Youd have to get pulled over by the police in order for your data you dont have to get pulled over by the police in order for your data to be put into the system. Announcer sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Announcer in his first public remarks in a week, President Trump announced the development and distribution of the coronavirus vaccine. Part of his administrations efforts called operation warp speed. Pfizer announced its trials appear to be more than 90 effective and will apply for emergencies authorization from the fda emergency use authorization from the fda. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. Its beautiful out here this time of year. In the past nine months, my administration has initiated the single greatest mobilization in u. S. History pioneering, developing, and manufacturing therapies and vaccines in record time. Numbers like nobody has seen before. No medical breakthrough of this scope and magnitude has ever been achieved this rapidly, this quickly. And we are very proud of it, and i had tremendous help from the military generals, admirals, and many of the great people at the white house. Operation warp speed is unequaled and unrivaled anywhere in the world, and leaders of other countries have called me to congratulate us on what we have been able to do, and we have helped many countries with their ventilators and all of the problems they were having. And 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. This far exceeds any and all expectations. Nobody thought that they would get to that level. And we have others coming which we think will be at equal level maybe more, if thats possible. In july, my administration reached an agreement with pfizer to provide 1. 95 billion to support the mass manufacturing and distribution of 100 million doses, with the option to purchase a total of 600 million doses shortly thereafter. Our investment will make it possible for the vaccine to be provided by pfizer free of charge. Pfizer said it wasnt part of warp speed, but that turned out to be an unfortunate misrepresentation. They are part. That is why we gave them the 1. 95 billion dollars. And it was an unfortunate mistake that they made when they said that. We will work to secure an emergency use authorization, which should be coming down extremely soon. And my administration will then coordinate the distribution of the vaccine, and it will be approved, i think again, it will be approved very, very quickly, we hope. The average Development Timeline for the vaccine, including clinical tests and manufacturing, can take 8 to 12 years. Through operation warp speed, we are doing it in less than one year. If you had a Different Administration with different people, what we have done would have taken, in my opinion, three, four, five years, and it would have been in the fda forever. This is five times faster than the fastest prior Vaccine Development in history. Five times faster. Say it again. Five times faster. Nobody can believe it, actually. Three other vaccines are also in the final stages of trial. They will arrive within a few weeks, and they will also be mass produced, and the delivery will be very rapid. We are ready to go. The vaccine will be distributed to frontline workers, the elderly, and highrisk americans immediately. It will be very, a matter of weeks. Get out very, very much ahead of schedule. Any schedule that i said, we are going to be far ahead of that. We know that this virus primarily targets older populations and those with Underlying Health conditions. Over 99. 98 of those under the age of 50 make a full and quick recovery. By giving the vaccine to highrisk individuals right away, we will dramatically reduce 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 world. We have developed the most and the best tests. And we test far more than any other country, so it shows, obviously, more cases. By vaccinating the elderly and the highrisk, we will effectively end this phase of the pandemic and allow seniors to reclaim their golden years the golden years of their lives, which is so incredible. And it is about time that they can have those golden years. Again, this process is starting right away. Millions of doses will soon be going out the door. They are all ready, waiting for that final approval. As soon as april, the vaccine will be available to the entire general population, with the exception of places like new york state, where, for political reasons, the governor decided, they say and, you know, i dont think its good, politically. I think it is very bad from a health standpoint but he wants to take his time with the vaccine. He does not trust where the vaccine is coming from. These are coming from the greatest companies anywhere in the world, greatest labs in the world. But he does not trust the fact that it is this white house, this administration. So we will not be delivering it to new york until we have authorization to do so, and that pains me to say that. This is a very successful, amazing vaccine at 90 and more. But so, the governor, governor cuomo, will have to let us know when he is ready for it. Otherwise, we cannot be delivering it to a state that wont be giving it to its people immediately. And i know many i know the people of new york very well. I know they want it. So the governor will let us know when he is ready. He has had some very bad editorials recently about this this statement and whats happened with respect to Nursing Homes and his handling of Nursing Homes, and i hope he doesnt handle this as badly as hes handled the Nursing Homes. But were ready to provide it as soon as they let us know that theyll actually use it. And again, its a very safe and a great vaccine. Already, we have among the lowest casefatality rates our country anywhere in the world, the entire world. And we performed significantly better than our peer countries. As far as therapeutics are concerned, my administration has also made critical investments in therapies that have helped reduce the mortality rate by 85 . Thats, to me, one of the most exciting things. Its incredible, some of the antibody vaccines and others that have come out and have really helped people 85 . Last month, the fda approved remdesivir, and weve secured enough remdesivir to treat 850,000 patients. My administration finalized an agreement with eli lilly to purchase the first doses of their antibody therapy, which shows amazing results. This treatment will be available completely free of cost to patients. 5,000 units have already been shipped, and many more are going out the door as we speak. We also reached an agreement with astrazeneca for the largescale manufacturing of their antibody treatment, which is excellent. We expect to issue emergency use authorizations for a number of additional treatments in the near future. Tremendous promise. But remember the 85 number. Thats an incredible, incredible number. But we have some tremendously promising drugs on line and ready to come out. We have ensured that our frontline workers have all the tools they need. My administration has invoked 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 have received the ppe almost immediately upon request. Every american who needed a ventilator has had access to a ventilator. Think of that. A 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 hasnt had it. Every single request has been immediately filled. So that was something. That was a great job. And now we are helping the rest of the world with ventilators, because its a very hard thing. We are producing them, thousands of 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 that its 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 its ready to break the alltime record. Our jobs records are incredible. The job numbers are incredible. In the last six months, weve created over 13 million jobs and slashed the Unemployment Rate by more than half. Last quarter, we witnessed the fastest Economic Growth ever recorded in the history of our country 33. 1 . Its a number that is more than double our highest that was in 1952, and weve 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 costs 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 to a lockdown. Hopefully, the whatever happens in the future who knows which administration it will be . I guess time will tell. But i can tell you, this administration will not go to a lockdown. There wont be necessity. Lockdowns cost lives, and they cost a lot of problems. The cure cannot be you got to remember cannot be worse than the problem itself, and ive said it many times. And when you look at what happens during a lockdown i just say it very loudly, its horrible what happens with drugs, alcohol, depression, loss of jobs, business closures. Its 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 the disease. Its a complicated disease, but we understand it very well. We ask all americans to remain vigilant, especially as the weather gets colder and it 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. General perna and dr. Slaoui have been incredible. The general is really Getting Started right now, but really what we dont know and what people dont know, he started putting this all together six months ago, and youre going to see some real action. So, general, maybe you will start it off . And then, doctor, you will go right after that. Thank you very much. And then, we are going to finish it off with mike pence. Ok . Thank you, please. Thank you. Sure. Dr. Slaoui thank you, mr. President. Hi, everybody. So operation warp speeds mission is to enable and accelerate the development of vaccines and therapeutics to help control the covid19 pandemic and save lives. On may 15th, 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 with the best our best to achieve it. Today, we are almost six months later, and i think we can say that 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, weve selected a portfolio of six vaccines, using three different platform technologies, and we elected to have two vaccines from each platform technology. The first platform is whats called messenger rna, and two vaccines using that platform were in the portfolio, one by pfizer and one by moderna. The second platform is using what is called a live viral vectors, and we had one vaccine from j j and one vaccine from astrazeneca, in partnership with oxford university. And the third platform was the recombinant protein platform, with one vaccine from a Biotech Company here in the u. S. Called novavax and another one from a partnership between sanofi and glaxosmithkline. These six vaccines are all in the Clinical Development stages, and four of them are in phase three trials. And of the four that are in phase three trials, two have effectively completed enrollment in the phase three trial. And one of the two has announced on monday to, i think, thrilling information that they had 90 percent efficacy that was the Pfizer Vaccine demonstrating that vaccination is possible against covid19, that the kind of choices we have made in terms of the antigen selected was effective, and made us optimistic that other vaccines may also be effective. On wednesday, the same week, just this wednesday, moderna, the other company with the vaccine using similar platform technology, messenger rna announced that they have achieved the number of cases in their trial to allow for a first interim analysis, and 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 that are in phase three trial that are using the live vector platform , the j j vaccine and the astrazeneca vaccine, have recruited already a few thousand subjects 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 these Clinical Trials, as thats the only way we are able to achieve a demonstration of the safety and the efficacy of these vaccines. The last two vaccines, the protein recombinant protein vaccines, are planned to start their phase three trials within the next few weeks. And while we are developing these vaccines, we havent only looked at the Clinical Development, of course, in partnership with the companies that are the sponsors for the vaccine. We also invested very significantly in the manufacturing of this vaccine, in such a way as to when we have the clinical efficacy demonstration with these vaccines, we would also have vaccine doses to be able to immunize the u. S. Population. So the two vaccines that are completing their phase three trial are likely to be filing their files with the fda for a potential emergency use authorization within the next few weeks. And hopefully, if approved, they could be used for immunization in the u. S. Population in the month of december. And we have, 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 from there on. And as of the month of february or march, if we have more vaccines approved, such as the live vector vaccine, we may be able to immunize a larger number of americans, on an ongoing basis, per month. Operation warp speed didnt only focus on vaccines. We also looked at therapeutics. And we have worked with a number of Companies Developing monoclonal antibodies, in particular, that are able to neutralize the virus. As mr. President said, we have announced partnerships with eli lilly, with regeneron, and with astrazeneca. And, on monday, eli lillys Monoclonal Antibody was granted an emergency use authorization to treat the patients that are infected and at risk of hospitalization. The regeneron monoclonal antibodies have been also filed for emergency use authorization, which is currently under review and is potentially reaching approval within the next few weeks. And finally, astrazeneca, just in the last few days, has received a 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 highrisk subjects, as a protective alternative to a vaccine. So, potentially two vaccines and two therapeutics may be granted an emergency use authorization before the end of this year. I think its 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 its when the fda grants the green light to go into Clinical Trials, or whether when the data safety monitoring boards review the safety of the studies on an ongoing basis and sometimes put them on hold, as im sure you have witnessed with the astrazeneca vaccine, for instance. And these 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. So its not the companies. Its not operation warp speed. Its not the u. S. Government. It is independent experts that assess the safety and the efficacy of the vaccines that are being tested. And when the fda will review these vaccines and therapeutics, they will also have the advice, public advice, from boards. One of them is called the vrbpac, that 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 then makes its decision to either authorize the vaccine or not authorize it. On that basis, i personally feel very comfortable to say that the vaccines and the therapeutics that we have helped develop and accelerate will be judged independently, and, if approved, should be used by all in the population. Because i believe vaccination is likely to be the cornerstone among all the other measures that we have to take to help us really control this pandemic. I will now pass to my coleader, general perna, who will tell you more about the support that the operation has provided to manufacturing of the vaccine and also to their distribution. Thank you very much. General perna mr. President , thank you for allowing me to