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As effective as the other pit the other is very effective, of things i havent seen in the very accurate. Last few days, but we have reserves to the department of never seen it this uncrowded. But were going to see if we health and Human Services for smart train has canceled some can do a self swab which would distribution. The first 1 million mass will service but they are still be available immediately. We are also prepared to distribute to nhs up to 2000 be a lot more popular i can deplorable ventilators for use tell you that. As needed. Yesterday was at fort dietrich, marylandwhich is probably the running and likewise for most bay area Public Transit and that would be administered systems. If you have to do essential also by a Health Official but business, you can do it using Public Transportation and there it would be a lot easier to do. Is plenty of room so you can do the fact is that the Health Social distancing which is of course what we are doing here at ktvu. You may see us standing far professionals, it would free up a lot. Let me just say the self swab is what it is. Its a self swab you do it militarys premier research yourself. Institute where i got updated the other has to be issued by a on the incredible work our people are doing as part of the Health Professional and it is inner Agency Effort to work on something that is quite vaccines. They are making great progress. Apart, that is the new norm. We have also announced we have but we are here. Certified our 16th lab and will we are healthy from what we difficult and we think it is soon certify our 16th lab to know and we will be here for working out for the self swab. Help with processing tests the remainder of the way until across the country. This all comes to an end. If it would test positive the additionally, i have directed you talk about transportation people would go and they would as the president mentioned that locally. The hospital ships mercy and i was wondering about domestic flights but what you guys think comfort be prepared to deploy about the possibility of not to increase the nations quite bedding but limiting medical capacity. We have also alerted a variety domestic flights in the country things are practically of field and expeditionary empty. They have not done it yet hospitals to be prepared to but there a lot of deploy as well as needed based cancellations out there on direction from the commander new this morning there are do what they have to do. In chief. Today leadership for now more than 200,000 we think that is probably coronavirus cases worldwide. Working out. I have asked the fda to cut through the red tape and reduce regulatory barriers. The army corps of engineers is in new york meeting with Governor Cuomo and his team. I spoke with the governor yesterday and other governors we are looking at some very that i will speaking with more exciting things. Im going to be holding a 2nd to make sure they know what dod can provide through our system News Conference either today, were going to talk about the fda and some things that are happening that are quite exciting. Were going to be doing that either later today or tomorrow, John Hopkins University has fairly early tomorrow. So we will see what happens. Been tracking cases which currently stands at more than the fda, my instructions as i 204,000. Here in the bay area there at least 367 confirmed cases. Santa clara county has more have been working very very than double than any other to address their needs. County with a total of 155 hard on a number of in my conversations with cases, five people have died governors and members of there but San Mateo County congress about dods resources, i have made it clear we will second, followed by san continue to support the francisco, contra costa and Alameda County administrations comprehensive officials are warning the efforts in the country every coronavirus in california could step of the way on ensuring our get worse before it gets better. Governor newsome signed a bill of more than 1 million to help hospitals to handle a and Nation Security remains top expected russia patient. Priority. California could need more than thousand more hospital beds. I want to thank all the Service Members and their families that have been affected by this outbreak. They are all gray heroes, we are continuing to support this. Developments and we will be were all in this together. Discussing them later with you thank you very much. Today or tomorrow. Yesterday the president made a this afternoon i will be meeting with nurses on the front lines of the battle very important announcement against the virus. The governor refused to answer they are Truly American heroes. Questions about a shortage of they want to get it done. Supplies such as ventilator they are incredible people. Saying he did not want to cause so we are going to be meeting more concern there is a shelter in place with nurses and i actually look about telehealth and this is forward to that very brave, allowing our 62 million seniors across seven bay area counties but people are told to stay theyre taking a lot of risk to be able to get medical and they have done an services from the safety of incredible job and i never their home, reducing the risk home unless they are going out for fresh air, buying complained. And without any copays. Groceries, or picking up we also making sure that the medications. We flew over Healthcare System is prepared. And those on the front lines have the support they need. I am also announcing that the the reality is, the stakes are department of housing and urban development is providing immediate relief to renters and homeowners by suspending all foreclosures and evictions until the end of april. So we are working very closely high and we need to preserve with dr. Ben carson and personal protective equipment everybody from hud. Every for those that are on the front eerily quiet. Lines of this fight. Highways that are normally busy are expected to remain empty ounties covered by that nty was to that end we have put out generation of americans has guidelines over the last two been called to make shared weeks to expand the types of sheltered place order. Allie rasmus isthin have change sacrifices for the good of the maps that can be used in routine nation. In world war ii young dramatically since the order went into effect. Care and saving those and 95s were the most risky situations. Reporter Sonoma County is conserving personal protective the latest bay area county to equipment is also essential to put the shelter in place order combat the virus. Into effect. People in their teenagers that went into effect midnight volunteered to fight. This morning. They wanted to fight so badly because they love our country. Today, cms will announce workers refuse to go home and detailed recommendations to it will remain in effect for at slept in factory floors to keep further promote this needed least the next three weeks. Assembly lines running. Covers conservation. Everyone suspects that will you know, the numbers of ships that they built during world probably go on longer. War ii to this day, nothing behind us is one of the like that has ever been equal. Businesses that is allowed to specifically by limiting nonessential, elective medical be open during the shelter in they were doing ships literally and surgical procedures. Including dental procedures. Place director. This is the Grocery Store town mall. On a daily basis. Nobody has ever seen anything we believe that these recommendations will help like it. Surgeons, patients and hospitals amortize what is to this day, nobody has seen essential while leaving the prior to a few minutes ago this anything like what they were able to do during world war ii. Store was only open to seniors now it is our time when we people 60 and up. The Security Guard was checking peoples i. D. Ultimate decision in the hands sacrifice together because we of state and local health are all in this together and we officials and those clinicians will come through together. Who have direct responsibility to their patients. To verify peoples age before is the invisible enemy. They went out. Thats always the toughest now 9 00 a. M. It is open to the general public and other stores of business that are allowed to stay open include Grocery Stores enemy, the invisible enemy. , pharmacies, restaurants can were going to beat the we urge providers and stay open although just for invisible enemy. I think we will do it even clinicians and patients to seriously consider these takeout and delivery, hardware recommendations. I will not only preserve stores, gas stations and also faster than we thought. It will be a complete victory, equipment but it also allows banks. It will be a total victory. Doctors and nurses to help during the shelter in place those that are on the front order, people cannot go to work so we will have a second lines. It will protect patients from unless i leave the house to go conference again having to do with the fda. I think it is unnecessary exposure to the virus. We fully appreciate that this is going to have a major impact on the Healthcare System. The shared sacrifice is going to be potentially a very essential to help those that exciting News Conference. Are on the front lines. We will do it as quickly as we to work unless they work as can pad whether it is today or healthcare workers, police and firefighters, delivery drivers, journalist, taxi uber and lyft tomorrow. With that i will ask mike hence drivers. Those are the professions to say a few words and take you i want to thank the medical considered essential during the society such as the american shutdown. College of surgeons and the very much. American dental association that took a proactive approach go thank you mr. President. The White House Coronavirus task force met this morning and now that we have cases in all and already posted his 50 states we are continuing to recommendations. We have also talked to the American Medical Association and they have fully indicated their support for this recommendation. We now invite the entire Healthcare Community to join us in this effort. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you mr. President. Move out on the president s my instructions from the call to bring the full president were very clear. Resources of federal i was to do everything government, the full partnership with every state Health Officials made the decision yesterday after the and territory, the full power imaginable as aggressively as county revealed there are now six confirmed cases of to the possible to protect and 9 1 2 million veterans who are part Grocery Store but one man we of the department of veterans talk to his over the age of 60 affairs. Last month we established 19 says that he has been already the American Academy to support Emergency Operations centers isolating himself from his american businesses and families. Across the country. Family and younger family members and friends for the as the president says to us in we began to limit the number of past two weeks. Every day, we will do whatever i have been and self it takes. We are all in this together. Isolation foof us in parts of s yesterday the president met with the Tourism Industry of visitors who entered our saw this coming. Executives and also had an facilities. We began, i think through the we have been reading it about engaging discussion with all it coming from china vermonts the Top Companies in our we want to point out when we industrial and medical supply did that interview with others chain. The president as you all are we used our microphone on a aware also announced today that first system to begin triaging across the country in our 170 four foot long pole so we made ted that crucial six feet of hospitals, the entrance of social distancing just to keep by Mutual Consent of the northern border will be closed anyone into our facility to all essential closed to without being questioned or tested we expanded those travel. This does not include essential restrictions to those 135 Community Living centers which have about 7800 veterans who everyone safe. Napa and solano counties are the only bay area counties left now that dont have a similar travel or the transit of goods are in acute conditions to make shelter in place order in effect although as a public but it was a mutual discussion Health Officials say there that took place between the strongly considering a pet live president and Prime Minister in santa rosa,. Trudeau in the department of homeland sit security. Sure that they were protected. The president spoke with some we also took the next step and preparing for a worstcase of the nations top business scenario Governor Newsom says leaders today to speak about it is likely few if any the supply and for our part, we california schools will be open made sure that we limited the before summer break. Are going to be conduct being a sara we are past the 9 00 hour so im guessing that means students are starting to dental surgeries that were receive those meals. Call with state and local being provided. We have cut back by one third officials to redo our own the number of routine appointments we have had. Coming commitment as the and we have canceled elective surgeries. These were all part of the president said last signinthe s reporter thats right president s directive to be as studen a ing the free stood up the federal coronation aggressive in a Public Health meals at the San Francisco Unified School District has sense as we could be. Been passing out since monday. They will continue to pass them center. I think we have set the pace out until march 27. For the entire country. Then the School Spring break fema has gone to level one. I will say we have often said starts. Its really just an insert time that we were the most noble all around. Finos mission is to support mission in the federal disasters that are locally government. Executed, state managed and our veterans have been in the federally supported. Tomorrow the president will be toughest spots in the world. They have been putting conditions that are unimaginable to most americans. Hosting all the nations they have responded, they government from a Video Conference at fema. Responded clearly, they to ensure that they have full responded with passion and also we did reach out to the San Francisco unified School Connection to all of the district about their response about possibly extending the activated regions for fema the 400,000 members of our School Closure past the originally planned three weeks. Going forward. Department who are out there on in a statement they said quote with regard to testing, i am we are monitoring all the new the front lines. Information from Public Health pleased to report that we are the last thing i will say is officials and will be adjusting accordingly. It is too soon to see when we will or will not be able to increasing the number of testing reopen schools but are open to being performed by the thousands every day. The a variety of possible spent thanks to the Publicprivate Partnership thatto currently 99 of california schools are closed from two to five weeks. That you have heard a lot about that is 6 million kids who are not in class right now. The Fourth Mission that va has it is all in an effort to slow been our First Three Missions the spread of coronavirus. Are Healthcare Benefits and education officials offered remind everyoneget tested. Memorial affairs. Our Fourth Mission is to detailed guidelines to help kids with learning Online Support the federal government during the closure. In times of National Disasters it includes fullday classroom and pandemics. We have the pictures force in plates, grabbing go case fema or hhs calls upon us to deploy medical professionals across the country to me locations and ways to navigate this unprecedented time for testing is there for those that crises. We plan for the every day, we Governor Newsom says the need it most or are symptomatic guidelines will be updated every friday to align with this or in the vulnerable evolving situation. We want to make sure that population. Dr. Deborah burke said a moment learning is still occurring, distancelearning, the online are gaming out Emergency Preparedness scenarios and we stand ready when the president needs us to expand our mission. Will address the progress were thank you. Thank you very much. Making on testing, the thank you all. Learning but we are diving deep infection rate, our recommendations to every that is very nice. We are going to interrupt american as well as some any questions . Important new findings about the impact on youth that we are the governor to bring you the president. We have been waiting to hear getting from data that is from the coronavirus white coming in from your. House task force we will listen in together. That will be important to every just in case we need it. I think you all know what it is. American. On the subject of supplies the you can do a lot of good things if we need it. President has our tax force we will have it all completed, extremely focused as the president mentioned. He is invoking the defense protection act today. Go i dont agree with that. That is an absolute total worst signing in just a little while right after im finished with case scenario. This compass but i will be signing it, it is prepared to secretary esper will describe but no we dont look at that at go. The ongoing efforts that the department of defense is taking all. We are nowhere near it. Why do you keep calling this a make radical resources the chinese virus. There are reports of dozens of so will be invoking the defense production act. Last week i signed an emergency available. Secretary Robert Wilkie will announce decisions the va has declaration under the stafford act which is you know revoked made to ask inhouse little incidents of bias against chineseamericans in this invoked previously. Country. Which activated national your own eight secretary a czar response coordination and it is says he does not use the term. Estimate to city does not cause the virus but why do you keep fully engaged now at the capacity within their system. Highest levels. Also with regard to medical using this . Personnel at the president s direction, and hs is issuing a the court is not racist at all, direction today that will allow no not at all. All doctors and medical professionals to work across it comes from china. Street lines to meet the needs thats why. Today fema has activated in of hospitals that may arise in it comes from china. Every region. We are at level one, level one i want to be accurate. Adjoining areas but in addition being the highest level. Which we will work with and we i have great love for all of to that we are again asking every american and our medical the people from our Country Community leaders and hospitals to partner with us in delaying but, as you know, china tried elective procedures across the to say at one point that it was have been working with fema. Ive done a lot of work with caused by american soldiers. Fema. They are incredible. It is always been on hurricanes country in our healthcare or tornadoes. System to ensure that medical there right now in tennessee, supplies a medical capacity to large group working in tennessee and have been where they are needed most incredible with this tragic pseudoberber will describe that cannot happen pretty its event. Alabama, last year, also a not going to happen. Tornado and then obviously the not as long as i am president. It comes from china. Numerous hurricanes in two questions. Different locations that were first of all in the defense guided cms will be issuing on procurement act you are that front. Finally i want to remind every american of the president s 15 day guidance to slow the spread. Invoking today. Schumer said on the floor it in some cases very devastating. In every case fema came through. This is a very different kind of a work floor for fema but we are grateful for members of the media and the general public that are adhering to they will come through as they these , sharing them with needs to be put into action to always do. Tremendous people, produce medical supplies particularly ventilators. You have some targets they would you like to see tremendous talent in fema. Upon neighbors and friends. Immediately . We do have yet all of our experts continue to believe that if every american tremendous numbers of will do their part in a brace ventilators but theres never been an instance like that that two hospital ships, there being prepared right now. There are massive ships. And put into practice these no matter what you have it is principles, we can significantly limit the reach never enough. That would be the case. Of the coronavirus in the weeks we will be, it is being sign. And months ahead. Thank you, mr. President it is essentially gone and we they are the big white ships will sign in just a little with the red cross on the side while. If we need to use it, will be spread one and is called the using it at full speed ahead. Mercy and the other is called critical thank you very much. The comforter. Dr. Burks please speak up thank you said is urgently needed they are in tip top shape, they you mr. President , mr. Vice to be used soon will be getting ready to president. Wait you know we continue look we will know whether it is come up to new york. I spoke at data every single day. There are concerning reports coming out of france and italy. With Governor Cuomo about it. He is excited about it. Urgent but yes we do have targets. We have targets for certain pieces of equipment. We have targets for them as per about song young people getting we also have not made the final the number of masks are determination as to where it is seriously ill and very serious going to go on the west coast. Ill in the icu. We think part of this may be the comfort is located now in that people heeded the early san diego. Data coming out of china and coming out of south korea about in is going to be, we will be picking the destination fairly incredible. We have ordered millions of shortly. Them but we need millions more. It has never been requested and the elderly and those with pre we have never even had to think existing medical conditions were a particular risk. It may have been that the in terms of these numbers. So those two ships are being we need millions of mass and prepared to go and they can be all of that will be ordered. Launched over the next week or we need respirators, ventilators is a big thing because it is a complex piece so depending on need. Millennial generation, our earlier this week the first largest generation, our future of equipment. The second question what size Clinical Trial of the vaccine generation that will carry us candidate for the virus began will the checks be that will be in Washington State as in sent out . Go to be determined. Through for the next multiple decades, there may be disproportional number of infections among that group and while working with the senate so even if it is a rare right now. Were working with everybody and capitol hill. Theres been tremendous there occurrence, it may be seen more frequently in that group. In be evident now. We are looking at that information very carefully. We have not seen any significant mortality in the children. But we are concerned about the early reports coming out again, im going to call on that generation that is part of that group that brought us really has been paired with some exceptions obviously. Innovation, particularly it is always the way it is but it has been, that been getting throughout all of their ability very well republicans and to look around corners and get democrats. It is a very nice thing, very bipartisan through games. Will be more than 1000 . I go we will see. I dont want to get into that right now, john. We are looking at different numbers, timing that would be different, splitting the timing, splitting the payments but has not been determined yet but it will shortly be i always went level by level. Determined and people everybody i did not realize you could go seems to want to go big. They want to get to the from level three to level recovery. The big day is the big thing we seven. Thats what they taught us bread they look for things that can do is get rid of this we do not see. Horrible i call it the unseen. We need them to be healthy. There is 1000 different terms so again, not only calling on for it but it snuck up on us you to heed what is in the and it did 128 countries i guidance to really ensure that each and every one of you are think. It very close to that. Protecting each other. So spreads finally, it is very so we cannot have these large contagious, very ry good for a gatherings that continue to occur at the country for people who are off for to then be socializing in large groups and spreading the virus. You have the potential that to spread it to someone who does have a condition that none of us knew about and cause them to have a disastrous outcome. In a wartime footing in terms of the virus . I do. If i got outofcontrol the big thing we did was a very early finally, the testing piece and stoppage of people coming and what we are learning. Who could be very very heavily i know you know last week in infected. That was a very good mood. Bringing the private sector i it was very early pin very very think what has been exciting to early when most people me over the last two and half including a lot of professionals, they did not weeks, is to see this want us to do it. That really saved a lot of lives. Yes, i look at it, i view it in the sense of wartime president , thats what we are fighting. It is a very tough situation here. You have to do things, you have to close parts of an Economy Administration harness the full capacity of the private sector. Understanding that a lot of our solutions that we need to confront this virus rely on the private sector. Bringing the private sector commercial labs was critical into this process. We are now beginning to see that they have spread out in a that six weeks ago where the best they had ever been. Prioritized way because we asked them to prioritize the we have the best economy we regions that were mostly have ever had and i one day you affected. So you still may have difficulty getting tests in have to close it down in order areas that do not have to defeat this enemy. Significant cases we have had but we are doing it. And were doing it well. Them prioritize the regions i tell you the American People where we need diagnoses and have been incredible. For the their diagnostic remember i told you south korea was under 4 for 96 of people were negative. At last report we have seen from the laboratories have about a 7 positivity rate. Most part they been really incredible. Please. Caitlin. Will start with still 93 plus or 92 are you. You just said there are tremendous number of and others that we have but for weeks hospitals have been warning about the critical shortage that they say were not prepared for. Why does it take so long for this question might hospitals are supposed to have ventilators too. When we have thousands of negative. I think that is encouraging to ventilators it sounds like a me personally. Lot but this is a very that we are prioritizing a probably to those areas that unforeseen thing. Have the greatest need. Nobody ever saw numbers like today and yesterday thermo this. Even with regard to testing. Normally we would not be doing testing and they decided to do it, very very hard to ramp up. Fisher pushed out most of their Laboratory Testing capacity. That will dramatically increase now we are getting highly the platform and the ability to sophisticated tests and is going very well but nobody has run additional tests in ever heard of testing and the addition to roche. Kind of quantities that youre i appreciate everybodys attention to these numbers. Talking about it but we knew we needed new im excited that we have more ventilators so why did it prioritized where the need was take so long . The greatest. It depends on how it goes. Again, please follow the worstcase absolutely the best case no. Guidance and please make sure we are ordering thousand in every report you are pu thousands ventilators. These are complex machines but we are ordering them. Does anybody have a mic, how many do we have . Yes please. You know the number . We have a specific number of ventilators in excess of 10,000 we just heard the announcement for the department of defense, they will be adding seven more thousand to that. The president even this morning and yesterday afternoon speaking with the Largest Companies in the supply chain of this country, we are hearing a tremendous spirit among Industry Leaders who are ready to step in and add to that volume. The stock parkinson do not count all of the ventilators that exist today in the marketplace and in Healthcare Facilities around the country. But the president has given us a direct just to make sure our stock pile but just as importantly working with Industry Leaders and that we are securing the increase in ventilators, the increase in masks, gloves, i wear protective care, garments that are all necessary to move forward. We are confident we will be able to cope us that with the incredible corporation of the supply chain that exists in america today. We can give you that exact number, we will give it to you. We are ordering a lot more up and go yes go ahead in the back please. One second, one second. We will do it in a second biblical figure. First of all the canadian border, what was the tipping point. Friday we talked about it monday you said no. No no i said not yet but i spoke with the Prime Minister trudeau, very Good Relationship obviously between us and our two countries. No tipping point, its just that we want to isolate from the standpoint, we dont want people coming into contact because thats the way were going to win this war. That is so important. We both thought it was not affecting trade. It is nonessential. It is nonessential crossing credit will not affect trade at all. Was just something we thought would be good for both countries. How can you be sure that trade and everything is being shipped from one that might their doing it in a very careful manner. You can only be vigilant and very professional but it is not pertaining to trade between the two countries. What about the trillion dollar economic stimulus could look like 50 billion to airlines, 250 billion payment directly to individuals, another 250 billion payment on may 18 again directly to individuals. As well 300 billion for a Small Business loan guarantees. Is that in the general sense it could be we are playing with a lot of very small numbers in big numbers. We have to help everybody. It was nobodys fault this happen. I mean some people could say it was somebodys fault actually. But it was nobodys fault. And certainly none of these companies that all of a sudden had no passengers and planes had no passengers on cruise ships. All of the things that have happened. But i will say that they cannot be blamed for this. We want to keep those companies vibrant because theres going to be a come back very very quickly. As soon as this assault. It will be solved. We will win. There will be a come back and it will take place very quickly. Give or take 330 million americans or so. If you just do the math on that thats about 750 a person. For a family of four that would be about 3000 again rough mass i dont want to say that because every number that you mentioned yes we have talked about those numbers but we are also moving those numbers in both directions so we will let you know. Is moving along fast. Again, there is a great bipartisan effort going on that i have not really seen before to this extent. Since the fda approved that test figure they looking at it. Stay on the line in there looking at it very seriously but i think it will be a great thing because the others is very inconvenient. You tweeted this morning about your Approval Rating amongst republicans. You have said you give yourself a 10 in terms of handling the crisis. How do you reassure americans at home who do not trust you to handle a crisis of this magnitude . Well i think youre doing a really good job. We started off with a termination of the border, the people coming in from china where this all started. When i use the word com com does not mean i am not taking it seriously. We should be, we should be extremely calm but yes 95 within the Republican Party and over 50 . I also have we had very great approval numbers. People like the job we are doing. When you compare this to other epidemics or if you want to use a different term but within this country and you look at what has happened over the years this is being handled very very professionally. We have the greatest professionals in the world. Nothing has been so contagious. The level of contagion has been incredible actually. Nobody has seen anything quite like this. Peter, go ahead if federal officials have shipped millions of tests you and your colleagues have said why is the federal government only 59,000 tests have been processed to this point. We just heard from the atlanta Public Health director saying they had fewer than 50 tests kits for more than 900,000 citizens. I will let mike answer that. That is a very critical question and thank you for asking it. The test kits that we put out last week for the approval, the Rapid Movement of that meeting that President Trump called less than two weeks ago, that has resulted in bringing our private sector to the table. Because the tests in the platform that was out there could only run between four and 12 tests per platform per day. We have now moved into platforms that can run basically tens of thousands of tests per day. So yes, the reason i am grateful for your question because it allows me to point out that of course there was backlog there were individuals that had been tested who hadnt had their specimen run because of the slow throughput and is now on a highspeed platform so will see the number of people diagnosed dramatically increase over the next 4 to 5 days. I know some of you will use that to raise an alarm that we are worse in italy because of our slope of our corporate to every american out there, it will be 5 to 6 days worth of tests being run in 24 to 48 hours. So our curves will not be stable. Until sometime next week the reason i talked about their official yesterday is because their platform is in 2000 laboratories. Theyre the ones that are putting the million tests this week that will solve the issue that atlanta and others have brought up i want it to be clear we prioritize the areas. We do county by county analysis. Based on those analyses on what county said more than 50 counties, we prioritize the test kits we put out, the 400,000. Thats why we are seeing a 7 plus positivity rate. Will be able to expand that platform and reprioritize based on the accessibility of the other kit. How are now nonsymptomatic professional athletes getting test while others are waiting in line, do the wellconnected get to the front of the language might you would have to ask them. No, i would not say that. That is been the story of life. That does happen on occasion. I notice some people have been tested fairly quickly. Excuse me. Excuse me. We inherited a very obsolete system. This was a system that was out of date, obsolete or was a system that was never met to take care of the kind of quantity, the number of people that we are talking about, millions of millions of people. If you back in years past even recently with the flu. Nobody had tests before. They didnt test the entire nation to see whether or not they had flipper they got the flu, they got better, hopefully they got better and that was it. Now all of a sudden they do this very complex testing. While we have done is we have broken it down, broken the system. It was obsolete and it was a system that just was not meant to handle the kind of volume youre talking about. We have rebuilt it into a system that for the system will be a very good system if you want to go this route. This was never done before and i would imagine it will be done in the future but we have alta into a very good system by using private companies, great private companies but i have to say roche has been doing a very good job. Theyre doing a lot of work, very good job. This was not a system that was meant to do anything like this. A major Train Coalition is calling on you to suspend tariffs with other countries as part of the response the crown of iran. Who heads that group . Those countries to chinas bring us billions and billions of dollars in tariffs and there is no reason to do that. They have not even spoken to me about that. China has not asked me to do that. We are getting billions of dollars a year from tears from china. I cannot imagine americans asking for that but it could be that china will as for suspension or something. Well see what happens. China is having a very rough time. Theyve had their worst year in 76 years as i understand it. Theyre having a very very tough time and on top of that, this happen with the virus. No we are taking billions of dollars in year a year in terms. This is caused by something totally unrelated to tariffs a silent seekers and those who cross the southern border illegally are you planning to invoke see 65s which would allow you to prohibit the entry of certain people, when will that happen. Very soon, probably today. Are there plans to fully shut the Mexican Border and what you define as essential travel . Go i think essential is medical. We have military working together, we have industry working together. Again, it is not affecting trade so things like that. Just leisurely lets go to a restaurant and have dinner which a lot of people do. The goal in both directions that kind of thing. We ended it on a temporary basis. Yes, please go ahead. Not close. Were not going to close it but we are invoking a certain provision that will allow us great latitude as to what we do. Please. Can you clarify something. Just a week ago you all were standing here telling us that unless you had cyst in contact with somebody who was symptomatic for covid19 you really didnt need to worry. President , the Vice President they took a photograph with somebody who had this. You did not really need to worry. And yet several days later people are being told dont leave your houses, there curfews, you cannot walk after a certain time. Can you walk us through the very concerning disconnects. We look at the data all the time. I know youre looking at the china south korea data. And you look at china and south korea did can see that there curves are not always slanted outside of wuhan. So the chinese areas outside of wuhan blended curve and with karina. If you look at their curve today there already on the far end of their app and epidemic curve bit a course number those countries are fully back to work so that is what we worry about too. Secondly there was a series of scientific articles published and i know you have seen them too about service contamination. I think none of us really understood the level of surface peace. So we are still working out how much is it by human human transmission and how much is a by surface. This is why those fundamental guidelines were put out that says do not expose yourself to services outside the home. Basically what those guidelines are is dont expose yourself to excess number of persons who could be asymptomatic in infected and then the personto person contact. Expose yourself to surfaces that could have had the virus on it for which on hard services. I know we had the cardboard issue about shipping not shown in fabric as much or and cardboard but hard service transmission. These are issues that we have not had to deal with before with the level of respiratory infections. Thats why we have this concern and thats why the president put out the guidelines. So it is to cover both of those pieces. That is all new signs, on new models. I think many of you have the imperial studies available and looked at the impact of those. That is the first time those a been modeled as a comprehensive approach to admitted gating and epidemic. Dr. Burns go ahead the wall street journal is reporting the administrative that would expand the use of investigational drugs against the virus and that fda scientists are taking some risk . No i have not seen the article. Were making a lot of progress therapeutically. I will say that. But have not seen the article. Mr. President we have checked out nonessential travel to canada are you considering shutting down all travel to stop the spread of the virus. In about the industry like the airlines that are sticking really. How exactly is your administration when you determine which industry is the airlines would be number one. If you look at is whats going on. They go from having the buescher they have ever had to having no passages because of what we have had to do. In order to win this war. So, you know, basically what many of the industries are. What we want to do is we want to make sure they all Stay Together so that after the war is one, can immediate go right back up to where we were. I think were going to go beyond where we were. A lot of people are saying that, we are poised to do that. We have to win the war first. Please go ahead pickup the treasury proposed 150 billion today for those industries but their proposal does not detail which industries get that money and how much. So aside from the airlines which you just mentioned, what about the cruise industry, the hotels, how is that money being allocated . We have not detail the epi we have detailer to senators a member of the house. Weve been talking about it and we are coming up with numbers. Have not gotten there yet. But certainly hotel industry, the cruise ship industry, the airlines those are all prime candidates. When you say the northern border. When you say temporary which is what you said in your tweet does that mean 30 days . Go i would say 30 days and hopefully at the end of 30 days will be in great shape. Jeff, please i was struck by what dr. Burr said about millennials and some others who have not taken these warnings as seriously as you would like. Some of those people also seem to be your supporters and conservatives who are quoting what you said at the beginning of this comparing it to the flu. What is your message to them to really follow and are you concerned that they are still listening to baby some of your earlier comments rather than your more recent ones i think my earlier comments are to be calm. I do want people to be calm. Were going to win it and it is just a question of time. I wanted to go quickly. Based on the fact i wanted to go quickly i hope that just listen to what we have been saying over the last period of time. We do not want them gathering and i see they do gather including on beaches and on restaurant they dont realize, they are feeling invincible. I dont know if you felt invincible when you were very young but they were feeling totally invincible and are feeling that way. They do not realize that they can be caring lots of bad things home to a grandmother and grandfather and even their parents. So we want them to heed the advice. I think it is getting stupid i do believe it is getting through, jim. A lot of these people young people are watching at home he the advice. I just said that. Thank you. Thank you. And talking about china you have been very clear about who think to blame or the where the origin of the virus will no i dont think that i know where it came from. I dont know if you would say china is to blame. Certainly we did not get an early run on it, it wouldve been helpful if we knew about it earlier. Comes from china. Is not a question about that. Nobody is questioning that they should be punished in so many words for licking this on the American People. Do you feel that way about it . I have a lot respect for tom cotton and i exactly what he is been saying. There are those people that say that. We will see what happened. Thank you. If had your hand up so nicely for a long time. We have seen the Chinese Government got reporters from the wall street journal and the New York Times and the Washington Post but what is your message to the chinese when it comes to transparency and when you still have reporters asking questions here at the white house . Im not happy to see a bit i have my own disputes with all three of those media groups. I think you know that very well. I do not like seeing that it all put im not happy about that at all. Yes please. Do you believe that china is inflicting this upon our country . No i dont think they are inflicting. I think they could have given us a lot earlier notice, absolutely. Your credibility ratings are very low. Theres a reset npr poll, who are you asking because i say that they are very high. 95 of the Republican Party, we just had a poll that was done by a very reputable group where i am beating Sleepy Joe Biden by a lot in florida. In the state of florida and in other states. You know so i dont really know who youre talking about the go jennifer, go ahead please. Would you evason update on your conversation with the airlines, did you explain to them what is coming . I did and they explained to me where theyre coming from. They went from full planes packed the best year theyve ever had by far to one day after because of what we have to do to get rid of the virus sent to win this war. Or we would have a level of dislike people have not seen before. So they been fantastic. They have been great but you know they went from being extremely happy to being people that are Running Companies that are going to need some help and we will help them, jennifer. Go which you be willing to give us an update on how that is going. We have been receiving reports that counties have been having difficulty there is a lot of influx to those loans as you can imagine. We are going to be increasing funding a lot. We are very well prepared to do what they have to do in the spa is doing a fantastic job. She is really doing a great job, the administrator. Researchers have had some luck with addressing and shortening the duration of decision says something that might be in the arsenal of therapeutics here in the United States i think we are exploring every one of those issues. The president asked for critical briefing on that today pretty open with that bit it is more than that single drug. There are other drugs that individuals are looking at. Just to go back to what we talked about many times. There is things that look really good in culture against the virus that may look good in small animals and that dont have an impact in humans. Those are the pieces that we are looking at very carefully. Of course there is also an adult go reports and thtrying t antidotal reports equal real scientific rake throughs. Are you confident of the seasonality of the coronavirus. All we could do is look at the past to inform the future. We know what stars looks like. We also know and we also just want to put this out i know we can get it online look at the curve in china and look at the curve in south korea. Those curves were accomplished so we are trying to we are following every single countries curve. These are rna viruses. When you look at flu in the Northern Hemisphere when you look at her influence in some of the other called viruses and if you look at sars that is the november to april. We all started based on a low later start and thats what we are trying to really look at china its a question for secretary woke if you dont mind. How many veterans of those that need to be tested for those that have needed to be tested we believe we have caught most of them. Right now we have 44 veterans who have tested positive. Sadly one has passed in portland. We are working with state labs and private companies to make sure because the president had us out aggressively early we have been in a better place than most Healthcare Systems in the country. I cannot predict this as dr. Burke said when the next search will be or if it will be. One of the things we do at va is we prepare for National Emergencies be the National Disasters or epidemics. We started preparing for this, we started stock piling equipment. Our equipment is stable and i think that is in large part because of the instructions the president gave me you have a number of how many for we have tested several hundred. Yes we have tested several hundred, yes. We have tested several hundred and i dont know exactly but i do know that 44 veterans have the virus. Most of those are quarantined at home. Thank you mr. President. Im trying to understand what it is about the mortality report. Yesterday we underlined the fact that we had reached 100 thats in this morning when we wake up and we were at 110. Within 12 hours decreased by 10 . It is is something we have to expect from now on. It can