turnaround after want to do days. turnaround time for people in beds, hospital bedsis time for people in beds, hospital beds is less than 25 hours. we are doing that in the same way we dealt with the fda where clear delivering the quality that you expect. convenience will improve as well with convenient solutions. they will be able to swap individuals more easily. also delivered to consumer will need to have consumers choose a test online with a telehealth provider. better like to offer my colleague the podium as well. mr president, thank you very much for your leadership and for having us all here today. our scientists and ourlab all here today. our scientists and our lab technicians are working day and night in order to do as many times as we possibly can for the american public. and to turn those tests are run as quickly as possible. just 45 days ago we said we could do several thousand tests a day. we can now do 60,000 tests a day. we can now do 60,000 tests a day and were continuing to expand

that capacity every single day. in addition our scientists are working to make testing more convenient and easier. we have the swabs now that are much smaller than the original ones that we originally launched with. but we also have the pixel by labcorp at home test. that test right now is for health care workers oi'i right now is for health care workers on the front line and first responders. but we will be rolling that out much more broadly over the coming weeks. and we're going to roll it out with absolutely no out three mac upfront cost for the individual consumers. at the same time we are building our capacity for serology testing. we can currently do about 50,000 today. and it will be able to do several hundred thousand per day by the middle of may. and were going to be working with the retailers, our colleagues are here today to help them as they expand their testing capabilities across the entire country. and lastly, mr president, we have a rather large drug development business and we will continue to work with our colleagues

in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry to ensure we do everything we possibly can to enrol clinical trials faster that we can get new treatments and potential vaccines. thank you. mr president, thank you and thank the administration for all of the collaboration to enable thermo fisher scientific to be able to produce the test kits that companies like labcorp and public health labs around the world run. we met our original production of 5 million kids a week. we are up to scaling back to double that in the coming weeks in terms of supporting testing around the world. i like to thank my 75,000 colleagues around the world for their tireless effort to make that reality. and supporting all of oui’ that reality. and supporting all of our customers to have the testing necessary to get america back to

work. thank you mr president. i'm john with us cotton. we are they company that's going to produce the swabs to be these testing kits. we have about 1200 people in our company and in our cleveland operation they have pivoted from as you said, the q-tip operation they have pivoted from as you said, the q—tip sound swab to a squad that's going to have a plastic stick with a polyester tip. so that they can be assembled into these cats. 0ur cleveland team has done a wonderfuljob with this and, they are very excited to be able to help in this effort. so thank you, mr president. mr president, thank you. i'm with cvs health and it was just over a month ago that we opened up oui’ over a month ago that we opened up our first drive—through test site. and since that time we have opened

large scale testing facilities across five states in partnership with the administration. and working with the administration. and working with the administration. and working with the governors of rhode island, massachusetts, connecticut, georgia and michigan. and these sites are enabling us to test approximately a thousand individuals a day with real—time results. we now have a capacity to test about 35,000 individuals each week. this afternoon we announced plans to expand that capacity even further. beginning in may we will install testing capabilities and up to 1000 cvs pharmacies. we will be using our drive—through through us and our parking lots with swab testing. again, you'll see that coming online in may. we also recognise the fact that the virus is disproportionately affecting our minority community. so we are working in partnerships with organisations like the national medical association to bring testing and care into the traditionally underserved communities. we are also

beginning to implement mobile capabilities with which to do that. as businesses are restarting their work for us, we will also be looking to assist them as they began to come back to a normal operation. and finally, as my other colleagues i just want to thank my cvs colleagues, they have done a phenomenaljob colleagues, they have done a phenomenal job in terms colleagues, they have done a phenomenaljob in terms of helping people in many different ways. all across communities in the country. and they are part of this army of health care professionals and front store and first—line supervisors and workers that are doing terrific things to bring our country together. and for that we owe them a huge amount of gratitude. thank you. let's just pull away from this press conference for just a moment. let's just pull away from this press conference forjust a moment. catch up conference forjust a moment. catch up with caddy who's been watching. business leaders confirming that things are moving along as donald trump was saying. 5.40 million test including the president. mr trump

himself sticking very much to the script today. yes, he just come up, the white house has come up with a blueprint they call it for testing. which talks about the federal governments responsibility ie that white houses response building. they say they're going to get enough test out to every state to be evident to test 2% of the population. public health experts say that america is going to be more than that. i'm having a bit of deja vu because last time we saw some of these ceos was on march the 13th. feels like a lifetime away when they stood up there and said they were within a rapidly ramp up testing. it's true, the us has made some progress in testing, now people who have symptoms, it's much easier than it was even a couple of weeks ago to get that test. but the question is to open up the country, do you now need to start testing on a much, much bigger scale? america still only ranks about 38 in the world when it comes to the number of people per capita who are being tested. do you need to be able to tested. do you need to be able to test people if they got up go back

to her? if i'm can go get my haircut, when nothing nice, do i need to know that my hairdresser has not recently tested positive. does my hairdresser need to know that i have not tested positive? we are a long way from that kind of capacity in the united states. and it will be interesting to see that this time around the white house is blueprint for getting more tests out there, more test kits, more re—aging, more test swa bs more test kits, more re—aging, more test swabs out to the various states whether that ramps up faster because last time back on march 13 it took a long while for america to ramp up testing at all. your hair is as beautiful as ever. in terms of donald trump though, he wasn't going to do everything was a? and that will change with his new press secretary a few hours ago. is he going to take questions this time as well? yeah, it's been the on-again off—again press briefing today. we we re off—again press briefing today. we were told that the beginning there was going to be a press briefing that when we told it was not going

to be won and that was back on and a slightly modified to eight modified format. on friday after the great debacle about ingesting disinfectant the friday evening press briefing early to shut us when we had, all five weeks of this only lasted 20 minutes. and the president didn't ta ke minutes. and the president didn't take questions. it ended rather abruptly. there are members of the press corps sitting there in the rose garden and it has been billed asa rose garden and it has been billed as a press briefing about testing for results you know, the present likes these formats. even though over the weekend he said he wasn't going to be doing more of these things because it wasjust going to be doing more of these things because it was just a massive rating bonanza for the media. the truth is he thinks it's rating bonanza for himself. he has boasted several times about the great ratings at these events are getting. i would be surprised if he keeps it brief again. and doesn't take questions. it's been billed as a present paris france and as a press conference. presumably there will be questions. we spoke last thursday when we went on to he went on to talk about the injection of

disinfectant. these followed has been tumultuous, has in it? everything he claimed that the time really was disproved. he really was speaking to the doctor. even republican governors have criticised him. yes, first of all it started with the makers of lysol. having to come out and say please do not ingest disinfectant, our products in any form. then you had the republican governor of maryland putting out a statement as well, the health authorities in maryland because they had over 100 calls in the morning after the president said that into their hotline asking about the possibility of ingesting disinfectant in some form. you had republicans across the board criticism. it was seen as a disastrous appearance from the president. with a huge two huge amount of criticism for the top it shows up in the polls. this is what's interesting, and american public according to very recent polls last week to trust their own public health officials and their

own governors more than they do the president. only 22% of america, or of republicans give a loto credence to what the president has been saying about the coronavirus. there's been a recognition from republicans that this was a bad moment for the president. he has been urged by his advisers to scale back his own appearances and let the experts do more of the talking. but here we are tonight with the president out there surrounded again by ceos. at the white house would like to do is pay for it and looking forward to reopening the economy and the pass over the last few weeks. and i suppose in terms of publicity in terms of donald trump, you have people watching the same. hang on... i'm hearing that donald trump is back at the lectern. i want to thank our vice president for the tests and a course for the work. every day it gets better and we had a fantastic call with the governors today. and i

would say that they are as thrilled as they can be considering that the fa ct as they can be considering that the fact is that there has been so much unnecessary death in this country. it could have been stopped and it could've been stopped short but somebody a long time ago it seems, decided not to do it that way. in the whole world is suffering because of it. 185 countries at least. but i wa nt to of it. 185 countries at least. but i want to thank all of these great business men and women for the job they've done. they been fantastic was working with us. as you know for several weeks my administration has encouraged the governors to leverage unused testing capacity in states. very few understood that we had tremendous capacity. and one week ago we provided each governor with a list of names, addresses and phone numbers of the labs where they can find additional testing capacity in their state. within 48 hours the number of test performed across the

country began to absolutely skyrocket. on saturday alone more than 200,000 test results were reported. which is a gigantic number. bigger than any country anywhere in the world for eight much longer period of time. a number that is an increase earlier in the month when we tested, roughly less than 100,000 a day. so we've much more than doubled it. that will be doubling again very shortly. we are continuing to rapidly expand our capacity and are confident that we have enough testing to begin reopening. in the reopening process, we wa nt reopening. in the reopening process, we want to get our country open. and the testing is not going to be a problem at all. in fact, it's going to be one of the great assets that we have. today where releasing additional guidance on testing to inform the states as they develop their plans for a phased and very safe reopening. our blueprint describes how the state should unlock their full capacity expand

the number of testing platforms, monitoring systems to detect local outbreaks and conduct contact tracing. we have it all. other countries are calling to find out what are we doing and how do you do it and were helping them for that we re it and were helping them for that were dealing with a lot of countries did helping them with testing. just like we did on the ventilators. our director art medicare programme make it easierfor seniors to director art medicare programme make it easier for seniors to get the testing that they need. in the pharmacies as you know, we are allowing pharmacies now to do testing. and we have other testing locations that were going to be allowing also. but having pharmacies get involved in testing is a very big deal. we are also asking governors to do the same in their medicaid program. so they are going to be able to authorise and do the same in medicaid. that's a big deal. we are deploying the full power and strength of the federal government to help states, cities, local government get this horrible plague

over with. and over with fast. this tremendous energy in our country right now. there is energy like people haven't seen in a long time. a spirit that they have not seen. and we are doing well, very well considering what happened to us and considering what happened to us and considering if you look at what happened to others. this is something that the world has not seen for a long, long time. you can probably go back to 1917 where it was a terrible period of time. you all know what happened in 1917. that's over 100 years ago. with that i'd like to introduce if i might, doctor if you can come up and then admiral you will come up in between the two of you you will explain the entire progress and how much progress we've made and where we're going. thank you very much. thank you, mr president. so, the blueprint lays out the roles and responsibilities to enhance our

partnership between the private sector and the public sector. bringing together state and local governments with the federal government to ensure that we can accomplish and achieve our the core elements of the plan include three elements. roebuck 's diagnostic plans and i really want to thank the governors and health officials who been working with us day and night to work through these issues —— robust diagnostic plans. as well as the americans i set society for microbiology who been working to make sure these plans have been efficient. increasing the numberof have been efficient. increasing the number of testing platforms, we now have multiple tests for different platforms. increasing the ability to collect samples, increasing testing and laboratory supplies and ensuring

we work together to make sure