We initiate ad air bridge that the president announced yesterday. Flights arrived in new york. One arrived in illinois yesterday and a flight will arrive in ohio in the next 24 hours. Fema is literally working and contracting around the world with now more than 51 flights that well be bringing vital medical supplies. On the subject of ventilators, fema is currently delivering 400 ventilators to michigan, 300 to new jersey, 150 to louisiana, 50 ventilators to connecticut and in the last week and in the week ahead more than 450 ventilators to illinois. This is in addition to more than 4400 ventilators that the president and fema directed to the state of new york. We just want people that are working on the front lines that the president just spoke about, dr. Birx and dr. Fauci spoke about, we want you to know help is on the way and at the president s direction well leave no stone unturned anywhere in america or anywhere in the world to make sure that you have the resources and the equipment to do your job. So again, i want to say thank you, america, thank you for stepping up, thank you for putting into practice the 15 days to slow the spread and thank you, for the response of tens of millions have already had for the 30 days to slow the spread. We encourage each one of you as we have governors around the country to spread the word about the guidelines. Listen to your state and local authorities in areas that are more greatly impacted. We continue to urge people in the areas of new york, new jersey and connecticut to refrain from travel around the country and people who traveled from that area check your temperature and selfquarantine for 14 days. You can see from that chart the unique challenges people in the Greater New York city area are facing, with the coronavirus and we want to do all we can to protect your health, focus resources and the community and prevent unnecessary spread. Lastly as the president highlighted yesterday, businesses around america are stepping up as never before. Tomorrow ill travel with secretary sonny perdue to goard sonsville, virginia, to the Walmart Distribution Center so the American People can see firsthand how the food supply continuing to roll on 18 wheels and airfreight all over america. We thank you again to Grocery Store operators in america, every one working on the highways and byways keeping food supply rolling and rolling strong. To the American People we want to assure you well continue to work our hearts out, work our hearts out that to make sure Health Care Providers have everything they need and anyone struggling with the coronavirus have the support and health care they need and im absolutely confident to see way the governors are responding and see the team the president has assembled and Coronavirus Task force, confident of the prayers of the American People that well get through this but it will take all of us doing our part and well get through it together. Reporter just to be clear what is the projected death toll if people are reasonably good following the mitigation measures . If theyre reasonably good i guess i could say, i would like dr. Fauci and deb come up and say. I would have numbers. I would rather have them say the numbers, if you dont mind. Big question. So of course this is a projection, and it is a projection based on using very much whats happened in italy and then looking at all the models and so as you saw in that slide, that was our real number, about 100,000 to 200,000. And we think that is the range. We, we really believe and hope every day we can do a lot better than that, because thats not assuming 100 of every american does everything that theyre supposed to be doing but i think thats possible. Reporter over the next two weeks you said, next two weeks will be very painful. Is the bulk will happen over next two weeks . You an upslope as mortality, fatalities to this disease will increase and then it will come back down and it will come back down slower than the rate which i went up. So thats, that is, really the issue, how, how much we can push the mortality down. So our hope is to get that down as as far as we possibly can. The modeling that dr. Birx showed predicts that number that you saw. We dont accept that number, that that is what it is going to be. Were going to be doing everything we can to get it even significantly below that. So you know, i dont want it to be a mixed message. This is the thing we need to anticipate but that doesnt mean that that is what were going to accept. We want to do much, much better than that. Reporter doctor, when you look at the curve it goes much further in time. So we would have deaths and cases for much longer, i mean we do look at slide number two. So that is a generic go back to the slides and put up slide two. Okay. So what i should you was a generic picture of what happens in an epidemic. When you mitigate. So no mitigation, mitigate. This is based on the experience around the globe with this particular virus. And so, it does have a tail. But the peak, you can see by this projection, and this is the ihme data, the peak is over the next two weeks and that is, this is tracking mortality. So the number of fatalities from this virus. So thats the part that we think we can still blunt through the superb medical care that every client is receiving but also, even more stringent, people following the guidelines. Reporter i cant see the small are we seeing this until june . I cant really this is june. This is june. Reporter would still see problems and thats in june . It is a projection. Reporter it a projection of course. Getting back to what i said about the step wise things, deaths always lag. So you will be seeing deaths at a time when as an epidemic were doing really, really well because the deaths will lag. Reporter dr. Fauci, should americans be prepared for the likelihood there will be 100,000 americans who die from this virus . The answer is yes, as sobering a number as that is, we should be prepared for it. Is it going to be that much . I hope not and i think the more we push on the mitigation, the less likelihood it would be that number but as being realistic, we need to prepare orselves that is a possibility that is a possibility. Reporter very short period of time of time to happen. Right. Reporter can the country handle that within short period of time of, couple months, 50,000 a month . 2 will be difficult. No one is denying the fact were going through a very, very difficult time right now. Were seeing what is happening in new york. That is really, really tough and if you extrapolate that to the nation, that will be really tough but thats what it is, jim. Well have to be prepared for that. I think because the model, that model that was from ihme, thats based and heavily ladened by the data that come in from new york, new jersey and connecticut. You know that can skew to a higher peak and more significant mortality. If all of the other states are able, and all the other metro areas are able to hold that case number down, then it is a very different picture but you have to predict on the data you have, which is heavily skewed to new york and new jersey. Reporter one other thing getting back to that, that is a important slide that dr. Birx showed. The cluster of other cities that are not new york and not new jersey. If we can suppress that from any kind of a spike, the numbers could be significantly lower than what were talking about. Reporter some cities are not following these guidelines . That is the reason, my plea at the end of my remarks, jim, that now is the time to put your foot on the accelerator because that is the only thing that will stop those peaks. Some of the cities are doing very well, we should say very well at this early stage but the number, doctor said, 100,000, number between 100,000 and 200,000, maybe even slightly more but we would hope that we could keep that. Can we have the next slide, the slide after that. Go one more slide. Perfect, yeah. Reporter would you tell cities that arent doing what, you know, new york, new jersey, washington, you know the cities that have been taking charge in all of this, would you urge some cities havent been doing this, mr. President , to get with the program . I would, but you see new york, i believe dealing with new york. New york is having a much harder time than other of the cities, certain cities are doing actually, we look down here, incredible job. They were early. They were very, very firm and they have done an incredible job. This is new jersey, new york. This is remember, california, Washington State were down here. They had some of the earliest cases. Reporter were seeing places in florida not doing what new york and new jersey had been doing with what Washington State has been doing. Doing very well in comparison yes, john . Reporter mr. President a question to you and dr. Fauci as well. We, you told us yesterday that your, the u. S. Accomplishing 100,000 tests per day but were still hearing difficult stories from the front lines of firstresponders that you praise so appropriately a little while ago, they cant test all of the people that they need to test. Do you have any kind of projection as to when everyone who needs a test will be able to receive one . I can only say were doing more than anybody in the world by far. We are testing, highly accurate tests. These are tests that work. As you know many tests are being sent to countries and theyre broken. Reporter note enough every day we get, and the word is exponential, were getting more and more and more, now we have the new test that you saw yesterday. That is going to be rolled out i think tomorrow or the next day. And that is going to take only a few minutes, literally a few minutes to see the result and it is a highly accurate result. I mean tests were given out not by us, by other countries where there was 50 50 chance it was wrong. What kind of a test was that . These are highly accurate tests but the new tests coming out are very quick and they were just developed. Abbott labs did the one yesterday. So were doing more than anybody in the world by far and theyre very accurate tests and were getting a lot of information from those tests. The tests the president unveiled yesterday, the Abbott Laboratories test which is a 15 minute test, our team is working very closely with admiral gerard and fema to make sure those are distributed around the country. Earlier this week Abbott Laboratories will be producing 50,000 tests a day and distributing those around america. There is already the machines in some 18,000 different locations around the country, and they have told us they have several thousand on the shelf now and what were doing is trying to identify the areas where we may yet have pockets, or, as dr. Birx often says we want to do what is called surveillance testing to identify where there may be coronavirus cases where there has been very little incident. But if i can just amplify one other point, that is, when you look at this chart, go back 15 days and reality is, that, this is me speaking as a layperson, but as i have listened to our experts, new york, Greater New York city area have unique challenges. It is a city we really believe may have had exposure to the coronavirus much earlier on than we could have known and had its own challenges. In new york, connecticut, new jersey, are leaning into this effort but, when we look at this chart for all the other states, including Washington State and california, it really does give evidence that at least, it begins to give evidence that the 15 days to slow the spread is working and that in fact the American People are putting these things into practice in states across the country, including in new york and new jersey, even though they have faced a greater magnitude of cases for certain circumstances that are related to International Travel and those communities. But Reporter National shelter in place i think, American People, what im suggesting to you, jim, the American People can look at numbers in other 48 states and they can see in the last 15 days, the president s coronavirus guidelines were working and that is precisely why President Trump is asking every american to continue to put these guidelines into practice for 30 more days. Follow up on testing . Reporter if i corks so right now were at about 4,000 deaths here in the United States. Youre suggesting a spike of more than 90,000 deaths over the next few weeks. Do you have a demographic break down of areas most at risk and where most of those deaths would occur . Well right now, and i think if you asked chris murray, he would say, he is using the information coming out of new york and new jersey and applying that to potentially other states having the same outcome. I just want to say, again, this yellow line, the yellow line, this is all corrected for 100,000 residents. So this is normalized so we can compare apples to apples. This is still Washington State. This yellow. So they have been able to, for a long time of measuring cases not have a spike. So its possible and were watching very closely to make sure it doesnt have a spike. But thats what the people in Washington State are doing. This is what every community so Washington State early, about two weeks before new york or new jersey. California a week before new york or new jersey. Really talked to their communities and decided to mitigate before they started seeing this number of cases and now we know that makes a big difference. Early, as dr. Fauci said, if you wait until you see it, it is too late. Reporter you have a demographic breakdown, dr. Birx, where these deaths may occur . There is a demographic breakdown that weve discussed before related to mortality and it is as were seeing in new york exactly what we saw in italy. Very low mortality not to say, that young people under 30 or young people under 40 are not getting ill, they are, but most of them are recovering. So profile looks identical to italy with increasing mortality with age and preexisting medical conditions. And so that is holding in the same way. But what were hoping is, that through the work of communities and again it comes down to communities. This is not, this is communities deciding that this is important to them, to not have the experience of new york and new jersey. And i think, you know, we are worried about groups all around the globe. I dont know if you heard the report this morning, there are 8,000 ventilators in the uk. If you translate that to the United States, that would be like the United States having less than 40,000 ventilators. We have five times that amount. So i mean these are the things that everybody is having to face and i think the United States is in an excellent position from our medical care position but we dont want to have to test that system. We want this to be a much smaller epidemic with much smaller mortality. Reporter follow on the testing question real quick before we move on . So the testing numbers, i understand a million tests done. A big increase but we were told there would be 27 million tests available by the end of the month. So, can you outline where in the supply chain, where in the logistics chain are those other 26, where are the other 26 million tests right now . I think this is, just for purposes of clarifications, there is a difference between sending a test that can be administered to a test being done and, because a month ago, or more, the president brought together the top commercial labs in america and said we need you to partner with us to create a brand new system that would rapidly process tests. Were now at 1. 1 million tests and we believe it is a Fair Assessment were testing 100,000 americans a day. That will continue to grow. It will continue to accelerate but i think the misunderstanding early on was, there were many tests being distributed, many test kits being sent but under the old system, as the president s described it, antiquated system, those were being processed in state labs or at cdc or in private labs on a very slow, methodical, system that could only produce maybe 30 to 50 test as day. But this new partnership that we have with commercial laboratories allows the progress were making but the breakthrough with Abbott Laboratories now moves to point of care, which means youre going to have devices and tests that people will literally be able to take at their Doctors Office at a hospital, at a clinic at a nursing home and have the results in 15 minutes. Reporter the 26 million tests we were talking about, were those tests under the old, antiquated system . Yes. Reporter and now, are we still using those, those 27 million tests or have we completely moved on the answer is yes, to the new system. Even today, which is, i have to say, coming out of rab laboratories, developed tests, worked on vaccines and gone on to fight epidemics it is disappointing to me we have 500,000 capacity of abbott tests not being utilized. Theyre out, theyre in the states, theyre not being run and not utilized. Now we have to figure out how we create a awareness. Sometimes you put early platform out, the first plat orme out high speed was roche, you put that out, people get dependent on that, dont see there is availability of tests, right now half a million tests sitting capacity, not being utilized. Were trying to figure out how do we inform states about where these all are . How do we work through every Laboratory Association so theyre aware . How do we raise awareness so people know there is point of care, there is thermofisher, there is abbott testing and there is roche, and if you add those together that is millions of test as week. Reporter not being reported. Theyre not being reported. Or not even being used. That is what is really, what were working on . Reporter [inaudible] because when people get used to have a single platform they keep sending it back to that lab, away to get on a roche machine, rather being moved to the other lab that may have abbott