Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. We are here today to provide an update on the unprecedented Testing Capacity developed by the United States, the most advanced and robust testing system anywhere in the world by far. This afternoon, i will also announce new steps we are taking to make tests even more widely available. To battle the virus, my administration marshalled every resource at our nations disposal, public, private economic, industrial, scientific, all your disposal. We launched the largest manufacturing ramp up since the second world war. There has been nothing like it since. At the center of this industrial and scientific mobilization was the development of our coronavirus testing capabilities. In the span of just a few short months, we have developed a Testing Capacity unmatched and unrivaled anywhere in the world and it is not even close. This is a core element of our plan to safely and gradually reopened america, and we are opening and starting and there is enthusiasm like i havent seen in a long time. Every american should be proud of the amazing array of talent, skill, and enterprise our nation has brought to this challenge. In three months, the fda has authorized over 92 million tests and over 9 million have been performed here in the United States. Three weeks ago, we were conducting roughly 150,000 tests per day. Now we are doing approximately 300,000 tests per day, a 100 increase and it will go up substantially from that number. This week, the United States will past 10 million tests conducted, nearly double the amount of any other country. We are testing more people per capita than japan, sweden, france, finland, and many other countries, and in some cases combined. On friday, the fda authorized coronavirus antigen tests and alternative Testing Technology that can be much more readily manufactured. Queen dell corporation, which makes this newly authorized test estimates that it will be able to manufacture 150,000 tests per day, immediately increasing to 300,000 tests per day within just a few weeks. To further expand our nations testing capabilities, this afternoon i am announcing that my administration we had this all approved it is all done is sending 1 billion to america states, territories, and tribes. We have gotten it done, completed, the money is going out. This major investment will ensure america continues to conduct more tests than any country on earth by far. I said from the beginning the federal government would back up the states and help them build their staff testing capability and capacities and that is exactly what has happened. This partnership is truly has truly flourished. We have really had a really Good Relationship with the states, the governors, other representatives in the states a relationship that i think i can honestly say has not been seen in this country for many, many years. The governors and us are working very closely not only on testing, but on ventilators what we have a capacity that is at this point virtually unlimited, and we are sending ventilators, as you probably heard we are sending many, many thousands of ventilators to other countries because they are in tremendous need. Building up a lot of goodwill, and most importantly, saving a lot of lives. Most states are doing a great job. My administration located 5000 machines in 700 labs across all 50 states and governors have yet learned how to maximize these resources. The federal government is also supporting states with vital supplies, quick approvals of new tests, and oneonone coaching from the team here at the white house on how to increase capacity and increase it very quickly. In recent weeks, we have helped multiple Conference Calls with every state as well as dc and puerto rico. We developed projection goals for each state in the month of may altogether totaling 12. 9 million tests think of that 12. 9 million tests. Today, i am announcing my administration will provide the collection supplies to help states meet their targets and become rapidly. During the month of may, you hhs will be delivering 12. 9 million swabs to states nationwide. We already have them. The delivery will be quick. We are compared to provide additional swabs if any state is on pace to pass their goal. My administration will also provide approximately 9 million transport media which are used to transport swabs to the lab processing, a complicated process, but we made it simple. As a result of these actions every single state will test more people per capita in may alone in four months since the outbreak began. This major commitment is possible because of the massive mobilization of american industry, u. S. Cotton, abbott labs, and thermo fishers. Some of these companies produce rapidly for us and their products are here with us these afternoon. These are all different products that were literally just developed, and if you can imagine that, these are the best machines and equipment anywhere in the world. Other countries are calling us and we are trying to work as much as we can, not only on ventilators, but also with testing. My administration also continues our tireless effort to expand testing the most underserved communities. Through our partnership with the private sector, leading pharmacies and resort retailers are now operating 240 testing sites across the country and that is in addition to all of the other sites we have working. 70 of the sites are located in communities with unique vulnerabilities. There will be more than 300 sites by the end of this week, and retailers are making plans to open hundreds and hundreds more locations in the next 30 days. These additional sides are helping us ensure access to testing in every community. My administration is fighting relentlessly to protect all citizens of every color and creed from this terrible virus the invisible enemy. In addition to vast amounts of testing supplies, my administration has partnered with the private sector to coordinate the delivery of more than 90 million n95 masks, and these are of the highest quality many are made right here in the United States, a capacity we did not have at all the beginning. 126 million surgical masks likewise, many are made here. 9 million face shields, 21 million surgical gowns, 993 million gloves, and 10,690 ventilators. We are building thousands of ventilators in numerous plants all across our country. It is incredible, actually. The Global Pandemic has inflicted great pain and hardship in our people. It should have never been allowed to happen. It should have been stopped at the source. We mourn for every like the virus has claimed that we share the grief with all of you that have lost a loved one, and that goes worldwide, too, many, many countries. 184 countries at least. Thanks to the courage of our citizens and aggressive strategy, hundreds of thousands of lives have been saved, and we have saved if you look at on a per 100,000 basis, were at the best part of the pack, but on the bottom germany are germany and us are leading the world. Germany and the United States are leading the world in life saved per 100,000. America has written to the task. We have met the moment and we have prevailed. Americans do whatever it takes to find solutions, pioneer breakthroughs and harness energies we need to achieve a total victory. Day after day we are making tremendous strides with the dedication of our doctors and nurses these are incredible people, brave people, warriors. With the devotion of our manufacturing workers, food suppliers and lab technicians, and with the profound patriotism of the american people, we will defeat this horrible enemy. We will revive our economy, and we will transition into greatness. That is a phrase you will hear a lot because that is what is going to happen. We are going into the Third Quarter, and were going to do well. In the Fourth Quarter were going to do very good, and next year i think were going to have one of the best years we have ever had because there is a tremendous pentup demand. It is a demand i am feeling it appeared i have felt things a lot over my life and ive made a lot of good calls. There is a demand like i dont think ive ever seen. There is a pentup demand a spirit in this country like few have seen. I think you can say and we help a lot of the countries a lot. Really a lot. There is a tremendous spirit all over the world to beat this terrible, terrible thing, but we are transitioning to greatness and the greatness is going to be in the Fourth Quarter, but it is really going to be next year and it is going to be a year that we have never had before. I really believe that. As good as we have done, and we have done great we had the best economy in the history of the world not just here, but anywhere in the world you can talk china, anywhere in the country we had the best economy anywhere in the was we were going for numbers unemployment numbers where we had our best numbers, employment a little different, where we had our best numbers, almost 160 million people. All of that and we have the greatest talk market numbers ever 142 days where we set records. In a short period of time, 152 days we set records in the stock market. We rebuild our military, all built in the United States all of our equipment built, 1. 5 trillion plus. On the southern border, the wall is being built, being built rapidly, and you dont hear the opponents talking too much about the border because it seems we were right on a lot of things. One of the many things we were right about was the border. We had a very powerful border now. We had one of the best weeks in the history of our border between the United States and mexico, our southern border. We had very few people coming in, very few, almost record low numbers. The wall is being built it is up to 181 miles. It is being built rapidly. People dont talk about it anymore because it is very successful, and the area where the wall has built we want to be up to 450 by a very short period of time. We should be up to 450, and shortly after that, over 500 miles will be completed. It has had a tremendous impact. Again, we have had the best numbers. The list and we want now with his pandemic is for people to come across our southern border. Want nowst thing we with this pandemic is for people to come across our southern border. Again, we are doing record Numbers Record low numbers. I just want to thank everybody, and i want to introduce admiral kuan, if you could come up, and brad, brad smith, and they will do a little explaining with regards to testing at how successful it has been, and that we will take some questions after that. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. President , for your leadership and for your High Expectations that really made this come together, and for the uniform support of everyone in the white house and the administration. Thank you, secretary azar, for providing his leadership at hhs and allowing brad and the and i the opportunity to work on this project. I think it is clear american does lead the world in testing. I will go through some of the charts that show that we lead quantitatively, and we lead in the diversity of tests, which is very important to establish and the testing ecosystem to keep america safe, and clearly, as we have said multiple times, nobody beats america when it comes to quality. Lets start with the next slide. This might be hard to see, but if you look at the line on top, that is the total number of tests done by the United States. No other country in the world comes close to the total numbers. Again, as the president has said, today we will topple over 9 million tests. If you look at per capita, top over 9 million tests. If you look at per capita, everyone talks about south korea being the standard today we will have been more than twice done more than twice the per capita rate of testing that was accomplished in south korea. No matter how you look at it, america is leading the world in testing and how did we get the re . Lets look at the next slide. Next slide. Please. A very important component of how we came to this point with the authorization by the fda under the leadership of our secretary of many different diagnostic tests of diagnostic devices and now of serology tests. You have heard a lot about the different testing and you see some of the different machines. Most of the diagnostic tests, all but one, rely on the amplification of the vial genetic material. Viral rna, the viral genetic material. We have talked about the diversity of tests. They are very highthroughput tests that are done at big reference labs, and very importantly, there are also tests, and you heard us talk about delivering over 2 million tests vitally important to Rural America and to places that do not have large infrastructure. You have also seen the avid test. We have talked about there it is on the left of the president. Delivering about 1. 4 million tests as a point of care test. Within fiveresults minutes to 15 minutes. We have deployed over 335,000 of these tests to make sure that capability is there to research outbreaks like in Nursing Homes or certain industrial capacities, and well over 90,000 to the Indian Health service so they can test at a point of care in remote locations. The president also talked about a new first in class test. It is listed there as an antigenbased test. This is very important you have heard ambassador birx talk about this multiple times because antigen testing, although complex, it is much less complex than the nucleic acid testing. This has been authorized by the fda and as the president said, we will soon be making over 200,000 tests per day. Do the math that is 9 million point of care tests we will have every month in just a few week. It will clearly add to and to a certain degree transformer landscape. What you dont see up here is the important work the fda did i am a swab guy now. Im very interested in swabs. You have to show that a certain swab made of a certain material performed in a certain way delivers a highly accurate result, and what you are seeing up here is some of the fruits of that labor. Without the authorization of, for example, the foam nasal swab we would be blowing through ppe because of the need for full ppe just to take a test. That has been changed by this diverse authorization and a recent authorization that allows the great manufacturer, u. S. Cotton, to join our foundational industry. Last week we did over 1. 9 million tests and the number is growing. Again, as the president said and bread will talk about, our stake aspire to do over 12 million tests over the next four weeks. You see the graph drawing. What you also see is the orange bar on the bottom, the cumulative number of positives. Our percent positives are going down and that is what we want to see. In 31 states, the Positivity Rate is less than 10 , which is not a litmus test, but it is a good idea that we are doing plenty enough testing that we could enter phase one for careful reopening. I want to take the opportunity to say this does not happen by accident im seeing everyone in the audience here, and i am pleased they can be here people have been sitting in the front have been working literally 18 to 20 hours a day every single day of the week for at least the past two months. None of this happens by accident. Because of their hard work, sacrifice, their sacrifice of their family all for a common good. I am very, very honored to consider you all as my colleagues. In my last slide, as the president said, 11 billion are now being announced to be delivered to the state for the sole support of testing. This will give them the resources to partner, as they had with the federal government, to achieve the testing goals, and we will be very specific, and they know it. There needs to be minimum numbers. There needs to be numbers including Nursing Homes, those that are disabled, in prison, or working environments that might have a more likelihood to spread the infection. Combined with that, the secretarys office of Minority Health will soon be rewarding a contract to assure that those underserved, particularly racial and ethnic minorities are links to the services they need, not only testing, but in care as well. With that, i would like to hand it over to brad smith, the director of the center for medicare innovation, but has been the chief operating officer to make all of this come together. Mr. Smith i want to talk a little bit about the work we have been doing with the states. We have been working with each state to set a target for the testing go for may. Over the series of a couple of different calls, we have aligned and what those goals are. As the admiral mentioned in the president mentioned, they add up to 12 million tests in the month of may. For every state it is greater than 2 million of the population. When you compare this, south korea is below the 2 , not for a month, but the total test to date. Our states have come together to set ambitious goals. There are three parts to making sure a test can happen. The first part is the specimen collection supplies. The third second part is the machines, and the third part is the lab. The commercial market today is providing a large number of the supplies to states and hospitals. We wanted to ensure every state had more of what they needed. What we have done is purchasing of tests to support the state testing goals for may and june. We will be sending more than 12. 9 million swabs to the state over the course of may, and is similar or greater number over the course of june. In addition, we have several million in reserve. States are able to exceed their goal in the third and fourth weeks of may we can provide them additional swabs. This is in addition to what is available. There have been large numbers of testing machines across the country over 5000 different machines that can conduct these tests. The key part is making sure the machines and the labs have enough supplies to run the machines. There will be in the month of may, commercially produced over 25 million test kits to be able to support states in their testing effort. When we have been working to do with each state is understand their total goal, and each of the manufacturers has been a great partner with us, and told us how many tests they are shifting over the course of may. What we know is in the aggregate, the number of test kits the state is getting is greater than their testing goal for the month of may. In addition to what the sta