it's really working well the demand has skyrocketed and we're doing a lot of things to bring in more mass more other protective apparel we are involved in re processing mask and we've already started as about 100000 mask per day and we hope to expand from there are so we're quite optimistic about it thank you. anyway if you like yes please. we have to. thank you thank you mr president we appreciate the opportunity to work with your administration on a lot of collaborative fronts number one we've all talked about the products that's critical and it's not just the hospitals that's a must but it's really to all health care providers out there working on the front line our commitment is there to get it to the hot spots and get it to the care providers that are taking care of those patients is absolutely key 2nd we talking there about buying in america and getting resources back here and manufacturing in america that is critical a lesson to be learned from where we are and lastly we're proud that we introduced

it ok we're going to sit tight at that for just a moment president trump invites various companies c.e.o.'s up to 2 comments on his quotes great leadership let's get some analysis from reynolds he joins us now live from the sounds of this vying. rob you've been listening to that press conference there. just give us a sense of what we were hearing from president because the result was that the contradiction isn't there from what we're hearing from medical workers on the front line and the head of the states that are hardest hit and what we're hearing from president trump which seems to be a lot right exactly a lot of positive years coming out so. give us a sense what you take away from that oh a i do apologize your guts cut you off again because president trump is now back at the microphone let's get a lot in this hear what he had to say then to stick we want to thank you u.p.s.

and fed ex. and particularly gun absolutely out of you as a so we appreciate everything you've done and delivered the federal government continues to mobilize every resource to make sure frontline doctors and nurses have the equipment needed to save american lives yesterday i visited naval station norfolk as the u.s. and as comfort departed for new york 3 weeks ahead of schedule fully loaded with 12 operating rooms 1000 hospital beds and hundreds of the best doctors nurses and medical professionals anywhere in the united states navy any were frankly the united states. it was an incredible to thing to see a you mostly you saw that on television as it was leaving it left literally 3 weeks early it was under maintenance and they got the maintenance done very quickly they work around the clock as many of the people have and it was a great site additionally 2 of the country's largest health insurers you mad and

cigna are announcing that they will waive co-pays which is a big deal for anybody that understands insurance they don't waive co-pays too easily but we've asked them to do it they've done it co-insurance and deductibles for the coronavirus treatments to help ease the financial burden on american families during this pandemic so they're waving co-pays co-insurance and deductibles nobody's i don't think anyone's heard of that one of you heard of that one before i have and i want to thank them great companies today i spoke with wolfgang puck wolfgang puck is a. great restaurant tours you know as is eon george and thomas keller and daniel bellew and other leaders in the restaurant business which has been probably one of the hardest hit industries i have directed my staff to use any and all authority available to give restaurants bars clubs incentives to stay open you're

going to lose all these restaurants and they're not going to make it back and they have to get going so what i'm doing is i'm going to tell. secretary minucci an and also our great secretary of labor you know very well to immediately start looking into the restoring of the duct ability of meals and entertainment costs for corporations that set the restaurant business back a lot when it was done originally and then done not so long ago and we're going to go to deductability so that companies can send people to restaurants. i think will have a tremendous impact and maybe keep them open and don't forget some are closing right now despite the fact that they could be open in the not too distant future we expect that but there are some that are going to be able to get open and we want to make sure that ok we're going to come back out of this press conference and had backed civil brand olds in the sands of this role it's still going on so going

backwards and forwards here but. just give us a sense of the top lines that are coming out of there so far because we have heard something of a startling claim by president trump that new york is hoarding ventilators . and a claim that about medical workers. stealing masks is that what you take away from this press conference. that was the clear implication in all of that. president trump gave this he started out with the usual mixture of boasting and bragging and some speculation about whether certain drugs might be useful or not which is unproven and also made questionable claims about how many tests had been performed in the united states saying that more tests have

been done in this country than in others i think that's probably not true of the least germany him others have performed more tests than the united states has because of a huge lack of testing equipment in the early stages of the pandemic here in the u.s. but to get to your point yes the president cited some numbers that he apparently picked up from some of these. corporate. c.e.o.'s that he's bringing up to the podium one by one saying that there's some discrepancy between the number of masks delivered to new york hospitals and the number of masts that were on and saying maybe some went out the back door in other words that some of the medical workers who. have been working to save lives at the risk of their own due to lack of personal protective equipment might be

trying to make a few bucks on the pass and the of other items by stealing them he's also said in tweets and in the press conference to the effect that new york is sporting ventilators now the governor of new york mary almost has made it clear all over the past several days that he's not hoarding ventilators but he is. keeping ventilators ready and on hand for the anticipated peak or apex as he puts it of the corona virus epidemic in the state of new york so that when there are tens of thousands of patients crowding new york hospitals there will be sufficient numbers of ventilators available for them. this is not hoarding this is preparing according to the governor of new york i think that this claim of courting.

well 1st of all yesterday after president roh alluded to it in some tweets of the governor of of new york andrew cuomo said that the president was grossly misinformed ok so that's one thing of the next thing is the safety of somebody pilfering masts i think you're going to see a lot of pushback on that from the governor of new york probably also the people in the hospitals the doctors the surgeons the nurses the technicians and everybody else who needs materials i mean wouldn't escape that they would be quite disappointed to see it least with president trump's remarks here in the rose garden just now and as we were coming out of that press event which is still ongoing we're showing our viewers the live pictures there of president trump

. but before we came to you he was mentioning restaurant turns and his desire to to to get restaurants open and back up and running at the seems to be some kind of tension does there not wall between medical experts who are trying to push social distancing shutting down the economy in a bid to contain the spread of this very deadly virus and president trumps concern about getting the economy up and running given that the comments that we're seeing from the president. thinks will winning this. this battle if you like between getting the economy up and running and holes in the spread of the virus. well i think you you pointed to the central. contradiction and dichotomy between health experts and governors and mayors and local officials on the one hand and the

president and perhaps some of these corporate c.e.o.'s that he's. visiting with today and showering with craze that things get back to normal as quickly as possible mentioning the chef celebrity chefs like wolfgang puck who is sort of a fixture here and in the los angeles he makes a big cake for the oscars every year and these got a lot of restaurants around town these are not the kind of restaurant tours who run a small pizza shop or a. you know a restaurant selling thai food in. the corner who are undoubtedly going to go under if this goes on for a long period of time without substantial government a so. this is this is unsullied example i guess you could say

if you take restaurants as an example a small example of the of this divergence between the president and just about everybody else. over whether it's wise to open up the economy early get people. back into restaurants and you know spreading the virus amongst one another and then getting sick and dying. versus the the idea that the economy how must go on and people must continue to work no matter the danger and continue to. keep the economy afloat so that these corporate c.e.o.'s that the president is praising so i can continue to. earn theirs earn their salaries and get shareholder value i was. ok rob that the end is still carrying on we're going to keep an eye on your background but for now i

rubbed reynolds live there in los angeles thank you very much in seats now a top u.k. health official has offered a stark assessment on home coronavirus instructions might be in place you case deputy chief medical officer says social distancing rules will be reviewed after 3 weeks but that it may be 6 months before life can return to normal paul brennan reports. a steady procession of hearses bring the latest virus victims to the temporary morgue set up in madrid's largest ice rink on sunday spain recorded another daily death toll of more than 830 people such a small increase on the previous day is seen as a glimmer of hope that the situation remains critical he joins there she just didn't ok that it is very likely that the outbreak is evolving properly and thanks to everyone's efforts having only 20 percent of our cases recovering that's an encouraging statistic but it is true that the number of people going into intensive

care units is doing creasing and there are many regions operating at maximum capacity and many other regions quickly getting closer to this limit yeah yeah yeahs autonomous. the u.k. has recorded its 2nd successive day of more than 200 new debts and the government has put the entire country on emergency footing unprecedented in peace time. living millions and millions of different products and don't always know the see or the question is sad that's that's that when you hear that and i heard that from one of the great companies of the world at doing this. it's a client and it goes they go on from you heard 810020000 tops 230-0000 that's a hospital that's always full so i think people should check that because there's something going on it's not i don't think it's hoarding i think it's maybe worse than hoarding but check it out check it out i don't know i don't know i think that's for other people to figure out but you don't go for numbers like that now

other equipment likewise because we're delivering a lot of ventilators would have and we're building by the way we're building and buying and we have a lot of ventilators where we're going to be sending out very soon we also have right now in the stockpile almost 10000 ventilators that we have to hold in case of emergency we don't want to going out and then louisiana has a tremendous problem which we now know they do you know all of a sudden it came very quickly came i mean louisiana was doing so fantastically well then all of a sudden it was a big rash of cases so we have to be prepared to move the ventilator is a very important pieces of equipment they're very expensive and they're very complex and very it's like building a car you know these are expensive complicated very complicated pieces of equipment so we now have 10000 in and we inherited a system which was broken just like i'm never forget the day when

a general came and said sir my 1st week in office we have no ammunition that was in the military we've down rebuilt our military stronger than it's ever been and we have so much ammunition. you wouldn't believe it how much ammunition we have but the same thing here we had we had a stockpile that was deficient we had testing that was no good we had a testing situation that just wasn't right. it was ok for very small cases but it was obsolete and it was broken and it was only good for a very small situation but what i'd like to do is i'd like to ask dr fouts you to come forward and discuss the number because i think the number i think that number is going to be a very different number than the numbers that you talked about pleased you might talk about. thank you mr president you know the number they gave out is you know based on modeling. and i think it's entirely conceivable that if we do not mitigate to the extent that we're trying to do that you could reach that number yeah yeah

yeah it's possible i mean you could make a big sound bite about it but the fact is it's possible what we're trying to do is not let that happen so instead of concentrating on the upper and the lower we're saying that we're trying to push all the way down but the 2nd part of your question was yes we feel that the mitigation that we're doing right now is having an effect it's very difficult to quantitative because you have to dynamic things going on at the same time you have the virus going up and you have the mitigation trying to push it down but the decision to prolong not prolong but to extend this mitigation process until the end of april i think was a wise and prudent decision dr burk's and i spent a considerable amount of time going over all the data why we felt this was a best choice of us and the president accepted it so in the direct answer to your question the idea that we may have these many cases played a role in our decision in trying to make sure that we don't do something

prematurely and pull back when we should be pushing. thank you you all know we've all you've all seen the models you've seen the models from imperial you've seen the models from columbia we've reviewed 12 different models and then we went back to the drawing board over the last week or 2 and work from the ground up utilizing actual reporting of cases it's the way we've built the model the t.v. model the malaria model and when we finished the other group that was working in parallel which we didn't know about. and chris marie ended up at the same numbers if you go on his website you can see the concern that we had with the grey growing number of potential fatalities all of the flu models predicted

anywhere between 1.6 and 2200000 fatalities if we did mitigate i think you all knew those numbers some of them predicted half of the united states would get infected and have that level of mortality so we worked very hard together to really look at all of the impacts of the different medications that have been utilized around the world and use that evidence base to really bring that data and that evidence to the president to consider for extending which is not a simple situation when you ask people to stay home for another 30 days and so they have to know that we really built this on scientific evidence and the potential to save really hundreds of thousands of american lives and we know that's a huge sacrifice for everyone you know is it's a sacrifice for every mother and child and father who is also self isolating there are people that have to go out to work and we know the compromises that they're

making but it's all to protect not only americans but the health care providers the health care providers that are on the front lines and you've seen them and you've seen how difficult this is been and so we're really working it will be a comprehensive piece presented on tuesday that really. talks about not only diagnosing individuals but also increasing our surveillance now that we have more test kits so that we can really stop and contain new infections at the same time we're really dedicating test kits still to the critical diagnosis so people can get the treatment that they want and so that we can ensure as many people come to the hospital that they know that the nurses and the doctors and the equipment that they need will be there to serve them because together as americans we're going to bring down the number of infections so we don't have 2200000 deaths or 1600000 deaths but really work very hard to keep this and at the lowest numbers we possibly can.

i just want to reiterate because a lot of people have been asking well what would happen if we did nothing did nothing we just rode it out. and i've been asking that question to tony and deborah and they've been talking to me about it for a long time other people have been asking that question. and i think we've got our most accurate study today or certainly most comprehensive think of the number 2.2 potentially 2200000 people if we did nothing if we didn't do the distancing if we didn't do all of the things that we're doing. now when you hear those numbers you start to realize that with the kind of work we went through last week with the 2.2 trillion dollars. it no longer sounds like a lot right so you're talking about. when i heard the number today 1st time i've heard that number because i've been asked the same question that some people have it as can i felt even better about what we did last week with the 2.2 trillion

dollars because you're talking about a potential of up to $2200000000.00 and some people said it could even be higher than that so you're talking about $2200000.00 deaths 2200000 people from this. and so if we could hold that down as we're saying 210-0000 it's a horrible number maybe even less but 210-0000 so we have between 10200000. we altogether of done a very good but 2.2 up to 2200000 deaths and maybe even beyond that i'm feeling very good about what we did last week yes please go ahead please. given that. any of these guidelines was floating easter a mistake do you think and does this tell us why there is just an aspiration we actually will be. hitting potentially this was with our meeting before.

on easter we probably the where there could be a peak that could be a peak period that could be the peak sadly to say that could be the peak number of deaths before it starts coming to no that was aspirational we had a an aspiration of easter but when you hear these kind of numbers and you hear the potential travesty we don't want to do anything where you know we don't have a spike up we don't want to do it soon and then all of a sudden you go down you're coming down and then you start going up again because we discussed that could happen and we don't want that to happen we've gone through too much so that was an aspirational number i didn't say easter i said it would be a great thing if we could do it by easter and we know much more now that we knew 23 weeks ago easter should be the peak number and it should start coming down and hopefully very substantially from that point ok thank you. please. don't tell if you know it only and there mr president your approval ratings abin

the highest they've ever been as well as the ratings on your handling of the virus if there are some networks that are saying they're debating whether or not to carry these briefings live do you think there's a link between. well i don't know i know that. well that's a nice question thank you very much but yeah i don't want high approval ratings for this i wish we could have our old life back we had the greatest economy that we've ever had and we didn't have death we didn't have this we didn't have this horrible scorch this plague you call it whatever you want the virus but. we're working very hard that's all and you know i see things i see numbers. they don't matter to me what matters to me is that we have a victory over this thing as soon as possible when you hear that 2200000 people. i could have died if we didn't go through all of this and now the number will be you know

a much lower number hopefully it's going to be the numbers that we're talking about . but so i appreciate it very much but you know what i want is i want to life back again i want our country back i want the world back i want the world to get rid of this is again a 151 countries. and we're going to do we're going to great victory we're going to great if we. don't have plans things you mentioned make sure i was right so humana and cigna are going to waive for all costs for anybody that's got the crown of virus they're going to take care of everything well that's what they said i told you what they're going to take a co-pays in particular that's a big deal insurance companies don't do that and i appreciate it humana and cigna they should be getting a lot of credit for that will there be other companies are there just because. those 2 are getting a lot of credit right now for it and they should because it's something that it's a lot of money they're waving and so we thank them will there be other companies i would be surprised are you solomon is doing spirit i'll tell you what yeah i'd love

to have him do it let him waive those co-pays there's a great spirit in this country right now i mean i know insurance companies better than anybody they just don't do that but now there's a spirit like i have not seen i have never seen anything like it i mean even the media is much more fair i would say all of it but that's ok they should be fair because they should want to this to end this is this is about death so i want to thank and humanity thank you will the federal government be reimbursing those insurance companies or is this something they really are just doing out of their pocket and they haven't asked for reimbursement so i assume that they said they're going to waive them waving them doesn't mean we're going away from you get reimbursed ok and research. first of the month is 3 days away i know these cash payments to the treasury secretary munitions that they about 3 weeks they should get there for people that are worry about paying rent i know mortgages through the heart is taken care of but i'm just curious about. what should people be doing for the 1st though not to be getting the money i will tell you i think the landlords

are going to take it is it we may put out a statement on that i think a lot of people that are owed money are going to take it easy they don't sort of have a choice but a lot of concessions a may just like the insurance companies a lot of concessions are being made that wouldn't have even been thought of 3 weeks ago not even thought of so a lot of really positive things are happening place behind you. thank you mr president yesterday why did you publicly threaten quarantine on new york new jersey part i didn't enter there don't read the statement read the statement read what i said i said we're going to look into possibly quarantine i didn't say we're going to quarantine i looked at it as a possibility because a lot of our professional suggested quarantine i said with a look at it we then looked at it is say who you are with bloomberg right i can imagine that let me just say i didn't threat that i don't go around threatening what happened is people professionals very good professionals love the idea of

doing that because that's sort of the ultimate and distancing you can't do they didn't want new yorkers where they're having a problem necessarily going down to florida where they have less of a problem so the concept of quarantine was thrown out to me really would love to do it they would love to do it and i thought it was too much to do because the people are doing a great job with it also it's very hard to enforce ok i say we're going to about it publicly i mean by speaking about it publicly and letting it know be known that it's a consideration do you think that you may be frightened somehow i think we made people aware to stay in your houses and do good now we did an advisory it's a strong advisory the governors are running the advisory the 3 governors new york new jersey connecticut and i think we did a great thing but all i did yesterday as you know you can see it you can read it you can read and you can see very simply that i said. that we are looking into it and then before the end of the evening substantially we decided to go with the

advisory which frankly i liked better from the beginning go ahead thank you mr president i have 2 questions 1st let's step back a bit of that press conference we have been listening to president donald trump he's been giving us an update some most of the situation in the u.s. . he the big takeaways from mat's that the social distancing guidelines in the united states have been extended until april 30th we've also seen something of a u. turn from president trump about his. easter aspiration of having everything back open again he shelf that except that it should be social distancing extend it's april 30th. let's bring in rob reynolds just to get more of a sense of what we've been listening to rob so if you use our answer from the president. and also accusations of medical professionals still in masks and hoarding equipment i just give us a sense of what you took away from that briefing. you know i think you put your

finger right on the main point of this the federal government is going to extend its guidelines on limiting social contact social isolation should be maintained until the end of april so that's what seems to be the new does here. aside from a lot of speculation and sort of so congratulatory statements by the by the president of the fact is however that the government the federal government doesn't do or in teens it doesn't have any power to actually enforce order social isolation isolation or stay at home orders under the federal system in the united states as many of you know our international audience may not be aware it's the states that do that so more than half of the governors of the states now ordered or issued their stay at home orders to their residence it's not martial law they're

not being kept at bay inept point indoors but they're being very very strongly urged to stay in and not congregate in large crowds you've got a thing as you mentioned the president just threw out there the idea that the shortage of masks and protective equipment that other many medical professionals particularly in new york are complaining about may be the result of some criminal activity that people are stealing the mass maybe the people in the hospitals themselves and trump said to the assembled journalists this is something you ought to check out and quite quite a lot to chew over with that but there was an enticing intervention there and it's certainly talking about how you present times racing seem to be going up so i mean we find it quite difficult to follow what they administration is saying what the position is and i just how exciting. the american people reacting to it and it's

like coleman said by nurses and medical workers perhaps actually stealing masks 2nd n. packs hi this a crisis is being handled in the high the american response is being perceived more and more widely among the american people well look there's president trumps base and then there are other people in the base everything the president from says is take it at face value and people like anthony fowler gee the doctor you saw speaking earlier. is now under attack by president drops supporters in right wing media and social media networks as being some sort of a. traitor or someone trying to undermine trump and for him to scare the people of the united states i think that people in new york and people who know who nurses are or have been in contact with nurses and doctors and trust their doctors they'll

probably find this a pretty outrageous suggestion of the doctors and nurses or the hospital orderly these are whomever trump was trying to implicate are trying to profiteer and steal masks so i think you'll see some some pushback on that but it's puzzling just as you said as you indicated all very very back to you vera van olds that life as an los angeles thank you very much indeed you with al-jazeera we're going to bring you all the fame latest on the corona virus and crisis at the top of the hour to stay with this we have witness for you up next and all the very latest of course is available on al-jazeera dot com but i. on counting the cost as the global economy has for recession the dollar proves to

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