Our country is in the midst of a Great National trial unlike any we have faced before. You see it probably better than most. We are at war with a deadly virus, success in this fight will require the full absolute measure of our collective strength, love and devotion. Each of us has the power for our own choices and actions to save american lives and res pres. Trump thank you, everyone. Our country is in the midst of a Great National trial unlike any we have faced before. You see it probably better than most. We are at war with a deadly virus, success in this fight will require the full absolute measure of our collective strength, love and devotion. Each of us has the power for our own choices and actions to save american lives and rescue the most vulnerable among us. It is why we really have to do what we all know is right. Every citizen is being called upon to make sacrifices. Every business is being asked to fulfill its patriotic duty. Every community is making fundamental changes to how we live, work and interact. Each and every day. See this going long, long into the future when this virus is gone and defeated. Some of the things we are doing now will be very Good Practice for the future, including for not getting the flu, which is very devastating also. Some of what we are learning now will live into the future, i really believe that. Shaking hands or not shaking hands. Washing hands all the time. Staying a little apart. 15 days ago we published our nationwide guidelines to slow the spread of the virus. On sunday, i announced this campaign will be extended until april 30. In a few moments, dr. Birx will explain the data that formed the basis for our decision to extend the guidelines and a dr. Fauci will explain why it is absolutely critical for the American People to follow the guidelines for the next 30 days. It is a matter of life and death. It is a matter of life and death. I numerous citizens will rise to the occasion. They already have sacrificed a lot. We have the greatest economy in the history of our country, we have the greatest economy in the world. We have the best unemployment numbers and employment numbers we have ever had by far. And in one instant, lee said, we have no choice but to close it up. Just as americans have always done, they will do a job like few have seen before, and they are proud to do it. There is a great pride going on right now. Before we hear from our experts, we have other announcements. Today, the Treasury Department and Small Business administration announced further details on the protection program, which was made possible by the 2 trillion really build that i signed into law last week. Nearly 350 million will soon be available through Lending Partners to help Small Businesses meet payroll and other expenses for up to two months. These loans will be forgiven as long as businesses keep paying their workers, this includes sole proprietors and independent contractors. Applications will be accepted starting this friday, april 3. So on friday, that is when it begins. Earlier today, i spoke with a leading internet and phone providers, who are doing a tremendous job of keeping our internet and lines of communication flowing under very strongly increased strain. The businesses more than anybody has seen before because everybody is inside. They are all making calls. Among the leaders i spoke to were Hans Westberg of verizon, Randall Stephenson of at t, mike seaver of tmobile, Thomas Rutledge of charter communications, Brian Roberts of comcast, john malone of liberty media, dexter goi, michael combs of sprint. Also, pat esper of cox communications, and jeffrey story of centurylink. They are doing an incredible job. If you look at other continents, if you look at europe, they went a different route a much different route, we were talking about that you little bit ago, and they are having tremendous problems. Other countries are having problems. Other continents are having problems. But with business at a level that nobody has seen before, on the internet, it is holding up incredibly well. And they expect that to continue no matter what happens. No matter how much more it gains. They are setting records. Let me update you on the distribution of needed resources and supplies. We have a lot of numbers. I will let mike pence speak to that, but we are giving massive amounts of medical equipment and supplies to the 50 states. We also are holding back quite a bit. We have almost 10,000 ventilators at that we have ready to go. We have to hold them because the surge is coming and is coming pretty strong. And we want to be able to immediately move it into place, so we are ready to go and we have also distributed, i just spoke with the governor of michigan. We had a great conversation and we said sent a large number of ventilators to michigan. We are sending them to louisiana. Additional ventilators to new york, to new jersey. And i will say in new york, fema is supplying 250 ambulances and 500 emts to help respond to the increasing caseload. That is a lot of ambulances. In california, the army corps of engineers is developing eight facilities to expand Hospital Capacity up to 50,000 beds. 50,000. And i had a great conversation last night with gavin newsom, he is doing a really good job. We are in constant communication. The hospital ship mercy is now operational. It is in los angeles and receiving patients. And in new york, the comfort, everybody watched that, it is in place and it will be very shortly receiving large numbers of patients with over 1000 rooms and 12 operating rooms. Fema is also providing 100 travel trailers to assist with Housing Needs and we are ordering hundreds more. In michigan, fema wilson deliver in addition to the ventilators, a two hundred 50 bed hospital with army corps of engineers. They are evaluating locations to build alternate care facilities. So we are doing a Field Hospital in michigan of 250 beds in we may be doubling that soon, depending on the need. They are doing a good job with the beds in michigan, but they may need more than 250. So fema and the army corps of engineers are prepared to go there quickly and get it done. In louisiana, we are delivering to Field Hospitals to provide 500 new beds. I have been talking with the governor, john bel edwards, and it army corps of engineers has been really doing incredible work, establishing 3000 bed alternate care sites at the new Orleans Convention center. Which will be operational, believe it or not, this week. So we are doing 3000 bed alternate care site and a 500 bed new hospital. That is in louisiana, which really got hit. It started very late. It was looking good, then all of a sudden it reared up. It came from nowhere. In addition to the supplies we are delivering, we are also giving hospitals the flexibility to use their facilities to care for hospital patients who are not infected. For example, i know that many expectant mothers are understandably concerned about exposing their newborn babies to the virus. And they should be. With our action yesterday, hospitals have the authority to create special areas for mothers to deliver their babies in a safe and healthy environment that is totally separate. Over the past two months, the state department has organized one of the largest and most complex International Evacuation operations in american history. Mike pompeo has been working around the clock, along with ambassador obrien. Since january 29, we have successfully repatriated all but 25,000 americans from more than 50 countries, where they were literally stuck, in some cases locked in. I salute the incredible Public Servants at the department of state as well as their counterparts at dhs and hhs, who have played such an Important Role in doing this. You probably read about the young people in peru, and young people in brazil. They were absolutely stuck. And we got them out. Almost everybody is out now, back home with their parents, wives, husbands. I want every american to be prepared for the hard days ahead. We are going to go through a very tough two weeks. And then hopefully come as the experts are predicting, as i think a lot of us are predicting, having studied it so hard, we will start to see some light at the end of the tunnel. But this will be a very painful and very painful two weeks. When you look and see at night the kind of death that has been caused by this invisible enemy, it is incredible. I was watching last night governor murphy of new jersey saying 29 people died today, meaning yesterday. Others talking about numbers for greater. I know new jersey well. 29 people, and hundreds in other locations in other states. This is going to be a rough two weeks. As a nation, we face a difficult few weeks as we approach that really important day when we will see things get better. All of a sudden. And it will be like a first light. I really think and i hope. Our strength will be tested and our endurance will be tried. But america will answer with love, courage and ironclad resolve. This is the time for all americans to come together and do our part. I appreciate the media. We have had a lot of good things said. I think only good things can be said when you look at the job that has been done. I spoke with Franklin Graham, an extraordinary person, and the samaritans purse has become i like so many others, has just been amazing. They did it so fast. He has been doing that for a long time. I think that people are really seeing what they have done. Franklin, a special family. Loads of masks, gloves and supplies to the communities battling the plague. That is what it is, it is a plague. We pray for the doctors and nurses, for the paramedics and to Truck Drivers and the Police Officers and sanitation workers, and above all, the people fighting for their lives in new york and all across our land. I watched as doctors and nurses went into a certain hospital in elmhurst this morning, i know elmhurst, queens, because i grew up right next to it. I know the hospital very well. I have seen it all my life, only young life. And i will tell you that to see the scenes of trailers out there, and what they are doing with those trailers, they are freezers. Nobody can even believe it. And i spoke to some of my friends, they cannot believe what they are seeing. And i watched the doctors and nurses walking into the hospital this morning. It is like military people going into battle, going into war. The bravery is incredible. And i have to take my hat and i would take my hat, i would rip that hat off so fast and i would say, people are just incredible. They really are, they are very brave. They are going in and they do not know. You have lots of things flying around in the air. What you are touching, is it safe . You see where you have friends that go into the hospital and you say, how is he doing . They say he is in a coma or unconscious. So things are happening that we have never seen before in this country. And with all of that being said, the country has come together like i have never seen it before. And we will prevail, we will win, and hopefully it will be in a relatively short period of time. At would like to ask dr. Birx to come up and show you the data that has been, i think my brilliantly put together. And right after that i will ask dr. Fauci to speak. And mike pence will give you some of the recent events that have taken place, and some of the statistics we have that i think will be interesting. Thank you very much. Dr. Birx thank you, mr. President. If i could have the first slide, please. Goals of community mitigation. Really highlighting that this begins in the middle and end with community, the community of the American People. They will have to do these things for the next 30 days to make a difference. I think you know from that large ballooned mountain behind me, and i want to thank the Six International and domestic modelers from harvard, columbia, from northeastern and imperial that helped us tremendously, it was their models that created the ability to see what these medications could do. How steeply they could depress the curve from that giant Blue Mountain down to that more lined area. In their estimates, they had between 1. 5 million and 2. 2 Million People in the u. S. Succumbing to the virus without mitigation. Yet, through their detailed studies and showing us what social distancing would do, what would happen if people stayed at home, what would happen if people were careful every day to wash their hands and worry about touching their faces, what an extraordinary think this could be if every american follow these. It takes is to that stippled mountain that is lower, a hill, down to 100,000 to 200,000 deaths, which is still way too much. Simultaneously, there was a modeler out of the university of washington that modeled from cases up, utilizing the experience around the globe to really understand how this information that we have from italy and spain and south korea and china could really help us get insight into the hospital needs, the ventilator needs, and really the number of people who potentially could succumb to this illness. It is this model that we are looking at now that provides us the most detail of a time course of that is possible. But this model assumes full mitigation. It is informed every morning or every night by the reality on the ground coming in from new york, new jersey and around the United States. And it is a model that is informed every morning, so it is adjusted, so that it is uptodate every day. This is the model of the predictive vitalitys and mortality in the United States. As the president said, it is very much focused on the next two weeks and the stark reality of what this virus will do as it moves through communities. This is a slide that gives us great hope and understanding about what is possible. On the bottom of the slide, where you can barely see that blue line at the bottom, that is the current cases in california, the cumulative cases in california, where they are doing significant testing. Next line up is connecticut, the orange line is new jersey, the blue line is new york. The yellow line is washington. We all remember Washington State, it was a month ago when they started to have the issues in Washington State, but the brought together their communities and Health Care Providers and they put in strong mitigation methods and testing, and you can see the resultant Washington State and california. But without the continuation for the next 30 days, anything could change. Next slide. I am sure you are interested in seeing all of the states, though on this slide is all 50 states and the district of columbia, but i think it shows a stark reality, the difference between new york and new jersey and other states with similar populations and urban areas. Our goal over the next 30 days is to ensure the states that you see, the 48 across the bottom, maintain this lower level of new cases, with the hope that we do not have significant outbreaks in other states and other metro areas. As the Community Comes together to Work Together and ensure that the Health Care Providers around the globe and in the United States are strengthened by our resolve to continue to mitigate community by community. This is done community by community. We know people are in their communities. And we are very dependent on each person in the United States doing the same thing, following the president ial guidelines to a t. I know it is a lot to ask because you have done it for 15 days, but if you can show the next slide, this is what gives us a lot of hope. This is the case finding in italy. You can see that they are beginning to turn the corner in new cases. They are entering their fourth week of full mitigation. And showing what is possible when we were together as a community, as a country, to change the course of this pandemic together. It is this graphic, and the graphic of many of the states, that gives us hope of what is possible by continuing for another 30 days. Amidst all the hope, i must say that like we warned about detroit in chicago, we start to see changes in massachusetts. New orleans continues to be a problem of new cases, although they are stabilizing. And i think it really shows the depth of dedication of the American People to the health, care providers because they can see the strain this puts on every nurse, respiratory therapist, dr. , pharmacist and Lab Technician working together to stem this tide of sick people coming to their doors. Nobody has been turned away, nobody who has needed ventilation has not received ventilation, but you can see how stressful it is for each of them. So i know it is stressful to follow the guidelines, but it is more stressful and difficult to the soldiers on the front lines. As we started and we will end with the communities that will do this. There is no magic bullet. No magic vaccine or therapy. It is just behavior. Each of our behaviors translating into something that changes the course of this viral pandemic over the next 30 days. Thank you. Dr. Fauci thank you very much. What she has really said very simply is that there are really two Dynamic Forces that are opposing each other here. As i have mentioned it several times in our briefings, the virus, if left to its own devices, will do that dark curve that dr. Birx showed you. The other forces what we are doing, what we are trying to do and what we will do in the form of mitigation. Now, these are very revealing, the data, because it you saw what happened in italy. Where you make the turn