Pres. Trump thank you very much , everyone. Thank you. Beautiful day in the rose garden. Appreciate everybody being here. I would like to provide an update to the American People on several decisive new actions we are taking in our vigilant effort to combat and ultimately defeat the coronavirus. We have been working very hard on this, we have made tremendous progress. When you compare what we have done to other areas of the world, it is pretty incredible. Thet of that had to do with early designation and closing of the borders. As you know, europe was just designated as a hot right now. And we closed that border while ago, so i was lucky, through talent or luck, call it whatever you want, but through a very collective action and shared sacrifice, national determination, we will overcome the threat of the virus. I announced wednesday night, following the advice of our medical professionals, who are doing a tremendous job and we appreciate it very much, that we are suspending the entry of foreign nationals who have been to europe in the last 14 days from entering the United States, citizens, permanent residents and families, any families returning from europe, will be subject to extra screening as well as self isolation for 14 days. As the World Health Organization confirmed today, many of the things we said were 100 correct, including our designation before them, of europe. Like our earlier, very aggressive actions with china, this measure will save countless lives. I appreciate a number of the folks behind me. A number of the people behind me said that saved a lot of lives, that early designation. But it is only the beginning of what we are really doing, and now we are in a different phase. We had old and obsolete rules that we had to live with that worked under circumstances, but not under mass circumstances. They were there for a long time. There were in place for a long time, and we are breaking them down now. And they are very usable for certain instances, but not for this. To unleash the full power of the federal government, today i am officially declaring a National Emergency. Two very big words. The action i am taking will open access to up to 50 billion of very importantly, very important and a large amount of money for states and territories and localities in our shared fight against this disease. In furtherance of the order, i am urging every state to set up Emergency Operations centers effective immediately. You are going to be hearing from some of the Largest Companies in greatest retailers and medical companies in the world. They are standing right behind me and to the side of me. I am also asking every hospital in this country to activate Emergency Preparedness plans so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere. The hospitals are very engaged. New york and various other places are also engaged. I just spoke with governor cuomo. We had a very good conversation, and we are working very strongly with many states, including new york. The emergency orders i am issuing today will confer broad new authority to the secretary of health and human services. The secretary of hhs will be able to immediately waive provisions of applicable laws and regulations to give doctor, doctors, hospitals and Health Care Providers maximum flexibility to respond to the virus and care for patients. This includes the following critical authorities. The ability to waive laws to enable telehealth, a fairly new and incredible thing that has happened in the notsodistant past. What they have done with telehealth is incredible. It gives remote doctors visits business and hospital checkins the federal waive certain regulations so that they can provide services with the greatest need. The ability to waive requirements that critical access hospitals limit the number of beds to 25 and the length of stay to 96 hours. The ability to waive the requirements of a threeday hospital stay prior to admission to a nursing home, big thing, the authority to waive the rules into hospitals ability to bring additional physicians on board or obtain needed office space. They can do as they want, they can do what they have to do. They know what they have to do. Now they dont have any problem getting it done. The authority to waive rules that severely restrict where hospitals can care for patients within the hospital itself, and ensuring the emergency capacity can be quickly established. Will remove or eliminate every obstacle necessary to deliver to our people the care that they they need and that they are entitled to. No resource will be spared, nothing whatsoever. 10 days ago, i brought together the ceos of commercial labs at the white house and directed them to immediately begin working on a solution to dramatically increase the availability of tests. Other countries have called us and worked with us, and they are doing similar things, or will be doing similar things. We want to make sure that those who need a test can get a test very safely, quickly and conveniently, but we dont want people to take a test if we feel that they shouldnt be doing it, and we dont want everyone running out and taking it, only if you have certain symptoms. Using federal emergency authorities, the fda approved a new test for the virus. We did this within hours after receiving the application from roche, a process that would normally take weeks. We therefore expect up to 500,000 additional tests will be available early next week. I want to thank roche, great company, great company, for their incredible work. I would like to also acknowledge the government will hopefully approve the application within 24 hours. And that will bring an additional 1. 4 million tests on board next week, and 5 million within a month. I doubt we will need anywhere near that. At the same time, we have been in discussion with pharmacies and retailers to make drivethrough tests available in the critical locations identified by Public Health professionals. The goal is for individuals to be able to drive up and be swabbed, without having to leave your car. I want to thank google. Google is helping to develop a website that is going to be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past, to determine whether a test is warranted, and to facilitate testing at a nearby, convenient location. We have many, many locations behind us, by the way. We cover this country and large parts of the world. By the way, we are not talking about the world right now, but we cover very strongly our country, stores in virtually every location. Google has 1700 engineers working on this right now, made tremendous progress. Our overriding goal is to stop the spread of the virus and to help all americans who have been impacted by this. Again, we dont want everybody taking this test. It is totally unnecessary. And this will pass. This will pass through, and we are going to be Even Stronger for it. We have learned a lot. A tremendous amount has been learned. I want to thank deborah birx, and i want to ask her maybe to come up and say a few words as to what is happening. Dr. Birx is a highlyrespected person. I have gotten to know her very well over the last six days. And what we have done is rebuilt something that was very old, very oldfashioned, somewhat obsolete, certainly obsolete when it comes to the kind of numbers that we are talking about. Dr. Birx, please. Thank you, deborah. Dr. Birx thank you, mr. President. It is a pleasure to be here with all of you. I think as you know at the , beginning of this epidemic, hhs through cdc proactively developed an assay developed on the flu Surveillance System. That Surveillance System was then converted to a diagnostic system. But last tuesday, seeing the spread of the virus around the globe, the president realized our current approach to testing was inadequate to meet the needs of the American Public. He asked for an entire overhaul of the testing approach. He immediately called the private sector laboratories to the white house, as noted, and charged them with developing a high through put quality platform that couldnt meet the could meet the needs of the American Public. We took up the charge immediately and within 72 hours, bringing additional testing access, particularly to outbreak areas of Washington State, and california, and now across the country. Grateful to the universities and large Hospital Systems that took up the charge to develop their own quality tests, made available by new fda guidance. This has resulted in expanded testing across new york, california, washington, colorado, and you see sometimes drivethrough options that have been made available through these high throughput options. Major Laboratory Equipment and diagnostic companies took immediate action to adopt and develop new testing systems. Last night the initial Company Roche received fda approval, moving from request to development to approval in record time. This innovative approach centered fully on unleashing the power of the private sector, focusing on providing convenient testing to hundreds of thousands of americans within short turnaround times. In less than two weeks together, we have developed a solution that we believe will meet the future needs testing needs of , americans. I understand how difficult this has been. I was part of the hivaids response in the 1980s. From 1981 it took us almost until 1985 to have a test. It took another 11 years to have effective therapy. It is because of the Lessons Learned from that that we were able to mobilize, and bring those individuals that were key to the hiv response to this response. I understand a lot of this behindthescenes action over the last couple of weeks was invisible to the press and the American People, but this intense effort has not only resulted in innovative solutions, but an automated, high throughput system bringing the availability of these quality coronavirus testing to the American People at unprecedented speed. Finally i want you to know that have ah korea, they did large number of tests available for the past several weeks. Their Positivity Rate is between 3 and 4 . Expandedcorp and quest testing the expanded positive , rate is 2 . We also want to announce this new approach to testing through which will start in the here,ing website up facilitated by google where clients and they shouldnts and patients and people can fill out a questionnaire, move down for symptoms and risk factors, yes. They would move down this and be told where the drivethrough options would be for them to receive this test. The labs will then move to the high throughput machines to be able to provide results in 24 to 36 hours. That is the intent of this approach. We have seen it work in our own United States and we want to bring this across the continent. Thank you very much. Mr. Trump thank you very much. I would like to maybe have tony you want to i think everybody out here knows you pretty well, but tony has been doing a tremendous job working long long hours. ,you have seen a lot happened, but it has been a great experience. It has been terrific. Tony, please. Dr. Fauci thank you very much, mr. President. This is an example of, another example of what i have been referring to in my discussions with many of you in the audience as a proactive leaning forward aggressive trying to stay ahead of the curve. What you are seeing now with this order is we are going to be able to remove the constraints so that people at the state and local level, the individual physician, all the way through the federal government will have as many constraints as possible removed for them to do everything they possibly can so that we can implement the things we have been talking about. The containment and mitigation. As i have said many times, that curve that goes up, we dont want to have that curve. We want to suppress it down to that small mound. What we have done today is something that will be very important element in having us be successful in doing that. We still have a long way to go. There will be many more cases, but we will take care of that, and ultimately this will end. What is going on here today will help it to end sooner. Thank you. Mr. Trump thank you very much, tony. If i could, some of these folks that we know, celebrities in their own right, the biggest business people, the greatest retailers anywhere in the world. One of them is Doug Mcmillan from walmart. I would like to have doug, if you would say a few words. ,doug when we got the call yesterday from the white house we were eager to do our part to , help serve the country. Given what we are facing, that is important to do. We have been asked to make portions of our parking lot available in select locations and scaling over time as supply increases the people can experience the drivethrough experience the president described. We will stay involved to give assistance. Thank you, sir. Mr. Trump appreciate it very much. I will just stay right over here, and richard. If you could come up please. , richard. Please. Walgreens. Richard similar to doug and walmart, we are happy to stand in here and help in communities all across america. A lot of times when we have natural disasters, our stores are a beacon in the community. This situation is no different. We look forward to partnering with everyone and the Vice President is doing such a fantastic job. We are ready to engage and help. Mr. Trump thank you very much. Brian cornell, target. Thank you, brian. Thank you, please. Brian thank you, mr. President. Thank you for inviting us here. Normally you view us as competitors, but today we are focused on a common competitor and that is defeating the spread of the coronavirus, and we look forward to working with the administration to do our fair share to alleviate this growing threat. So thank you for including us today. In the near term we are all committed to making sure we are keeping our stores open to serve the American Consumer who is rapidly stocking up on household essentials, key food and beverage items that they need during this time, making sure we run safe stores, and creating an environment that is safe for our team members. Making sure that they feel supported during this very critical time. Thank you for including us. Mr. Trump is tom here . Please. Tom thank you. As ceo of becton dickinson, we are one of the leading providers of medical devices as well as collection products or testing, we are ramping up our manufacturing capacity to ensure that the right collection devices and testing equipment are ready to address this issue. Mr. Trump done a great job. Stephen murkowski, quest diagnostics, please. Great job. Stephen thank you very much. as mentioned, we recalled the leadership of the Vice President last week to come together as an industry. And we took advantage of that opportunity to work with the fda and work with the center for disease control. We are up and running with a number of tests in a number of our facilities. We now have tests we will bring in this weekend. I know myself and my colleagues at lab corp will be doing the same. The capacity available to the American Public to support this action with consumers will be considerably increased in the next few weeks. Thank you, mr. President. Mr. Trump i appreciate it. And matt of roche. Matt, thank you. Match. Matt thank you, mr. President. So from roche, we want to thank the fda for their rapid approval of our coronavirus test. We really appreciate the partnership with the cdc and fda to get that to market as fast as possible because it is critical for us to make that available to help patients in need and working with laboratories to get it up and going in the near future which will bring hundreds of thousands of tests available to patients in need in the United States. So thank you. Mr. Trump you can do it. You can do it. Great company. David pierre of signify, signify health. David thank you, mr. President. we are the largest house call provider in the United States. We go through the homes of the most multiple, elderly and through our and logistics engine we stand ready to help and provide our clinicians to be where they are needed whether they are in retail clinics or in the home and we are here to assist. Thank you very much. Mr. Trump thank you very much. We will be changing a lot of the rules and relations for future, should this happen in the future which we hope it never does, but , it could, somewhere out there. Bad ones over the years. I guess that will continue to an extent, but we hope it never happens. But we are going to be changing a lot of the old rules and specifications and regulations. Adam schechter, who has really been a tremendous help, lab corp. Please. Adam thank you, mr. President. We are working every second of every day to increase the number of tests we can run. We are working with academic medical centers, our colleagues at quest, with other hospital and other laboratories to ensure we do everything we can to increase the testing as we move forward. And i can tell you we understand how important the testing is, and we are committed to doing everything possible. Mr. Trump thank you. Great job. Thank you. Thomas moriarty, cvs. We all know cvs. Thomas thank you, mr. President. we have been focused since the start of making sure our patients and the customers we serve have the information they need and the safety they need as well. We are committed to working with the administration and Public Health officials to make this work as well and thank you for the honor. Mr. Trump great job. And bruce greenstein, lhc group. Tremendously talented people. Thank you very much. Bruce thank you for the honor of being here. The Home Health Industry has been treating patients and seniors from the safety and comfort of their home for decades. We are very proud to be part of the equation for testing. For americans that cant get to a test site or live in rural areas far away from a retail establishment, we are here to help, to partner with physicians and the people today to do testing around the country. Thank you.