that's never many things at a pace that's never happened before. they‘ re many things at a pace that's never happened before. they're being the very safe about it. steven told me very safe about it. steven told me very strongly. but at the same time, they are improving things at record numbers at a record rate. it's really been helpful. many tests are going on, many vaccine tests. tests of every different kind and things are happening just like this, things are happening just like this, things are travelling very rapidly i'd like to have stephen tell you a little bit about it. thank you very much. thank you, mr president. i appreciate the opportunity. we had a team of more than 18,000 employees, including 10,000 scientists, doctors, pharmacists and nurses and they been working around the clock. as you probably know, many of the medical products that are being used for the outbreak are in fact regulated by fda. the staff have been hard at work authorising tests and other medical products. as part

of these efforts to support diagnostic test development during this local pandemic, the president has asked us under his leadership to actually cut down as many barriers as we possibly can to get medical products into the medical community and we have done that. of course recognising the urgency of the situation. i do want to emphasise the —— we are paying very much attention. it's very important to understand how far we've come in just a few short months. the academic community, which i come from, the private sector, the government have come together to develop diagnostics. it's really important we've heard from many tests developers, both in the manufacturing world and in academia, this normally takes years to develop. hiv test have taken many, many years to develop. this has happened in weeks and months. we've

been laser focused on working with both industry and academia to actually make this happen. today underour actually make this happen. today under our emergency use authorisation ui'iuei’ oui' eitiei’gei'icy use authorisation approach, we put in review and authorised 63 tests. both diagnostic as well as the antibody test. we've had several point—of—care test and that's important because those can be done in an emergency important because those can be done in an eitiei’gei'icy i’ooiti important because those can be done in an emergency room and a doctor office and much more convenient for the patient. this week is president “ we the patient. this week is president —— we acknowledge a test where under certain circumstances with doctor supervision, a test can be mailed to a patient and a patient can perform self swab and mail it back for results. all under the guidance of a licence physician. we are working with more than 400 test developers who are pursuing authorisation for their diagnostics under our current policies. under our regulatory

approach, many other tests will be coming available. we have heard and had reported to us 220 labs around the country have become patient testing using their own validated tests. this has allowed us to increase significantly tests around the country. i updated you earlier oi'i the country. i updated you earlier on these antibody tests that are used to detect natural immunity. these are just one part of our larger i’espoi‘ise these are just one part of our larger response effort. they can play a role in helping move our economy play a role in helping move our economy forward by helping health care professionals i defy those who have immunity to the covid—19. when it comes to therapeutics, we are leaving no stone unturned in finding treatments for covid—19. we know now have no approve, but we are actively involved to find those. 70 trials of therapeutics are under way in the united states. under fda oversight.

211 are in the planning stages so we expect to see more. this includes —— work continues on vaccines and two firms have announced the fda has authorised their support. finally in i’espoi‘ise authorised their support. finally in response to the president's request, we response to the president's request, we stood up to —— we are leaving no stone unturned and working around—the—clock to develop these therapeutics for the american people. thank you very much. just about an hour ago a committee release findings that the fda doesn't have any review of the antibody tests that are on the market. there are no guidelines. no telling which ones should be out there and there's no way to test their accuracy. they are quite worried that these are jump test on the market because they weren't

reviewed before they were approved. is that true? under our policy, what we is that true? under our policy, what we told manufacturers that in order to market the us, they have to validate their test. they have to tell us they validated their test and they have to let people know and users, labs etc that those tests we i’e users, labs etc that those tests were not authorised by fda. we authorise four. these tests that have come in without any information to us but have been self validated, asi to us but have been self validated, as i mentioned a couple days ago, we are working with the national cancer institute as well as cdc to perform oui' institute as well as cdc to perform our own institute as well as cdc to perform our own validation of the test that have been sent to us. we will provide as much information as we possibly can. there is transparency oi'i possibly can. there is transparency on the website about those tests and also the tests that we have authorised. thank you, mr president. from early in this effort, president

trump has called forth the whole of government response to the coronavirus epidemic in america. by that, the president made clear when he asked me to leave the white house coronavirus task force, a full partnership in state and local governments across the country. today we renew that with our latest contract call with governors all across america —— conference call. we met with them today specifically to speak about the progress our governors are making, expanding testing across the country. we are pleased to hear the extraordinary and rapid progress that governors are making. we of course had a report on progress, more than 35,000 national guards stood up. 5000 active duty military deployed in ten states and we were also pleased to

report that fema, hhs and the private sector have coordinated a delivery of shipments to states around the country, including nearly 67 masks, 105 million surgical masks, surgical gowns, shields, gloves, more than 2000 then ventilators and more than 8000 federal field ventilators and more than 8000 federalfield medical ventilators and more than 8000 federal field medical station ventilators and more than 8000 federalfield medical station beds. the on the report that we provided to the governors, we assured them that at the president's direction, this is one team, one mission. we've made it clear to the governors that we know we're all in this together. the partnership that we have forged together really begins with mitigation efforts. it moves to making sure our health care workers have the support they need, but also testing is in the forefront of all of our minds. we're working to make it possible for every governor to access the existing capacity to enable our state to be able to

reopen responsibly under the phased approach that the president unveiled one week ago. a little bit of context, you may recall that one month ago, all the testing that have been done in america, 80,000 americans have been tested. as of this morning, 5.1 million americans have been tested for the coronavirus. a quick reminder to our fellow americans, this was something from our scientists today at the task force. as testing increases dramatically across the country, cases will increase as well. but people should not be discouraged by those numbers. we are looking at very positive trends in hospitalization, and emergency rooms, and we continue to see every day over the last several weeks, we

continue to see positive progress, not just continue to see positive progress, notjust on continue to see positive progress, not just on the continue to see positive progress, notjust on the west continue to see positive progress, not just on the west coast continue to see positive progress, notjust on the west coast but even where the epidemic has most deeply impacted in areas of greater new york city, new orleans, detroit and elsewhere. on our nearly two hour phone call today with the governors, we heard the progress governors were making in implementing the resources we've been working to provide. not just the medical equipment, but also as you recall, that map a week ago that showed where all of the equipment is all across the country in all 50 states. governor cuomo joined us for the call today. he spoke favourably and his recognition that testing is a partnership between the federal and state governments as governor cuomo said today. he understood the federal government works with national manufacturing and supply chains and the governor's deal with the labs to expand and implement testing at the

state level. governor cuomo also explained how he's using is lessening authority as a governor to stand up to more than 300 labs that can do testing in the state of new york —— licensing authority the. we congratulated him for his leadership. in tennessee, the governor told us he's deploy the national guard to stand up more than 20 drive—through test sites. they are testing 10,000 people a day. they've already tested more than 130,000 people in tennessee and they expect to search another 15,000 people in testing sites this weekend in tennessee. massachusetts is working —— we are watching as cases have not yet stabilised and governor charlie baker after he thanked us, he described how they have rapidly expanded testing all across massachusetts. he commended him for that. in the beginning of march, he

said they had one testing site in that state of massachusetts and now thanks to the governor's team they have more than 30. minnesota governor tim walts reflected on the call today about the partnership he's forged with the male clinic, the university of minnesota. they are actually collaborating to perform 20,000 molecular tests and 15,000 antibody test per day. i'm looking forward to travelling to the mayo clinic to learn first—hand from the governor about their efforts across the state to expand testing. i will governor kim reynolds gave an update on her progress. she's tripling capacity in her state. she also launched the test iowa .com website which actually creates an access point for people to fill out access point for people to fill out a questionnaire about whether or not

their symptoms or circumstances are justifiable for a test. she said in the first 72 hours, 150,000 people went to the test site to receive an assessment and iowa is now testing 4500 people a day. in indiana, i spoke today with governor eric holcomb. they tested 72,000 people today. they are adding drive—through sites. they have ten established before. as other governors have done, governor holcomb last week opened up half of their elected surgery sites and hospitals across the state and they'll be opening up the state and they'll be opening up the balance of their surgery sites next week. in maryland, another area that we're watching very closely, larry hogan expressed appreciation forfederal support as larry hogan expressed appreciation for federal support as he continuing to scale testing. he had been in touch with the national institutes of health which opening up its

laboratories for marilyn to do testing. we were absolutely actually —— actually able to confirm. in utah, gary herbert said he actually devoted 1200 state employees to do contact racing. in the last 36 hours, 23,000 residents have also signed up for what they are calling the healthy together app. they have 50 different testing locations across you , 50 different testing locations across you, and have tested a few thousand people in the state —— across utah. other state examples we re across utah. other state examples were just as across utah. other state examples werejust as inspiring. governor phil mercy of newjersey forged a partnership with rutgers university working closely with the fda. they've authorised saliva based tests that are being deployed just at that site that's expanding their ability to track what continues to bea ability to track what continues to be a very challenging environment in newjersey. governor mike parsons of

missouri also told us how they'd work with google marketplace to create an online portal for more than 200 companies in missouri who have repurposed their manufacturing lines to create medical supplies to meet their need within the state and in connecticut, governor ned lamont spoke about the positive trends in connecticut which has really been at the centre of the outbreak. but he also said they were hoping to double testing over the next week. mr bragg is in it, that'sjust a sample testing over the next week. mr bragg is in it, that's just a sample of what we for today —— mr president. i know it's an encouragement to you andi know it's an encouragement to you and i trust its an encouragement to people all across the country. that your direction, we are implementing a testing strategy that is supported at the federal level, but it is deployed and managed at the state level. we want to express our appreciation to every governor across the country. that are standing up all of those labs that

are available that are working with us are available that are working with us and our supply chain personnel to make sure the swabs and the equipment is there to be able to process the test and we will continue to increase testing dramatically in the weeks to come. we wa nt we want to thank our governors for the progress on testing in their role in urging their citizens to practice the kind of mitigation and social distancing efforts really making real progress. we are one team. and one mission. and that is to save lives. because of of all of the efforts that have been made at the state level, and the strong guidance that has come from the federal level, because of the amazing health care workers across this country and our first responders, but mostly i believe because of the cooperation of millions of americans who put the guidance into practice. their cooperation and their prayers have set us on a path where we are slowing the spread, we are

protecting our most vulnerable and i truly do