Transcripts For CSPAN Coronavirus Task Force Briefing 20240713

President trump thank you very much for joining us. Last night we announced Ground Breaking new policies. All states can now authorize test developed and used within their borders in addition to the f. D. A. So the states are very much involved. They have been involved from the beginning. But were stepping it up as much as we can. And the testing procedures are going well. And within a short period of time all of the private labs have kicked in. This has never been done before. I think its going to be incredible if done properly. These among the greatest companies in the world actually. So the state is going to be dealing through themselves and with local government, local physicians, local everybody. Theyre also dealing with us. But we have a tremendous testing capacity. Today, were also announcing a dramatic expansion of our medicare Telehealth Services, medicare patients can now visit any doctor by phone or Video Conference at no additional cost including with commonly used Services Like facetime and skype , a historic breakthrough. This has never been done either. States of the authority covered Telehealth Services for their medical patients. And by doing this, the patient is not seeing the doctor per se, but theyre seeing the doctor. So theres no getting close. During this time, we will not force applicable hipaa penalties so that doctors can greatly expand their help. So the penalties will not be enforced. We encourage people to use telehealth to limit the exposure of the virus. Its been a very successful method of communication. But never used on a scale like were going to use at telehealth. And youll be able to also better maintain Hospital Capacity by doing this. Earlier this morning, i spoke with executives from americas fast food industry, wendys, mcdonalds, all of the big ones, burger king and they were great. Talk about the big ups in light of yesterdays guidance, you heard. To avoid eating or drinking in restaurantings or public food courts, we discussed the Important Role that the drivethru and pickup can happen in the beeks ahead. Theyve bun fantastic. Theyve been doing a fantastic job. Smaller staffs are very capable people and very capable companies and theyre doing it, pickups. Our guidance yesterday urges americans to take action for 15 days to help stem the outbreak. So its a 15day period. I guess now, i would say its a 14day period. 15 days from yesterday. Were asking everyone to work at home if possible. Postpone unnecessary travel and limit social gatherings to no more than 10 people. By making shared sacrifices and temporary changes, we can protect the health of our people. And question protect our economy because i think our economy will come back very rapidly. So its 15 days from yesterday. If we do this right, our country and the world frankly. But our country can be rolling again pretty quickly. Retty quickly. We have to fight an invisible enemy, i guess unknown but were getting to know it a lot bet every. Today the senate has taken uncoronavirus legislation to get family medical leave and sick leave. Were committed to getting Small Businesses the support that they need. In fact, one of the things that we talked about with the fast food operations we spoke to the chairman and c. E. O. S of the company. We spoke about getting them supporter and flexibility that they need for themselves and theyre workers and thats being worked on right now. At my direction, secretary mnuchin is neating with senators on additional stimulus packages. He was meeting with them late into the night last night. Tremendous things are happening. Great spirit. Tremendous spirit. And i can say that for republicans and democrats. I can say that with respect to Governor Cuomo. We had a great talk this morning. Were both doing a really good job, and were coordinating it. You know, different states need different things. And we agree on that 100 . But we had a very good talk. And were right down the same track. And its going to be very successful. New york has a pretty big problem. I guess would be the number one hot spot. Its no fault of anybody. Its just the way it is. But were working very closely together. Were also getting fema very much involved. They been involved. But now, were getting them to a different level. And well have everything ready. Were dealing with the army corps of engineers should that be necessary. We have them working in some cases in some cases and on standby on other cases but my conversation with andrew cuomo was a very productive one and a very good one. I appreciate that. Were giving relief to industries and businesses, and re making sure that weer that we el merge from this challenge. One day well say, well, we won. And were going to say that. As sure as youre sitting there, were going to say that. And were going to win. And i think were going to win faster than people think, i hope. Later today, ill meet with the leaders from the Tourism Industry as well as Industrial Supply retailers and wholesalers to discuss their critical roles. As you know, i met with the Department Store people, all of the retailers, the big ones including walmart and others and it was a great meeting. Theyre stocking up their stores like theyve never stocked them before. Weaver trying to get people to actually buy less if thats possible. Buy less. Dont take everything. Just buy what you need for a while. Theyre going to stay open all hours of the day and theyve een fantastic. Frankly biel strong well be stronger than ever before. While many workers can work from home, many can not. Many of our Healthcare Providers, Healthcare Providers and in the food service and manufacturing are showing theyre showing up and standing up to provide us with the goods and services we need. So we want people to stay home when they can. But in many cases when you talk about food service and manufacturing certain items in particular, they are theyre going in. And theyre practicing all of the safety rules and regulations that we talk about. So with that, id like to just introduce our great Vice President , mike pence. And ill make some other introductions. Thank you very much. Vice president pence thank you, mr. President , good morning. It should be very clear to american that President Trump has initiated a whole of government approach but a whole of america approach. And the president s interaction even today and through the course of this day with leaders and industry around the country reflects that were not only bringing the full weight of the federal government to bear, but the full weight of the american economy. I know i speak on behalf of the president when i say how inspired we are at the way the American People have stepped up and the way that american businesses large and small have stepped. Its truly been inspiring. Our task force met this morning. We continue to focus on President Trumps priorities of testing. Prevention and supplies. And in that category, im pleased to report that while testing is available in all 50 states as the president just indicated through the swift action of the f. D. A. At the encouragement of governors around the country, now state Health Authorities can authorize flabs their state and expand existing testing capabilities. But also in connection with the f. D. A. s action which youll hear more about in a moment. We have continued to exexpand the pry vapt and Public Partnership with vast commercial laboratories around the country increasing access to the high volume, high throughput coronavirus testing that is greatly expanding access even as we speak. Also, our task force received a report this morning on the progress that the u. S. Public Health Service and fema are making working closely with state governments and working with c. V. S. , target, walgreens and walmart to expand remote testing sights around the country and well have a full report as those come online. Its important the American People understand that testing is happening all over the country. But all of our Health Experts want node tell the American People, you dont need the results of testing to know what you should do. And President Trumps 15day coronavirus guidelines are advice for every american in every community. Theyre the result of the best guidance of the c. D. C. And our Health Experts and we continue to urge every american over the 15 days to nut practice the principles and the president s coronavirus guidelines. We believe that question slow the spread of the coronavirus. In fact, our experts have told our task force that if every american acts on the president s coronavirus guidelines we could see a substantial reduction in the spread of the coronavirus. But as the president said it will take all of us to do it. So if you feel sick, stay home. If someone in your house tests positive, keep the entire household home. Especially if youre a person with an Underlying Health condition. We urge you to stay home and practice social distancing from people. No social gatherings of more than 10 people. Use drivethru as the president discussed with leaders today. And every american especially practicing common sense and good hygiene. The risk of serious illness remains low. But were asking every american to partner with us in this effort to slow the spread of the virus and especially to be mindful of seniors or others with serious Underlying Health conditions for whom the threat of the coronavirus can be very significant and very real. As i said, the president has continued to push our task force to bring the whole of government and the whole of america approach and we continue to be inspired the way our governors are responding. We spoke with the leaders of every broadcast that will be unveiling a Public Service campaign using c. D. C. Glindes and specifically as we work on the issue of supplies, meetings yesterday with the department of defense officials about excess supplies. The president and i will be meeting today to speak about the supply chain for hospitals. We would make one request and that would be for construction masks and o donate forego those additional masks because of what the president asked for, those industrial masks that they use on construction sites are perfectly acceptable for healthcare workers to be protected from a respiratory disease. But were asking Construction Companies that our president knows very well from his background, were asking them to donate their n95 masks to their local hospitals and forego making additional orders. At the president s direction we will continue to do whatever it takes. Wea we will continue to marshall the best of the people, the best of all the people behind me, our state and local officials and we will get through. And we will get through together. Thank you, mr. President. 34r president . President trump i want to thank the job they did at the airports was really incredible. They screened thousands and thousands of people. Ohare got backed up a little bit. They got them out. But everybody was screened very carefully. They didnt want to rush it. I think it was 13 airports. It was an incredible thing. Then they had a big surge also from the u. K. And ireland. That went very smoothly. But they did a fantastic job. They worked long hours and they did a fantastic job. I would like to introduce Steve Mnuchin and steve talib. Hes been working very hard with the senate and actually with the house on a very big, bold package. Its going to be big and its going to be bold. And the level of enthusiasm to get something done, i dont think ive seen anything quite like it. So Steve Mnuchin, please. Steve thank you, mr. President. I would like to announce some very significant actions that the president has approved today. But first, i would say that earlier today, i sent a letter to fed chairman powell approving 133. Quest to use and the fed will be setting up a special Purpose Vehicle which the treasurely will invest from one of our funds that will enable the fed to guarantee the purchase of a 1p1. That is a 1 trillion market. And its critical to american workers. Its critical to american business. And its critical to american savers who have a lot of that money in money market funds. So we heard loud and clear there were liquidity issues. This is very significant. And it will create i dont think well need to use it all. But well have the ability to have the fed purchase up to 1 trillion of commercial paper as needed. That has already created significant snablet the market today. The second thing i will say, is you know, we previously talked about deferring i. R. S. Payments. The president earlier this morning authorized me to announce this program. Announced i usly was 300 billion. We encourage those american who is can file their taxes to continue to file their taxes on april 15th because for many americans, you will get tax refunds. And we dont want you to lose out on those tax refunds. We want you to make sure you get them. Many people do this electronically, which is easy for them and easy for the i. R. S. If you owe a payment to the i. R. S. , you can defer up to 1 million. And the reason 1 million it covers many pass throughs in Small Businesses and 10 million to corporations interestfree and penaltyfree for 90 days. All you have to do is file your taxes. You automatically not get charged interest and penalties. Any american has the right to extend their taxes. Were not taking that right. But the president has asked us to go up to 300 billion. Thats also an enormous amount of liquid any the system. The third thing is the president and i worked on a very significant stimulus plan. Thank you for being available last night and throughout this morning. And i will be presenting to that the runs in the senate this morning and also discussing that with the house. We look forward to having bipartisan support. Were now working with the senate to pass this legislation very quickly. And these will be payments to Small Businesses. Weve talked about loan guarantees to Critical Industries such as airlines and hotels. And weve also talked about a stimulus package to the american worker. You can think of this as Business Interruption payment First American workers. President trump do you have any questions if for secretary of the treasury . When you say a stimulus package, do you mean direct payments to americans, or is it a tax payment holiday . Although he likes that idea, i will tell you weve heard from many people and the president has said we can consider this. The payroll tax holiday would get people money over the next six to eight months. Were looking to sending checks to americans immediately. What weve heard, Many Companies have shut down whether its bars or restaurants. Americans need cash now, and the president wants to give cash now. And i mean now in the next two weeks. How much . I will be previewing that with the republicans. There are some numbers out there. They may be a little bit bigger than please wait. What help are you going to give to airlines specifically . Ive had discussions with all the airlines, c. E. O. S this week. They have had conversations with the senate and the house as the president said, i was up with a subset of the republican senators last night. Ive discussed that with them. I think as you know this is worse than 9 11. For the Airline Industry theyre almost ground to a halt. The president wants to make sure that although we dont want people to travel, we want to maintain for critical travel the right to have domestic travel. Im not going to comment on the specifics. I will tell you were very focused. There are a lot of workers. This is strategically important to us and well be working with congress. President trump the aerial industry will be in good shape. Go ahead. Theres been talk about 1,000 checks to every american increasing support among republicans and some democrats for that. Would you support that going to everyone or would you support some sort of income restrictions on who gets a check . I think its clear. Weapon dont need to send people who makes 1 million checks, ok . But we like thats one of the ideas we like. Were going to preview that today and well talk about details afterwards. President trump i think its we may get something to get money to them as quickly as possible. That may not be accurate. Well have a pretty good idea what were going to be doing. Mr. Secretary can you tell how would the mechanics work . Weve been talk about a payroll 500 billion. Me so how would send them the check work . Again, we want to make sure americans get money in their pockets quickly. We want to make sure Small Business owners have access to funds. We want to make sure that hotels, airlinesful well aerials. Well be lage that out well billion laying that out later on tonight. People are home. Those are very important people. Come to think of it. Look, we have four or five ways to do i. Four ways in particular. I think theres a fifth possibility. But there are some very good ways of getting the money out and getting it out quickly. Payroll tax is one way. But it does come over a period of months, many months. And we want to do something much faster than that. I think we have ways of getting money out pretty quickly and very accurately. Can you talk about the timeline . How quickly you can get this zphun the president has instructed me, we have to do this now. So this is now. By the owned of the week. Were going to work with the senate who is in session right now actively. We will continue to have conversations with the house. Ive spoken to speaber pelosi once today. This is stuff that needs be done now. The president has instructed me that this is no fault to american workers. For medical reasons, we are shutting down parts of this economy and were going the use all the tools we have as ive said and what tools we dont have, were going back to congress. Ive got to go back 150 billion President Trump the expression we could keep going back every day or every week. Were going big. And thats where Mitch Mcconnell thats the way he wants to go. Thats the way we want to go. I think thats we want a big inflution infusion as opposed to little meetings. We want to go big, go solid. The country is very strong. Weve never been so strong. Thats what were going to be doing. We dont want with this invisible enemy we dont want airlines going out of business or people losing their jobs or not having any money to live. So were going big. Thats the way it will be. Thats the way people seem to like it on the hill. You had a call with restaurants today. Was any type of Emergency Assistance talked about . Let me make two comment tons restaurants and the president understand this is this was emphasized this morning. First of all, we want to make shureb that the states allow the drivethru portion of these fast foods to stay open. Particularfully a time period where were telling people dont go to restaurants. These companies feed a big part of america. And i expect theyre going to feed a bigger part of america. The second thing they asked me to emphasize, i wasnt going to do it now but as long as you asked, many of these companies have apps. You can order ahead of time, that way when you get there, its as simple as theyll have it packed. They can give it to you with social distancing. And it will be very sfast. So we expect that they will be able to feed a large part of the population. In regards to support,ly say a lot of i will say a lot these buys r businesses are Small Businesses. And we have a specific program biel un unveiling that helps all businesses small and medium sized businesses. Another question regarding marriott corporations announced that it is furlowing thousands of individuals because of the impacts of the coronavirus. Will your legislation help those individuals . I hope so. Thats one of the reasons why weve got to act very quickly because we understand whether ts the airlines, hotels for good reasons to protect the United States on medical issues, these businesses are shut down. And the president wants to make sure as i said, we will use tall powers we have. You saw this today, trillion dollars of potentially liquidity and the powers we dont have were going to congress. And i will say theres a lot of bipartisan support for these issues. So im going to apologize because i have to go deal with some other things. President trump thanks. Go ahead. I do want to comment on this, ok . We absolutely believe in keeping the markets open, ok . Americans need to know they have access to their money. After september 11, the only reason why the markets were closed was because the technology was disrupted. Ive been on the phone with the major banks, with the new york stock exchange. Everybody wants to keep it open. We may shorten the hours if thats something they need to do. But americans should know were going to do everything to make sure they have access to their money, to their banks to the money in their 401ks and to the money in their stocks. We intend to keep the markets open. President trump and the banks are record setting strong. So we have that which is a much Different Event than what we has snot long ago. Mr. President , you mentioned the army corps of engineers. You had a conversation with Governor Cuomo. People think that new york is going to run out of hospital beds. President trump were starting the process. And its a process we hope its not going to be necessary, but it could be necessary. The state is working on it very hard themselves. But well probably supplement what theyre doing. And given that many of the precursors come from china and there have been supply disruption, that supply chain has been broken to some degrees. Do you expect that we could run into a short adge of prescription china has every and sent to incentive to make sure things work well. The governor of ohio has called off the election, do you agree with that decision . What steps are you taking to ensure that elections going this pandemic continues, that elections will be able to happen, including in the fall . Pres. Trump the governor of ohio is doing a great job. He called it off and we will see what happened, the court case. If he called it off, i could understand that because he is definitely somebody who knows what he is doing. We will see very soon they are going by the rule of 10 as opposed to 50. You could violate that for an election. I think an election is a very special thing. He chose a different date sometime in do june. That is a decision made by him and he felt it was necessary. Someone is challenging it in the court will decide. If we are still in this situation a month from now, two months from now . Pres. Trump we are getting rid of this virus, that is what we are doing. For the markets and everything, it is simple. We want to get rid of it and have as few deaths as possible. This is a horrible thing. You look at italy and we do not want to be like that. Much larger because we are a much larger country and we do not want to be there. We have done well, the states have done well. We are all working together. The best thing we can do is get rid of the virus. Once it is gone, it will pop back up like nobody has seen that is my opinion. How many hospital facilities could the army corps of engineers build and what measures are you taking to increase the number of ventilators . Pres. Trump we have ordered mass numbers of ventilators. We have lots of masks and ventilators, tremendous amounts of equipment, but this has never been done before. Compared to what we are talking about here, this has never been done before. Yesterday i gave the governors the right to order directly if they weve knocked out all of the bureaucracy. Yes, mike . Vice president pence there are two ways that the d. O. D. Can be help fl in terms of expanding medical capacity. The governor of new york has asked us to look at the army corps of engineers which could perhaps renovate existing hospitals but also were inventory field or mash hospitals. That can be deployed very quickly. We spoke with governor inslee yesterday in washington state. As governors make these requests well process them, bring them to the president but there are two different lanes that d. O. D. Can provide in addition to many things we can supply. The president has asked us to make available and consider every request from governors for either field hospitals, expanding facilities or the army corps of engineers. Pres. Trump the army corps is very prepared to do as we say and look at where thats going. And they do call them mash hospitals but the field hospitals go up very quickly. We have them. We have all of this equipment in stock and were looking at different sites in a few different locations and were not going to need them in West Virginia where so far they have none. Big jim, the governor, he must be doing a good job. Reporter is that a reporting issue or is that that they have no cases . Pres. Trump i just see West Virginia is the only one that has no cases so obviously thats being treated differently than in new york or california, different parts of california. I do they this. The army corps of engineers is ready, willing, and able. We have to give them the go ahead if we find its going to be necessary. We think we can have quite a few units up very rapidly. Im going to work with Governor Cuomo and a number of the governors. Governor nuwsome has been very generous in his words and im being generous to him because i think were all working together very well. Were talking to california about different sites but we have we have we can have a lot of units up very quickly if we think he need them. I might ask sela to say a few words on health and then we can get back. Thank you. As the president announced we are doing a dramatic expansion of whats known as telehealth for our 62 million medical benefitries who are amongst the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. Were asking for an appropriations bill signed on march 6 as well as the bill the president signed last queefpblgt this is to ensure that government requirements, rules, and regulations dont get in the way of patient care during an emergency. Thanks to the significant progress the president has already made the past three telehelp services. Medicare beneficiaries across the nation, no matter where they live, will now be able to receive a wild change of range of services via telehealth without having to leave home and they can be provided in a variety of settings including nursing homes, hospital Outpatient Departments and more. Well also be trailerly relaxing certain hipa requirements so that doctors can provide telehealth with their own homes and this is a part of our larger efforts around mitigation and as we are encouraging people to stay home wherever possible, we dont want our medicare to get in the way. Perhaps an elderly patient needs a routine check up, nothing to do with coronavirus and this person, whos at risk for the coronavirus, doesnt have to venture outside their home. They can take to their doctor via skype and dont have to risk exposure to the virus and they can receive that care within the safety of their own home. It could be another medicare recipients experiencing flulike symptoms and instead of leaving the house and ing in a waiting room full of other vulnerable people, they can also receive advice from their dwro in their home. This is very important for doctors who will face considerable strain on their time and resources and now medicare patients who dont necessarily have to come into an office wont have to and this allows the Health Care System to priretize for care for those that have more needs and dire need and preserves protective equipment as well. State medicaid agencies can also provide Telehealth Services without medical improvement and were asking insurance companies. Expand telehealth as we seek to provide the balance of getting americans the care they need and limiting the spread of the virus, this the impact of this historic action cannot be overstated. In an emergency, those on the front lines shouldnt be able to worry about federal rules and red tame when they need flexibility above all else. Also wants to briefly mention that because of the president s emergency declaration, we do have the ability to provide a lot of medicine cade waivers and florida was the first state to be approved. We were able to do that in a matter of days. Thank you. Pres. Trump any questions, please . Reporter where do Senior Citizens go for for instructions on how to do the telea heavily . They should call their Doctors Office and they can tell they want also, some medicare members may not have access to equipment so were asking family members to help with this but also representing the requirements around social distancing. Broich will you be posting numbers also . Thats correct. Pres. Trump that might be the easiest way to do it. In ads. And they can also call our 1800 medicare number and also get information. Those phone lines are open. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Will you say a few words and threaten ill ask dr. Burks to say a couple of words on how the system is working. Thank you very much. As we talked about earlier this week, the commercial system is rapidly advancing in the testing capabilities. As of today, our Public Health laboratories, meaning the c. D. C. And the Public Health labs have reported out 31, 7 8 tests. So almost 32,000 tests. The Clinical Laboratories, the association of Clinical Laboratories have reported out about 27,000 tests and most importantly, of those 27,000 during the cumulative period of time, 8,200 of them were yesterday. This is showing the dramatic rampup. We dont have the numbers this morning from the American Hospital association which means all the individual hospital laboratories. Well have that upcoming in the next day or so and then ambassador burks will have this whole process fixed with the legislation that everything will roll up into a common reporting probably by the end of next week. Our drivethru laboratories are blossoming all over the country by individual states. The ones that we are heavily involved in and pushing equipment to, we expect over the next few days to begin setting up 47 of these in approximately 12 states. The term is almost being shipped to the locations. Most cities have the specific locations, some do not but its going to a Central Receiving and well be deemploying at least 140 missioned corps officers, about half of the sites that reported their requirement. About 140 officers will be going. We expect that to go up. So this is going on the way we expected. We did a trial site yesterday with a full mobile unit for drivethru with foul p. P. E. We had a lot of kinks in the system, as you can expect. Thats why we do afest before we go out into the field. Dont depment these to be 100 perfect the moment they come. Theyll be dap adaptsed so the states and situation but we expect that they will add instantly. Thank you. Pres. Trump thank you. This has never been done before. This is a great road map for the future should we have Something Like this in the future. I wope hope we dont. Were working with the states and relying on the states. We have to because its point of ale, point of site and i think were getting along really well with the states. Dr. Burks, could you say a couple of words, please . Thank you. Thank you, mr. President. I think what youve been hearing from us is define solutions that are high quality and sustainable based on the frontline workers and governors questions. Those come in on the governorss calls. Weve been immediately responsible to those responsibilitiesive to those and thats the level of red tape and bureaucracy we have ruflede. As the president says were creating a road map for a different level of functionality for future pandemics. Our flu pandemic Preparedness Plan was a plan. Now were seeing where we have to revise, create mu new avenues of research and work to really ensure that the needs of the American People can be reached. We were adamant about having a highquality test based on our commercial vendors. Over the next few months youll again begin to see that other tests that were utilized around the world were not of the same quality. Resulting in false positives and potentially false negatives. These tests were studied by the f. D. A. To ensure they were that level of quality and weve again given the states the permission to ensure that same level of quality. One minute on the testing. Testing should not be used as an assessment of your risk. Were asking every single american, no matter what your generation, from z and up to x and millennials in between to really ensure that youre following these guidelines. We hear every night of people who are not in work moving that time into bars and other areas of large gatherings. If we continue with that process, we will fail in containing this virus so every single generation has a role to play. Were asking our older generation to stay in their homes and were asking the Younger Generations to support them in social contacting through videos and other skypetype functions or just a simple telephone. Were asking the Younger Generation to stop going out in public places, to bars and restaurants and spreading asimple tamic virus onto countertops and knobs and Grocery Stores and grocery carts. I heard an innovation last night and again in morning on the news. I really want to applaud the private sector who are now creating senioronly shopping times. I think thats extraordinary. I think that shows what america brings and i think other countries will learn from us about how to really protect seniors in this type of way. Im hoping it carries through to next year when we have our flu epidemic when we can really have a very different profile of the amount of mortality we have during flu that we never talk about. Anywhere from 15,000 to 45,000 individuals are lost every year. If we learn how to do this well and sustain some of those core changes, we can change the rey way respiratory viruses, not only this but in the future affect americans. Pres. Trump thats a big thing. Reporter weve had 5,000 people test positive, 90 deaths or so. When are we going to know the datea data of who those people have . Who is most affected, what the preexisting simple conditions are . Also those who have died . Youre sing my sheet of music. Im very data oriented. I want to aapplaud a. H. S. We had this discussion several days ago. Theyve made calls into seattle and california to really understand that and also importantly to understand how many of their patients needed ventilators, how many needed oxygen support. How many of them needed and what they needed. Could we predict early someone who was going to have a more difficult course . These are all the questions were asking and answering right now. We did get an early report back from santa clara and seattle. Were digesting it. We just got it this morning. We think that road map is very important to other communities. We have not discussed this with new york yet. We do know from other countries and that all is available online, that profile. You can see that mortality under 30 is extraordinarily low. The mortality across the board outside of wuhan is now settling somewhere around. 7 but that should not be reassuring because its much high we are people in preexisting medical conditions, even if young, and people that are old we are preexisting medical conditions. So we still want every american focused on what they can do today to change the course of this pandemic. Reporter will you make that information public . Not only making it public but having a website that everyone can see in real time. Reporter youre signaling a much more aggressive posture toward at the same time mitigation now and many states have been very aggressive but there are a small number of states that have not issued public guidance to their residents. Isnt it important for the success of the effort that 100 of the states be forwardleaning on this, and if so, mr. President , what would be your message to those states that have not . Thats why the Vice President and the president yesterday issued those critical guidelines. As i said in morning on fox and friends, you can look at them as guidance, as requirements, and as the president asking every american and every state to follow those. Thats why we put them out at the federal level. We wanted to make sure every american knew what they could do today to change the course of this epidemic. I think its empowering, it says all of us have a social responsibility to each other and thats why we believe that every mayor and every governor should be instituting these guidelines that came from the white house and the president of the United States. Pres. Trump and weve been very tough on those states. I know exactly what youre talking about. Please, go ahead. Reporter youve been telling us for days now that millions of test are out. So why have fewer than 60,000 been tested . I think youll see different numbers. You heard about the 8,000. The highspeed tests were approved last thursday night and last friday night. I think if i could talk to the groups that have these platforms out there, do not rely on a pull technology. Push out those tests because we can only make them available. Groups have to order them. Weve been talking to they wereafisher, one of the key platforms to push out tests, based on need and not wait for orders. Reporter is that the big erest issue biggest issue, getting the tests out or getting the tests conducted . Thats a great question. Obviously it takes time. He is working on innovatea solutions that are creative and sustainable and will be a game changer in testing but we dont have the data yet. Can you do it yourself . Can you actually sample yourself . These are the kinds of things were working on right now and hes getting the data for us. Pres. Trump and the states are doing a lot of it. The governors and the states are doing a lot of it with even our tests. Go ahead, please. Reporter thank you. Can you give us a sense of how long these tough new restrictions will need to be in place until we start to see the rate of this virus going down . And also can you speak to this study that as many as 2. 2 Million People in the United States could die if there werent this type of action taken by the government . Models are models and theyre based on unput and based on infectiousness without any controls. I can tell you weve never seen that level of infection that modeled town that 2. 2 million in mortality. We are looking at that. Were having a particularly modeled meeting tomorrow. I think thats going to be important. Ive dealt with a lot of modelers in my time. Theyre wonderful people but they all have their favorite inputs and all have their favorite integration functions. Were trying to integrate the best model for the United States bested on the best data and that first set of recommendations you saw were based on what we could do today. If i could say one thing to the hospitals and dentists out there things that dont need to be done over the next two weeks, dont get it done. If youre a person with an elective surgery, you dont want to go into a hospital right now. Theres a lot of distraction, a lot of people doing a lot of other things to save peoples lives so lets all be responsible and cancel things that we can cancel to really free up hospital beds and space and then lets do everything that we can to ensure that we dont need the ventilators because we protect prosecute protected the people who would have immediated to use them. Reporter are you looking at the possibility of things like limiting travel in the United States . Pres. Trump its possible. Well see how it goes. Theres been great cooperation with local governments, states. Its going pretty well right now. Reporter mr. President , do you need to in vogue the defense production act to get more of those medical supplies to hospitals . Pres. Trump were able to do that if we have to. Weve studied it closely, over two weeks ago a. Well make that decision pretty quickly if we need it. We hope we dont, its a big step. Reporter do they need more help from the federal government . Pres. Trump in plarks three states need help. Some states have two people, three people, no people people, in the case of West Virginia. Were looking at it very closely, taken it parking lots 15 different ways. Its a very big stem and if we need that step, well take it. Reporters a lot of people travel to places that arent considered hot spots, the caribbean, mexico over the next few weeks. Would you recommend they canceling those plans . Pres. Trump i would say stay at home. Stay. We have to get this problem fixed and then well get back to business really quick. The world will hopefully open up. We see areas of the world that havent done well and we see areas that are doing very well and i would see us in the category of doing very well for a country so big. I think i would recommend that they just enjoy their living room. Go ahead, please. Reporter what do you say to people who are not heeding these guidelines from the white house and i also have a question on asymptomatic people. Pres. Trump im not happy with those people if theyre not. But those people are being shout the shouted down by other people. Its almost like selfpolicing. There are a couple of incidents or more where people are not doing with seeing others not do what theyre supposed to do. With coach win this war and ideally quickly. Because the longer it takes, its not a good situation and im not even talking about the economy. Im talking about the lives of a lot of people. Reporter will the white house place restrictions for corp rapt businesses that do get Like Airlines . Vice President Trump pence i think the president has made it clear to industries around the country that were going to do whatever it takes. We understand this is an extraordinary time in the life of our nation. The president has met with the Airline Industry, hell met with additional leaders today in tourism and hospital pi at the. Hes asked the secretary of the treasury to work with members of both parties to shape the kind of economic support that will allow those industries to weather the period of the coronavirus and then to come back stronger than ever before. Pres. Trump weve had such incredible i dont know, i guess the word spirit is the best word. The banks are coming in and doing things they would have never done. Working on extensions and lots of things they wouldnt have done. Coplay copays with regard to the insurance companies. They would have never done that. And they did it. They were in my office. I would say the 11 biggest in this country, i guess probably the 11 biggest of the world. All the big ones and they did things on copay that nobody would have been doing, that they wouldnt have been doing in a million years but theyre doing it. Theres a great spirit going on right now in the country. Reporter dr. Fauci, you said you like being accused of overreacting because that is an indication we may be doing things necessary to beat this, bend the curve. How long will it take for you to be confident that yes, were bending the curve or no, were not. I cant give you a firm number on that because the dynamics of outbreaks in some rments are predictable historicically. We dont know because this is really unprecedented. Of all the out of bounds ive been involved with over outbreak breaks ive been involved with weve never had an incidence where travel restrictions, internal my gays. Financial assistance, like health assistance, testing. So we dont really know but i do know that if you look at models is that when you have input into the kinds of mitigations and things that were doing, were going to see a hump instead of a peak. I would be really surprised if all the things that were doing and this is really a comprehensive approach. I was struck as i was listening to everyone make their presentations. , that you know, im a scientist, im a health person, and im a physician who sees patients so i look at it from one particular standpoint but when im being impressed by is that this is really a comprehensive thing that has multiple components to it. All of them have to succeed if were going to get to that end point that ive described multiple times from this podium so i hope that if everyone does their job, well be able to give you a number saying weve seen that inflection and were coming down. I would hesitate to do it now, to be honest with you, because it might be misleading and i dont want to be misleading. I want to say one other thing because i heard dr. Burkes say it and i think we need to say it over and over again. When i was young, a long time ago, i felt that i was invulnerable, the way i think many of us feel. And when were asking the young people to help us by staying out of the bars and restaurants, really trying to distance yourself. Dont get the attitude well, im young, im invulnerable. In some respects youre certainly less vulnerable than i am. However, what you might inadvertently do, and i know you dont want to do that. You dont want to put your loved ones at risk, particularly the ones who are elderly and the ones who have come priced compromised conditions. We cant do this without the young people courtroom rating. Please cooperate with us. Thank you. Reporters theres apparently a new study in china, found that the vast majority of people, 86 were untested with mild to no symptoms. What does that mean and should testing go beyond expectations . That question keeps coming up and im not going to evade it but i want to make a point. We tend to think that were not going to be able to mitigate or contain would you testing. They complement each other in respects but theyre separate channels. If we had no testing, we could be doing what were doing now. The question youre asking, would it be important outside of a doctor and patient coming together, with knowing whats out there, what might be on the radar screen, the answer to your question is yes. The c. D. C. Is going out there and part of their program is to get a feel for what is there that wasnt initially thought to be coronavirus, that was thought to be something else. When you do that youre also going to get a feel of what the is in society so we are heading with the high throughput things youve been hearing about to get an answer to your question. Reporter governor chromeo cuomo said this morning he believes well see a peak in terms of infection in 45 days. Would you con occur with that . Its possible. The governor has been doing a really good job of trying to stay ahead of this. 45 days is not unreasonable. You have to be careful when you get a number, you own the number and the number doesnt come out, were in trouble. Thats with the reason from our standpoint within the federal government, were talking about a range. You dont want to be wed to something and then have to back off. When reporter when is the soonest we will know that these new guidelines are actually bending the curve or actually working . And is there a point in time where in the next couple of weeks where you will be able to tell the president more draconian measures are needed . Dr. Fauci ok, what is happening, if you look at the metaphor, it is like a race against the virus, if left to its own devices will do this. And us trying to somehow blunt that. Now, you could see the virus going up and up and youre a fact, your work which you are trying to do, may actually be having an effect. But you may not see it because it will still be going up. And as you are trying to implement your interference with the virus, you may not realize that you are actually interfering. And you will say, it is still going up, whats going on, youve done nothing. But you dont know whether it would do this versus that. The answer to your question, it probably would be several weeks and maybe longer before we know whether we are having an effect. It may be at the end of the day we will see a curve that would have been way, way up. But i would not put us to task every few days. Wait a minute, its going up, is it working or not . That would be really misleading if we do that. Reporter guidelines announced yesterday, one of the guidelines was a recommendation against gatherings of 10 or more people. And today, the governor of alabama issued her own guidelines and it was a recommendation against gatherings of 25 or more people. What is your recommendation for people of alabama, people across all the country as far as the guidelines that were announced yesterday by the federal government . Dr. Fauci ok, one thing we do not want to do is get hung up on the difference between 10 and 25. I think you may agree with that. When we give guidelines, they are only guidelines. We sit down, we look at the data, we are datadriven and we say, on different models, 10 looks good. If someone wants to do 25, we are not going to fault them. But if somebody wants to come to us and ask us what we think the best is, we stand by the numbers. It isnt perfect, it isnt precise math. It is assumptions and it is data that make you to your decision. Effectivewooden it be if every state was playing by the same rules . Dr. Fauci yes, of course. This is the United States of america, people do their own thing. Quite frankly, i dont think there is a big deal difference between 10 and 25. Weve got many more important things to worry about than that difference. Reporter what about the supply chains and talking about preparedness for the future . Yesterday, larry kudlow says theres an idea of cutting taxes for companies who would be bringing their supply chains back to the United States. He said he specifically likes immediate 100 writeoffs. He said you have not endorsed about yet. Pres. Trump we have many ideas. Thats one of them. We are looking at creating incentives for companies, not only that type of company, but other companies. We are also looking to help companies such as the Airline Industry, within the Airline Industry. And we will be doing that. This is not their fault. And they have been very understanding. And we will be helping them. We will have a very powerful Airline Industry and it will start up as soon as this is over. We will have those planes ready to go. We have to help them during the short term. Reporter i wanted to know, have you taken a look at some of these models such as the Imperial College london model . It poses a very difficult choice, whether it is shutting down society or overwhelming the Health Care System. Is that something pres. Trump we look at every model. We have relied on the talented people and there is no better team than the people behind me, and i will say that all of the people that have done those models are all in constant touch with dr. Birx and tony and everybody that you have been hearing so much from over the last couple of weeks. We have looked at many different models. The model we have is we want to save a lot of lives. We want to save a lot of lives. If we get too steep on that curve, you will lose a lot of lives, perhaps unnecessarily. Everything has a risk, we will see. If people do what we are telling them to do, you are going to see the saving of a lot of lives. Boris in you the u. K. Yesterday, you saw what happened, and looked like they were going a different way and then he went a way of i dont know exactly, but i would say we had a conversation yesterday, similar to what we are doing. A lot of people seem to think this is going we are looking to save the maximum number of lives. Everything else is going. To come back. A life is not going to come back. Our economy will come roaring back. We are going to know that day. Somebody was asking about the day, when will you know . We are going to know all of a sudden we will say wow, that is looking good, thats looking good. And we will be on the other side of the curve. And that is a day we look forward to. Reporter this week, what made you decide that now is the time to implement these much more stringent social distancing measures . Pres. Trump no, i dont think so. This is the way we were going from the beginning. This is what we had in mind. We were just going stepbystep. That was the next step. The next logical step. As dr. Fauci said, and i think very importantly, one of the most important things when you write the history of this was the fact that we closed down to china and europe. But in particular, china. We closed it down from the source very early. Far earlier than the great professionals wanted to. I think in the end, that will be will have saved a tremendous number of lives. Reporter can you followup on the economy and the other on the broader picture . Just to follow up on my colleague, some people did note that your tone seemed more somber yesterday. You talked about the obvious timeline. Did you see projections of people that thought that 2 million potentially could die, may be prompted part of that . Was there a shift in tone . Pres. Trump i have seen that, where people liked it. I didnt feel different. Ive always known this is a real this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. All you had to do was look at other countries. I think now it is almost 120 countries. I have always viewed it it was no different yesterday from days before. I feel the tone is similar. Some people said it wasnt. Reporter on the economy, your former economic adviser said almost 100 chance of a recession. Do you see it that way . Pres. Trump i dont think in terms of recession, i think in terms of getting it out. When we are finished with the virus, we will win. We will win. When the victory takes place, our economy will go through the roof. It is so pent up, it is so builtup, it is so ready to go in an upward direction. But we have to knock out this enemy. This is a really tough enemy but we have to knock out, all of us, that is all of us. I dont think in terms of recession, not recession. We have to knock out this and we will have an economy. I think we will have an economy like weve never had before. It is all pent up. Yes . Reporter i think the question about the actions that the president has authorized beginning in january when he took the unprecedented step of suspending all travel from china, and the efforts to issue travel advisories for portions of italy and south korea and then to begin screening all the passengers, the efforts regarding suspending travel for europe and what went into effect at midnight last night, adding the u. K. And ireland to that, have all been informed by the experts that are surrounding us. What the president has asked us to do from the beginning, as dr. Birx and dr. Fauci say, lets follow the data. Bring the president the best options in response to what is actually happening on the ground. But with regard to yesterday, 15 day, slow the spread plan our team unanimously brought to the president these very strong recommendations. For every american. Because we truly believe we are at a point in this epidemic and our country when we can reduce the number of people that actually are exposed to or contract the coronavirus. But we will continue to bring the best data, the best evidence and the best recommendations frankly, the best Health Experts on the world and the president will continue to make decisions that puts the health of americans first. Pres. Trump in other words, reduce the number of people that die. That is what we are trying to do. When you do this steep curve, and a lot of people are going to die. The worst ever they say, 1918, i dont have to go into the numbers but they were unbelievable numbers. Had they known and had they done what we had now, it would have been a much different story. It would still be tragic but it would have been much different. That was the one that people write about. That was an incredible pandemic like we havent seen. We have done something that i that hopefully we will all have made the right moves. We are all in this together, including you. We want to see fair press. I tell you what, it has been, generally speaking, i think it has been a great thing to see. It has been very, very getting along with the democrats, getting along with republicans for the democrats themselves, there has been a lot of spirit, a lot of things happening that i have not seen happen in the first almost three and a half years it. Has been very nice to see. Really the good thing is we have to knock it out. We have to win. We want to keep that slope as low as possible. That is a lot of lives. Lets go back there. Somebody that didnt get one. Reporter mr. President , this has had a huge impact on chinas economy. Have you received education from any indication from officials that they will have trouble meeting the purchase agreement, part of the phase one deal, particularly the agricultural side . Pres. Trump they need our products very badly. I have not received any. We have a Good Relationship with china. I have not received anything. We have a signed agreement. They have been buying a lot of product. Reporter earlier today, dr. Birx was talking about the possibility of our Hospital System being overburdened. She talked about the certain options that are available to the United States should that happen, including the va hospitals, department of Health Medical treatment facilities, even hospital ships. At what point do you tap into those options . Pres. Trump i will know the point by speaking with Governor Cuomo and other governors, we will know the points. It will be different for new york and for iowa or from idaho, or from West Virginia, frankly. It is different. New york has got a big problem, the state of washington has a big problem. California has some big problems and everyone is doing a good job. I believe it will be more spot than i will not be the whole thing. It will be spots. There are hotspots that are in trouble. Big trouble. There are other areas that are in no trouble at all. They watch it on television, they dont know, it is not affecting them and they are lucky. That there are areas of the country that dont have much of a problem and some that dont have any problem. They will not have a problem with hospitals. Some areas like new york, california, the state of washington, they will have difficulty. When we see that coming, we will be there. We are already making preparation for it. Reporter senator marco rubio of florida and your trade advisor have been recommending an executive order that would ensure that Raw Materials for pharmaceuticals and medical devices are manufactured here in the United States. We were getting indications last week that you were close to signing this executive order. Pres. Trump we are looking at different things. I dont want to say exactly. China has been sending us everything we need. But we are looking at some alternatives, yes. We are looking for alternatives. And we have we have other places, ireland has a lot of things in that world, very tremendous producer. We are looking to bring a lot more back home. Excuse me, you know me for a long time, ive been talking about this for many years, long before i decided to run for president. We have to be able to take care of our country. That was one of the many things on the list. So we will be talking about it. But we are discussing it and marco is very much involved and peter is very much involved. A lot of people are involved. We will be discussing. Please. Reporter you said canada has closed its borders to noncitizens. Are you considering pres. Trump not to the United States. Reporter are you considering closing the land borders . Pres. Trump canada has not closed to the United States so we are working closely with canada. They have not closed it to the United States. They have closed it to the world but nothing United States. Reporter are you considering closing the u. S. Land border . Pres. Trump we are discussing things with canada and mexico, quite honestly. The relationship is outstanding with both. Outstanding. We signed our deal. Usmca. The relationship is very strong. Reporter others have criticized you using the phrase the chinese virus. How do you feel about that . Will you continue using that phrase . Pres. Trump china was putting out information which was false that our military gave this to them that was false our military gave them to them. That was false. Rather than doing that, i called it where it came from, it did come from china. I think it is an accurate term. I did not appreciate the fact that our military gave it to them. Our military did not give it to anybody. Reporter using the phrase creates the stigma. Pres. Trump i dont think so. I think saying our military gave it to them creates a stigma. Please. Reporter what specific help will you offer to them . Pres. Trump we are going to they need help. Lets face it. They go from having recordbreaking years. This is the third year of recordbreaking years travel in tourism, airlines, everything. They were doing record numbers. Ordering new planes, building new hotels, everything was really hunkydory. And then one day, we hear about this rumor and china, then we find out it is much more than a rumor. And then all of a sudden, we make a great decision to close it up early. It would be a different world, but we made a decision to close it up to china. All of a sudden, tourism, and then we close it to europe, which people never heard of this before. Im not sure that has ever been done. I know when i made the decision to closer to china, people told me it has never been done before. It was a great decision. We make good decisions. My best decision, the people behind me are total pros. All over the world theres respect for dr. Birx, anthony who has become a Major Television star for all the right reasons. He is so professional, so good. The people we have working here have been incredible. And they are totally respected. The admiral has been incredible, having to do with the testing. Incredible. And he is viewing this as testing also for the future. We are building a platform. When we took over this platform, the first thing the admiral said was, this was not designed for what we are talking about, millions of people. And it is nobodys fault. Who could have ever predicted a thing like this . We broke it down and it is going to be incredible. And it is now a great system. I just want to say, these are incredible people standing behind me. They are the most respected in the world. Every country that you have mentioned today so far has called them and they call them all the time for advice. Theres nobody better than who we have. Reporter why havent we seen dr. Redfield the last couple of days . Pres. Trump i dont know. He is doing a good job. We are happy with him. Please. Go ahead. Reporter yesterday, we were being told that the payroll tax was going to provide fiscal stimulus. We also had the markets fall quite dramatically yesterday. Pres. Trump what was it about the payroll tax. Reporter what made you make that change and when did you make that change . Pres. Trump we are looking at payroll tax and we are looking at various other forms of getting money to people. The payroll tax is something that ive always liked. It does take a period of time, months before they see something. We dont really have months in terms of people living. In a lot of these you have people that work on tips. You have people, it is a large number of people, who would think this, right, and they do nicely, they work very hard, but they work on tips. We have to take care of our people. We dont want to have people suffering during this period. It was not their fault that this thing all of a sudden was upon us. We are looking at various we are also looking at a payroll tax. We will do a percentage of payroll tax and other things possibly. We would like to be able to get money to people. We are very lucky, our country is doing so well we can do this and we can do it easily. I have to say, Mitch Mcconnell, if you look at mitch and kevin and the whole group, it has been incredible how they are reacting, how congress is reacting, how whether it is the house or senate, how they are moving. Im talking about democrats and republicans. But we have had tremendous leadership meetings and they want to see it done right and they do want to go big. I think going big is important. I dont think we want to go up there every day with a different concept lets worry, about the airlines, lets do this one. You have a big problem with the cruise ship industry. And industry that was setting all sorts of records two months ago and then all of a sudden, theres nobody on the ships. So we have to help these. These are going to be taking care of people and passengers and for years to come and paying tremendous taxes, tremendous taxes for years to come. We have to make sure that this is done. Reporter i went to bring up what you referred to a short while ago about politics. In your address to the nation, you said we have to put politics aside, stop the partisanship and unify together. This morning, you criticize the democratic governor of michigan, yesterday it was the democrat governor of new york, youve attacked biden and obama, every day since one since the address, you have lashed out at a democratic leader. Are you going to set the example . Pres. Trump i only do that when i have to respond. And i will continue to do that. If they are not going to play fair, because they have the media on their side, i dont. I just have me. If they are not going to play fair, i will do that. If they are going to play fair, there will be nobody better than donald trump in terms of bipartisanship. But if they are going to say things that are false, like the story that was written yesterday, somebody i think i know who they taped a Conference Call i had with the governors. I assume somebody will tape it. They handed it to various people and one of them was the New York Times, and the New York Times chose to write a totally inaccurately about it. They do a lot of bad journalism. We respond to that. And actually, people get it. I wanted to be bipartisan and no one will be better than me. When they attack me or the people, these incredible people behind me, im not point to let them get away with it. How about one or two more questions. Go ahead. Reporter what is the next natural step [indiscernible] a lockdown . Pres. Trump hopefully we will not need that. We think of everything. We have every idea you mentioned. It is a very big step. In one sense, it would work. It is a very big step. It is something we talked about but we have not decided to do that. Reporter what are the determining factors for you to take that action . Pres. Trump they would have to get to a level i just dont think it is going to be an action we will take. But anthony, all the people standing behind me with a get together in a room, plus some additionals and we would make a decision. I dont think that is a step we will take. One more question. You didnt have one, did you . Reporter will the u. S. Government provide airline provide assistance to airline suppliers . Pres. Trump were looking mad we are looking at that. Were looking at boeing. Boeing got hit in many different ways. Boeing didnt have a problem. For years, they were an incredible it was something unthinkable what happened with respect to boeing. Unthinkable. Probably i would consider it the greatest company in the world prior to a year ago. Now they get hit in 15 different ways. They have different management, ive met the new people running boeing and i think it will be outstanding. We have to protect boeing. We have to absolutely help boeing. They were it was coming along well, and then all of this hits. Obviously when the airlines are not doing well, boeing will not be doing well. We will be helping boeing, yes. Reporter will you respond on what john was saying . Youve called for people to leave politics. Joe biden said the World Health Organization offered testing kits that they had available to the United States. We refused it. We didnt want to buy them. But if asked as who made that offer. Can you tell us . Pres. Trump i will let tony answer that question, or whoever is best at answering that. When you talk about politics, i watched the debate. Not too exciting. But what they said about me, and weve done a great job, when you talk about not being bipartisan what they said about me, and if you look at swine flu, the whole thing, and i guess it was 2009, and the mistakes they made they were terrible. They were horrific mistake 17,000 people died. I will be honest. They should not be criticizing because we have done a fantastic job. The only thing we have not done well is to get good press. We have done a fantastic job but it has not been appreciated. Even the closing down of the borders, which had never been done, and not only did we close them, we closed them early, the press doesnt like writing about that. Id guess, i dont know who to blame. Maybe i can blame ourselves for that. I will blame ourselves. I think we have done a great job. I think we have done a poor job in terms of press relationship. Let me have somebody answer your question. I tried to cover this in the answer when i talked about quality of kits. It runs through the fda. All of these platforms, we have asked people to submit. And we have asked states to quality control. I mean, anybody could submit their test to us. We do not buy tests that have not been quality controlled and they show us the data. Either show us the data upfront or show us the data after they have been running them. Because quality testing for our American People is paramount to us. It does not help to put out a test where 50 or 47 are false positive. Imagine what that would mean to the American People. Imagine their level of concern now and telling people that they are false positive. We take the same approach to hiv, imagine telling someone they were positive to hiv and they werent. That is our bottom line. The customer, the American People first. So any of these groups can submit their testing kits through our regulatory processes. But without that, and without a plan we are not going to accept tests that have not been studied by us. Pres. Trump good answer. When i became involved in the testing world, i called as senior officials of the who as i could find it understand what the situation was. As far as i can tell from sources that should know, no one ever offered to test but we refused. This is a Research Grade to test that was never approved, not submitted to the fda. That was supplied in tens of thousands of quantities to 100 countries in the world. I think there is a lot that people are saying about this that is based on rumor and myth. Nothing was offered that we refused. It was a Research Test that was not approved. There was a small number that we have greatly surpassed in a very short time. Pres. Trump nothing was offered. Number two, it was a bad test. Otherwise, it was wonderful. Thank you very much. I assume he will apologize. Thank you all very much. Thank you all. 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