We just completed a very important meeting of the task force and they are really doing a great job, and that results are very good when you compare this to what is happening around the world, we are proud of our people. There has been a tremendous amount of coordination with , and thingsities are going well. They are coordinating with us, and i think certainly california has been terrific, the relationship. New york has been really good. Weve had some really good relationships in terms of the hotspots, and we are focused on them. Some areas we have no problem whatsoever and we hope to keep it that way. Before turn this over to our great Vice President to provide an update, i want to express my appreciation for the hard work done by the people behind me and the people back in the offices, including the fact that i just let the oval office. We have people there that are probably watching this or they are just working we are using the full power of the federal government to defeat this virus. Last week we secured an billion for the coronavirus. That was very efficiently done. Yesterday i declared a national ,mergency which was a big deal because it opened up avenues that we would never be able to open up without it. It wille it more make more than 50 Million Dollars for us immediately available and that is available for states and local governments. That was really good. We also reached an agreement packagey on a new providing strong support for American Families and communities dealing with the coronavirus. His was done very bipartisan , thes very nice to see it cooperation. To thank the secretary of fantastic jobid a and worked with nancy pelosi, and it worked out very well. A lot of people are been a finding then a fitting by it. There have been tremendous provisions, so that is something that we should talk about. I was honored to see that the stock market set a record in short time over 45 minutes that we had the conference yesterday. That was a record. I think we should do one of them everyday perhaps, how about five times a day . Watch it imething to had no idea. We had no idea. They said you just set a new record in the history of the stock market. That was pretty good. That was Great Companies there. They are big publicly listed companies, so they did a good job and more important need they will do a good job. And all look at walmart of these tremendous people that were there yesterday, these are the biggest and the best. They are opening up their facilities, literally working right now on doing something that has never been done before. So we are very proud. For freealso provides testing for all americans who should be tested. People who are getting tested are getting this free. That is a lot of money. It is a pretty complex test ,ctually, and it costs money and it is provided free so people do not have to worry about that. It also provides paid sick and family leave for those who need it including for those who have the virus, that caregivers and those looking, have children affected by the school closures. That is all taken care of. We will continue all of these actions. We have other things planned. We will be working with companies who are affected financially. Our country is in the best differentshape, so from the past. If you look at some of the big were financial problems. We now are in very Strong Financial shape with all of the trade and the other things we have been doing. It has been pretty amazing. We hope the Federal Reserve will get on board and do what they should do because we are doing things they should be doing frankly. We could all do them together, but they should be much more proactive. People representing other countries are taking aggressive action, so we would like to see, if you look at Central Banks, yesterday, we went to see the Federal Reserve be more proactive rate it is important. Doing meantime, we are things that have been well received. I guess you saw that yesterday at the end of the day. We have a lot of things to tell you in terms of respirators, the being made by the millions and millions. We are ordering worstcase scenario could we always say worstcase scenario, and that is where we are going. I want to thank everybody. I think over the last 24 hours i think the representation has been very fair for the most part. We are all in this together. It came out of china, and it is one of those things that happens. It is nobodys fault. We all will solve this problem. I think the American People have been incredible in the way they have acted. If you look at companies and sports leagues and all of the things, this is something very special, without being told necessarily. In some cases perhaps they were told, but for the most part they went to get this over with quickly and with very little death. As of this moment we have 50 deaths, which is a lot of good decisions were made or that money that number could be many times. You know that europe was ,eclared the hotspot yesterday and we made a decision prior to that, but we saw what was happening. If you have any questions, this group will be very happy to do it, but i want to say they have been, led by the Vice President , the job they do, they are working 20 hours a day. This man is working 20 hours a day or maybe more. We haveen working created a number of new stars including the gentleman right behind me. I watched him the other day and the fantastic job he did. They will be answering questions. We have a lot of new information so i think you will find it interesting and i will be going back to the oval office. There so many people right now that are rushing to Grocery Stores all over the country. Is that the right move . Overnight apple announced they would be closing all of their stores or two weeks. Should other retail outlets do the same thing . I think what apple did is fine. We want to keep people away. People gets better are buying things, and i understand that. I had my temperature taken coming into the room. Do you want to compare . That means we are all looking good. Night,took the test last and i decided, based on the conference yesterday, i do not know whatever it takes, whatever it is, they send it to a lab. You been sending mixed messages. Watched as youwe shook hands yesterday. Has your own sense of urgency evolved . This is urgent for meat right from the beginning. I closed up the country to china. Why are you shaking hands . It becomes a habit. Frankly i was a nonhandshake or for the most part. I never believed political people walk up to me that want to shake my hand. Wait a minute. Just relax. Theye come up to me and shake hands. It is sort of a natural reflex. All this have the problem. But he comes up to shaking hands is not a great thing to be doing, i agree. You dont think about it. People are thinking about it more and more. You have to think about it. Somebody said yesterday, touch the microphone. Im trying to make it easy for them because they are going to have to touch because we have to be able to reach semi. Reach the mic. If i dont touch it, somebody is to have to. I might as well be the one to do it. Getting away from shaking hands is a good thing. Possibly something that comes out of this. Maybe people should not be shaking hands for the longterm because it does transmit flu and other things. We have flu in our country that kills on average 36,000 people a year. 36,000 people. That is something we are not talking about. Lost this moment, we have 50 people and we are going to try to keep that number as low as possible. The pentagon is telling servicemembers and their families not to travel domestically. Should all americans follow that advice . Pres. Trump if you dont have to travel, we want this thing to end. We dont want a lot of people getting infected. We wanted to end as quickly as possible. So far i think we have done a fantastic job. I really think that the people behind me have not been given the credit that they deserve because they have done a fantastic job. When you see all of the school closures. School closures are important but it causes problems. The bill takes care of a lot of those problems with children staying at home. Now we take care of that issue with what we have passed last night. It has to go through the senate, i have to sign it, but that will happen. You have great professionals. If there is anything that comes up thank you, mr. President. Are you considering other travel restrictions perhaps domestically in that regard . Pres. Trump from certain areas, yes we are. We are working with the states and considering other restrictions. It has been reported that you are going to extend the travel ban to ireland on monday. Pres. Trump they have had a little bit of activity unfortunately, so we are going to be looking into that. We have already looked at it and that is going to be announced. If i could get an inquiry, it has been a hallmark of your presidency, you are always going after the dead. If you feel so strongly, why dont you dismiss the chairman . Pres. Trump i think i have the right to remove him. He has made a lot of bad decisions in my opinion. I think we are going to have a tremendous bounds when this is over. I think there is a pent up bou nce. I am not happy with the fed because i think they are following that lead and we should be leading. If you look at the Central Banks banks, largely, they are lower than others, there rate. Of thequivalent federated is lower. In some cases that is a lot. In some cases, very substantial. I thought the fed should be much more proactive. We have the number one currency in the world by a factor of many times. Have bythe power, we far the strong currency. You look at the strength of the dollar. Our fed is not doing what they should be doing. Rateould not have a fed higher than the competitive nations. If you look at germany, they are under zero. They are negative. There are many countries are negative. Japan, germany, and others. We are paying highend to high interest rates. We could refinance our debt very easily. We have some tremendous opportunities that Jerome Powell is not taking. I have the right to take him and put him in a regular position and put somebody else in charge and i have not made any decisions on that. Was your temperature normal, mr. President . Good afternoon, everyone. As the president just said, we completed the Coronavirus Task force meeting in the situation room. We continued to implement the not just forision, the response to the coronavirus but the whole american approach. The purpose for our task force is in permitting the partnership focusing on ensuring that state and local authorities have the guidance and support to ensure mitigation particularly in areas where we have seen Community Spread and we are continuing to lean in at the president s direction on addressing capacity issues in our hospitals with regard to equipment. Let me reiterate the president s gratitude and not just for the team behind me and the team behind them, all of our federal agencies that are literally bring aevery day to government approach to this. We also want to commend all of the governors across the country. I will be speaking to all of the governors in all 50 states and territories tomorrow. As the president said yesterday, we could not be more grateful for all of the governors particularly in areas where we have had Community Spread. Is taking cooperation place. We commend local Health Authorities on the front lines. We are grateful for the ininesses around the country sports, entertainment, and retail that are making decisions based on cdc guidelines and good common sense to protect the people. As the president said, we want people fore american listening to local authorities, listening to recommendations from the cdc. We will have more about that in just a moment from dr. Fauci and dr. Birx. Not surprisingly as we have seen in the past, the American People are all responding to look after not only their health, but their families and their communities. One story after another is truly inspiring to the president and to all of us. It has been a brisk few days. The president declared a National Emergency yesterday freeing up a get federal state and local authorities as well as our national response. The president announced that Unprecedented Partnership on testing. At 5 00 tomorrow, we will be detailing the progress that our team is making. They are literally working aroundtheclock with private companies. Fischer wased that approved in record time. A test that will actually increase the capacity of this partnership. Details on that in terms of when the local sites will be available at cvs and walgreens and walmart and other locations. What communities they will be available in, when the website will go online as well as how this will continue to roll out. 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow eastern standard time, we will detail that. Last night, the house of representatives passed legislation that addressed the priorities of President Trump had laid out for the American People in the weeks before that. I want to join him in thanking mccarthy,losi, leader the republicans and democrats pulled together to pass meeting thisnd moment in the bipartisan spirit that the america people would expect. The secretary of the treasury will detail the legislation, but head clear, the available to the Senate Next Week and delivers on the president s plan for Strong Health and economic support particularly focused on those most impacted including bluecollar americans who may not have paid leave. It provides free testing for uninsured americans and it builds on the decision that President Trump made expanding coverage for medicaid, medicare, and also getting a commitment from private Health Insurance companies to join with us to waive all copays on coronavirus testing. Testing will be free for every american. Those who have insurance, medicare, medicaid, other programs, and even the uninsured. Legislation also established tax credits and the secretary of the treasury will describe that it will provide medical leave to coronaviruselated claimant interruptions. Employment interruptions. Now you needck, not be concerned. If you an hourly wage earner in america, you need not be concerned about staying home. If you are sick, stay home. You are not going to miss a paycheck. Legislation will make sure that your employer including Small Businesses have the ability to provide paid leave. This also provides funding to ensure that Senior Citizens, women and children, and low income families have access to Emergency Assistance and it incentivizes states. The president and i are grateful for the bipartisan spirit that drove this legislation. Let me say how grateful we are for the secretary of the treasury and the hours he put in negotiating this measure. Let me say last night at midnight, the department of Homeland Security and permitted the president s decision to suspend all travel to europe. The acting secretary will detail the implementation of that. To be clear, countries where we have suspended travel under f, americans may still return to the united states. Legal residents may still return. Their screened at 13 airports as we speak they are being screened at 13 airports. There is an additional response on site, but those americans are being encouraged to return home until quarantine for 14 days. That started at midnight last night. The secretary will detail it. In a few moments, i will ask dr. Fauci to update us on cases as well as current cdc guidance for all americans and all of you are already aware that we issued specific guidance to about half a dozen states where we have seen Community Spread. Dr. Birx will touch briefly on the partnership testing plan and speak about what the data is showing at this moment about the best guidance for every american. I wantsecretary wolf and to join the president in commending the crews lined cruise line industry. They announced that they will be suspending operations for a period of 30 days. You wolf will explain to the importance of that decision. We want to commend the industry for working with us. As we met last week on this day with industry executives, we will be working vigorously over the next 30 days to implement policies that will ensure that when they start back up, they will be safer and healthier places than ever before. Great industry, the American People love it, we will make sure it is therefore many years to come. As the president just foreshadowed, the president has made a decision to suspend more travel to the United Kingdom in ireland effective midnight on monday night, eastern standard time. Chad wolf will describe the details of that. As the president just suggested, all of our Health Experts presenting information. Dr. Fauci will reflect on some of those numbers. We made a unanimous regulation recommendation that will be effective midnight, monday night, eastern standard time. Again, americans in the u. K. Or island can come home. Reland. They will be funneled through specific airports. We continue to emphasize that the risk of serious illness for the average american remains low. The data shows that seniors with serious Underlying Health conditions are most vulnerable, the people most susceptible. In a few moments, we will talk about the decision to restrict all visitors in all Nursing Homes around the country and other measures we have taken. It is so important for all of us, all of us who are blessed with having Senior Citizens in our family like my 88yearold mom. Lets look after seniors with serious Underlying Health conditions and make sure that every american around them is practicing the best kind of hygiene and the best kind of measures to ensure that they are not exposed. We will hear also from dr. Carson and the Surgeon General before we wrap up and take some questions. With that, let me recognize dr. Fauci for an update on where we stand and recommendations and guidance. Dr. Fauci thank you very much, mr. Vice president. Review, and then we will go to the united states. 129t now, there are countries with involvement with coronavirus. Globally, the numbers are hundred and 32,000 plus. 132,000. This is something we have mentioned, if you look at what was formally the main theater of this coronavirus outbreak was china, they have 81,000 new new deaths. Ly seven things have switched over to outside of china which has actually triggered our decision to do the travel restriction in other areas besides china. I think it is important to recognize that because when this is all over, and it will end, you will see a curve of how the coronavirus outbreak evolved. It is not going to be homogeneous because countries are going to do this and then that. We have seen it already with china. We are starting to see it with korea which brings us to what we can expect in our own country. If you look at the domestic 50es, there are about deaths, 532 new cases and nine new deaths which means we have not reached the peak. We will see more suffering and death dominantly as the Vice President said among the vulnerable in our society. Individuals with conditions and the elderly. Thehat is a challenge and challenge is we still have the opportunity to influence the course of that curve. We would like to see that when this is all over, our curve was not like that, our curve was like this. That is why we are implementing the things we are talking about. Finally, i want to make a comment about yesterday. Physician, which i primarily am, there are things that happened yesterday that are going to be really important for the people out there who are going to be impacted by this, particularly by the physicians. The president declaring a state of National Emergency. That would be the word that i used which is essentially on shackling us from the things that will get in the way of the new powers given to alex cesar and the departments within his azar. Within that group, the nursing home situation which we really have to protect. We always get asked about testing. It is all systems go. Lets look forward. Responsibility is without with us, but also with them. We will alleviate the anxiety that we have in the world. The divisionalve physician and individual citizen the opportunity to know where they stand. I will stop there and be happy to answer questions later. Dr. Birx thank you, good afternoon. I want to start with the four things i have learned. We are at our best when the country comes together and that has been extraordinary to witness. Secondly, what you may not have seen is the willingness of state and local governments to Work Together with the federal government in a seamless way. Independent of party affiliation. The third thing has been the markable decrease in bureaucracy and red tape to get us where we are today. This is evident in the cdc. Understanding that in order to serve every american , we have to show partnership. We saw issues with testing and i want to remind everyone it was a Surveillance System set up by Public Health institutions to be a surveillance test. Other movere was no to do a diagnostic test. Now we have the full power of testing capacity. We are looking at what it will take to have consumer access and that is what the private sector is bringing. We had to have automated height through testing because we want the people to get their results quickly. Want to make sure that patients get results and that was critical in that bill yesterday on reporting and requiring reporting. As we move out of state and local laboratories, as we move out into the hospitals and the communities, we need to know about the test results so that we can focus resources where they are needed the most. Finally, i want to conclude with something very important. , and ourare tested results look very similar to south korea now, with south plus of people with symptoms are negative. Thats remind all of us, most areiratory diseases contagious. If you have any symptoms, you want to protect yourself and treat yourself, but you also want to protect others. When people have a respiratory illness, you had a contagious illness. If it is not allergies, it is contagious. Precautions. When you get a negative test, that means you are negative that day. It does not mean that you could not get the virus spreading overnight because it replicates in your nose and nasal secretions and you would have a positive test tomorrow. If you have a negative test, that does not mean that you can discontinue precautions. Lets ensure that if you have symptoms, you are contagious. Lets treat yourself as being contagious and if you have a negative test, lets make sure that you are still protecting others from whatever you do have doesnt take additional risks. Individuals that we call longterm survivors from hiv, they are here across the country , that have survived more than four decades with hiv. Many of them still carry a level of compromise. To all of them out there, take care of yourself. Ensure that you are doing Everything Possible to ensure you dont get exposed. Thank you. Mr. Secretary,e on the legislation. I want to thank Kevin Mccarthy and kevin and all of the republicans work with us aroundtheclock. I would like to thank Mitch Mcconnell and his team who were providing input as well. I especially want to thank Speaker Pelosi who was literally available to us aroundtheclock for the last three days and also want to thank the Vice President and the president who were specifically involved in the details with us and providing guidance. I would just highlight some of the issues. The first thing i want to say is this delivers on what the president announced in his speech. People who need to be quarantined and people who have the virus, we want them at home and we want them to continue to get paid. We dont want to be in a situation where they fear not getting paid during this two week. Of time period of time. It creates a very seamless process of people that work for small and mediumsized businesses, they will continue to get paid. They dont have to worry about Big Government and coming to Big Government to get their checks. It will continue to get paid. We were sensitive to Small Businesses. Many of these covered sick pay but they will have many more people that may be on quarantine and we did not want them to have to bear the cost. 100 of the cost for these limited situations will be taken care of by the federal government. Finally, we want to think of, how do we deliver money to the people in the quickest way. We did not want to take six months to implement a government system. I want to thank everyone at the irs. They will issue tax credits for most employers which will deduct the money from what they owe us. For small and mediumsized businesses that have cash flow problems, we will issue guidelines. You will be able to come to the irs, get the money in advance so you dont have cash flow issues. We were very careful in balancing and making sure that people got paid without creating undue burden. We also have unique circumstances where schools are closed. Parents may be able to telecommute and take care of their kids but in certain circumstances, have to be home to take care of youngsters or elderly people. We wanted to ensure that they have the ability to do that. As the Vice President mentioned, for kids that received meals in schools, the schools are closed, we wanted to make sure those kids will continue to get lunches paid for. I want to think the task force. Two things that were important to us in this, there is a provision as it relates to masks. We can ramp up to 30 Million Masks per month. There is also a provision that the states will munich it back communicate back. We will very quickly get these results. I think the house for sticking around very late last night. I dont want people to be surprised, we will be doing a technical correction on monday morning despite is working very hard. We had language agreed with the speaker and Kevin Mccarthy, it did not get into the final bill. Last night, the speaker and i agreed that they would vote on it and have an agreement. I dont want anybody to come back on monday morning and be surprised by that. Again, thank you to the Vice President and the president. I wanted to also say i would describe this as a baseball game. 8 first inning was the billion. This is the second inning. The speaker and i have acknowledged it. We will be working immediately. The Airlines Industry in particular, no different that after 9 11, has a very unique circumstance. E industry, the hotel industry, we have a lot more work to do and we appreciate the partisan support in rolling things out quickly. Vice pres. Pence thank you, mr. Secretary. I know the president would want me to say how grateful we are for your efforts on behalf of the people. The acting secretary chad wolf will speak about cruise lines, the suspension of travel and the expansion to the u. K. And ireland. Start off by thanking the partnerships that we have in the Airline Industry and the cruise line industry. President and the president has outlined, we issued new directives denying foreign nationals who had been in affected countries. 28 countries today from entry into the u. S. Request, wedents had a number of major cruise lines that have agreed to suspend outbound trips for 30 days. Weve had a number of smaller operators follow that suit and we have given orders to a very small handful to not sell and as the vice. President outlined, the president made the decision due to the number of cases in the u. K. To apply these decisions to the u. K. And ireland. Travelestrictions bar for certain foreign nationals who had been present in the u. K. Or island in the past 14 days. That ireland. They goes into effect monday at midnight. Effect mondaynto at midnight. Reporting,saw some how do u. S. Citizens get back from europe, they will be allowed into the u. S. As legal permanent residents, family members, foreign double mass, and other exemptions outlined in the proclamation can certainly travel back to the u. S. They will undergo screening and some other questions when they asked tod they will be selfquarantine for 14 days. These restrictions to the u. K. And ireland do not apply to cargo and economic air cargo, maritime cargo, economic shipping, or the like. The president ith has taken unprecedented action to protect the safety and security of the american public. These actions have never been taken before. Of me thank the Department Homeland security are working day and night to implement these restrictions and to make sure that we do this in an orderly and efficient process and we continue to look at all measures on the table, new measures that we have to implement as we go forward as the virus evolves. Thank you. Vice pres. Pence thank you, mr. Secretary. I know the president would want thanks andrate your accommodation to the dedicated men and women of dhs on the front lines of him lamenting implementing these policies. Cmsll recognize the head of on the risk to seniors with serious Underlying Health conditions and the steps we are taking relative to Nursing Homes and guidance to protect those most vulnerable. Thank you, mr. Vice president. As they said, we did take action to indicate that Nursing Homes should restrict all visitors Effective Immediately and that includes all nonessential personnel. There are some exceptions for endoflife. We are canceling all Group Activities and there is active screening of healthcare workers that are in this facility. The Emergency Declaration is very important to our health care workforce. There is a lot more flexibility that they have. They can have workers from across state lines, doctors and nurses that can help them. Hospitals have the ability to move patients around. That is also going to be very helpful as they go forward with this. Homes, wethe nursing talked about this a couple of weeks ago. We had a call to action for all of care facilities to double down around Infection Control purposes. Practices. We have become come up with specific guidance for surveyors. We have begun the process of going into Nursing Homes, especially the ones that have a history of Infection Control. Those infections have already started and they have been doing this in washington state, california, new york. We will be increasing those over the coming weeks. Vice pres. Pence i am mindful of the fact that there are likely many seniors that could be watching this. Let me assure you that we are going to continue to take steps to ensure that all of the and cdc aboutcms preventing the spread remains low. I want to be clear, as dr. Fauci has said, and i might ask him to emphasize. The threat is not to seniors particularly or to seniors that may be on certain medications. For seniors with serious Underlying Health conditions, we are taking the steps of suspending visitors for the purpose of protecting the most vulnerable. All of those seniors are watching from Nursing Homes, homes who are otherwise healthy dr. Fauci obviously when you myself,nior individual if you are otherwise healthy, you really have less of a risk than if you have an underlying condition. Vice pres. Pence thank you, doctor. A couple more updates. I want to hear from the Surgeon General and dr. Carson and we will go to as many questions as you have. Thank you. Yesterday was a very important day for our nations providers terms of thents in Emergency Declaration and in terms of the agreement with the house. , went you all to understand really need you all to lean into and prioritize the health and safety of the American People. No more bickering. No more partisanship. No more criticism or fingerpointing. There will be time for that. We need to hit the reset button and move forward with the health and safety of the American People as the top priority, how they can protect themselves, how they can get the resources that they needed that we have unleashed from the government. Less stories looking at what happened in the past. I want you to understand this will get worse before it gets better but we are making progress to flatten the curve. We are making progress. Three important points. Number one, almost all people will recover. People need to know that. We heard a great story about an 89yearold from that nursing home facility in seattle who has recovered. Number two, we must protect the most vulnerable. Those with severe medical conditions, especially seniors. Now is the time for us to lean into that and we are taking measures to protect them. And others are hard at work right now from the federal level. We need your help. Social distancing and mitigation is not to protect the 30yearold or the 20yearold from getting coronavirus. ,hey are to protect your nana your granddaddy, the people you love in your lives and we need your help. We all have a role to play. If we are complacent, selfish, uninformed, if we spread fear and distrust, the situation will last longer and people will be hurt. But if we pitch in and share the facts, we will flatten the curve and overcome this situation. Finally, my prescription, know your risk. Understand your circumstances and get the facts to protect yourself at coronavirus. Gov. Secretary and dr. Ben carson. Sometimes you have to stop and think about what is unique about the united states. One of the things that is really wonderful that we should stop and think about is we have so many people who are willing to put aside their self interest for the good of the nation. I want to thank those people at the federal, state, and local level who put their own lives in order toause help their fellow americans. It makes a big difference. I want to thank the private sector. Privatee so many in the sector who have volunteered their services, who have stepped up and are willing to recognize that maybe they are going to take a financial hit, but they recognize that we have to create the appropriate environment so that everybody can succeed in this nation. So often we overlook those individuals. I want them to know how much we appreciate them. What we are facing now is a significant threat. Surgeon,ician and as a i faced a lot of very compex problems. Complex problems. Most of them we were able to overcome because of the fact that we had incredible people working on this together. It was the teamwork that made the biggest difference in the world. That is what i have seen here in the government right now. The people behind me with others who are willing to Work Together as a team to be able to accomplish the goals for the American People. I used to think we had long hours of medicine, working 24 hours straight. Working at midnight and 2 00 in the morning. This team is working that way, too. 9 00,uently get calls at 10 00, 11 00, midnight about putting together policies and doing various things. I want to thank all the people involved and i hope that we as a as an can use this opportunity to pull together for good. President trump is going to be recommending a national day of prayer. From prayeren away and faith a lot in this country. There is nothing wrong with godly principles no matter what your faith is. Loving your neighbor caring about people around you. Having values and principles that govern your life. Those are things that made america zoom to the top of the world in record time and those are the things that will keep us there. Thank you, mr. E secretary. Questions . Why secretaryl us azar is not here . Google ponnuruof and google says it was not aware that this was going to be announced and it was not prepared in the same way the president told the country. Googleste, involvement and why the secretary is not present. Vice pres. Pence the secretary was at the Task Force Meeting this morning. And we willo work have a roundup for these presentations so we can get quickly to your questions. The secretary is doing a remarkable job working seven days a week for the American People and making a difference. With regard to google and others , i know google issued a statement that they are planning to launch a website. They gave the date of monday, march 16 and we are working around the clock. I know that the whole team working on this could not be more grateful to all of the hardworking people at google that are helping to put this website together. Tomorrow at 5 00, we will have aboutpecific description when the website will be available, when the parking lot sites will be available for people to be tested. We are working with state and local communities to determine where it is best to roll those out. A number of communities are already doing a great job meeting there need so we are trying to flow the resources. 5 00 tomorrow night, we will. Ave details can you clear up the discrepancy between the letter that was issued from the white house the Physicians Office just before midnight last night in which the physician concluded that you and the president did not need to be tested . I know the president announced that he has been tested and i am going to speak immediately after this press. Onference as of last night, the white house physicians said that neither i nor he had the symptoms that would necessitate testing. Tobe i will ask dr. Birx step up. As we extend testing, we want people to be able to go to a website to determine whether or not a test is in order. We want to make sure people are being tested that have the symptoms. Im going to speak to the white house physician after this briefing. Thank you, mr. Vice president for mentioning that. 250,000d you, there are plus tests and 90 were negative. We are working hard integrating they have learned about symptoms and screening and that is going into the development of this website. It is not a simple checkbox website. It will go through critical symptoms and that is why we are giving ourselves the weekend. So far in the united states, they are running a 99 to 98 negativity. This worries me because i worked in Public Health a long time. When you tell someone they are negative, it is reassuring, but the last thing we want is them so reassured that they stop practicing Critical Practices that will protect us. This epidemic will be stopped at the community level. There their response will get us over this. You are going to have to help us carry the message that this means just at that moment you are negative and you need to continue to do your protection and protection of others to make sure you remain there. Google, theyup on said the website they are developing is in its early stages and will be limited in the San Francisco bay area which is different from what you are saying. Vice pres. Pence they are planning to launch a website this coming monday, march 16 that would enable individuals to do Risk Assessment and be scheduled for testing at testing sites in the bay area with the goal of expanding to other locations. We are very grateful for that. The objective is to have a website up very quickly that first people in the areas that have been deeply impacted, washington state, california, new york. We have seen Community Spread in massachusetts and also florida so we want to make sure we are flowing those resources as well as those remote testing sites in that area. That is the statement i was handed this morning from them. I want to tell you folks, we are working 20 47 on this. We will have specific details on the roll out of this testing at 5 00 tomorrow. Thank you, mr. Vice president. Could you give us more detail on the potential Financial Assistance for the entertainment industry, for the cruise industry that the administration is looking at right now . If i may on the temperature check, were all the members of the cabinet have their temperatures checked . I see you nodding. Is it also white house policy that anyone who comes into the oval office needs to have their temperatures checked . Vice pres. Pence i would refer those questions to the white house Physicians Office. Ave been infirmed that informed that they are establishing temperature checks. I thought secretary mnuchin put it very well. We got the initial support, 8. 3 billion from congress. The house passed legislation to act on priorities. We understand the president made it very clear whether it is an Airline Industry or cruise industry, we expect to be coming back to congress to make sure that as we put the Health America first health of America First and as businesses make a priority of the health of those employees and those that they serve and their customers, we want to make sure they can come all the way back. This is an unique circumstance. This is not the financial crisis where people did not know how long this will go on. There is no question because of the things that were we are requesting people to do, there are parts of the economy that are slowing down or shutting down dramatically. As i said before and i said yesterday, we are committed to use all of the tools, resources, and government to make sure we protect the economy. Many of the industries you have talked about as i said, the airlines are the most obvious because we have a unique circumstance where we have shut down travel and these are of strategic importance. We appreciate those industries that are impacted. There are many individuals. The president talked about a Stimulus Program whether it is through eight taxcut or tax credits, we are 100 committed and i can assure you there is a partisan support. We have a lot of tools, the fed has a lot of tools, some of these tools we did not have in the Financial Congress will be going back to congress. One of the reasons why this was so important is this is just the second step on i partisan support. Bipartisane sure support. Money would you like to see . I am not talking about the previous bill. It would be premature to comment on specific monday money. We have 100 Different Things we are looking at. Yesterday the president announced on Student Loans suspending interest. That was one of the things. He announced a Strategic Oil reserve. We also have a unique circumstance having nothing to do with the virus. Parts of our economy are impacted by the temporary lowprice of oil. The president , Vice President , and everybody else is committed. We have 100 different ideas and whatever we need to do, we will do. President , thank you so much. I have a question for you and dr. Birx. You said there was a low risk for the average american to contract the virus. Your language has altered a little bit. You are saying risk of serious illness remains low. Can you address why the change and the potential of contracting the virus no longer low . Why the change . Vice pres. Pence i am going to let dr. Birx address that. If you dont mind, sir. Vice pres. Pence everything is based on the unanimous opinion of Health Experts based on the information that we have at the time. It is now more than a few weeks since we had our first instance of Community Spread in the united states. The president took every step to prevent the virus from coming into our country. We cannot overstate how unprecedented and extraordinary the suspension of all travel ofm china was before the end january. Travel advisories for portions of italy, south korea, the screening of personnel coming into our country. Allow me to let dr. Birx address that. We will continue to tell the American People straight from the Health Experts the best information that we have two see that our own health, the health of the family, and health of our community. Analyzed every day, we data from around the world. We look at and try to get a sense of the amount of a symptom asypmyomstic patients. We are trying to figure out based on that information and the profile of the epidemic to really understand is there a whole group under 20 that does not get significant symptoms, yet we do not believe that people under 20 are naturally protected from the virus. Are they a group that are potentially a symptomatic and spreading the virus. Because of that unknown, we dont want to say that the risk is low when we dont know how low the numbers are for people who are a symptom addict. Symptomatic. We have a good sense of who was deeply impacted by this. If you have a look at all of the basis,es on a daytoday people of a certain age are at a higher risk for an outcome. The other side of the epidemic is how much transmission. Until you understand how many asymptomatic, we think it is important to know that the risk of serious illness may be low but they could be potentially spreading the virus to others and that is why we are asking every american to take personal responsibility to prevent spread. That is why we have made all of these recommendations brought even passed people who have no symptoms because we want everyone taking precautions. You said you are speaking to all of the governors. Are we looking at any Domestic Travel restrictions that could be coming down anytime soon . My other question is mitch s statement that he is going to read the bill. Vice pres. Pence the president the bill received by the house. We are grateful for the support that mcconnell has expressed for the priorities that the president has outlined. We will be working with members of the senate to unpack the bill president nd wipe the endorsed it yesterday and why they should move it expeditiously. With regard to additional travel restrictions, let me just say that the president said we are considering a broad range of measures. No decisions have been made yet. I want to assure the American People of two things. We will continue to follow the facts, listen to the experts about recommendations. The decision to suspend all travel from europe. We will bring the best recommendations to the president and i promise the American People that this president is going to continue to take every step necessary to protect the American People and put the health of the American People first and together, we will get through this. What is being done to help those in Public Housing . Is anything being done . What specifically . Announcer 1 on monday a virtual town hall on the coronavirus epidemic and trust in government. Coverage begins at 8 30 eastern on cspan2. Is easy to follow the federal response to the coronavirus outbreak at cspan. Org coronavirus. Track the spread throughout the world with interactive maps and charts. Watch hearings with Public Health specialists anytime unfiltered at cspan. Org coronavirus. We are back with heather long who was here to explain to us what is going on with the economy around the coronavirus. What parts of the economy are most affected by what is going on . Many of us are watching the stock market this week. Even though we had a rally on friday, it is in a bear market. That means stocks have fallen 20 from their alltime high in mid february. This is the fastest we have ever dived into a bear market. Not even in 2008 did we go this fast. In terms of they real economy,