And Melinda Gates foundation, bill gates, for a wideranging interview about the pandemic. The Foundation Contributed almost 350 million to fight covid19 around the world. We also talked about the possibility of microsoft buying tictoc. We are standing by for a news briefing with the president , after secretary of state mike pompeo signaled the u. S. Will try to ban other Chinese Technology beyond tictoc in the name of National Security. I want to get to nick, who ,overs the state Department Secretary of state pompeo signaling the u. S. Would urge apple and google from removing certain chinese apps from their app stores, which would be quite dramatic. Talk about what he is saying. Moment, it looks like what secretary pompeo is doing is issuing guidelines or recommendations, warnings, i guess, where he is telling app apps, these chinese tictoc and we chat, are not safe , and we dont think you should include them in your app stores. He also said, we dont think you should allow your apps to be prebundled or preinstalled into chinese smartphones from huawei and other chinese companies. Orders rightnot now. He is not delivering an ultimatum, but it does signal an expansion of this administrations war on these chinese at, and expansion of what the u. S. Perceives as a National Security threat. Spokecording to sources i to within the state department, a harbinger of what may be to come, so you could see that try to put teeth on these recommendations with actual regulations that would restrict u. S. App stores, google and apple, for example, from including apps unless they give certain guarantees about protections of consumer data. That raises the question of how these companies will respond, and goes back to the central question, what howard is the u. S. Government and president have . Can the president force the sale of a Chinese Company to a u. S. Company, or ban a Chinese Company . Does the power of the government to extend this far . It is a great question and one they have not definitively answered. We expect the administration will announce new regulations that Gain Authority from a couple of executive orders President Trump signed last year, one specifically on the i. T. The safety of supply chain. We think they will put teeth on this. But the big issue right now is, according to the administration, this is much more, if you are a u. S. Company, you are putting your finger in the year to test which way the wind is blowing. Well, secretary pompeo just gave you a very big hint of where they are headed, and they want you to be more guarded and careful of your willingness to have chinese apps in the app store. Emily we are going to continue to follow this story, bloombergs nick wadhams, thank you for that update. Part of my whiteranging interview with bill gates, we know microsoft is in talks to buy tictocs u. S. Operations. There are concerns microsoft could be too close to china, given microsofts long history of working in china. Here is what gates said about how microsoft would address National Security issues that have been raised. The whole situation is quite novel in terms of what principles are involved, what principles china should apply to companies in china, are those reciprocal or thought through and predictable . Now. Not at the company we have made investments in china. We have engineers from all over the world, including in china. Microsoft is very careful about it data promises, and will try to have strong relationships globally. We wont do things that are viewed as hostile. Emily what about the app in general . It is very popular. It is is this something you would like to see in the microsoft family . Nice tictocit is created competition through innovation. And it doesnt seem like preventing that innovation from being available makes much sense, when you want things out there. I am not in the target audience, so i am certainly not an expert. I have gotten a lot of education from my youngest daughter about this, and why she spends time on it. Itthey did a great job on and there are a lot of ways to and hopefully that is allowed to happen in some form. Emily but is the Trump Administration in trying to force this Chinese Company to sell tictocs u. S. Operations, or even shut it down in the United States, because it is chinese . Should the company be suggest that subjected to that should the company be subjected to that . 100 million americans are using it. Bill if this is such a clear thing, why wasnt it clear six months ago. If people make investments, they should understand what is allowed and what is not allowed and therefore the reciprocal circle involved in this thing. The rightvent read article. I dont understand what happened on saturday. I am focused on the foundation and the pandemic. Adviceprobably provide at some point, but i am not at the center of the decision being made here. Emily i want to get your thoughts on the antitrust situation. I am sure the hearings have been a bit of deja vu for you, having gone through lengthy review process as yourself. You look at Companies Like apple and amazon and google and facebook and think they have become too powerful . Bill welcome of these companies are shaping the economy. The idea that congressmen get a chance to talk to their leaders and to try and understand what they are doing in terms of media and competition, that all makes sense. They were lucky that there were four of them on the hot seat. I was all by myself with critics next to me. So i guess we are getting nicer to ceos then in the old days. In the old days. I always thought talking about our values in washington was particularly through this pandemic, where these nowanies have done so well, understanding what it is like to be an entrant into this market. There are legitimate issues there that in a scattershot way did get raised. Emily more of my interview with ok coming up. He predicted a massive epidemic years ago. What does he think will happen next . How promising to new treatments and vaccines look to him now . Cloudlater in the show, rackspace goes public today. The ceo joins us next as we datad to him about concerns, privacy, and china in the cloud. This is bloomberg. Yield dumpling now 11 basis points, continuing in the kneejerk riskoff. In 20 income a bill gates predicted a massive epidemic was coming. Here we are. The bill and Melinda Gates foundation has committed more than 350 Million Dollars to fight covid19 around the world. Gates how he believes the rest of the pandemic will play out, how long it will last and when we will come out of it. The fortunately, innovations in dioxin in diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines will get us largely out of this by the end of 2021. Therapeutics will cut the death rate, but the true ending comes when, between natural infection and the vaccine, we have herd immunity. For rich countries, sometime next year, ideally in the first half. Emily so we are going to be ok . Bill we are certainly going to be ok. We are lucky this wasnt a more fatal disease. I do think that this time we will Pay Attention and have the same type of practice and preparation. Some countries did very, very well. The u. S. Did not. Bill your foundation has given more than 350 million now to fight covid. You are backing a south korean vaccine in particular. Why that vaccine, and are there any others that look promising . Bill we are behind a lot of different vaccines. We are finding manufacturing capacity at many sites, particularly astrazeneca, Johnson Johnson and novavax. We may do that for some other vaccines, but those are the most scalable, low cost, because we are trying to make your weekend and it not just in rich countries, but also developing countries. And it benefits everyone if we achieve that. We are even asking the u. S. To contribute like they have done with other Global Health crises, which so far, they havent gotten around to that. Emily how confident are you we will have a working vaccine that can be distributed in mass quantities by the end of 2020 . Bill well, the initial vaccine in terms of effectiveness against sickness and transmission, wont the ideal. Three goal is for 50 effectiveness, and it may not someas long a duration as of the later constructs will so some of the newer and expensive ones will be mainly used in rich countries as a bit of a stopgap area we would be lucky to have much before the end of the air, but enough that during the first half of next year, a number are very likely to get approved. Then we need to scale up. We need billions of doses to get to the places that have a hard and areng sheltering, already so poor that the economic effects are quite dad dramatic. R it is the biggest quite dramatic. It is the biggest challenge. The right investments were not made, and in the u. S. , the lack of organization around testing and trials has been very disappointing. Years,for so many antifactors, people who say, if they lived through a pandemic like their parents like their grandparents did, they would think differently. Well, here we are and feelings havent changed. How concerned are you about vaccine misinformation . And that so many people out there might not get it, even if available . Have hopefully we will people of both parties who are trusted, speaking out in a credible way, people who have been known to admit mistakes and available credibility over time with various constituencies. But you do have to worry, because we do need a lot of people to take the vaccine to get that full herd immunity. Emily should have be voluntary or mandatory . Bill making something mandatory can often backfire, even when you are doing a favor to the community. So i doubt they will choose that. You might say, if you are going to work in an Old Folks Home or have exposure to elderly people, there might be circumstances where it would be required. Emily what about schools, should it be mandatory . I doubt thatn, will be a primary thing. Are elderlyhers who or live in multigenerational households where they necessarily have exposure to older people, they would be a good target. That is more leveraged than doing the full student body at times when the vaccine is going to be scarce. As it gets more available, yes, you would like to go for young ofple, particularly if one the constructs is pretty good at transmission blocking. Emily you already have countries like the United States that are moving to lock down vaccine supplies, buying up huge supplies of potential vaccines and buying the gear needed to administer them. How harmful is that . If one company invents the vaccine, we are saying that they should let other companies manufacture it. It is exemplary that a number of companies have committed to make this a nonprofit activity, just rake even, and for the poorest companies, just at their marginal costs. We are part of funding those extra factories being built, and they will be standing by for that approval. The u. S. As yet has not come up with procurement money for poor countries to get access. It is possible that will get and the supplemental bill, i am encouraging republicans and democrats to include 8 billion, half for therapeutics, half for vaccine, in whatever relief bill gets passed, so the u. S. Doesnt look selfish. We deserve credit. D than anynded more r other country, but on procurement, we have just taken care of ourselves. So if we just add this, which is just 1 of the bill, it is a typical u. S. Picture where we show up strategically, humanely, humanitarian, and we protect ourselves by voiding the disease coming back in a big way. Emily we have talked less about therapeutics. What have you seen in terms of promising treatments for this horrible disease . I wonder if drugs are going to play a more Important Role than we know . Bill absolutely. It is easy to trial drugs, although the u. S. Has been very disorganized. We used the u. K. Trial that we funded part of. Onead had enough proof remdesivir to move ahead with that. There are two other antivirals availablet are orally , there are multiple antibodies coming, and quite a few additional immune modulators. So between those different classes of drugs, we should be able to drop the death rate a lot. It has already dropped quite a bit as doctors realized not to use ventilators much, to use oxygen earlier, use the prone the drugs including remdesivir that we have. But before the end of the year, we will have antibodies that those could be quite dramatic in benefits. Emily there was a lot of Bad Information about therapeutics out there. These are some of the myths, hydroxychloroquine being one of them. Bill you know, it is an age of science but sometimes it doesnt feel that way. Testing,ideas about hydroxychloroquine, the numbers are quite clear. It got confused because the trials were done so poorly but there is lots of good things coming in the therapeutic area that are really proven to work without severe side effects. Little bit slow, but a lot of good news to come in that domain. Emily there are some raging internet conspiracy theories out there about you wanting to implant chips in people via a vaccine, and you are the center of some frankly ludicrous narratives. Does that upset you personally . How do you feel about that . Bill it is kind of strange, because they take the fact i am involved in vaccines, that part is true. It involves saving millions of lives from lots of different diseases, including hiv and malaria. They just reverse it that instead of giving money to save lives, i am aching money to get rid of lives. And by inverting it ascribing ill intent, it takes this complex situation that was unexpected and it makes it feel like it is more understandable. If that stops people from taking the vaccine or looking at the latest data about how they should hate, including wearing a mask, then that is a big problem. This t have expected i would have expected this, it is just a bit strange that it has been politicized in the conspiracy people are having a heyday. Emily much more on that conversation with bill gates to come. Went publicackspace today, going in the bottom going in the opposite direction, starting at the bottom, still down over 20 on the day. Joining us to discuss rackspace s ceo kevin jones paid kevin, what is your take on what happened and why investors received it this way . Kevin emily,f all, thank you, for having me on. We have been pleased overall with the ipo process. We have a great group of initial investors. Keep in mind, this is one of the largest tech ipos of the year. We are actually just thrilled to reach this milestone and are excited to be in the public market. Today is day one. We are not focused on todays stock price, we are focused on value over the longterm for customers and shareholders and extending our position as the leading peer play multicloud company. Emily is one of the worst ipo showings for that year. Certainly you have something to prove. One criticism has been, since you were taken private in 2016, not a lot has changed. Withaid, dont compete aws, microsoft and google. What has changed in your view . We are a transformed company in the last four years. One of the changes, you tioned, prior to be taken prior to being taken private in 2016, we competed with aws and hyper scalars. Today, we do not compete with them. Aws, microsoft and google are our strongest partners. Another thing has changed. We have done for acquisitions that have revolutionized applicationsfour that have revolutionized solutions, we have security market, wethe public are consolidating our leadership position in the public cloud ecosystem, so the company is much effort. We have one took a 20,000 customers in one of the 20 countries. We are expanding rapidly, geographically. And if you just look at sales result in the second quarter, our sales grew one have 7 in the second quarter. We have accelerating Revenue Growth helping our customers navigate the maze of cloud complexity. Becominge cloud is even more controversial, and i am curious given how much of our data is housed there, and administration concerns about National Security and china. Ast is your take on all this data and privacy issues evolve . Kevin great question and as it ofates to multicloud, one the things not just in the public sector, but even privatesector Companies Want to make sure of is, will my data be secure . Dompanies invest a lot in r and they want to make share make sure their electoral properties protected. Security is paramount. But this is an ongoing situation. Bad guys keep getting more sophisticated hacking attempts occur even more frequently in the pandemic. We have seen hacking attempts into customer environments increased 300 , but at the same time, we have got incredible innovation by firms like Rackspace Technology as well as hyper scalars at other firms. We are on the right track. Day by day, it is a battle that has to be one in the trenches. Emily so what is next when it comes to that battle . Where are you being most vigilant . Rackspace kevin when it comes to security, data dominance is absolutely critical. Having the proper design of a security environment and having the strategy laid out and bought into by the board in the interests of our customers, absolutely critical. Having active management of incidents in a methodical and operational way is critical. Making sure all the virus protection is done in customers environments, that is another thing that can harden the security environment for customers. And finally, making sure you partner with the best technology providers, like us. And certainly since we moved into leadership in multicloud, it has been really important for us to enhance security. Will have to leave it there, kevin jones, ceo of rackspace. Coming up, dr. Anthony fauci joins us on the latest state of the pandemic, next. This is bloomberg. Welcome back to bloomberg technology. Im emily chang. Imitation is sometimes the sincerest form of flattery, and social media is no exception. They spokes instagram has launched a tictoc competitor, some might say clone, in more than 50 companies per bloombergs sarah frier joins us. Should i say things are about to get real . Sarah [laughter] good pond, emily. [laughter] pun emily. Good timing for the real launch, the u. S. Threatening tictocs existence, one week after Mark Zuckerberg testified before congress on concerns over antitrust and copying by competitors. He was interrogated about whether rent how often facebook tries to copy competitors. So i think this is as good a moment as any to throw it out advantagetry to take of teens who have nowhere to go as tictoc expands. They are already talking to instagram, from what they told us. Emily the product, to be clear, is called reels. How does it compare to tictoc . Sarah it is almost exactly the same functionality. The complicated part is that it is embedded within instagram. So it is not its own app you have to actually find it separately. On can find peoples reels the instagram explore to have. Instagram is saying it is going to be the opportunity for creators on instagram to get a on the a way that is new explore, people who are not already following them, they follow them. Emily this is an interesting question, we cant imagine facebook would try to buy tictoc now that it is up for sale, in some sense, because that would raise antitrust lags. Acquired say microsoft tictocs u. S. Operations, what does that mean for facebook attempts to chase tictoc . News that would be good for facebook. I will tell you why. The company is under mounting antitrust scrutiny from not just ftc, but dojthe and states attorneys general. Your fastestgrowing competitor owned by a u. S. Based company that is more valuable than facebook would be a great counterargument to all that pressure. Frier,bloombergs sarah a battle we will follow. Thank you so much for that update. Now, that u. S. Is currently testing 750 thousand people a day for covid19. At with that comes concerns about how slow getting results can be. This afternoon, bloombergs david westin spoke with dr. Anthony fauci, director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases, and a huge spokesperson in the midst of the pandemic. He asked what we can do to get the country where we need to be on testing. Take a lesson. Admiral giroirci and his colleagues give statistics that the tests come back between 24 and 48 hours. A certain percentage take five or six or seven or more days. You are absolutely correct, and i cant credibly defend that and say it is a good thing. It is not. Because if you have to wait that long, particularly if testing is done to determine if you are infected, and would you be infecting somebody else, that is an unreasonable amount of time to wait and it obviates the underlying reason for doing the test, which means that we need to do better. Get 95 or more perfect or more percent, 99 of the test that need to be done back within that 24 to 48 hours. No excuses. It needs to be done. David shouldnt that be done on a federal level as a practical matter . There may be problems and forcing mask wearing and things like that, but why dont we have a National Approach to testing . We have money in the stimulus bill that is being debated on capitol hill right now. What are we doing as a federal government to fix this problem . Dr. Fauci what we depend on in the u. S. Is private enterprise, independent companies that make it and distribute it. And that is just the system, the way it works. I am not sure we have Public Health groups that get testing from the Public Health system. But the ones that really drive it are the private enterprise. David and is that effective . Is that how we are going to beat this thing . Need toi obviously, we do better. Even though we are much better off now than we were in the beginning, when we had missteps, at the end of the day, when you make phone calls and here they are taking x number of days to get back, it clearly means we need to do better. David what is the role of information in fighting this pandemic, consistent information . Because we are getting from theng information parents, we kids out here, forgive the analogy, president said hydroxychloroquine is very effective. Then he went after dr. Birx. We need a consistent message. How can we get to that . Dr. Fauci when you are dealing with things that are purely medical, remember, when you talk about this situation, we are in the middle of a pandemic and have other considerations that have to do with economic, political and other things. I have nothing to do with that. If you are talking about a medical question, listen to the medical experts. That is the advice. And you will not get a conflicting message from the medical experts about things like hydroxychloroquine, about what the results of a vaccine thel are, or the results of monoclonal antibodies. When it comes to pure publichealth things, listen to medical experts. Election have an coming up. If we are as a nation in the same place november 3 as we are now, as a publichealth matter, would you advise people to stay home by mail . Dr. Fauci if you look at what people do, and we hope we are not shut by shut down by then, and i dont think we would be, that you see when you go into a store, whatever the or a, a cvs drugstore starbucks or what have you, they have people staying six feet apart with masks. If you stay six feet apart with masks, you can do whatever you need to do, whether you are going to cvs, starbucks or voting. I dont see any reason not to do that. Emily dr. Anthony fauci. Coming up, ridehailing has taking a backseat to food and delivery. Uber stock hits the ceiling. We discussed next. This is bloomberg. Emily more of my exclusive interview now with ill gates, who has a book coming out next year called how to avoid a climate disaster, a disaster he thinks could be bigger than covid19. I asked him why. Take a listen. Certainly Climate Change certainly Climate Change will make ecosystems die off. Worldl make parts of the impossible to live in. So the actual economic and death from Climate Change will be much, much, much greater than what we have with this pandemic. So theelayed in time, current effects are not as severe. There are not 150 thousand deaths in the u. S. This year related to Climate Change. Buthis is an acute problem, one with a clear solution and you can go back to normal. Whereas Climate Change, the scale of the changes required takes decades of invention and decades of scaling up. Some of the investment restructuring various countries do after the pandemic to rebuild our economies can have this theme, but like other important causes, we shouldnt lose sight of the fact that this also was willctable, and the damage be very, very large. Emily if we dont solve the climate problem, do you will be more and do you believe there will be more pandemics, and worse pandemics . Only that is not the thing, because your ability to grow food in large parts of the world will be so diminished that you will have literally hundreds of millions of migrants, and you wont have a thriving local economy because you will have degraded the ecosystems. And there is no quick fix to that thing, unlike the magic year tothat is a mere two years at most come up with. Emily the world has changed so much since you and melinda put out your annual letter. I wonder what the other issues are that you worry are being sidelined because we are focused on covid . Bill i was sending out a letter today to people who donated for polio eradication, and talked about the distraction, which is understandable, that has been a huge setback. There will beca, a lot more deaths just from the impact on the health system, and how that raises death rates for other diseases, way more than the direct effect of covid itself. Emily how extreme could inequality get . Ill inequality between countries is quite extreme. Africa,hest places in you have a hard time surviving and getting enough to eat and kids in many locations, their prey never develops that they grow up stunted. So the Human Potential there is caught in a trap of instability and malnutrition. We are down from 10 to 5 of children dying before the age of five. Now, that will go back up to maybe 7 , but give us three or four years and we will get back on track, if it hasnt ended the kind of generosity and funding of innovation that has been key to that progress. Emily not every billionaire is as generous as you, despite your urgings. What are other ways you think we could narrow the inequality gap . How would you feel about a return to a wealth tax . I have on my website a lot of ideas for collecting taxes on the ridge that dont specifically involve a wealth tax. I think there are challenges with that. But any way we could have a more progressive tax system without taking away the wonderful entrepreneurial risks in this country. You cant have tax systems go too far, but we are not at that limit, particularly for Capital Gains type income. If theygovernments, realize money isnt free, and some people thought that at least temporarily, we will need taxes to make up for the resources. Because this pandemic, even just within the country, whether it is lowincome families, minority families, kids in the inner city, it has exacerbated almost all the inequality in society. Schoolare in a suburban or private school, the online thing is not doing all that badly. Whereas, if you are a young kid in the innercity, it is not accessible. Emily i am not sure what is more terrifying, schools reopening or schools not reopening. I am in a state where schools are not reopening. Should pools open now, and if they dont, is that a year of lost learning for children . For kids up through eighth youe, data suggests that if make sure you give elderly teachers are teachers who live in a multigenerational household and unnecessarily close to other people, if you figure out how to have them work at the remote bring in younger teachers without those risks, there is a huge benefit for the younger people. So we ought to talk more about. Ge distinctions here in places where we have the epidemic, which in the u. S. Is said because we have a lot of places, high schools and colleges are not going to get organized enough and the disease transmission rate is much higher, they should get it out past, say, 14 or 15. So everyone is scrambling because this is all being done so much at the last minute. There. Bill gates lets listen to the president , who just started talking. President trump since the virus escaped china, my administration has enacted 3 trillion in economic relief. It has been successful. You saw that by numbers issued yesterday and the day before, as to used car sales and auto production. They are shockingly incredible numbers. We have been negotiating with democrat leaders in the house to extend relief payments. We are negotiating right now and well see how that works out, but if democrat leaders put partisan demands aside, we would agreement very quickly. It would happen very quickly. My administration is exploring executive actions to provide protections against eviction. It action is a big problem. Very unfair to people. Wasnt their fault this virus came from a faraway land. As well as additional relief to those unemployed as a result of the virus. I am also looking at a termlimited suspension of the something that has great support from many sides, especially top economists, people we have Great Respect for. They are looking at a suspension of the payroll tax. The democrats are primarily interested in a 1 trillion bailout of the poorlyrun states. We have some states and cities, you know them all, we dont have to go through names, but they have been poorly run and we are not going to go along with bailout money, especially since it is not covid related. Today i met with a great governor, Arizona Governor doug ducey. Really fantastic job beyond even the covid situation, which you have been reading about as it pertains to a state that is a model for applying a sciencebased approach to decreasing cases and hospitalizations without implementing a punishing lockdown. In reducing the spread of the virus while maintaining Hospital Capacity and allowing society to continue example thats an shows how our path forward can work in other states. Arizona has a record really to be proud of. It has reduced the number of , cut thees by over 75 Positivity Rate in half and reduced er visits by two thirds, while keeping the economy well. Oning really when cases surged in june, the Vice President and dr. Birx visited arizona to consult with governor ducey. Consultations with governor ducey and his staff. And the Vice President has been in Constant Contact since. My administration is collaborating with state and local officials across the south and southwest provide similar guidance. We had a great relationship with officials in arizona, it has been such a successful endeavor. The federal government has supplied or delivered more than 400 million pieces of personal protective equipment to arizona, along with 70,000 miles of vials ofr remdesivir. Over 18 million in economic support to arizona, including 8. 6 Million Dollars to support over 80,000 small businesses. So we really have been helping arizona. It has gotten tremendous results. Our goal is to protect the most vulnerable, increase recovery rates, something so important, and prevent hospital overcrowding, while avoiding stringent lockdowns that would inflict substantial suffering. Battle, wese of the have the tools and resources to implement a targeted approach as we raise to deliberate vaccine. Working veryally hard on the vaccine and i think we are doing a fantastic. Job. Ntastic i have been meeting with officials from some of the greatest companies in the world, meeting with scientists, and they are getting very close, getting very close, they are testing. Musteasures much take take into count shortterm and longterm impacts, including a shut down. When you have a shut down, you have suicides come in russian, drinking, alcohol problems, drug problems, problems with marriages, problems with marriages. When you have people confined to their house or apartment for a long time, a lot of problems with that. Instead, the governor advised residents to aggressively social distance when possible and maintain strict hygiene. The state encouraged masks in crowded public places, especially when social distancing is not possible. The governor exercised his discretion to restrict capacity at indoor locations to limit possible super spreading. Surgednistration treatments. We got them a lot of treatments and therapies to the state, ofluding 70,000 vials remdesivir, enough to treat 11,000 patients. And it has been very successful. I administration delivered ppe and pointofcare testing to 100 arizona Nursing Homes. The federal government has provided massive amounts of masks and downs and gowns. Arizona was a very big and very much appreciated it. More than 1000 National Guard and medical personnel have been deployed in arizona. They have really helped. They have been terrific and i want to thank them. They have been brave and really into, combination of both. We supported our tribal communities. Tribal communities were hit very, very hard. Governor ducey and i delivered d Testing Systems to the Navajo Nation, which was originally that shape at now Getting Better and very quickly. The Navajo Nation has one of the highest levels of testing per capita anywhere in the world. We really work very hard on tribal areas, in particular the Navajo Nation. They have done incredibly well. Over 1. 1as conducted million tests, more than japan. , mexico and switzerland arizona mexico and switzerland. Arizona per capita testing is higher than germany france and higher than germany, france and canada. Dining,e, outdoor limited Indoor Dining and most other business in an eras businesses in arizona have remained open and vibrant at they are doing incredibly well. The approach has been incredibly successful. Arizona has protected highrisk populations and quickly brought its outbreak under control without the need to impose overly punitive measures. Thanks to advances in treating the virus, the fatality rate among almost all age groups in arizona is very low. Scientific, datadriven strategy insured Hospital Capacity and those who needed care were able to receive care immediately, very quickly. At the peak 15 of beds remained available statewide, that was at their peak, with roughly 20 of occupied its going to patients hospitalized with the virus. They kept other things going. They kept other forms of operations going. The cap elective surgeries going. They did a really amazing job. Only six percent of current hospitalizations in the state are related to the china virus. Demonstrated success in protecting the africanamerican population. Of patients were africanamerican. Africanamericans represent 2 of all deaths from the virus. As it worked to contain its arizona has been formulating a plan to get children safely back to school as soon as possible. We want schools open all over the country. We want our schools open. Arizona has worked very hard on this and they are doing very well. The department of providing arizona schools 625 million. They are working very hard. My administration is working with other states in the same way. In recent weeks, members of the Coronavirus Task force visited 15 states to encourage them to follow our path forward, including tennessee, kentucky, virginia, indiana and ohio. I will be going to ohio tomorrow. I look forward to it very much. It is a great place in great state with an excellent governor and i look forward to being there tomorrow. Will visitdr. Birx iowa and nebraska, kansas and missouri and arkansas and i believe they are trying to get into west virginia, state, im sure that will happen because it will like to happen because i would like it to happen. They want very much to see her so we will try very hard to get dr. Birx to virginia as well as those other states to deliver targeted guidance. To strategy we are taking these states will protect those at highest risk while allowing others at a lower risk to safely resume work and school. Itwe do this successfully, can be really something incredible, because we are talking about a lot of states, we are talking about many, many states. It is really great to see the florida are also coming down. It is coming down, and pretty substantially in many locations. Even miami is coming down in miami was hit very hard. California likewise in texas likewise, coming down and really starting to be a substantial amount of reduction. It recognizes that prolonged lockdowns of bozo wide range of serious Public Health threats, including suicide, drug overdoses, other health harms , socialg in depression isolation, economic arches. It has been very tough for those people put in a lockdown position for too long. It has really been a very tough and harmful situation for many people. These arms are not measured daily here or abroad harms are not measured daily here or abroad. It makes them a very serious threat because people dont know what they are or how about they are, but i think they are very bad. We must remain vigilant in shielding the elderly and those with underlying conditions. Half of all deaths have occurred in Nursing Homes and longcare i also urge americans to help us stop the spread of the virus, practice good hygiene, socially distance, avoid large crowds, and wear a mask were distancing is not possible. It is a patriotic thing to do. Yourself,ck, isolate especially from high risk family members and friends. Its so important to isolate yourself from high risk family members and friends. Together, we will emerge safer and stronger than ever. Thanks to the robust federal action and partnership with leaders, new cases of the virus are declining in 80 of the jurisdictions which is an incredible number. The overall test Positivity Rate has declined by 8 since last week. Zero states have seen outbreaks get worse since yesterday