Unprecedented step to direct the Department Of Defense to use military Health Care Personnel to operate all covid facilities. At the Javits Center in new york, at the Convention Center in new orleans, and at the Convention Center in dallas. And we informed each of the governors of those states today at their requests we were making those military medical personnel available to operate in all covid facility. But we would emphasize to people in that community who believe youve been impacted or have contracted the coronavirus, contact your local Health Care Provider. We anticipate in the new york area that your local Health Care Provider will make the decision whether you transferred to the Javits Center. And in all case, simply look to the guidance of your local governors about how best to receive the care that every american, every american is entitled to have. Beyond that, let me say that we have been working through femas acquisition process, not only to deploy, but to gather up Personal Protective Equipment. And in just a few moments, you will hear from admiral John Palovcek about the extraordinary progress we have made in deploying not just the Strategic National stockpile, but also in identifying on the commercial marketplace around america and around the world literally millions of n95 masks, surgical gowns, gloves, protective equipment and at this point, weve distributed some 7600 ventilators, and youll hear today specifically about the states that have received those ventilators. Were just this team has truly acted in an inspiring way. And literally is working with dozens and dozens of people at the fema stabilization task
force to make sure that we are leaving no stone unturned to find the fly supplies we need. Let me also say today youre going hear from Jared Kushner, Senior Adviser to the president of the United States, but someone that the White House Coronavirus task force directed to work with fema on supply chain issues. And in recent weeks, he had been leading a Working Group in conjunction with fema that literally has identified millions of medical supplies around the nation and around the world. And were grateful for his efforts and his leadership. Finally, youll hear from Peter Navarro, who will explain the action the president took today using the Defense Production Act. But as you hear details today about the medical supplies that have been distributed, those that have been purchased, those that were making available, ventilators distributed to hospitals and those that are available, let me just remind every american that you can make
a difference in ensuring that every patient has the treatment that they deserve. Every Health Care Provider, every doctor and nurse and nurses assistant has the protective gear to provide the care you would want your family to have by putting into practice the president s 30 days to slow the spread. I mean, we want you to take to heart the president s coronavirus guidelines for america. First, protect your own health, to protect the health of your family, to protect the health of your community. We know so many people are asymptomatic, and people that literally dont know they have the coronavirus, but have the ability to infect others. We want you to put these guidelines into practice, Social Distancing, using a drivethrough at a restaurant, washing your hands on a regular basis. But as we focus today on supplies, make no mistake about it. Every american can make sure that our Health Care Workers and more importantly americans that are struggling with overhave the
equipment to support their treatment by putting these principles into practice. The fewer americans that contract the coronavirus, the fewer americans will have to enter our Health Care System. And that will continue to preserve the capacity in our health care economy. So we thank the millions of americans who have responded in the first two days of 30 days to slow the spread. And im just absolutely confident that in the days ahead, every american is going to do their part. For your health, your familys health, the health of your community. And to assure the strength and vitality of the greatest Health Care System in the world. With that, let me introduce Jared Kushner to speak about the work he has been doing, working with fema on ensuring a strong supply chain to meet this moment. Jared . Thank you, mr. President. And thank you for your great leadership on the task force. And thank you to dr. Birx and
dr. Fauci as well. Its been an honor working with you these past few weeks. When the Vice President first asked me to help on the task force with different tasks i want to bring in our pentagon correspondent Courtney Kube because she has Breaking News that we brought to you at the top of the 5 00 hour. Well bring you back as soon as we get a Science Update and the questions there. After these various presentations. Buff Courtney Kube, you just came out of a briefing. You were among the first people to report about the decision by the pentagon, or technically i guess it would be the Commander In Chief who made this decision to relieve the commander of the uss Teddy Roosevelt of his duties. He had gone very public with his concerns about the Coronavirus Spread on his ship. Is that the reason he has been relieved of his duties, courtney . Yes. We were told specifically by the acting secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly that he had lost trust and confidence, that he saw that Captain Crozier writing
that fourpage letter and distributing it to so many people that that was a lapse in judgment, and that is why he decided to relieve him. So it wasnt the fact just that he had the sentiments, that he had these concerns about the crew and about the ship. Secretary modly and the chief of the Naval Operations gilday agree. His concerns were valid. He was right to raise the concerns. It was just the manner in which he did it, which is why he was fired. And something that you brought up in the intro, chuck, was actually one of my questions in that briefing, and that was whos ultimate decision was this . Secretary modly said that he was the one who directed Captain Crozier be relieved of demand. When i asked him, he denied that he had any pressure from the white house or from the Department Of Defense. He said he took the decision, he made the decision on his own. He knew it would be unpopular, ultimately, the buck stopped with him. He was the one who made that decision, chuck. I guess the question is, is
number one, why go public now . You know, there is part of me, i get the Chain Of Command issues here. But it does feel as if theyre feeding a new story unnecessarily. This seems to be one of those you know what . Well discipline him later. That is one of the Big Questions here. Especially when you a man who has been so publicly laud for his actions. He is beloved by many members of the crew. They and their families have been going on social media, praising him for bringing their plight to light and helping get attention to it and get the resources that they needed. Secretary modly said in fact those resources had already begun flowing to the ship, and that they were already dealing with that problem. And the fact that the memo or the letter was made to public, all that did is serve to hurt the families and hurt the sailers. And it showed a potential lack of readiness. And it scared families who thought that their sailors would
be in some sort of a danger. But the big question here is why do it now. If youre worried about the readiness, if youre worried about the morale of the ship and those sailors, then why not wait until everyone is safe and back on the ship and then make the change of command . Thats not something we got a good answer to here. Look, you know that building better than anybody that i know. Obviously, you do Something Like this not to just discipline somebody, but also to send a message to the rest of the ranks. Some people will see this as an effort to muzzle, and to muzzle any potential call them a whistleblower. Call them whatever you want. But this is an attempt to make sure nobody else speaks out of turn. We asked the Navy Leadership than as well. And secretary modly specifically said this isnt about retribution. We hope that this doesnt have a Chilling Effect that other leaders feel they can come
forward. They just need to exercise the correct Chain Of Command. Modly said that Captain Crozier had a direct line to his office, that if he wanted to raise an urgent issue, he could call the navy secretarys office directly and express his concerns, and that he wasnt doing that. But again, the navy is one is the branch i would say who when they talk about accountability, theyre the ones who if there is any kind of a loss of trust and confidence, you see them firing or relieving their ceos, i would say more so than the other services that we see publicly. But this is one of the very rare times where its such a public issue that we have the leaders coming into the pentagon Briefing Room to talk to us about it. That is very uncommon. It just shows how much attention this has gotten. The administration is very well aware of it. The timing is unusual, chuck. We dont really understand. Everyone here just assumed this was going go down the way we have seen a lot of these, which is a couple of months from now
he would quietly be removed from his job and he wouldnt be promoted to admiral one day. Right. The fact that they publicly relieved him today and came to the Briefing Room to talk about it, its not common. Its very uncommon. Clearly designed to send a message. They decided they wanted this covered, and they want everybody to know the consequences of this. Courtney kube with that reporting, thanks very much. Lets go back to the briefing right now. Youre hearing from an admiral, i believe right now who is talking about some supply chain issues. As you said, were mr. Kushner is absolutely right. Were trying to be data driven. Im going talk a little bit about how were trying to expand the Industrial Base here to meet this challenge. So the first thing i want to talk about is surgical masks. Weve all quickly stated numbers here. So these im about to go through several different slides to give you just scale and magnitude of federal resources that have been applied at the problem. 27. 1 million surgical masks pushed out to state governments. N95 max, 19. 5 million n95 masks. If i was in a local hospital that was running short, i would look upward, because the federal government has pushed out resources. So for protective gloves, 22. 4 million. 22. 4 million pairs of protective gloves. For face shields, 5. 2 million face shields. For ventilators, we have pushed to states more than 7,600 ventilators. And i think as we was coming over here, that number has changed slightly. I think its now 7,640. Given to these states. We wanted you to have some numbers. Now, as weve indicated, we have ventilators in the national stockpile. We pushed Ventilators Out. Were Holding Ventilators to put to the point to of need. But were also buying ventilators, asking the Industrial Base who produces approximately prior to covid19, approximately 30,000 ventilators a year. We are going to over the next several months, by the end of june, work to acquire 100,000. And so one of the tools that were going to i can anticipate needing, weve already executed, is all of those venders that were buying them from potentially will need help in their Supply Chains with their suppliers. We might make orders. We might help them get ahead of others in that endeavor. I think navarro is going to talk than a little later. Let me talk about the air bridge. It normally takes approximately 37 days to get from overseas the product, load it, get it to the United States and distribute it. Thats about 37 days. To prime the pump, so to speak, we have lined on an air bridge to get product here faster. Working with our major suppliers, as they work to fill orders to get more the Health Care Workers now. We are working to align transportation to product. One of the things were also
doing is the team that works for me are scouring the globe in finding pockets of Personal Protective Equipment that might not otherwise be in the u. S. Hospital supply chain. That is also going on these flights. Six completed. And a number scheduled. 28 flights scheduled here in the near future. Were working towards some days well have one flight. Some day theres might be two flights. Multiple flights over the next coming days. These 28, or as far as i can see out a couple of weeks. Matching products to flights to create volume in the supply chain here faster than the 37 days. Im just going to leave that up as i talk about a few other items. So lets talk about new york city and the Public Health hospitals. I believe theyre called new York City Health and hospitals. The president directed, as i speak there are pallets being formed, truck being loaded. I gay an address in new york an hour or two ago. And one of our distributors is making that happen, and that delivery will happen tomorrow. On the data front, this is almost unprecedented. This is a commercial supply chain with six to seven major distributors of health equipment. We brought them all in, and we said we need to make informed decisions, and we are going to help make informed allocation decisions. So within a matter of day, feeding from their business systems, their enterprise resource systems, i brought on board a Supply Chain Tower that the dod was using to manage its Supply Chains for a very complex weapons system. Their data goes into a data link. We have a tool to be able to use their data and see it. I can tell what product is coming in, what their orders are, what theyre filling, what theyre not filling, and see the volume in the supply chain. And understand what theyre doing down to the county level. Were working to get it potentially down to the hospital level. So this 200 and some odd n95 respirators, we took a look in there in the supply chain. We have the volume to go do that. I called the distributor, and theyre making that happen. We anticipate as the hot spots
around the country, we anticipate these vendors at our direction helping them allocate product to the right place at the right time. So if i talk finally about expanding the Industrial Base. So the Vice President was at walmart the other day, who told him i want to get in this game. How do i do that . So i got the call. We provided them specifications. Walmart is going to use their suppliers to cut fabric, make gowns, sew product. But thats not always the case. We have lots of folks that want to help. I believe you will see in the coming days the use of the Defense Production Act in creative ways to help people that are not doing this today to do it. We have essentially leads. The number yesterday was 210. We are working with to find how each one of those might need help to get in the game thats not in the game to increase the throughput through the health care market. Again, the president gave me one task. Get more to our Health Care Workers now. And i took that to heart, because have i not that i dont need that from the president , that direction to move out. But i have family in new york. My sister is a Nurse Practitioner in a west chester hospital. And my niece is a nurse on a long island hospital, and i have other Health Care Professionals in the family. So i have skin in this game. The president asked me to get more to Health Care Workers. Im going get more to Health Care Workers. Id like to hand it over to mr. Navarro. The 200,000 is going out as we speak. Be very specific about that. It will be delivered tomorrow. Let me be clear if i ask what jared announced, what the admiral just unpacked is that pallets are being loaded right now to send 200,000 n95 masks to new york city to the Public Health hospitals. To the Public Health warehouse in new york ci