Amgen, genentech, gilead, regeneron, four of the greatest in the world for doing exactly what theyre doing. And currently 10 different therapeutic agents are in active trials an some are looking incredibly successful we have to go through a process. It will be a fairly quick process, i tell you based on what the fda told me. 15 are in plans for clinical trials. Theyre advancing rapidly. A Second Company announced that the fda authorized it is vaccine candidate to begin clinical trials. Johnson johnson is already there. I believe theyre the one thats first and now we have a Second Company that Just Announced and we were just, was just approved. So we have two companies at that level, for the vaccine itself. We have you no performed 100, well, if you think of this, 1. 79 million tests. That is one million, 790,000 tests nationwide. I think were going to put up a screen here someplace that theyre on cue, just on cue. And here it is. This is the process starting on 5 march and ending right there, right about now, right . Thats about it. So, and it is going up at a rapid rate. Nobody has done more testing. And one of the reasons why they say, and i think i can say this, deborah, very strongly but one of the reasons we have more cases is because weve done more testing. If i went to some of these countries in my opinion far more people than we do that had the problem and if we did the kind of testing proportionally that were doing they would have many more cases than us but we have more cases because we do much more testing. So when you do the testing you have cases. Otherwise you wouldnt know about the cases. People sit home, you do not know about it. We have now done one million 790,000 tests nationwide, that is more than any other country in the world, hence we have more cases. And that number is growing by nearly 125,000 people per day. Think of that one. So it is growing by 125,000 people per day. I told you about south korea. This is a, you know vastly faster and we also have, they say the most accurate of tests. Cvs is launching and they have been great, two new drivethrough testing sites in atlanta, georgia and providence, rhode island and each location will be able to test up to 1000 patients per day using the ultrafast fiveminute test developed by abbott labs. Now theyre down to five minute. They call it the ultrafast and its very accurate. Abbott labs, i want to thank them. They have been fantastic. Were also speeding urgent Economic Relief to the American Worker and families and the employers. As of today tens of thousands of Small Businesses applied for more than 40 billion in relief under the Paycheck Protection Program youve been reading about it. It has only been going couple days. It is performing well, a couple little glitches, minor glitches, taken care of what they say. These funds will result in nearly two million jobs preserved. Were taking care of Small Businesses and our workers. Nearly three thousand lenders already made loans under the program and were signing up additional lenders very quickly, rapidly. Community banks have been very responsive and larger banks are also stepping up. If we run out of funds by the way were already preparing because it is going so fast for the Small Businesses and their employees. Well ask congress to refill it immediately but the banks have been great. The big banks, bank of america was right up there at the beginning. Jpmorgan chase was, has been great after the first day, they really, they really came through and a lot of the big banks but the Community Banks have been fantastic. As we announced last week we are providing 100 billion in direct support for our hospitals and the first tranche, 30 billion will be distributed this week. So i want to say one other thing, our farmers, we love our farmers an as you know as of april 1st the china trade deal, 250 billion, they purchased 250 billion from us, if not more and of that approximately 50 billion is expected to be with our farmers. So it kicked in as of april 1st. Well see how it goes. It seems like theyre buying. So well let you know how thats going but theyre buying anywhere from 40 to 50 billion worth of our agricultural products. That should have a huge impact on our farmers, a tremendous impact on our farmers but were watching it very closely. To fight the medical war weve mobilized the unbeatable and, just, it is unbeatable strength of american determination, ingenuity and compassion. I got to see that when i spoke to the great science, i call them Science Companies more than Drug Companies. Theyre scientists. Weve seen businesses, charities and private citizens making generous donations. So many people are making donations. Weve seen states and cities supporting and helping each other and caring for our citizens. And weve seen americans of all background and beliefs uniting together to answer the challenge and rise to the moment. That is what theyre doing. Above all weve been awed, inspired by the exceptional courage of the doctors, nurses, emts, Health Care Workers who are the soldiers of this war. No words can ever express the complete measure of our gratitude for these intrepid heroes. One cleveland patient credited his medical team for not only saving his life but their skill but forever changing his life through their example of selfless devotion. Count believe it. So generous he was with his statements. And he talked about their bravery in an area that was in such trouble, an area of that hospital where people were dying. He talked about their bravery. Another survivor in houston said simply, i will consider them, my angels forever, i will consider them, think of that, my angels forever, as our nation endures the depths of loss and grief, were also witness to the summit of american virtue, character and courage with the love and dedication of every american patriot. We will win this battle, we will defeat this enemy, we will rise from this present crisis with new strength, urnty and resolve and thats whats happening. Tremendous stories are coming out of this horrible moment, very dark moment, for the world. 182, i was saying, 151 for a while and then it got up to 160 and 182 as i announced yesterday, 182 countries are being attacked by this virus. So i just want to thank everybody. I want to thank the american citizens for doing a great job. Stay inside and lets win this and lets get our country open as soon as we can. I think it is going to be sooner than people think. Things are going really well. Again light at the end of the tunnel. And with that i will take a few questions, then mike is going to take over and talk with the admiral and with the professionals and we appreciate you being here. Yes, please. Reporter mr. President , you mentioned you were asking the Drug Companies to provide treatment to the british Prime Minister. What sort of treatment is that . Is that available yeah, it is a very complex treatment of things they have just recently developed and that they have a lot of experience with having to do with Something Else but recent for this and they will be, they have already concurred, they have already had meetings with the doctors and well see whether or not they want to go that route but when youre in intensive care its a big deal. So theyre there and theyre ready. I think we have three of them. I spoke with four. You know who the four would be and you know the people within those. You probably, you would know the companies, i told you the companies but the people with the greatest, the greatest in the world. So theyre at the hospital and well see and they have, they have everything with them should it be needed. Hopefully wont have to be needed but should it be needed. I just, i found him, i found boris to be a fantastic person, just like a fantastic, warm, strong, smart guy. He loves his country. You see that. He fought like hell for his country. And intensive care is big stuff, really big stuff. Reporter you were asked about this as well but now that he is moved to intensive care does that give you the or the Vice President , pause or concern to take steps within the government here . No, i dont think so. Mike had his test a couple days ago. I had my test couple days ago. Were here and here you are. No, i dont think so. I think well probably because of questions like that i think well probably have maybe quite a few tests. It is not the worst idea. The system of testing now is so quick and so easy. So i could see, you were tested again today . Are you sure youre okay . Im okay. Reporter mr. President , despite nearly 1. 8 million tests you said the United States has done the Inspector General for the department of health and Human Services released a report today, survey of more than 300 hospitals across the country and the number one complaint from those hospitals were severe shortages of testing supplies and really long wait time. That is just wrong. Did i hear the word Inspector General, really . Its wrong. They will talk to you bit. Its wrong. This is your own government . It is, where did he come from the Inspector General . What is his name. Came from the inspect store general report. I dont know his name. Let me know. Find me his name i would appreciate it. But sir, these are hospitals that put up on the board, youre going to ask, youre going to ask the admiral, but we are doing reporter hospitals are stating they wait a week or longer to get their weve done more testing and had more results than any country, anywhere in the world. Theyre doing incredible job. Now theyre all calling us. They want our testing. What are we doing . How do you the do the five minute test . How do you do the 15 minute test. Give me the name of inspect core general . Could politics be entered into that. Go ahead. Reporter thank you, sir. Are you worried about retaliation to your decision to ban export of medical goods like indian Prime Minister modis decision to not export hydroxychlorquine to export it to our country . I dont like that decision. I didnt hear it was his decision. I know he stopped it for other countries. I spoke to him yesterday. We had a very good talk. Well see whether or not i would be surprised if he would. India has done he have well with the United States. Foremany years they have taken advantage of the United States on trade, so i would be surprised if that were his decision. He would have to tell me that, i spoke to him sunday morning. We appreciate you allowing our supply to come out. If he doesnt allow it to come out, that would be okay. Of course there may be retaliation. Why wouldnt there be . Reporter thank you, mr. President. The Paycheck Protection Program has gotten off to cone fusing start for Small Business i dont think so. Reporter wells fargo stopped taking application. Not anymore they havent. Reporter bank of america, taking applications from clients bank of america has been the leader. They have tremendous numbers about applications. And of course there may have been, they wanted a slightly different application. They warranted a little bit different information but bank of america has been a leader. They are number one in terms of applications. I wish you would ask the question differently. Why dont saw say it has gotten off to a tremendous start there are some little glitches which by the way worked out. So much nicer if you do that youre just incapable of asking a question. Reporter what measures it already done. Is it has taken the measures. We may even do a different system. Not with this. Well have to probably add more money to save and keep our Small Businesses going and keep the employees of Small Businesses working by it is such a positive event and ask it in such a negative way. I wish we had a fair media in this country and we really dont. Speaking of unfair, go ahead. Reporter mr. President , the acting secretary of the navy told the crew of the uss roosevelt that captain crozier was too naive or too stupid to be in command. Is that appropriate for the office the navy to talk this way i havent hurt exactly. I havent heard the statement made, if that were the statement, it is a strong statement. Look the letters shouldnt have been sent and certainly shouldnt have been leaked this is a military operation. I must tell you i have heard very good things about the gentleman, both gentlemen, by the way. I will say this, about both gentlemen and i may look into it only from the stand spies point something should be resolved. I am hearing good things about both people. Reporter what will you look into . I may get involved if that is okay. You have two good people and theyre arguing. Believe it or not im good at settling arguments. I am good at settling arguments. I will look at it in detail i may figure out very fast. That was the statement. It was a rough statement, look, letters should not have been sent to many people, unclassified. That was a must take. It is a mistake that shouldnt have been made because its unfair to the families of the people on the ship because they get nervous. And it shows weakness and there is nothing weak about us now. Not anymore. We have the Strongest Military we have ever had and were not going to be showing weakness to anybody because we have, that ship is incredible, Nuclear PoweredAircraft Carrier and we dont want to be doing, writing letters. We dont want to have letter writing campaigns where the fake news finds a letter, get as leak. We dont want that. So the excuse me, so the letter shouldnt have been sent. With all of that said his career prior to that was very good. So im going to get involved and see exactly whats going on there, because i dont want to destroy somebody for having a bad day, okay . Does that make sense . Okay. Reporter mr. President , Vice President bidens spokesperson said he made some suggestions to you about action you could be taking with the pandemic. He did. He had a very good talk. We agreed we werent talking about what we said. We had a very good talk. It was a warm talk. I enjoyed it. I hope he enjoyed it. It was short, it was 15 minutes. Reporter did he have suggestions . He had suggestions doesnt mean i agreed with his suggestions. I told him solve of the things were doing. The conversation was a very friendly conversation. Reporter thanks a lot, mr. President , you mentioned other members of the your task force mentioned over the course of next two weeks it will be difficult time in terms of fatality. It will be a difficult week 1 2. Reporter there are a number of governors close allies of yours, mr. President , refrained to have stay at home orders. Dr. Fauci who of course is on your task force true. Reporter said it would, the state has dont have stayathome orders are putting themselves at risk around country. If dr. Fauci said that i would be inclined to call them up. We do have a constitutional problem in doing that. You understand that. There is double, there is a doubleedged sword you understand. I can do it but it is a constitutional, you can say federalist, you can say, there is lots of Different Reasons where i would rather have the governors do it, make their own determination. Theyre smaller and not in all cases but sort of smaller cases but im not sure 100 dr. Fauci said that but you can ask him. Please. I had good conversations with the governor of nebraska and the governor of iowa here and it is interesting that functionally, even though they have not given a strict stay at home what they are doing is really functionally give learn to that. We had a really good conversation with both of the governors. And you know, when i had mentioned that, i think there was a public response that they werent really doing anything at all and they really are doing a very good job, both of them. Those are the only two i spoke to but it was very good conversation, i want to make sure people understand because they dont have a very strict stayathome order they have in place a the place totally compatible with lot of things other people are doing. Reporter ask dr. Fauci,. Go ahead. Reporter you said you wanted to get back to normal as soon as possible, will we get back to normal before there is a true vaccine for everybody . How do you start lifting the restrictions . John, if back to normal acting like there was never a coronavirus problem, i dont think that is going to happen until we have a situation where you can completely protect the population, when we say getting back to normal we mean something very different from what were going through right now because right now we are in a very intense mitigation. When we get back to normal we will go back gradually to the point where we can function as a society, but youre absolutely right, i mean if you want to get to precoronavirus that might not ever happen in the sense that the fact the threat is there but i believe with the therapies that will be coming online and the fact i feel confident over a period of time well get a good vaccine we will never have to get back to where we are right now. If that means were getting back to normal, i think well get back to normal. I think with the therapies and with the vaccines that i have total confidence with the companies, im dealing with the companies, im talking to Johnson Johnson and talking to all of them, i think when you add the tremendous stimulus were giving, like for instance deductibility for restaurant conditionses for restaurants and entertainment, the money were talking about for Small Businesses and everybody to keep everybody working and other things were frankly working on right now which will be great for our people, i think when you add that to it, i think you can get more than back to normal from a economic standpoint, actually better, more than back to normal. I agree would love to see a vaccine but would immediately love to see a th