In the Grocery Stores and its true the checkouts and the clerks and the people that are really in a number of those people have. Become infected. So we want to thank them and a shout out to them. With the tireless devotion of american doctors and nurses and all of the medical people weve kept our fatality rate very very low compared to other countries my administrations closely monitoring the data on the viruses impact on our cherished africanamerican communities because theyve been hit hard and the Surgeon General will be sharing more that information. Right after were finished here hell be coming up and saying. Exactly whats happening because its really its very troublesome i will tell you that id also like to provide clarity on the important point for Many Americans on elective surgeries well weve asked hospitals to cancel surgeries and procedures that do not take place at this time just not to do it now the choice to delay any treatment still remains between the patient and their doctor were not advising americans to postpone medical treatment that their doctor believes should occur now and so its different kinds of surgery obviously but were really getting to the point where you can start to think about doing that surgery if necessary pretty soon i think pretty soon yesterday i directed secretary of agriculture sunday to produce sonny perdue to expedite aid to american farmers. And secretary badu will be using all of the tools at his disposal to develop a program and very quickly of at least 16000000000. 00 to provide relief for Farmers Ranchers and produces impacted by the coronavirus in this time of crisis we must keep our supply chains moving from the beginning right from beginning to end and were committed to supporting the amazing men and women who produce supply i did last night a statement on social media and i said i have directed secretary sonny perdue to expedite help to our farmers especially to the smaller farmers who are very very badly hurting right now i expect secretary perdue to use all of the funds and authorities at his disposal to make sure that our food supply is stable and safe and our great farmers are prosperous and continue to be prosperous were working very hard to make sure our Food Supply Chain is sound and plentiful but we all know that that begins with our farmers cattlemen ranchers and producers so were going to be working with the Small Farmers the big farmers. The cattlemen the ranchers all of the produce is were going to take care of them were working with them right now we have a lot of money that was put there through our use of tariffs and other means and were going to help out our farmers. And i dont think the tab been helping our farmers for a couple of years because they were targeted as you know by china and others and i think theyre very grateful to what for what weve done. On the medical front the f. D. A. F. D. A. Has issued 47 emergency use authorizations for advancements in testing new ventilator designs innovations and personal protective equipment and experimental medicines and dr hans going to be talking about that weve cut through the red tape to give doctors and patients unprecedented freedom to make their own Health Care Decisions granting access to potential therapies and drugs since monday weve deployed 2 major shipments of high drug c clerk when from our National Stockpile its going to various cities and. We are also disposing and getting as quickly as we can portions of it to the department of Veterans Affairs and the department of defense and speaking of the department of defense theyre going to be sending us 10000000 n 95. 00 masks that they had and were in great shape in every way were in great shape with ventilators were in great shape with protective clothing we have additional planeloads coming in but were not getting any calls from governors at this moment i can speak i think for Vice President pencil be talking in a little while were getting were getting very few calls from from governors or anybody else needing anything there in great shape for this surge thats coming in certain areas in particular and thats a good job youve done a great job and im relieved reach of i appreciate it the whole country appreciates it. More than 2000000 corona virus tests have now been completed and were conducting approximately 100000 more every day were also working to bring the blood based syria ology test to the market as quickly as possible so that americans can determine whether or not they have already had the virus and potentially have immunity. They have immunity of theyve had the virus a lot of them dont even know if theyve had it sometimes its brutal you see the Prime Minister who seems to be doing well now i hope. He had a rough go of it and still is but hes doing better and then some people dont even know they had it it could be sniffles it could be they dont feel perfect but theyve had it there theyre the lucky ones the n h c. D. C. And f. D. A. Are currently validating these Antibody Tests to ensure that they are accurate and theyre doing that at breakneck speed i think with consent and were going to get them approved very quickly dr hans when validated were confident that the production will scale up to tens of millions of tests very quickly were leading the world now in testing by far and were going to keep it that way other countries are coming to us and they want to know about our tests and can they buy the tests and can they do whatever they have to do to get the test and were going to make that very soon well be in a position to make that possible because its important for them to have it and that were going to have an announcement on the World Health Organization sometime next week as you know we give them approximately 500000000. 00 a year and were going to be talking about that subject next week and will have a lot to say about it will hold it. Every american should be proud of what our country has achieved in just a short period of time the u. S. Military has deployed thousands of personnel to build 23. 00 temporary hospitals with more than 16000. 00 beds and we have the potential to build many more if we needed them border already to go but i dont think were going to need them which is great great news and we built those hospitals in 12 states and the District Of Columbia using the defense production act and we used it like a hammer a lot of the media said oh we werent using that we is that like a hammer to a point where all we have to do is say the words and everybody gave us max and theyve done a good they really have done a good with few exceptions. And weve harnessed the full power of american industry to produce ventilators and other essential supplies. Right now were making thousands of ventilators many of which we wont need but well use them in our stockpile and well build that up will also help build up the stockpiles which they should have had in the states and so were working with governors on that it will also help other countries or countries that are calling us for help they need ventilators and there are no position to build ventilators we are we have ford and General Motors and many Many Companies are building. Ventilators so were going to be helping at a not too distant point were going to be helping quite a few of the countries now weve launched project air bridge to deliver nearly 300000000 pieces of personal protective equipment from and around the globe were also shipping out 67. 00 sterilization systems to 10 different cities that can each sterilize up to 80000. 00 masks each day and im even hearing it can go up to 120000 masks a day certain equipment with certain additions its a company in ohio that makes it has Great Company great players a great product works very well i asked that question i said how come we have to buy so many mess why cant we sterilize the mass that a being is and the answer was you can in this case they say up to 20 times that we can take a mask certain types of masks the end 95 in particular and we can sterilize them make them very clean up to 20 times thats a great thing in addition we passed the largest emergency Economic Relief package in American History to save the u. S. Economy and protect the American Worker as you know this past week which was 4 active days on the stock market good friday today is not is not included the markets are closed in 4 days we had. The biggest market increase stock market increase that weve had in 50 years that tells you that theres a pent up demand that tells you they want to get back to something good going to happen i really believe that theres something very good going to happen we have to get back so i think of it and its all bull period this horrible dark period where this this monster came in and. Worked its horrible horrible spell over the world 184 countries as of this 184 countries. Weve done well and i guess the market thinks weve done well d because we had the biggest stock market increase without. One day were talking 4 days instead of 5 that weve had in 50 years 50 years think of that more than 50 years actually in short the American People have launched the greatest mobilization of our Society Since world d war 2 deploying d every scientific governmental medical and military resource to defeat the virus so i want to just start then with were going to answer questions later one of time if we have a lot of time today a lot of people are often say should be good friday. But so ill stick around well answer questions later on so with Deborah Burke please dr burks and you can go over some of the numbers we just looked at and they would be great thank you very much. To president and thank you for outlining how well we are doing in a series of metro areas but also has been encouraging for those here watching the epidemic curves every day and im sure you are and lot watching i mean log phase because thats how epidemiologists like to look at their curves you can see for the 1st time that in the United States were starting to level on the log rhythmic phase like italy did about a week ago and so this gives us great heart that it could not only in specific places but were starting to see that change obviously a lot of that is driven by the improvement in new york city remember for a long time they were over 50 percent of our cases and 50 percent of our new cases that is dramatically changed because of the impact of what the citizens of new york and new jersey and across connecticut and now rhode island are doing to really change the course of this pandemic and really change the trajectory of new cases were seeing that what many states and metro areas where experience as twofold in fourfold a 4 fold increase is that went to 2 fold that now those are going to 8 days between the doubling rape. Watching this every day gives us hope across these metro areas from new york and new jersey and all through denver and of course through new orleans we still see cases occurring in the boston area and in chicago but their rate of increase seems to be stabilizing and we really want to call out the work of the mayors of baltimore and the district and philadelphia who have really brought all of their health and Health Experts together and working with their communities are starting to really change the curves in those areas what were seeing is where you 90th in social distancing and thats been very encouraging to all of us and it should be encouraging to the Health Care Providers that are on the frontline many of which are serving our americans with such dignity and respect and ensuring that everybody gets optimal care and as the president noted our mortality in the United States is significantly less than many of the other countries when you correct them for our population and that is really solely the work of our health our frontline Health Care Providers and so working with you can really hopefully you get the theme today that we are incredibly proud of our Public Health leaders at the city level at the state level at the federal level who are working together to really change the course of this pandemic working with their citizens and their communities to make these changes and the American Public who have really taken all of this to heart and stayed home i know last week we really asked a lot of people in the washington and Baltimore Area to consolidate not go out frequently to Grocery Stores or pharmacies you can really see that thats having a huge impact so its really about the encouraging signs that we see but as encouraging as they are we have not reached the peak and so every day we need to continue to do what we did. Yesterday and the week before and the week before that because thats what in the and its going to take us up across the peak and down the other side we continue to really applaud the work of california and Washington State and oregon where learning from all 3 of those states from their Public Health officials about how they were able to keep the virus from ever becoming logarithmic and i think thats an important lesson for all of us on how they did that what the timing was in case we ever have to face this issue in the future thank you mr president. Thank you very much mr president so again just keeping on the theme that dr burke said had mentioned this is the end of the week that famous week that we spoke about last weekend in which we were actually was predicted to happen happens were starting to see the leveling off in the coming down the dr burkes had mentioned but its important to remember that this is not the time to feel that since we have made such important advance in the sense of success of the mitigation that we need to be pulling back at all i was actually hearken by the fact that weve been talking about the new York New Jersey new orleans and other areas where they have really big spikes but theres other parts of the country in the middle parts of the country where theyre concerned to make sure they dont get those spikes and i really want to salute the governors of states throughout the entire United States but particularly in the central part of the country because the the governor is off to the c. E. O. s in these press conferences and ive had colds over the last several days from several of the governors you know from the brassica i was south dakota utah just about an hour and a half ago i spoke with the governors of arkansas and wyoming who are really committed to make sure that they dont get into the situation where theyre going to have spikes in their state and theyre doing the kinds of things that they dont get recognized because people dont talk about them much. But we have a big country we have 50 states and its not only the big cities so if were going to pull out of this were going to pull out of it in the big cities and when to pull out are in those areas that arent as densely populated and i just want to give a shout out to them theyre doing an extraordinary job i was really pleasant i would say surprised because i expected of this country but to hear what theyre doing and the commitment that theyre putting into making sure that we dont have the kinds of situations that weve experienced unfortunately in other areas this is very important i just want to close by one of the things something i mentioned yesterday and the day before that there are a lot of candidate interventions that are going into Clinical Trials for those of you are interested in and i recommend you go to Clinical Trials dot gov and youll see the design of a Clinical Trial and you see that many of them are the randomized controlled trials that all of the really Gold Standard of how you find out whether something really is safe and effective and as the weeks and months and itll probably be months sometime in the summer will start to see which are working which are not and to focus on those that are we developing and were working ill be happy to answer questions later thank you. Thank you mr president the White House Task force has been very focused on increasing the supply of personal protective equipment for our great providers i was one of those providers a few months ago and i can tell you nothing is more important than making sure they have what they need so in order to increase the supply of and 95 masks f. D. A. Has worked with industry and has now authorized 2 companies who will supply machines to sterilize in 595. 00 masks admiral pull up check and fema are purchasing on behalf of u. S. Government 60 sterilization machines as mentioned by the president and they will be positioned around the country to increase the amount of supply even 95 masks each machine will be able to sterilize 80900 mask and 95 mass predate and we hope to actually increase that further the Vice President and the White House Task force challenge just yesterday and we responded as a team f. D. A. Issued provides guidance regarding the laundering of gallons because gallons are another issue in terms of supply that were looking forward on this is not something that normally happens around the country but issue discussion sits on our website now at f. D. A. So theres information about how hospitals can do that to increase the supply weve heard concerned about in the Daily White House briefing on the coronavirus just had under the front you talking about the importance of keeping up with the lock downs not the time