And protecting our children every day to ensure that they have access to the medical care that they need while this is happening. And to every pregnant woman out there, i was very reassured hearing from the American College of obstetrics and gynecology. They have put Amazing Things in place to protect every pregnant woman. They have been social distancing in their offices. They have increased all of the disinfecting. They lengthen the time between clients. To every pregnant woman, dont miss your appointments. If your ob thinks you need to be there, you should go. And please know that o on the labor and delivery wards, they are doing everything to protect you and your babies. They are committed to you and they are absolutely committed to you having a good experience. Make sure if your physician believes you should be in the hospital for your delivery, make sure you are following their guidance. We dont want any pregnant women to suffer a bad outcome during this time. So again, i just want to conclude by thanking the American People and recognizing the number of people we are losing per day is serious to all of us. It could be so much worse. But our Frontline Health care providers and the way they are talking to each other about how to improve care for every individual that they serve, you see them on the tv. You see them in the emergency room. You see what they are up against. This is how we can honor them is to make sure we continue to put, as dr. Fauci always says, put your foot on the gas and make sure that we continue to strongly mitigate and really protect those with preexisting conditions. Those preexisting conditions we know now include asthma. Asthma, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, any of these conditions, renal disease. No matter what age, please make sure youre following the guidelines to protect those individuals in your household. We know they are more susceptible to a worse outcome. We dont think that anyone is more susceptible to getting infected. I want to make sure everyone and understands everyone is susceptible to getting infected. Desires is very transmittable, as we well know. We need to protect those that need our protection the most. Thank you all for what youre doing to get the message out to ensure that we continue to protect each other in this very difficult time. Vice president pence dr. Fauci, please. Thank you, mr. Vice president. I want to followup and underscore dr. Birx has said. As i have said many times from this podium, the spectrum of going from infection to getting ill to requiring hospitalization to intensive care to death and what is the most striking thing that obviously is so sobering to us is when you see the number of deaths. We know now for sure that the mitigation that we have been doing is having a positive effect, but you dont see it until weeks later. Remember, this past weekend when all of us got up in front of this podium and mentioned that this was going to be a really bad week, at the same time we are saying that we hoped we would start to see a little bit of a change in the daily hospitalizations, intensive care, and into patients. New york is starting to see th that. So i say that but i drop back a bit, dont get in place and peg was going to happen to and a half weeks from now is going to happen with regard to the people getting the infection. As dr. Birx said, everybody is certainly as susceptible as noone else to getting infected. Its what happens to you after you get infected. Again, to just keep emphasizing, we need to keep mitigating. We know this is something that is a strain on the American Public but its just something that we have, not only the only tool, its the best tool. To just shift a bit to what we said yesterday regarding the Africanamerican Community. Its very painful to see, and ive seen it throughout my entire medical career, that the Health Disparities in the Minority Community but particularly Africanamerican Community puts them at risk, apart from coronavirus issues, it puts them at risk for diseases much more so than the general population. The double whammy that you suffer now is when you have this terrible virus, which essentially preys on people with those underlying conditions. Since thats more predominant in the africanamerican population, we want to double down and say to the young people, to the elderly people in that community, to please try as best as you can to protect yourself, if you are younger person, and to please protect the people who are susceptible. Your grandmother, grandfather, your elders, people who have these underlying conditions. We are not going to solve the issues of Health Disparities this month or next month. This is something we should commit ourselves for years to do. But what we can do now, today, is to prevent people who are put at higher risk because of their Demographic Group from getting into a situation which is much more deleterious than the general population. I plead with all of us in the population but particularly for those of us, our brothers and sisters, in the Africanamerican Community. We know that mitigation does work. The reason we know it works is the question was asked about the numbers and why they came down, from the projections. Remember, what you do with data will always outstrip a model. You redo your models depending upon your data. Our data is telling us that mitigation is working. So as dr. Birx said, keep your foot on the accelerator because thats whats going to get us through this. Dr. Redfield. Thank you, mr. Vice president. I just wanted to followup. One of the most important things we can do is keep our critical workforce working. I think you heard it said that we have many different critical Workforce Industries in this country. Obviously first responders, Health Care Workers, but as you heard, its also individuals who help maintain our food supply et cetera. So what cdc has done is that we really looked at the essential workforce and how to maintain that workforce, particularly at this time as we begin to get ready to reopen and have confidence in bringing our workforces back to work. So we put out a new guidance for essential Health Care Workers who have been exposed to the coronavirus. These are individuals that have been within 6 feet of a confirmed case or a suspected case so that they can, under certain circumstances, they can go back to work if they are asymptomatic, as the Vice President said. They could go back to work if they do several things. As we say here, take their temperature before they go to work. Where a face mask at all times. Practice social distancing when they are at work. What we would ask them not to do when they are at work is we want them to stay at home if they are sick. We want them not to share objects that would be touching their face, and we would like them not to congregate in break rooms, lunchrooms, an end crowded places. In the second slide, if we are talking to the employers of these critical industries, we would ask those employers to take employees temperatures and assessing them before they go back to work. If the employee does become sick, we want them to be sent home immediately. We would like them to increase the air exchange and the buildings and increase the frequency of how they clean common surfaces and really begin to get these workers back into the critical workforce. So that we wont have worker shortage in these critical industries. So thats the new guidelines that cdc will be posting today. Vice president pence those are available at cdc. Gov. Thank you, dr. Redfield. Questions for anyone on the panel. Reporter the 500 million masks, the president mentioned that are being developed, are those for Health Care Workers or are you planning to actually handout masks to the American Public . Vice president pence i think the focus has been to make sure that our Health Care Workers and our Health Care System has the supply and with regard to what we are gathering from literally around the world and from manufacturers in the United States is first being deployed to states and to hospital systems. But i must tell you that whether it be the Haynes Company or other companies, we are seeing manufacturers in america that are recognizing the growing demand for masks by the American People and they are spinning up production literally by the hour. The trick our continuing focus is on making sure our continuing focus is making Health Care Workers safe. Reporter the kansas governor says shes put in several requests to fema for supplies from the stockpile and those have not is kansas getting any of the ventilators question what does she need to be calling the white house instead . Have you spoken with her directly . Vice president pence i have not spoken to the governor directly but i will reach out this evening certainly. In our Conference Call with governors this week, we spoke to them about the approach that we are taking. Traditionally governors are accustomed, when a hurricane strikes the gulf coast, when wildfires strike out west, when flooding or tornadoes hit in places like indiana, you are accustomed to have a declaration of emergency approved and resources flow from fema. In this situation as we deal with a nationwide declaration and an epidemic, what we have explained to governors is that what President Trump has directed is that we leave no stone unturned to find resources around the country and around the world, including ventilators. We make sure as the coronavirus epidemic impacts individual areas that the Health Care Workers and the families and the patients impacted have what they need when they need it. What i would say to the people of kansas is that we are looking at their numbers every day, just as in the case of every state in the country. And we are going to work our hearts out to make sure that as the coronavirus cases emerge and we hope that through the great work that kansas has done on social distancing and mitigation, that the people of kansas have done a remarkable job, that we may well lead to a place where their existing resources and capacities are present. We want people to know that taking the council of dr. Birx and our entire health care team, we are focusing just as we did first in seattle, california, and now in new york, new jersey, connecticut, louisiana, the detroit area, the chicago area, we are going to make sure that those resources go in that ord order. Reporter he brought up social distancing and the work kansas has done. There is a controversy over her order to limit the number of people and religious gatherings to ten people. Should states be telling religious institutions how many people can gather to stop the spread of the coronavirus . Vice president pence the president s guidelines for america ask every american to avoid any gathering of more than ten people. Thats on the advice of all of our vast scientific experts as a way that we can slow the spread. But as we have made clear to every governor, we defer to our governors and what they believe is the best and appropriate practice in their states and we will support those local decisions. Reporter thank you. In his opening statement, the president said there were ten drugs known Clinical Trials. Would hydroxychloroquine be one of them . Vice president pence i can speak to that and then i will invite dr. Birx, dr. Fauci to come forward. We do have, i believe, we will have roughly four separate Clinical Trials underway studying hydroxychloroquine. Its important to remember that as the president has made the point many times, the fda has approved whats called off label use. In consulting with your physician, if your physician determines its appropriate to write a prescription for hydroxychloroquine, we are working today to make that available across the country. Its broadly available today is an antimalaria medication, but we are working around the country and internationally to increase that supply. We are studying it and at least four different Clinical Trials. Dr. Fauci can speak to that. Thank you for that question. The easiest way to find out is to just go Clinical Trials. Gov and it will tell you everything thats there. There are a number of different Clinical Trials, some of which are randomized controlled trials which ive said many times from this podium, to be at the optimal way to determine ultimately if something is safe and effective and works. There are a lot of different ways that its being looked at. Its being looked at against a placebo. Its being part of a multitrial comparing it to others. Theres a trail that was recently started actually in prophylacticprophylaxis among he workers. In addition to that there is but was just mentioned, that any physician, in consultation with their patient and backandforth, can make the decision to use the drug on and off label. We have two things simultaneously going on. We have actual formal Clinical Trials in the off label use. Vice president pence next. Reporter i wanted to get back to the disproportionate population in the black community. Youve been talking about Underlying Health issues, they are most at risk. If we knew that blacks disproportionally have fallen into that category, why wasnt the cdc prepared to gather this data in realtime . Im not sure. We have the rector of the cdc, we can answer that question. Let me try to take it from that different perspective. The Health Disparities that exist are not anything that started with coronavirus. They were there. There isnt much you can do about the disparity. The thing you can do is to make an extra special effort to protect people who have the underlying conditions. So its the same way as we say the elderly and those with underlying conditions. Unfortunately the Africanamerican Community has a much greater proportion population for population of these underlying conditions. So the best weapon we have right now is what i said in my opening remarks, its to do whatever we can to get them to realize that what we need to do is to protect them from getting infected and to also protect them from inadvertently and innocently bringing the infection to people who have these underlying conditions. Reporter thank you, sir. Can you explain the thinking behind these 100 ventilators that were given to colorado when other states like kansas have had trouble getting ventilators. Can you say whether a personal relationship with the president is helping states like colorado get these ventilators . There are 15 state 15 states the more cases than colorado. Vice president pence we have been watching denver very closely like many of the other key areas that i touched on, we are beginning to see some encouraging news. In our interactions with the governor and with local officials and with the senator. We have made an effort not only in colorado but around the country to be particularly responsive to states where weve seen a growth in cases. Im going to let dr. Birx speak to that as well. Literally beginning with new york, new jersey, connecticut, louisiana, the detroit area and michigan, chicago area. There is a series of other cities, including denver, that we have been watching very carefully. While we are beginning to see some encouraging news, we want Health Care Workers in those communities to know for certain that we are going to move resources into those areas where we see significant outbreak. Reporter the point about whether individual governors relationships with the president are getting preferential treatment. I can tell you within that decision complex, its not just the absolute number of cases. Its the Hospital Capacity and what each of those hospitals has to remember, i think a couple days ago we talked about how the states are sending the information about icu beds, hospital beds, ventilator needs. Different states have different i dont think any of us probably knew this before but some states have lots of ventilators and other states, proportion to their population are by their cases of covid, have less. So im sure denver and colorado fit into that model where there were hospitals that had less ventilators proportionally and were needed for the cases that we are seeing. Thats the kind of analysis. Every state that has a few cases more than colorado have all received ventilators except for i think texas. Thats just because they are just starting. Colorado was early on the curve, so they had many more people whove moved through the progress and are in need of ventilators. Texas is very early in their curve in both dallas and houston. Thats what i was talking about. Each of these are a micro curve we have to follow independently, or would be making general decisions rather than specific decisions by geography. Reporter mr. Vice president , follow up on the churchs question. Youre obviously a very religious man. Will you be going to church on sunday . Vice president pence we will be attending church right in the living room at the Vice President s residence where we have been attending from the last several weeks. The advantage is we get to go to our home church in indiana. Reporter is not the same example you would like to see churches around the country, regardless of what governors are saying, do as well . Vice president pence i think that president s coronavirus guidelines for america are clear. During these 30 days we are calling on every american in every state for us to listen to your state and local authorities but right after that to avoid gatherings of more than ten people. Avoid unnecessary travel. Use drivethru at restaurants that are going into the rest instead of going into the restaurant. We are, as these Health Experts have told you, that we are seeing real evidence that we are slowing the spread of these mitigation efforts are having a strong impact. Tonight, as many people at this hour on the east coast are sitting down to a sedar dinner, its the beginning of passover and easter celebrations this sunday, we want to encourage every american to heed the counsel of the guidelines and put those into effect and know that in so doing, it will hasten the day, it will hasten the day we put the coronavirus in the past and we reopen our country. Reporter mr. Vice president , a question of dr. Birx or dr. Fauci. As you are both probably aware, theres a lot of misinformation and conspiracy theories out there about the coronavirus. Some commentators are suggesting that the number of dead are being inflated because they are same people who are dying with other issues are being listed as covid19 deaths. Seeing those commentary, its out there. What do you say to those folks making the claim without really any evidence that these deaths are being padded, that the number of covid1 covid19 deate being padded. For example, someone who might die for a number of factors that had coronavirus are being listed as coronavirus deaths. Because of that, the numbers are being inflated. Vice president pence thats a fair question and you might speak about the converse. We have been hearing the converse too. We have been hearing both sides. I think weve made it very clear, i think every time ive been up here about the comorbidities. Most of the people, and we have talked about the italy data, the majority of the italians who succumbed to this have three or more comorbidities. So this has been known from the beginning. So those individuals will have an underlying condition, but that underlying condition did not cause their acute death when its related to a covid infection. In fact, its the opposite. Having an underlying condition and getting this virus, we know its particularly damaging to those individuals. We dont know all the physiolo physiology. We see vasculitis, where tony and i came from. Dr. Fauci started there. These are things weve studied for a long time. We are trying to understand the pathophysiology. But at this moment, we can tell you if you had asthma, renal disease, diabetes, hypertension, these are preexisting conditions that put you at a greater risk to having a worse outcome. Just to add a comment to that, having been through other serious issues, particularly the very painful early years of hiv aids when people talk about conspiracy theories, youll always have have conspiracy theories when you have very challenging Public Health crises. They are nothing but distractions. I can assure you we have nothing to do to protect the health and welfare of the American People, i would hope we would leave those conspiracies aside. Reporter you said something about not enough testing performed because some of the labs, the machines arent running, did you want to clarify that . What did you mean by 80 werent running question mike i have a call with them at 8 00 p. M. Tonight, every single one of those 120 laboratories. 87 of the Laboratory Directors have confirmed that call. It has to do with a machine called an avid and 2,000, its a high throughput machine and we have a million tests out there. I made a big push and avid was extra nearly about getting those out to the labs. Its not sitting in a warehouse. These are physically in these laboratories. Sitting there right now. They are not running. Weve only run 88,000 tests in three weeks off those machines with a million test kits. As someone who has worked in a lot of laboratories, to have a machine that is needed, because we could have screened every health care worker. These machines are everyplace in the country. So they could have screened in these last three weeks 100 of Health Care Workers across the country they needed these tests to be done. They are high throughput. I have a call with them at 8 00 to really talk about reporter can in order be given . I asked the Vice President to give me a chance to talk about my colleagues first but we have a call with the ceos of those hospitals tomorrow. Vice president pence thank you. Thats a really important question. It underscores the fact that dr. Birx pointed out that with this new test, avid laboratori laboratories, fema has been busy distro beating to states around the country. We purchased 1200s of these machines to be able to do these tests for those 18,000 across america. Let me just renew our call to all the hospital administrators and Lab Operators around america to go and identify those avid Laboratory Machines and know that while we have already tested more than 1. 9 million americans, our shortterm objective is to test as Many Americans as possible, as we see the coronavirus epidemic emerge in the areas around the country, we want to search those resources and we want states that havent seen a significant outbreak to have access to that 15 minute test. And ultimately as we go forward, once we i think President Trump said today nobody wants to open the country of more than him. I can attest to that. Were going to open it up on we can do so responsibly, putting the health of America First and to reopen america and to stay open america. We are working aroundtheclock to continually expand the kind of testing that will allow us to do with these experts call surveillance so that in every state in the country once we put this chapter of coronavirus behind us we hope and trust sooner rather than later that when next fall comes that we will have a vast array so that cdc can do it it does so well and that is when a particular disease emerges, cdc surges personnel does Contact Tracing and isolates that individual. We are really calling on, im calling on all of our partners in the laboratories and in hospitals around the country to identify those avid Laboratory Machines and help us continue to scale up and expand testing. To every american, let me again just say thank you. Thank you for what youre doing. We are in the midst of the week of heartache. I want to assure every american who suffered loss that we are with you. We are praying for you and your families. And we will continue to work our hearts out to make sure these incredible Health Care Workers who are inspiring every single one of us across the country every day have the resources and the support and the equipment to do their job safely, to provide the level of care that any American Family would want for their loved one, and to be able to go home safely to their families. The key to all of that, the key for the next 22 days, is 30 days to slow the spread. I encourage every american if you havent done so recently, go to coronavirus. Gov, print off your own copy. Pick up the phone and call a friend or just tell them that you heard from the experts. You heard from the president and our team that we are beginning to see glimmers of hope. Extraordinary progress in california and washington is a tribute to the people of those states and the leadership of those states. The beginning of stabilization and perhaps even leveling in new york and new jersey. Louisiana and detroit. Its a testament to the people of those communities, to the leadership of those states. Understand that everyone of us has a role to play to protect the most vulnerable among us and to save lives by putting the guidelines into practice, just like youve been doing every day since they were first announced. Thank you all. We will see you tomorrow. That wraps up the briefing from the white house tonight as the corona task force, the Coronavirus Task force this evening. It really just sort of, couple extremes here, we are in the middle of a week of mourning and loss of thousands of americans as we watch this play out in such a deadly way. On the other end of the spectrum, we have a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel in terms of the dates of peaks across the country and when we can begin the discussions about reopening the United States. Thats really what the focus was over the course of that briefing tonight, and as i say good evening to you at 7 30 eastern time tonight. I am martha maccallum, and this is the story. To reevaluate our relationship with the World Health Organization which is known as the w. H. O. Is going to be a necessary step as we look forward to ensuring that the global spread of a deadly virus like this doesnt ever happen again. At several points in the Global Growth of covid19, the w. H. O. Defendant china and advised against moves that would isolate china. We also know that china tried to stop medical doctors who were telling the truth about covid19. One of them is now dead from the virus, the other is missing, according to 60 minutes australia. If its true that the w. H. O. Tried to cover up for china or parroted chinas assessment of this killer virus, it does make sense to take another look at whether the w. H. O. Is reliable. Here is dr. Birx. W. H. O. Can only react to the data it is given and when you go back and look at the timeline, it wasnt until i think almost the middle of january that china reported that there was human to human transmission. We have to really investigate reporting and how reports were received there. It delayed the ability to declare this of global pandemic, an emergency. Martha w. H. O. Did not declare a Global Health emergency until january 30, 9 days after china confirmed that this respiratory illness was indeed spreading persontoperson. The w. H. O. Advised against banning travel from china. They said this. It doesnt help to restrict movement. We now know that restricting movement indeed helps quite a lot. W. H. O. Went on to say travel bans generally are not part of what you want to bring to bear on Something Like this and that there is no reason to interfere with travel and trade. Today the w. H. O. Director general snapped back at the president s criticism with this. If you dont want many more body bags, then you refrain from politicizing it. Martha the president responded to that moments ago at the briefing. Watch this. President trump politics. I cant believe hes talking about politics. Look at the relationship they have to china. China spends 42 million. We spent 450 million and everything seems to be chinas way. Martha at the same time that the w. H. O. Was advising no restrictions on travel, white house trade advisor Peter Navarro was calling for a ban and was urging the white house to take that action. He joins me just a moment. Thus the fda commissioners with us tonight on the possibility of loosening guidelines to allow americans to begin to get back to work. Tonight that is breaking news out of this briefing. We are starting to get some of the parameters of what that might look like. Also tonight we will talk with kelly lester, here exclusively and we begin tonight with Peter Navarro. Thank you for being with us. Good to have you, sir. I want to start with asking about the w. H. O. Should the United States not be part of this organization . Should we cut off funding . The president outlined the huge disparity between the money we put into it and the money china puts into it. Martha, let me give you a bigger look at the chessboard. The u. N. Itself has 15 specialized agencies including the w. H. O. , the world intellectual property organization, things like that. What china has been doing very aggressively over the last decade is to try to gain control of those by electing people to the top. Its already controlling five of the 15. Also by using proxies like tedros at the w. H. O. In this crisis, the damage that kind of control by china, the key Health Organization has been absolutely enormous. They suppress the human to human transmission. They refused to call it a pandemic. They basically discourage travel bans. This is one of the most serious things weve ever seen and it all tracks to chinas view of the world and how they want to control different types of international organizations, even as they dont play by the international rules. So its going to be up to the president to look at this but martha, this is a really serious issue. The president is absolutely right about this. Martha let me ask you in the past, weve seen three major viruses come out of china, and so if we cant rely on the World Health Organization, we need to perhaps have our own medical professionals or assessments similar to the iaea or something along those lines we have in the bed of people who can take a look at whats going on in various countries around the world to give a heads up in terms of the actual virus or the actual future pandemic thats happening. There has been some criticism that may be some of those outreach groups dont exist anymore under the current framework of the white house organization. Is that something that should be put back in place would you say . I think the problem here, i think any other country in the world wouldve been transparent about the problem, would have invited cdc people in. We lost about five weeks because of chinas nontransparency. If youre asking me how are we going to fix it . Its kind of morava china problem more than anything else and i dont have the answer. Its outside of my lane. All i can keep telling you is that chinas attempt to control basically every organization within the United Nations for their colonial powers, through bribery and other things, tremendous damage to this country into the world. Martha okay. Theres been a lot of discussion about the memos that you sent out at the end of january and towards the end of february. To the National Security council. Here is what steve bannon said about that. He said, lets put that up there. He said the principal reason peter wrote this memo is to make sure real information got to the president , because the real information was being suppressed by the chief of staff at the time, Mick Mulvaney. Is that true . Let me make something Crystal Clear about this memo. I heard a lot of chatter this morning on some of the leftwing cable news channels. That memo went not to the president but to a small distribution list to the task force. People this morning who were criticizing the president for not bothering to read the memo or whatever, he never got the memo. It was not sent to him. Whats interesting to me, martha, even as i was trying to present significant issues to the task force itself, the president was one step ahead of me. Because as i was advocating the travel ban in that memo to the task force, the president was already moving to do that. He did that on january 31st. I think thats whats important to understand. Martha we are aware of that. What i can tell you about the task force itself and why that memo went fair is that there was disagreement. Thats not a bad thing. Go ahead. Martha i want to ask, it was addressed i believe t to the National Security council. Is that correct . There was no task force on coronavirus at that point. Thats not exactly right. The task force began unofficially that monday. I appeared tuesday at the task force to present the case verbally and based on the discussion there, i felt the need to write that memo. The chief of staff, the memo went martha thats what i want to ask about. You say that based on the situation there, did Mick Mulvaney, did steve did Mick Mulvaney push back at you and did you feel the need to push harder and thats why you put the memo out. Is that true or not true . What happens in the situation room by definition needs to stay there. I can tell you that there was disagreement among the task force about it. I tried to provide some clarity with a fairly straightforward analysis of the costs of the travel ban which would entail disruptions to business and travel versus the bigger cost. We didnt know this at the time but in case the seriousness of the pandemic emerged. Whats important is the president independently of that memo made what i think in the history books will be judged as a pivotal decision in the crisis, and it started in motion a set of events that have led to the largest industrial mobilization since world war ii. It has led to the use of the defense production act for the First Time Since the korean war to great effect. Its led to a quarantine which we had never done before. All of these things, the president got tremendous resistance but as every day goes by, we see that he was exactly right in doing what he did. He has a greater sense of the chessboard i think than anyone. I have said and ive said this repeatedly prior to the crisis, i think he will go down as the greatest president in modern history for his positions on trade and immigration. But i think in this particular case, what we are seeing is somebody playing the chess game better than anyone. My thought, we have just got to beat this virus. We are at war. He has a wartime president. All of the stuff about memos and things like that, we need to focus on getting medicines to people. Martha thats been our focus in terms of watching this virus and looking at it. Its instrumental at some point to figure out how it all went down in terms of the response which has been, you know, i think very strong in many ways with the possible exception of the testing that was a little bit botched at the beginning. Real quick, thank you go ahead. Yesterday we got 9 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to chicago, detroit, new orleans and new york. Today as we speak arriving. There will be another 8 million doses going to ten different cities. This is moving in trump time. The kinds of things i do every day. We are going to beat this virus. Martha we are going to talk about that drug is welcoming up. Peter navarro, thank you very much. Good to see you tonight. Thanks for being here. The projected number of deaths in america from covid19 is dropping. Is it social distancing or is there more to it . The fda commissioner stephen hahn joins me next. Crea. Each for a different type of music. When i have all six strings, im going to turn all the trolls into rock zombies. Rock and roll ahh im not going to let you do this. Well overpower them with glitter. Grrr were gonna have to go. Where no pop troll has ever gone. Who wants to party . Without smiling. The World Premiere is in your home friday. Many of lifes moments in thare being put on hold. Are staying at home, at carvana, we understand that, for some, getting a car just cant wait. 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This is the place where they are performed the first transfusion with this plasma in the country. Were going to find out how its going from him and it comes as the cdc is loosening some of the rules to get some workers whove been exposed to covid19 back to work. The revised modeling thats showing that the nations predicted death rate is declining day by day. Its down 26 from earlier estimates. Fda commissioner steve hahn joins me now. Commissioner, thanks so much for being here. I want to get to these drugs with you in a second but i want to ask you a big picture question first of all which is when you look at these models and you see the number dropping now into the 60,000 range by august, why do you think that is . Why is that number getting lower and lower. Of course very glad to see it. It is still way too many but its much better than had been expected. Martha, thank you for having me on the show tonight and first of all is a cancer doctor who practiced medicine just a few minutes a few months before i took this job, my heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones from this terrible virus. So the big picture here i think is, as weve heard from the Coronavirus Task force is that mitigation is working. I think thats our number one offense and defense against this virus. Its really gratifying to see some encouraging results from mitigation. I think the other thing that we will dig into is more and more data and information comes to us is what are the effects of the incredible work by our providers and the care thats provided in our hospitals . How does it compare to other countries and what effect did it have on limiting the number of people who are dying from this virus . Youre right, even one person dying from this virus is terrible. But i think its worth looking at those factors. Martha yeah, and i should also mention that the peak date has been moved back as well to april 12. In these charts. It was going to be four days later than that in the original charge that we took a look at. With regard to the antibody tests and getting people back to work, how quickly can that be scaled up to that these Health Care Workers and other workers across the country can know whether or not they had it . This is a really central part of the back to work plan, to explain to the viewers, the test can be done to look at antibodies which is a persons Natural Immunity against the virus. If someone has been exposed, whether they know it or not or whether they were sick or not, you can do a test for these antibodies and figure out if they have the antibodies to the virus which means they have Natural Immunity. It gives us great confidence that they would be protected against reinfection. So its a central component and in addition to the diagnostic tests, as well as the surveillance programming developed once americans go back to work. All of these are really important components. At the fda and also members of the task force, weve been working with companies, Great American and International Companies that developed this test for the last several months and serologic tests have been part of it. What we are looking that it was really trying to identify those tests that will best serve our needs over the next couple weeks to months, and we are talking months for this as well, they will give us the best information that we can have about this Natural Immunity, and then ramping up that production. We have gotten a great response from industry and we will know more about that in the next couple weeks. Martha all right, so it feels like that still months away. Weeks to months away. I want to ask before i let you go about the u. S. Trial that the fda has approved of the japanese drug called avigan. It sounds like you want to make one more point on the previous question and then they would love to hear about avenue again. Sorry, didnt mean to suggest that the serologic tests were months away. Theyre literally a very short period of time. My point was we need to have those tests for months. The ramp up needs to be significant over the summer and fall months. Sorry. Martha yeah, i think everybody wants to get that knowledge of whether or not they had it so they can get on with their lives. Absolutely. Avigan, the japanese drug, how hopeful are you about this drug and what is the main sort of use of it and the point of it, how it works . Avigan is a drug thats shown activity in a test tube against the coronavirus and also being tested in Clinical Trials around the world. Today fda authorized a safe to proceed with the Clinical Trial based in massachusetts to look at this drug in covid19 patients. As everyone knows, there are no fda approved therapies for covid19. This is a drug that shows promise who will have to see what the Clinical Trial show us. Martha before i let you go, theres two tests in Washington State and also in new york doing largescale testing of hydroxychloroquine. When will we have some results of the much larger scale testing they are doing and what was done in france and china . It will probably take us a few months to get the information from those studies, although the new york study, not really a study. Its an administration by the new york state, we are working very closely with them to get data sooner rather than later. The controlled Clinical Trials that are often mentioned and probably the best evidence we will have, they will take several months to get information. That being said, martha, i want to emphasize that although Clinical Trials are really the best and first choice for generating evidence, this drug is available for doctors to prescribe if they think its appropriate for their patients. Thats an individual doctorpatient decision. Martha yeah, all right, dr. Steve hahn, thank you very much. Good to have you here tonight. Really appreciated. Thank you. Martha as we mentioned, the nations first plasma transfusion to treat covid19 patients has now taken place at houston methodist. The hospitals president and ceo dr. Mark blum joins me, good to have view with us. Can you explain how its going and how its working. Sure. We have so far treated 11 patients. We treated four in the first weekend with an investigational drug, approval from the fda and seven in the beginning of a 50 patient tribe that leads to the multicenter trial we are participating in. Martha tell me in terms of how its working so far and what kind of patients, at what stage of the illness are you giving it to them . Are they all very seriously ill or are you trying it at different stages . We have the approval to treat people who are critically ill. Were looking at that population of patients and how it might impact them. Its unfortunately too early to say whether its been successful or not. We are encouraged by some of the inflammatory markers and other things being tested in those patients, the sick patients who are receiving a lot of additional treatment. In the future we think there is really a good potential utilization for this earlier in the stage of disease and we are hoping to test that sometime soon as well. The theory being that if we can prevent people from deteriorating from acute care entice you, it could be transformational in terms of how we treat patients and how we save lives with this therapy. Martha but it kind of goes back to what i was talking to dr. Hahn about, i would imagine theres not much of this plasma out there to be used at this point because we cant go to our doctor and get this blood test to know whether we are a potential donor of plasma. Right now you pretty much have to be two weeks out from a known infection. You have to have a documented infection. We have tested and found positive within our system 750 plus patients. We have 300 plus in the hospit hospital. We spent about 180 home from the hospital. Theres a pretty decent sized pool of donors emerging for the next couple weeks who can provide plasma. Martha fascinating. Dr. Boom, thank you very much. Good to have you here tonight and we hope your work is successful. Thank you very much, doctor. Ith, toward those in need. We are 7,000 doctors, nurses, pharmacists and therapists supporting their efforts on the ground and virtually. And just as we are by their side, were by yours, too. 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The headline new coronavirus cases appear to be slowing down in this country, that is very good news. But deaths at the same time are still rising. Today in fact is the deadliest day so far. Trace gallagher joins us with the very latest numbers from around the country. I speak of the numbers are horrifying but sadly also expected. The Coronavirus Task force has worn for days of this will be the countrys most difficult week and that is bearing out. The u. S. Death tolls today and yesterday are the highest of any country at any time during
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