actually be sick? >> i think there is no doubt we will see more community cases. and i just want to say and there is no doubt that the public health system of the united states is enhancing surveillance in a variety of ways to try to really understand is there any hidden pockets? >> juan: welcome to the "the five," president trump speaking at the centers for disease control and prevention in atlanta. we are awaiting a news conference from vice president pence about the coronavirus and the task force on the outbreak. let's listen back in to the president. >> the nursing home. a lot of infections in seattle and tragically and they are all in our prayers the number of deaths at that nursing home. i just want to assure the american public that we are enhancing our surveillance not just cdc but the entire public health systems nationally we will have very public eyes on where this virus is. >> mr. president, we talked a lot about the health [inaudible] very important.

are there also acknowledgments [inaudible] travel industry, airlines, cruise ships, travel companies are hit especially hard? can you give us what you are doing to help offset. >> we are considering several things. but we are also considering the fact that had approximately thousand deaths due to what's called flu. and when i first heard this four or five or six weeks ago when i was hearing the amount of people that died from the flu. i was shocked to hear it. anywhere from 27,000, to 70,000 or 77,000 and i guess they said in 1990 that was particularly very bad. it was higher than that. as of the time i left the plane with you, we had 240 cases, that's at least what was on a very fine network known as fox news. i know you love it. but that's what i happened to be watching, and how was the show last night? did it get good ratings by the

way? >> i don't know. >> i heard it broke ratings but maybe that's wrong. that's what they told me. i can't imagine that but, what happened is if you look at the number, the time we left, there were 240 cases and 11 deaths. that's what it has been. now, you look at throughout the world in other countries have south korea, italy, and in particular china, have many. now, i also hear the numbers are getting much better in those places and i have heard the numbers are getting much better in china. i hear the numbers are getting much better in italy, et cetera, et cetera. what i hear -- so we have 240 cases, 11 deaths. everything is too much. and it's true. i don't want 11 deaths. i don't want any deaths, right? but, over the last long period of time, when people have the flu, you have an average of 36,000 people dying. i never heard those numbers. i would have been shocked. i would have said does anybody die from the flu? i didn't know people died from the flu. 36,000 people died.

27,000, 77,000. and, again, you had a couple of years where it was over 100,000 people die from the flu. so i start to say i wonder what's going on here? now, you look at the percentage, the percentage from the flu it's under 1%. but this could also be under 1% because many of the people that aren't that sick don't report. so they are not putting those people in there and you are smiling when i say that where are you from by the way? >> i'm from cnn. >> i don't watch cnn that's why i don't recognize you. i don't watch it. i don't watch cnn because cnn is fake news. go ahead. >> you addressed the economic -- there is. >> of course it is an event. if you know anything like me, i happen to like when people stay in the united states and spend their money in the united states, okay? i think people are spending in the united states, they are going to spend their money in the united states. it will end. people have to remain calm. i do think that when you look at the numbers and you look at the

numbers from other years or other things and you look at these numbers, it will be interesting to see what you find. and statistics will soon be coming out. but there was a big statistic today that it's way under 1%. one tenth of 1% in one case. but nobody really knows. would will be able to find out. the problem is the people that get better, that don't see a doctor, don't go to a hospital, those people get better. if they ran the numbers, the numbers would look much better in terms of death rate. >> do you think there will be bankruptcy? >> i think you will have other things. the amazing thing, look at the jobs numbers today. we had a tremendous jobs number. we had a number that when you add last month's number, which was a correction of plus 80,000 jobs, 350,000 jobs number today. that was shocking. i was watching a particular network and they said on the network but they are pros. they said wow, these are unbelievable numbers. they were shocked by the numbers. over 350,000 when you add last

month's correction. peter? >> all these organizations canceling events and programs, all the organizations and businesses are canceling conventions and meetings and travel within the united states. are they overreacting or are they taking the right precaution? >> i think it's fine if they want to do it. i don't think it's an overreaction but i wouldn't be generally inclined to do it. i really wouldn't be. it depends on what country you are talking about. if you are talking going to another country or within the united states? >> within the united states. >> they have to feel comfortable. people have to feel comfortable to have a good time. if you look at do i want to go to china, i do want to go to certain parts of italy? do i want to go to south korea right now? that's a different decision. but you have some parts of the world, most parts of the country, look, in this big vast land of ours, this great country of ours, we have 240 cases, most of those people are going to be fine, a vast majority are going to be fine.

we have had 11 deaths. and they have been largely old people wh were susceptible to what's happening. now that would be the case, i assume with the regular flu, too. if somebody is old and in a weakened state or ill, they are susceptible to the common flu, too. they were telling me just now that the common flu kills people and old people are a target. >> and the young. >> now the interesting thing here, very interesting. the interesting thing here is that the young seem to be doing unbelievably well, actually better than they do with the flu. young people and very young people are doing very well. which is another thing i guess they are trying to figure it out. >> you are shaking a lot of hands today and taking close pictures are you protecting yourself at all. >> no. >> how are you staying away from germs. >> not at all. i am a person never big on the hand shaking deal throughout my life. they used to criticize me for it or laugh about it or have fun with it. but if you are a politician,

like i walked in the doctors had their hands out, hello, sir, how are you. if you don't shake hands they are not going to like you too much. that's my business. i never thought i would be a politician. i guess i'm a politician. but the fact is that i feel very secure. i feel very secure. >> tell us what happened here last night and today that at one point cancelled? what happened here? >> i was told that one person maybe that works some place in the building, i'm not even sure what level, but that one person may have had the virus. and, therefore, they said, sir, because of the fact that one person may have had -- it's a big building with a lot of great scientists, frankly. one person had the virus, that turned out to be a negative report. that turned out to be negative. so they called me but it was already cancelled. but this morning i say wait a minute, i'm going to tennessee. we're going down to florida to have a meeting on monday, as you know, and so we are going to florida, i would love to stop to cdc, that was a big deal with

secret service, they are fantastic and they worked it out so we stopped. there was a report and the person -- it was a negative diagnosis. >> mr. president that on monday has been cancelled because of the coronavirus. >> no, we had another big deal.

>> that is a big ship. if it were up to me i would do it that way. people think we should do it the other way. americans, mostly americans and we have to take care of americans. >> bring them off the ship. they will be under quarantined and they will be tested very carefully. everyone will be tested very carefully. in fact, the governo governor -a friend of yours, say how tough it is to get into the united states with all of the testing.

>> john zeldin who is running the general manager at atlanta international clarksville airport, he is on our task force here, and he did a great job yesterday in our press conference explaining the procedures that the president and others had put in place to make sure that everybody is coming from northern italy and south korea be screened multiple times before they get on the airplane. i think that just gives people great confidence as they are traveling through all the airports across the country to people that are coming in have been screened in those problem areas. their customs and border people are collecting them as well and having conversations. i think they may have tested one person in the atlanta airport. they have over 300,000 people go through there a day. that test was negative. and so i mean it is safe to travel right now. people just need to be very careful, do the things that the cdc and dr. and secretary azar

and the vice president and his task force are telling people to do, and that's, you know, keep your hands clean, just be careful where you are going if you are sick. don't go to the airport if are sick. >> he was very impressed how hard it was to get on the plane. he was tested two times and one person said three times just to come in. we are watching it very closely. the people are doing a good job. instead of being negative, you should be positive. these scientists are doing a phenomenal job with something that came from out of nowhere a very short time ago. >> not trying to be negative trying to let people understand where to get the facts. he said [inaudible] can you tell me exactly how many people as of right now can be tested? you told me yesterday he thought it would be 475,000. how many kits have been shipped and how many people do you think have been tested? >> the cdc is doing it. why don't we have dr. redfield. you won't believe him. talk to dr. renfield.

>> go ahead. >> i will stand right here. we continue -- our first responsibility at the cdc as i said was to develop the eyes, the lab tests. the second responsibility is to get that out to the public health field. we shipped that, i think it was enough to test 75,000 people in the public health labs. >> anyone who wants a test can get a test. >> we started testing in our labs at our facility public health yesterday which was a day earlier than we thought it would be today. we are actually testing today. >> and the second group was to get -- how do you get tests into the clinical arena? our role was to get into the public health arena. the secretary under his leadership was able to take the test that cdc developed and one of the companies say they want to develop it and sell it. and that's what the secretary referred to. and by the end of this week they were supposed to have about a

million, a million .2. they shipped 700,000 already. the remaining lots are actually being tested here. dr. monroe has got them as of 10:30 this morning. they have to do the quality control. and if they pass they ship. >> but i think, importantly, anybody right now and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. they have the test. and the tests are beautiful. anybody that needs a test gets a test. if there is a doctor that wants to test. if there is somebody coming off the ship like the big monster ship that's out there right now, which again, that's a big decision. do i want to bring all those people off people would like me to do it. i don't like the idea of doing that anybody that needs a test can have a test. they are all set. they have them out there. in addition to that they are making millions more as we speak. but as of right now and yesterday, anybody that needs a test, that's the important thing, and the tests are all

perfect like the letter was perfect. the transcription was perfect. right? this was not as perfect as that but pretty good. >> i want to add one -- we are hand links it from south korea. we are testing you can't go in to south korea unless. [[inaudible] question. [. >> i wanted to add to the availability of clinical tests. the secretary and the vice president last week brought together all of the major diagnostic companies that you all know so well, labcorp, quest, and asked them to come together as a group. and they already formed a consortium to work together to use their capacity which is really substantial to bring this test to doctors' offices around our nation. and when they presented it, they felt that either by monday they are going to begin to roll out this test now through labcorp,

through quest, so as the president said, the issue now is whether the clinicians believe that this test has indicated and evaluating the patients to come and see them. it's not going to be the availability of the test. it's going to be about the clinical judgment of the patient and the doctor or the nurse practitioner to get this test. >> can i clarify about the. >> this is by the way the highest level test. this is the highest level test anywhere. [inaudible question] >> that's a very good question. yes. from my standpoint, i want to rely on people. i have great experts, including our vice president is working 24 hours a day on this test. they would like to have the people come off. i would like to have the people stay. i told them to make the final decision. i would rather, because i like the numbers being where they are. i don't need to have the numbers

double because of one ship that wasn't our fault. and it wasn't the fault of the people on the ship either. okay? it wasn't their fault either. and they are mostly americans. so, i can live either way with it. i would rather have them stay on, personally. but i fully understand if they want to take them off. i gave them the authority to make the decision. [inaudible question] >> no, no. i'm saying whatever it is that takes precedence over the numbers. i like the numbers. i would rather have the numbers stay where they're. but, if they want to take them off, they will take them off. but if that happens, all of a sudden your 240 is obviously going to be a much higher number and probably the 11 will be a higher number. [inaudible question] >> there is probably risks to both. probably risk to both. >> is there going to be a way for us to advance our testing the way that south korea has?

they have the drive-thru testing now? >> we are working with south korea. >> 10,000 people a day? >> we are working closely with them. they are also in a much different position. they have a lot of people that are infected. we don't. they are in a much different position. we are working very closely with south korea. as you know, we are allies. even though they have made much better trade deals in the past than we did. we are of a lies with south korea. you have heard that, right? we are very closely with south korea. a and a lot of the test something very similar testing. but they are in a much different position. they have thousands of people and they have got some difficulty right now. but we are working very closely. in fact, they are calling us, asking us and these people for advice. >> and please correct me, doctors, if i am wrong, if i understand correctly south korea is using technology different than what we use in the united states in our public health labs but that we do use in our commercial labs the labcorp the

quest the roche's the be a boss that's what dr. renfield has been saying we have been up and running right away. am i saying that correctly. >> just one point of clarification i would say call it drive-thru sample collection. this is not like a pregnancy test like drive-thru and take a swab and tell you on the spot it's positive or negative. they are using that to collect samples from a large number of people and then they are using the high fluid testing platforms in order to do the testing. >> that testing platform is what you are saying is available at quest and starting monday [inaudible] when they are up and running? >> i think it's important to emphasize back to the role that cdc had, to support the public health labs. we have built the laboratory capacity throughout our public health labs to monitor for flu and other respiratory viral systems. the platform that does that is the platform of the test that we developed. it wouldn't have helped us to

develop a test in public health labs and they have none of the instrumentation. we developed using that platform for public health labs. the lat platform a high -- platform put in hospitals for hiv, hepatitis c. that's the platform as we sit here today, we are trying to now validate whether the test we made would be validated to use that on that platform. the private sector is already doing it, too. i mean, they are moving now through that rapid platform. >> these are the people like at example hiv, i talk about it in the speeches and other things, hiv 3 or essentially 3 within nine years now. it's a 10-year process. these are the people that came up with the answers to the stuff that three years ago, four years ago you would have said it's impossible. what they have done is incredible and to others, also. if you look at what they have done with hiv, it's incredible. other countries are all calling the same people that you are

dealing with and honestly, what you should be doing is giving them a lot of credit because this was a very condensed period of time. vaccine, they are going to have tests done in 90 days that other people wouldn't have -- two years ago you were taking two years to do. making great progress. it takes a period of time. but they are making great progress. other countries are dealing, the same people you are talking to now, and others in this government universe. they are incredible people. and honestly you should be giving them tremendous credit. they have done a tremendous job. when you mentioned south korea. they are dealing with this all the time. when you mention italy, they are dealing with this all the time. we are working together with china. we're working together with everybody. but these are great people. these are incredible people. and you shouldn't be knocking them. you should be praising them. they have done an incredible job already. [inaudible question]

>> i just think this is something, peter, that you can never really is going to happen. i have heard all about this could be, you know, this could be a big deal before it happened. you know, something like this could happen. i think we are doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down. we have really been very vigilant and done a tremendous job at keeping it down. who would have thought how long ago, six, seven, eight weeks ago, who would even thought we would be having this subject? we were going to hit 30,000 in the dow like clockwork. it was right up and then all of a sudden this came out, all i say is keep calm. you have the greatest people in the world. everyone is relying on us, the world is relying on us. they have done an incredible job in condensed period of time. the thing is you never really know when something like this is going to strike or what it is going to be. this is different than something else. this is a very different thing

than something else. i think they have done a great job. and do you know what? if i didn't think they did i would tell you. >> [inaudible] i just don't think that somebody is going to like we saw happening in china, as soon as they saw that happening, they essentially not from the white house, you know, we don't need a lab in the white house, but they saw something happening that sounded very interesting. they spotted something going on in china. when you see these labs that i just saw, i would love to have them [inaudible] as soon as possible. they spotted something going on in china. they started working on it immediate. just in case it should come here. and also to help china. i mean, if we can find something that's beneficial, we want to give it to china like give it to us. china is working very closely with us, south korea. italy, all of them working very closely. but we are doing, you know, again, 240 and 11 that's where we are right now. >> mr. president, on the

numbers, [inaudible] >> we don't have a forecast because we don't know. we don't know how many people have this aren't going to see a doctor, aren't going to see a hospital. and the higher that number is, the better the numbers from the standpoint of death, a death count. they get better. without seeing doctors, without seeing hospitals. nobody is marking it down. i think the number is very high. i think that number is much higher but it never gets reported because they are not going to hospitals or doctors. the ones that get reported are people that are really sick enough to go to a hospital or to a doctor. so it makes the numbers look worse. [inaudible question] >> we are prepared for anything. we are really very highly prepared for anything. in a short period of time what they have done is very incredible. i have seen what they have done back there. it's really incredible. >> just from a health perspective. >> by the way nih what the theye

done, i have spent time over there, and i like this stuff. you know my uncle was a great -- he was at mit. he taught at mit for a record number of years. he was a great super genius dr. john trump. i like this stuff. i really get it. people are surprised that i understand it. every one of these doctors say how do you know so much about this? maybe i have a natural ability. maybe i should have done that instead of running for president. but you know what? what they have done is very incredible. i understand that whole world. i love that world. i really do. i love that world. and they should be given tremendous credit. and the whole world is relying on us. you hear about like you are saying about south korea, south korea is very much reliant on the information -- and they are reliant on the vaccines that we will come up with very soon we are going to come up. it takes a period of time to get them tested and then put -- it has to be very safe. you kant give a vaccine that's

going to be unsafe. it would be a disaster. so, that's where we are. and i think these people deserve all of them scientists, doctors, i think they deserve tremendous credit. i really do. >> vice president seattle area yesterday. >> he did. >> he was very complimentary of washington's response. the governor was a little complimentary of your response. >> i told mike not to be complimentary of that governor because that governor is a snake. i said if you are nice to him, he will take advantage and i would have said no. let me just tell you we have a lot of problems with the governor and the governor of washington, that's where you have many of your problems, okay? so mike may be happy with him but i'm not, okay? and he would say that naturally. and as i said last night at the town hall, if we came up with a cure today and tomorrow, everything is gone, and you went up to this governor who is, you

know, not a good governor by the way, if you went up to this governor and you said to him how did trump do he would say he did a terrible job. it makes no differents. idifference.if we came up with t now and tomorrow everything ended at 8:00 tomorrow morning, everything ended he would say trump did a horrible job. okay? and i told mike that would happen. i said no matter how nice you are, he's no good. that's the way i feel. bye. good luck at cnn. >> just one question for the people watching concerned that have symptoms. is it possible or is it a good thing or something looking into to be able to test people in that like they are doing in other countries so they can show up and get tested. >> they are not testing. they are sampling people in other countries. excuse me, there is a difference. i heard what he said. they are sampling people. it's a drive by. they give samples. now, can we do that? yeah, we can do that. that's not effective like we are doing. we are doing the one thing in

one step. they are doing samples in south korea. it's a very different thing. go ahead. >> well, what i would just say, you know, we are at a stage in our experience with this virus that we are still deeply focused on control. we use containment and control. and i said about the important principles of early diagnosis, isolation and contact. and now with some mitigation strategies as you see in different areas when they are deciding should you close large gatherings, i think it's important to use the data, sciences that we have. and we are not blind to where this virus is right now in the united states. and we need to focus our resources right now where we know this virus is circulating substantially in the community, like certain parts of california, like certain parts of seattle. that's where we need to put our focus. it would not be a service to our

ability for our american response if all of a sudden 20 million americans that have no evidence of any risk and we have looked in those areas really don't need that. that's why we are accelerating as the president said our surveillance. i mean, we are going out and really testing people that have flu like symptoms and going to expand that from the sites we started to the whole nation. we will have eyes on this and see. this virus has now snuck up into northern maine. oops, we see it down in kansas. and that information will then be used by doctors to know if someone comes in with an upper respiratory infection i better think about testing for coronavirus. we want the american people to have confidence it's not just in cdc it's in the public health community, this nation, it's strong. they are doing their job. i tell people every time we see a new confirmed case, they should think of that as a success not a failure because they know their public health community is out doing their

job. >> so the difference is that they are being proactive. we are being proactive. we are going out and looking for spots. nobody else is doing that. not by leaving samples or anything else. we are going out and proactively looking to see where there is a problem you don't have to do it. we are doing that to see if we can find areas that are trouble spots. i don't even know if i agree with that. you will find out those areas just by sitting back and waiting. they are trying to find out before, before you would normally find out by waiting. and you know, i think that's great. that's what they're doing. we are the only country in that sense that's proactive. totally proactive and totally equipped to handle it. >> is the strategy shifting from containment to risk mitigation? >> so right now it's -- you shouldn't think of it as one or the other. all right? and i'm going to say we need to stay committed to containment. and i still believe containment and control is the goal.

but that's going to be complimented strategically by what we call mitigation or non-pharmaceutical interventions like asking, you know, churches not to have big gatherings, so in the state of washington, in the last couple of days, they announced their initial mitigation strategy. we have been working on mitigation for the whole nation just in the planning way. but we have also been -- have our people buried into the washington health department. the california health department and have them start to develop and, again, washington started to operationalize theirs this week. i suspect california will later. we will continue to work on these and a community-by community-community, community strategy. they are not all going to be the same. but it's going to be driven by the amount of community transmission that can't be linked to a contact and can't be linked to a trip. when you see significant what we call on link transmission then you have to evaluate the value. so it's not one versus the other. but this nation should not give

up on containment. >> okay. thank you very much. thank you very much. >> juan: that was president trump speaking at the centers for disease control for prevention in atlanta, georgia. we are still awaiting a news conference from vice president pence and the coronavirus task force on the outbreak. let's bring it around the table. dana, i was struck by the president. he had some harsh things to say about some of the governors? >> dana: well, i think, right, okay. so you cannot say that the white house and the administration hasn't been trying to communicate very effectively and transparently and regularly, frequently. that was a very long press conference with the president just held with people from senior team and task force. these are the experts in our country. and we should feel pretty good what's going on. i can understand the frustration from the president when you have governors who are pointing their fingers back at d.c. especially if they're coming from washington state. because washington state is the one where you have the biggest

problem. especially at that one facility. when you have people that are dying and you have a public health emergency, pointing fingers at each other does not help anybody in the situation. and governor endsley immediately wanted to be political. when vice president pence called him the day after he was appointed to the head of the task force just to call to say we want to make sure we are coordinated. ensly the first thing he did was put out a tweet like i got a call from the vice president and i gave him the what for and i told him it would be good if there were scientists involved. here is the president surrounded every single day by dr. anthony fauci, by ambassador burke all the people you would want in a crisis and governor pointing finger back. in the meantime the president was able to sign a bill of $8.3 billion today that is going -- he didn't even say they needed. he wanted 2.5 billion. now the governor and legislatures in washington gets all that extra money. where do you think that's going to go? right straight to the states? and i don't think the administration will at all hold back any of that money for

politics. because they realize that they have a problem. now, the president is always going to get the blame for everything, any president always does. nobody can fault them for doing what they have done so far. they are trying to be on top of it. there is a lot of things that we have to do ourself to take care of ourselves. you cannot expect the government to do everything for you. they can give you a lot of tips. you can avoid misinformation. you can do all the washing of the hands. shake hands with people. you have to take care of yourself. there is a lot of things happening outside of this country we can't control that is having economic impacts and the consequences of that. i think the governors if they point their fingers at the president they should be very careful if you are not managing your state and your cities appropriately, that finger will come back at you and it will be much worse for you. >> juan: i always think what we want is transparency and know that we can trust the government at any level. but what you hear is people saying oh, but the president, not so much fauci or dr. best of your recollection but they say

oh, the president said people can go to work or they will get better. >> dana: we are at work. we have not been told not to go to work. >> juan: no, no, no. i'm saying if you are infected and none of us is infected. >> dana: when i heard him say that i didn't hear him say you should go to work if you have symptoms. he said everybody should feel like they can go to work unless you are otherwise notified. >> gregg: i'm pretty sure this show is going to be over anyway. optimistic people overlooking job numbers amazing granted from last month, 100,000 over the expectations. which offers you a lesson about america itself. one way you fight a threat, something like a virus or a battle or a natural disaster is that you have to be in your strongest state, right? you have to be at your most powerful, healthy body. you want to make sure you are eating the right stuff, you want to go to the gym. right now you have never seen an economy this strong. and because in the last let's say three to four years this economy has become stronger, so if you imagine america as a

person, our immune system has never been stronger, which is why this economy, and this is the positive part, is able to withstand the stock slides, the up and down of the stocks, we are not freaking out about this. and we know a year from now it will be fine, right? so the american economy is in its strongest. it's its best state for fighting a war like this one. even a war against something as microscopic as a virus. >> kimberly: can i add to that because i love it when you talk numbers. [laughter] the stock market actually despite all the swings was up for the week number one. number two, the most important thing is you have a u.s. consumer because have you 50-year low in the unemployment rate. jobs are so plentiful. you have a u.s. consumer that is in the best shape in terms of their cash flow like after they pay all their bills and energy prices, they have the best cash flow on record. and what's happening because investors, these pros are freaking out, longer term interest rates are plunging,

people are refinancing their mortgages. you have record low mortgage rates on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage. and businesses are being calm. and they are not laying people off. the airlines after 9/11 laid off 100,000 workers in 10 days. and you have not seen that happen. watch the weekly jobless claims. they actually fell in the most recent week. there is no freakout happening. the markets are freaking out but that's what they do. the american people steady as she goes. >> greg: like dating lindsey lohan she goes up and she goes down. >> jesse: did you have a thing? >> i thought i knew everything about you. >> juan: we heard the president's economic advisors are talking about potential subsidies for the airline industry, the cruise ship industry, even the convention industry because people are more and more canceling. >> jesse: it's going to be a tough quarter and the quarter of

a that even worse. if they can give some sort of tax relief and liquidity into these industries and into the market somehow, maybe that's what they can do to survive the next month or two. every time i wake up in the morning, i look at the dow futures. >> greg: no, the mirror. [laughter] >> jesse: and then i look at the futures and then i look in the mirror and my face goes like this because it's not a good look. i don't know how people can handle being in that business. because i'm not in that business i'm not scared of anything except when i look at the dow futures. once the dow starts to volatility then people will stop calming down. >> greg: here is how you look at it like an organism. all the stock market is you thinking one way and thinking another way. >> jesse: it's the rest of the country that has any skin in the game. because when i see people out on the streets, they are cautiously optimistic. they are not terrified. most people that are terrified look like they are on wall street because the people that i have seen walking around manhattan, what do we have

8 million people, 9 million people in this city, they are riding the subway. i don't see a lot of masks. we are not looking at a lot of stockpiling, this country, the city at least, seems to be weathering the storm. i wish the rest of the investors could weather the storm with a little bit more optimism and sensibility. >> dana: isn't that dagen coming from the supply chain issues rather than it's about the fact that, for example, the trade war gets finished, right? and now you have american products and farmers and ranchers being able to send their goods to china but there is such a backlog in the traffic you can't unload the cargo into china because of that problem. it's like a cascading effect. >> juan: and the cargo coming from china. >> dagen: the biggest issue to get deep into the weeds briefly is normally with recessions you have a demand shock where people aren't traveling, for example. our people are not going out to eat. but this is a supply problem because of all the production, even parts that are made in china that has been shut down.

but the fact that the virus is improving in china. these factories should start reopening and there will be a backlog. the best thing the government can do it's not the federal reserve cutting interest rates, it's not stimulus like a temporary payroll tax cut or anything like that, it's just to get your arms around this disease and make sure that people don't freak out. but, people are not freaking out. like i was on the subway the other day. i saw one mask. and literally hundreds upon hundreds. >> dana: i got on the subway and instead of holding the pole i put my elbow around it with my coat and holding it like in this gentleman was sitting and tapped me said yes, i don't think that's a good idea. he says i don't think you should be hugging the pole. and i'm like but i'm just holding it with my elbow so i don't have fall. i thought that was safer. >> greg: you are so not a new yorker. the moment he said that you had about three f bombs right in his face. you get the f away from me. you don't talk to me. and then he will never do it again. >> dana: he was so nice.

>> jesse: i can't believe dana takes the subway. >> dana: i take the subway or walk. >> dagen: need to be ready with hugging a pole joke. >> juan: dana, that's why i told you not to go down that road. the investor class clearly, they are well informed. they have got money on the line, skin in the game as you said. and there doesn't seem to be the confidence. >> jesse: there is no confidence now. and i agree. it is about the numbers to a certain extent. and they do trade-off the numbers. i think the supply chain deal that's priced in at this point. the numbers the president was talking about, when he is saying that there is this cruise ship or there is this ship that's been infected, he doesn't want to bring it back on shore because what's that going to do? it puts 1,000 people possibly infected back into the number of americans infected. and that's going to make the mortality rate pop, and he doesn't want that shock to the country. because the country looks at the newspaper, it sees this big number and freaks out. the investors see this big number and they freak out.

if they understand that they just grounded a cruise ship and that is the reason the numbers are going up, people don't look at that and that's why he wanted to keep it offshore but i think he gave this task force the authority to do what was ever best for the health and well being on the people of the ship. >> juan: saw the fed earlier this week try to help a little bit. you saw the market respond also apparently to former vice president biden's success on tuesday. now it goes back in the other direction. >> dagen: for the week it's up for the week. >> greg: the percentages. we keep forgetting how large the stock market has become that we are talking about 2% and goes up 2% and goes down. it's going to be like this. might be like this for months. >> juan: i agree. >> greg: take the long view. >> juan: i said to jesse don't look in the morning. >> jesse: in the mirror or the market? >> juan: can you look in the mirror it's a beautiful sight. >> greg: we did a story on fox about spring break. why would you cancel spring break about sun and warmer and

humid and seeing much, much smaller rates of infection. >> juan: that's because have you large gathering of people. all right, so fox news alert. vice president mike pence and members of the coronavirus task force are now holding a briefing. let's listen in. >> good afternoon. we just completed today's lengthy meeting of the white house coronavirus task force. and at the president's direction have continued to implement his whole of government approach to bring the full resources of the federal government to bear to confront the spread of the coronavirus in the united states. let me begin by always as saying that according to all of the experts gathered here and on our task force, the risk to the american public of contracting the coronavirus remains low. with that being said, we are continuing to lean into this effort in full partnership with state and local health

authorities around the country to ensure that we do everything to prevent the spread of the disease, to mitigate its expansion and to provide necessary treatment to americans that have been impacted. but first, let me turn my attention before we speak about some of our broader efforts and hear from some members of the task force to an issue that i know is on the hearts and minds of people across the country. the grand princess cruise ship has been off the coast of california since wednesday night. i want to commend the efforts of our coast guard that heroically flew coronavirus tests to the ship and we received those results. working in close consultation, we w. governor gavin newsom and the state of california, we have developed a process for addressing our findings and

resolving the circumstances facing americans and people from around the world and the crew on the grand princess. first, the results. among those tested, 46 persons were swabbed. 21 of those on the ship tested positive for the coronavirus. 24 tested negative. one test was inconclusive. again, let me say, 21, 21 individuals on the grand princess tested positive. among those were 19 crew members. and two passengers. and it's important to note. >> positive? >> yes. among those positive for coronavirus, were 19 crew

members and two pass jerusalem. it's important to note that the grand princess actually was on its second tour and we know of coronavirus infections from the first tour as well with very, very difficult results. in the wake of these findings today, we have been working through the day with the governor newsom and his administration through their unified command efforts in california, cdc and hhs and we have developed a plan which will be implemented this weekend to bring the ship into a noncommercial port. all passengers and crew will be tested for the coronavirus. those that need to be quarantined will be quarantined. those that require additional medical attention will receive it. let me assure the american public as we did so, with americans returning from china and those returning from the

other cruise ship, we are taking all measures necessary to see to the health of the americans and those involved on the grand princess and just as importantly to protect the health of the american public and prevent the spread of the disease through communities in this country. it is -- we are stphaougt the se strongest testing protocols to ensure that not only those on board receive the treatment that they need but american people can be confident that there will be no erosion in our preventative measures to keep the coronavirus from spreading throughout our country i want to express our gratitude to gavin newsom in california for their full partnership not just in dealing with the grand princess but throughout the advent of the

coronavirus california has been a strong partner and as i just told the governor a few moments ago we will continue to work very closely with his administration and we will continue to put the health and safety of america first. with that, let me turn my attention to the issue of testing, which has been much in the news of late. and the president spoke about it just a few moments ago. at the cdc. it's very important to note that because of president trump's decisive leadership that the risk to the american public of contracting the coronavirus does remain low but nevertheless in washington state where he visited yesterday with members of our team and in california, we have seen, as dr. fauci often describes community transmission still less than 200 cases across the country and the good news is most americans who have contracted this disease are being treated and recovering and

on the road to recovery. now, sadly, we all know of the loss of life and we grieve that along with their families. the american people deserve to know that we are ready. and that because of the president's leadership and because of extraordinary efforts by cdc and health and human services and our partners in state labs around the country, we have the testing necessary to be able to provide test to all the states that have requested it. as i said yesterday, we have been able to provide tests to all the state jurisdictions and labs that have requested it, and i'm pleased to report that all state labs have the test and now because of the change the president implemented at the fda a week ago. now state labs can actually conduct coronavirus tests themselves. beyond that, between march 2nd

and fifth, we distributed more than 900,000 tests across the country. including 200,000 that could allow 75 individual patients -- 75,000 individual patients to be tested as the secretary of hhs just described by tomorrow another 200,000 tests will be shipped and by the weekend another million tests will be shipped around the country with the expectation that at the end of next week 4 million tests will be shipped. we have been able to respond to the requests of states that have been impacted by the coronavirus. but as i said yesterday, to meet future demand, this week the president brought together the leading commercial labs in america and asked them to, in effect, partner with the united states in developing tests for the american people and i'm proud to say that just in the last 24 hours, labcorp, quest, two of america's leading commercial laboratories have announced that tests will be

available by monday of this week. the reason that's important, the reason that meets future demand is because the enormous capacity of these commercial laboratories and others in the country are precisely how we will make coronavirus tests available for your local doctor, available to your pharmacy and broadly available to the american public. tomorrow dr. steve hahn of the fda will come to this room and brief specific with regard our efforts to testing to assure the american public that every effort is being made to provide testing resources, not just for state laboratories, not just for universities, not just for hospitals in affected areas, but with the announcement of these major commercial labs we trust in a matter of weeks the kron test also be available and any

american who is symptomatic and has a concern about the possibility of having contracted the coronavirus. we have made great progress, but there is much work to be done over the course of this weekend, i will be traveling to florida to meet with cruise line executives. we will be discussing with them, in particular, what additional measures our cruise lines could take to ensure the health and safety of the american public. i look forward to those conversations tomorrow. i want to introduce dr. fauci for a comment and then i will also introduce the admiral and bob-i about our plans with regard to the cruise ship. let me make one last comment if i may before we hear from other members of the task force. i have said it twice. let me say it again. the general risk to the american public remains low. but if you are an individual with a serious underlying health

condition or and are he wouldlyy it's important to take precautions and use common sense. particularly as it relates to travel. we want to recognize from the experience now of two cruise ships. the cruise ship complete challenge for health officials. we would ask elderly americans to use common sense and caution in planning any cruise ship vacation in the future. but they can be assured we are going to be working closely with some great american companies in the crews line industry to enhance and strengthen the screening procedures that take place as passengers board and as they disembark. with that, let me yield for a few moments to dr. fauci and

hear from other members of the task force about the grand princess wells testing. dr. fauci? >> thank you very much, mr. vice president. i just want to take the opportunity very briefly, last time i was here at the podium we were talking about what the vice president said about the risk of getting infected and how we need to distinguish that from if you are infected likes the unfortunate situation like we have seen in seattle and what we are seeing on cruise ships is that in that group of people who get infected the ones who are clearly the most vulnerable to getting the complications of serious disease and even death are people with underlying conditions particularly among the elderly with underlying conditions those are heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease, diabetes, et cetera. what i would like to do is publicly answer a question that i get asked all the time now is that if you are a person with an

underlying condition, the conditions that i just mentioned, particularly if you are an elderly person with that, as the vice president said, beyond even cruise ships to just use the common sense of trying to protect yourself because you are the most vulnerable. that is often referred to as social distancing. what we mean by that is if you are a person who is in that category, think twice even before you get on a plane for a long trip or you want to travel or you want to go to a place that's crowded where there may be people who are, in fact, have an infection of any sort. that doesn't necessarily even have to be coronavirus, it could be influenza or anything like that. so i want to publicly answer the question that i keep getting asked in a private situation. if you are in that category or if you are the family of individuals in that category take care to try to take care of the most vulnerable among them.

there are simple things that you can do practical common sense about not putting yourself in a situation, whatever that might be that might increase the risk given your situation. thank you. >> thank you, dr. fauci. well-said. with that i would like to introduce vice admiral able who, again, the coast guard did heroic work transports tests to the grand princess and plea a key role as reimplement the process of admiral. >> first of all we would like to send our 129th air rescue recovery wing of the international national guard who played a could i role in getting the test kits out to the ship and retrieving. great to have ship mates like that and stand by our side when the nation needs it. the coast guard looks forward to

operationalizing the best risk mitigation plan that's developed on medical science from the state, local and federal level. and we use our captain and the port authorities to direct the ship to execute that plan. thank you. >> bob cadlick assistant secretary response to the grand princess. >> thank you very much, mr. vice president. good evening, everyone. i just wanted to say first of all thanks to governor newsom and his staff at the state health office in emergency management in california think have been extraordinary great partners not only during this event as we are developing a concept of operations and planning to if you will disembark passengers from that ship safely and effectively ensuring that their safety as well as the community that they will be coming in to will be protected. but i just want to say that they have been great partners throughout. this they have been critical in our repatriation efforts from

wuhan as well as the diamond princess ship in japan. again, the details are becoming more apparent and we will brief you as those become more firm. i just want to say this is a whole government of effort. we are working with the department of defense, coast guard, department of homeland security, our colleagues at cdc as well as the state and local authorities in california to ensure that we can bring those people home safely as well as and as quickly as possible. thank you. >> dr. burch, did you want to speak to our plan with regard to that? >> thank you, thank you, mr. vice president. so this will be a comprehensive plan that like our other diamond princess was a comprehensive approach to ensure the health and welfare of all of our citizens. as dr. fauci discussed, we know many of the people on the cruise ship are in their 60's, '70s and 80's. we want to make sure as we know that that is a more vulnerable group that we pay special attention to anybody who has any

co-morbidities or other conditions. so we are working very hard with the people on the ship and the medical team there to make sure that their health and welfare is prioritized. thank you. >> dr. steven hahn with the fda for the latest on the availability of testing. >> thank you, mr. vice president. just as a reminder about this test. this is a swab test, not a point of care test. we discussed that yesterday. but that's the component of this test. it is a test that's been developed by the cdc based possible their first obtained genetic sequence of the virus. that test is very high quality we have high confidence in that test. that test is now available in all public health labs as described by the vice president. in response to the demand that we're seeing for the test, we are increasing the supply of this test as described by the vice president. and we believe that that will be

available significantly across the country and can i provide more details tomorrow. just for specific numbers, if you will. as of yesterday, the cdc test was shipped out, 900,000 tests. we have another 200,000 which we expect to be shipped out tomorrow and have gone through the quality assurance process. another 1 million tests will be quality assessed this weekend and we expect those to go out early next week. we expect further surge in test capacity beyond that by the end of next week and, again, i'm really happy to provide. >> how many [inaudible] so far? >> i think that's a question that should be addressed to the cdc for the most accurate number. thank you. >> and state labs. questions? >> mr. vice president. >> please. >> where do you expect these people to be quarantined and what of 19 crew members and passengers. why so many crew were infected? >> well, we're going to get to the bottom of it. but it's very likely that the

crew on the grand princess was exposed on two different outings. and we know the coronavirus manifested among the previous passengers. and so we will find that out. but we will be testing everyone on the ship. we will be quarantining as necessary. but with regard to the 1100 member crew, we anticipate that they will be quarantined on the ship. will not need to disembark. but let me refer to secretary cadlick to respond. we are working literally hour-by hour with the department of defense and the state of california to identify the military bases where we will do the testing of the remaining passengers. >> yes, sir. thank you.