Much. Great to have you. Thank you all for being here. My administration is taking action to ensure america has the medical resources and equipment needed to fight the global pandemic. It has been a brutal pandemic for 150 countries all over the world. Weve had Great Success over the last month. The millions of pieces of equipment have been delivered successfully by us, purchased and delivered. We have made it available to the states. The governors have been very gracious, for the most part, a couple that arent appreciative of the incredible job. They have to do a better job themselves. Thats part of the problem. Generally speaking, i have to tell you the governors have been great. I just spoke to the governor of new jersey, governor murphy. He is very thankful. Governor cuomo has been very nice. They really appreciated with the federal government has done. When you look at the hospitals being built all over the country. By the army corps of engineers and fema. It has been really incre
Beyond that let me say we have been working through femas acquisition process not only to deploy but to gather up personal protective equipment. In a few moments you will hear from admiral john polcyk on the extraordinary progress we made on the strategic stockpile but identifying on the commercial marketplace around america and around the world literally millions of n95 masks, surgical gowns, gloves, protective equipment and at this point we distributed some 7600 ventilators and you will hear today specifically about the state has have received those ventilators. Were just, this team is truly acted in an inspiring way and literally is working with dozens and dozens of people at the fema Stabilization Task force to make sure that we are leaving no stone unturned to find the supplies we need. Today let me also say you will hear from Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the president of the United States but someone the White House Coronavirus task force directed to work with fema on supply
Been working through femas acquisition process not only to deploy but to gather up personal protective equipment. In a few moments you will hear from admiral john polcyk on the extraordinary progress we made on the strategic stockpile but identifying on the commercial marketplace around america and around the world literally millions of n95 masks, surgical gowns, gloves, protective equipment and at this point we distributed some 7600 ventilators and you will hear today specifically about the state has have received those ventilators. Were just, this team is truly acted in an inspiring way and literally is working with dozens and dozens of people at the fema Stabilization Task force to make sure that we are leaving no stone unturned to find the supplies we need. Today let me also say you will hear from Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the president of the United States but someone the White House Coronavirus task force directed to work with fema on supply chain issues and in recent week
Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. Very comfortable here. A lot of room. And we appreciate you being here. Yesterday i announced we would be extending our social distance guidelines through the end of april. This is based on modeling that shows the peak in fatalities will not arrive for another two weeks. The same modeling also shows that by very vigorously following these guidelines, we can save more than one million american lives. Think of that. One million american lives. Our future is in our own hands, and the choices and sacrifices we make will determine the fate of this virus and really the fate of our victory. We will have a great victory. We have no other choice. Every one of us has a role to play in winning this war. Every citizen, family, and business can make the difference in stopping the virus. This is our shared patriotic duty. Challenging times are ahead for the next 30 days. This is a very vital 30 days. We are sort of putting it all on the line, this 30 days.
And Everyone Wants to know how long social distancing will last but the real question may be how many times will we have to do this. Hello the World Health Organization has sounded a note of hope for the european nations worst hit by the corona virus pandemic saying steps taken in italy and spain should see case numbers drop soon despite the number of infections in spain has posture in the past 24 hours while it saw 800 new deaths and in italy the number of new cases continued to fall but deaths past the 11000 mark and the u. S. Is bracing for the outbreak there to get worse a hospital ship with a 1000 beds has now docked in new york while the top Infectious Disease expert says there will be clusters in other big cities and a 3 week lockdown has begun in zimbabwe with police and forcing some of the toughest measure seen in africa shops have been shut and Movement Restricted the countrys seen one death so far so with many countries in europe and lockdown the fight can take continues to