Is to take the pressure off of civilian hospitals when it comes to trauma cases for. Nfectious diseases all the doctors and nurses come from our medical facilities or they come from the reserves which means civilians, so we have to be careful as we call the units or use them that we , i dont want to take reservists from a hospital to take them somewhere they are needed. We talked about that and i think people are beginning to see what the tradeoff means. The white house says they dont want to have the guard go hotspotse and focus on. Is that what you are looking at early on . Tags and it isir a resource available at their fingertips. Chance to talk to the director of the National Guard bureau. Tags andking to the that is available to them. We are the ones where we can come in and really help enable through the guard and reserve to play that role initially. Of the coordinate through various federal agencies. Is that something you are considering . , the daytoday meetings general heiden has a lot of capability he can tap into as he come,it and we have nor but this is not like a hurricane or you pick a general, so i think you will see whether it is tags commanders or stepping up and then being the focal point at the state level. Im assuming it takes uniform Service Members, how many would that taken where are they coming from and can you say where they are going . I cannot say where they are going. Hhs would have to determine. E have to get you more detail yes, they require special training and when we talked , wet this the other night have to maybe provide to make sure civilians know how to use them properly. Functionssingle use and in some cases different what you would find. Presumably 2000 Service Members . I would say one person can toin a multitude of people help with maintenance and things like that. We can do the math and get back to that. How far along are they with and shouldnt be telecommuting start now . We are doing a lot of telecommuting right now. We had all of the social distancing workout, but the chance to talk to the doctors gettoface and i want to an understanding of what theyre doing, so we put all the precautions in place. If anyone knows how to do it, they do it. Many of you know they have been successful in the past, they have incredible capabilities and extremely well knitted. Their relationships with dr. Birx and dr. Fauci are remarkable and in terms of the ability to understand the virus and what it does, the ability to send purchase machines that can do the testing at incredible levels is one of the things they raytheon and should be coming online. How far along is the vaccine . Go gave me 12 to 18 months. As i understand there are private actors that think they can do it quickly. Develops a vaccine, we can run through our system very well. Uptodateu bring us when you talk about the next . Teps of the state of new york first, you talked about using. He u. S. Military active duty i want to press the with that because the country is being told that this is unprecedented and really dire potentials are being sketched out to the american public. Is it in your view about using the activeduty forces, should it be the last resort . About medicalng capacity in regards to treatment facility. We provide a little bit of flex and it is kind of how i think about it. And werd is available are ready to support any which analyze to happen at the state level and a lot has to happen at the state level. [inaudible] we have a very young and healthy military population which seems they are less likely to contract and show symptoms at the rate of people older than them. Ive got to worry about that well. Tion at well as im looking at that population but in regards to uniform people , i think they are very well and we watch them and protect them, but in terms of the military population we are fine. With regard to new york, i hope to have a call to governor soon. I have spoken to to governor soon. Tell us what your needs are and we will figure out the best needs. We can look at the various ways and active component is there to support and make sure all the tradeoffs. It is all about Field Hospitals and the simple fact that many of those medical professionals who come from the other sectors is something most people are not aware of and we have to be careful we dont take from one part of new york medical professionals who are needed to simply help another part of new york. We could also do state to state and i had a conversation today about that, so putting everything on the table. We will take our first question from jeff. Attentioncome to our havecommanders continue to all town halls to discuss a variety of topics. Will the Defense Department order a moratorium . The short answer is no i trust the commander to lead their units. It is not been raised as a problem, so again to take andyver precautions capabilities of our formations. Andycapabilities capabilities can you talk about testing of Service Members right now . We have seen there are about 500 people tested. The you think that is adequate to detect the spread of the virus, what are the criteria for testing . You can get the joint staff surging to get the exact details. If you are symptomatic, you should definitely be tested. I would rely on the joint staff youch urgent to give information. If you have been exposed, you should be tested. Youow long does it require to activate a reserve unit if the governor of new york wants to get you the army corps of. Ngineers contracting it is a process that takes time, so how long would it be before u. S. Military started to have an impact in terms of hospital beds . Partts take your second first. They have a number of federal rules and regulations and that. Akes time they contract others to do the project, so my hunch is it would probably be quicker if it was done at the state or local levels, but i dont mind offering engineers to come and talk to whatever the governor wantsm to his week them to speak about. I think at this point, the key is speed. With regards to your first question, you are right. It takes time to activate people depending on the type of unit. You have to draw equipment and do any number of rings and be careful you are not pulling someone out of the sector where. Hey are needed we keep talking about medical professionals, but it could be lawenforcement, firefighters. It takes time. Processre describing a that could take weeks or days. I dont have any hard requests, but if you are thinking about calling up the garden reserves, it is not hours weeks. , but days or it depends on the type of unit, where the are located, what they would have to bring to the mission, etc. At the White House Briefing today, the president suggested there has been some discussion about sites for Field Hospitals. Have you been advising on where secondly on the ventilators, if this gets worse, how much further can you research before the private sector and other places . To 2000. Offer up that is why i like to say, the key thing when you look at the numbers of people who may need ventilators, we can offer what we have. I think the key thing is the manufacturing side, whoever makes medical machines at this type. We will not be able to meet the. Emand location of Field Hospitals, i think it is my view is the best use of our Field Hospitals, because they are geared towards it, is trauma. Located maybe next to a hospital where as trauma patients come in, instead of going into the hospital, they would go into the Field Hospital where we can treat the broken legs, lacerations, the falling down and hit your headtype of stuff. We if you come in for covid, have freed up rooms for you to go inside the hospital where you have segregated rooms with the bathrooms and all the things you need to treat infectious patients. I am not a doctor. I am not a medical professional. But my hunch is you would like no do some kind of colocatio next to where medical facilities are. But that has to be worked out with local state or mesa county or municipality and how to best support them. Reporter 2000 is the upper limit . Sec. Esper that is what we can offer right now. They currently have a program to develop an antigen, kind of like a vaccine, but it could potentially shield anyone from contracting the disease for vaccine of time until a comes available. Can you describe what the level of preparedness is for any sort of covid therapeutic that might be in developing . Sec. Esper i hope to see them sometime soon to find out where they are in terms of their work. To where i was today, they are working on both the vaccine and the treatment piece, which is therapeutics. So they are moving along on both fronts. I did not get too detailed of everything on the second part. I focused a lot on the vaccineside. But we can get the joint Staff Surgeon to brief you all about that. Reporter can we get an update on the situation in iraq . Sec. Esper we can do that another day. Todays focus is coronavirus. Announcer that wraps up todays pentagon briefing on the coronavirus response. On capitol hill, the Senate Continues to debate a housepast economic aid package. Members held their weekly lunches this afternoon and senators met with treasury secretary mnuchin on the way forward for the legislation. You can follow the senate live right now on cspan 2. 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