Sample and Laboratory Supplies and ensuring we Work Together to make sure every client sees the test that they need. This is added with timely monitoring systems. What do i mean by that . System where is we bring together the ability to not only diagnose the symptomatic, but proactively and interactively work with individuals that we know are at higher risk. We worked with states to look at where the outbreaks have occurred when theyre not in the large metros and it occurs very often in places of close settings. Among our native americans and among our longterm care facilities. So an active Monitoring Program that is active, integrated and innovative. And then combining it with the third element, which is the Rapid Response program. Relying on cdc to work with state and local governments to assure that every symptomatic cases and the asymptomatic cases are quickly traced to assure we can control this epidemic but predict outbreaks before they expand. And finally, the plan includes approach of using science and technology to develop even newer platforms, more efficient testing, really ensuring that the antibody tests that are utilized and recommended by fda and cdc have high quality and predicting both exposure to the virus and antibody development. And then finally, working on innovative test and antigen based tests. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, mr. President. And thank you, ambassador burr. If i could have the next slide please. I want to spend a couple of minutes about going over where weve been. But more importantly where were going. I think we all can understand how we can group this into three distinct phases. First is the launch phase when we were engaging the emerging epidem epidemic, and the types of things we need to do. For example, mobilize the private sector to have euas. Over the past two months, the fda has issued 67 emergency use authorizations, which is far outpacing anything that has been done or could have ever been imagined. Galvanizing the research community, the reason why were here with acla labs, having done 3 million tests is because of that day when it was galvanized by the president and the Vice President. We also set models in the community. Those First Community based testing sites that were federally supported and under the direction of the u. S. Public health service, people who had been in japan, testing people on the diamond princess to assure it would be done right and safely for everyone involved. Then we move to really scaling. That phase was very, very important. Because we knew we needed to be at an immense scale to enter the third phase about supporting opening again. This, again, for example, a lot of my life is about swabs. It was enhancing the production capability of a Small Company in maine called puritan that is sort of the swab provider for the country. Also because of the fda actions and the actions of scientific community, being able to broaden the type to spun polyester, so u. S. Cotton can now come in and start delivering within the next couple of weeks 3 million swabs per week of a different type. It also did things like expanding the Community Based testing site. Whereas we started small with the commercial partners, today we have 73 of this 2. 0 site, going to 110. And very importantly, this demonstrated the model. 22 are in the highest social vulnerability communities, so that we can make sure the testing gets where it needs to be. You just heard that that can be expanded to thousands of sites. Finally, stage three. Which is very exciting. Coordinating with governors to support testing plans and Rapid Response programs. Over the past week, a Multidisciplinary Team from the white house, hhs, fda, fema, has met virtually with Multidisciplinary Teams from every state, puerto rico and the district of columbia, to understand what their testing aspirations are, and to make sure that we can meet those demands. Were going to have another round of those calls this bewee. But we will be able to supply every state with the supplies and the tests that they need that will dramatically increase the number of tests weve done to this point. Just to give you an idea, the supplies that well be providing to state, the minimum that were supplying to states is approximately double in that month than the republic of korea has performed in the four months to now accumulated. To give you an idea of the amount of testing were going to be doing. So im very excited right now as we complete this ecosystem with the large reference labs. The lab corps and quest providing the very high throughput largescale testing. The galvanizing of the hospital and economic labs that dr. Birx has done by a machine to machine, understanding that and promoting wit the governors and using point of care testing, when and where thats very important to stop outbreaks or in remote areas like in the Indian Health service or in alaska. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you. Great job. Okay. So with that, were here to answer some questions. The mic is up here, so please, go ahead. What is the best advice from you on what states should do to reopen . We want them to open. We recommend they do it as quickly as possible but safely. We want everyone to be safe. Youre seeing a lot of governors get out and want to open it up. Many are thinking about their school system. Not a long way to go for this year. But i think youll see a lot of schools open up, even if for a short period of time. I think it would be a good thing. As you see in terms of what this vicious virus goes after, young people seem to do very well. Young people seem to do very well. So i know there are some governors that are necessarily ready to open up their states but may be ready to open up their school systems. But the word is safety, okay . Rapid but safety. Yes, please, go ahead. Thank you, mr. President. I have a question for you regarding one of the members of your Coronavirus Task force, and that is secretary of hsh. On january 28, he was in the Briefing Room. In the Briefing Room he told reporters as for the individual american, the virus should not be an impact on their daytoday life. Three months later, more than 55,000 of our fellow americans have now lost their lives. Mr. President , why is he still your top health adviser, why is he still serving as the hhs secretary . I think its a very unfair question, you have many great professionals and many people in the other party that have said the same thing and with even more confidence. So a lot of people didnt get that right. I was i was very fortunate, whether it was through luck or whatever, that we closed the border, we put a ban on china. Other than our citizens coming in. You cant keep out american citizens. Gee, you cant come back into your country, thats tough to do. But we put a ban on china. But i can tell you, nancy pelosi was dancing in the streets in chinatown. We wanted to go out and party late into february. You could mention that. Go ahead, please. Please stand up. Mr. President , yesterday you retweeted someone who alleged that democrats had quoted, quote inflated the mortality rate of the coronavirus by underreporting. Do you believe theres a Conspiracy Theory regarding that . I can only say what were doing. Were reporting very accurately. If you look at other countries, other countries are not. You can look at china, you can look at numerous countries where i dont think those are right numbers. I can only say what were doing. Its important to us to do accurate reporting. John, go ahead. Mr. President , i wanted to ask you about the payment Protection Plan to help Small Businesses. There are been concerns with the website just not working. The American Bankers Association say they are deeply frustrated. Can you i just came out. I heard there was a glitch. Well find out whether or not thats so. It didnt work out for the original amount of money. Were relying on the banks to do an accurate job. Yeah, please, in the back. All the companies that i dont know what the he will status of Something Like that is. I would like to do that as far as im concerned. Im not involved in that process, but i would like to have it listed. I would have to find out if theres a legal problem. But if not, i would do it gradually. Mr. President , a majority of polls show that americans blame china for the spread of coronavirus, and yet theyre taking advantage of the crisis to make the world more dependant on their supply chain. How do you hold china accountable and how do you keep our country there are a lot of ways to hold them accountable. Were doing very serious investigations, as you probably know. And we are not happy with china. We are not happy with that whole situation. Because we believe it could have been stopped at the source and it wouldnt have spread all over the world. We think that should have happened. So well let you know at the appropriate time. But we are doing serious investigations. American businesses are relying on china for their supply chain. How do you fix that . Weve already discussed that. If you look prior to this virus, the deficit was coming way down under my administration, because i put massive tariffs on china. We took in tens of billions, gave some of it to the farmers who were unfairly targeted by china. Nobody has ever done that before. Now all of a sudden i think you know very well we have taken in tens of millions of dollars. I helped the farmers by giving them two years ago 12 billion, all coming from china. And we had plenty left over, too. And then the following year, 16 billion and this year were also going to help our farmers. But nobody has ever done a thing like that, because they were targeted unfairly by china. So were doing a very strong investigation and well let you know what the result of that is. We should be able to get the answers. Mr. President rvel, as you t about reopening up america again, what data are you going to look at in the future to see if restrictions need to be reimposed . Were relying very much on the governors. Thats the way it has been for me from the beginning. The governors, some of them are doing an extraordinary job, not all of them. But i think all of them have a chance to do that. Some will be a little different. The areas are much different. Manhattan is much different than montana. You have a lot of different circumstances. And obviously, if you look at the virus, it hit some areas, hasnt hit very much other areas. Almost not at all. But the entire country has been infected. West virginia as an example. I spoke to jim justice, the governor of west virginia. They were alone before anything hit, and they had numerous deaths, even in west virginia. And they were really the last one to be hit. So were dealing with the dwofr nor governors. We had a really great call today. These were not complaining people. These were people that had everything they needed. They have their ventilators, their testing. They see their testing as growing. Were helping them, were getting them what they need. And that was a group i wish i mean, im sure some of you were on the line, even though you werent supposed to be. I think you know what the result of that call was. Go ahead. Holding china response it. Germany is going to bill china for 130 billion euros for the damage caused by the coronavirus. Would your administration look into the same . We can do things much easier than that. Germany is looking at things, were talking about a lot more money than germany is talking about. Please, go ahead. We havent determined the final amount. If you look at the world, this is worldwide damage. This is damage to the u. S. , but damage to the world. Yeah, please. Thank you, mr. President. Attorney general william barr directed federal prosecutors to watch out for state and local officials that might be violating the constitution by the stay at home orders. What is the strategy there, would the federal government sue local authorities . You would have to ask attorney general generbarr, but wants to see people get back to work. He doesnt want people to be held up when theres no reason for doing it. In some cases, perhaps its too strict and he wants to make sure people maintain their rights. So a lot of people would agree with him. But you would have to ask that question from a legal standpoint to attorney general barr. Circumstances of the state. Some states are, you know, perhaps a little early, and some states are a little late. And the attorney general, i read that. And i saw that. And frankly the attorney general doesnt want to have rights taken away. There are some people theyre not allowed to open up a store, theyre going to lose their livelihood. And by the way, that causes death also, between all of the things that happen. This has been a big study. You know, the fact that people arent allowed to have their freedom causes tremendous amount of problems, including death. So thats what hes talking about. Please, in the back. Maryland and other states specifically said theyve seen a spike in people using disinfectant after your comments last week. I know you said they were sarcastic. I cant imagine why. Do you take any responsibility for that . I cant imagine that. Go ahead. Mr. President , dr. Anthony fauci said we need to increase testing by double at least. So does the rockefeller foundation. What are we going to be doubling . It doesnt really matter what they say there, and we just left him, we just had a meeting. But because were going to have much more than double very soon. Now, there are big believers in testing, and then there are some governors that dont feel as strongly about it as all. But were going with maximum testing, because its something were very capable of doing. Well be much more than doubled. Mike, i would like you to answer that. Well be much higher than doubled on testing very soon. Mike, please. Thank you, mr. President. I hope the American People looking on today are as proud as the president and i are from the private and Public Partnerships you heard from today. It was two months ago that we had done less than 10,000 tests for the coronavirus in the United States. But because the president brought together these incredible commercial labs, brought together the best known retailers in america, now, mr. President , we have 5. 4 million tests. As you said earlier today, we have done more than 200,000 tests in a single day. Since we met with governors today, i sense the enthusiasm on governors the way that testing is scaling across the country. And we assured them on the call today that were going to continue to directly partner with them, to make sure that all of the resources you heard about today continue to be expanded. Im going to ask admiral gerard who is working day in and day out with the dwogovernors to describe the numbers where we will be. Were north of 5 million tests now. It is remarkable to think of the pace of acceleration. Admiral, maybe you can speak about when we will reach the point that some of the experts say that they think we need to be at, what that be the 300,000 tests a day or 500,000 tests a day. Whats remarkable to me, because of this partnership you have forged, were almost there. And well be there very soon for the American People. Everyone who is as anxious to see america reopen as our entire administration, should know that the threephased approach that the president outlined ten days ago, we believe, and i believe increasingly governors understand around america, that we have a sufficient amount of testing today for every state that qualifies to interphase one, to begin to reopen their economies. Mr. President , with your permission, ill just ask the admiral to give some specific numbers about how quick for all we have done, how much more youll see expansion of testing because of the partnership you witnessed against here today. Thank you, mr. President , mr. Vice president. The number of tests that need to be done depends on the state level. You understand that places where theres high virus circulating will need many, many more tests. Places that do not have high virus circulating may need less tests. Lets just assume dr. Fauci was talking about a 4 million per month number, which was a week ago, where we are. So we will, according to the governors plan for next month, we will easily double that 4 million number. We will have over 20 million swabs that were going to send out. We will have over 15 million tubes of media. We have all the tests matched, machine to machine in a focused area. We have gone state by state and understand that. And this is not even including what you just heard the 5 million per month tests by lab corps and quest. Or the point of care tests by abbott or all the other tests that are out there. So in may, we are going to be doing more testing in this country, and people talk about south korea a lot. The states with the lease amount of testing will double the overall cumulative number per capita that south korea has done in four months to give you that understanding. This sounds promising, wall fwre greens with the drivethrough testing. But march 13, these companies and other companies were here. By my count, only 69 drivethrough testing sites have been set up. Of course, mr. Vice president , back in early march, you said we would be at 4 million tests by the following week. We just now got there. So what have you learned about what went wrong, you know, a month and a half over the last month and a half, and what lessons have you learned over the last month and a have or so. John, i appreciate the question, but it misrepresents a misunderstanding on your part. And frankly, a lot of people in the publics part about the difference between having a test versus the ability to actually process the test. I mean, the truth was, when the president tapped me to heed the white house Coronavirus Task force two months ago, we saw the production of lots of test kits going into the market place. But as the president has said many times, what he understood early on is the old system would never be able to process the tests at the massive volume that we would need in the midst of an epidemic. Thats why the president brought together these commercial labs that you heard from today. Literally sat them down in the roosevelt room and said we need you to turn all of your energies loose on doing the high speed testing that will be necessary for us to reach the numbers were at