Current Coronavirus Vaccine development progress. This is one hour. This is an hour. President trump thank you very much, everyone. Thank you. Good afternoon. Hurricane sally made landfall, and u know, in alabama florida last night as a category it caused 35 and inches of rainfall in some places. Lot. s a we have hundreds of fema, coast guard, the National Guard ersonnel on the ground assisting, in response to the efforts, and alabama is in great shape. Every place that were working with the state governments, great shape. Were working very hard on that, like its going to be mostly safe but just follow your structions of all of local and federal people there. The best people you can have. To thank everybody. I want to thank everybody for working so hard in florida, and very good at this. The people in florida handle it. They know how to handle it and know ople working there how to handle it. The governors have all been to, and its a combination of spirit. They have a tremendous core. They have a tremendous sense of hurricanes. They have gotten very good at it and weve certainly had plenty since ive been here. Weve had a lot of them. Thats in good shape. Sally. Ne were going to talk about big 10 football but thats a terrific thing. That at the end. I just want to go into the vaccine distribution. Administration released vaccine National Distribution plan, to ensure that we swiftly deliver the americas Senior Citizens in Nursing Homes, and its all set. We have our military lined up. Is lined up. And we think thats going to go very nicely. Were very close to that you know. S i think closer than most people say. To certainly closer than most people understand. To get the vaccine into the people. The american were fully mobilizing the awesome power of the american industry and also our military. This is the largest, fastest and most advanced vaccine american on effort in history by far. I was reading where biden was to have oh, hes going a plan. They did so bad on swine flu, you wouldnt even believe it. Their record on swine flu. In fact, person who headed it up it was a total disaster. Were on track to distribute and deliver the vaccine in a very effective manner. We think we can start sometime in october. Announced as its well be able to start. That will be from midoctober on. A little bit later than that but well be all set, so as soon as its given the go ahead, they are doing trials as and as soon as we get the goahead well get out to virus. The weve manufactured all the 234es supplies so as soon as the vaccine, as es the you know were very close to that well be able to distribute t least a hundred million vaccine doses by the end of much and a large number, sooner than that. m calling on biden to stop promoting his antivaccine theories because all they are hurting the importance of what were doing, and i know hat if they were in this position they would be saying how wonderful it is. Endangering ly are lives. You cant do that. Case this is really a that they are only talking, just started talking a little bit negatively and thats only they know we have it, or we will soon have it, and the to that is very soon. The case updates, its very to see whats happening because the test Positivity Rate is down among its fallen s and below 5 for the first time nightmare of le the china virus began. 5 . Its fallen below the number of hospitalized patients has decreased by 43 midjuly. 43 . Nationally people sick with the now make up only 1. 5 of all emergency room were down to the lowest number weve had. Visits isergency room for the china virus. Lifesaving o our therapies and treatments, i think this is the best of all in erms of our great percentages, and all the progress weve made, fallen 85 e has since april. 85 fatality rate. You look at what weve done and all of the lives that weve going to ask that a graph be put up and now its up. This was right at the beginning. Our prediction, if we ata really good job well be about a hundred thousand to 240,000 deaths and were below substantially and well see what comes out. That would be if we did the good job. Not so good job was done it would be between 1. 5 million numbers so hese well, 2. 2 million. Thats quite a difference. So were down in this territory, fact that despite the the blue states had tremendous death rates. States out,the blue were at a level that i dont think anybody in the world would at. Out of all those levels but some of the states, they were blue states managed. By the way we recommend that they open up their states. Theynk its very important open up their states, because if you look at certain of them, carolina, pennsylvania, others, we couple of have to get those states opened. Its hurting people. Far more ng people than the disease itself. So we would recommend that you let your people have freedom and its unfair to your people to keep them closed at stage. We know the vaccines are coming but we know the problem. Who the venerable primarily people with medical problems, particularly lder people with medical problems so open up your states. To facilitate routine testing of residents and me staff, weve delivered rapid devices to all 13,850 ertified Nursing Homes nationwide. O you have 13,850 certified Nursing Homes nationwide and they are being facilitated in and testing testing apparatus. Everything is there. Tests coming ew and we have one in particular that i think i showed last night literally two pieces of very fine cardboard. Delicate lly a lot of things going on inside that cardboard, but its an test. Dible its very quick and its very accurate. Rapidly. S along we bought millions of those tests, and they are going to be distributed rapidly. So the Testing Process, where there is nobody in the world process like ting ours. In addition to being number one. India, is which is close to 50 million tests hyped us, i believe, scott. Million. They have 1. 5 billion people. Tomorrow, Vice President pence findings nouncing the of the Nursing Home Commission to continue protecting our most our senior which is citizens, and were going to take good care of them. To congratulate big 10 football. Its back. In particular, ive been dealing with them. Thank kevin commissioner warren of the great job he did. Weve been working with him for a while. There was a rumor being spread that i didnt want football back. It was just the opposite. Disinformation rumor put out by the biden campaign. Nd it was just the opposite, but it really spurred me into action. Called the commissioner a couple of weeks ago and we started putting a lot of pressure on, frankly, because for it not reason to come back. Kevin went to work very hard. Want to thank the players and coaches for working along. They wanted it very badly. Coaches in and particular. The parents also. Big 10 football just announced, you know, their schedule. They announced a schedule and it ill be great, important to have. I recommend that the pac12 also get going because there is no why pac12 shouldnt be playing now. Erhaps they will start with at least partially, i had recommended today to kevin and start maybe you want to off with 25 of the stadium, or maybe you want to start out with know. , i dont i think they could have fans go they want to be careful and safe. Very good ot a Testing Process for the players, families, coaches. Congratulate big 10. It will be great. Well love watching that. To recommend pac12. Now, open only one up, pac12, get going. 10 id the same thing to big and they did and now im saying to it pac12. You have time. Get going. Cess to over the last couple of weeks. Anthony was a great player and cismd went to the nfl. I. I want to thank my staff. Up day and night working with everybody else. Hank you, great job, so big 10 is back and it will have hopefully a great season. In thesus recently found Second Quarter of 2020, hispanic americans Home Ownership reached alltime high. Thats all time in the history of our country. Census reported that Median Income for americans ncreased by an unprecedented 4,400 last year to a record of 68,700. In 2019, income inequality fell for the second straight year. The income gap widened under the administration and widened quite substantially narrowed under my administration. Income grew more. Ast year alone, than over the entire eight years of obamabiden. Thats a big statement but thats the way it is. Were 2 million americans lifted out of poverty. Thats the largest Poverty Reduction under any president in history. 4. 2 million americans were lifted out of poverty. Poverty nic american rate reached the lowest level ever. In the history of our country. Hispanic american poverty rate, lowest level ever. Created the greatest and fairest economy in the history. The biggest gains went to lower ncome americans, as they measure that kind of thing. Well be back to full strength very soon. Have a fantastic year next year, Something Like that. I think youll have an quarter. Le third the numbers are looking very, very strong for the third quarter. Put ve numbers that well out tomorrow. Some of the individual things. Production, housing production. Housing ownership. O many Different Things are just at levels that nobody thought possible. S we round the turn on the pandemic. Antipolice crusade from the democrats and the radical left radical left democrats also has to stop. War on cops puts our offices in danger and our risk. Ities at very grave cant do this. Biden described the police as enemy. They are not the enemy. They are our friend. You are helping us, and if go to i just saw a poll that came ame out or recently out, where africanamericans by police. Ted more they wanted safe neighborhoods. In phoenix last night a federal gunned down in a driveby shooting. In l. A. This weekend everybody that, this horrible human might want ver you to call him. Looking all over, trying to find him. Were going to find him. Were going to get him. Ut in l. A. This weekend, two sheriffs deputies were ambushed and viciously shot, and they can never be the same. They are Getting Better but they can never be the same. Always stand by our heroes of Law Enforcement and we want horrible rhetoric and stop it fast. Scott atlas to say a couple of words because i about,iden talking today he wants to come up with a distribution plan, a distribution for the vaccine up with. Ame a couple of things. We came up with the vaccine, it announced fairly soon but regardless, this month, next time that level of nobody thought was possible because of what we did with our f. D. A. In terms of streamlining it. I want to thank dr. Hawn, but with the done streamlining has been incredible. And very safely. Number one is safety. Number two is speed. But you can have perfect safety and have much more speed and what we did. We did this for more than the vaccine. Having to do with the china virus. This was also for other things. So many other great drugs are out there that would take 10 or to get them approved. E moved those schedules up a lot. But if this were obamabiden, taken two or e three years before you were at a stage where were now at. Going to be very soon. Ts sort of funny to watch joe biden getting up and reading a he prompter and saying how would have done this. It had h1n1, he calls the n1h1, its called the it was a disaster, and, as i said, the person who him said the worst things about it. They didnt know what they were doing. They quit. Clue and that was easy by comparison to this. Contagious, contagious flu or virus that anybody has seen. How is unbelievable contagious it is. We found that out but i watched as he discussed without having without knowing a thing about a said bution plan, and he that we dont have a distribution plan, but we do indeed. Our military. We have military. Involved. Erybody its a great plan, and its a lan like no other, and we can start doing it. I believe the day that we come when its vaccine, done, well start that same day or the day after. Our military is very much deploy , and they troops. These are the generals who do logistics and all of those hings and well have it all over the country and hopefully well be helping the world with vaccine. But maybe i would ask atlas to come up and describe a little distributiont, the plan in particular, because biden i didnt develop the plan. Its a 57page document a different part of this was given congress. Hsf. As released by on the site. I thought it was coverage by the media. Comprehensive plan. A publicprivate partnership. Everything done in terms of logistics. The i. T. Thats necessary to race the first dose because some of these vaccines are anticipated to be two doses. Taylor, of course, by the states, and there is a specific and administration of that will be an 51,000 outlets including paying particular attention to minority areas. Qualified federally Health Centers, and as the president just said been the f. D. A. s ours of approval. Under an emergency use well vaccines being delivered within the first 24 hours. At virtually no cost to americans. Of the dosage, it is anticipated no later than anuary, all the top priority people will have received vaccine or already be able to steve vaccine. Prioritization, which is a general prioritization done for all vaccines that are developed in the pandemic setting, goes to the highrisk with other people underlying conditions as well as First Responders and people healthcare, ctly in and so thats going to be done rapidly. Hank you schulte mr. President , earlier today, redfield conferred that it looked like november or december, the first doses would distributed. But then you said the vaccine or the general public likely would not be available until probably next summer. Maybe even early fall. Are you comfortable with that time frame . President trump i think he made that. Take when he said thats just incorrect information, and i called him nd he didnt tell me that, and i think he got the message maybe confused. Maybe it was stated incorrectly. Ready to go immediately as the vaccine is announced. It could be announced in october. Could be announced a little bit after october. Ready. Ce we go, were as you know, pfizer is making taking a tremendous financial risk and spending billions of dollars on actually making this vaccine. At the stage where they are actually making it because they feel very confident as to the results. Be announcing the results fairly soon. No, thats incorrect information. He was clear in the way President Trump i dont think he means that. When he said it, i believe he was confused. Im just telling you. Were ready to go. As soon as the vaccine happens. Timeline . You want to see President Trump well start immediately. It for the general public . President trump very shortly, to the general public immediately. When we go, we go. Were not looking to say in six start were going the giving it to the general public. It was an incorrect statement. I saw the statement and i called said what did you mean by that . And i think he just made a mistake. Mistake. Ade a i think he misunderstood the question probably. A so if you were to put timeline on when every person in america will be able to get a would that be . President trump very soon. Our Distribution Process is going to go very quickly. You, weve engaged the military. We have a general who is in all logistics who deliver soldiers. Hes a fantastic guy. Be fantastic at what he does. Thats better than any company you can hire. You cant hire a company like that. We look to distribution get the ly after we word that its good. And i think they are having the ndous success with vaccine itself. I think the results will be early and strong. A hundred has to be percent and were going to insist on that and obviously the that ies will insist on also. Could you put an actual date on it . Resident trump what would you think . As i said, the high priority will have it sometime no later than january. Of course, it depends on when things are approved. Im talking to then anticipated therapy, 700 million doses by the end of q1. Doses. Lion by the end of march. Q1. Do you mind if i ask you a question. Sure. March, right . As public a lot experts, this is happening in you have to socially distance. So have to space it out thats one thing. Another thing they are worried is storing these vaccines. Since we dont know which one is the winner, you know, doctors not have dry ice to handle negative 80 degrees. Challenges. Are you prepared to say you can overcome all of those in three months . Yes. Least ive been briefed on the vaccine. So all the refrigerators that are necessary, everything is to be in place for them. Here is a very detailed logistical plan that started months ago. Youre welcome to read it on the eb but basically, yeah, all of those things are not a problem really. Know how to ople shop for groceries, the usingrants that are open, social distancing, they can do it. President trump you also have company. N one you have johnson and johnson, miderna. Ner are you prepared to sign even though the treasury isnt getting paid and does the your requirement . President trump they have giving me studies on the deal. It has to be hahn percent as far secured is concerned. No, im not prepared to sign off on anything. I have to see the deal. Security especially after what weve seen with respect to china and whats going on. We want security. Let you know. They will be reporting to me morning. Ill let you know. The payments to the treasury . President trump well see. Youre not allowed to accept money. Kind of thing is this . If they are willing to make big payments to the government they there is owed because ay of doing that from there is no legal path to doing that. They are willing to make a big payment to the government and we arent allowed to take the money . When does this happen . Foolish can we be . Into that right now. I said no, i want a big chunk of to the ernment to come government. The lawyers say there is no way of doing that. You know what . Ecause nobody has ever said that before. Nobody has said well approve the deal but we want a lot of to the government because by approving the deal were making the deal valuable. They have never heard of that before. Okay . Can you believe that . You. Said it was earlier [inaudible] proposals o the submitted, they would keep a majority stake and oracle would a minority . President trump were looking at that from the standpoint of dance. Conceptually i dont like that. Yet. s not been told to me