I see you have social distance on your mind, and that is a very good thing. Congratulations, tremendous job you are doing. I want to thank everyone for being at the white house, a very special place. Matter where you go in the world, the love the white house. And being in the east room in particular was so many important functions have taken place over the years. Today we are celebrating American Workers and Small Businesses. We have done a job you and we are going to make it so as we open of our country you are going to be in good shape instead of losing your businesses and binding finding employees. We made it possible for you. We are delighted to be joined by representatives of several incredible Small Businesses from across our country. Also with us is the treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. Thank you very much. [applause] pres. Trump you have been busy, steve, you broke every record in the book. The sba administrator, thank you. [applause] pres. Trump have you gone to sleep in the
Pres. Trump thank you very much. Please. This afternoon, i will sign a proclamation declaring the month of may to be Older Americans month. I dont know if i am in that category. I have a feeling im. I have a feeling i am. But i feel good. And our country is making a lot of progress. Making a lot of progress. As we honor the contributions of our nations seniors, we are here to discuss the unprecedented steps we are taking to protect seniors from the virus. I will also announce vital new actions to safeguard Nursing Homes and most vulnerable citizens as we gradually seek to reopen our country. It is very exciting to see what s happening. Secretary alex azar, robert wilkie, great job. Verna, ator seema fema administrator pete gaynor, and chief of the National Guard joseph lingo, thanks also to tennessee governor bill lee, my friend. Thank you very much, bill, great job youre doing. Great being with you. And ma outstanding advocates for americas seniors who are here with us today, thank yo
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Interesting or not is that it is a reflection of the number of tests weve had. 36 testing positive is slightly higher but that is the number that goes up and down. We will talk about why that may not be the best indicator of what is going on. I think of real interest to me is i look at hospitalization, you see 79 people hospitalized. That is the number that is not that is going up not exponentially but going up on a linear basis, which i think is good news. 17 fatalities is never good news. But again, it is a number that is not going up exponentially. What that means is it gives us capacity to plan and this is following what our modeling has been. And i start with our Health Care System. Our Health Care System is bending but it is not breaking. And that is because we did build in capacity in terms of everything we are trying to do, and that capacity as i have described in terms of other briefings, in terms of the beds, in terms of people, in terms of icu, we are planning accordingly fo
Deployed from two Army Hospital units, and they are doing a great job. This is something that we didnt expect to do, but they needed help in new york, and we sent federal troops, not only troops, we also sent a lot of very talented doctors, nurses, First Responders, people who are now running javits. Also as you know, the usns comfort which is in new york, theres been a lot of publicity about that coming in, that was not supposed to be for the virus at all, under any circumstances. But it looks like more and more were going to be using it for that. We will see. That was supposed to be for people having other medical problems, but its very interesting because there are virtually no cars on the road. No motorcycles on the road. No anything on the road. Things that would normally be taken care of we dont see anymore, so we havent seen that in a long time. Perhaps a positive. But the ship is ready, and if it has to, if we need it, if we need it for the virus, we will be using it for that.