What tools we dont have were going back to dollars to those who might be it out. But its a substantial number going big the expression we can do to ways we can keep going back every day or every week. Were going big and thats where. And Mitch Mcconnell thats what he wants to go this way i want to go want to get it done then have a big infusion as opposed to going through a meetings every every couple of days we want to do it that way we want to go big go solid. The country is very strong with never been so strong and thats what were going to be doing we dont want. With this invisible enemy. We dont want airlines going out of business we dont want people losing their jobs or not having money to live. When they were doing very well just 4 weeks ago. So were going big and thats the way it will be and thats the way everybody seems to like it. On the hill and the other question the restaurants today was any type discussed on that call a lot of restaurants to close even if they are delivery theyre not making as much money as they went with house when 2 comments on on the restaurants the president understands this that this was emphasized this morning first of all we want to make sure that the states allow the drivethru portion of these fast foods to stay open, particularly in a time period where were telling people dont go to restaurants. These companies feed a big part of america and i expect theyre going to feed a bigger part of america. The second thing they asked me to emphasize i wasnt going to do it now, but its going to ask many of these companies have apps you can order ahead of time that way when you get there, its as simple as behind that act they can give it to us social distancing. And it will be very fast so we expect that today will be able to feed a large part of the population. And in regards to will say a lot of these businesses are Small Businesses are companys franchisees 500 or last. And we have a specific program will be unveiling help businesses small and medium size businesses, a 500 in the regarding of marea corporation announced that it is furloughing thousands of individuals because it. The impacts of the coronavirus know your legislation help those individuals. I hope so thats one of the reasons why weve got to act very quickly. Because we understand whether its the Airlines Hotels for good reasons to protect the United States on medical issues. These businesses are shut down and the president wants to make sure as i said we will use all the powers we have you saw this today, trillion dollars of potential liquidity into the market and the pair is we dont have were going to congress and i will say theres a lot of bipartisan support for these issues because i have to go some other. That i do want to comment on this case. We absolutely believe in keeping the markets open americans need to know they have access to their money. After september 11th. The only reason why the markets were closed was because the technology was disrupted. Ive been on the phone with the major banks with the new york stock exchange. Everybody wants to keep it up and we may get to a point where we shorten the hours if thats something they need to do. But americans should now that were going to do everything to make sure that they have access to their money in their banks to the money in their 4 o one ks and to the money in stocks so i want to just be very clear. We intend to keep the markets open. And the banks a record setting we have that which is a much different then what we had. Not so long ago. The president you mentioned the army of conversation people leave new york run out of hospital beds are you prepared to mobilize pass attias was starting to were starting the process said for us as we hope its not going to be necessary but it could be necessary. The state is working on it very hard themselves probably supplement what they do given given that many of the precursors for pharmaceuticals come from china and thereve been theres supply disruption. That supply chain is broken to some degree you expect that we could run into a shortage of prescription drugs no i dont see that at all and i think china has incentive to make sure that things work well. China wants to make sure that things work very well. They have every incentive to do so chest. Off the election that was supposed to happen today the primary election. Do you agree with that decision and what steps are you taking to ensure. The elections Going Forward this pandemic i continues the elections will be able to happen including force. I was doing a great job. He called it off and well see what happens is a court case and it hasnt been fully determined yet budget he called it off i could understand that because you know he definitely somebody that knows what hes doing well be seeing with very soon. You know theyre going by the rule of 10 as opposed to 50 and its pretty tough. I would say probably you could violate that if you wanted to for election. I just think an election is a very special thing hes going to chose he chose a different date i think a day sometime in june. But a that would be a decision that would be made by him. He felt it was necessary a scorcher. Somebody is challenging and so the court will ultimately decide what are you doing to ensure that further were still in the what im doing john is very simple we getting rid of this virus is what were doing this. The best thing we can do by the way for the markets for it is very simple very simple solution. We want to get rid of it we want have very is few deaths is possible. This is a horrible thing you look at whats going on with italy we dont want to be in a position like that, but a much larger because were much larger country. We dont want to be there. And i think weve done really well i think weve done well i think the states have done well were all working together. The best thing we can do is get rid of the virus one sense gun, its going to pop back like nobodys ever seen before this my opinion, but i think pop act like nobodys ever seen before place just to follow up on johns question specifically how hospital facilities and the army corps of engineers and also what specific measures taken increase the number of ventilators and weve ordered massive numbers ventilators we have by any normal standards we have a lot of respirators met the ventilators we have tremendous amounts of equipment but. Compared to what were talking about here this has never been done before. And yesterday gave the governors the right to go water directly if they want if they feel they can do it faster than going through the federal a government that we knock out all of the bureaucracy, its very direct but it still always faster to order directly and i gave them that was totally misinterpreted by the New York Times and purpose unfortunately, but the but its its very point place. The president directed us to work or with the department of festers 2 ways that d o d can be helpful in terms of expanding medicaid capacity. And the governor of york has asked us to look at the army corps of engineer which could. Perhaps renovate existing buildings. The president also has us inventory what you all would understand as field hospitals are mash hospitals that can be deployed very quickly. We spoke with the governor inslee yesterday in washington state. We have in that part of the country that we can move and as governors make these we will process them bring them to the president but there are 2 different lanes the d o d can provide in addition of many medical supplies to augment our National Reserves and the president is testis to up to evaluate make available and to consider every every request from governors for either field hospitals expanding facilities or the army corps of engineer the could retrofit existing buildings. The army corps very prepared to do as we say and were looking at where its going. And they do call the mash hospitals but the field hospitals go very quickly and there we have them we have all of this the equipment in stock and were looking at different sites in a few different locations and were not going to in West Virginia where so far i guess they have none still not still 100 West Virginia. No big jim the governors you must be doing a good job for thats whats reported to present what the wording issue or is that they have no case. So did i just see West Virginia is the only one that has no case is. So obviously thats being treated differently than in new york california. Different parts of california. Do say this so the the army corps of engineers is ready willing and we have to give them to go ahead if we find that is going to be necessary. We think we can have. And quite a few units up y. Im going to work with the Governor Cuomo a bit of work with. The number of the governors governor newsome has been very generous and in his words and im being generous to him to because were all working together very well and i think a lot a lot of very positive things have taken place which talking to california about different sites. But we can we can have a lot of units up fairly quickly if we think we need them. I think what ill do i might ask seeming to say a few words on telehealth and that we can get back to this place thank you mister president. And as the president announced earlier we are doing a dramatic expansion of whats known as telehealth for our 62 Million Medicare beneficiaries who are amongst the most vulnerable to the coronavirus and were acting in accord with the appropriations bill that was signed on march 6 as well as the president s Emergency Declaration last week. And this action is a part of our broader effort to ensure that government requirements rules and regulations dont get in the way of patient care during an emergency. And todays announcement builds on the significant progress the president has already made over the past 3 years around tell Health Services and all we have allowed for a virtual check ins full tell Health Benefits have been restricted to those living in rural areas established patients and just for those brief but no longer Medicare Beneficiaries across the nation. No matter where they live will now be able to receive a wide range of services, the attalla how without ever having to leave home and the services can also be provided in a variety of settings including Nursing Homes hospital Outpatient Departments and more and thanks to the leadership of hhs will also be temporarily, relaxing certain hippa requirement, so that doctors can provide tell health with their own phones. Well be using Enforcement Discretion when it comes to collecting co pays so that cost will be a barrier. This is a part of our larger efforts around mitigation and as we are encouraging americans to stay home in every possible. We dont want our medicare policies getting in the way and so consider the implications of this perhaps an elderly patient with diabetes. Needs routine checkup. And this is nothing to do with the coronavirus and so with our new tell Health Benefits. This person whos not really a whos at risk for the coronavirus doesnt have to venture outside their home. They can talk to their doctor via skype and they dont have to risk exposure to the virus and they can receive that care from the safety of their own home that could be another medicare recipient whos experiencing mild. Flu like symptoms instead of leaving the house in sitting in a waiting room full of other Vulnerable People they can also receive advice from their doctor from their home. And this shift is very important for clinicians and providers who over the coming weeks will face considerable strain on their time and resources and now medicare patients who dont absolutely need to come in to an office, what has to and this allows the Health Care System to prioritize for care for those that are more in that have more needs are in dire need and preserves protective equipment as well. State medicaid agencies can also provide tell Health Services without federal approval and so were asking all states to make this available as well. And weve also asked private Insurance Companies to expand their tell Health Benefits and make it clear to their providers in the and their members. What they cover. As our nation seeks to balance that when imperatives of getting americans the care that they need during this outbreak in limiting the spread of the virus. The impact of this historic actions simply cannot be overstated in an emergency those on the frontlines shouldnt have to worry about federal rules and red tape can stringing them when they need flexibility above all else and were doing everything in our power to make sure that that doesnt happen. Also just want to briefly mention that because of the president s Emergency Declaration. We do have the ability to provide a lot of medicaid waivers. And florida was the first state to be approved were able to do that in a matter of days. They can any where Senior Citizens go for instructions on how to do the they should call their Doctors Office and their Doctors Office can tell them how to do that, im also you know there may be some of medicare members that may not have access to equipment so were asking family members but to help with this but also respecting the requirements around social distancing and if any of those family members or neighbors have symptoms a shock us least a lane be posting number thats correct. And just what to if you edge of that person and this and they can also call our 1 800 medicare number and they can also get information those phone lines are open. Thank you. To fix the the system is working well thank you very as we talked about earlier this week. The commercial system is rapidly advancing in the testing capabilities. As of today, our Public Health laboratories meaning the cdc and the Public Health labs have reported out 31,878 s so almost 32,010 s. The Clinical Laboratories the association of Clinical Laboratories on tap reported out when about 27,000 test. In most importantly of this 27,000 during the cumulative period of time. 8,200 of them were yesterday. This is showing the dramatic ramp this the high throughput comes in. We dont have the numbers this morning from the American Hospital association, which means all the individual hospital laboratories we will have that upcoming in the next day or so and then ambassador birx will have this whole process. A fixed under with the legislation that everything will roll up into a common reporting. Probably by the end of next week. In terms of our drive to laboratories again these are blossoming all over the country by individual states, the ones that we are heavily involved in in really pushing equipment to we expect over the next few days to be setting up 47 of these in approximately 12 states. The material is artie allen ties and being shipped to the locations most cities have the specific locations some do not, but its still going to a Central Receiving and we know that will be a deploying at least a 140 commission for officers about half of the sites have reported their requirements but a 140 offices will be going we expect that to go up. So this is going on by the way we expected. We did a trial site yesterday with a full mobile unit for driving through with full ppe a we had a lot of kinks in the system as you can expect thats why we do. A test before we go out into the field. Dont expect these to be 100 perfect the moment, they come theyre going to be adopted to the state the local situation, the work very confident that these will and testing to the already very robust Health Care System a commercial system thank you mister president take and this has never been done before and it says a great road map for future. Should we have Something Like this in the future. I hope we dont. But its never been done before and theyve done an incredible job and began working with the states and relying on this is we have to they have its point of sale its point of sight and the he is in i think just about every instance getting along really well with the with the states if i could uh doctor brooks if you could say couple thank you. Mister president. So i think what youve been hearing from us is to find solutions that are high quality and sustainable based on the front line workers and governors request tonight. Those come in on the governors cali been immediately responsive to those and thats the the level of red tape and bureaucracy that we have removed. I think that plant about sustainability and quality is very important because as the president says were creating a road map for a different level of functionality for future pandemics our flu pandemic Preparedness Plan was a plan. Now were seeing where we have to revise where we have to create new avenues of research a new avenues of work to really ensure that the needs of the American People can be reached. We were adamant about having a high quality test based on our commercial vendors. Over the next few months he will begin to see that other tests that were utilized around the world, were not of the same quality resolving and fosse positives and potentially fosse negatives. These tests were studied and studied by the fda to really ensure that they are that level of quality and weve given the states the permission to ensure that same level of quality that i wanted to say one minute on the testing. Testing should not be used as an assessment of your risk. We are asking every single american. No matter what your generation. Frenzy and up to acts and millennials in betw