We get over this. Obviously well not ship too much. We have excess of certain things and dont have enough of others. I just had a great talk with Doug Mcmillan from walmart and i gave him a very, very big order for gowns, for protective gear for the doctors, for the nurses, for everything and hes actually very excited about it. He is biggest purchaser of this kind of thing, of anything probably in the world and and he is very excited about it. I said what size . Almost unlimited. When you look at these hospital, the amount that they order, you almost say how could they possibly use so much whether it is masks or the protective gear but we supplying a tremendous amount and we just ordered a lot from walmart and he is taking this on personally. I said let it go, let it be shipped not to a warehouse, directly to the site of the hospital or wherever they need it because we save a lot of time when we do that. So walmart, in addition to many other companies and people is now involved at the
Out war to defeat the virus, this horrible virus. You see how terrible it is, especially when you look at the numbers from yesterday. We explained why we are extending nationwide guidelines to slow the spread for 30 days. We have the power to save countless lives. We are attacking the virus on every front with social distancing, economic support for workers, rapid medical intervention and very serious innovation, and banning dangerous foreign travel that threatens the health of our people. And we did that earlier, far earlier than anyone would have thought, been way ahead of anyone else. In this time of need, i know every american will do their patriotic duty and help us achieve a total victory. As governments and nations focus on the coronavirus, there is a growing threat that cartels, criminals, terrorists and other malign actors will try to exploit the situation for their own gain, and we must not let that happen. We will never let that happen. Today the United States is launching e
Were very focused on that until we get over this. Obviously well not ship too much. We have excess of certain things and dont have enough of others. I just had a great talk with Doug Mcmillan from walmart and i gave him a very, very big order for gowns, for protective gear for the doctors, for the nurses, for everything and hes actually very excited about it. He is biggest purchaser of this kind of thing, of anything probably in the world and and he is very excited about it. I said what size . Almost unlimited. When you look at these hospital, the amount that they order, you almost say how could they possibly use so much whether it is masks or the protective gear but we supplying a tremendous amount and we just ordered a lot from walmart and he is taking this on personally. I said let it go, let it be shipped not to a warehouse, directly to the site of the hospital or wherever they need it because we save a lot of time when we do that. So walmart, in addition to many other companies an
Even though some of might be different directions. Were monitoring that. Monitoring what is the second biggest point gain so far, for the dow jones industrials. All major averages are advancing pretty smartly, right now, amid talk that this deal will get done, timing is only issue here. Whether this stimulus measure. That is out there, will be enough. Including that lockdown in wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus, slowly by surely. Keep in mind that about 60 million chinese remain in this proverbial lockdown. But the biggest of all was instituted a few moments ago with indias Prime Minister, announced a lockdown not for a section of country, not for some in this country but for all. 1. 3 billion indians in his country. This will last for 21 days. Youre beginning to see a trend here that shows the frantic efforts we are taking to provide stimulus to sort of slow the Economic Impact or the a least the arrest the blows in this country. As other countries are sort of dramatically ackno
On friday, President Trump declared a National Emergency to deal with the coronavirus. Members of the White House Coronavirus task force and Industry Leaders joined the president for the press conference in the rose garden. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States accompanied by the Vice President of the United States. Trump thank you very much, everyone. Thank you. Beautiful day in the rose garden, appreciate everybody being here. Today, i would like to provide an update to the American People on several decisive new actions we are taking in our very vigilant effort to combat and ultimately defeat the coronavirus, weve been working very hard on this. We have made tremendous progress. When you compare what we have done to other areas of the world, its pretty incredible. Thet of that had to do with early designation and the closing of the borders. As you know, europe was just designated as the hotspot right now and we closed that border it a while ago. So, that was lucky