This has been a military operation with private people. I gave tremendous credit to our military, to the army corps of engineers, to fema, to these people. The job theyve done is incredible. And you shouldnt be asking that kind of a question, honestly. You shouldnt be asking that kind of a question. He should say you know what . Its been a really incredible whats been happening. Nobodys asking. Let me ask you this. We have more tests than anybody in the world. We have virtually every country in the world calling us, asking us to beget these tests that you have . Your testing is the best in the world, how do we get it . Theyve done a fantastic job one more, please. President trump sweden is different. Is that approach working . If we did follow that approach, we may have 2 Million People dead. They are very disciplined country to start off with but they did take it different and other places tried it, u. K. Tried it, the herd approach, and they tried it, and you saw what happened in the u. K. , set them back a lot of time, having a tough time. Other countries have tried it and sweden is suffering greatly. We did go with the herd, we wouldve had potentially you see the charts. Nobody knows, nobody will ever know, fortunately because we are going to be substantially less than the minimum grade unless something happens that would be tragic. Some had a minimum number, one of the reasons we are so far below that number is because nobody thought the American People could be so disciplined. No one thought it was possible. And i guess when they watched us appear every day and they watched other people and they listen to their representatives and governors, nobody thought that the American People theyve been unbelievable and because of that, you have a minimum number of 100,000 and then you have the 2. 2 number that if we did nothing, if we just kept working and everybody go to work, people would be dropping dead on the subways. No. If we wouldve lost a Million People. Take the 2. 2 million and cut it in half. Make it a Million People. Now take that number and cut in half, make it 500,000 people. Thats if we did nothing. Its unacceptable. So many people, so we spent more money on stimulus, who cares by comparison . You take to. 2, you cut it in half, you keep cutting it in half, i dont care what you choose. Talking 50, 65 may be. The u. K. Tried it. How was a little surprised and they were going to weeks and they said weve got to stop because we were going to have a whole country infected. So with all of that being said, weve got to get back to work. Got to get our country open but we couldve lost 2 Million People. Couldve lost 1 Million People, couldve lost half a Million People. We wouldve lost 500,000 people, and will say this also from the standpoint of being president and Vice President and we are up there and doing that and we are going to bullet through, do you think people like jim and yourself and other people, jeff wouldve put up with it . People are dying all over, they wouldve said this man is crazy. Because the numbers at a minimum would have been many, many times greater than the numbers we are talking about. Honored by our decisions, all of us. Talk about all the time. You just write it. I will say it always, its been my great honor and i have a big decision coming up and i only hope to god that it wasnt the right decision, but it will be based on the input from a lot of very talented people, very smart people, and people that love our country. Thank you very much. Neil all right, the president right now wrapping up a very, very long exchange with the press and medical officials, the Vice President as well. One of the interesting things that kept coming back to sort of unwind on the lockdown. This would probably be the most substantive decision, most important decision. The most weighty decision of his presidency. As well as reasons to consider continuing it. He really didnt telegraph anything outside of saying it would be very important for this country to get back to business. They did make note of this shortened market week where we had a great deal of attention right now on optimism on wall street, markets were closed, and on the idea that th, hospitalization improving dramatically and there does seem to be a consensus of building. The ark is heading in the right direction. Lets get the read on that. Its always a tough call i understand, but how do you weigh that from a medical professionals perspective . The president is obviously the race economically to a country that has to go on versus saving lives and the public health. What if some of the things he would look at after april 30th, we could start inching back. The first thing to say its at an incredibly difficult decision and there is no simple clear answer on what should be done. Certainly right now. I think in the next few weeks will give us a lot more information week by week we are learning more about how this virus behaves and how its behaving in our country. In new york as you said we have seen the good news of what looks like a plateau the last few days and if that continues over the next couple of weeks, that would give us more information in terms of determining when we can slowly and i want to emphasize though they reopen society. This is not going to be an onoff switch where we can say everyone go to work socializing. I think itll go in phases, and a lot of that will also depend on the availability and the type of tests that will be present whether thats next week or two weeks or three weeks that will make it difference. And even with that, not going to be a clear answer and as a medical professional, you ask whats my opinion. I also want to air on the side of preserving life and keeping people out of the hospital so a lot has to be weighed, and it is a very difficult situation, but the more information we have in the more time we have, just having a few days of a plateau certainly is not enough to say its time to open it up. Neil all right, thank you very, very much. We will watch it very closely. Got to shout out today from dr. Fauci among those midwestern governors who are ahead of this curve. He was ahead of those looking at the severity and the need for mitigating and sequestering that youve been seeing going on across the country. Ohio governor with us right now. Is a call that a governor makes, many argue that constitutionally, even the governor if he or she feels uncomfortable with the decision could say no, you might think now is a good time to start unwinding these provisions. Im not so sure. How would you ultimately make that decision . As you have said, its a very tough decision. This was not an easy decision to shut schools and shut businesses, that was tough. Coming out of it is going to be even tougher, getting back to work. We got the order on until may 1st, but 1 of the things that we are doing every day is trying to figure out exactly how we get people back. What i think people need to realize, kind of to state the obvious, but theres going to be a lot of ohioans for example were going to be very vulnerab vulnerable. The virus is still out there, and we have a lot of ohioans who are older, people who have a medical problem, going to be particularly vulnerable but everyone is going to be vulnerable who has not had this so one of the things that we hope to use is new testing, the ability to take the blood and determine whether or not the person has already had this. We think that they were medical experts telling me that they were people who get this and who really dont even know it and they have been diagnosed as Something Else are they really got them very mild case of it. So its going to be something thats important. And the ability to be widespread testing, so you can isolate people, remove them, make sure they are in fact removed from the workplace, this is not going to be easy, but we have to get back. We know that. People want to work. They want to ge to be one step at a time process. Not just going to take a switch and flip it and were all going to be back doing what we want to do. Neil quite a few in your state, and we tested roughly about one out of every other 300 americans now for the coronavirus. And thats a dramatic improvement. Pales in comparison to countries like germany, a smaller country where its about one and 100 slightly, slightly more than that and im wondering, would you feel comfortable as a governor getting into that kind of a ratio leaving aside what might be the number of cases and or deaths that are either going down or over the increases going down, what would be among the factors . I dont know if i have a particular number. Whether theres a particular number, but we have really been handicapped in this country. I know some people compare us to what korea did in other countries have done and without that testing, it is really hard to really feel confident to move forward but we are seeing testing increase in ohio and seeing the capacity go up and we hope for the next two or three or four weeks, going to see that capacity go up even more and if they continue to come online with different testing. So we hope that that parallels are great desire to get back to work. Neil i know its been many a sleepless night for you looking out after your residence, so continued good health and good luck sir, very glad to have you on. Thank you, sir. Neil remember in this battle back and forth in consultation as the president said with a governor, he will weigh what they say. Its unique to each and every one of our states. 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Org to give right away. Neil we talk about states and cities that become sudden hot spots, a big central case they are a couple of weeks ago, but a lot of this seems to Center Nursing homes, Senior Living centers and the like, the Genesis Health care chief medical officer on the significance of that, we know increasingly that these have become the hot spots but are there any better Nursing Homes or things you should look for in Nursing Homes, these senior centers, some are doing well that others are not doing as well . We are dealing with a highly contagious virus that is impacting the entire World Population but nowhere more so than among the frail elderly who are the most vulnerable. These are our parents and grandparents and they live in americas Nursing Homes. 1. 4 million of them. The people who are infected who can die is nearing 20 which is a shocking figure. So what we need to do across all Nursing Homes to do Everything Possible from getting inside the walls and infecting individuals to limit the spread. There are so many things need to be screening all employees who come in using protect personal protective equipment and testing vigorously and very carefully and with that attention, we are all seeing some limits to the spread but as we said before, once the viruses inside, it really can be deadly. Neil and most of these Nursing Homes, weve eliminated relative friends visiting patients. We try to limit access to those most important to visit emma but even that doesnt seem to ease the hot spot nature of these places, so whats the next step . Limiting visitation has cut down exposure and Nursing Homes who have been effective but there are other ways of virus gets in. For example, we know that anyone of us could be carrying the virus right now and not have symptoms and we cant know for sure whether we are contagious of the people who work in Nursing Homes, that could apply to them too and for that reason its very important that they all wear masks at all time so they can limit the spread to patients. We also have a new patient being admitted to Nursing Homes all the times. Each one of those as a possible carrier of the virus so we need to be very careful and put them under precautions, screen them very carefully, also some patients need to go out to dialysis, medically essential services to every one of those scenarios is a way that the virus can get inside a nursing home and thats why we are so concerned ten have to have a heightened level of suspicion we need to test very frequently as well. Neil wise advice, thank you very much and thank you for all your doing on the front lines trying to ameliorate all of this. 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All rightyeah. s do it. laughing neil he is probably the most iconic and recognized face whatever we report on the markets. You know when they were good and you knew when they were bad and you knew the new york Stock Exchange trader extraordinaire, you know hes a big deal because for the years that ive been talking to him, for decades ive known him, an iconic figure widely respected, very, very much love. So when we all here at fox that he tested positive for the coronavirus, we were quite concerned. He is not identifiable in that recognizable. He joins us right now. Ive been having a hard day today, so i can get up and shower and get dressed and sort of try to punch through the rough times. Im about 23 days. Neil how are you doing no now . Definitely turning the corner, still have some temperature, have some nerve damage from meningitis which attacked the back of my head and my neck, but i am definitely on the road to recovery and i wanted to share that because its not a lot of what we are hearing and there is another side to this virus although its been quite a challenge, i have to admit. Neil i imagine. We could go through to you first realized you had it or what was going on, explain what was happening. Absolutely. So it was tuesday night, i believe it was march 17th and basically it was on everyones mind set at the time and i woke up in the middle of the night with a really bad bronchitis with some chills they developed a testing ground right outside the exchange so that people would not be affected. One was symptomatic, id have to test on it and stay at home. A number of days later, i did get the test and came back positive. The most significant thing was each day as i progressed with these symptoms, they got worse and worse. The taste buds and the smell disappeared, my temperature kept spiking up and i would say over the next ten or 12 days, i developed a severe temperature which spiked out at 103. 7. I developed a comingling virus of viral meningitis along with it which attacked my head, and basically the body was just really under attack. And day in and day out, i was just getting worse and worse and worse. So after about 15 days, the temperature finally did break and slowly, i started taking a turn for the better, but definitely it was a challenge. You feel like you are under attack and i was fortunate enough to have a good team of doctors, my own doctors giving me two covid specialist who really helped me to get through this because the sicker i got them obviously i need to go to the hospital but it was made clear to me that in the state that the city was in at the time, short of me not being able to breathe, i should stay home and write this out. I was given some medication, i did have the chloroquine medication if i didnt need it as a last resort but the team of doctors kept me home and i was able to sort of get to where i am today which is weak and frail but definitely on the other side of the real bad part of it. Neil so right now, you feel a lot better but you still have it, right . Its clear that that virus is still there. The doctors file moving beyond