For their handles of the response by state government, i think not doing so out of partisan motivation, but to remind some of those governors they are playing politics, several of them, that a little modesty is in order in midst of this crisis it critically required as a 7 thei a senser own struggles to contend with this crisis, no one has budget n perfect, Everyone Needs to do their best, Party Politics needs to end. The president , and his administration are throwing everything they can at response effort, yes, they have made mistakes but they have also done much, extending distancing guideline to april 30, and guideline to article 30, he had hoped symbolic day of Easter Sunday might mark the beginning of america returning to normalcy. Returning to work. But the president is now being advises that the peak of contagion may arrive at precisely that moment. Were doing a lot of things, we dont to do it too soon. You know were thinking that around easter that will be your spike that will be the highest point. We think. Then it will start to come down from there, that will be a day of celebration, we want to do it right, we picked end of april the last day, april 30. The day where we could see Real Progress and we are expecting to see that. Lou doctor Deborah Berke said as many as 2 million americans could have died without the Trump Administration effort to mitigate the cases when they did. Today, she said that the number still may reach 200,000. President trump is fighting to keep casualties low, urging the nation this morning to enight, o through a little bit more hardship. The big thing, it will gone, hopefully sooner rather than later and keep the deaths down to a minimum number, there is tremendous death. But keep them down to the minimum number. Lou virus impact fda approved a plan to put on a fast track, distribution of millions of doses of clear clear gierd hydorxychloroquine. And the needed masks that allows them to be used by doctors, nurses and first responders, joining us di is dr. Mehmet oz. Great to see you employment numbers of troubling to us, reaching as well, i was about to say as many as 200 these. But dr. Berke said that means that everything is done pe perfectly, were expecting difficult times ahead, your thoughts . Well, two weeks ago, i was hoping by now wed have more theyre cla clarity. We know that numbers in new york is stabilizing that getting better. The miles that i look at would predict we have 140,000 deaths a lot of people, but that is not 2. 2 million, i hope by acting correctly, and efforts in each persons home, that is how we will win this battle, the people listening to my voice right now, models predict could be in 50s of thousands of people, note a tragically high number if we could keep it that low over 200,000. Were learning i am hoping from what is happening in new york, babad news is that new york is a war zone. We missed the boat. It is too easy to look backwards and pick up the errors, but there are other hot spots cities, chicago, new orleans, detroit, where were seeing, tips of the iceberg, problems that might sink the beautiful cities. Do when we did aggressively 2 weeks ago. Lou there has been failures, and vocalized by some local mayors, some state governors, meanwhile, i want to get your opinion of the response of the Trump Administration in a nonpartisan manner, because, they did make mistakes, about testing, mistakes about having adequate supplies, and now, testing is inadequate, but that role was a shared role between state governments and the federal government, was it not . You know there is plenty of blame, you can look in Rearview Mirror but never stare, the testing is single biggest challenge, you are blindfolded, you cant make decisions decisions that normally should be data driven, you have to make gut instinct decisions, i think across the board for most of our Civic Leaders has been done pretty well. And everyone could look back say, i wish i did it 3 or 4 days earlier, but as we watched it evolve that was not evident to most. The biggest lesson. None of our scenarios ever predicted we would have no data. There was always an assumption we knew who was sick. And this morning, i asked a question on fox and friends, how long until we have single day testing, where i do the test, i get my result back within 24 hours, forget about an hour, by next morning, you know what happens in hospitals, a patient has sniffles and a fever, is it covid19 in i dont know, you need isolation, the rooms and equipment, everyone is scared, no one can visit them, for a week, that is approximately how long it takes, you sit there not knowing if you have a potentially lethal infection or you had a little bit of nothing, that is inefficiency that is hurting our system. That is the single biggest thing we have to improve that. If we can fix that in next week, we will change our management of this disease, well identify hot spots and intervene on them, ready i hope by middle of the month, and when april 30 comes not whole country but some, it will be safe to go back in the water, because people liked dr. 4 fauci will say that is a hot spot or it is okay there. Lou it is troubling, when i hear reports of various hospitals pressed to the beyond their capacity. Turning away young men and women, who are have 103 degree temperatures and coughing, but then told they dont have kno an underlying condition, therefore they dont qualify under the federal guidelines. They will happen, they happen in health care, but to see this happening with an absence of adequate supplies of testing, people told you have to wait 5 to 7 days, who knows how many people they will contact in that period of time. We have to get those tests in far greater numbers and far with a far sooner arrival date. The good news is, with approval of the device to give us results in less than 10 minutes well have point of service treatment, you dont have to be in a hospital to get the test, it can be done in a Doctors Office or a mobile spot. If a friend of mine calls me, said i have a fever, i feel fatigued and a dry cough, i say, you might have covid19, most of the time it shows you dont have it, but dont go to the hospital, if you dont have it, you will get it when you get there. Im hoping and i believe that these tests will change that dynamic. But here is the challenge, we have to act to data. People make brave decision to shut down, industries in future if they get contaminated, you will go down, offices, buildings, but country in general will keep moving forward, the big challenge is what happens after april 30, keep the doors open, open the spigot slowly but make sure you are not making a big mistake. Lou and the Administration Fast tracking everything it can. Hydorxychloroquine, among them, and chlor clear itself. What there is along list of things done well, i to applaud task force for moving quickly, femabuilt hospitalled in new york the Javits Center, they did it so rapidly. But medication approval is an example of all of the red tape cuts. And hydorxychloroquine were not really sure if it will work. A french doctor said it is getting results, and chinese make it part of care. Fda said go do it when we find out when the trial shows then well either pullback or let it keep going, same for other therapies. You mentioned the masks, the idea that could do that with Hydrogen Peroxide never crossed my mind. We will get passed this. If we do it faster and more safely that shows more. Lou with the private sector turning to meeting this crisis, i think we can all expects great innovations and american to make a significant difference in the outcome. Dr. Oz thank you, we appreciate it good to see you. Thank you. Lou coming up here next, President Trump and his Coronavirus Task force, they tae rose garden, well told, when they do well have it for you. Coming up. In just moments, were told. Up next, President Trump and the task force, set to deliver the dalthedaily briefing, well brit to you live, and radical dimms in some country largest cities in states, they have some struggle with the politics of the wuhan virus pandemic, we take up that and president has moving forward podium, here he is. President of United States. Thank you very much. Very comfortable here, a lot of room. And we appreciate you being here. Yesterday i announced we would be extending our social distance guidelines through the end of april. This is based on modeling that chose the peak in fate fatalities will arrive in two weeks, and follows these guidelines we could save more than 1 million american lives. Think of that, one million american lives. Our future is in our own hands, and the choices and sacrifices we make will determine the fate of this virus and really the fate of our victory. Well have a great victory, we have no other choice. Every one of us has a role to play in winning this war, of every Citizen Family expb can ma difference, this say challenging duty. This is a very vital 30 days. Were sort of putting it on the line, this 30 days, so important, we have to get back. But the more we dedicate ourselves today the more quickly we will emerge on the other side of the crisis. And that is the time were waiting for, the more we commit ourselves now the sooner we can win the fight and return to our lives, they will be great lives. Maybe better than ever. Today we reached a historic milestone in the war against the coronavirus. Over 1 million americans have been tested. More than any other country by far. Not even close. And tested accurately. And i think what id like to do is ask secretary azar, who has done a fantastic job to come up say a few words about fact we reached now more 1 million tests, please. Thank you, alex. Thank you, mr. President. For your leadership in marshalling all resources we have for this unprecedented testing effort and thank you, mr. Vice president for leading whole of economy approach. The United States hit more than 1 million samples tested. A number that no other country has reached. Were now testing nearly 100,000 samples a day. Also a level that no other country has reached. I want to thank every partner that has been involved in this. That includes all men and women of the fda, the cdc, including director redfield and commissioner hahn. We have worked to balance need are in testing on an aggressive scale with scientific rigor that americans expect. Working with our testing coordinate or admiral, they have now unleashed the private secondtier and state of local leaders, center of americas historic approach to testing, thank those state and local leaders who used their on the Ground Resources and knowledge to lead testing and make it much more easily accessible to americans who need it. I am grateful to fema, were working closely too get state and local partners. A they need, and thank cms, they have given hiel healthcare prov, flexibility to scale up capacity for testing and treatment. We would not be where we are today without Many American companies, entrepreneurs and scientists who worked day and night, to develop as of today 20 different emergency testing options, with fda responding to question for authorize within 24 hours. The number of options is growing of day, fda opened up new options for using available tests like selfswabbing. And i want to thank fda and other components of hhs for rapid action on other tools we need, this weekend we worked to secure 30 million tablets. Are hydorxychloroquine, and chloroquine, potential covid19 treatments, and authorized new decontamination machines that can stairlize the stairlize the masks that are issue. Thank you, i would like ask dr. Hahn to come unemploy fda we have some really good stuff, the numbers have been incredible on testing, but. In the days ahead, well go faster, and we have something from abbott labs, that is right here. A 5 minute test. Highly accurate. And i maybe can show that as we listen to our fda commissioner, the job he has done and the approval process were talked about the chloroquine and hydorxychloroquine just now, alex has done that, we have that now under test with 1100 people in new york, only the fast approval by fda that allows to us do that it was a really rapid approval. And doctor say a few words this is first one on the line of 5 minute test. From abbott. Thank you, mr. President. For your leadership. I am very proud of fda staff work in last few months to expedite the availability of testing, i am appreciative of viprivate industries to work wih us quickly to develop and distribute the tests week have a addition to testing, with authorization of point of care test. Which the president has pulled out of the box. A point of care test, that gives you a result where you are getting care. This is truly a patientcentered approach. Just like tests for flu, or strep where you go to doctor get the tests didnt you can get answer within minutes of having this test done, now with them approved or abbott and others, they are available it country and planning it scale up the number of tests. Patients can get answer in little as 15 to 5 minutes. And then an appropriate plan of treatment can be given. We at fda are work, quickly with abbott and other testing approach, normally they take months to development i was on phone today. He abbott ceo he said formally in is 12 to 9 monarchproach, themonth month,approach theyn weeks. And abbott shared they will deliver the tests tomorrow, and then will ramp up. To emphasize one thing, most innovative pluc products come fm private sector in lands with the government, abbott and fda worked together to have a fast reliable, and accurate test to market. Thank you. Great job, thank you. Great job. Thank you, steve. So the Pharmaceutical Company has been working with us, and as alex mentioned, a little bit, 30 million doses of the hydorxychloroquine to the United States government, been given. And bayer donated 1 million doses of the chloroquine, which will soon be distributed to states and state Health Officials in the country. Teva pharmaceuticals is also donating 6 million doses of hydorxychloroquine to u. S. Hospitals, 6 million doses. So the private sector, you say, steve has been amazing, really amazing. And wealth in. Then we is have so many more, fda authorized the n95 respiratory mask ste sterilizatn kits. I have been asking why do you throw them away, why dont they use sterilization techniques, i got a call from governor of ohio, mike dewine. He said we can a company, names they are having a hard time getting approval from the fda, i called dr. Hahn, they got the approval, i want to thank mike and steve, they will be able each machine can disinfect 120 thousand masks per day. Think of that. Each machine can disinfect 120,000 masks per day. It will be like a new one, it can go up to about 20 times for each mask. Each mask can go through this process 20 times, they have two in ohio, one in new york, one soon shipped to seattle, washington. And also to washington, d. C. That will make a tremendous difference on the masks. This morning i speak with our nations governors. Yesterday Vice President mike pence asked our nations hospitals to begin reporting total bed capacity, icu bed eve, ventilator capacity. And mike thank you for that great job. Thank you very were. In new york the 2900 bed hospital, under construction is completed, they completed it in three days, 3 1 2. At the Javits Center. It will be completed today, will be when you look so they are going up a think well add more beds that will be completed today. And we have opened up woops there goes our box. Higmy mayor hair is blowing aros mine. You cant get away with. Nearly 3,000 medical beds will become operational, u. S. Navy ship comfort arrived today, equipped with 12 operating rooms, 1,000 hospital beds, workers have begun on National Temporary hospital sites, and and floors of a highrise building on wall street. It has been really Pretty Amazing what they have done, army corps of engineers when they have done, they just completed, think of it, a 2900 bed hospital. In new york. In just about three maybe four days, the whole city is talking about it. We bloated ifloated in a great a thousand rooms used for patients outside of what were focused onao, that will free up a lot of rooms for what were focused on. It has been great. Army corps of engineers awarded contract fo for construction of alternate care facilities also. 60 ambulances to new york city today, we have a total of 60, we getting additional ones, with up to 190 more to follow in different locations, fema obligated more than 1. 3 billion dollars in federal support to the state of new york. Were spending a lot of money in new york, it is a hotbed, no question about that. And were spending a lot of time and efforts on new york, new jersey, spoke with Governor Cuomo a lot, spoke with governor murphy, a lot. In new jersey. And were really getting the job done. People are very impressed im impressed by the people in fema, in the army corps of engineers, what they have done, i have never seen anything do anything like it. Addition to the 8100 ventilators that weve have delivered, over next 48 hours, we delivering more than 1,000, going 400 to michigan. Shortly. 300 to new jersey. 150 to illinois. 150 to louisiana, and 50 to connecticut. Fema and hhs already delivered 11. 6 million, n95 respiratories. 5 moy face shields and glove. I dont know if you just saw, that ford announced, a while ago they will produce with General Electric healthcare, 50,000 ventilators, and they will do it in less than 100 days. And to top of that we have other companies that are doing ventilators, general motors, but we have 9 other companies doing ventilators as we outpace what we need well send up italy to france. And sending them to spain. Where they have tremendous problems. And other countries as we can. But the fact that were doing so many so quickly is a tribute to the Great Companies more than 14,000 nation alguard members have been activateed and can help supplement state and local effort to distribute personal protective equipment, we sending a lot, we have planeloads comi