The test on a person. Im sure as the president would inform you, in order to do the test, a Health Care Provider needs to dress in full personal protective equipment, full personal protective equipment, and theres a swab that is put in the back of the nose all the way to the back of the throat, its called a nasal pharyngeal swab. It gets put in media. The next person who gets tested, the Health Care Provider has to change all the personal protective equipment. The person is likely to cough or sneeze which puts them at risk. Were enabling high throughput of this swabbing. Were doing some technological things too that may be breakthroughs to make it much faster. But we certainly that from thousands of People Per Day we will be at the tens of thousands of People Per Day this week, according to those who are reporter but does the buck stop with you, mr. President . Normally. But i think when you hear this you know, this has never been done before in this country. If you look back, take a look some of the things that took place in 09 or 11 or whatever it may have been, they never did nobodys ever done anything like what were doing. Now, i will also say, and i think we can say that were also getting this ready for the future so when we have a future problem, if and when, and hopefully we dont have anything like this, but if there is, were going to be starting off from a much higher plateau because we were at a very, very low base, we had a system that was not meant for this, it was a smaller system, it was meant for a much different purpose, and for that purpose it was fine, but not for this purpose, so we broke down the system and now we have something thats going to be and is very special and is ready for future problems. I think we can say that very strongly. Yes. Reporter thank you, mr. President. How close are you to shutting down americas northern border with canada . And could you also speak to the fact about the elections that are supposed to be taking place tomorrow . Is it your advice that those states postpone those elections . Well, i would leave that up to the states, its a big thing, postponing an election, to me that goes to the heart of what were all about, i think postponing an election is a very tough thing. I know theyre doing because theyve been in touch with us, theyre doing it very carefully. Theyre spreading people out at great distances, as you can see. And i think theyll do it very safely. I hope they do it very safely. But i think postponing elections is a very is not a very good thing. They have lots of room in a lot of the electoral places. And i think that they will do it very well. But i think postponing is unnecessary. Reporter how close are you to shutting we think about it. We think about it. If we dont have to do it, it will be good. We have very strong Emergency Powers when it comes to Something Like this both on the southern and the Northern Borders and we are talking about Different Things but well see. Right now we have not decided to do that. Steve . Reporter can i get dr. Fauci to talk about the vaccine file today and whether the timetable for vaccine, is it possible to accelerate it . Is it still 12 to 18 months . Thank you for the question. The vaccine candidate that was given the first injections to the first person took place today you. Might recall when we first started i said it would be two to three months, and if we did that, that would be the fastest were ever gone from obtaining the sequence to being able to do a phase i trial. This has been now 65 days, which i believe is the record. What it is, its a trial of 45 normal individuals between the ages of 18 and 55. The trial is taking place in seattle. There will be two injections, one at zero day, first one, then 28 days. There will be three separate doses. 25 milligrams, 100 milligrams, 250 milligrams. And the individuals will be followed for one year, both for safety and whether it induces the kind of response that we predict would be protective, and thats exactly what ive been telling this group over and over again. So its happened, the first injection was today. Reporter whats your response to the market close, sir . Reporter dr. Fauci, is there guidance for someone who may have felt sick but then feels better, you had symptoms but you no longer do, your fever has gone away, how long should you stay home at that point . Thats not clear from the guidance. If you are positive for the infection, if you have coronavirus, it is less how you feel than whether or not youre still shedding virus. So the general issue about letting people out of a facility who, for example, a hospital or wherever, who have been infected, you need two negative cultures, the same way that was just described, 24 hours apart. The market will take care of itself. The market will be very strong as soon as we get rid of the virus. Reporter could you clarify, pregnant women, it was said today that pregnancy was one of those underlying conditions. Theres very little data on pregnant women. I think about a week ago i said that reports that came in from the chinese cdc of the nine women who were documented to be pregnant and diagnosed to have coronavirus in the last trimester had healthy children and the women themselves recovered. We will be getting more data from countries. While countries are in the midst of this crisis, like italy, i try not to bother them frequently to get us their data. We try to get it just weekly from the countries that are in the midst of responding to the epidemic so that their focus is on their individuals in their country. Reporter mr. President , any comment on what people like devin nunes, the governor of oklahoma, have been saying, encouraging people to go out to restaurants which is directly against what the advice in your guidelines says . I havent heard that from devin or anyone else. Reporter should they stop saying that . I would have to see what they said. I would have to disagree with it. Right now we dont have an order one way or the other but i think its probably better that you dont, especially in certain areas. Oklahoma doesnt have a tremendous problem. You said the governor of oklahoma. Reporter devin nunes. I havent heard that. What the professionals are saying. Reporter what youre saying in your guidelines, that people ill take a look at it. Reporter i dont know who would be best to answer this question, secretary azar or dr. Fauci, School Districts across the country are closing down, yet for the most part Daycare Centers remain open. And considering that children can sometimes be asymptomatic carriers and go home to older individuals, are there any recommendations about Daycare Centers . That is a good question. In the original guidelines, as they were presented, it was schools, not daycare. I think its very important, we should probably, we have not discussed that, go back and discuss that in some detail, whether or not thats equivalent to school. Good question. Reporter the question about the sort of underlying Public Health strategy behind some of these guidelines, telling people to avoid bars and restaurants is different than saying bars and restaurants should shut down for 15 days. Why was that initial step not taken . I think we have to say, the data has been coming out, im sure youre all up to date on how long the virus lives on hard surfaces. And that has been our concern over the last two weeks. Im sorry, go ahead. I just wanted to read theres an answer to this. Go ahead, tony. He was my mentor, so i have to let him speak. Its really small print. In states with evidence of community transmission, bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms, other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate, should be closed. Reporter mr. President , are you telling governors in those states then to close all their restaurants and bars . We havent said that yet. Reporter why not . Were recommending things. We havent gone to that step yet. That could happen. But we havent gone there yet. Reporter on the election youre saying, if youve got the tenperson maximum guideline, in a practical sense, can you have rallies . Hopefully this will pass through and hopefully everybody will be going to restaurants and flying and being on cruise ships and all these think things we do, and it will very, very hopefully be in a fairly quick period of time. But were taking a tough stance. We may make certain other decisions. We may enhance those decisions. Were going to find out, as per the question that you were asking, some of those decisions may be how about one more. Reporter on the cyberattack on hhs, is there any reason to believe they were trying to hack into the system and gather information from the system . And also, is there any reason were they trying to hack to get information, and do you have any reason to think it could have been iran, russia . Do you have any reason to believe it was a foreign actor . In the previous 24 hours we saw a great deal of enhanced activity with relation to the hhs Computer Systems and website. Fortunately we have extremely strong barriers. We had no penetration into our networks. We had no degradation of the functioning of our networks. We had no limitation of our capacity for people to telework. Weve taken very strong defensive actions. The source of this enhanced activity remains under investigation. So i wouldnt want to speculate on the sores urce of it. There was no data breach or degradation in terms of our ability to function and serve our mission here. Reporter could you speak to another stimulus package . Its very important to get out, mike just said, this is for the next, much of what were talking about is for the next 15 days. Mike, go ahead. Reporter mr. Vice president , have you been tested . I have not been tested yet. Im in regular consultation with the white house physician. And he said i have not been exposed to anyone for any period of time that has had the coronavirus and that my wife and i have no symptoms. But were checking our temperature regularly, every day, and well continue to follow guidance. Which i think may be a good place to land at the end of the day, and that is, as we expand testing rapidly around the country, through the new Public Private partnership that the president facilitated, we want the test to be available for people who have symptoms, people who have symptoms and are in vulnerable populations. And our health care workers, to make sure that they can have the peace of mind that theyre doing their jobs and theyre properly protected. The best counsel of our experts is, if you have a question, call your doctor, call your Health Care Provider, ask whether you should be tested. Thats what my family is doing as well. Let me emphasize one more point if i can. The president asked the task force to continuously review the data and the information that weve, not only in this country but from around the world, to give the best guidance to state leadership and local Health Care Leadership and all of the American People about how to keep themselves, their family, and the community safe. This guidance is for the next 15 days what our experts say is the best opportunity we have to lower the infection rate over the entire course of the coronavirus. Just as the president did by suspending travel from china, just as he did with travel advisories and screening from italy and south korea, just as weve done with europe and at midnight tonight with the uk and wier ireland, well continue to take decisive steps to lower the spread of the coronavirus. But we want every american to know and we would ask all of you in the media to spread the word to the American People that this is advice on behalf of the president of the United States to every american, what you can do over the next 15 days to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. And were calling on every american to do your part because together well get through this and well find our way forward. Just one more. Reporter the g7 conference today, what is the upshot, will you still be able to meet at camp david . And are you confident in their responses . Im very confident. Theyre in a position that some of them are in a rough position. I look at a couple of them. And some are heading toward pretty rough territory. We had a very good conference. It was a teleconference. Everybody was on the phone, every leader. And almost 100 was devoted to the subject that were talking about today. And they are working very hard. And, you know, theyre very concerned, obviously, but theyre working very hard. But i would say just about all of it, steve, all of it was devoted to what were talking about. Reporter are you Still Holding the summit at camp david . So far. We didnt discuss it. Its a ways off. There was a great camaraderie, i can say that very strongly. Thank you all very much. You have been listening to the White House Coronavirus task force briefing. President trump appearing during the briefing and making a noticeable shift in tone, the president saying the virus is not under control, the president sharing the recommendations that you should stay home if you feel sick or if youre elderly or if you have an underlying condition. The president noting that even if you are young and healthy, you have a role to play in defeating this virus. Therefore my administration is recommending that all americans including the young and healthy work to engage in schooling from home when possible, avoid gathering in groups of more than ten people, avoid discretionary travel, and avoid eating and drinking at bars, restaurants, and public food courts. If everyone makes this change or these critical changes and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus. And were going to have a big celebration all together. Let me repeat those guidelines so everybody gets them. And to be clear, these guidelines are for the next 15 days, after which the government, the u. S. Government will revisit them, okay . It is that all americans, including the young and healthy, so everyone, work to engage in schooling at home where possible, avoiding gathering in groups of more than ten people, not even that, they said, avoid discretionary travel, dont go to bars or restaurants or public food courts. This is over the next 15 days. This is what the president said. Lets talk about all of this. Dr. Sanjay gupta, i want to start with you. And i should note that just since this briefing began and ended, we have learned of two other people in the United States who have died from the coronavirus. What is your response to the new guidelines . We knew there was going to be a big change in tone today. Obviously theres been a lot of rumors about what was likely to be said. But this is very different. It was a direct appeal to all americans, jake, to do their part. Still recommendations, not mandates. You know, and making these recommendations for the entire country as opposed to these states that have sort of been doing this ad hoc. Youve had one state act a certain way, another state act another way. President trump, ambassador birx saying this needs to be the entire country. Also, jake, im sure you caught that the president also said that he expects this outbreak within the United States to not subside until july or august. So that was another big change, obviously, as well from what we have heard before. One thing i should point out, its very interesting, so you read the guidelines, and it says 15 days to slow the spread, and then we hear that this isnt going to subside until july or august. Dr. Fauci came to the lectern at some point and said, look, two weeks, 15 days to slow the spread, but then were going to reassess. Right. So i think were going to keep hearing that. Lets see how we are in two weeks. And then these recommendations may continue, i think was what dr. Fauci was saying, jake. Entirely possible, of course, that after 15 days the American People will be asked to continue with this rather extreme suggestion, recommendation, from the cdc. Im not saying it shouldnt be enacted. It is something that they say will save lives. But certainly it will be sdpr t disruptive of how we go about our day to day life, although necessary, dr. Murphy, this is something Public Health officials have said for weeks needs to be taken with this degree of seriousness and finally it seems President Trump is on board. Yes, today we saw a significant shift in the message, as well as the tone. I think were starting to see the Administration Speak with one voice and with greater clarity about the urgency of the situation. The measures that you heard being called for today, in particular the restriction on domestic travel, the restriction on groups that are larger than ten people, as well as the urging of americans to stay home and to avoid the traditional social gatherings, these are recommendations that Public Health leaders have been calling for for some time now. Some of us in fact took out an op ed that ran in usa today just yesterday calling for these same measures. I think we now have a better chance at slowing the spread of this virus if were taking these steps together. So that was i think one of the most important messages that came out of today. Let me just ask you and sanjay and juliette kayyem, because youre all parents, im a parent, how much are all of you limiting or ending your childrens ability to interact with other children . Ill start with you, julia. Its completely over. Theres no its, ands or buts at this stage. All my girlfriends texted me, can you do a play date, theres nothing like that now. I dont quite get why were trying to work around it. It is what it is. And the reason why, what you saw happen today, which is the federal government finally got aligned with state governments. The state governments were already there, they saw this coming, they had these rules down. It is good to have the federal government unify. I should say a lot of these authorities reside with state governments, they do not reside with the federal governments. Thats why some of them are just recommendations, to give the states at least a cover or a baseline. The big takeaway for me is finally the white house admitted that containment, border stops, all that stuff can n