Good morning. This hearing will come to order. , want to thank eyewitnesses first of all for your service to this nation. On behalf of the committee, if you can thank the men and women who worked with you and apron pretty tremendous effort, trying to deal with an overwhelming situation, as a nation, we need to be grateful for your effort. Had thebly have not days off. I really do appreciate that. Toant to ask for consent have my statement entered into the record. Just a couple of facts. Just to lay out how extraordinary and overwhelming this effort has been. Not thatanuary 21, long ago, we had the first case reported of covid and eight days later on january 29, the administration established the task force. At that time, we only had five cases and zero deaths. Two days later, President Trump announced travel restrictions in china. That was not a popular decision, but it probably saved many lives and but as time to flatten what bought us time. Fema began assisting hhs. 12 cases and zero
Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. We are here today to provide an update on the unprecedented Testing Capacity developed by the United States, the most advanced and robust testing system anywhere in the world by far. This afternoon, i will also announce new steps we are taking to make tests even more widely available. To battle the virus, my administration marshalled every resource at our nations disposal, public, private economic, industrial, scientific, all your disposal. We launched the largest manufacturing ramp up since the second world war. There has been nothing like it since. At the center of this industrial and scientific mobilization was the development of our coronavirus testing capabilities. In the span of just a few short months, we have developed a Testing Capacity unmatched and unrivaled anywhere in the world and it is not even close. This is a core element of our plan to safely and gradually reopened america, and we are opening and starting and there is enthus
Consulted with the centers for disease. Individuals are at least six feet apart. Theres no room for public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleague. The hearing may be watched online. An unedited recording will be available on the website. Witnesses are participating by Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators, including the chairman, are participating by Video Conference. Senators, we have been advised may remove masks, talk into the microphone when in the hearing room as they are six feet apart. Im grateful to the roall for t hard work to keep us safe. In our hearing last thursday, i said that all roads back to work and back to school run through testing. What our country has done so far on testing is impressive. Not nearly enough. Over the weekend, senator schumer, the democratic leader, was nice enough to put out a tweet quoting half of what i said. He left out the other half, the impressive part.
Provide an update on the Testing Capacity developed by the United States, the most advanced and robust testing system anywhere in the world by far. This afternoon i will also announce new steps we are taking to make tests even more widely available. To battle the virus, my administration marshalls every resource at our nations disposal, public, economic, scientific, all your disposal. We launched the largest manufacturing ramp up since the second world war. There has been nothing like it since. At the center of this industrial and scientific mobilization was the development or a of our coronavirus testing capabilities. In the span of just a few short months we have developed a Testing Capacity unmatched and unrivaled anywhere in the world and it is not even close. This is a core element of our plan to safely and gradually areened america, and we opening and starting and there is enthusiasm like i havent seen in a long time. Proudamerican should be of the amazing array of talent, skill,
We Work Together to make sure that every client sees the test they need. This is added with timely monitory symptoms and what i mean by thatis monitory symptoms and what i mean by that is symptoms bring together the ability to not only diagnose the symptomatic, but proactively and interactively work with individuals that we know are at higher risk. We worked with states to look at where the outbreaks have occurred when theyre not in the large metros and we see it occurs very often in places of close settings. Among our native americans and among our Long Term Care facilities, so an active Monitoring Programme thats active Monitoring Programme thats active integrated and innovated and then combining this with the third element, which is the Rapid Response programme. It relies on cdc to be working on local governments to ensure every symptomatic case and critically, a cinematic cases are quickly trapped and traced asymptomatic cases. Then finally, the plan includes approach of using scie