That is on top of hundreds of thousands of hospitals. In new york you built 2,000 hospitals, 900 beds, nobody say anything like it. Fortunately we have not had to use too many of them. That is okay. Probably better news than using them at all, right. A lot of good things are happening in new york and elsewhere. Through the Public Private partnerships and deregulation the federal government has made immense testing capabilities available but some states need to take action to fully out advertise it. To date the United States has conducted millions more tests than any other country. You can add them all up and they dont catch us. Our numbers are doubling certainly on a monthly basis, but almost on a weekly basis, were moving very rapidly, at a number nobody thought possible. Well double the number of daily tests that the governor brings states online through the capability they have. We have tremendous capability out there already existing and we explained that to the governor today, mike and all of the people explained it very strongly to the governors. They really get it now i think. As the experts have explained this capacity is sufficient to allow states to conduct diagnostic testing to treat patients as well as Contact Tracing to contain outbreaks and monitoring to pinpoint potential hot spots during phase one and there are some hot spots and we have them pinpointed and they can really cover it very, very nicely when they know exactly where to go and theyre being told where to go. Also these locations where theyre going. Some of them are federal. Some of the governors didnt realize they were allowed to use federal locations. They are. We have a booklet of the federal locations. We can hold it up. I think you show that. Okay, fine. But you see, number of things. Thanks. These are all locations where they can go, which is really pretty amazing. This is one page out of many. Over 5000. Look at this. These are all locations. 5000 locations. That is a lot of locations. And they can all, what is it, 5000 . 5000 pieces of equipment . So that is thank you, very much. That is more than anybody thought. But it is already there. They have to use it. That is all they have to use it. Somewhere very much aware. Some werent aware. My administration also continues to support states with our massive operation to deliver masks, gowns, gloves, other vital supplies. Admiral admiral admiral ad polo polowzyk. And theyre using data about supply changes, attract one billion pieces of protect tougher equipment through private distributors every two weeks. So what were doing is, were, were delivering a number no nobody anywhere in the world is delivering. Fema is working closely with dr. Burks and distributors to prioritize supply of resources where they are most needed. Were finding the location that they have to, they have to get to that location. We have locations very important to get to and get to them fast and that is where theyre going. So wee we have strong priority. This pandemic keeping vital supply chains at home. We cant outsource our independence. We cant rely on foreign nations. Ive been saying this for a long time. If we learned one thing, lets do it here, lets build it here, lets make it here. We have got the greatest country in the world. We have goat got to bring supply chains back. Somebody years ago had crazy idea make things all over the place. Screw for a car made in country far away and fender made someplace else, lets do this, lets do that, put it all together. I like making it right here in the usa. And i think we learned a lot about that, especially when it comes maybe to pharmaceutical products. We also conducted Major Military operations providing cities and states with additional medical capacity and the incredible 1hundred men and women from the army corps of engineers. You just met with todd. The job they have done is incredible. We have nurses, doctors, we have experts in every field. All over. I spoke with governor cuomo, spoke with mayor de blasio, spoke with many of the other governors that im both friendly i think i am friendly with just about all of them if you can believe it. I gotten friendly with a lot of them. I gained a lot of respect for a lot of the governors both republican and democrat during this process. Some really good people. Some really good talent. But were sending a lot of our medical people. Not only our construction people like todd semoonite. New york state, new jersey, i spoke with phil doing a, new jersey got hit very, very hard, phil murphy. The governor. We began a mobilization of colossal scale. Some day they will write the true story. Nobody has seen anything like it. The fake news refuss toes cover it correctly. That is okay. But the people are understanding and that is what matters to me. There are now 72 active trials underway across the United States researching dozens of therapies and treatments and another 211 are in the planning stages. Theyre getting, i mean theyre literally mobilizing on therapeutics and also on vaccines. Tremendous progress made on vaccines and i must say on therapeutics. Frankly if i had my choice give me the therapeutics right now because that would help people right now and we have some things that i think are working, not only working but we have some incredible things that look like they could be an answer but well know soon. Being tested, working out right now. This includes there are therapies designed to attack the virus as well as others that would hinder its replication, reduce the rate of infection, control the immune response or transfer lifesaving antibodies from the blood of recovered patients and one of the incredible things that weve seen and mike and i were talking about it before is the fact, often times somebody gets very ill from the plague, okay, from this horrible scourge and they get better and they recover, the first thing they say i want to give my blood. That has happened. The doctors told me it happened so much, i want to give my blood, i want to give my blood. And theyre doing that but tremendous things are happening. You will be seeing about, you will see that over the weeks, well be talking about it in the nottoodistant future. Johnson johnson is very well along on vaccines. Again the vaccines have to be tested. The therapeutics are for now but a lot of good things are happening on both but ultimately we hope to prevent infection through a safe, very safe vaccine and that i will was great thing when we have that. We will have that. So with that i would like to introduce admiral guar and brad smith to discuss some of the incredible things that have been done. We have, they really are, what they have been able to do in a very, very short period of time with, and equipment, youre going to see equipment that you havent seen before. And if you just come up, brad, if you guys would come up, give us a little display of some of the equipment we have and some of the things that are happening, having to do with testing because testing is a big word. Remember it was all ventilators. The reason it was all ventilators, they said there is no way will he catch this one. Not only did he catch it were the king of ventilators all over the world. We have thousands being made aweek and theyre very high quality and that was not playing well. Then they said testing, well get him on testing. Test something much easier than ventilators. Ventilators are big machines that are very complex and very expensive. You need real, real, you need a group of people that really know what theyre doing. We took auto lines and number of different people t used to be ventilators, ventilators, ventilators and now it is testing, testing, testing. I think the admiral, brad will show you some things you havent seen that are really very spectacular having to do with testing. Were way advanced, way advanced. The list i showed you, these are places you can go if youre in the states, 5000 machines, 5000, theyre all over the country. And we have international also but these are all over the country. But you will see something that is now really eye popping in terms of what they have done, and they have done this under great pressure. They have come up with things under great pressure that are absolutely amazing. So, please, if you would. Thank you, folks. Thank you, mr. President. I want to talk about a couple things today a little bit different than i have spoken about before. Since early march we have really been focusing on two key concepts for testing. Number one, to assure and expand supplies in the u. S. Market. This is really critical because were talking about a Cottage Industry with minimal suppliers we were something to supply over a twoweek period of time the normal production that woe be at least a year. A simple as a swab is, a swab is not a swab, is not a swab. We need to be careful when we put something in a person and tell them a test result that it is correct. We need to get sufficient supplies at fema. This is the fema process of asking and sending things out and supporting outbreaks. Starting many weeks ago, starting in my office many weeks ago we assemble ad multidoes minute nary team of really incredible people. The medical side of the equation i represent, laboratory side of the iaea equation, hightech side of the occasion, and logistics and operation and brad smith his day job is director of medicare, medicaid services. An incredibly important component of cms Health Care System but has done a incredible job operationally, logistically bringing everyone together. We have focused on every piece of the supply chain that relates to testing down to the most minute detail and he is going to talk to you about some of that. That started in the second week of march with starting an airlift because the only supplier, the main supplier of swabs at that time was a place in italy that was completely shut off because of the outbreak in italy. So admiral polowczyk got a plane to go to italy to bring back millions of swabs to secure. That is how it started and expanded since then. Were marrying the logistics this is the beauty, logistics and supply to the overall strategy. Two pieces of strategy. Number one, what is the overall testing strategy . Dr. Birx has had an elegant strategy in the past, even more important in the future when we make sure we take care of indigent populations and most popular. Clinical, Contact Tracing and monitoring of those who are at most risk. We also married it to the strategy you heard more than you know about, want the to know about it, small machine point of care is good for certain things but it will not test 5000 people over a short period of time. So the small machines, medium machines and large machines how to context allize them. The things thing before i give it to brad, it is really important and critical, coordinating the research, epidemiology and fda regulatory process and why is that so important . When we started five weeks ago if we wanted to test this many people with the technology we had we would have used about 80 of the Strategic National stockpile in ppe just to do testing. We needed an innovation that innovation was to be able to test out of the anterior nose with completely different swab. It sounds mundane, if you dont do that you cant get the testing to scale. That really allowed us to go to widespread testing, last week moving to polyester swabs will which open up, of new swabs on the market. That is regulatory science and innovation step that had to cocure with this. I will let brad talk about the the details he has shepherded over the weeks that has been amazing and special to me. Thank you, mr. President. Lifetime honor to be here and serving this way. Ive been under dr. Birxs and admiral giroris leadership to increase supply of testing over the United States. There are they parts you need to make the test work. First you need the machine, which dr. Birx will share more, the president spoke to. We have a very, very large number of those across the United States. It is about making sure were taking advantage of them. The second part of the testing is making sure that we have the collection supplies to actually be able to collect the specimen and i will talk a little bit more about that. And the third part is making sure you have the materials you need to the support the machine to insure that you can actually process the test once it gets to the lab. I will let dr. Birx talk more about the machines here in a second but as you will see across the United States we have a tremendous number. They arrange in variety. We have some very small machines that do point of care testing. They may do 50, 100 tests a day. We also have other very large machines that can do several thousand, can process several thousand tests a day. On the collection supply piece i will talk a couple of different kind of collection that can be done. For nucleic acid test, done today, you generally need a swab of the nose. To do that you need the swab, the collection tube and you also need the transport media it can be transported in. We have a large, very large number of swabs already in the country but we have secured an additional 30 million in production that will be ramping up over the next several weeks. One company, located in the northeast were going to be using title 3 of the dpa to help them build four new production lines. They are currently the largest swab producer in the country and this will help them ramp up their production tremendously to over 20 million additional swab as month. A Second Company located in ohio is currently the largest cuetip maker in the country. Were helping them convert the line from making cuetips into making swabs. Theyre actually ramping up production this week of starting swabs and will ramp up to 10 million per month n total that is over 30 million new swabs that will be coming just over the next handful of weeks. The second piece is on the collection tubes. The collection tubes weve been partnering with Oak Ridge National lab, department of energy lab based in tennessee. They have very unique and sophisticated injection molding, manufacturing capability and they are in the process of ramping you that up to make collection tubes. They will ramp up to 40 million collection tubes a month over next several weeks. In addition to swabses we believe as testing progresses there will be serological testing that occurs. Those samples have to be collected in different ways. Many times those tests require a finger prick. We procured 17 million lances you use for the finger prick and 17 million alcohol swabs you need to clean the finger before you do the finger prick. In addition, although folks are not talking much about this, we also believe businesses may want thermometers to test folks to come into the office. We secured over 650,000 infrared thermometers, states and businesses can access to test folks as they come into work. We made tremendous progress on the collection side. In addition to the collection side, weve been focused insuring labs have what they need to process a specimen in a lab. You really need two things, you need something called an extraction kit and you need something called a pcr test. In order to be able to fully process a test you need both of these things. Sometimes these things come together and sometimes they come separate. For some of our point of care tests including the abbott and cepheid tests they are ramping up to 3 million per month. These tests did not exist even a month ago. The second part of the test they sell complex cartridges that come together. One of the big manufacturers of that ramped up production from 1. 6 million a month to more than twice that already. That already occurred. In addition to when they come together they also sometimes come separate. We see significant ramping up and production from our manufacturers to the Public Private partnerships and were seeing both several million more of next few weeks of rna extraction kit as well as the pcr test kit. So with that, thank you. Mike, please. Thank you, brad. Thank you, mr. President. And i share your admiration for this remarkable team from the army corps of engineers to brad to admiral giroir. Theyre doing a remarkable job every day. As the president mentioned, today we had our Weekly Conference call with governors across the country, states and territories and i was able to convey to them our appreciation for the leadership that every governor of every state and territory has provided. Thanks to their leadership, thanks to the extraordinary cooperation of the American People in spite the fact that more than 770,000 americans have contracted the coronavirus, and our hearts grieve for the more than 41,000 americans who lost their life, the truth is that, as we stand here today we are slowing the spread and as the president reflected we continue to see steady progress and less cases, lower hospitalizations, even in hot spots around the country and we commended americas governors for their efforts in that regard. We are preserving our Health Care Capacity as, as the general with the army corps of engineers reflected. The president s direction we built a great number of hospitals around the country but the utilization rate has been farly low because of the mitigation efforts, the cooperation of the American People. We have not had to use them. And that, as the president said is very good news. In a word we thanked the governors across the country for taking actions, Decisive Action to save lives and make a difference. I reminded them theyre all in this together, we have one mission, one team. We spoke on a Conference Call about last weeks guidelines to open up america again. We heard from governors across the country about the progress theyre making. We spoke to governors from new jersey, connecticut, florida, louisiana, texas and michigan about their ongoing efforts at social distancing and addressed questions that they had about needs that have been spoken of already in this, in this presentation today. In addition as we promised last week when we spoke to governors on thursday about the guidelines to open up america our Team Presented every governor in the country, states and territories with a memorandum detailing Laboratory Capacity and all locations of Laboratory Equipment for diagnostic tests that can perform the coronavirus test. We also provided as dr. 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