oui’ our estimate so many will with the our estimate so many will die. it could've been stopped in china. it could have been stopped in china. it could have been stopped in china. it could have been stopped in china. it started. and it wasn't in the whole world is suffering because of it. but this concept and everyone had to think of it at the beginning because look, we have the greatest economy in the history of the world, better than china, better than any country in the world, better than any country ever, we had the highest stock market in history by far and am honoured by the fact that it it started to go up very substantially thatis started to go up very substantially that is because the market is smart in the market is actually brilliant i've seen it. and they're viewing it like we've done a good job. the view it that way. because of you would've told me that we are in 2a,000 are beyond, and the highest we were ever, we never hit 30, we were

getting close to 30, slept there on 29,000, 24,000. getting close to 30, slept there on 29,000, 2a,000. we were heading down and mastering to say, wow. we may be heading into territory where i started. i didn't like that and now we are way up. but if you would've said to me with what we have gone through, not caused by our country oi’ through, not caused by our country or people or certainly anybody within our country come but if you we re within our country come but if you were to say they've you're going to this horrible plague that we would have a stock market, that is much, much higher than when i started, much higher than when i started, much higher than where i started, andi much higher than where i started, and i think, i think we have tremendous momentum when we have a big election coming up, but i think we have tremendous momentum. first, we have tremendous momentum. first, we get rid of the plague. and because what we're doing with the paycheque as we call it. i think we

have a chance to have these companies going back to action quickly. but our approach to testing is based on facts, data and very ha rd is based on facts, data and very hard evidence and not partisan agendas or coordinated political talking points. mike pence is a phenomenal guy and is making a commencement address right now the air force academy where they're being very politically correct eve ryo ne being very politically correct everyone is standing ten peter part —— ten feet apart. they are changing the date tojune i3 —— ten feet apart. they are changing the date tojune 13 because of what's going on in new york. they're moving it to june what's going on in new york. they're moving it tojune four what's going on in new york. they're moving it to june four west point. what's going on in new york. they're moving it tojune four west point. i am doing a commencement speech and they're going to have to have the cadets, they may not have the pa rents cadets, they may not have the parents but they will have the cadets. the parents are so proud of them. the air force academy for mike to speaking right now, they do not have the parents. they're very

widespread and you talk about social distancing, i mean, the, i looked at it. they're using ten feet. so they're doing that but it is very important to have it and there is a great thing. that is a great thing, thatis great thing. that is a great thing, that is a big star. and so he is there right now and i will tell you that he is a gentleman, mike pence. in the democratic senators requested a phone call with him yesterday and i think for the most pa rt him yesterday and i think for the most part they had all of them on. like approximately a7, i heard it was just about all of them, whatever it might be. i do not want to be wrong but one or two or tendon of the breasts say he i ,he—— , he —— the press say that he lied. and i heard there were so rude ——

they were so rude and nasty. but i heard there were so rude in a matter what he said, which was all very positive in terms of winning this battle against the invisible enemy, no matter what he said, they were fresh, they were nasty and i heard it was just a terrible thing. and i said, mike, that's politics. if we came into this room today that the battle is over that we have one, it is 100% gone, the democrats would say the president has done a horriblejob. he has done a disgraceful job. horriblejob. he has done a disgracefuljob. it is a shame how bad he is. these are the talking points, this is political and will be nice not to have that, especially when we have done the job that we have done. and all we have to do is look at the big victory. take a look at it. everyone said they had us on

that. they thought they had us, but we got them done with numbers that nobody would've believed. and we did use our production act, but we did not need it like that, we did we did for most part. but for the most part, all we had to do is talk about it. all we had to do was say we are going to use it if you do not do this and everyone's like good, we usedit this and everyone's like good, we used it a couple of stop because it didn't work out easy way. but it worked out the hard way. but whether it was masks or ventilators, it was incredible what we have been able to do. so it was a very critical time of the american people in the american people deserve real information and responsible and thoughtful dialogue from their elected leaders in the media. the media has been, some very honest and some very dishonest, you know that. i even read a story where this tough

quy i even read a story where this tough guy was crying. she went up pulitzer prize for coverage of russia but she was wrong in russia, so was everyone else, they shall give back the pulitzer prizes. it turned out that the crime was committed by the other side. the crime was committed by the site, it was committed by the other side. a bunch of bad people. he saw the reports coming in over the last two weeks, they got caught. so she gets up pulitzer prize, she is a third—rate reporter, new york times a stop we put our name appear last week you saw there. i was in a commercial, it was just clips and because he exposed her as being a bad reporter what happened is she came out and said, mark meadows is crying and they made it sound like, mark it is ok if you did. but i think he was crying probably

because, really for the wrong reason. but he is not a crying person. i have no grudge, i know very famous people who cry and that is ok too. but it was a very nasty story. it was big news in she only did it because we exposed her for being a terrible dishonest reporter. i have known herfor a long while, i haven't spoken to her in a long time, itake haven't spoken to her in a long time, i take a picture with her at the desk a long time ago and every time she does a story and they say, i have not spoken to her in many, many months, maybe years. she is fake. a lot of people are fake. a lot of people. we have a lot of fake people. but she writes the story as retribution, puts it in the new york times, at the new york times, it is a very dishonest newspaper. that is my opinion. from my standpoint. the very ha rd my opinion. from my standpoint. the very hard thing to figure out though is that most people would not know that, but i know the facts. and i

said today, the makeup words, sources say, sources say, your sources say, sources say, your sources say, sources say, your sources say means. sources say mean they have nobody. and they make it up. they have nobody. and they make it k? they have nobody. and they make it up. 0k? and they have a few other type of statements that mean the same thing. but sources say is the often used phrase, see a -- cnn, —— cnn, fever should really be mandated and i mean mandated to use the name —— they should. if there is a source, use the name. say that kaylee said or somebody, and then you find out that number one, the source does not exist. i don't believe the sources exist and i tried to tell them. the beautiful thing about doing these conferences is that we have tremendous numbers of viewers and i'm able to reach the viewers without having to go through

fa ke viewers without having to go through fake news where they make a good story into a bad story. so with all of that, it has been an incredible period of time, we have done a fantastic job with the period of time, we have done a fantasticjob with the talk of other nations, the leaders of other nations, the leaders of other nations are calling us for help. their congress for equipment and for testing capacities. deborah will talk about that now, with the testing, we have other tests that will be phenomenal, i think they're going to blow away everything as soon as going to blow away everything as soon as they come out and we are going to get them out as soon as possible. but i would like to ask the doctor to come up and see if yea rs the doctor to come up and see if years about —— say a few words about how far we've come because honestly, it is quite amazing. thank you very much.

wanted to give you an update on where we are as states and a's counties and cities. i know you all are watching carefully the numbers have shifted over the last few days what happens when nations change the reporting from confirmed two probable? reporting from confirmed two probable ? all probable reporting from confirmed two probable? all probable cases are included. i had to add them back in even though the cases have been up for march. they were added over ia, 15th and 16th for march. they were added over 14, 15th and 16th of april. and states may continue to be adding them. eventually, we are hoping they they get accounted for on the day when the presumptive cases or the probable cases were counted. right now they are added in an one fell swoop. this is new york and new jersey and i think we all know how difficult and what a difficult time both new york and newjersey have had. i call your attention to the access. it goes up to 250,000 cases.

you can get a frame of how we are talking about some of the other metro areas. this is a 25 metro areas. the top 25 metro areas it includes newjersey part of the metro area as well as part of southern connecticut. but if i take new york out and the reason i want to do that now the access is one tenth of the previous access. their previous slide, 300,000 this slide 30,000.50 previous slide, 300,000 this slide 30,000. 50 that previous slide, 300,000 this slide 30,000. so that will give you a frame of reference for some of these other metros. the reason i wanted to show you this is this is cumulative cases. and we are still tracking very closely the issues in chicago and boston. but on their side and hope you can see the yellow line. that is detroit. in detroit and

mayor of detroit has done an extraordinary job mayor of detroit has done an extraordinaryjob and the people of detroit have done an extraordinary job with their social distancing. the other line i want to call your attention to the line here, this is new orleans. and i think frankly, i was concerned about new orleans because they had a lot of pre—existing comorbidities. they only have two or three major hospitals but a large, cover a very large area. and the other blue lines that you can see, it's right here. that's the seattle line. you can see, their response because of the nursing home alert, they were one of the first states in the first metro areas to really move to social distancing. they really never had a peak like many of the other metros. ijust want peak like many of the other metros. i just want to peak like many of the other metros. ijust want to take you through some of these new case graphics. that was

cumulative cases, this is daily cases. obviously, there's a lot of variability and variability and reporting but you get a sense of her time when you look at daily cases. so new orleans is on the panel on your left and baton rouge on your right. you can see clearly at new orleans about a month ago, very low levels, probably less than 50 cases. large peak and spike around the beginning of april and they have come down and they are down to very few cases. again i showed you before how both the syndromic cases have come down as well as they actual case numbers. number of cases. this is seattle. you can see they had a much lower peak. this is when we talk about flattening the curve, this is flattening the curve looks like. it becomes a longer, slower decline but it never gets very high. and then goes back down. and then

this is detroit. we always took effect metros as a consolidated. this is both wayne and oakland in michigan. we really want to thank the mayor for the incredible job that they have done to really ensure that they have done to really ensure that everyone is receiving the adequate health care and testing and i've done quite a good job. with testing in michigan. in all of these states, louisiana and new york have tested 30,000 per million inhabitants. those are some of our highest numbers. across the board. and so the president talked about the case mortality rates. in we lost a lot of americans to this disease. we pray and hope for each one of them that are in the hospitals in them that are in the hospitals in the excellent care. what this graph illustrates is the amazing work of the american people to really adhere to social distancing. this was nothing we had ever attempted to do

asa nothing we had ever attempted to do as a nation. in the world hadn't attempted to do. but they were able to decrease the number of cases so that in general, most of the metro areas never had an issue of complete crisis care, of all of their hospitals in a region. so you can see our case fatality rate is about half to a third of many of the other countries. does anybody ever really believe this number?” countries. does anybody ever really believe this number? i put china on there so you can see how basically unrealistic this could be. when highly developed health care delivery systems of the united kingdom and france and belgium and italy and spain with extraordinary doctors and nurses and equipment have case mortality rates in the 20s, up to a5 and belgium is extraordinarily competent health ca re extraordinarily competent health care delivery system and then china at .33. you realise that these

numbers even, this includes the double number out of wuhan. sol wa nt double number out of wuhan. sol want to really put it in perspective but i wanted to also to see how great the care has been for every american that has been hospitalized. an extraordinary work of our doctors and nurses and our laboratory ends on the front line have been doing an excellentjob. we on the front line have been doing an excellent job. we also... does anybody really believe that, you see what's going on there. put that side back for me. does anybody believe this number. does anybody believe this number. does anybody believe this number? this is why the reporting is so important. almost six weeks ago, maybe a month ago i was telling you what italy was showing to us and what france was telling thomas. and the warnings that they gave to us and said be very careful, there's an extraordinary high mortality among people with pre—existing conditions.

and we use their information to bring back to the american people. that alert before we even had significant cases came from our european colleagues on the front line. and that's why we keep coming back to how important in a pandemic, ina new back to how important in a pandemic, in a new disease, it's really critical to have that level of transparency. because it changes how we work as a nation. it allowed us over march 15 to make an alert out there about vulnerable individuals and the need to protect them. and my call out to millennialist to really protect their parents, protect their grandparents and get that information out to everyone. that there were pre—existing conditions that put people at greater risk. that information came from our european colleagues who were in the midst of their battle themselves. and so there is never an excuse to not share information. when you are the first country to have an outbreak, you really have a moral obligation to the world to not only

talk about it, but provide that information that is critical to the re st of information that is critical to the rest of the world to really respond to this credibly. i really want to thank our european colleagues who work so hard to get us that information. even in the midst of their own tragedies. i think that really shows how important transparency is. we can show you there's really encouraging and great news. we know that fatalities will continue to lag because people are in hospitals still and some are still in intensive care units. but these covert like illness these are hospitalizations that are related to flu per hundred thousand americans, this is this years flu season. and you can see our covert like illnesses. this is all of them. all of the improbable and confirmed cases. our hospitalizations are declining. i showed you metros that have made tremendous progress. and we've been up here many times talking about a b and six, 1015

additional cities. and now where it really just focused additional cities. and now where it reallyjust focused on chicago and boston and massachusetts and really some issues that providence is starting to improve now. the relationship to the two large outbreak cities. but this is really reassuring to us that the progress we are making across the country against this disease. i'm just really wa nt against this disease. i'm just really want to conclude by thanking the american people by making these types of graphics possible. thank the data team who puts these together for me. so they are working until about 330 every morning to make sure that we have the most up—to—date information. that's the data that goes to our supply chain individuals to ensure that every hospital in every state in every community has what they need based on data. and to make sure that we are serving the needs of the american people as effectively as possible. thank you mr president. thank you very much. the fact is

we've been learning a lot from deborah tony and so many other professionals, the director. where spending the united states for that help to the best of my knowledge mostly in africa $6 billion a year. and that's on aids. what we've done for aids and that's on aids. what we've done foraids in and that's on aids. what we've done for aids in africa is unbelievable. we spent $6 billion a year. that's been going on for a long time. nobody knows that, you've never heard that. i've never heard that. $6 billion a year. millions of people are living right now and living very comfortably because of the fact that we have found the a nswer to the fact that we have found the answer to that horrible, horrible plague. that was a plague but we

spent $6 billion a year. and from what i hear it's very well spent. done by professionals including this great professional right here. that was the thing that you worked ha rd est was the thing that you worked hardest on and something that was very close to her heart. it's something that i think people should start hearing. the world health organisation we are just finding more and more problems. and we spent this money very well. there are other ways we can spend the $500 million, that's 500 million. that 6 billion. but we can find other ways to spend it where people are going to spend it where people are going to be helped. we think at a much greater, and a much greater way. were doing some research on certain people that take a lot of credit for what they do and nih is giving away a lot of money, a lot of money. we give away for years, for many years they give away a lot of money. and

some people complain and some people don't. some people are extremely happy. so where we are looking into that also. they are giving away approximately, is i understand it, recently more than $32 billion a year. 32 billion. so we've been looking at that for a while and were going to be having some statements to be made about that. $32 billion a year. it's a lot of money. and we wa nt to year. it's a lot of money. and we want to make sure it's being spent wisely and we've been doing that, by the way. and will have some state m e nts the way. and will have some statements on that. those are much bigger numbers than what we're talking about national. if you look with our friends from wherever they come from, 500, 500 million is a lot of money. but it's not a lot compared to the kind of money that we give out. i think over the years it's been averaging about $32 billion. 2 billion. so we've had iri on that went for a while. we also ——

had iri on that one. i guess 3.7 million was given some time ago. and we're looking at that very closely. chief of staff has that pretty much under control. but it's money, too dedicate spent there. but that... what year was that? for five years? six years ago approximately. so were looking at that. that's the lab that people are talking about. all right. so were looking at a lot of things. tremendous waste in our government. we found it in many different ways and in many different forms. and this is one of them. we can spend, i was talking to doctor burks, we can spend $500 million using all of it ina much spend $500 million using all of it in a much more efficient manner if we choose to do that. and it will be to the good of many more people that

aren't getting it right now. but you look at the mistakes that were made. so late. long after i said will have to close off our country they were actually against us closing off our country to china when i did that in january. they were against that. they didn't like the idea. they said it was a bad thing to do, actually. and they've since taken aback. but it was a very lucky thing that we did it. very lucky. we would've had numbers that were very significantly greater. tony felt he said that he felt it would been significantly greater if we hadn't done that. we made some good news but it still a very depressing subject. because it's a lot of death and if we stopped very early on at the source before it started blowing into these proportions, we have a for countries that would have been in a lot better shape but our countries getting back andi shape but our countries getting back and i expect that were going to be bigger, better and stronger than

ever before. i will take a few questions. you mentioned china a few times today clearly suggesting that the data... do you think that that is good, do you think that is correct? dramatic, yeah. my questions are... why didn't you people figure that out though? why do we have to put up a chart? the number is, it's an impossible number to hit. but why haven't you come up and said that? is china now cooperating with the united states to figure out what happened and what do you want from them now? well, they said they're doing an investigation, that they are doing an investigation. so lets see what happens with their investigation. but where doing investigations also. you've spoken a few moments ago saying every country has a response

ability to tell the rest of the world what's going on. you talked repeatedly about how this could've been stopped in the past. i know you don't want to telegraph what you would do but do you think that there should be some consequences if in the end you know, china was responsible for all of this? well, if they were knowingly responsible, certainly. if it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. but if they we re mistake is a mistake. but if they were knowingly responsible, yeah than they should be consequences. you're talking about, potentially lives like nobody‘s seen since 1917. the other thing had we not done what we did in terms of closing, because there is the concept of let's let it ride. at some point i'm going to have to, i don't want to embarrass countries that are like and later that i like but you have to see some of these numbers. in my opinion, so we are talking about maybe 60,000 or so, that's a lot of people. but

that's 100,000, so, that's a lot of people. but that's100,000, was the so, that's a lot of people. but that's 100,000, was the minimum that we could get to. and we will be lower than that number. anywhere from 100 to 220,000 people. but i really believe it could've been millions of people had we not done what we did. we made a lot of good decisions but one those things. have you ruled out that this was an on knowing situation? i haven't ruled out anything, i'll get a look at the fa cts out anything, i'll get a look at the facts as they come in. i want to look at the facts, please. thank you very much mr president. last week you claim we were in charge of everything. yet the american people don't understand why you are not using the awesome power of your presidency to make companies manufacture ppe and also the testing equipment, implement your recommendations... who you with? tm n. mike known as doug christian. go

ahead, keep reading your question. the thing is, how to make companies build these testing equipment so that you can do what you want? where doing it. we're doing it right now with venter relators, we have general motors, general electric, we have 11 different companies, great companies building them for us all over the united states. we are starting to make our own gowns, as they call it. we are making some incredible things and as far as the testing is concerned, most of that now is done in the united states. we are doing it in the united states. different platforms. so ijust don't think you were listening. senators we re think you were listening. senators were complaining... which senator? independent senator angus king. he's an independent. he said that he was livid. of course he said that, because he's a democrat. he's not an

independent. he uses the term for whatever reason. it's a waste of time. you haven't seen him. 0k, whatever reason. it's a waste of time. you haven't seen him. ok, you haven't seen him. no, angus king is a democrat and that was totally stage. i heard that it was totally staged. just like you read the question, he read his question. in the back. i wanted to ask you about one of your retweets... which one? the wind you retweeted let's see if authorities have reduced the like they did churches during easter. authorities have reduced the like they did churches during easterlj would like to see that. ijust they did churches during easterlj would like to see that. i just spoke with leaders and people that love mosques. they love mosques. and i'm all in favour of that. but i would say that there could be a difference. will have to see what will happen because i've seen a great disparity in this country. i've seen a great disparity. i've seen a very strong

i've seen a great disparity. i've seen a very strong anti—israel event in congress was not it was unthinkable seven or eight or ten yea rs unthinkable seven or eight or ten years ago. and now they are into a whole different thing between 0mar and aoc. i say aoc plus three. add them on. you have, i mean the things they say about israel are so bad. i can't believe it. so i would be interested to see that. because they go after christian churches but they don't tend to go after mosques. and i don't want them to go after mosques. but i do want to see what their vengeance. mr president i was suggesting that imams wouldn't follow social distancing? know. i think, ijust had a call with ministers, rabbis, we had a tremendous call with the faith leaders. no i don't think that it all. iam leaders. no i don't think that it all. i am somebody that believes in faith. and it matters not what your faith. and it matters not what your faith is but our politicians seem to

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