease spreads, if it spreads as most of you know, the level that we have had in our country is very low and those people are improving or we believe that in almost all the cases are improving, we have a total of 15, we took some from Japan.

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

We start by analyzing certain things. We have been working with the hill very carefully and very forcefully and I think we have a very good bipartisan spirit for the money. We were asking for two and a half billion and we think that's a lot, but the Democrats and I guess Senator Schumer want us to have a lot more than that and normally in life I would say we'll take it if they want to give more. We'll do more, we'll spend what's appropriate, hopefully we won't have to spend as much because we really think we've done a great job keeping it to a minimum and again we've had tremendous, tremendous success. success beyond what people would have thought now, at the same time, there are some

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Italy and several countries are having difficulties. China, you know where it started. I spoke to President Xi, we had a great conversation and he is working very hard. I have to say that they are working very, very hard and if we can count on the reports coming out of China that the spread has slowed down quite a bit, the infection seems to have decreased in the last two days, instead of increasing, it has actually decreased by in a case where we think we can be, it's kind of reliable, it seems like it's gotten a little bit smaller with respect to the money that's being traded, they can do whatever they want, I mean, they can, we'll do both and we're. requesting two and a half, some Republicans would like us to get four and some Democrats would like us to get eight and a half and we will be satisfied, whatever it is, tomorrow we will bring in a highly respected specialist who really works. in the State Department with a lot of talent to do this.

I want you to understand something that surprised me when I saw that I spoke with dr. Fauci on this and I was really shocked and I think most people are shocked to hear that the flu in our country kills 25,000 to 69,000 people a year, which was shocking to me and so far, if you look at what we have with 15 people and they are recovering, one is quite sick, but hopefully we will recover, but the rest are in very good shape, but think about between 25,000 and 69,000 in the last 10 years we have lost 360,000, these are people who have dead. of the flu of what we call the flu, hey, did you get the flu vaccine?

And that is something that we have now done: we have prevented non-US citizens from coming to the United States from China, which was done very early, we are conducting tests. people and we have been at a very high level screening people coming into the country from infected areas, we have quarantined the infected and those who are at risk, many excellent quarantine facilities, we are rapidly developing vaccines and they can talk to you , professionals can tell them that the vaccine is working well and then, talking to doctors, we believe that this is something that we can develop quite quickly, a vaccine for the future and coordinate with the support of our partners.

We have excellent relations with all countries. that we were talking about a fairly large number of countries, some are one person and many countries do not have any problems and we will see what happens, but we are very, very prepared for anything, whether it is a major breakup or whether we are or not you know we're at that very low level and we want to keep it that way so we're at the low level as they get better we take them off the list so we can be Very soon we'll only have five people and we could be just one or two people in the next short period of time, so we've had very good luck.

Johns Hopkins. I guess it's a great, well-respected place. They did an exhaustive study on the situation in the country. better and worse prepared for an epidemic and the United States is now ranked number one, we are ranked number one for being prepared. This is a list of different countries. I don't want to get in his way, especially doing such a good job. this is a list of the different countries United States is ranked number one most prepared United Kingdom Netherlands Australia Canada Thailand Sweden Denmark South Korea Finland this is a list of the best ranked countries in the world by Johns Hopkins we are doing something else That It's important to me because he's been great in a lot of ways, but he's also very good at healthcare and we really follow him very closely.

Many states do it when Mike was governor. Indiana's Mike Pence. They have established excellent medical care. They have a great system their system that many other states have actually looked at and changed their systems they wanted to base it on Indiana's system. He's very good and I think he's really very expert in the field and what I've done. I'm going to announce exactly right now and then I'm going to put our Vice President Mike Pence in charge and Mike is going to work with the professionals and the doctors and everyone else that's working on the team.

He is brilliant. I spend a lot. of time with the team over the last few weeks, but they are totally brilliant and we are doing very well and Mike will be in charge and Mike will report to me, but he has some talent for this and I will ask Mike Pence to say a few words please , thank you. Thank my Lord. President Trump has made clear from the first days of this administration that we have no higher priority than the safety, health and well-being of the American people and since the first

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each of our experts and leaders have been saying for more than a month that it remains true that the degree of risk has the potential to change rapidly and we can expect to see more cases in the United States, which is why we have been reminding Americans . public on our state local and private sector partners who need to be aware of what a broader response would look like. The CDC has recommended that the American public and especially state and local governments, businesses and other organizations should be updated on how they would respond should the situation worsen, we encourage Americans to learn what future steps might be necessary to stay safe. in their communities.

Knowing that these possible steps now can help keeplow risk to you in your community. Americans can find helpful information at cdc.gov/ ko vyd co VI d 19 and we are working closely with government and private sector partners to educate them about preparedness. We have finally begun working with Congress to secure the funding we need. There are five main priorities in the White House's request to Congress. that the White House made on Monday these priorities are first expanding our surveillance network second supporting state and local governments work third and fourth developing therapies and vaccines and fifth manufacturing and purchasing personal protective equipment such as gowns and masks as president of the president's

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task force I am committed to providing regular updates on our interagency coordination.

In this process, our top public health leaders, like those with me here today, have spoken to the media many times a day to inform the American public that The Trump administration will continue to be aggressively transparent and keep the American people and the media informed about the situation. situation and what everyone can do with it, I will hand things over to dr. and he shook it, the doctor shook it, is the senior career official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the principal deputy director with a career of more than 30 years at the CDC in public health and as a member of the Corps in charge of the United States Public Health Service, so dr. .

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r it to you. Thank you very much Mr. Secretary, as you know, this has been a difficult and challenging time. Our hearts go out to the people who have been directly affected by the virus and to all those who have been working tirelessly to respond to it. Our aggressive containment strategy here in the United States has been working and is responsible for the low levels of cases we have so far; However, we expect more cases and this is a good time to prepare. As you heard, it's the perfect time for businesses, healthcare systems, universities and schools to take a look at their pandemic preparedness plans, dust them off and make sure they're ready and we have a lot more information on the website from the CDC and in partnership on how to do it, but it's also a very good time for the American public to prepare and for you to know.

What this means for you, the

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we are talking about is a respiratory virus that is transmitted in a similar way to the common cold or flu, it is transmitted through coughs and sneezes and therefore those sensible everyday measures that we tell people to take every year. with flu are important here covering your cough staying home when sick and washing your hands tried and true measures not very exciting but really important ways to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses so this is the trajectory of what is very uncertain to look at weeks and months ahead, but many of the steps we have taken over the past 15 years to prepare for pandemic influenza and our experience during the 2009 H1n1 influenza pandemic remind us of the types of steps our healthcare system our businesses our school communities may need to take we are in this together all government the public and private sector and the CDC wants to make sure you have the best information available every day thank you just want to give A very quick update on my name is uh dr.

Tony Fauci I'm the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH, just a very quick update on the development of countermeasures in the form of vaccines and therapeutics. I told this audience at a recent press

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that we have a number of vaccine candidates and a prototype to give you an idea of ​​the time frame of a vaccine and what its impact could be now and in the years ahead, I told them that we would have a vaccine that we would test to see if it is safe and if it induces a response that you would predict would be protective in about three months, I think it will be a little less than that, it will probably be closer to two months, which would then take about three months to determine if it's safe and a minigenic that gives us six months, then you go from a trial that is phase one of 45 people to a trial that involves hundreds, if not thousands, of people to determine efficacy as soon as possible .

An efficacy trial would take an additional six to eight months. So even though this is the fastest we've gone from a virus sequence to an assay, it still wouldn't be applicable to the epidemic unless we really wait a year to a year and a half, that means two things, one. the answer to containing it is public health measures, we cannot rely on a vaccine for the next few months to a year; However, if this virus, which we have every reason to believe, is quite conceivable to happen, will last more than one season and come back and recycle next year, if that is the case, we hope to have a vaccine and then eventually and briefly, therapies, there are a number of antiviral drugs that are being tested a few days ago we started a randomized controlled trial of a quorum of severely fatal drugs that antiviral activity in vitro in an animal model the good

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is that it is a trial that is assigned randomized to placebo or standard treatment and drug and standard treatment, which means that we will know reasonably soon if it works and, if it does, we will do it. then have effective therapy.

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

Well, I don't think it's inevitable. I probably will. Possibly it will. It could be on a very small level. It could be on a higher level. No matter what happens, we are totally prepared. We have the best people in the world. It is seen that according to the study, we have the best prepared people. The best people in the world. Congress is willing to give us much more than what we are asking for. It is nice for a change, but we are totally ready. willing and able is a term we use is ready willing and able we have we're going to be very well under control now you can grow it and make it a little bigger it may not grow at all We'll see what happens but regardless of what happens we are fully prepared Please big three implement emergency replacement charging for one minute trips.

China currently has the virus present Italy South Korea, are you planning to add those countries? Well, Justin. I know I'm the president of the United States, I'm not the president of other countries, other countries on the list that are highly respected in what they do in terms of what we're talking about, but I really want to be responsible for this country, if that It means placing a very strong situation on the border so that people cannot enter our country from a country that is infected, that is what we are doing and we have already done it with numerous countries, but we have to focus on this country.

I don't think it's right to impose on others, but if others don't care or we think they're doing it incorrectly, you know we're dealing with global health and we have great people and the CDC does. go and help other countries by giving them recommendations on what to do, but they are working in their countries and we are working in our countries and so far it is far from simple and it really worked very well. Can you clarify if you are considering restricting travel? to and from South Korea, Italy and other countries at the right time, we can do it right now, not the right time, but at the right time, and we are monitoring people as they arrive specifically for the problem with the that we are dealing with.

So we are seeing that many people who come from South Korea have been very affected. Italy has been quite difficult. China It's obvious what happened in China, but again the numbers seem to be stabilizing and going down in China, which is very good news. So we'll see what happens today to Secretary Hayes, our testified that he didn't think it was necessary, that he was going to be removed from HHS and you yourself have been downplaying this, so why are you now selecting the Vice President, Mike Misner ? Vice President, he's in administration, but I have everyone report to Mike.

Mike has been very good, very knowledgeable. Anyone who knows anything about healthcare looks at the Indiana model and it has been a huge success. He has been a tremendous role model in terms of health. careful and this is actually a branch of that, so this is a blue. I don't see my cases being Mike as part of the administration, but I will have them report to Mike. Mike will report to me. They will also inform in some cases. In both cases, I will attend meetings quite a bit depending on what they want to do and the message we want to convey, but we have really done an extraordinary job when you look at a country this size with so many people coming.

We are by far number one in the world in terms of people arriving in a country and we have a total of 15 cases, many of which are almost mustard in one day. I will tell you that most of them are fully recovered. I think that's actually a pretty impressive number. Now, we took in 40 people who were Americans and they're also recovering, but we brought them in, so I call I have a different group, but we felt like we had an obligation to American citizens outside of the country that we're dealing with. To return we thought it was very important, what can be done about it?

And if the CDC is right that the spread is inevitable, are we going to have to deal with stock market and economic issues for some time? Well, I really think the stock market is something I know a lot about. I think he was affected, maybe for two reasons. I think they look at the people you saw decline last night and say if there's any chance that could happen, I think it really hits home. so and certainly it was affected by this and I understand it also because of the supply chains and various other things and the people coming in, but I think the stock market will recover, the economy is very strong but the consumer is the strongest that has ever existed. our consumers are incredible, they are incredible, that is why we are doing well in other countries, even before the virus we were not doing very well, other countries have not done very well, our consumer is very, very strong, very economically powerful cities like we.

What we saw in China and what would have to happen, we have plans on a much larger scale if we need to we are working with States, we are working with virtually all States and we have plans on a much larger scale if we need it, we don't think we will. We are going to need it, but you know that you should always be prepared and again Congress is talking to us about financing and we are getting much more than what we asked for and I think it is the best. What you have to do is accept it, we will accept it, are you willing to give it to Congress if they do well?

We'll see, but we'll deal with the states because the states are working very hard. We have hospitals and states that make rooms available. and they are building quarantine areas, areas where people can be kept safe, we are working very well with the states, it is a very important part of this, so you know, my attitude if Congress wants to give us the money so easily is not it was so easy. for the wall, but we have done it, if you want to give us the money and we will take it, we will just do a good job with it, yes president, should the Americans point to getting protective equipment like massive missiles and so on? forward and, if so, what is the situation in the US? doing with blue production, we can get a large quantity, in fact, we have ordered a large quantity in case we need it, we may not need it, you understand, but in case we are facing the worst case, They will establish themselves very quickly, but I don't think we will ever be close to that.

I really don't think we're going to be close to our borders being very controlled. Our flights from certain areas. We are talking about very high control. I don't think we'll ever get close to that. Please go back to the stock market per second. Travel-related stocks have been especially, yeah, camera here the last few days, what would you say? to Americans who right now are looking forward to summer or the next few months and saying to themselves: should I make plans for summer? Should I travel abroad? Well, I hope they can do it, we think we hope so.

They'll be in good shape by then, but you know they'll have to stay a little flexible. Yes, I would say travel-related businesses would certainly be hurt at this point bysame time this ends. Hopefully it'll be sooner rather than later and I think the business they lost will pick up at a later date, but you know, now I think they probably won't go to China. We are not going to go to certain countries where the problem is much greater than in the United States, what we are going to do is keep people at home and they have to travel to places where we have the most tourism. country in the world, so instead of leaving our country and leaving our shores, they will stay here and again when you have 15 people and the 15 in a couple of days will be reduced to almost zero.

It's a pretty good job we've done. fact I think Speaker Pelosi is incompetent, she lost Congress once. I think she'll lose him again. She raised my poll numbers by up to 10 points. I never thought I would see that so quickly and so easily. I'm leading everyone. We are doing very well. I don't want to do it that way, it's almost unfair if you think about it, but I think she's incompetent and I think she's not thinking about the country and instead of making a statement like that I've been routinely hitting her on everything. To make a statement like that, I should say that we have to work together because potentially we have a big problem and maybe it is a very small problem.

I hope it's a very small problem, but we have to work together instead he wants to do the same thing with Brian Chuck Schumer he comes out and says the president only asked for two and a half billion dollars he should have eight and a half if this is the first time they tell me that we should drink more normally, we have to drink less and we should work together, he shouldn't make statements like that because it's very bad for the country and Nancy Pelosi, I mean, she should go back to a district and clean it up because it's number one if you look at the reduction percentage, which was one of the best in the world and now you look at what's happening and I'm just saying we should all work together.

She is trying to create panic and there is no reason to panic. because we have done so well, these professionals behind me and here and there and here and in some

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rooms I just left a group of 45 people who are the most talented people in the world, in some parts of the world we They are asking in a very good way that they can participate and help them, which Nancy Pelosi should not do, and she knows it's not true, she knows it, all they are trying to do is get a political advantage, this is not about of a political advantage that we are all trying to achieve. the right thing they shouldn't say this is terrible president

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isn't asking for enough money what a stupid thing to say if they want to give us more money it's okay we'll take more money some republicans think we should have more money for that it's okay we'll take more money but they shouldn't demote to the people who are on stage, who are the best in the world, they are not degrading me, they are degrading the best health professionals in the world and the people. that does exactly what we're talking about your campaign today suing the New York Times for an opinion is your opinion or is it your argument that if people have an opinion contrary to yours, they should be sued right when they get the opinion totally wrong like The New York Times did and, frankly, they've been very wrong in recent years, so we'll see how that allowed that to make its way through the quarry.

It is beyond an opinion that is not an opinion that is something much more than an opinion, they did something wrong and more will come, what can we do? I hope so because Shinzo is obviously a very good friend of mine. I love the people of Japan and I hope everything is in good shape, as you know. There are several people in Japan who have been infected. I heard they're doing a very professional job, which doesn't surprise me at all with Shinzo and all the people you have. I know Japan very well. I think they will take care of it.

It's very good, it's a bit tight, you know, it's a bit tight, they spent billions of dollars building one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen and your Prime Minister is very proud of it. Hope all is well. We hope it is. The CMC doctor just talked about dusting off the preparation plans that comes from you and carries more weight. Do you think US schools are preparing for the spread of a brony virus? I think so. I mean, I haven't talked specifically about that. with the different doctors, but I think so. I believe that all aspects of our society should be prepared.

I don't think we'll get there, especially with the fact that we're going down, not up, we're going down substantially. that up, but yeah, I think the school should be getting ready and you know, get ready just in case the words are just in case we don't think we're going to be there, we don't think we're going to be close and again if you look at some countries are going down it's starting to go in the other direction this will end this will end look at the flu season I said 26,000 people I've never heard of a number like that 26,000 people going up to sixty-nine thousand people doctor you told me before 69 thousand people die every year from 26 to 69 every year for the flu now think it's amazing so far the results of all this that everyone is reading and part of the thing is that you want to keep it as it is, you don't want to see panic because there is no reason to go in panicked but when I mentioned the flu I said I actually asked several doctors and said is this like the flu because people die from the flu and This is very unusual and a little different but in some ways it's easier and in others it is a little more difficult, but we have it very well under control.

I mean, we've really done a very good job. You mentioned the stock market earlier. Getting back to that, just to be clear, the Dow Jones fell over 2,000 points this week. Are you suggesting that was overblown? The overreaction of our financial markets here. I think the financial markets are very upset when they look at the Democratic candidates who are on that stage doing They go dumb and say if we ever have a president like this and there's always a chance that it's an election, you know, who knows what what will happen. I think we're going to win, I think we're going to win by a lot, but when you look at the statements made by the people behind those podiums, I think that has a huge effect, I think so, I think so, but I think it's can add a little settlement to what they are saying. because they are seeing the potential you know again I think we are going to win I feel very confident about it we have done everything and much more than what I said we were going to do look what we have done what "What we have done is incredible with the cuts of taxes and regulations and rebuilding our military, taking care of our veterans and giving them choices and accountability, all the things that we've done to protect our Second Amendment.

I mean, they see that the Second Amendment was them." We're going to destroy the Second Amendment when people see that they say this is not good, then you add that I really think that's a factor, but no, this is what we're talking about, it's the virus, that's what we're talking about. but I think that's what I believe in terms of CNBC and in terms of Fox Business. I think that's a factor, yes, and I think after we win the election, I think the stock market is going to grow like never before, just like it did. by the way, after I won the last election the stock market the next day went up like a rocket, we are not going to loosen the travel restrictions, that's what saved us if I hadn't had Mike alluded to it if not would have made a decision very early on not to take people from a certain area we would not be talking in this way we would be talking about many more people would have been infected.

I received a lot of pressure. I mean, some people call me racist because I made a decision like that. early and we had never done that before as a country let alone early, so it was a bold decision, it turned out to be a good decision, but the Democrats criticized me and called me racist because I made that decision, if you can. I think we all have to work together, we can't say bad things and especially when we have the best team in the world and we really gave it an early start: the CDC NIH and the A lot today about how these professionals are excellent in this critical and necessary experience.

I'll give you a break on them now because we can get money and we can increase staff. We know all the people. We know all the good people. That is the question. I asked the doctors before that some of the people we cut haven't been used for many years and if we have a need and we can get them very quickly and instead of spending the money and I'm a business person. I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them, when we need them, we can get them back very quickly, for example, tomorrow we will bring in some people who are already in this, you know, the big government that we have and very specifically for this, we can develop very, very quickly and we have already, I mean we have really developed, we have a great staff and I am using Mike because he is in management and he is very good at doing what he does and what he does in Regarding this question, if that is compared to other countries that have tested more than tens of thousands of people, do you plan to test more people?

We are testing everyone that we need to test and we are finding very small problem very small problem now you treat this like the flu in fact I could ask one of the doctors to come and explain it to you do you want to wash your hands a lot do you want to stay if you don't you feel good if If you feel like you have the flu, stay inside, quarantine yourself, don't go out, but there are certain steps you can take that won't even be necessary. You know, in many cases, when you get infected, it's very mild, you don't even get it.

I know there is a problem, sometimes they just get a cold, sometimes they get something that doesn't make them feel good and sometimes they feel really bad, but that's a bit like the flu, it's a bit like the normal flu, for the that we have flu vaccines. and we will essentially have a flu vaccine for this pretty quickly. You did it two weeks ago, mr. President, you are acting. Oh, Andy, the director was in this room. He was talking about what he expects GDP growth to be for next year. He said it was 3% and we have talked about the effects of the corona virus on the supply chain. that ik lines in the financial markets do you still trust that they can see that type?

We're going to have tremendously low unemployment, we're setting records and that was, in fact, the administration, as you know, the lowest average unemployment of any administration in history. and our numbers are very low very good 3.5 3.6 but you can't really see what this does in terms of GDP, it could affect it but that's irrelevant compared to what we're talking about, we want to make sure it's safe , the number one security, but This would let you know an impact on the GDP, but we are still very, we are doing very well, but this will have, I will tell you what it has a big impact.

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

The interest is more conservative now and, frankly, people who save their money now get a return on that money instead of getting nothing, but I think you know where, with the highest of all, we should be paying the lowest interest rates and when. Germany and other countries are paying negative rates, meaning they literally get paid when they put money in. I mean, they borrow money and get paid when it's paid back. Who has heard of this before? He said he first, but not us. So I totally disagree with our Federal Reserve. I think our Federal Reserve has made a terrible mistake and would have made as much of a difference as we have made even without the 2,000 points and we started at 16,000 and we will be 28,000. without reaching 30,000 we have had increases like no one has seen before but we are doing well we have to

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ing it very closely, but General Motors has hurt us, Boeing has hurt us and, in my opinion, they have hurt us a lot. by our own Federal Reserve, which has also created a very strong dollar, one good thing about a strong dollar, but it makes it much more difficult to do business outside of this country, thank you sir, several of your online supporters have adopted these advancing theories of these Theories that the CDC may be exaggerating the threat of the coronavirus to harm you politically.

Rush Limaugh saidthe other day that this has been advanced to turn the virus into a weapon against you. You don't mean my supporters, you mean my unsupported people, right? I believe and I would like this to end. I think people know that when Chuck Schumer gets up he said that he did the same thing with a couple of trade deals that are phenomenal deals. Now everyone has recognized a phenomenal dose before seeing the day he did it. I didn't even know we were going to make a deal, they said what do you think of the China deal?

I don't like it I don't like it talked about tariffs I left the tariffs and 25% went to 250 billion dollars. He said that he removed the tariffs, he didn't even know about the agreement and he was out there criticizing it because it is something natural, but when you talk about something like this, we have to be on the same team, this is also. important we have to be on the same page the CDC is trying to hurt you - no I don't think the CDC is that oh no, they have been, they have been working very well together, they really are, I think they are professionals beyond that They want this to go away, they want to do it with the least disruption and they don't want to lose lives.

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

I mean, I see this the same way I see the flu when someone sneezes. I mean, I try to rescue as much as possible with sneezes. I had a man. He came to me a week ago I hadn't seen him in a long time and I said how are you doing he said okay honey hug me kiss me I said are you okay he says no he said I have the worst fever in the worst flu and he is hugging me and kissing me like this that I said, excuse me, I went with another man who was looking at me, so you have to do that, you know this is, I really think that, doctor, you want to treat this like you treat the flu well and you know that's how it will be.

Don't ruin it with a bad question, you said you wanted a total travel ban, in quotes, you said Obama was 1/4 standing, dumb, not for doing it, you said just stop the flights, dumbasses, you also said it was a appointment. quote it's a total joke appointing someone to lead the Ebola response unquote having experience in the medical field now you hear a lot of what I had to say I did and they listened very well because this is a very different problem than Ebola. you disintegrated, especially at the beginning, they have made a lot of progress now with Ebola, but with Ebola we were talking about it before you disintegrated, you have Ebola, that was it, this one is different, very different, this is a flu, this It's like a flu and This is a very different situation than Ebola, but we're working on a ball right now.

The way we're working in certain areas of the Congo, the Congo has Ebola and it's largely due to the fact that they have war and people can. To get there, we can now treat Ebola because at that time it was infectious and untreatable, no one knew anything about it, no one had ever heard of anything like it, so it's a very different situation just over the course of the last few two. minutes have questioned some of what officials working in your administration behind you have said about the risk of the crota virus and its spread. Do you trust your health officials to give you good information?

Australia sucks, I don't think it has it. I've said it could be worse and I've said it could be worse - are you all anything? No, I don't think it's inevitable. I don't think it's inevitable. I think we're doing a really good job in terms of maintaining borders and changing the terms of letting people in in terms of controlling people and also that's one of the reasons why I'm here today spreading the word so that people can still know that they are going to know that no, I don't think it's no. I think it's inevitable. I think there's a chance that it could get worse, like a chance that you could get substantially worse, but nothing is inevitable.

That's right, Brazil, Brazil, and now there are many Americans in Brazil for Carnival, what are your concerns and what are the procedures? and the practices it plans to implement while those Americans are trying to return. Yes, we have a lot of pressure on people who come from Brazil. Now there is only one case. It is a big country. But he only has one case. But still it is a case. deal very well with Brazil the president is a very good friend of mine, in fact, he ran exactly, it's called making bread from Brazil again, that's what he ran for, we get along very well.

I know you're very excited to know that we get along very, very well. Well, we are working with Brazil, but we have much worse cases than Brazil. You know, you have Italy and other countries where they have much more than one person. They have a person right now, for a moment. a person in Brazil, but Italy, you know a deeper problem and we are controlling very, very strongly the people who come from those and at some point we can cut that, you know, at some point, depending on what happens, we can cut certain additional countries. as we have had to do with China and we hope to be able to open it up to China as soon as possible and we hope that the numbers that we have been getting are true in China, where it has really stabilized and started to go down because eventually sometimes that is going to happen, go ahead , you have repeatedly said that you think the federal government is very prepared and that you are ready for this, yes, but if you think the secretary is a czar doing such a good job, why did you feel the need to make a change and put the Vice President Mike Pence in charge of federal response to fire?

Because I think the secretary is doing a fantastic job, but he also has a lot of other things that mean we're working on a lot of things together if you look at his agenda of what he's doing, including drug prices, and I think that's maybe the job most complicated thing we have in government and I want him to be able to focus on that and on Mike. he's really good at it they're going to work together they're going to work very closely together and they're both in administration I see them all the time so it really works this is not a czar this is not going to go out and get someone who's never been in the administration administration I have two people who are very talented and it is something that makes me feel good I don't want it I don't want to save the horses I have very talented people I want to use them in this because I wanted to keep the general consensus of everyone low or as low as possible, how can you now legitimately trust President Zine and the Chinese University? and he is working very hard on this problem, he is working very hard and they are very tough and very smart and it is significant, he is an important group of very talented people who are working and they are calling dr.

Falchi are calling our people, we are dealing with them, we are giving them certain advice that we actually have through global health, we have them there too and we have a lot of our people forming that group that went there. he's working really hard so it's really easy for me to tell, you know, no matter what he says, I can really tell you that he's working. I had a long conversation with him the other night, he's working very, very hard, he wants to make everything work. far from China and it goes quickly and wants to return to normal, they tell you that around 0.1% appear, this has a proportion between 3%, we do not know exactly one and the flu is higher than the flu. is to see apart from spreading it will spread maybe within the communities that is, you can expect the admission to do it because we are ready for it it is what it is we are ready for it we are really prepared we have like I said we have had we have the best people in the world world we are very prepared for it we hope that it does not spread there is a possibility that it does not spread - and there is a possibility that it will so it is a question of what level we are at so far I have done a great job when you have 15 people with everything This world coming to the United States and all 15 people are better or close to better, that's pretty good, well, we'll do one more.

I move on, there have been many cases. of price gouging in sales of medical equipment masks, etc., the government should investigate that, but I think if you told me that that is happening, we would definitely investigate, we don't want that by working with China we just closed the biggest trade deal of history. We made two of them between us, the MCA and the agreement with China, it is the largest in history, the relationship with China is very good and I can tell you that again President Xi is working very hard and wants to solve this problem as hard as can. thank you all, thank you all, I can leave you behind and you can answer a few more questions.

If I could clarify, I think you are missing the point. I am still the chairman of Mick Mulvaney's working group. He has actually played an invaluable role for me as acting chief of staff, helping to coordinate the entire government with my colleagues and the entire government approach. Having the vice president gives me the most support that one could have in the government in this whole-of-government approach, not At least I am when the impression won, when this was mentioned to me, I said I was delighted to be able to have the vice president helping them in this way absolutely delighted and see you tonight.