A Health Problem they have not done well we must take all precautions and be responsible for the actions that we take in that we see other people take we want to prevent the spread and transmission of the disease its incredible whats sports whats happening with the sporting world where. So many of the great sports that weve gotten so used to at this time of the of the not going to be meeting and theyve done a Great Service actually but that would be another way that it could be. Problems could be caused but this is why i outlined on wednesday night my admission ministrations. The fact that weve issued a requirement suspending all medically unnecessary visits to various places but in particular nursing homes. We should all be working off the same playbook when it comes to protecting americans have to we need to be consistent in adopting measures to limit the spread of the virus the virus is the same whether its spreading in cities towns or Rural Communities the tools and tactics for attacking it are similar no matter where you go in or not only you go you have some hot spots throughout the world right down that people would have never thought possible and theyre being very seriously affected here among these efforts a break in chains of transmission between people these measures have been adopted by Many Companies universities and schools and we want to protect the safety and the health of their employees and their students i encourage everyone to follow the guidelines weve issued by c. D. C. And these commonsense measures a lot of its common sense for the areas where the virus is spreading the c. D. C. Is advising communities to postpone large gatherings postpone assemblies social functions and sporting events stagger recess and lunch for schools that arent canceled limit in person meetings increase schedule cleanings and cancel work sponsored travel among numerous other steps that can be taken americans of the strongest and most resilient people on earth and in the coming weeks we will all have to make changes and sacrifices but the short term sacrifices will produce long term gain and again ive said were learning a lot for the future and future problems like this or worse or worse could get worse the next 8 weeks are critical we can learn and we will turn a corner on this virus. Some of the doctors say it will wash through it will flow through a and interesting terms and very accurate i think youre going to find in a number of weeks its going to be a very accurate term in times of hardship the true character of america always shines through we live in the company of the greatest heroes and the most inspiring citizens anywhere in the world we want to take care of our people who want to draw on the strength of our history draw on the strength of our people and we will get through this all together we will just get through it so much progress has already been made and frankly the numbers because the steps that have been taken are a level that a lot of people are surprised especially when you compare them with other places with far smaller populations the spirit in the will of our nation is unbreakable we will defeat this threat when america is tested america rises to the occasion and to those families and citizens who are worried and concerned for themselves and their loved ones i want you to know that your federal government will unleash every authority resource into illiterates disposal to safeguard the lives and health of our people. So were with you every step of the way no nation is more prepared or more equipped to face down this crisis is you know we are rated number one in the world were also helping other nations many other nations were helping them a lot and theyre doing ok in some cases in some cases and not doing well at all. But were working with a lot of groups of people and a lot of other nations with faith and heart and hope and love and determination we will succeed we will prevail we will be very very successful and well learn for the future thank you very much if you have any questions we can take sir go ahead john place and if youd like to ask some of the folks up here would be fine please mr president where are you with the house bill yesterday we talked to you in the oval office you were opposed to it what has happened since then and whats the hold up on that well we just dont think theyre giving enough we dont think the democrats are giving enough were negotiating with all we had something but all of a sudden they didnt agree to certain things that they agreed to so we could have something but we dont think theyre giving enough theyre not theyre not doing whats right for the country and if i could ask dr satcher to have a place. Thank you mr president you just mentioned waiving interest for Student Loans you talk about buying oil from the street from the s. P. R. Out into the s. P. R. What other specific targeted measures is your administration thinking about taking the treasury secretary steve mission said today that youre just in the 2nd inning of yes actually undergo thats true and were looking at many Different Things as you know you know some of them have been written about very widely but were going to be releasing a paper in about 2 hours stating quite a few other steps very important ones please go ahead whats your view in my place thank you so much mr president i want to i want to know if you are in contact with the brazilian president both a member of the hes the legation who was with us saturday was tested positive and also said and i want to ask another question if youll let me senators Lindsey Graham and also a senator or a Scott Rick Scott ourself isolating are you planning to take any kind of precautionary in the precautionary measure to protect you and also your staff was there no we didnt we have no symptoms whatsoever and we have we had a great meeting with the president of brazil boston are a great guy very very tremendous hes done hes doing a fantastic job for brazil and as you know he tested negative meaning nothing wrong this morning and we got that word too because we did have dinner with him we were sitting next to each other for a long period of time but are you in contact with him over the coronavirus now we have i says we have were talking about a country to country but we did discuss if he had a problem it was reported that he may have it and he doesnt fortunately. Much mr president dr felt she said earlier this week that the lag in testing was in fact a failing do you take responsibility for that and when can you guarantee that every single american who needs a test will be able to have a. Whats the date of that you know i dont take responsibility at all because we were given a. A set of circumstances and we were given rules regulations and specifications from a different time wasnt meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that were talking about and what weve done is redesigned it very quickly with the help of the people behind me and were now in very very strong shape i think will be announcing as i said sunday night and this will start very quickly and we will have the ability to do in the millions over a very very quick period of time so no and what we have done and we are going to be leaving a very indelible print for the future in case Something Like this happens again but it was a and thats not the fault of anybody and frankly the old system worked very well for smaller numbers much smaller numbers but dot for these kind of numbers tony manero like a session until you have gotten so used by sunday night will every american be able to get a test so just to reiterate what i said to many of you multiple times its a distant of a system the system was not designed for what it was designed for it worked very well the c. D. C. Designed a good system if you want to get the kind of blanket testing and availability that anybody can get it or you could even do surveillance to find out what the penetrance is you have to embrace the private sector and this is exactly what youre seeing because she cant do without it so when i said that i meant the system was not designed for what we need now looking forward the system will take care of it mr president and then later sally you go back place if you go back to the swine flu. It was nothing like this they didnt do testing like this and actually they had lost approximately 14000 people and they didnt do the testing they started thinking about testing when it was far too late what weve done and one of the reasons. I think people are respected what weve done weve done it very early weve got it very early and weve also kept a lot of people out of. Ministry he said that they tested a 1000000 people at this point you will ask them how they did with the swine flu was a disaster with respect to the next place next place they had a very big failure with swine flu very big failure president i want to ask you about the european travel ban that goes into effect at midnight tonight and the exemption that youve offered to the u. K. There are 17 countries that are in the socalled saying in zone that have fewer coronavirus cases than the u. K. And just in the past 24 hours the u. K. Has added 208. 00 corona via virus cases to their total why do they mr president deserve an exemption and would you consider adding them to this travel ban list well that was recommended to me by a group of professionals and we are looking at it based on the new numbers that are coming out and we really have to include them in the list of countries that we will you could say ban or whatever it is during this period of time but yeah the numbers have gone up fairly precipitously over the last 24. 00 or so we may be adding to that and we may be adding a couple of others and we may frankly start thinking about taking some off. Thank you mr president come on the course bonding with company x. T. V. You have been mentioned you have mentioned that numbering china has been decreasing china has make tremendous progress in the past 2 weeks im wondering how much confidence that this give you 2 countries of the virus in the United States and do you see that they doubt china has been sharing with the United States has been helpful i think it has been helpful weve been working very much with china ive spoken as you know with president xi they went through hell and their numbers are starting to look very good theyre really theyre really looking very good were very happy about that and we are sharing data yes in fact were sharing quite a bit of that its losing the fact that some of our pharmaceutical companies are working over there right down with large groups of people. Plus. Thank you mr president you spoke with canadian Prime Minister trudeau yesterday did you discuss the potential closing of the border between canada and the u. S. And by extension are you considering ways to salvage the 2000000000 dollar a daily trade between the 2 countries so we didnt discuss the border weve had a very Good Relationship there just about finished with the u. S. Embassy as you know he called actually called me to tell me that i think that was the primary reason for the call at the time his wife had not been diagnosed and shes a lovely lady wonderful lady great lady and since then ive heard read that. The result was that she has it and as a little surprise i think he was surprised also we did discuss it prior to. Shes going to be fine but. He thought that she would not most likely have the virus unfortunately she does but we did discuss the border yesterday. The headless. If you have any questions for these great geniuses up here you should be even a business question related to what were talking about mr president rosabelle of a from a. B. C. News miami is a relatively new floridian what is your message today to the cruise line industry in the travel industry that florida depends upon and since senator rick scotts and miami dade mayor carlos man is have the same exposure as you and they are self i awake isolating whats your message to them that they shouldnt be well i dont know that i had exposure but i dont have any of the symptoms and we do have a white house doctor and i should say many white House Doctors to frankly and i asked them that same question and they said you dont have any symptoms whatsoever and we dont want people with that symptoms to go and do the test the tests is not insignificant as far as the cruise line business where with of all the way its a great business its a great u. S. Business frankly and i know how important they are to the country that includes airlines but the cruise line business obviously was hit very hard we had a tremendous success out in oakland where weve moved and Vice President pence to defend testing with that we work with the u. K. We worked with canada they took their people back and catheters approximately 600 people u. K. Likewise took a large number of people back to the United Kingdom and we have people quarantined it was a big operation and it worked out really you dont hear about it anymore it worked out really well you mike you may even want to Say Something about that because that was really done properly. Well thank you mr president and that that that program with the grand princess the ship is continuing to be administered in. The highest standards orderly way as the president directed and americans that needed treatment have received them and i spoke to the governor of iowa today and some of those who now have been cleared. Are are able in proper supervision to be returning to iowa theyre making arrangements for them to do that others in texas others in georgia again its another example of the extraordinary cooperation Governor Abbott governor Gavin NewsomeGovernor Brian Kemp of georgia but to add to that the president directed me last saturday to travel down to miami and we met with all the leaders of the cruise line industry several cruise lines have announced a 60 day pause in operations our department of Homeland Security has praised them for doing that because of the unique Health Challenges particularly presented to seniors with underlying conditions we have a proposal from the cruise line industry but theyre currently considering what other steps that they might take perhaps even similar to what those other lines have taken rentis painting some response on that in the next 24 hours but as the president said the American People cherish our cruise line industry men and women who work on the ships and men and women who work on the shore all the economists that are so benefited by a vibrant cruise line industry and what the president s directed us to do is whether there whether there is a pause in the moment as some cruise lines are doing and as we all continue to discuss we want to work with the cruise line industry to ensure that when we come through this that cruise lines in the medical services that are available and for the passengers and and all of the crew there that their cruise lines are safer than ever before and can prosper for many years to come a. Good place. The question is for doctors and burke a doctor found here based on what you currently know what is the trajectory for when this outbreak will peak how long will the American People have to remain on this emergency footing and for dr burks as the administration tries to get its arms around this test kits shortage issue the next glaring need could be respirators and related hospital equipment so what is the administration doing right now to ramp up production of respirators in them in that kind of equipment should this outbreak assist. So when you have an outbreak like this particularly if youre trying to interfere with it its really impossible to predict the time element of when its going to peak and when its naturally going to go down so if you look at the situation where countries really did not get to the point of trying to contain and mitigate very well you see a peak over several weeks and then down again over the several weeks what were trying to do with the efforts that were doing is to blunt that pete and i mentioned it many times and i think its important and appropriate for me to mention again because it answers your question when you talk about preventing infections from without in which is the kind of travel restrictions were talking about then how do you handle would you already have in your country you continue some sort of containment but you also do mitigation and you try to proportionate to the areas where there are the most infections the success of that and how much you make this turn into this is going to give you the amount of time if were successful it will be less if were not successful its going to be more but these kind of things generally run out in a few months hopefully well make it several weeks 89. 00 whatever weeks but i cant give you a number because it depends on how successful we are. Great thank you its a great question and dr chee and i have worked together a very long time and continue its a privilege to work with them every day so i think you can learn very and i appreciate there are some graphics done by some of the reporting over the last several days if you align the data from china with the data with south korea you can start to see a complete overlay of that data and so thats what were tracking very closely as well as italy but you have an excellent question i just want to make one note in south korea i want to repeat only 4 percent of the tests were positive that means 96 percent of the people had a different respiratory disease because were in the middle of flu season cold season and all of the other respiratory diseases that we get every day in lab corps in class early data theyre running about one to 2 percent positive that means that we have a lot more other respiratory disease out there besides the corona virus and thats why the screening is critical that even with the screening were going to run what we think are very low rates needless to say that were taking extraordinarily seriously to plan for what could come not what dr fauci talked about blunting that curve that makes it much less high need at that peak of the curve that were all planning for so were in full inventory of all of our assets by the president on locking and this emergency order and the secretary of h. H. S. Is ability it on locks all of those stockpiles those needs what the v. A. Has what the d. O. D. Has what the National Guard has and wha