Transcripts For CSPAN White House Coronavirus Task Force Bri

Transcripts For CSPAN White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing 20240713

Been. We have marshaled every instrument of American Power and we have unleashed our most potent weapon of all, the courage of the American People. These have been trying times. A cruel virus from a distant land has unfairly claimed thousands of precious american lives. To every citizen that has lost a cherished loved one, your pain is our pain. We mourn as one national family. Our country has come together. We draw solace from the faith that god has received the departed. He has taken the departed into his eternal and loving embrace. They will never be forgotten. Over the last weeks and months, millions of americans have joined together in a shared national sacrifice to halt the spread of this horrible disease. The army built field hospitals in sports arenas and convention centers. The army corps of engineers is great. Over 20,000 beds in record time. The navy sailed hospital ships to our biggest cities. Lifesaving supplies and experimental medicines were rushed to the front lines as we launched a rapid search for groundbreaking treatments and vaccines. We built the most advanced and robust testing anywhere in the world. And we have done more testing than any country. Anywhere in the world. We suspended dangerous foreign travel. We leveraged our Industrial Base to produce vast quantities of critical medical gear and enacted a historic 2 trillion relief package. Through it all, we have seen the heroism of our doctors and nurses like never before. They are our warriors. Such bravery from our Truck Drivers and food suppliers. Incredible bravery. And the determination and drive of our citizens. Through this unified national endeavor, we have made great progress. You could really say incredible progress. Our experts and scientists report that our strategy to slow the spread has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Models predicted between 1. 5 million and 2. 2 million u. S. Deaths. If there was no mitigation, it could even have been higher than that. Between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths with mitigation. It is looking likely will, far under even the slowest numbers. Thanks to our all out military operation and the extraordinary devotion of our people, we believe we will experience far fewer deaths than even the optimistic projection. There is no such thing as an optimistic projection on death. One person is too many. Our experts say the curve has flattened and the peak in new cases is behind us. Nationwide, more than 850 counties or nearly 30 of our country have reported no new cases in the last seven days. Because of our early and aggressive action, we have avoided the tragedy of deadly shortfall that have befallen many other nations. , whereverich possible, we are helping. In america no person that is , needed a ventilator in america has been denied a ventilator. We are making hundreds of thousands of ventilators. We have delivered thousands and thousands of ventilators to the states. And actually, it has been an incredible operation. We started with very little and we ended with a lot. The United States has achieved a significant lower mortality rate than almost all other countries. Based on the latest data, our team of experts agree we can begin the next front in our war which we are calling opening up , america again. And that is what we are doing. Opening up our country. And we have to do that. America wants to be open. And americans want to be open. As i have said for some time now, a National Shutdown is not a sustainable longterm solution. To preserve the health of our citizens, we must also preserve the health and functioning of our economy. Over the long haul, you cannot do one without the other. It cannot be done. To keep vital supply chains running, the chains have to be taken care of so delicately. They are delicate. Their balance is delicate. We want to deliver food and medical supplies and you must have a working economy. And we want to get it back, very, very quickly. And that is what is going to happen. I believe it will boom. A prolonged lockdown combined with a forest economic depression will have inflicted an amends and wide ranging toll on Health Including drug abuse, alcohol abuse, suicide, heart disease, and many other dimensions of physical and mental wellbeing. Moreover, many patients have put needed medical care on hold creating entirely new hazards for Public Health. Our country has suffered. The world has suffered. 184 other countries have suffered. Therefore, my administration is issuing new federal guidelines that will allow governors to take a phased and delivered deliberate approach to reopening their individual states. I have dealt with them now a long time. And we have had a great relationship. Democrat, republican, the relationship has been good. This strategy is based on hard, verifiable data. I want to thank dr. Birx for her incredible leadership and drafting these guidelines in consultation with scientists, experts, and medical professionals across government. She will explain the guidelines and more details in a few moment and dr. Fauci has been absolutely terrific. We have all worked together and we have worked together well. They are interested in the health of our country and we are all interested in the viability in making us truly great again. We took the greatest economy in the history of the world and we closed it in order to win this war. And we are in the process of winning it now. Our approach outlined three phases in restoring our Economic Life and we are not opening all at once. But one careful step at a time. In some states, we will be able to open up sooner than other states. Some states are not in the kind of trouble that others are in. Now that we have passed the peak in new cases, we are starting our life again. We are starting rejuvenation of our economy again. In a safe and structured and a very responsible fashion. Our strategy will continue to protect Senior Citizens and other vulnerable populations while allowing military and other groups of incredibly talented people to go about their real business and the business that is supposed to be hard at work at doing and know nobody does it better. Our military is the greatest anywhere in the world and we are so all for what they have done. Healthy americans will now be able to return to work as conditions on the ground allow. Instead of a blanket shutdown, we will pursue a focus on sheltering the highest risk individuals. So important. We are establishing clear, scientific metrics and benchmarks on testing. New case growth and Hospital Capacity that must be met before advancing to each phase. And that is each phase specifically in the reopening of our country. This is a gradual process as a caseload in a state continues to go down. Restrictions can continue to be eased and come off. Throw the process, citizens will be called upon to use all of their weapons in this war. Vigorous hygiene. Teleworking when possible. Staying at home if you feel sick. Maintaining social distance. Sanitizing commonly used services. And being highly conscious of their surroundings. Those are our weapons and they are very powerful weapons indeed. Governors will be empowered to tailor an approach that needs the diverse circumstances of their own states. Every state is very different. They are all beautiful. We love them all but they are all very different. If they need to remain closed, we will allow them to do that and if they believe it is time to reopen, we will provide them the freedom and guidance to accomplish that task and very, very quickly. Depending on what they want to do. We are also encouraging states to Work Together to harmonize their regional efforts. We will have numerous cases where states have worked and will be working very, very closely together. As we reopen, we know there will be continued hardships and challenges ahead. Our goal will be to quickly identify and address any outbreaks and put them out rapidly. If the virus returns in the fall, as some scientists think it may, possibly, these guidelines will ensure that our country is up and running so that we can likewise put it out quickly. At the heart of our strategy is the vital role of medical research especially for therapies that will significantly improve outcomes for highrisk patients and reduce the need for urgent care. This will be tremendously valuable in allowing life to return to normal. At least 35 Clinical Trials are already underway, including antiviral therapies autoimmune , therapies in the form of convalescent plasma. You have all heard about some of these events and some of these therapies. They have come a long way. What has been done in the last four weeks is incredible. We will also expand our Testing Capacity. We have now completed 3. 5 million tests, by far the most anywhere in the world. Areas of our country that have been hotspots have done much more testing on a per capita than south korea. We have done more than south korea and south korea has done a good job but we have done more. We will continue to work with governors to advise them on how to conduct both surveillance and diagnostic testing. We have now distributed more than 600,000 point of care diagnostic tests. These are tests done on site and within five minutes you know the answer. Positive or negative. In recent days, we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of tests performed by hospitals and academic institutions with more than 120,000 tests recently reported in a single day. Far more than any country in the world has ever been able to do. And our numbers are actually going up. As these new and better Testing Solutions come online, we are seeing this additional capacity reflected in the numbers. For this reason, the number of tests processed in commercial laboratories has dropped from approximately 100,000 to 75,000 tests in the last week. The reason it dropped is because we have so many other tests and we do not need to go through the laboratories. Laboratories have additional capacity and states feel free to use that capacity. Some in the media falsely reported this as a bad thing when in fact it is a great thing because it indicates that the states are moving to faster, more local Testing Solutions including on the spot tests. The drop in the utilization of commercial laboratories is an affirmation that testing, which is at an alltime high, is growing at a historic rate. In other words, the laboratories are great but now, we have forms of testing that are much quicker, much better, and we dont have to use the laboratories but they are there and they have a great capacity to do the work. As dr. Birx has been advising our governor for weeks, we continue to have an access in the capacity of our testing and our capabilities are growing every day especially with the new test coming onto the market rapidly. As we begin a sciencebased reopening, we must be extra vigilant in blocking the foreign entry of the virus from abroad. Border control, travel restrictions, and other limitations on entry are more important than ever to keep the virus then check and allow americans to get back to work. The sacrifices our citizens have made in this time of crisis will be remembered, studied, honored, and praised for generations to come. We really are all working together. Democrat, republican, conservative, liberal all working together. This is not about parties. This is about our country. Now, the American People are ready to rise to the occasion once again. They are ready to show the world once more that americans can defeat any challenger. Together, we will rebuild this land that we love. We will reclaim the magnificent destiny that we share and we will carry our nation forward to new heights of greatness and glory. I would now like to ask Vice President mike pence and dr. Burx to further explain the new guidelines. I would like to thank dr. Burx, dr. Fauci, and i would like to thank really a specially a man who has devoted 24 hours a day to his task force and done such an incredible job, our great Vice President , mike pence. Mike . V. P. Pence thank you, mr. President. The members of the White House Coronavirus task force joined the president to meet with a Bipartisan Group of members of the house and of the senate to get their counsel on the development of what the president unveiled to americas governors this afternoon. The new guidelines for opening up america again are a product of the best science and common sense that the president has marshaled on his team and from a broad range of advisors from all across the nation. From the moment president established the White House Coronavirus task force early on, he made it clear that we have no higher priority than the health and safety of the American People. The president launched a wholeofgovernment approach. While we stand here on this day with more than 640 thousand americans having contracted the coronavirus, and our hearts go out to the families of the more than 31,000 americans who lost their lives and those that continue to struggle with serious consequences of the coronavirus, the truth is that because of the Decisive Action that our president took early on suspending travel from china and thereafter from portions of europe, south korea, screening passengers. Because of the strong actions in partnership with every governor across america, because of the extraordinary efforts of Americas Health care workers on the front lines, and because of the cooperation of the American People and gods grace, we are slowing the spread. We are flattening the curve. We have preserved the capacity of our Health Care System and we have protected the most honorable. In a word, because of the actions of this president , of this administration, governors at every level, our healthcare workers, and our fellow americans, we have saved lives and every american should be comforted by that. And we can see it in the numbers. In the charts that i will present today, these three maps track influenza like illness which, in this instance, is mostly coronavirus, across america. The first map reflects the total number of cases on the week ending march 28. The next map reflects our data about the total number of cases on the week ending april 4. And we stand here today with the final map reflecting the total number of cases across america as of april 11. With these trends underway, President Trump asked the White House Coronavirus task force to develop new guidelines for opening up america again. Those guidelines were presented today first to our nations governors. And it is our intention at the president s direction to provide these guidelines to assist governors and state Health Officials in evaluating the most responsible manner to reopen the economies of their states at a time and manner of their choosing. The guidelines as americans who are looking on will note begin with what is the best criteria that our experts have developed. A downward trajectory and cases over a 14 day period of time. Ensuring that states have proper capacity and their Health Care System. The second set of proposals includes a description of recommendations for state preparedness. And let me say to the American People what President Trump made clear to our governors today. Our administration will continue to work day in and day out through our task force, and through fema to ensure that our states have not only the medical supplies but that we continue to rapidly expand testing across the nation. The president reflected on the progress we have made on testing but a few statistics for that as well which i hope are an encouragement for the American People. On march 11, we performed a total of 23,588 tests. Because of the partnership across the country, that number was 83,500 march 18. As the president just said, that number is 3. 5 million today. It is our expectation we will have tested more than 5 million before the end of april. And we will continue to scale those resources. So testing and medical supplies will continue to be an Ongoing Partnership with the state and we want our Health Care Workers and people across the country to know of our commitment that. Our commitment to that. Finally, we have proposed a phased approach to reopening our economy based on uptodate data and readiness. We will continue to provide the very best data to our states, working with their Health Officials. The focus is on the mitigation of any risk of resurgence. Emergence of the coronavirus in states where it has not yet emerged. There is a focus in the new guidelines on the most vulnerable and we made this very clear today, these new guidelines for opening up america again can be implement implemented on a statewide or a county by county basis. With that, i am happy to turn it over to dr. Birx. If i may, i would like to extend my admiration and appreciation to dr. Birx dr. Fauci, and every , member who worked aroundtheclock. I know every american is grateful for your leadership and for theirs. Thank you, mr. President and mr. Vice president. We will go through these quickly as i know you have them and many have already spoken on television. Next slide please. This is a very important slide. It talks about gatekeeping criteria to moving into phase one. It is very much related to influenzalike illness we have the United States has been tracking these illnesses through controlers for disease for years. Both state and county Health Officials are used to watching it, and frankly, every family around the not its around the United States knows how to access thi

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