That we are continuing to negotiate with the democrats to get our great workers and Small Businesses all over the country taken care of. Are getting close to a deal. Could happen. A lot of good work has been going on and we could have an answer tomorrow. We will see what exactly does take place. We are also looking at helping our hospitals and our rural hospitals who have been hurt very badly. The rural hospitals have not been treated properly. We are looking at hospitals as part of the package. We will see how that all comes out. A lot of good things are happening. Very good negotiations. Just got off the phone with the secretary of treasury and we have good negotiations going on right now. I think you will have a nice answer tomorrow, but we will as of today, we have tested 4. 18 million americans, that is a record anywhere in the world. The United States has now conducted more total tests than all of the following nations combined. France, the united kingdom, south korea, japan, singapore, india, austria, australia, sweden, and canada. And our testing is expanding very rapidly by millions and millions of people. So, we have done more testing than all of these countries combined, france, united kingdom, south korea, japan, singapore, india, austria, and australia, sweden and canada. That is something, right . We are doing a great job. We are this team is an Incredible Team, and that includes army corps of engineers, a lot of our military people, our admirals, our generals, one of our great admirals here has done an incredible job. You havent slept much in the last two months. Look at him. Somebody said to me, president , you look tired. I said to him i should be tired. We should all be tired, but we have to win, right . Tomorrow, the president and Vice President will lead a call from our nations headquarters, fema headquarters, with the nations governors to review what more they can do and do together to develop locally tailored testing strategies, working very hard with governors now on testing. We are going to help them out. Before the call, we will send them a full list of all of the Large Laboratory machines in the states. They have a lot of machinery in the states, some are aware of, they are really highquality machines, by the way. They have the potential capacity, if they are fully utilized, a couple of them didnt know they could be utilized in a different manner. They are only up to 10 and they can go 90 more. Many governors are still relying on their state laboratories rather than the full and much larger capacity that is available to them. As an example, commercial laboratories such as quest and labcorp, these are massive laboratories that can handle a lot more than they are being sent. A few days ago they were at 30 , only 30 capacity. I dont know, they are probably the same. They have a lot of capacity. Academic laboratories, big research labs, there is tremendous capacity out there. Some of them want the fast, the instant abbott machine, which just came about due to the research during this little short period of time. And it is very quick. These labs can do them quickly also, and they are massive. They can handle much more than the machine, the small machine can handle. We continue to procure millions of swabs, test collectors, i have something here, just happen to have its a swab. Looks innocent, not very complicated. Anybody like to see what it looks like . Should i open it . Yes, please. Pres. Trump open it up. I will. I will. This is what it is about. Right . Does it remind you of something . Reminds you of this, right . One is a swab, one is a qtip. It is actually different. It is very sophisticated, actually. So this is the swab. And we have ordered a lot of them. They have a lot of them. Some of them, some of the states, they were shipped to states and the states dont know where they are. But that is it. Why dont we give this to karen, perhaps she will take an extra test. But this is a big deal. And we are working on it and we are working with the companies, and i think in the end, we are going to have a tremendous success. Nobody is close to us, no country is close to us. In fact, and i appreciate it very much, the wall street journal wrote a fantastic piece, a highly respected gentleman, christopher, and this piece was just in the wall street journal. Weekend edition. And trump rewrites the book on emergencies. That is what has happened, too. We will just read one paragraph. He has given pride of place to federalism and private enterprise, lauding the patriotism and efficiency of governors and mayors. I do call them fantastic. When it is appropriate. And our incredible Business Leaders and genius companies. I use those terms when i think they are doing a good job. Doctors and nurses and orderlies and our tremendous truckers, they have all done tremendous jobs. By shouting out many of them by name and documenting their deeds on a fully daily basis, he has vivified the american way and action once it got aroused. It is hard to get it aroused, but we got it aroused. When asked why he has not issued orders for nationwide lockdowns, he has emphasized the intensity of the epidemic varies widely and is best met by calibrated state and local judgments. That is the judgments of governors and local people. And added pointedly that such steps would conflict with the constitution, that importantly, he is a very respected gentlemen. This was a very nice feeling, not for me necessarily, but for all the people that have worked with us. They have worked so hard, and we have developed tests that are so fantastic. We have come up with things that nobody had ever heard of. And we did it during this pandemic. We did it under pressure. It is called reaction under pressure. It is Pretty Amazing what our people have done. And that includes all of our military people and the cdc, just about everybody you can imagine, including tony and deborah, and they worked long hours. There is nobody that is getting a lot of sleep. We are close to finalizing i want to thank the writer, christopher, of this article. And it is a great article. That was frankly, of what i read, it was a great article. We appreciate it. We are close to finalizing the Second Partnership through which a u. S. Manufacturer would convert its existing plant to produce over 10 million additional swabs per month and we should announce this in a very short period of time. We are also going to be using and are preparing to use the defense production act to increase swab production in one u. S. Facility by over 20 million additional swabs per month. We have had a little difficulty with one, so we will call it as we have in the past, as you know, we are calling in the defense production act, and we will be getting swabs very easily. Swabs are easy. Ventilators are hard. Ventilators are a big deal and we are now the king of ventilators. We have so many ventilators. You know, i said, nobody that needed a ventilator has been turned down. It is Pretty Amazing. Nobody. We are working with the worldclass team at Oak Ridge National laboratory to use its Injection Molding capacity to potentially produce over 10 million collection tubes per week. That is tremendous numbers. In the meantime, the supply chain and the Logistics Task force continues to surge testing and needed supplies all throughout america. Mikes team and the task force, they just met. They have been meeting virtually every day. And it is a great team. It is a great team. They have been doing a great job. Mike, you have been doing a great job. Many governors are doing this incredible work, and they are working with us very closely on testing, and working in their states. And again, it should be a local thing because it is all these points within a state. But we are helping them a lot, and we want to help them a lot. We are going to help them more than a lot, actually. When you think about it, with what we have done. Think of it. We have done more than all those countries combined. We are encouraging them to share their successful strategies with other governors. Some of the governors are doing a better job than others. The robust capacity that we have brought online will empower governors to deploy sophisticated strategies so they can safely reopen their states. Some people believe in testing very strongly, and other people believe in it less strongly, but still, it is a very good thing to have. I think we can say that. Some people believe in it like they cant exist without testing, and other people dont believe in it nearly as much. They can see how they are doing and they feel how they are doing, and they have been pretty vocal about that. I think you know pretty much who i am talking about that. If they want it, we should give it to them and get it for them and work with them. You must remember, the governors wanted to have total control over the opening of their states, but now, they want to have us, the federal government, do the testing. And again, testing is local. You cant have it both ways. Testing is a local thing. Land it is very important. It is great, but it is a local thing. And we are going to get it done to a level in a very short time, because all of these swabs are coming in, all of the necessary materials, a lot of them, as i said, are already there but a lot of people dont know that yet. But we will be doing testing at a level already we are doing testing at eight level nobody has ever done before, but we will be doing testing at a level, the biggest tester in the world will be very happy very soon. It is very much like ventilators. You dont hear the word mentioned, and that is much tougher. Much tougher, when you have to build these machines. We have built thousands of machines. We will more than help the governors and we will make sure that everything goes well, just like it did with ventilators. Frankly, like it did with face masks on a much easier subject. Face masks. Again, everything is easier than a ventilator. Ventilators are tough. But now i spoke yesterday with the president of mexico and with various other countries. We are going to be helping them with ventilators. We have tremendous numbers of ventilators. In fact, i hear, i understand that Governor Cuomo is going to be sending up to massachusetts some of the excess ventilators that we were able to get, and that is great. I think that is a great thing. The number of new hospitalizations is also significantly down. When you look at these numbers, it is a good thing to see. Other than the fact that we also know how people have been ravaged by this curse, by this horrible scourge, plague. It has got many different names. In many of the hotspots, including a 50 decline over a nine day period in new york city, that is a fantastic decline. That is a beautiful thing to see after going through the opposite. We continue to see improvement with declining trajectory of cases in seattle, detroit, new orleans, indianapolis, and houston metro areas. More evidence that our aggressive strategy is working, and i thank the American People for their selfless devotion. The American People have done a hell of a job. We are saving countless lives. And again, i will say it because i always wanted to say, can you leave it open . Nobody ever heard anything like this, not since 1917 has anything like this happened. In those days they had no real communication so you couldnt say go inside. People just died. Almost 100 million people, it is reported. Its tough. So the American People, what they have done is incredible. And they have learned a lot. And you see people picketing a little bit, and they want to get out. They want to get out and get back with their lives, and that is good, but they have learned a lot. They have learned about distancing, even now, at least until this thing totally goes away. They have learned about washing their hands and all of the Different Things that we have been talking about ad nauseam for so long. And they get it, they get it. In some places the governors are ready to go. In other places they cant go yet and they wont go. They have to have it safe. I want them to be safe. It has to be safe. And again, i have to say this, i cant emphasize it strongly enough, im probably going to show you charts of some of the countries that are really having trouble, and one in particular is having a massive problem where they said, lets go. We are just going to keep going. The lines that we are famous for, some are flat and some are up. This is like a rocket ship, this country, and they didnt they decided, lets go and lets wing it. They thought it was ok. But it is a problem, its a big problem. And it is another couple, there is one in particular, the people are staying in. Ok . The head of a country doesnt have to say stay in. These are smart people, they know whats going on, they see what is going on. They can say they are not doing that but the people are staying inside. There are not a lot of people outside sitting at cafes, despite what the motive a country is. But if you look at europe, most countries have did this. Italy tried not to, spain tried not to. They went that way. France tried not to. I mean, nobody wants to do this. It is a brutal step. We are going to close down your country. Whoever heard of a thing like this . But we would have had millions of people die if we didnt do this. Millions of people. And i believe that, mike. In looking at things we have been looking at over the past couple days, i think and really, over the last couple weeks, from the time we did it, shortly thereafter i said we made the right decision in closing down. Made the right decision on borders, banning people coming in from china, banning ultimately people coming in from europe. But we would have had millions of deaths instead of, it looks like we will be at about the 60,000 marks, which is 40,000 less than the lowest number thought of. So this is not a case where people would say we would have had that number, it is similar to a flu. It is not the same as a flu at all. If we would not have done anything, you would have had the flu would have 35, it goes from 27 to 35, 40, 50 sometimes. Its over a long period of time, much different. Even a much different death, to be honest. A much different death. This is violent. Cms is finalizing new guidelines for doctors and patients to resume elective surgeries. Its a big thing. Lots of hospitals were closed. Couldnt do any elective surgeries. They will be able to start doing that. Procedures and medical care that needs to be done in person, as long as the rate of infections remains low in a community we want patients to be able to go to their doctor, get clinically tested, and have work done, surgeries. Receive treatment for chronic conditions and resume preventative care. We will be allowing that to happen very soon. We had no capacity in the hospitals with what happened with the plague. They had no capacity to do it. If your doctor believes you need a treatment in person, you can get a treatment now. You can and should get a treatment now. We are asking that Health Care Facilities have plans in place to keep patients safe during their visit. Some places like new york, new jersey where they got hit hard, its gonna be a little tougher. They have done a really great job, but they really were a center. They were a center. I was watching that, it was incredible. Now they are leveling off and i think they will be coming down very soon. Administrator seema verma will be telling you a little bit more about it. Mike will tell you a few words, then seema will speak, tell you a little bit more about that. Our administration continues to supply our hospitals with equipment they need, and beds if necessary, but it looks like we are totally covered on beds. We have plenty of beds. It is highly unlikely, that would be bad news if we needed more beds, but it looks like it is going just the opposite direction. I want to thank Governor Cuomo, the relationship there for this whole thing, we are building hospitals. It was very good. We built a little bit more than we needed, and that is good, as opposed to building a little bit less, that is not good. But he has worked very well with us. The governor of louisiana has been great on that whole situation with the beds. Frankly, the governor of michigan was very good with us on beds. You know, it is a very complex subject. You need buildings or you have to do tents or a lot of Different Things, a lot of different ways. The army corps of engineers was fantastic. They were fantastic. Florida, likewise. Governor desantis. And i could name probably six other locations. I tell you, california was fantastic. He was really good. He was really good. And i appreciate the fact that he said what he wanted to say and he wasnt letting the press force him into saying something that he didnt want to say, so i appreciate it very much, governor of california. He really worked very hard. We worked together. He worked very hard. The federal government is currently procuring more than 100,000 ventilators through new production or purchases, with thousands already delivered. We have delivered thousands of new ventilators all throughout the country. New york would be i guess be the biggest user. And they are now taking some of their excess ventilators, which is great, and they are sending them up to massachusetts. I think it is 400. And thats a great thing. Our total supply of ventilators continues to exceed by a lot the total expected demand. Governor cuomo said today that no one who needed a ventilator was denied a ventilator. That is a beautiful statement and i appreciate it. And all governors are in that same position. We do have a clip that i thought would be appropriate to put up today. It will take two minutes, and i think you will find it interesting. But we appreciate it. And lets see if we can do that, you will turn out the lights and we will see if we can do that. Thank you. [video clip] gov. Cuomo we bent the curve. [inaudible] the government facilitates peoples actions, right . We had to double the Hospital Capacity in new york state. That is what all the experts said. The president brought in the army corps of engineers, they built 2500 beds at javits. It was a phenomenal accomplishment. Close to 1000 people have gone through javits. Luckily, we didnt need the 2500 beds, but all the projections said we did need it, and more, by the way. So these were just extraordinary efforts and acts of mobilization, and the federal government stepped up and was a great partner. And i am the first one to say it. We needed help and they were there. State and local governments were fantastic. The