Accompanied by the Vice President of the United States. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. Today i would like to provide you with an update in our war against the coronavirus. Thanks to our comprehensive strategy and extraordinary devotion to our citizens, we have had such tremendous support all over, we continue to see encouraging signs of progress. Cases in new york area, new orleans, detroit, boston, and houston are declining. Seattle, washington, d. C. , indianapolis, and st. Louis are all stable and declining. All parts of the country are in good shape, in all cases getting better. And we are seeing very little that we are going to look at as a superseding hotspot. Hings are moving along really a horrible situation that we have been confronted with, but they are moving along. As we express our gratitude for these hardfought gains, we continue to mourn with thousands of families across the country whose loved ones have been stolen from us by the invisible enemy. We grieve by their side as one family, this Great American family, and we do grive. We also stand in solidarity with the thousands of americans who are ill and waging a brave fight against the virus. We are doing everything in our power to heal the sick and gradually the open our nation reopen our nation and to simply get our people back to work. They want to get back to work and get back to work soon. There was a hunger for getting our country back and it is happening faster than people would think. Ensuring the health of our economy is vital to ensuring the health of our nation. These goals work in tandem. They work sidebyside. It is clear that our aggressive strategy to slow the spread has been working, and is saving countless lives. For those who are infected, we have taken unprecedented action to ensure they have the highest level of care anywhere in the world. The federal government has built more than 11,000 extra beds, shipped or delivered hundreds of millions of pieces of personal protective equipment, as you know. Some of the people here are going to be talking about it, some of our greatest executives, some of the greatest anywhere in the world. And distributed over 10,000 ventilators. We have in a very short period, many have been delivered and hundreds of thousands of being built, and frankly, every governor has more ventilators right now than they know what to do with they are shipping them two different locations and we are shipping some to our allies and others throughout the world, because we have ventilators. Like the job they have done in getting this complex piece of equipment built is actually incredible. You dont hear about ventilators anymore except in a positive way. We have launched the most ambitious testing effort, likewise, on earth. The United States is now conducted more than 5. 4 million the numberly double tested in any other country, more than twice as much as any other country. Think of that. Moments ago i came from a meeting with some of our nations largest retailers, including walmart, walgreens,vs, write a, rite aid chemtura corp. Youreally and kroger. We are joined by the leaders of those Great Companies and leaders from the top medical , u. S. Stic companies cotton the American Clinical Laboratory association. These are great, Great Companies. These private sector leaders have been others exceptional partners in an unprecedented drive to expand the states capabilities and our countrys capabilities. The job they have done has been credible. The testing that has been developed and is being developed right now has been truly an amazing thing. I want to thank Abbott Laboratories for the job they have done. I want to thank roche. In particular those two have stepped forward. Abbott with a fiveminute test and in five minutes they know what the answer is. I would like to ask the executives of these Great Companies they have really helped us a lot over the last 45day period we are talking about a 45day period where many of us met, and what walmart and many others have done has been nothing short of amazing. I want to ask them to come forward and say a few words about their company. Theyre going to make a big contribution to our country. Please, come forward, please. Thank you. Thank you, mr. President , and thank you for being here today. What we would like to talk about is the progress we have made good the last time we were here was march 15, and we have made tremendous progress, and none of that progress could be made without the 47,000 people at Quest Diagnostics who are working around the clock, working around the chest and running the tests and delivering the results we need. As far as results, we have made tremendous progress. We are currently at Quest Diagnostics testing 50,000 tests per day. We have impressed by the task force to bring up that number. By the end of making 100,000 test by david these are the molecular test we do today. We also do serological testing. We started that this past weekend by the end of may, close day. 0,000 a you put those numbers together, it is 10 million tests we will be doing at Quest Diagnostics. We will be doing that in a quicker way. We have reduced it to one to two days. The turnaround will take time for people in beds, less than 24 hours. Were doing that in the same way we have done it with the fda, delivering the quality you all expect. Convenience will improve as well, with Convenient Solutions that will be able to swab individuals more easily and deliver to consumers, the ability to have consumers choose a test online with a telehealth provider. I would like to offer my colleaguewelcome my colleagues to the party of as well. Podium as well. Mr. President , thank you very much for your leadership and for having us all here today. Our scientists and Lab Technicians are working day and night to do as many tests as we possibly can for the American Public and to turn those around as quickly as possible. Just 45 days ago, we said we could do several thousand test a day. We can now do 60,000 tests a day and we are continuing to expand the capacity every single day. In addition, our scientists are working to make testing more convenient and easier. We have the swabs that are much smaller than the original ones we launched with. Athome test he that is for Health Care Workers on the front line and first responders, but we will be rolling that out much more broadly over the coming weeks, and we will roll it out with no upfront costs for the individual consumers. At the same time, we are building our capacity for serology testing. We can do about 50,000 today, and we will be doubled to do several hundred thousand per day by the middle of may. We will be working with retailers. Our colleagues are here today to help them as they stand testing capabilities across the entire country. Lastly mr. President , we have a rather large Drug Development business, and we will work with our colleagues in the mystical and pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry to ensure we do everything we possibly can to roll out medical Clinical Trials fast for new treatments and vaccines. Thank you. President , thank you, and think the administration for all of the collaboration to enable Fisher Scientific to produce the test kits that Companies Like labcorp and qwest run. We met our original summons of producing 5 million kits a week and we are looking to double that in the coming weeks, in terms of supporting testing around the world. I would like to thank my 75,000 colleagues around the world for their tireless effort to make that a reality and supporting all of our customers throughout the testing necessary to get america back to work. Pres. Trump thank you, doing a great job. Thank you. Thank you, mr. President. Im with u. S. Cotton, and we are the company that is going to produce the swabs used in these testing kits. We have about 1200 people in our company, and yo in our cleveland operation, they have gone from the qtipstyle swab to a plastic swab with a polyester kit. Our is excited our Cleveland Team is excited to help this effort. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Mr. President , thank you. Im with cvs health. It was over a month ago that we open up our first drivethrough testing site. Since that time, we have opened largescale Testing Facilities across five states in partnership with the administration and working with the governors of rhode island, massachusetts, connecticut, georgia, and michigan. Our enabling us to test 1000 individuals today with realtime results. We have the capacity to test the 5000 individuals each week. This afternoon we announced plans to expand the capacity even further. Beginning in may we will install testing capabilities in up to 1000 cvs pharmacies. We will be using drivers and parking lots with swab testing. You will see that coming online in may. Thatgnize the fact the virus is disproportionately affecting minority communities, so we are working with the National Medical association to bring testing and care into the traditionally underserved communities. Implementginning to mobile capabilities to do that. As the spaces are restarting the workforce, deaf businesses are restarting the workforce, we will assist them as they begin to come back to normal operation. Finally, i want to thank my cvs colleagues. They have done a phenomenal job in terms of helping people in many different ways all across communities in the country. They are part of this army of Healthcare Professionals and front store and firstline supervisors and workers that are doing terrific things to bring our country together, and for that, witwe owe them a huge amot of gratitude. Thank you. Thank you, mr. President. Appreciate the invitation to be here today. It was just 45 days ago we were here. I oversee walgreens in the u. S. I want to thank the over 200,000 Walgreens Team members in stores every day taking care of our patients and our customers, giving up essential daily needs, the prescriptions they need, and even covid testing all we are here. We will be expanding our testing difficulties across all states, including puerto rico. We will be able to travel level triple the point we do now in partnership with lab partners and we are excited to do that. We are excited to put the Publicprivate Partnership we have here, because that is what webled us to do this, and will work to get these sites up and running as fast as possible. As a pharmacist from im really proud to be part of this election, and not just that profession, not just walgreens pharmacists. You are doing what you went to school for, counseling patients on the medicine and helping them understand the problems were facing. Right here with everyone in the community, and we look forward to being part of the testing like we are now, serology, whatever that might look like in the future, and treatment when the vaccine does come. Thank you, mr. President , for the opportunity. Thank you, mr. President thank you, mr. Vice president. We appreciate all you are doing to get america back to work and do it safely. I represent kroger. Im so proud of our nearly halfmillion associates you are doing everything every day to keep customers and associates safe. One of the things we were able to do is provide basic practices we are doing. We call it blueprint. It is the things all of us can learn from on how to get america back working. We announced earlier today continuing to accelerate practice on testing. We are actively engaged in states next couple of weeks six states. Next couple of weeks we will take it to 12 states. Together we will win, together we will solve this problem and move on. America is always great. Thank you again. Thank you, mr. President. Im a walmart associate, and i would like to thank our associates for admitting they are doing in our stores, sams clubs, Distribution Centers, ecommerce fulfillment centers. Ago as did45 days everyone else and we have been operating sites for a while now. We are up to 20 sites across 11 states and next week we will be 45 and at the end of may we will be 100. A few weeks ago Vice President pence and i were in a Distribution Center in virginia. The president and Vice President were speaking on the phone about surgical gowns, and the president asked if we could put in an order for millions of surgical towns. We dont normally buy those so i wasnt sure if we would be able to do that. I would like to thank our apparel team and mckesson in particular for partnering with us. We have been able to secure an additional 2. 5 million surgical gowns, and by the end of may, an additional 6 million to help. Thank you for the opportunity to serve. Pres. Trump great job. President , andr. Thanks to the team regarding this great desk for getting this great operation of an money for the benefit of the country. I am with rite aid. We operating 40 of the current test sites in 25 locations across eight states. I had the opportunity as i was driving up to stop at our richmond location and see the testing in action and thank the associates. Whether it be security or pharmacy, everybody who is helping with this great effort. All of the customers appreciate this so much. It was amazing to see. I want to thank my 50,000 associates also for keeping these Retail Locations up and running during these really, really tough times. It has been quite amazing. , are going to expand our testing, and we are doing 1500 a day. Thanks. Pres. Trump so, thank you all very much it is incredible what we have been together over a short period of time. I want to thank her Vice President for the task force and the work. Every day it gets better, and we had a fantastic over the governors today. They are as thrilled as they can be, considering the fact that there has been so much unnecessary death in this country. It could have been stopped and it could have been stopped short, but somebody a long time ago, it seems, decided not to do it that way, and the whole world is suffering because of it. 184 countries, at least. I want to thank all of these great businessmen and women for the job they have done. For several weeks, my administration has encouraged the governors to leverage unused Testing Capacity in states. Very few understood that we have tremendous capacity. One week ago we provided each governor with a list of names, addresses, and phone numbers of the labs where they could find additional Testing Capacity in their states. Within 48 hours, the number of tests across the country began to absolutely skyrocketed saturday alone, more than 200 test results were reported, which is a gigantic number, bigger than any country anywhere in the world for a much longer period, a number that was an increase earlier in the month when we tested roughly less than 100,000 a day. That, andthan double that will be doubling again very shortly. Were continuing to rapidly expand our capacity and confident that we have enough testing reopening to begin reopening. We want to get our country open, and the testing is not going to be a problem at all. Is going to be one of the great assets we have. Today we are releasing Additional Guidance on testing to inform states as they develop their plans for phase and safe reopenin. Ou safe reopening. Our blueprint establishes testing platforms to detect local outbreaks and conduct contact tracing. We have it all. Other counties are calling to find out what are we doing and how do you do it, and we are helping them. We are dealing with a lot of countries helping them on testing, just like we did on the ventilators. I directed our Medicare Program to make it easier for seniors to get the testing they need and the pharmacioes. We are allowing pharmacies now to do testing. We have other testing locations we are going to be allowing also. But having pharmacies that involved in testing is a figure. We are asking governors is a big deal. We are asking governors to do the same in a medicaid programs. That is a big deal. We are deploying the full power and strength of the federal government to help states, cities, to help local government get this horrible plague over with and over with fast. There is Tremendous Energy and country right now, and she like people havent energy like people havent seen in a long time, a spirit like they havent seen. We are doing very well, very well. Considering what happened to us and what happened to others, this is something that the world has not seen for a long, long time. You can probably go back to 1917, where it was a terrible period of time. You all know what happened in 1917. It was over 100 years ago. Without them i would like to introduce dr. Birx, if you could come up, and admiral, you could come up, and you will explain how much progress we have made and where we are going. Dr. Birx thank you, mr. President the blueprint lays out roles and responsibilities to enhance our partnership between the private and public sector, bringing together state and local governments with the federal government to make sure we can accomplish and achieve our Core Principles and objectives. Looking at the first slide, the core elements of the testing plan include three. Robust diagnostic testing plans developed in partnership with states. I want to thank the governors and Health Officials at state and local levels who have been working with us day and night. Also all the Laboratory Directors in many states as well as American Society for microbiology, who have been working with us to ensure the plans were efficient and effective. Within the rob