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FBC The Evening Edit July 13, 2024

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 chain issues and in recent weeks he has been leading a working group in conjunction with fema that literally identified millions of medical supplies around the nation and around the world and were grateful for his efforts and his leadership. Finally you will hear from Peter Navarro who will explain the action the president took today using the defense production act. But as you hear details today about medical supplies that have been distributed, those that have been purchased, those that were making available, ventilators distributed to hospitals, those that are available, let me remind every american every patient, doctor, nurse, every have protective gear you want your family to have putting in practice the president s 30 days to slow the spread. We want you to take to heart the president coronavirus guidelines for america. First to protect the health of your family, protect the health much your community. So many people are asymptomatic, people literally dont know have the coronavirus but the ability to infect others. We want you to put guidelines in practice, social distancing, using a drivethrough at restaurant, washing your hand on a regular basis but as we focus today on supplies make no mistake about it, every american can make sure that our Health Care Workers and more importantly americans that are struggling with coronavirus have the equipment the equipment to support their treatment by putting these principles into practice because fewer americans that contract the coronavirus, the fewer americans will have to enter our Health Care System and that will continue to preserve the capacity in our health care economy. So we thank the millions of americans who have responded in the first two days of 30 days to slow the spread and im just absolutely confident that in the days ahead every american is going to do their part, for your health, your familys health, the health of your community and to insure the strength and vitality of the greatest Health Care System in the world. With that let me introduce, Jared Kushner to speak about the work that he has been doing, working with fema on insuring a strong supply chain to meet this moment. Jared . Thank you, mr. Vice president ability thank you for your leadership on the task force. When the Vice President asked me to help on the task force with different tasks i asked the president what he expected from the tack force around i how i could best serve him and the task force. What the president asked all the recommendations that we make based on data. He wanted us to make sure we were rigorous studying data, collecting data. A lot of things in this country were happening very quickly. We wanted to make sure we were updating our models and make sure we were making informed decisions and informed recommendations to him based on the data we were able to collect and put together. The president wanted to make sure we had the best people doing the best jobs and making sure we had the right people focused on all the things that needed to happen to make sure we can deliver in these unusual times for the american people. The president also instructed me to make sure that i break down every barrier needed to make sure that the teams can succeed. This is an effort where the government is doing things that the government doesnt normally do. Were stretching, were acting very quickly and the president wants to make sure the white house is fully behind the different people running the different lines of effort to make sure that we get everything done in a speed that the president demand. The president also wanted us to make sure we wanted to think outside of the box. Make sure were finding all the best thinkers in the country, make sure were getting best ideas and were doing Everything Possible to make sure we keep americans safe and make sure we bring a quick end to this in the best way possible and balance all the different aspects that need to be thought of while we do this. This truly is a historic challenge. We have not even Something Like this in a very, very long time. I am very confident that by bringing Innovative Solutions to these hard problems we will make progress. Today we are briefing the president earlier. He asked me to come out talk a little bit what were doing on the supply Chain Task Force which admiral polcyk is leading what he has been very impressed by, resourceful to find product all over the world, all over the country and we are finding ways to solve different problems. The president is very hands on in this. He instructed us to leave no stone unturned. Just this very early this morning i got a call from the president. He was telling me was hearing from friends in new york, that the new york Public Hospital system was running low on critical supply. He instructed me this morning. I called dr. Katz who runs the system, asked him which supply was the most supply he was nervous about, he told me n95 masks. I asked him what sis daily burn was. Called up admiral and made sure we hatted inventory, went to the president today and president called mayor de blasio to fin form him we will send a month of supply to the new york Public Hospital system make sure workers on front line rest assured they have the n95 masks they need to get you there next month. Well do similar things with all the Public Hospitals in the hot spot zones and making sure were constantly in communications with the local communities. One thing i will say just based on data, weve been getting a lot of data from different governors an from different mayors and different cities. One thing weve seen fema do very well over the last week or so were getting Real Time Data from a lot of cities. People who have requests for different products and supply, a lot are doing it based on projections which are not realistic projections. The projections change every day as we see cases, see the i am packs of stop the spread effort that the task force recommended and president has been pushing forward. So i do think well see that, hopefully will be impact of that. The task force is working very hard through the fema group with admiral polcyk make schur were getting supplies to people before they run out and make sure were doing it the proper way. I would like to introduce admiral polcyk. Coming to this, still us, vice director of logistics. I called a senator, why dont you put a great military person in charge of the supply chain and product act, i said president already did. He joined the task force 13 days ago over at fema. He built a team really at direction ever the Vice President that includes people from people marks omb, the fda, hhs, the white house, from everywhere else. What they have done over the last 13 days has been really extraordinary. Weve done things that the government has never done before quicker than they ever done it before. What were seeing now we found a lot of supplies in the country. Were distributing them where we anticipate there will be needs and make sure we are hitting places where there are needs. I can tell you the people in the task force, theyre working day and night. You have a lot of people in the government. We recognize the challenge america faces right now. We know what a lot of people on front lines are facing. The fear they want to have the supplies they need and our goal is to work as hard as we can to make sure we dont let them down. I want to thank everybody. I want to introduced admiral polcyk who is doing amazing job. Thank you, mr. Kushner, mr. Vice president. Today im going to cover a couple items, couple, five things. First thing i will talk about is resources pushed out from the federal government. Then im going to talk about this air bridge which you may have heard about. I will talk about data. As you said were, mr. Kushner, absolutely right. Were trying to be data driven. I will talk a little bit about how were trying to expand the Industrial Base here to meet this challenge. So the first thing i want to talk about is surgical masks. So weve all quickly stated numbers here. So these, im about to go through several different slides to give you just scale and magnitude of federal resources that have been applied at the problem. So, 27. 1 million surgical masks pushed out to state governments. For n95 masks. 19. 5 million n95 masks. So if i was, if i was in a local hospital that was running short i would, i would look upward because the federal government has pushed out resources. So for protective gloves, 22. 4 million, 22. 4 million pairs of protective gloves. For face shields, 5. 2 million face shields. For ventilators, we have pushed to the states, more than 7600 ventilators. I think as i was coming over here that number changed slightly. I think it is now 7640. Given to these states, to predominantly these states. So we wanted you to have some numbers. Now as weve indicated, we have ventilators in the national stockpile. We pushed ventilators out. Were holding ventilators to put to the point of need but were also buying ventilators. Asking the Industrial Base who produces approximately, prior to covid, approximately 30,000 ventilators a year. We are going over the next several months, by the end of june, work to acquire 100,000. And so one of the, one of the tools that were going to anticipate needing, we already executed is all of those vendors that were buying them from will need potentially will need help in their supply chains with their suppliers. We might rate orders, we might help them get ahead of others and in that endeavor. Mr. Navarro will talk a little bit more about that later. Let me talk about the air bridge so, normally it takes approximately 37 days to get from overseas, the product, load it, get it to the United States and distribute it. That is about 37 days. So to prime the pump so to speak we have lined on an airbridge to get product here faster, working with our major suppliers, as they, as they work to fill orders to get more to Health Care Workers now. We are working to align transportation to product. Now one of the things were also doing is the team working for me is scouring the globe and finding pockets of personal protective equipment that might not otherwise be in the u. S. Hospital supply chain. That is also going on these flights. Six completed. And a number scheduled. 28 flights scheduled here in the near future. Were working towards some days well have one flight. Some days there might be two flights, multiple flights over the next coming days. These 28 are as far as i can see out a couple weeks. Then again matching product, two flights, to create volume in the supply chain here faster than the 37 days. Im just going to leave that up as i talk about a few other items. So lets talk about new york city and the Public Health hospitals. I believe theyre called new York City Health and hospitals. President directed, as i speak, there are pallets being formed, truck being loaded. I gave a, an address in new york city here an hour or two ago and one of our distributors is making that happen and that delivery will happen tomorrow. On the data front this is almost unprecedented. This is a commercial supply chain with six to seven major distributors of health equipment. We brought them all in. And we said we, we need to make informed decisions and we are going to help make informed allocation decisions. So within a matter of days, feeding from their business systems, their enterprise resource like systems, i brought on board a tool, a supply chain tower that the dod was using to manage the supply chain for a very complex weapons system. Their data goes into a data link. We have a tool to be able to use their data and see it. I have can tell what products is coming in, what their orders are, what theyre filling, what theyre not filling and see the volume in the supply chain. Understand what theyre doing down to the county level. Were working to get it down to potentially the hospital level. So this 200 some odd n95 respirators, we took a look in there, in the supply chain. We have the volume too to go do that. I called the distributor and theyre making that happen. We anticipate as the hot spots around the country, we anticipate these vendors at our direction helping them allocate product to the right place at the right time. So if he talk finally about expanding the Industrial Base, so the Vice President was at walmart the other day who told him i want to get in this game, how do i do that . So i got the call. We provided them specifications and walmart is going to use their suppliers to cut fabric, make gowns, sew product. But that is not always the case. We have lots of folks that want to help. I believe you will see in the coming days the use of the defense production act in creative ways to help people that are not doing this today to do it. We have essentially leads, the number yesterday was 210. I believe it probably grew that we are working with, to find out how each one of those might need help to get in the game, thats not in the game to increase the throughput through the health care market. The president gave me one task, get more to our Health Care Workers now. And i took that to heart because i have, not that i dont need that from the president , that direction, to move out, but i have family in new york. My sister is a Nurse Practitioner in a westchester hospital. And my niece is a nurse on a long island hospital. And i have other Health Care Professionals in the family. So i have skin in this game. The president asked me to get more to the Health Care Workers, i will get more to Health Care Workers. Like to hand it over to mr. Navarro. Reporter [inaudible] the 200 is going out as we speak. Be very specific. It will be delivered tomorrow. Reporter ask a question, if i want to be clear, if i can what jared announced, what the admiral just unpacked pallets are being loaded right now to send 200,000 n95 masks to new york city, to the Public Health hospitals. To the Public Health warehouse in new york city. All the Health Care Workers, help is on the way. Reporter on the data you have available to you, where is the logjam . Where has it been, how have you identified that . We have millions more ppes going out the deer. As well know the front line are not getting any . I answer you this way. We put up a lot of numbers. I said if youre in a hospital, youre not seeing ppi, i would look up to the state level first. Reporter they cant get medical equipment they need. Reporter the reason for that, according to governors and also, by the fact we havent seen any numbers up there about what is going to the private sector, can you tell us what percentage of the supplies on these large cargo planes are going to private companies versus fema, versus the state, 50 . So fema so, this product that were move something primarily commercial product that would enter the commercial system and be distributed through financial business transactions between hospitals and these distributors. Reporter just to clarify, that explains why states say theyre bidding like theyre on ebay, because the supplies are going to the private sector, then they have to go there to get that is normally how things work, right . Im not here to disrupt a supply chain. Say look, these six distributors, six to seven, they have 6 to 700 warehouses. They have trucks to go to the hospital door every day. Were bringing product in. Theyre filling orders for hospitals, nursing homes, like normal. Im putting volume into that system. I would say that, we have the data now, so we put together this data element over the last, you know what, 13 days . Get the people in. Look at the problem. Build this. I am now seeing truth about whats in the supply chain and i would say that there has been some abnormal behavior, okay . Reporter thank you, admiral. House Oversight Committee democrat saying fema officials told them the ventilators the government ordered wont be ready until june, which is well after the expected peak. Will the defense production act memo signed today to do anything to speed that up . Yes it will. Mr. Navarro will talk about that. Were on line to receive several thousand ventilators in the month ever april. Several thousand more ventilators into the month of may, ramming up to a big number. Again going from a industry producing 30,000 annual, to a very big number. Reporter admiral, are you confident that the states with the greatest need are getting supply . Yes. Reporter a lot of are saying they cant get what they need and different states have more and more pressing urgency, depending on the caseload. We marry up, were marrying up where cdc, where the demand for covid is to whats in the commer

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