"strange inheritance." and remember, you can't take it with you. ♪ melissa: that does it for us, "lou dobbs tonight," starts now. lou: good evening, president trump is expected to take podium at the white house briefing room. any moment now. it will not be the briefing room as you see there, it will be the rose garden, he is his coronavirus task force continuing to deliver critical information to the american people about where we are in this great battle against the wuhan virus. as of this hour, the virus has killed at least 2880 americans. and there are almos almost 157,0 cases in country tonight, i will be critical of several governors

for their handles of the response by state government, i think not doing so out of partisan motivation, but to remind some of those governors they are playing politics, several of them, that a little modesty is in order in midst of this crisis it critically required as a 7 thei a -- senser own struggles to contend with this crisis, no one has budget n perfect, everyone needs to do their best, party politics needs to end. the president, and his administration are throwing everything they can at response effort, yes, they have made mistakes but they have also done much, extending distancing guideline to april 30, and guideline to article 30, he had hoped symbolic day of easter sunday might mark the beginning of america returning to

normalcy. returning to work. but the president is now being advises that the peak of contagion may arrive at precisely that moment. >> we're doing a lot of things, we don't' to do it too soon. you know we're thinking that around easter that will be your spike that will be the highest point. we think. then it will start to come down from there, that will be a day of celebration, we want to do it right, we picked end of april the last day, april 30. the day where we could see real progress and we are expecting to see that. lou: doctor deborah berke said as many as 2 million americans could have died without the trump administration effort to mitigate the cases when they did. today, she said that the number still may reach 200,000. president trump is fighting to keep casualties low, urging the

nation this morning to enight, o through a little bit more hardship. >> the big thing, it will gone, hopefully sooner rather than later and keep the deaths down to a minimum number, there is tremendous death. but keep them down to the minimum number. lou: virus' impact fda approved a plan to put on a fast track, distribution of millions of doses of clear -- clear -- gierd hydorxychloroquine. and the needed masks that allows them to be used by doctors,

nurses and first responders, joining us di is dr. mehmet oz. great to see you employment numbers of troubling to us, reaching as well, i was about to say as many as 200 these. but dr. berke said that means that everything is done pe perfectly, we're expecting difficult times ahead, your thoughts? >> well, two weeks ago, i was hoping by now we'd have more they're cla clarity. we know that numbers in new york is stabilizing that getting better. the miles that i look at would predict we have 140,000 deaths a lot of people, but that is not 2.2 million, i hope by acting correctly, and efforts in each person's home, that is how we

will win this battle, the people listening to my voice right now, models predict could be in 50s of thousands of people, note a tragically high number if we could keep it that low over 200,000. we're learning i am hoping from what is happening in new york, babad news is that new york is a war zone. we missed the boat. it is too easy to look backwards and pick up the errors, but there are other hot spots cities, chicago, new orleans, detroit, where we're seeing, tips of the iceberg, problems that might sink the beautiful cities. do when we did aggressively 2 weeks ago. lou: there has been failures, and vocalized by some local mayors, some state governors, meanwhile, i want to get your

opinion of the response of the trump administration in a nonpartisan manner, because, they did make mistakes, about testing, mistakes about having adequate supplies, and now, testing is inadequate, but that role was a shared role between state governments and the federal government, was it not? >> you know there is plenty of blame, you can look in rearview mirror but never stare, the testing is single biggest challenge, you are blindfolded, you can't make decisions -- decisions that normally should be data driven, you have to make gut instinct decisions, i think across the board for most of our civic leaders has been done pretty well. and everyone could look back say, i wish i did it 3 or 4 days earlier, but as we watched it evolve that was not evident to most. the biggest lesson.

none of our scenarios ever predicted we would have no data. there was always an assumption we knew who was sick. and this morning, i asked a question on fox and friends, how long until we have single day testing, where i do the test, i get my result back within 24 hours, forget about an hour, by next morning, you know what happens in hospitals, a patient has sniffles and a fever, is it covid-19 in i don't know, you need isolation, the rooms and equipment, everyone is scared, no one can visit them, for a week, that is approximately how long it takes, you sit there not knowing if you have a potentially lethal infection or you had a little bit of biggestg we have to improve that. if we can fix that in next week, we will change our management of this disease, we'll identify hot spots and intervene on them,

ready i hope by middle of the month, and when april 30 comes not whole country but some, it will be safe to go back in the water, because people liked dr. 4 fauci will say that is a hot spot or it is okay there. lou: it is troubling, when i hear reports of various hospitals pressed to the beyond their capacity. turning away young men and women, who are -- have 103 degree temperatures and coughing, but then told they don't have kno an underlying condition, therefore they don't qualify under the federal guidelines. they will happen, they happen in health care, but to see this

happening with an absence of adequate supplies of testing, people told you have to wait 5 to 7 days, who knows how many people they will contact in that period of time. we have to get those tests in far greater numbers and far -- with a far sooner arrival date. >> the good news is, with approval of the device to give us results in less than 10 minutes we'll have point of service treatment, you don't have to be in a hospital to get the test, it can be done in a doctor's office or a mobile spot. if a friend of mine calls me, said i have a fever, i feel fatigued and a dry cough, i say, you might have covid-19, most of the time it shows you don't have it, but don't go to the hospital, if you don't have it, you will get it when you get there. i'm hoping and i believe that these tests wo act to data.

people make brave decision to shut down, industries in future if they get contaminated, you will go down, offices, buildings, but country in general will keep moving forward, the big challenge is what happens after april 30, keep the doors open, open the spigot slowly but make sure you are not making a big mistake. lou: and the administration fast tracking everything it can. hydorxychloroquine, among them, and chlor clear itself. >> what -- there is along list of things done well, i' to applaud task force for moving quickly, fema-built hospitalled in new york the javits center, they did it so rapidly. but medication approval is an

example of all of the red tape cuts. and hydorxychloroquine we're not really sure if it will work. a french doctor said it is getting results, and chinese make it part of care. fda said go do it when we find out when the trial shows then we'll either pullback or let it keep going, same for other therapies. you mentioned the masks, the idea that could do that with hydrogen peroxide never crossed my mind. we will get passed this. if we do it faster and more safely that shows more. lou: with the private sector turning to meeting this crisis, i think we can all expects great innovations and american to make a significant difference in the

outcome. dr. oz thank you, we appreciate it good to see you. >> thank you. lou: coming up here next, president trump and his coronavirus task force, they are about to take the podium in the rose garden, we'll told, when they do we'll have it for you. coming up. in just moments, we're told. up next, president trump and the task force, set to deliver the dalthedaily briefing, we'll brit to you live, and radical dimms in some country largest cities in states, they have some struggle with the politics of the wuhan virus pandemic, we take up that and president has -- moving forward podium, here he is. president of united states. >> thank you very much. very comfortable here, a lot of room. and we appreciate you being

here. yesterday i announced we would be extending our social distance guidelines through the end of april. this is based on modeling that chose the peak in fate -- fatalities will arrive in two weeks, and follows these guidelines we could save more than 1 million american lives. think of that, one million american lives. our future is in our own hands, and the choices and sacrifices we make will determine the fate of this virus and really the fate of our victory. we'll have a great victory, we have no other choice. every one of us has a role to play in winning this war, of every citizen family expb can ma difference, this say challenging duty. this is a very vital 30 days.

we're sort of putting it on the line, this 30 days, so important, we have to get back. but the more we dedicate ourselves today the more quickly we will emerge on the other side of the crisis. and that is the time we're waiting for, the more we commit ourselves now the sooner we can win the fight and return to our lives, they will be great lives. maybe better than ever. today we reached a historic milestone in the war against the coronavirus. over 1 million americans have been tested. more than any other country by far. not even close. and tested accurately. and i think what i'd like to do is ask secretary azar, who has done a fantastic job to come up say a few words about fact we reached now more 1 million tests, please.

>> thank you, alex. >> thank you, mr. president. for your leadership in marshalling all resources we have for this unprecedented testing effort and thank you, mr. vice president for leading whole of economy approach. the united states hit more than 1 million samples tested. a number that no other country has reached. we're now testing nearly 100,000 samples a day. also a level that no other country has reached. i want to thank every partner that has been involved in this. that includes all men and women of the fda, the cdc, including director redfield and commissioner hahn. we have worked to balance need are in testing on an aggressive scale with scientific rigor that americans expect. working with our testing coordinate or admiral, they have now unleashed the private

second-tier and state of local leaders, center of america's historic approach to testing, thank those state and local leaders who used their on the ground resources and knowledge to lead testing and make it much more easily accessible to americans who need it. i am grateful to fema, we're working closely too get state and local partners. a they need, and thank cms, they have given hiel healthcare prov, flexibility to scale up capacity for testing and treatment. we would not be where we are today without many american companies, entrepreneurs and scientists who worked day and night, to develop as of today 20 different emergency testing options, with fda responding to question for authorize within 24 hours. the number of options is growing of day, fda opened up new options for using available tests like self-swabbing.

and i want to thank fda and otr components of hhs for rapid action on other tools we need, this weekend we worked to secure 30 million tablets. are hydorxychloroquine, and chloroquine, potential covid-19 treatments, and authorized new decontamination machines that can stairlize the -- stairlize the masks that are issue. >> >> thank you, i would like ask dr. hahn to come unemploy fda we have some really good stuff, the numbers have been incredible on testing, but. in the days ahead, we'll go faster, and we have something from abbott labs, that is right here. a 5 minute test. highly accurate.

and i maybe can show that as we listen to our fda commissioner, the job he has done and the approval process we're talked about the chloroquine and hydorxychloroquine just now, alex has done that, we have that now under test with 1100 people in new york, only the fast approval by fda that allows to us do that it was a really rapid approval. and doctor say a few words this is first one on the line of 5 minute test. from abbott. >> thank you, mr. president. for your leadership. i am very proud of fda staff work in last few months to expedite the availability of testing, i am appreciative of viprivate industries to work wih us quickly to develop and

distribute the tests week have a addition to testing, with authorization of point of care test. which the president has pulled out of the box. a point of care test, that gives you a result where you are getting care. this is truly a patient-centered approach. just like tests for flu, or strep where you go to doctor get the tests didn't you can get answer within minutes of having this test done, now with them approved or abbott and others, they are available it country and planning it scale up the number of tests. patients can get answer in little as 15 to 5 minutes. and then an appropriate plan of treatment can be given. we at fda are work, quickly with abbott and other testing approach, normally they take

months to development i was on phone today. he abbott ceo he said formally in is 12 to 9 monarchproach, themonth -- month,approach theyn weeks. and abbott shared they will deliver the tests tomorrow, and then will ramp up. to emphasize one thing, most innovative pluc products come fm private sector in lands with the government, abbott and fda worked together to have a fast reliable, and accurate test to market. thank you. >> great job, thank you. >> great job. thank you, steve. >> so the pharmaceutical company has been working with us, and as alex mentioned, a little bit, 30 million doses of the

hydorxychloroquine to the united states government, been given. and bayer donated 1 million doses of the chloroquine, which will soon be distributed to states and state health officials in the country. teva pharmaceuticals is also donating 6 million doses of hydorxychloroquine to u.s. hospitals, 6 million doses. so the private sector, you say, steve has been amazing, really amazing. and wealth in.. then we is have so many more, fda authorized the n-95 respiratory mask ste sterilizatn

kits. i have been asking why do you throw them away, why don't they use sterilization techniques, i got a call from governor of ohio, mike dewine. he said we can a company, names they are having a hard time getting approval from the fda, i called dr. hahn, they got the approval, i want to thank mike and steve, they will be able -- each machine can disinfect 120 thousand masks per day. think of that. each machine can disinfect 120,000 masks per day. it will be like a new one, it can go up to about 20 times for each mask. each mask can go through this process 20 times, they have two

in ohio, one in new york, one soon shipped to seattle, washington. and also to washington, d.c. that will make a tremendous difference on the masks. this morning i speak with our nation's governors. yesterday vice president mike pence asked our nation's hospitals to begin reporting total bed capacity, icu bed eve, ventilator capacity. and mike thank you for that great job. thank you very were. in new york the 2900 bed hospital, under construction is completed, they completed it in three days, 3 1/2. at the javits center. it will be completed today, will be -- when you look so they are going up a think we'll add more beds that will be completed

today. and we have opened up -- woops there goes our box. higmy mayor hair is blowing aros mine. you can't get away with. nearly 3,000 medical beds will become operational, u.s. navy ship 1,000 hospital beds, workers have begun on national temporary hospital sites, and and floors of a high-rise building on wall street. it has been really pretty amazing what they have done, army corps of engineers when they have done, they just completed, think of it, a 2900 bed hospital. in new york. in just about three maybe four days, the whole city is talking

about it. we bloated ifloated in a great a thousand rooms used for patients outside of what we're focused onao, that will free up a lot of rooms for what we're focused on. it has been great. army corps of engineers awarded contract fo for construction of alternate care facilities also. 60 ambulances to new york city today, we have a total of 60, we getting additional ones, with up to 190 more to follow in different locations, fema obligated more than 1.3 billion dollars in federal support to the state of new york. we're spending a lot of money in new york, it is a hotbed, no question about that.

and we're spending a lot of time and efforts on new york, new jersey, spoke with governor cuomo a lot, spoke with governor murphy, a lot. in new jersey. and we're really getting the job done. people are very impressed i'm impressed by the people in fema, in the army corps of engineers, what they have done, i have never seen anything do anything like it. addition to the 8100 ventilators that we've have delivered, over next 48 hours, we delivering more than 1,000, going 400 to michigan. shortly. 300 to new jersey. 150 to illinois. 150 to louisiana, and 50 to connecticut. fema and hhs already delivered 11.6 million, n95 respiratories. 5 moy -- face shields and glove.

i don't know if you just saw, that ford announced, a while ago they will produce with general electric healthcare, 50,000 ventilators, and they will do it in less than 100 days. and to top of that we have other companies that are doing ventilators, general motors, but we have 9 other companies doing ventilators as we outpace what we need we'll send up italy to france. and sending them to spain. where they have tremendous problems. and other countries as we can. but the fact that we're doing so many so quickly is a tribute to the great companies more than 14,000 nation alguard members have been activateed and can

help supplement state and local effort to distribute personal protective equipment, we sending a lot, we have planeloads coming in 51 loads from various locations all around the world. and they landing, we have our first bigg cargo blaine plane ls morning, we're sending things we don't need, i spoke with prime minister of italy, we have additional capacity, we have additional pluc product, we'll d approximately 100 million dollar worth of things of surg surgicad medical and hospital things to italy. and wilthey are having a very hd time. joining us this afternoon, are ceos of great american companies that are fulfilling their patriotic duty by

producing or medical equipment, they are doing is incredible -- they are great companies, darius dom check of honeywell. you know that hook, he is a great leader of a great company, deborah waller of jockey international. a friend of mine mike lindell of my pillow, do you sell those pillows, unbelievable. and david taylor procter & gamble. and greg hayes of united technologies corporation, and i want to tell you all this american is grateful. to you and what have you done, amazing job you have done. we thank you very much. i would like to come up say a couple words if you might, about your company, mike come up here, come up, please, come up. say what you do. because it has been really

incredible. mike. >> well, my pillow is u.s. company, which has been forced on adjust to changing business environment as a result of the pandemic. my pillow motioned a u.s. company funds z as manufacturer logistic management distributor and direct to consumer, given our business lines we're experiencing the effects of this pandemic, but my pillow established an internal task force, monitoring future needs of companies across the country as a result of this pandemic, and given our position we have researched and developed new protocol to address the current and future needs of u.s. businesses across multiple sectors. how companies are prepare themselves when they once again open up and changes to current operations to adjust to future threats and pandemics. my pillow designated some call center to help u.s. companies navigate many issues that

resulted from this pandemic. and we have dedicated 75% of my manufacturing to produce cotton face masks, and 3 days i was to 10,000 a day, friday i want to be at 50,000, i am proud to manufacture in united states, and proud to be able to serve our nation this this great time of need, thank you, mr. president for your call to action, when which has empowered companies like my pill lo pilloo help, i wrote something off the cuff. god gave us grace on november 8, 2016, to change the course we were on. god had ban been taken out of our schools and lives, a nation that turned its become to god, use this time at home to get back in the word, read our bibles and spend time can families, our president gave us so much hope just a few months ago we had the gues the best ec.

it was amazing with your great president, vice president, and this administration, all great people in this country, praying daily, we will get through this and get back to a place that stronger and safer than ever. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, mike. >> come on, i did not know, he is a friend of mine, i appreciate it thank you very were mike. >> first, mr. president, mr. vice president, the administration, all agencies thank you for your strong leadership during this time of crisis it is not ised and making a difference. second. i would like to say a big thank you to all healthcare workers out there. you are putting yourselves in harm's way of day, we really respect when you are doing, we could not be thankful enough for, it more help is on the way. we at honeywell, we're industrial technology company.

a business we're in protecting industrial worker, but today weary repurposes equipment to serve health care worker, a few days ago we announced start up of a new manufacturing facility in rhode island, hiringiv 500 employees, we have 200 onboard, and start producttion of the n-95s in two weeks, we're announcing start up of a facility in arizona hiring 500 people, start up production in that facility by middle of may. so in total, we have doubled our production of n-95 masks already, will doule i double-dol in 60 days. s for you more we'll be providing other safety equipment to support all of the efforts going on. lastly, a big thank you to

honeywell employees and also announce a 10 million dollar fund for them for all hourly, and administrative employees who are having a hard time during this time of crisis, thank you, mr. president. >> fantastic. >> normally i would shake his hand, but we're not supposed to do that any more, great job, thank you, to honeywell. >> thank you, mr. president. and mr. vice president. on your guidance during that unstress denunprecedented time,d to be here. founded by a minister 144 years ago, jockey international is a family owned company. headquartered in wisconsin. since 1876, we have been providing socks and underwear for generations of families, it is part of our dna to roll up our sleeps and sleeves and heady

in time of need, in world war 2i we made parachutes for military, as president and vice president have said, it is a whole of america approach, we're committed. jockey has had a long standing partnership with incompany pass- incompany as group no georgia, we learned of need forever ppe, we knew we have to start, that was starting production on tier 3 isolation gowns it was done to in just a few days to be production ready, we expect to deliver 30 to 50,000 gowns a week helping those who need it most. ing in, this week, we're also donating 10,000 units of scrubs to frontline doctors and nurses, at javits center in new york

city, we would not have been ale do this without collaboration of administration, representatives of federal agencies and congressman brian style, thank you very much for president, and mr. vice president. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. president, mr. vice president, i am proud to be able to represent the men and women of procter & gamble, who every day, 24 hours a day, are working to build and make a central cleaning product, he, hygiene products and healthcare products for families everywhe everywhere. procter & gamble people are faces you know and trust. brands like tide, pampers, in addition to making packing and shipping the essential items they have worked together to

transform our plants to make things we've never made before like hand sanitizers and facial masks, some are getting to national state, and local agencies. some are in the hospitals already. everywhere in world procter & gamble people work every day to serve everything, consumers, and they are working on together to bring full cape bile ti capabilf research and development and communication to make sure we make a difference, to the consumers we serve, and to all of the audience we can make a difference, to thank them and i am grateful for what they do every day in service to others, thank you, mr. president and mr. vice president. >> thank you. good afternoon, i am greg haze s from united technologies, on

behalf of the employees. i want to first say thank you to the president and vice president for your leadership. during what is really a war. this is a different war than anyone has fought before. but it a war we're uniquely qualified to help. one of world's largest defense contractsors some best technology we use that technology to try on solve real world problem, we're working with airforce to try to help pilots, as they move medical evacuees with covid-19 virus, to be protected and patients can be protected. we're working also with logistics, if you think about a war, strategy is america importt logistics wins aware, it is impaiimperative with fema and mr. navarro's office that we coordinate all of these activities. working through our supply chain

partners in the world. we're this week beginning manufacturing of face shields with added technologies that we have, machines we have in utc we'll produce 10,000 shields in next 4 weeks. all needed equipment. we stand ready to help in and way we can, we don't need defense production act to ask us to act. we're pick t focused on winnings war, and thank you to all of our employees for their work during this crisis. as well as frontline medical and sthothereother first respondersu very much. >> thank you very much. >> fantastic, a great company, all great companies thank you very much. i'd like to ask seema to say a few words about what you are doing, how positive it has been. i appreciate it, come up. >> thank you, let me start by saying, i want to von hav to coy

deepest sympathies to those who lost loved ones to coronavirus, today is doctor's day, without it i want to send a message of gratitude to foot soldiers in this war, men and women who provide care and comfort to the americans affected by this virus, your country is grateful, in short. we're engaged in a war against a invisible enemy. and adjusted to might demands of moment. and so unthe president leadership, cms is waving a ridg a wide array of requirement, the flexibilities are there in a time of crisis, regulations, should not stan in the way of patient care. and there are several components to ournounce today, but first

one is cameric cms' hospitals wt wall, to create new treatment sites outside of their facility to expand the wan capacity and safely separate patients that are infected with the coronavirus and those that are not. now fema is doing incredible work setting up temporary hospitals in new york and other areas, but under the waiverrer empowering local communities too comment and augment work of fema and allowing hospitals systems to tap into the capacity that already exit in their -- exist in their communities making use of dorms and hotel, and allowing main hospital to focus on those who need most intensive care. there are surgery centers out there today that are delaying elective surgeries they may have excess capacity that could be devoted to hospital-like care. we're also making changes to the medicare program to facilitate

testing, some people neat a -- need a coronavirus test cannot leave their homes, we will pay for labs to go out to the locations and for form testing, we're also expanding the workforce. we are taking action today too relax and of regulations to allow hospitals to increase their workforce. and we're allowing a broad range of flect-- flexibility to let healthcare workers operate at top of their license, and allowing hospital to provide more support for the healthcare workers, under two's regulations they can provide minimal support to health care workers but now we'll allow them to provide child care, and meal, laundry services. and then there is also telehealth, president directed a dramatic expansion of tella healttellahealth to our seniorsd aftemedicare, we're proud of heh

dardare care provide -- healthct today we're going further, and paying for doctors to make phone calls with their patients and provide care over the phone. and we'll getting rid of longstanding barriers to telehealth, and medicare manager allowing emergency rooms to use telehealth and eliminate requirement that some vice thes its need to be face-to-face, and is thand. that are experiencing cash flow problems we know that many providers are complying with our recommendations. now i have barely scratched surface of all flexibilities we're offering the healthcare workers and systems they will provide, a lot of flexibility from regulations that are ill suited to the unpresented needs of this merge, and doctors, and

nurses and other health care professionals that are working long hours, and sacrificing times with their families and risks their lives, will have the flexibility they need to confront the needs of the coronavirus pandemic. and there are many heros in this war, but i want to take an opportunity to thank the team at cms, these folks have worked day and night, ons flectbilit "polil >> flectbility usually takes a year but this take two weeks. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> fantastic job. you are doing a great job. so, we're in the midst of something that is very difficult. but we are going to win. it is just a question of when, we want to do it as quickly as possible with as few deaths at possible. we will meet again tomorrow.

for some statistics. and some updates as to where we are, where we think we're going and timing. i think that timing will be important, we have to goa to ger country back to where it was, beyond where it was. we will have lost a lot of people. and in many ways they are heroes, and if you look at what is happening with our medical professionals, it a danger, they are warriors, they do a job of likes of which i don't think anyone has seen, i see them coming out of planes today, into new york, to the most dangerous locations, dangerous areas. and they go in there, they just want to di do the job, you see e numbers, the numbers like i see the numbers. i have some friends that unof believunbelievably sick, we thot they were going in for a mild

case in one state he is in a coma. how did that happen? i want to thank all of great professionals, men, women, doctors, nurses, paramedics, first responders, law enforcement, by the way, if you look at new york, you see how the affect it had on law enforcement, incredible, they are great people, firefighters, great people, they help in so many different ways, you this ver--thank you very much, we'lle a few question, john. >> thank you, mr. president, yesterday you said wow would extend guide live through end of april, are you expecting guidelines will carry oguidelines that have been in place for 15 days now, could there could some modifications? also you have travel restrictions that come up for reconsideration, one from eu on

april 13, canada, u.s., and mexico. -- april 21, what will happen. >> they will stay, we may add more. but guide lines will be very much as they are maybe tough ended up a little bit, they are having a big impact. we're starting to see it, that is the key. we seeing that impact. >> and if i could ask you talk about ford ramping up production of ventilators. clearly the supply is increasing, but you look at production curve, against the hospitalization curve, can you guarantee that everyone who needs' ventilator in next few weeks will be able to get one. >> some are ramping to a level they don't have, to i think that we also have kept in reserve we have almost 10,000 ventilators in our line, we have them -- we held back just because we did the stock pile. and we didn't want to give them because we don't -- it hit like

so fast. it comes, so quickly. and we have 10,000, we're probably going to sense some of them now -- we have been sending a lot to michigan and various other states, we send some additional to michigan, new york has been doing well, we'll add them to areas that are having a problem, alabama all of a sudden, flared up a little bit. as you saw over last ki kim jon, we'll send them to alabama, we have kept them for this, it sounds like a lot it is not, when you think about it, we're making a lot, when you see, talk about hundreds of thousands made in a short period of time, you look at what just, so we have now, 10 companie at least making the ventilators, we say go ahead, because, other country really, they will never be able to do it this, is a complex piece of equipment. >> do you believe as we approach

the peak in a couple weeks that there will be enough for american population. >> i do think so, yes. i do. i think we'll be in very good shape, and we have a great call today with governors. and they were i said i hope that the. media is listening to to call. because, it of a really good call that was, randomly selected largely, democrats and republicans and, i think for most part they said thank you for doing a great job. we discussed that at the end of the call, it really, people are very happy with what here with doing, now circumstances are so terrible because of what is going on. but i think they are impressed by federal government, watch that beautiful ship floating in to you know weeks ahead of schedule, almost 4 weeks ahead of schedule in network in harbor, comfort, and i watched mercy floating in to los angeles a week ago, almost a week ago,

they are stocked ready to go with i--with talent and equipmey and everyone else involved, they got it ready so fast, it is incredible, they have geared up, that is why, i am so impressed by the people involved, mike and i were talking about it before, the level of genius to put this together so quickly. a month ago no one had an idea. , mercy was being maintained it was in maintenance for a month. and when they heard we needed it, i was surprised they said, sir we're ready to go. we're ready, we had many instances like this, i think that building of hospital, with 2900 beds in just a few days is incredible, governor cuomo was impressed and gavin newsom was

impressed by what we have been doing with california. and los angeles area. and in particular, but, really san francisco. all over, all over california. when you look at what we're doing with michigan, we get a long well with michigan. a great place. we're sending a lot of things to michigan that is becoming a hotbed. a specific area as you know it has become hot. i don't know particular supersede, but we're -- the relationship with the governors, i just wish you could we took a lot of calls from different states, i wish you could have heard. the thing where like the governor of ohio calls, he has a company that does sterilization, but they have a problem because they are not going quickly at fda, i call steve, they got it donald mos -- done, almost

immediately, then, it was suppose toll be 80. >> i kept wondering why are they they look like you know not cloth. they the machine that is over there. they have a piece of that machine over there. this is incredible you talk about 5 minutes, 15 minutes, and highly accurate. not nearly as disturbing to do as the other test. we have just gotten better, we're doing things no body el ee thought of, please. >> dmv issued stay at home orders governor of virginia issued a 70 day stay at home order, first off is that constitutional, do you think that is warranted to issue a 70

day guidance at-this-point. >> we're letting governors do in their states when they want with our supervision, they consulted with us. some go further than others. i could give you examples. but i am not going to do that. we never want to be controversial. some governors have taken it a stip further. people are questioning that. but, staying at home, with respect to what we're talking about, does not bother me, people should stay home. oan. >> please. >> 2405 americans have died in coronavirus in last 6 injury 60u have children killed by their mothers through elected abortions each day, that is 16 1/2 thousand children killed every week, two states suspended elected aborin aboarding abortie

with states that replace the coronavirus victims above the elected abortions. >> we're trying to as a group, governors that is republicans and democrat, we're working to solve this problem. that is been a you mentioned has been going on for a long time. it a sad event. a lot of sad events in this country. but we're working on the virus on the hidden enemy, i think we're doe ag grea doing a greatd as job as you could do, when tony and deborah came up with numbers yesterday to say if we did nothing you could lose up to 2 or beyond, that beyond that but 2.2 million people. wif we did nothing. i can't tell you what unfortune at final toll will be, but it will be a small fraction of,

that we're doing a good job, i think with what we're doing. go ahead. >> are you considering a nationwide stay at home order, a lot of states have put them in place, some have not, were you considering abroad order. >> we have talked about it. we you know there are some parts of the country that are in far deeper trouble than others, others that are not in trouble. hopeful we can keep it this way. so we talked with quarantine the other day. a group came to me, they wanted to do the quarantine, i said let's think about it, we did, by evening came it was tough to enforce. and something we didn't want to do. but we did advisory and i think that doing well. i see i look at streets looking at new york, there and i look

down fifth avenue, today they showed a shot of fifth avenue, and almost nobody on fifth avenue. i have never seen that before, there was no car, no anything. so, i think that people of this country have done an incredible job, if we did that we'll let you know, but that is pretty know likely. >> thank you and a -- >> so you mentioned today that the model that prediction 100,000 deaths that we do things almost perfectly. are we doing things perfectly or more things to cap to not exceed 200,000 model? >> please. >> thank you. i think that is a really great question and tomorrow we'll go through all of the graphs and all the information that we took to the president for the

decision but when you, and i just want to thank the data team that is working day and night to get -- i usually get my data about 2:00 a.m. from them and they a simulate all the data from all the states. when you look at all the states together, all of them are moving in exactly the same curve. and so that is why we really believe this needs to be federal guidance so that every state understands that it may look like two cases today. that become 20, that become 200 that become 2,000. and that is what we're trying to prevent. i think states still have that opportunity but they're going to have to do all of these recommended -- these recommendations are recommendations that the globe is using. so we really do recommend that every governor, every mayor, looks very carefully and insures that their communities are utilizing these guidance. >> thank you very much. thanks. it is amazing. you look at louisiana and for a long time it was just, it was

just staying at nothing. and then all of a sudden i look one day, i see a lot and a lot and a lot and then it explodes. now we're working very carefully and very powerfully with them. we're building hospitals. we're building a lot of different things for louisiana. yeah, please, go ahead. reporter: -- warned this could be seasonal, cyclical virus. so in, maybe both of you could comment on this and dr. birx as well, are you prepared for this to strike again, say, in the fall? all the efforts that are taking place right now to contain this, to be proactive and, you -- >> we're prepared. i hope it doesn't happen. doctor, would you like to say something about that. i hope it doesn't happen but we're certainly prepared. >> in fact i would anticipate that that would actually happen because of the degree of transmissibility. however, if you come back in the

fall, it will be a totally different ballgame of what happened when we first got hit with it in the beginning of this year. there will be several things that will be different. our ability to go out and be able to test, identify, isolate and contact trace will be orders of magnitude better than what it was just a couple of months ago. in addition we have a number of clinical trials that are looking at a variety of therapeutic interventions. we hope one or more of them will be available. and importantly, as i mentioned to you many times at these briefings, is that we have a vaccine that is on track and multiple other candidates. so i would anticipate that you know, a year to year-and-a-half we would be able to do it under an emergency use f we start seeing efficacy signal we may be able to use vaccine at the next season. next season will be very, very different. what we're going through now will be more than just lessons learned. it will be things available to us that we did not have before.

>> okay. please, go ahead. >> thank you, mr. president. scott gottlieb, the former fda commissioner wrote a road map about recovery from the coronavirus. >> i saw it. >> he suggests, the road map suggests that everybody wear a mask in public. is that something that the task force thinks is a good idea? >> we haven't discussed it to that extent and something we'll certainly discuss. we're talking about the number about of masks that you need. we're in the process of talking about things. i saw his suggestion on that. we'll steak a look at it. for a period of time. not forever. we want our country back. we'll not be wearing masks forever but could be for a short period of time after we get back into gear. i could see something like that happenor