And cease power. Were seeing a lot of that right now. This president is an accelerant for that kind of thinking we take you live to the white house for a News Conference from president trump. Tremendous sense of working on hurricanes. Theyve gotten very good at it. We certainly have plenty. Even since ive been here weve had a lot of them. Thats in good shape. Hurricane sally. Well discuss big 10 football at the end. Thats a terrific thing. I want to go into the Vaccine Distribution. Today my administration released our detailed Vaccine Distribution plan. That includes a plan to ensure we swiftly deliver the vaccine directly to americas Senior Citizens in Nursing Homes and its all set. We have our military lined up. Everybodys lined up. And we think thats going to go very nicely. Were very close to that vaccine, as you know. And i think closer than most people want to say and certainly closer than most people understand. We get the vaccine into the hands of the American People, were fully mobilizing the awesome power of american industry and also our military. This is the largest, fastest and most advanced Vaccine Distribution effort in American History by far. I was reading where biden was saying that, oh, hes going to have a plan. They did so bad on swine flu, you wouldnt even believe it. Take a look at their record. The person that headed it up said it was a total disaster. Were on track to deliver and distribute the vaccine in a very, very safe and effective manner. We think we can start sometime in october. So, as soon as it is announced well be able to start, thatll be from midoctober on. It may be a little bit later than that. But well be all set. So, as soon as its given the goahead, theyre doing trials, as you know. As soon as its given the goahead, we will get it out, defeat the virus. Weve manufactured all the necessary supplies so as soon as the fda approves the vaccine, and as you know were very close to that, well be able to distribute at least 100 million vaccine doses by the end of the 2020. And a large number much sooner than that. Im calling on biden to stop promoting his antivaccine theories because all theyre doing is hurting the sporimport of what were doing. I know if they were in this position, they would be saying how wonderful it is. Theyre recklessly endangering lives. You cant do that. Again, this is really a case that theyre only talking just starting to talk a little bit negatively and thats only because they know we have it or we will soon have it. The answer to that is very soon. The case updates, its very interesting to see whats happening because the test Positivity Rate is down among all age groups and has fallen below 5 for the First Time Since this whole nightmare of the china virus began. So, its fallen below 5 . The number of hospitalized patients has decreased by 43 from the midjuly, 43 . Nationally, people sick with the china virus now make up only 1. 5 of all emergency room visits. So, were down to the lowest number weve had, 1. 5 of emergency room visits is for the china virus. And thanks to our life saving therapies and treatments, i think this is the best of all in terms of our great percentages and all the progress weve made. The fatality rate has fallen 85 since april, 85 fatality rate. If you look at all weve done, all the lives weve saved im going to ask that a graph be put up. And now its up. This is our prediction if we do a really good job, well be at about 100,000 to 240,000 deaths, and were below that substantially. And well see what comes out. That would be if we did a good job. A not so job would be between 1. 5 million i remember these numbers so well and 2. 2 million. Thats quite a difference. So, were down in this territory. And thats despite the fact that the blue states had tremendous death rates. If you take the blue states, were at a level that i dont think anybody in the world would be at. Were at a really low level. But some of the states that were blue states and blue state managed by the way, we recommend they open up their states. I think its very important they open up their states because if we look at certain of them, north carolina, pennsylvania, michigan, and a couple of others, we have to get those states open. Its hurting people. Its hurting people far more than the disease itself. So, we would recommend you open them, let your people have freedom. And its unfair to your freedom to keep them closed at this stage. We know the vaccines are coming, but we know the problem. We understand who the vulnerable are, which is primarily people with medical problems, but in particular people with medical problems that are older. So, open up your states. To facilitate routine testing of the nursing home residents and staff, weve delivered Rapid Testing devices to all 1,000 excuse me 13,850 certified Nursing Homes nationwide. So, you have 13,850 certified Nursing Homes nationwide, and they are being facilitated in terms of testing and testing apparatus. Everything is there. We also have new tests coming and we have one in particular that i think i showed last night, which is literally two pieces of very fine cardboard. Its actually a lot of delicate things going on inside that cardboard. But its an incredible test. Its very quick. Its very accurate and moves along rapidly. We bought millions of those tests, and theyre going to be distributed rapidly. So, theres nobody in the world that has a Testing Process like ours. In addition to being number one. Number two, which is india, is close to 50 million tests behind us, i believe. 50 million. At one point 5 million people. Tomorrow Vice President pence will be announcing the findings of the nursing home conditions to continue protecting our most vulnerable, which is our Senior Citizens. Were going to take good care of them. I want to congratulate big 10 football. Its back. And i want to, in particular ive been dealing with them, thank commissioner kevin warren for 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. That was another disinformation rumor put out by the biden campaign. And it was just the opposite. But it really spurred me into action. I called the commissioner a couple weeks ago and we started really putting a lot of pressure on, frankly, because there was no reason for it not to come back. And kevin went into work very hard. I want to thank the players, the coaches for working along. And they wanted it very badly. The players and coaches in particular, the parents also. And big 10 football just announced, as you know, that their schedule announced a schedule, and its going to be great, important to have. I want to recommend that the pac 12 also get going because theres no reason why pac 12 shouldnt be playing now. And perhaps theyll start with at least partially i had recommended today to kevin and others that maybe you want to start off with 25 of the stadium, or maybe you want to start off with empty. I dont know. I think they could have fans go, frankly. But they want to be careful. They want to be safe and they will be safe. Theyve got a very good Testing Process for the players, coaches, families, et cetera. So, i just want to congratulate big 10. Its going to be great. Were going to love watching that. And, again, i want to recommend pac 12, youre the only one now, open up. Open up, pac 12. Get going. Said the same thing to big 10 and they did. And now im saying it to pac 12. You have time. You really have time right now. Get going. I want to thank all of those wonderful coaches, some of whom i spoke with. And we went through a process over the last couple of weeks, and i want to thank congressman Anthony Gonzales of ohio, who as you know, was a great football player. Some people know that. I know that. But anthony was a great player. Great receiver. Went to the nfl. Also, i want to thank tim of my staff. He worked very hard on this and he was up day and night working with kevin and everybody else. So i want to thank tim, great job. So, big 10 is back and its going to have hopefully a great season. The census recently found that in the Second Quarter of 2020, hispanic americans homeownership reached a record alltime high. Thats alltime in the history of our country. Yesterday the census reported that Median Income for americans increased by 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 obama biden administration, and it widened fairly substantially and it narrowed under the trump administration. Theres a little fact you didnt know. It narrowed under us and it widened under obama. Income grew more last year alone than over the entire eight years of obama biden. And thats a big statement. But thats the way it is. In 2019, 4. 2 million americans were lifted out of poverty. Thats the largest Poverty Reduction of any president in history. 4. 2 million americans were lifted out of poverty. The hispanic american poverty rate reached the lowest level ever, history of our country. Hispanic american poverty rate, lowest ever. The biggest gains went to lower income americans as they measure that kind of thing. We will be back to full strength very soon. Were going to have a fantastic year next year. Its looking like that. I think youre going to have an incredible third quarter. The numbers are looking very, very strong for the third quarter. We have numbers that were going to put out tomorrow, some of the individual things. Car production, housing production, housing ownership, so many Different Things are just at levels that nobody thought possible as we round the turn on the pandemic. The antipolice crusade from the democrats and the radical left and radical left democrats also has to stop. The left wing war on cops puts our officers in danger and our communities at very grave risk. Cant do this. Biden described the police as the enemy. Theyre not the enemy. Theyre the friend. Theyre our friend. Theyre helping us. And if you go to we just saw a poll that just came out, recently game out, where africanamericans are 84 wanted more police, they wanted safe neighborhoods. In phoenix last night a federal officer was gunned down in a drive by shooting. In l. A. This weekend, this horrible human being or whatever you want to call him, theyre looking all over. Theyre trying to find him. Were going to find him. Were going get him. In l. A. This weekend, two sheriffs deputies were ambushed and viciously shot. And they can never be the same. Theyre getting better, but they can never be the same. Ill always stand by our heroes of law enforcement, and we want to stop this horrible rhetoric and stop it fast. I want to ask scott atlas to say a couple of words because i heard biden talking today about he wants to come up with a distribution plan, a distribution for the vaccine that we came up with. Couple things. We came up with that vaccine. Itll be announced fairly soon. But regardless, this month, next month, in a level of time that nobody thought was possible because of what we did with our fda in terms of streamlining it. I want to thank dr. Han. But what weve done with the 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. Thats 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, 12 years to get them approved. Weve moved those schedules up a lot. But if this were obama biden, this would have taken two, three years before you were at a stage where we are now at. So, were going to be very soon, and its sort of funny to watch joe biden getting up and reading a teleprompter and saying how he would have done this. They had h1n1. He calls it in n1h1. Its called the swine flu and was a disaster. As i said, the person that ran it for him said the worst things about. They just didnt know what they were doing. They had no clue. And that was easy by comparison to this. This is the most contagious, contagious flu or virus that anybodys seen. This is unbelievable how contagious it is. You found that out. But i watched biden quickly as he discussed without having without knowing a thing about a distribution plan, and he said that we dont have a distribution plan. But we do indeed. Our military. We have military. We have everybody involved. Its its a great plan, and its a plan like no other. And we can start doing it, i believe, the day that we come up with the vaccine when its done. Well start that same day or the day after. Our militarys very much involved. And they deploy troops. They deploy these are the generals that do logistics and all of those things, and well have it all over the country. And then ultimately hopefully well be helping the world with the vaccine. And its very exciting. But maybe i would ask scott atlas to come up and describe a little bit about that, the distribution plan, in particular, because biden acted as though there was no distribution plan, and weve been working on this for months. And its ready. And scott has really taken ahold of it and done an incredible job. And please, scott, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, mr. President. I didnt develop the plan. Im just relaying information here. But this is a plan thats a 57page document that was sent to every state today, and theres a different part of this that was given to congress today. It was released on the website. In fact i thought it was covered by the media, so i dont think its a surprise. So, its a comprehensive plan. Its a Public Private partnership to get everything done in terms of logistics. The i. T. Thats necessary to trace the first dose because some of these vaccines are anticipated to be two doses. Theres tailoring of course by the states and theres specifics and theres an administration of the vaccine plan that will be done in over 51,000 outlets, including for particular attention to minority areas. Over 14,000 federally qualified Health Centers. And as the president just said, within the first 24 hours of the fdas approval under emergency use, we will have vaccines being delivered within the first 24 hours. And it will be done at virtually no cost to americans. And the terms of the dosage, there will be it is anticipated that no later than january all the top priority people will have received the vaccine or be able to receive the vaccine. And so that kind of prioritization, which is the general prioritization done for all vaccines that are developed, particularly in a pandemic setting, goes to the high risk people, the people with other underlying conditions as well as First Responders and people working directly in health care. So, thats going to be done very rapidly. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. President. Yes, go ahead. Mr. President , earlier today, dr. Redfield confirmed that it looked like november, december, the first doses would be able to be distributed. But then you said that the vaccine for the general public likely would not be available until probably next summer, maybe even early fall. Are you comfortable with that timeline . No, i think he made a mistake when he said that. Its just incorrect information. And i called him, and he didnt tell me that. And i think he got the message maybe confused. Maybe it was stated incorrectly. No, were ready to go immediately as the vaccine is announced. And it could be announced in october. It could be announced a little bit after october. But once we go, were ready. As you know, pfizer is making this. Theyre taking a tremendous financial risk and theyre spending billions of dollars on actually making this vaccine. Theyre in a stage where theyre actually making it because they feel very confident as to the results. Theyll be announcing the results fairly soon. Thats incorrect information. He was pretty clear in the way he stated well, i think so. But i dont think he means that. I dont think he when he said it, i believe he was confused. Im just telling you, were ready to go as soon as the vaccine happens. So, when do you want to see it available . What would did a timeline i would say we will start distributing it immediately. To the general public . To the general public, very shortly really to the general public immediately. When we go, we go. Were not going to say in six months were going to start giving it to the general public. It was an incorrect statement. I saw the statement. I called him, i said what do you mean by that . I think he just made a mistake. He squlus made a mistake. I think he misunderstood the question probably. So, if you were to put a timeline on when every person in america will be able to get a vaccine, what would that be . I think it would be very soon. I think our Distribution Process is going to go very quickly. I told you weve engaged the military. We have a general whos in charge of all logistics who delivers soldiers. Hes a fantastic guy. Hes supposed to be fantastic at what he does. We figure thats better than any company youre going to hire. You cant hire a company like that. We look to distribution immediately after we get the word that its good. And i think theyre having tremendous success with the vaccine itself. I think the results will be early and strong. The safety has to be 100 and were going to insist on that. And obviously the companies are going to insist on that also. Could you put an actual date . January, february . Scott, what would you think . Yeah, as i said, the high priority people will have in some no later than january. Of course it depends on when things are approved im talking the low priority people . I can finish. Then it is anticipated there will be 700 million doses by end of q1. So, by the end of march. Thats q1. Dr. Atlas, do you mind if i ask you a question . Q1, he said . Thats the end of march, right . Its one thing to have the doses, but we talk to a lot of public experts say this is happening in the winter and you have to socially distance, we cant have the packed lines that we saw in h1n1, we cant have packed auditoriums, you have to space it out. Another thing theyre worried about is storing the vaccines. Since we dont know which one is the winner, doctors offices may not have dry ice to handle it. These are chall