Pandemic. This is one hour and 10 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and the Vice President of the United States. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Please. Importantly, id like to begin by saying that weve just , the secretarynt , withasury Steven Mnuchin the major airlines, all of our great airlines, to participate in a payroll support program. This agreement will fully support Airline Industry workers, preserve the vital role airlines play in our economy, and protect taxpayers. Airlines are in good shape and they will get over a very tough period of time that was not caused by them. United states is continuing to make substantial progress in our war against the virus. We grieve every precious life that has been lost. To the invisible enemy. But through the darkness, we can see the rays of light. We see that tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, we see light. We are starting to see it. More than ever before. The numbers, everything we done, we have been very strong on it, very powerful on it. Look at what is happening in other countries. Spain, italy, the united kingdom, we are working with them, we are trying to help them with ventilators. They need ventilators so badly. 15 of counties within the United States have zero cases. Many counties within the United States have a very small number of cases. Large sections of our country are looking at other sessions and saying that looks bad but they dont have the problem. I salute the American People for following our guidelines. On social distancing, it is so different looking out there when i look at you. Their devotion, your devotion is saving lives. Today, i am instructing made administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization possible in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus. Everybody knows what is going on there. American taxpayers provide between 400 million and 500 million per year to the who. China contributes roughly 40 million. The United States has a duty to insist upon full accountability, one of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the who was is disastrous decision to oppose travel restrictions from china and other nations. They were very much opposed to it we did. My was not convinced and i suspended travel from china. Saving thousands and thousands of lives. Had other nations likewise suspended travel from china, countless more lives would have been saved. Instead, look at the rest of the world. Look at parts of europe. Other nations and regions who followed who guidelines and cap their borders open to china, accelerated the pandemic all around the world. Many countries said we will listen to the who. They have problems the likes of which they cannot believe. Nobody can believe. The decision of other major countries to keep travel open was one of the great tragedies and missed opportunities from the early days. The who attack on travel restrictions put Political Correctness above lifesaving measures. Travel bans work for the same reason. The same reason the quarantines work. It is fundamental to virus control. Since its establishment in 1948, the American People have generously supported the World Health Organization to provide Battle Health outcomes for the world. Most importantly to prevent Global Health crises. With the outbreak of the covid19 pandemic, we have deep concerns about whether americas generosity has been put to the best use possible. The reality is that the who failed to adequately obtain and share information in a timely and transparent fashion. The world depends on the who to work with countries to ensure that Accurate Information about International Health is shared in a timely manner. If it is not to independently tell the world the truth about what is happening. The who failed in this basic duty and must be held accountable. It is time. After all of these decades. The who failed to investigate credible reports from sources in wuhan that conflicted directly with the chinese governments official accounts. There was credible information to suspect human to human transmission in january, it endorsed the idea that there was not transmission happening despite reports and clear evidence to the contrary. The delays in declaring a Public Health emergency cost valuable time, tremendous amounts of time. More time was lost in the delay it took to get a team of National Experts in to examine the outbreak. We wanted to do that. They should have done that. The inability of the who to obtain virus samples. To this day, it has deprived the Scientific Community of essential data. New data that emerges across the world on a daily basis. It points to the unreliability of the initial reports and the world received all sorts of false information about transmission and mortality. The silence of the who on the disappearance of Scientific Research and doctors and our new restrictions on the sharing of research into the origins of covid19 in the country of origin is deeply concerning. Especially when we put up the largest amount of money. Not even close. Had the who done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to callout chinas lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained with very little death. Very little death and very little death by comparison. This would have saved thousands of lives and avoided worldwide economic damage. Instead, the who willingly took chinas assurances at face value and took it just at face value. It defended the actions of the chinese government, even praising china for its socalled transparency. I dont think so. The who pushed chinas misinformation about the virus, saying that there was no need for travel bans. They told us when we put on our travel ban that there was no need to do it, dont do it, they fought us. The who lines on chinas disclosures likely caused a 20 fold increase in cases worldwide. It may be much more than that. The who has not addressed a single one of these concerns or provided a serious explanation that it knowledges its own mistakes of which there were many. America, the world have relied on the who for important Public Health recommendations and decisions. If we cant trust that, this is what we will receive. Our country will be forced to find other ways to work with other nations to achieve Public Health goals. We will have no choice but to do that. Our country is now experiencing, you look all around the world, tremendous death and economic devastation. Those tasked with protecting us by being truthful and transparent failed to do so. It would have been so easy to be truthful. So much death has been caused by their mistakes. We will continue to engage with the who to see if we can make meaningful reforms. For the time being, we will redirect Global Health and work with all of the others. All of the aid we send will be discussed and very powerful letters. What is very powerful as influential groups and smart groups. We will be discussing it with other countries and Global Health partners. What we do with all of that money that goes to who. Maybe who will reform and maybe they wont. We will be able to see, as you know, other countries were hit hard by the virus. Hospitals have been tragically forced to ration medical care and the use of ventilators. Due to our early and aggressive action, the skill of our Health Care Workers and the resilience of our health care system, no hospital in america has been forced to deny any Patient Access to a ventilator with all of the talk you have heard where some states wanted 40,000 ventilators. I said that doesnt work. 40,000. They ended up with seven or 8000. They had no problem. 40,000 ventilators for one state. Ridiculous. The scariest day of my life was about a month ago when after a long day of meetings, my team told me that we were going to be needing 130,000 ventilators that we were short. Hundreds of thousands of ventilators. This is the system we inherited. I had governors requesting unreasonable sums that the federal government just did not have. You look at the states. The states were not prepared. I knew that every person who needed a ventilator did not get one would die. That is what we were told. They would die. I saw and other countries, doctors having to make decisions on who got a ventilator and who did not. I knew this would be a defining challenge of the crisis. Those that did not get ventilators were said to be in a position of only one alternative and that was death. Would we be able to prevent americans from dying because we could not get them ventilators . The ventilators they needed . They needed them immediately. I instructed my team to move heaven and earth to make sure that this did not happen. We started to ration and distribute the ventilators that we had and others had. I got daily updates on the supply we had from requests coming in and people wanting to have updates. We had a great group of people. I instructed my team to use the defense production act. The defense production act was used very powerfully. More powerfully than anybody would know. So powerfully that for the most part, we did not have to officially take it out. It was a hammer. It was a very powerful hammer in order to manufacture as many ventilators as possible. Last year, america manufactured from a dead start, 30,000 ventilators. This year, the number will be over 150,000 ventilators. It could be as high as 200,000. Far more than we will ever need. We will be able to stockpile. We will be able to talk to states about stockpiling. These are highquality ventilators. We had a choice. We could do inexpensive, less productive ventilators or highquality. Highquality ventilators. We should have anywhere from 450 to 200,000 ventilators. In addition to that, we have 10,000 ventilators right now and the federal stockpile. Should we need them. We might not. Should we need them in new york or new jersey or in louisiana. Illinois, any other state that might need them. If we have a surge. I would like to ask adam to come up and say a few words. He has done a fantastic job. The young man who worked 24 hours a day on handling the situation. I would like to have adam come up and say a few words. Please. Thank you very much. Adam thank you mr. President. At your direction, this country has worked hard over the past few weeks to ramp up ventilator production through all means possible. Thousands of ventilators are coming in now, months late with over 100,000 by the end of june. At the same time, there are over 60,000 ventilators in our hospitals right now that are not in use. Knowing this and at your direction, we reached out to the American Hospital association to design a system that allows hospitals to lend ventilators to other hospitals right when they need it. Within the past week alone, 20 Top Health Systems have signed up for this dynamic ventilator reserve, representing over 4000 ventilators. Not only do we have top academic systems like Cleveland Clinic and mayo clinic, but also Top Health Systems from new york city, new orleans, Washington State and california. Over a week ago, these places would have needed help, but now they are here to help. Theres been no american who has needed a ventilator that has not received one. This dynamic, virtual reserve, combined with our strategic stockpile, will ensure that this is always the case. Id like to thank the president for his leadership and directive to focus on publicprivate partnerships like this one. Id also like to thank sam haven from hda and for leading this effort. These have been difficult times. A few weeks ago, the Vice President came into my office, and reminded us of the power of the resilience of American People and private companies. This partnership is another example of americans helping americans. Thank you. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Id shake his hand, but im not allowed to. Times have changed, havent they . Thank you very much. You did a fantastic job. You and your whole team. Today, we are taking further action to maximize our oversupply and available of ventilators. This afternoon, i met with the leaders, the top people of many of americas big, powerful, beautiful and very, very important hospitals, and hospital associations, who join us today. We had a great meeting. Learned a lot. Theyve been going through a lot. Theyve been doing a fantastic job, as everyone here will attest. Im pleased to announce my administration is partnering with hospitals across the country to create an Innovative New system called the dynamic ventilator reserve, so that we will have tremendous numbers of ventilators that were able to help our states with at a later date, if theres ever a problem like this, which we hope to god will never happen again. 19171918. Thats a long time ago. We hope it never happens again. And id like to ask the ceo of the American Hospital association, the ceo of hca health care, the largest in the United States, the ceo of and if i could, are you here from Cleveland Clinic . Good. Come on up, folks. Please, say a few words. Thank you very much, mr. President. We appreciate the opportunity to work with you and your team on the dynamic ventilator reserve program. This will provide a really important mechanism for us to serve our patients and communitys by ensuring that this Vital Equipment will be available to critical areas in need. You know, as this battle against this disease has affected the country a little unevenly, the rates of infection, hospitalization and icu use varies from one region to another. In some places with lower infection rates, some ventilators may not be in use, while other areas are potentially stretched beyond their capacity. This database of available ventilators that we are creating will allow us to be sure available equipment can be shared with those in need. We appreciate the leadership of the Health Systems here today that have stepped forward. Adam mentioned a few. I dont know if you caught dr. Francois from nyu and the ceo of lifepoint as well. We appreciate the work of this administration in helping us to find Innovative Solutions to ensure the best care for our patients. We will continue to work with hospitals and Health Systems across the country to add to this reserve further. Your Team Provided us with important leadership, and we look forward to working with you. Thank you, mr. President , mr. Vice president , adam, team. I stand before you, in front of our 285,000 colleagues who provide care to patients every day across the country. One of the Guiding Principles we had when we went into this covid19 battle was defined partnerships with other components of the industry, partnerships with other Health Systems, and partnerships with government, both local and federal. Were proud to be part of this partnership, and i think it will do great good for the communities, so thank you very much. Thank you, mr. President. Its great to have oxner health be part of this program. Weve been a recipient and the state of louisiana has been a recipient of getting ventilators to ochsner health. We have seen a spike in the last few weeks, but are starting to get on the other side of that. I want to thank you personally for helping oschner health. A couple weeks ago, we were running short on surgical gowns and you were able to direct help to us and other hospitals around the new orleans area. Were proud to be part of that and help other communities around the country. Thank you, mr. President , for the invitation. On the half of the Cleveland Clinic, id like to offer a slightly difference story about the covid pandemic. In our home state of ohio, with early institution of social distancing, our ability to scale out testing and ramping up capacity, we have seen a stable number of patients in the last 810 days. Only 160 patients have been hospitalized with Covid Infection in Cleveland Clinic health system. Were also grateful for the support from our State Government and federal government. This is a battle we are all in together. We coordinate our efforts, share resources and Work Together as one. Im firmly convinced we can do a lot of good when we Work Together. Thank you very much for having us. Pres. Trump it was a terrific meeting, and thank you all for being here. Thank you very much. The United States has far more icu beds per capita than any other nation. We have 34. 7 icu beds per 100,000 people, which is the best there is. Compared with roughly 12. 5 beds per 100,000 in italy, 11. 6 beds in france, 9. 7 beds in spain. Think about that. 34. 7. And 6. 6 in the u. K. There are more than 60,000 ventilators at hospitals and other Health Care Facilities that are not in use at this moment. We got a lot of them ou