And appreciate the great assistance from the governors and the people within the states. The relationships have been really good. I spoke with Governor Cuomo and were are working very hard to get additional things to new york as quickly as possible. As you know, we took care of the hospital including personnel. 2500 beds that we built just recently at javits including personnel and we opened it up to covid and it is something that we also did in louisiana and we are doing it in dallas. We have a lot of not only hospitals being built but now we are manning the hospitals because states in many cases are unable to get additional people to work. It is just an incredible situation. There has never been anything like this. One of the most important issues that linked this pandemic is coordinating the delivery of crucial supplies throughout the nation based on the most Accurate Information available. We have the best health care and disaster experts anywhere in the world. And everyone will tell you that. We are dealing with big part to we are dealing with big parts of the world on helping them also with this horrible situation. We are at 151 nations going through this. We are working to ensure that the supplies are delivered where and when they are needed. Sometimes, we have to tell governors that we cant go there, they are needed elsewhere and so far we have been pretty right about that and we will continue to do that. This will probably be the toughest week between this week and next week and there will be a lot of death unfortunately but a lot less death if this was not done but there will be death. We are looking for an obvious focus and the hardest hit regions. Some of them are obvious and some are not. They spring up. They come and hit you like you got hit by a club. An area that was not at all bothered you look at what is going on in new jersey where the governor is doing an excellent job. It sprang up there. Every decision we are making is to save lives. It is our sole consideration. We want to save lives and have as few lives lost as possible. It is there for critical of that certain Media Outlets stop spreading false rumors and creating fear and even panic with the public. It is just incredible. I could name them but it is the same ones. Always the same ones. I guess they are looking for readings. So bad i guess they are looking for ratings. So bad for our country. Look at the approval rating. The worst it has been. So bad for our country and so bad for the world. During a national emergency, it is essential that the federal decisionmakers cut through the fog and confusion to follow the facts and the science. Many hospital administrators that we have been in touch with the even in the really hot spots, you know where they are, are communicating directly with us that their level of supplies is meeting essential needs. Currently, they are thrilled to be where they are. Whenever local shortages are reported, we are asking states to immediately meet the demand. We are stockpiling large amounts in different areas. We will be discussing that in a little while. We want distributions to be made on a fair basis. We have to take care of a large country, not just certain areas of the country. But, no matter where, we have been there and been there strongly. I want to thank fema, the army corps of engineers and our military. We will be adding a tremendous amount of military to help supplement the states. Thousands of soldiers. Thousands of medical workers. Professionals. Nurses and doctors. And it will be a large number. We will be telling them over a very short period where they are going. They are going into war. They are going into a battle they have never really trained for. No one has trained for this. I would say since 1917, the greatest of them all, the greatest of this type of battle, probably the greatest of them all, 1917. Of two 100 Million People were killed. In addition upto 100 Million People were killed. The need changes. One day it is one state or one locale or one city and then they are doing well. We had some good reports coming out of the state of washington. Coming out of various parts of california. Areas that we were getting ready to hit hard, we can now go to other areas. Looks like new york will be hit very hard. Louisiana it is amazing how it spread. Everyone is doing a good job but they will be head hard. Areas of the country not experiencing large scale infections are requesting supplies beyond what their present circumstances require. We talked to them. We explain it. For the most part, they are good with it. We think we are right. It is understandable that officials would seek to get the most they can for their communities. But the fear is the shortages have lead to inflated requests. Some states are asking for far more one state asked for 40,000 ventilators. Think of it. 40,000. It is not possible. They will not need that many and now they are admitting they dont need that many. We are getting as many to them as we can. No one has seen anything like this in terms of ventilators and protective equipment and uniforms and outfits. It makes it more difficult for distributors to prioritize the real need and it could intentionally, everybody has proper intentions but they want to make sure they are 100 . Sometimes, when they know they do not need it, they want it anyway. It gives them a sense of satisfaction but we can do that. We are back up. Remember, we are the backup. The greatest backup that ever existed for the states. As specially when we got into the Hospital Building business and the Medical Center building business. We have build numerous hospitals in some states and Medical Centers. That is why my administration has been requesting actual usage numbers from the states and hospitals to meet their needs because we want to be ready when the brunt of it comes. It is coming quickly. When the brunt of it comes, we want to be ready to hit the area that needs its. We do not want to have spent everything in one area where they do not need it. Let me be extremely clear about one point. We will move heaven and earth to safeguard our Great American citizens. We will continue to use every power, every authority, every single resource we have got to keep americans safe. We have to get back to work. We have to open our country again. We have to open our country again. We do not want to be doing this for months and months and months. We want to open our country again. This country was not meant for this. Few were. Few were. We have to open our country again. I just spoke with the commissioners and leaders of virtually all of the sports leagues. Rob manfred, roger goodell, adam silver, commissioner of the National Basketball association. Garrett beckman, commission of the National Hockey league. Jane monahan, commissioner of the pga tour. Kathy engelbert, commissioner of the womens National Basketball association. Dana white. Vince mcmahon, president of the wwe. Don garber, commissioner of major league soccer. Steve phelps, president of nascar. Michael on, commissioner of the lpga. Roger penske, founder and chairman of penske core. Andrew fleming. And a couple of others. These are all of the great leaders of sport. They want to get back. They have to get back. They cannot do this. Sports was not designed for this. The concept of our nation was not designed for this. We want to get back and very soon. For example, and i have to say we are using the defense production act very powerfully. In some cases, directly. In many cases, indirectly. Just the threat of it is usually enough. Fema and hhs have ordered 180 million think of that. Who ever heard of 180 million n95 masks. We want 3m to help our country. I think it is going to be ok. We will soon let you know. We need the masks. We dont want other people getting them. That is why we are instituting a lot of defense production act you could call it retaliations. That is what it is. If people do not give us what we need for our people, we will be very tough and we have been. Usually, you do not have to use this but we have used it plenty more and more as it turns out. Our supply Chain LogisticsTask Force Led by admiral john polo check who is doing a fantastic job will ensure they are distributed to the health care and Critical Infrastructure workers in the areas with the most pressing requirements. 60 Million Masks we are talking about and the 180 million n95 masks. Whoever heard of that . This is an incredible thing. A lot of times, we have to start to play this game. If a governor wants 200 ventilators and i say no, we are going to send you 1000. We think you need more than 200. And then the media meets with the governor. And they say the president should have sent more. They asked for 200. We give them 1000. They meet with the media and ask how the president is doing and they say we should have sent more. That is politics. It is unfortunate. One party is doing it and the other party is happy. They shouldve been doing this work themselves for a long period of time. Many of their cupboards were bare. With respect to the ventilators, hhs and fema continue to monitor the data on an hourly basis we are provided by the state to most effectively target the distribution of supplies. We have been asking states to provide us with daily updates on the number of ventilators and the utilization rates. Some had more than they need. They dont want to admit it. They will admit it when it is over but that does not help us much. This data is vitally necessary so we can ensure that the ventilators are getting to the right place at the right time. Hhs, fema, it eod are developing resources within the neck 24 hours. They will have a whole different set of criteria. Every day, it is different criteria. Every day, this horrible invisible enemy changes course. It changes course. If you were fighting the normal fight, you would know what is happening. They had one it hits one, another, and areas you dont expect. We are watching it and capturing it. Our goal is to stay several days ahead of the needs in each state but we can only do that if the cities and states use realtime local knowledge to provide timely and accurate data about actual usage. If a state has ventilators for example that they know they will not need, they should give them over. We have 10,000 in our pipeline. Stockpiled. 10,000 plus. We are moving some into new york. They will need some additional. We are moving some into new york city and state separately. And we are bringing them to the point where they will need them. I can also report that at my direction 1000 military personnel are deploying to new york city to assist where they are needed the most. The hottest of all of the hot spots. New jersey is right there, right next to it. I dont know if it is overflow. New jersey is a great state and a crowded state where you have people on top of people. It is tough. We are bringing in some of the ventilators. We got some for new jersey just yesterday and we will bring them doctors andng nurses. We are getting doctors, nurses, and other respiratory support workers. We are taking people out of our military. We had been doing that and we are now doing it on a larger basis. I want to thank secretary of defense asper who will detail what we are doing. As the situation in Washington State continues to stabilize, we are returning a 300 bed federal medical station to a different location. We need it and we appreciate them letting us know. We will move it to a different location. Many governors made large requests for federal support for their state in anticipation of a greater number of cases but the residents of Washington State have done a really good job of following the federal distancing guidelines. They really have. I am also pleased to report that oregon will be spending and sending that they are spending a lot of money because they did stockpile well and they are sending 140 ventilators likely to new york which we appreciate. And i want to thank the Vice President for the great work he is doing every day dealing with our nations governors. Mike pence has been working day and night on this and we want to get it over. He has to get a little more sleep than he has been getting. He has not been getting much. We are all in this together. It is a beautiful thing to see how people are joining forces to help one another. They really are. In addition to our courageous doctors, nurses, and Health Care Workers, i also want to thank the incredible food supply workers who are feeding our nation. I spoke just a little while ago to senator bozeman, you know senator bozeman. We all do. He is a great senator. A great person. We spoke this morning and we discussed how important it is to keep our farmers and ranchers processes and distribution in place. A lot of the senators and congressmen and everyone everyone is working very hard. My administration is working very aggressively to pioneer new medical countermeasures to treat and prevent infection. We are working on a lot of things. We must utilize our nation scientific brilliance to vanquish the virus. We have to vanquish the virus as quickly as we camp. As quickly as we can. Because we have a lot of things happening in this country and we have a great future but we have to get back to work. The fda established this week the Coronavirus Treatment Accelerator Program which is expediting the development of new antiviral and other therapies and they are doing it on a very rapid basis. I think we are having some very good results. Hhs continues this speed the development of therapies derived from human blood that had the potential to lessen the severity or shorten the length of the illness. And as you know, last saturday, the fda also gave emergency authorization for hydroxy chloroquine. The hydroxychloroquine, i hope it will be a very important answer. We are having some very good things happening with it. We will be distributing it through the Strategic National stockpile. It is going into the Strategic National stockpile to treat certain patients. We have millions and millions of doses of it. 29 million to be exact and in addition to that, we are making it and we are also getting it from various other locations and countries. In one case, i called Prime Minister modi of india this morning and they make large amounts of hydroxychloroquine. Very large amounts, frankly. And i said they had a hold because they have 1. 5 Million People. They make a lot of it. I said i would appreciate if they would release the amounts that we ordered and they are giving it serious consideration. But india makes a lot of it. We have already 29 million if you look, that is a big number. 29 million doses. We have millions of doses being made here. And many millions of doses made elsewhere that are being shipped here and it will be arriving. We are just hearing really positive stories and we are continuing to collect the data. But, i will just speak for myself. It has been out for a long time. It is a malaria drug and it is a drug for lupus. There is a study out that people with lupus are not catching this horrible virus. They are not affected so much i it. By it. Maybe that is false. You will have to check it out. There are a lot of positive things happening with that. That is a game changer. We continue to work on the vaccines but they are down the road by 14, 15, 16 months. We are doing great on the vaccines. Johnson johnson seems to be leading in terms of the studies but we will see what happens. I feel good about that but that is down the road. Tremendous promise with what has just been mentioned. And in addition to that, Gilead Sciences has initiated a phrase a phase three, clinical studies of a drug. It is approximately 1000 patients which is a pretty good study. Other drugs are also being studied. This week, oracle, a Great Company donated a new web portal. Larry ellison, an amazing guy. And platform to the government to gather Realtime Data on how patients are responding to the various new treatments. They have a very sophisticated site we will be learning a lot from. Thank you to oracle. We are spending economic dollars like you would not believe and speeding Economic Relief to american workers, families, and businesses. Yesterday, the Small Business association launched the Paycheck Protection Program to help employers keep paying their employees. In 24 were and 24 hours, the Small Business administration and over 1200 Lending Partners processed over 28,000 loans. So far ahead of schedule. And billions and billions of dollars. It has worked out incredibly well. I want to thank bank of america and Jp Morgan Chase and a lot of the big banks that of and involved in a lot of the community banks. Community banks have really jumped on it. And so far, it is going way ahead of schedule. The sba also clarified that faithbased organizations including houses of worship are eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program. That is great. As well as the Economic InjuryDisaster Loan Program that you are familiar with. On the same terms as every other applicant. If we run out of funding for the Employee Retention program, i will immediately ask congress for more money. This is money really going directly to the people that need it. The Small Businesses and workers that need it. When we opened, we want to open strong. With businesses that are going. Remember, we had the greatest economy in the world and in one day, we were told to shut it down, stop it, tell everyone to stay home because