See youre practicing social distancing. That looks very nice. Thats very good. I want to thank everybody for being here today. This morning i spoke with the eaders of the g7 nations, and they really had a good meeting. I think it was a very productive meeting. I spoke with our nations governors, also. This afternoon were announcing new guidelines for every american to follow over the next 15 days as we combat the virus. Each and every one of us has a Critical Role to play in stopping the spread and transmission of the virus. This was done with a lot of very talented people, some of whom are standing with me and thats available. And dr. Burks will speak about that in a few minutes. Its important for the young and Healthy People to understand while they may experience milder symptoms, spread this ly virus and will indeed by putting others in harms way and we worry about our Senior Citizens and the task force meets every day and updates guidelines based on the fast evolving situation this has become all over the world. Its all over the world. Its incredible wheads whats happened in a short period of time. The new model conducted by dr. Burks and our consultation with governors, weve made the decision to further toughen the guidelines and blunt the infection now. Wed much rather be ahead of the curve than behind it and thats what we are. Therefore my administration is recommending all americans including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible, avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people, avoid discretionary travel, and avoid eating and drinking at bars, restaurants, and public food courts. If everyone makes this change or critical changes and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation, and we and well the virus have a big celebration altogether. Whichever weeks of focused action, we can turn the corner and turn it quickly. A lot of progress has been made. Im also pleased to report today a vaccine candidate has begun the phase 1 clinical trial. Its one of the fastest Vaccine Development launches in history. Not even close, were also racing to develop antienvironmental therapies and other treatments and weve had some promising early results that were promising to reduce the severity and duration of the symptoms, and i have to say that our government is prepared to do whatever it takes, whatever it takes were doing, were doing it in every way. With that id like to just introduce dr. Burks who is going to discuss some of the things we strongly recommend. Thank you. D. Burks thank you, mr. President. I think you know over the last month weve taken very bold action to stop the virus from coming to our shores. And because of that we gained time to get together and understand the progress across the globe of what has worked and what hasnt worked. Now need to appeal to every single american so they can have their role in stopping the spread of this virus. We talked about things before about washing your hands, but we really want to focus on if you are sick, no matter who you are, please stay home. If someone in your household is diagnosed with this virus, the entire household should quarantine in the house to prevent spread of the virus to others. The reason were taking these strong and bold steps is because we know there is virus spread before you develop symptoms and we know theres a large group, we dont know the precise percent yet that is actually asymptomatic or has such mild cases that they continue to spread the virus. If your children are sick, please keep them home. Now, to our older population or those with preexisting medical conditions, everyone in the household needs to focus on protecting them. Everyone in the household. I want to speak particularly to our largest generation now, our millenials. I have the mom of two young millenial young women who are bright and hardworking and tell you what i told to them. They are the core group that will stop this virus. Theyre the group that communicates successfully independent of picking up a phone. They intuitively know how to contact each other without being in large social gatherings. Were asking all of them to hold their gatherings to under 10 people. Not just in bars and restaurants but in homes. We really want people to be separated at this time. To be able to address this virus comprehensively we cannot see, for which we dont have a vaccine or therapeutic. The only thing we have right now is the amazing ingenuity and compassion of the American People. Were appealing to all americans to take these steps to protect each other and ensure that the virus doesnt spread. These guidelines are very specific. Theyre very detailed. They will only work if every american takes this together to heart and responds as one nation and one people to stop the spread of this virus. Thank you. Thank you very much, dr. Birx. To connect to what i mentioned with you in previous discussions in this room, and dr. Birx said it very well. In order to contain and curtail this epidemic to not reach its capability, we have a two pillar approach, one of which i believe has been very effective in preventing the substantial seeding and the travel restrictions weve discussed in this room. The other equally if not more important is when you have infection in your own country, which we do, and you know, there really is essentially what we have seen yesterday incremental increasing as well as globally and the United States with a curve doing that. So therefore the kinds of things we do are containment and mitigation. What were mentioning now, the guidelines when you look at them carefullyly. I believe if the people in the United States takes them seriously because they were based on some rather serious consideration back and forth, some may look at them and say theyre going to be really inconvenient to people. Some will look and say maybe weve gone a little bit too far. They were well thought out. And the thing that i want to reemphasize and ill say it over and over again. When youre dealing with an emerging Infectious Disease outbreak, you are always behind where you think you are if you think today reflects where you really are. Thats not word speak, it means if you think youre here, youre really here because youre only getting the results. Therefore, it will always seem the best way to address it would be to be doing something that looks like it might be an overreaction. It isnt an overreaction, its a reaction that we feel is commensurate, which is actually going on in reality. Take a look at the guidelines and read them carefullyly and we hope the people of the United States will take them very seriously. Because they will fail if people dont adhere to them. We have to have as a whole country come corroborate and collaborate to make sure these get done. Thank you. Ok. Go ahead. Reporter mr. President , a lot of people are concerned about how long this might last . Do you have any kind of estimate that if americans were to ban together and do what the white house is suggesting, how quickly you could do it . President trump my favorite question. I think i ask that question every day and i speak to deborah and i speak to a lot of help and get the opinions. It seems to me if we do a really good job, well not only hold the depeths down to a level much lower than the other way had we not done a good job. People are talking about july, august, Something Like that. It could be right in that period of time where i say it washes through. Other people dont like that term. Reporter is in the new normal until the height of the summer . President trump well see what happens but they think august, could be july or longer than that. Ive asked that question many, many times. Yes . Reporter that being said, americans today and looking forward, are living with so much age item and fear facing uncertainty right now. I wonder how are you talking to your family about this and how are you talking to your younger son . Do you emphasis with this sense of reality. People are very scared. Peter i think i know they are very squared. President trump i think i know they are very scared. Weve been working with the government at Different Levels and fema is involved. Usually we see fema for the hurricanes and tornados but now we have fema involved and theyve been doing a fan tagsic job locally and working with people that they know, for example, in the state of california. In the state of washington they work with them a lot and are very familiar. You a you can do is professional, really competent we have really the greatest people in the world, really the greatest experts in the world and some day soon it will end and be effective where it is. It came up so suddenly. You all were surprised. We heard reports from china that something thauts happening and all of a sudden we made a good decision and closed our borders to china or would be in very bad position, put worse than whats happening now. You look whats happening in other countries, italy ising a have hard time and i have spoken with my son and he asked how bad is this . Its bad. Its bad. But hopefully well an best case and not a worse case is what were looking for. Reporter confusion on two fronts, one is your test and then containment efforts. Is the u. S. Considering a quarantine or National Curfew . President trump yeah, we have that very much and weve been pretty aggressive. We were early with europe but very early with china and other places and as far as a Containment Team were coming out with suggestions and it is becoming automatic. You look at people and obviously theyre not doing certain things and i wouldnt say the spraunt is booming but people are selfcontaining to large department. We look forward to getting normal. Reporter are you instituting a nationwide quarantine . There are still questions about it. President trump at this point not nationwide. You know, there are some places in our nation that are not very effective at all or certain hot spots as we call them, well be looking at that. But as of this moment, no, were not. Ramona you said you had rorpse coronavirus friday night and there was a notice put out no test indicated. President trump i had my test and was late friday night and the reason i did it, i had no symptoms whatsoever. And the doctor said you have nosomes but we dont ee a reason. Everybody was asking about you do the test . So later friday night i did the test and the doctor may have put out something, maybe it was put out by somebody else. The results came back i believe the following day and we suspended negative. Coith its implying you hadnt had a test when in fact you had. President trump i told them i went totally by what they aid, the doctors, thorn one. They said i didnt have toms but i did a test friday night and it came back 24 hours later and sent it to the labs and it came back letter. Reporter mr. President you had a teleconference with the nations governor take and in that telecronches you told them they needed a respirator or mask to get them on their own. President trump they can get them faster and go through a supply chain they have. The government is not necessarily fast and if theyre able to get certain pings without having to go through the federal government. Weve stockpiled now where were ordering ventilators and masks and theyre ordered and we have dwight a few at this point. Lot. Frankly, it is a and ive given organization to order directly. Reporter mr. President , one of the big weaknesses in our Health Care System is Search Capacity for medical facilities and i wanted to ask what precautions, what plan is being done to get china was able to build hospitals in a matter of days. Are you prepared to use the core of engineers or fema to Start BuildingSurge Capacity we may need in a couple weeks. President trump we hope redont get there and are taking a strict look at this and looking in areas not only looking but expanding things in that regard and we are doing a lot in that re guard. Reporter yesterday the Vice President said no one should worry about losing a paycheck when they stay home when theyre sick but the house bill exempts companies of 500 employees or more from the paid sick leave. And its 50 of the american workplace. Why is it only a good idea to provide Small Businesses safety . President trump we are looking at that and may expand it. We want it for everybody. Were looking at it through the senate because the senate now is digesting that bill so we may very well put something on that. Reporter how many ventilators do we have right now and will it be enough . President trump i can get back to you with that number. Ive ordered a lot and have quite a few and if its not enough hopefully we wont need them. Reporter youll give us an exact number . Peter if its important well give you a number. Go ahead. Reporter yesterday you said this was under tremendous control. Do you want to revisit that statement if we go to zpwrule or august, five more months . President trump when im talking about control, im saying were doing a very good job within the confines of what were dealing with. Theres been a tremendous amount the way theyre working together, working hand in hand and theyre doing a great job. And from that stand point, thats what im treefering to. 4 President Trump im not meaning 1, youre talking the virus, its not uncontrol any place in the world. Reporter i think you said President Trump no, i didnt. I wasnt talking about the virus. Reporter the stock market took a hit, is the u. S. Economy heading into a recession . President trump once we stop, i thinked there a tremendous pentup demand in terms of the stock market and economy and once it goes away and goes through and done with it, i think youll see a tremendous hurge. Are you looking at any dough advice . Domestic President Trump were hoping we dont have to do this but we talk about it every day and we havent made that decision. Reporter doctors and nurses in this country are telling us across the board theyre terrified of this virus and the fact they could get it or the fact they might take it home for their families. What can you say to ensure Health Care Environments that theyre doing today they get personal Protection Equipment to protect themselves and their families. President trump this government it is doing everything we possibly can do and we made some additions by keeping certain countries where the address was immense. People are talking about south korea, one side theyve done a good job but tremendous problems and great numbers of debt. I think eve one a fantastic band point. In matter where you look, its an invisible enemy. Were speaking all the time not only with the people but the professional people, the nurses and doctors, peeve been doing a fanstic job and were working on getting them the equipment they need and for the most part they either have it or will be getting it. But remember this, we want the governors and we want the mayors locally from a local standpoint and want them to work. Talk. Had a great theres a tremendous spirit by have request the government, and thats for the most part bipartisanship. Reporter you told john this could wash through july or august and you told steve when he asked you about the possibility of recession, you said it may be im curious if there is a session when do you think that might help end . President trump number one, i dont determine recession. We have a invisible enemy, that a month ago nobody thought about it. I read about it many years ago, 1917, 1918 and ive seen all the different problems dollar to this that weve had. This has been in the sense that ts so contagious. Sort of record setting type contagion. And the good part is the young people do very well and Healthy People do very well. Very bad for older people, especially older people with problems. My focus is on getting rid of this problem, this virus problem. Once we do that, Everything Else will fall into place. Yes, please . Reporter a lot of rumors last night you were going to put in a national occur view. President trump ive been watching. Me, too. Your people were saying it was a foreign information plain. Are people missing things on the internet . President trump i cant tell you that. But i think the media has been very fair. It could be that you have some attorney groups playing games but we havent determined to do that at all and hopefully we wont have to. Its a step you can take. Jennifer he, go. Reporter one on airlines and one on jeff bezos. Can you tell us what youd like to do to help the airlines. And we heard if bezos has been in contact with the white house daily, can you tell us what hes proposing. I know some of my people have been dealing with him or with jim. We have a lot of people to help and he was one of them. As far as the parents are concerned, its not their fault or nobodys fault unless you go to the original source bring its be fors fault and well be in a position to help the airlines very much. Well help them. Well be backed up helping the airlines and helping them very much. Its very important. Reporter what do you know about the stock market, sir . 27 million for passenger and 4. 2 for nonpassenger. President trump they were having record seasons and came out from nowhere and not our fault. Reporter will the white house support negatively. President trump the best thing i can do for the stock market is get through this crisis. Thats what i think about. Once this virus is done youll have a stock market like nobody has ever seen before. Reporter will people be voting tomorrow, mr. President . President trump hell be back in a second. I think the question maybe john asksed about until july. The guidelines are a 15day trial go ahead line to be resoring. It isnt theyll be in affect until july. The practice detectry of the outbreak may foe there now but make sure its important. President trump that would mean the outside number. Do you mr. President , want the republicans to change the package that hased the house last week. President trump i think they may make it better. Theyre working in unionon bike the question before, theyre working to only enhance it and make it fair to everybody. Moith we may go back and forth with the house a bit but both will be in a positive fashion. Reporter your guidelines say avoid special gatherings of groups of more than 10 people. Your c. D. C. Recommendations worked for people to avoid candidates with more than 50 pem. Thesis involved in the last 24 s and exa he cant exactly cant appeal. Reporter thank for you that question. Weve been working on models day and night around the globe to really predict. Some countries are in the early stage like the United States. Weve been working with groups in the united kingdom. Very had new information coming out from a model. What had the biggest impact in he model is social distancing, not going in public for one thing. But the thing is it one person becomes infected. The whole household selfquarantine. That stops 100 of the transition outside the household. As we talked about early on, its silent. We had another silent epidemic, the h. I. V. Epidemic. The h. I. V. Was solved by the committee, the activists who toad up when nobody is listening and got everyones same sense of community to come together and stand up against this virus. And if everybody in america does what we ask for over the next 15 days well see a dramatic difference and wont have to worry about the ventilators and wont have to worry about the i. U. Vets and we wont have the those with the greatest risk having be hospitalized. Thank you, mr. President. Reporter very productive call with the governors. We talked about the new rollout testing we described yesterday and the drivethrough and Community Based testing and i know how grateful the president is for the efforts that governors are making and now with the admiral. And the United StatesPublic Health service as well as fema. We made great progress and coordinating these efforts. The other issue raised with the president today was personal protective equipment. The reason i mentioned testing is one of the recommendations we have for states is the remote testing sites of making an impact over the age of of 5, we dont want them to go to Emergency Rooms but a remote site at a parking lot or isolated communication by, negotiation. We tant make sure the Health Care Workers have the opportunity to be fested and using the new high through put stress test the president arranged with our commercial labs, well be table to do that more expeditiously and were putting an incredible push for those stuggling with the coronavirus and people concerned they may have been pose posed. Were grateful the legislation passed by the house of representatives and includes Liability Protection for n95 masks produced by companies ke 3h in minnesota, honeywell. Tens of millions of masks are produced for construction. Health experts say they can be used as readily to protect Health Care Workers from ailments. And the 3m company was not able to sell to the hospitals but the president negotiated with the democratic leadership of the house and senate and added a provision to the bill that literally will another ooze 30 masks per month back to the moorblingt place. Were strength fling the food chain and you can be absolutely certain the president and our entire team will put the health of America First and put first our f. C. C. Workers across the country meeting our needs of the country. Reporter mr. Vice president , how many test kits have been sent out and how many can be tested. And you might want to talk about the roving, also. Thank you very much for that. As we talked about yesterday, were really entering a new phase of questioning. At first we were at a race where it was only available on the public works shelves in the c. D. C. And works very well for day thousand betweens per and were running in through foot screening and have ability s we talked about last week, a rosh test and a thermofisher test and both produced last week over a emergency authorization. 1. 9 million tests will be sequentially into the ecotestimony this week. From the information we have right now, one million tests are ready to go and primarily at the lab corps and a cup others. It doesnt matter if theyre not in your neighborhood because every day when people et tests, a little white box gets shifted and it is electronically reported. These are available to people nationwide. We expect more than one million coming on board this week as the agents with the testing hospital evaluate that in their own hospitals and other places. In the future we expect 2 million next week and 5 million the week laugh it. There is also a whole growth of laboratory determined decembering or laboratory derived, because of the deregulation can develop their own task and start using them. If youre a Certified Lab with complexity you can do that. The point is testing is now speakering what we sort of normally do where big labs and high put through bases receive these through normal chance ells. That is underway. How Many Americans actually have been tested . Do you have a number . I done have that number because ive been working on setting up the Distribution System. He state and public labs are ublished every day on 3 dc and get it from lap core and get it on a daily basis. What is not being fixed is fixing. These homegrown tests in highly complex labs dont necessarily get reported in the system. As we move forward especially in the height after the commercial phase we are now. We expect 80 , 85 of the tests to flow into the c. D. R. Thats not good for ms. Birx and she wants more than that. Moith a lot of testing has been going on. I dont believe anybody has been able to do what were doing and will be doing. Let me say we talked about the drive through testing yesterday p. I want it to be clear to everybody this is just another tool for states and local health care testing. Its not testing that goes in a hospital or you go to your doctor and want to get tested in that office, this is just another tool were hoping the states to sprfment as we talked about this is modeled on the fema based points of Distribution System optimized for testing. We expect this week, we now have gear. People are being shipped now today that will be in over 12 states with multiple sites, many states having multiple sites to start augmenting the local capacity and providing the state and local Law Enforcement of getting tested. President trump thats never been done and not on a level like that. I will say i think i can speak to the professionals, if you dont have the symptoms and your doctor isnt think you know them. Not everybody should run out and get the test. Were able to handle incredible numbers. Earlier today Governor Cuomo of new york said he believes hospical class soon will be over well med and to call on the engineers to build temporary buildings to take their place. President trump new york is one of them and were looking into it very strongly. Reporter how have you changed your own behavior . Are you washing your hands . President trump ive always washington my hands a lot. I wash my hands a lot, probably, if anything more than, certainly something i want to do every day i can tell you that. You know, its a little bit of good doctors in the white house but its a test. Its a medical test. Nothing pleasant about it. Randy its been said in a tweet Governor Cuomo should be doing more. Nohitter nicole nohitter President Trump i think he can do more and its an area thats very hot right now and i know the place well. I grew up near new rochelle. I think its an rather that that has to be tamped down even more. Its a hotbed. Were getting along very well. In fact i noticed you made statements just now the relationship with the federal government has been good. The federal government has did not everything they wanted us to do. But i think sights very important that all the governors get along we very well well with us and were getting online. Reporter the defense secretary and defense secretary of debt decided to separate and be in a bubble to avoid spread of the disease and protect the chain of command. Is that something you and the Vice President should be doing and has there been any talk of adding a 25th amendment [ President Trump i will say this were very careful. Were very careful with, you know, being together. The people behind me have been strongly tested. Ive been very strongly tested and we have to be very careful but everybody should be. Vigilant. E have to be vigilant. Reporter i dont know if this is a question for you or dr. Birx. She said its the millenials that will lead us through this and now is the time to look out for the older people in our home and that might be a set of mines and not necessarily in their age and we have parents in their 50s q 630s, 70s, what is older and what should we tell them at this point . If i were dr. Fauci, i could say thats a physiological age and new mare cal age. So elder people with preexisting conditions, what do we need . Significant heart disease, significant lung disease, any immunosuppression, any dreement for cancer. Any of those trips. Why do i think the millenials are the key . Theyre the ones most out and about and most likely to be in social gatherings and the most likely to be the least symptomatic. I think weve always heard about the greatest generation. Were protecting the children of the greatest generation. And i think the millenials can help us tremendously. Plus they need to communicate with each other. Public house people like myself dont come out with am polling and exciting messages that a 25yearold or 25yearold male will find interesting and something to take to heart. But the millenials can speak to one another how wornt is it in this moment to protect all the people you can be 40 and have a difficult medical condition and you could be 30 and having conthrough nonhodgkins limb phonea and be at a significant group. But theres more millenials now than any other cohort and they can help us at this moment. Reporter mr. President , thank you very much, mr. President. Mr. President , the other day you said you were not responsible for the testing short call. Very simple question, did the backstop with you and on a scale of 110, how would you rate your response . I rate it a 10. We started by keeping a highly infected country despite all e professionals say it was too early to do that and we would have a different situation in the country if we didnt respect china. I would rate ourselves and the professionals, i think the professionals have done a fantastic job. You heard the admiral. E really took over an on sew lead system, a system that wasnt meant to do it this way. Weve taken over and doing something that he never been done in this country. And i think we earthquakesed with the system we had and break down the system in order to do what were doing now. And even in a short period of time and even now were testing a significant number of people and it will be up to how many with peting able to test the high through put pesting that thats no longer a barrier. The barrier is actually doing a test on a person. Im sure as the president would inform you. According to do the testing, the doctor need to address in a full equipment and a swab put all the way back back of the throat and put in media. The next person who has to get reflective equipment and when you put that in its highly unlikely a person coughs or eded in youre at risk and everything were suing ado you the high put. But we do other things to make it faster. But we expect from thousands of people a day we will be at the fens of thousands of People Per Day this week. Reporter does the buck stop with you . President trump normally. But this has never been done before in this country. If you take a look back at some of the things that took place in 2009 or 2011. Nobody has ever done anything like what were doing. Admiral, ys say were getting ready and hopefully we dont have a future problem but if there is wool be starting off from a much higher plateau because we were at a very, very low base. We had a system that was pot meant for a much lift wurp and for that purpose so that is fine and we broke down the system and now will have something that is very special. And is ready for her future, probably, we can say that very strongly. Reporter how close are you to shutting down americas northern border with canada, and could you also speak about the elections that are supposed to take place tomorrow . Is it your pad ace the states postponed the election . Karyn its a big thing responding a election is a very tough thing. I know theyre doing it quickly and spreading people out great distances as you with see and hope they do it safely. Postponing aleblingses is not a ery good hinge and a pft the electrical places. But postponing is not necessary. Reporter how about the borders served . President trump we think about it. If we dont have to do it, we have both on the other than and Northern Borders and we are talking about Different Things but well see. Have not we have decided for the to do that. Reporter can question get dr. Fauci to talk about the pan teen time trial and is it possible to celebrate within a 12day team is that right . President trump thank for you that question. The candidate who was given the first index to the first person, remember when i said it, it would be two or three months and if we did that, that would be the fastest weve gone from doing the sequence to do a phase 1 trial. Its been now 65 days which i believe is the record. What it is, is a trial of 45 normal individuals between the ages of 1855, a trial is taking place in seattle. There will be two injections, one at zero day, first one, then 28 days. There will be free separate doses, 25 milligrams, up to 250 milligram also and the individuals will be followed for one year. Both for safety and whether it indisdeuces the kind of response we predict would be protective and what exactly ive been telling this group over and over again so it happened the first injection was today. Reporter the market goes down 3,000, any response to the market closing thursday . Reporter is there guidance for someone who may have felt sick and feels better because you had symptoms but no longer do and your fever has gone away, how long would you stay home after that point . Thats not clear from the government. Dr. Fauci if youre positive for the infection and you have it is less how you feel than rather than or not youre spreading the virus. For letting people out of a hospital who have been infected, you need two negative cultures the same way that was just described 24 hours apart. President trump the market will take care of itself. The market will be very strong as soon as we get rid of the virus. Reporter can you clarify pregnant women. You said yesterday the pregnancy was an underlying conditions, do we say that, too . Dr. Birx theres very little data in pregnant women. I think i said reports that came in from china, from the chinese c. D. C. Of the nine women documented to be pregnant and have coronavirus in their last try semester delivered healthy children and they themselves were healthy and recovered. That is our total sample size and we will be getting more data from countries. A lot of the countries are in the midst of this crisis, like italy. I try not to bother them frequently to get them their data. I try to get it weekly from the countries in the midst of responding to the epidemic so that their focus is on their individuals in their country. Reporter any comment on what people like devin nunes, the governor of oklahoma, encouraging people to go to restaurants which goes directly against what your guidelines says . President trump i havent heard that from devin or anybody else. Reporter should they stop saying that . President trump ill have to see what they said. Reporter restaurants, if they felt ok with their families . President trump i would disagree. Right now we dont have an order one way or the other. I think its probably better that you dont, especially in certain areas. Oklahoma doesnt have a tremendous problem. You said the governor of oklahoma. Reporter devin nunes is another. Michelle i havent heard that. President trump i havent heard that. Adverse to what others are saying. Reporter as to what you said in your guidelines. President trump i said adverse but ill look at it. Reporter i dont know who would be best to answer this question, maybe the secretary or dr. Fauci. School districts across the country are closing down yet for the most part Daycare Centers remain open and considering that children can sometimes be asymptomatic carriers and go home to older individuals, are there any recommendations about Daycare Centers . I would prefer better to answer that. Dr. Fauchy in the original guidelines as presented it was schools, not daycare. Its important, we should probably go back and discuss in some detail whether or not thats equivalent to school. Good question. Reporter the question of underlying Public Health strategy behind these guidelines, telling people to avoid restaurants and bars is different than saying bars and restaurants should shut down the next 15 days, why was it seen as being prudent or necessary to take that additional step off that Additional Guidance . President trump you want to answer that . Dr. Birx the data has been coming out and im sure youre all up to date on how long the virus lives on hard surfaces. And that has been our concern over the last two weeks. Dr. Fauci go ahead. I wanted to read theres an answer to this. Dr. Birx go ahead. He was my mentor so im going to have to let him speak. Dr. Fauci the really small print, in states with evidence of community transmission, bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms, and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed. Reporter mr. President , are you telling governors in those states, then, to close all their restaurants . President trump we havent said that yet. Reporter why not . President trump were recommending things. We havent gone to that step yet. That could happen but we havent gone there yet. Eporter if you have 10 plus maximum guidelines in a practical sense can you have rallies and surely gather and President Trump hopefully it will pass through and everybody will be going to restaurants and flying and being on cruise ships and all these different hings that we do and it will very, very hopefully be in a fairly quick period of time. Were taking a tough stance. We may make certain other decisions. We may enhance those decisions. Well find out. As per the question you were asking, some of those decisions maybe how about one more . Reporter on the cyberattack on h. H. S. , is there any reason to believe they were trying to hack into the system and gather information through the system . Also is there any reason, were they trying to hack to get information and do you have any reason to believe it could have been iran or russia or do you have any reason to believe it was a foreign actor . In the last 24 hours we saw enhanced activity in relation to the h. H. S. Computer systems and website. Fortunately we have extremely strong barriers and had no penetration into our networks or degradation to the functioning of our networks or limitation for the capacity for people to telework. Weve taken strong defensive actions. The source of this enhanced activity remains under investigation so i wouldnt want to speculate on the course of it but there was no data breach or degradation in our ability to function and serve our Important Mission here. Reporter how about the stimulus package, sir. Can you speak to that . President trump one thing mike said, its very important to get out this is for the next, much of what were talking about is for the next 15 days. Mike, go ahead. Reporter mr. Vice president , have you been tested . Vice president pence ive not been tested yet and in consultation with the white house physician, he said ive not been exposed to anyone for any period of time who had the coronavirus and that my wife and i have no symptoms. But were checking our temperature regularly every day and well continue to follow guidance. Which i think may be a good place to land at the end of the day, with and that is that as we expand testing rapidly around the country through the new Publicprivate Partnership the president facilitated, we want the test to be available for people who have symptoms and who have symptoms and are in vulnerable populations and our Health Care Workers to make sure they can have the peace of mind that theyre doing their jobs and theyre properly protected. Our best counsel, the counsel of the experts is it you have a question, call your doctor, call your Health Care Provider and ask whether or not you should be tested and thats what my family is doing as well. Let me just emphasize one more point if i can, the president asked the task force to continuously review the data and information we have not only in this country but from around the world to give the best guidance to state leadership and local Health Care Leadership and all the American People about how to keep themselves, their family and their community safe. This guidance for the next 15 days is what our experts say is the best opportunity we have to closer the infection rate over the entire course of the coronavirus. Austjs the president did by suspending travel from china and just as he did with travel advisories and screening from italy and south korea. Just as weve done with europe and at midnight tonight with the u. K. And ireland. Well continue to take very decisive steps to lower the spread of the coronavirus, but we want every american to know and we would ask all of you in the media to spread the word of the American People that this is advice on behalf of the president of the United States to every american, what you can do over the next 15 days to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. And were calling on every american to do your part because together well get through this and well find our way forward. Reporter what was the upshot of will you still be able to meet at camp david . President trump it looks like it. Reporter are you confident in their responses as yours . President trump very confident. Theyre in a president that some of them are in a rough position, if you look at a couple of them, and some are heading towards pretty rough territory. We had a very good conference. It was a teleconference. Everybody was on the phone, every leader. And almost 100 was devoted to the subject were talking about today and theyre working very hard. And you know, theyre very concerned, obviously, but theyre working very hard. I would say just about all of it was devoted to what were talking about. Reporter will you hold the summit at camp david . President trump i think so. We havent even discussed that. Its still a ways off but it was a very good discussion and theres a great camaraderie and togetherness. I think i can say that very, very strongly. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. Reporter will there be a bailout for the airlines . Tuesday on cspan political analyst charlie cook talks about the coronavirus outbreak and impact on the 2020 president ial race. Thats live from the Bipartisanship Policy Center at 5 30 p. M. Eastern. On cspan 2 the senate is back at 10 00 a. M. Eastern to consider an economic aid package passed by the house that provides free testing, paid sick leave, and other Public Resources in response to the coronavirus. Coming up this morning from the institute for global and health law talks about the powers of the federal government during a health emergency. Later we also discuss the role of state and local governments with james hodge who is director of the center for Public Health law and policy at Arizona State university. Washington journal is next. Is next. Is next host good morning. This is washington journal for tuesday, march 17, 2020. There is very little celebrating planned due to the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide because of the coronavirus and further restrictions and limited by the federal government, the white house, state governments and localities. We would love to hear what you are seeing in response to the outbreak. The7488000 is the line in eastern and central time zones. 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