U. S. History, high nearing, manufacturing therapies and vaccines and record time. Numbers like nobody has seen before. The medical breakthrough of this scope and magnitude has never been achieved before. This rapidly, this quickly. We are very proud of it. Ive had tremendous help from the military. Generals and admirals and many other great people at the white house. Operation warp speed is unequaled and unrivaled anywhere in the world. Leaders of other countries have called me to congratulate us on what we have been able to do. We have helped many countries with their ventilators and all of the problems that they were having. I would like to congratulate everyone involved in this effort. It has been an incredible effort. As a result of operation warp speed, pfizer announced on monday that its china virus vaccine is more than 90 effective. And all exceeds any expeditions. Nobody thought that they would get to that level. We have others coming, and that we think will be coming at equal level or maybe more. Reachy, my administration an agreement with pfizer to provide to support the mass Manufacturing Industry ration of 100 million doses. There is the option to shortly produce our administration will make it possible to provide the vaccine by pfizer free of charge. Pfizer said that it was not part of warp speed, but that turned out to be unfortunate miss representation. They are part of it. That is why we gave them the 1. 5 million. It was an unfortunate mistake they made when they said that. We will work to secure an emergency use authorization, that which will be coming down extremely soon. My administration within coordinate the distribution of the vaccine, and it will be approved. Again, i think it will be approved very quickly, we hope. The average Development Timeline for the vaccine, including clinical tests and manufacturing intake eight to 12 years. We are doing it in less than one year. If you had a different administers and with different people, what we have done what are taken and my opinion, three or four or five years and it would have been in the fda forever. This is five times faster than the fastest vaccine developing in history. Say again. Five times faster. Nobody can believe it actually. Three other vaccines are in the final stages of trial and they will arrive within a few weeks. They will also be mass produced in the delivery will be very rapid. We are ready to go. The vaccine will be distributed to frontline workers, the elderly, and high risk americans immediately. It will be a matter of weeks. We are very much ahead of schedule. , we will bed i said far ahead of that. We know that this virus primarily targets order operations and those with Underlying Health conditions. 99. 98 of those under the age of 50 make a full recovery. Reduce dramatically hospitalizations and deaths. Case levels are high, but a lot of the case levels are high because of the fact that we have the best Testing Program anywhere in the road. We had to up the most and the best tests. It shows more cases. By vaccinating the elderly and high risk, we will effectively and this phase of the pandemic and allow seniors to reclaim their golden years, it decoded years of their lives. And that is so incredible. It is about time they can have those golden years. This process is starting right away. Millions of doses will soon be going out the door. Already waiting for that final approval. As soon as april, the vaccine will be available to the internal general population with the exception of places like new york state where, for political reasons, the governor decided to say i dont think it is good politically, i think it is back from a health standpoint, but he wants to take his time with the vaccine. He does not trust where the vaccine is coming from. They are coming from the greatest Companies Tha anywhere in the world but he does not trust that is this white house so we wont be delivering it to new york until we have authorization to do so. That pains me to say that. This is a very successful, amazing vaccine that 90 or more. The governor, Governor Cuomo will have to let us know when hes ready for it. Otherwise, we cant be delivering it to a state that wont be giving it to its people immediately. I know the people of new york very well, i know they want it. The governor will let us know when hes ready. Hes had some very bad editorials recently about this statement and whats happened with respect to Nursing Homes and his handling of Nursing Homes. I hope you does not handle this as badly as he has handled the Nursing Homes. We are ready to provide it as soon as they let us know they will actually use it. It is very safe and great vaccine. We have among the lowest case fatality rates in our country anywhere in the world, the entire world. And we have performed significantly better than our peer countries. As far as therapeutics are concerned, my administration has made critical investments and therapies and has helped reduce the mortality rate by 85 . That is one of the most exciting things. Its incredible, some of the antibody vaccines and others that have come out and have helped people. 85 . Last month, the fda approved remdesivir and we have secured enough remdesivir to treat 850,000 patients. My administration finalized an agreement with eli lilly to purchase the first doses of their antibiotic therapy which shows amazing results. This treatment will be available completely free of cost to patients. 5000 units have already been shipped and many more going out the door. We have reached an agreement with astrazeneca for the largescale manufacturing of their antibody treatment which is excellent. We expect to issue emergency youth authorizations for a number of additional treatments in the near future. Tremendous promise, but remember the 85 number. That is an incredible number. We have some tremendously promising drugs online and ready to come out. We have insured our frontline workers have all the tools they need. My administration invoke the defense production act and related authorities over 100 times, and have made a historic investment into our industrial base. All states that requested ppe from the federal government has received the ppe almost immediately upon request. Every american who needed a ventilator has had access to a ventilator. Think of that. Very complicated piece of equipment, very expensive. And we havent had one person in this whole country that has requested or needed a ventilator that has not had it. Every single request has been immediately filled. That was something, a great job. We are hoping the rest of the world with ventilators because it is a hard thing. We producing thousands of ventilators a month. The federal government has 22,000 beds immediately available for states and jurisdictions that need additional capacity, but we think it is going to start going down. Possibly very quickly. We will see what happens, but with the vaccine, you will see numbers going down within a matter of months and they will go down very rapidly. As we continue to combat the virus, our economy is rebounding far beyond any expectations. I see the stock market is up almost 400 points today again and ready to break the alltime record. Our jobs records are incredible, jobs numbers are incredible. The last six months, we have created over 13 million jobs and slashed vilna plummet rate by more than half. We witness the fastest Economic Growth ever recorded in the history of our country. 33. 1 . It is a number that is more than double our highest in 1952. We have more than doubled it. The United States experienced the smallest Economic Contraction and the most rapid economic recovery of any major western nation. We went down less and we went up more, which is quite a combination of facts. While healthy americans have gone back to work and to school, we continue to spare no expense to protect the elderly and the vulnerable. According to some estimates, a National Lockdown cost 50 billion a day and hundreds of thousands of jobs every single day. Ideally, we wont go to a lockdown. I will not go. This administration will not be going into a lockdown. Hopefully whatever happens in the future, who knows, which administration, i guess time will tell. I can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. It will not be a necessity. Lockdowns cost lives and they cost a lot of problems. You got the rubberto remember, e cure cannot be worse than the problem itself. When you look at what happens during a lockdown, i say very loudly, it is horrible what happens with drugs, alcohol, depression, loss of jobs, business closures. It is a terrible thing. So, this administration will not go, under any circumstances, will not go to a lockdown but we will be very vigilant, very careful. We understand it is a complicated disease but we understand it very well. We ask all americans to remain vigilant, especially as the weather gets colder and becomes more difficult to go outside and to have outside gatherings. And with that, i just want to ask some very talented people to come up and say a few words. Doctor, havehe been incredible. The general is Getting Started right now, but what people dont know, he started putting this all together six months ago. You will see some real action. General, maybe you will started off and then, doctor, you will go after that. And then we will finish it off with mike pence. Thank you. Please. Thank you, sure. Thank you, mr. President. Hi, everybody. Operation warp speeds mission is to enable an accelerated development of vaccines and therapeutics to help control the covid19 pandemic and save lives. On may 15, almost six months ago to the day, we stated the goal of the operation which was to have vaccines and therapeutics available and approved for use in the u. S. Population by the end of the year 2020. We said then that while very challenging, the goal was credible, and therefore, was worth trying our best to achieve it. Today, we are almost six month later and i think we can say significant progress has been made. And while we are not there yet, we are close to the objective. Let me share with you some facts. If i look at the vaccine side, the portfolio of six vaccines using three different platform technologies and we elected to have two vaccines from technologies, the first platform is called messenger rna. Two vaccines are using that platform in the portfolio. One by pfizer and one by moderna. The second platform is using what is called viral vector. We have one vaccine from j j and one vaccine from astrazeneca. The third platform was the protein platform with one vaccine from a Biotech Company in the u. S. Called novavax, and another one from a partnership. Inse vaccines are now all the Clinical Development stages. Four of them are in phase three trials. Of the four that are in phase three trials, two have effectively completed enrollment in the phase three trial. One of the two has announced on monday that 90 efficacy, the Pfizer Vaccine. Demonstrating that vaccination is possible against covid19, that the kind of choices we have made in terms of the antigen was effective and made us optimistic that other vaccines may also be effective. On wednesday, the same week, mo derna, the other company with a vaccine using similar platform technology, messenger rna, announced they have achieved a number of cases in their trial to allow for first interim analysis. I would expect that shortly, probably next week, we may hear what i hope to be another very good information regarding an efficacious vaccine. The two other vaccines in phase three trial using the live vector platform, the j j vaccine and astrazeneca vaccine, have recruited a few thousand semblance in their trials. I would like to take this opportunity to invite as Many Americans as possible who would like to volunteer to participate in this clinical trial, as that is the only way we are able to achieve a demonstration of safety and efficacy of the vaccines. The last two vaccines, the protein vaccines, are planned to start their phase three trials within the next few weeks. Are developing this vaccine, we have not always looked at the Clinical Development in partnership with the Companies That are responsible. We have also invested very significantly in the manufacturing of these vaccines. In such a way as to when we have the clinical efficacy demonstration with these vaccines, we would also have vaccines to immunize the u. S. Population. Arethe two vaccines that completing their phase three trials are likely to be filing aeir files with the fda for potential emergency use operation within the next authorization within the next few weeks. Hopefully, if approved, they could be used for immunization in the u. S. Population in the month of december. And we plan to have enough Vaccine Doses Available for use in the u. S. Population to immunize about 20 million individuals in the month of december, and another 25 to 30 million per month on an ongoing basis thereon. From the month of february or march, if we have more vaccines approved, such as the live vector vaccines, we may be able to immunize a large number of americans on an ongoing basis per month. Did notn warp speed only focus on vaccines. We also looked at therapeutics and we have worked with a number of Companies Developing antibodies, in particular that are able to neutralize the virus. We haveresident said, enough partnerships with eli lilly, regeneron and astrazeneca. Among the eli lillys antibody was granted emergency use ientsrization to treat pate that are infected and at risk of hospitalization, the regeneron fileddies have been also for emergency use authorization which is under review and potentially reaching approval within the next few weeks. Finally, astrazeneca in the last few days has received the green light to start two large phase three trials with their monoclonal antibodies supported by operation warp speed to prevent the acquisition of covid19 disease in very frail subjects or in very high risk subjects, as a protective alternative to vaccines. Two vaccines and two therapeutics may be granted in emergency use operation before the end of this year. I think it is a remarkable achievement within a period of six to seven months. It is important to note that this progress has been achieved without any political interference. I said it many times. And at every step has been and is being judged by independent expert bodies. Whether it is when the fda grants the green light to go into Clinical Trials or whether whether data safety boards review the safety of the studies on an ongoing basis, and sometimes put them on hold as i am sure you have witnessed with the astrazeneca vaccine, for instance. Same data safety monitoring boards are the independent boards of experts that analyze the efficacy of the vaccines and the safety of the vaccines and tell the companies whether they should progress with the filing of an emergency use authorization or not. Its not the companies. It is not operation warp speed. It is not the u. S. Government. It is independent experts that assess the safety and efficacy of the vaccines that are being tested. Reviewn the fda these vaccines and therapeutics, advice,l also have the public advice from boards, one of them is the Advisory Board to the fda for vaccine reviews. After review of the data, transparently and available to everybody to look into before the fda makes its decision to either authorize a vaccine or not authorized it. On that basis, i personally feel comfortable to say that the vaccines and the therapeutics we have helped avella and accelerate develop and accelerate will be judged independent. I believe vaccination is likely to be the cornerstone among all the other measures we have to take to help us really control this pandemic. I will now pass to my coleader, who will tell you more about the support that the operation has provided to manufacturing of the vaccine and to their distribution. Thank you very much. Mr. President , thank you for allowing me to continue service of our great nation as a coleader on this mission. Let me start by emphasizing for me what is operation warp speed about. It is about saving lives. It is a Herculean Task that the president put us on many months ago and as the dcooctor just lad out, we are making steady progress and we are ready to execute. Through the whole of american approach, we have leverage the best of nation, and federal government, local, state, industry and academia to expand the capacity and give ability to achieve our mission. It has been powerful. We have capitalized on the best contracting, logistics and planning experts available to synchronize and integrate all phases of the operation from developments of the vaccine, manufacturing of the vaccine, and finally, distribution of the vaccine. Six months ago, the capacity did not exist in our nations pharmaceutical production base. We went to work building brickandmortar manufacturing facilities, bringing in the right specialized machinery and equipment, and prioritizing supply chain materials through the defense production act. Today, we expect to have tens of millions of doses immediately following, and we will distribute them as soon as the fda applies the eua. We will do that within 24 hours of the eua. We are harnessing the strength of commercial industry and the existing vaccine delivery capabilities and infrastructure. Our nation deserves this. Proines will be allocated rata by population so we ensure fair and equitable across. We need the states who are part of the planning to accept the vaccine. We are working closely along with the cdc, the 64 jurisdictions and states to ensure vaccine can safely and quickly get to those who need it first. And then, we have plans to ensure that it spreads exponentially across our country and that no place is left without a vaccine. At the end of the day, our success is going to be judged by the availability of the vaccine as shots go in arms. It is the partnerships we have formed with the pharmaceutical Companies Like pfizer and moderna, distribution Companies Like mckesson, fedex and ups, and pharmacies like cvs and walgreens that have agreed to do things differently, to think how can we get this to the American People