lit up red, white, and blue to celebrate the patriotic fervor that has gripped his city and state and the whole country. here comes "the five." >> jesse: hello, everybody. i'm jesse watters along with greg gutfeld, juan williams, dana perino, and emily compagno. this is "the five." major new developments in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, president trump and the white house had to take to the podium and give us an update. we'll take you there once it starts. while we wait for that, here's the latest. a president trump extending the social distancing guidelines through the end of april. in the decision comes as cases in the united states top 150,000 and the death toll climbs to over 2900. at the white house saying it expects the outbreak to

accelerate and peak in the next coming weeks. here's what the president is saying about extending the shut down. >> we are thinking that around easter, that's going to be your spike, the highest point we think and then it's going to start coming down from there, that will be a day of celebration and we just want to do it right. so we picked the end of april, april 30th as the day where we can see some real progress and we expect to see that, and then by a little short of june, may be, we think it's a terrible thing to say, but we think the deaths will be at a very low number. >> jesse: also seeing the dramatic ramp up and testing, the white house task force saying america has done almost 900,000 test so far and that number could jump even higher. the fda approving a new test that can give results in just 5 minutes from a doctor's office or hospital. president trump reacting

earlier. >> sometimes it's two or three days. now it's getting down to a day.n that but when this new test comes out, will be able to give it as they sit. we will know exactly what's happening but the new test is easier, simpler, and quick. you're going to know your answer right away so that's what we are looking for. that's coming out very soon, almost immediately. >> jesse: that's great news on testing and greg, they said for many weeks the president needed to listen to his experts in the task force and he wasn't going to listen. well, he listened, and april 30th now. we hope it's going to be over. >> greg: the critics will say he should've listen sooner because somehow everybody was there before him which is an outright lie because the media was also saying this is just like the flu but forget it, let's not play that game. the thing we have to remind ourselves which is pretty amazing is that normal

contagious diseases, the sick infect the healthy but here the healthy infect the sick. and so what america is doing is pretty amazing. we are shutting down everything for at least a month, making monumental sacrifices in order to protect the most vulnerable. and i think we should think about that the next time people say that you don't or america doesn't care for those in need, this is the exact opposite of euthanasia. this is worrying about the elderly, worrying about the infirm and sacrificing a great deal to do this and we have to admit in the media that we probably don't understand the sacrifice as well as everybody else does because for now, we are all working and we are here and maybe that will be the case for the whole month but there's a people that you can't just say stay home for a month and watch this or watch that, that's not going to be good enough. we have to think about that and think about what we can do for people who aren't us, who don't have the luxury of sitting here and then going home.

>> the responses then from a compassionate country that values life, juan williams just breaking, virginia now ordering people to stay at home until june 10th and d.c. following that move indefinitely. how do you feel? >> juan: maryland too. so literally, i can go in any direction. they want us all to stay home. i think it's a good thing. i think as greg was just saying, we all have to make sacrifices and our sacrifices aren't anywhere near what some people who have been pushed out of work or up against and that's when i had that spending bill with rent coming due for people on april 1st. my sense is what we're seeing in terms of the president retracting that let's all go to church on easter fact church's thing, now are going to have social distancing until april 30th is that he was slow to react. i think today, there were such good news, we saw that hospital

ship coming to new york and again, it's an example of something that could've been done earlier in my opinion that would have helped us so much and you see people saying we should have had the testing, we should've had the supply. i don't think there's any debate about that. >> greg: there is about the armchair quarterbacking. apparently, you have all the answers. i like to go back to find those answers you have. maybe you can show them to me. is just infuriating. in everybody can say what you're saying. should have done this, should have done that. he picked easter because he was setting of gold that people could work toward. was flexible. he made it clear was flexible. so you try to paint it like he lied to the public. no, he was being aspirational. >> juan: that's what he said, now he said that but at the time, he said we're going to to get back to it. everybody's going to get back to

work by sunday impact churches. i just wanted to say in response to you, here he is january 22nd. we have this totally under control, january 31st. >> greg: you were to busy getting high off impeachment fumes. i remember bringing it up on the show. >> juan: there's the reality reality for americans who want leadership they can trust and they can trust >> greg: you should run, clearly you know more. >> juan: i'm just trying to be nonpartisan and let's move on. >> jesse: he is and he's saving a lot of lives. let's get behind him because we want him to succeed, not fail. that naval hospital ship.

it was best to get set up here but these guys work so hard down in norfolk, virginia, to get that ready to go. >> dana: that would actually need to be on that ship. but hats off to our military as usual, one of our most trusted institutions not only in our country but in the world. i could just say one thing also, go ahead. >> jesse: no, go ahead. >> dana: okay. i thought someone wanted to jump in. the other thing i was just going to mention is to the point of we are privileged. we are here, we are working, we are safe and sound and sharing

ideas for what to watch on netflix. there's a lot of people who have never been in a position of ever having to ask for help. they would rather never ask for help because that weight same as a failing to them. and i think it is incumbent upon all of us to the extent that we can't even within our circles around family circles, to find those people, the restaurant owners, the small business owner, the janitor, the teacher at your school, whoever it is. for example, if they are going to be hungry, we have to do something for them, and i feel really strongly about this. i'm afraid they're not going to ask for help and that we are not able to go out and find them on our own because we have to stay at home. so whatever we can do in addition to what the government is doing, american should come together. we are super generous, but you have to tell us you need help and you have to let us help you, and that all of us have to help.

we get cut off by the press conference, i just want everybody to really be thinking about that. >> jesse: we can spread a contagion of kindness, emily. >> emily: we can. and to dana's point about that, what we have now with the president extending social quarantine in additional two weeks through april 30th is a certainty. so those business owners that had an amorphous easter date in their mind, these business owners that have been affected that have been devastated because of social quarantine are now looking at may. so what that means to me is we need -- and that phase four, than it needs to extend the payroll measurement deadline for these affected business owners and also things like tax credits and refinancing for when they are cash poor in the future and take the restaurant industry that dana just mentioned, that's 3 million unemployed right now on its way to five to 7 million and that's traditionally a nine day cash on hand industry.

these guys are devastated, so i think we should also have things like a meal and entertainment deduction for individuals so that right now as we are looking to have gap measures by the federal government, it also needs to include not only that stimulation, but now an extension of that because otherwise as we discussed before, it's just these business owners inheriting unemployment wages from the fed while they're watching the revenue being gutted. >> jesse: we talked about this at the top, they're making a lot of strides hopefully quickly on this testing. getting the results back almost instantaneously, do it at your doctor's office, you don't have to go to the hospital. that's going to be a game changer. >> greg: i would say something promising about the drugs but i don't want to get thrown off twitter but there are promising things happening. the challenge about what dana and emily are talking about is how do people do things when they're alone. generally when you help people,

you get people together. like we're going to do a barbecue, we are going to do a charity fund run. you can't do any of those thin things. everything has to be at home by yourself and that means you have to initiate it yourself. i can't rely on dana to get me, you've to do it on your own because there's no other way to do it. >> juan: that's why we have more of the technology and why we are saying thank goodness for face time. i've been face timing now with friends. what's funny about this period is you start calling people that you meant to call to maintain relationships but the face time with the grandkids and even my kids now is so important and i think staying in touch is just more vital than ever. >> jesse: people usually just text nowadays, dana, and i think more people are actually starting to pick up the phone and call, make an actual phone call. >> dana: i think on the phone calls this week, may be one the

ways -- i'm planning to do this. for the people that i talk to, if they know of somebody that some help, what can i do myself from here? there some great technologies -- it's going to sound like i'm a luddite. but then mo which allows you to basically text money from my account to somebody else's account. nobody has to see it, nobody has to know. and i can be sure that if my sister for example says i know somebody who can really use a little bit of a bridge here, fine, than i can do that and it really is incumbent upon me as an american to not just sit ho home. i'm here and i'm safe and sound but when i tell you that i almost stopped breathing when i think about what other people are going through. forget the fighting. i can't stand it. in >> jesse: looks like we have the president of united states has a rose garden

with the task force. >> president trump: very comfortable here, a lot of room, and we appreciate you being here. yesterday, i announce that we would be extending our social distance guidelines through the end of april. this is based on modeling that shows the peak and fatalities will not arrive for another two weeks. in the modeling also shows that by very vigorously following these guidelines, we can save more than 1 million american lives. think of that, 1 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 the fate of our victory. we will have a great victory. we have no other choice. everyone of us has a role to play in winning this war. every citizen, family, and business can make the difference in stopping the virus. this is our shared patriotic

duty, challenging times are ahead for the next 30 days, and this is a very vital 30 days. we are sort of putting it all on the line this 30 days, so important because 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's the time we are waiting for, the more we commit ourselves now, the sooner we can win the fight and return to our lives and they will be great lives. maybe better than ever. today, we reached a historic milestone in our war against the coronavirus. over 1 million americans have now 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 and just say a few words about

the fact that we reached substantially now more than 1 million tests. thank you, alex. >> thank you, mr. president for your leadership and marshaling all the resources that we have for this unprecedented testing effort and thank you, mr. vice president for leading the whole of the economy approach to testing. as tsi mentioned today, the united states hit more other country has reached. we are now testing nearly 100,000 samples a day, also a level that no other country has reached. i want to think every partner that has been involved in this effort. that all of the men and women of the fda and the cdc including director redfield and commissioner hahn. together, they have work to balance the need for testing on an aggressive scale with the scientific rigor that americans

expect. working with our testing coordinator, they have now truly unleash the ingenuity of the private sector and our state and local leaders, the centerpieces of america's historic approach to testing. i want to thank the state and local leaders who abuse their on the ground resources and knowledge to lead testing and make it much more easily accessible to the american who need it. i'm also grateful to fema with whom we are now working closely to get state and local partners what they need. i also want to think cms where administrator has given health care providers unprecedented capacity for testing and treatment plan has assured the test will be paid for. finally, we would not be where we are today without the many american companies who have worked day and night to develop as of today 20 different emergency testing options. with the fda responding to requests for authorization typically within 24 hours, the number of options is growing nearly every day.

the fda has also opened up new options for using the available tests like cell swabbing and new options for reagents. i also want to thank fda and other components of hhs were incredibly rapid action on other tools we need. this weekend, we actually worked to secure 30 million tablets and 1 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine which are potential covid-19 treatments and we authorize the new decontamination machines which could sterilize thousands of essential masks for reuse every day. so thank you, mr. president for your leadership and everybody has played a part in getting us where we are today. >> president trump: i'd like to ask dr. hawn to come up, fda because we have some really good stuff from the first of all the numbers have been incredible on testing but in the days ahead, we are going to go even faster and were going to have something

from abbott labs which is right here in a five-minute test, highly accurate and i can show that as we listen to our fda commissioner, the job he's done and the approval process. we talked about chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine just now. i thought that i'd mention it but alex is already done that but we have that now in the test with 1,100 people in new york and it was only the fast approval by fda that allowed us to do that. was a really rapid approval and this is the first one on the lien of "the five" minute test. >> thank you, mr. president for your leadership.

i'm also appreciative of the ingenuity and willingness to work with us quickly to develop and distribute those tests. we have a substantial addition to testing with the authorization of point-of-care tests, especially the abbott point-of-care test which the president has pulled out of the box. it's a test that gives you a result where you're getting care. this is truly a patient centered approach whether it's the doctor's office, hospital, an emergency room, emergency care center in a drive-by testing site. just like tests for flu or strap, we go to the options of getting the test on, you can have it within minutes. now with those testing approved for others, these are available around the country planning to scaled up the number of test that can be put out throughout the country in as little as 15 to 5 minutes. and then of course, an appropriate plan of treatment can be given.

we had the fda are working quickly with abbott as well and other testing approaches are normally these tests take months to develop. i was on the phone today with the ceo, he told me that normally this is a nine to 12 month approach developing a point-of-care test. they did this in collaboration with fda and u.s. government within weeks. abbott has shared though be delivering one of these tests tomorrow and then ramping up. just to emphasize one thing, the most innovative and safe products come from the private sector in partnership with government taking an all hands on deck approach just like in this case. the other point here is that they work together to make sure that we had a fast, reliable, and accurate test to market, thank you. >> president trump: really great job, thank you. so the pharmaceutical company has been working with us very

closely, and as alex mentioned, 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to the united states government has been given and bayer has donated 1 million doses of chloroquine, which will soon be distributed to states and state health officials around the country. also donating 6 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to u.s. hospitals, 6 million doses, so the private sectors has been amazing what's happened, really amazing. and we're going to introduce you to some of the greatest business executives in the world today the matter where you go. they're going to say a little bit about what they are doing, and then we have so many more. the also authorized n95

respirator mask sterilization kids. it's an incredible thing. i've been asking why are we throwing these masks away? you look at some of these mask and they are significant pieces of equipment and i say how come you throw them away? why are you using sterilization techniques? and i got a call from the governor of ohio and he's a tremendous guy come a tremendous governor, and he said we have a company that are having a hard time getting approval from the fda, and i called up and within a very short period of time, they got the approval. we really appreciate it. i want to thank mike and i want to thank steve, and they're going to be able each machine now to disinfect 120,00 120,000s per day. i think about that. each machine can disinfect 120,000 masks per day. it'll be just like a new one. can go up to about 20 times for

each mask. so each mask can go through this process 20 times and they have two in ohio, one in new york, and one will soon be shipped to seattle, washington, and also to washington, d.c., so that's going to make a tremendous difference on the masks. this morning, i spoke to our nation's governors to help each state get the medical supplies they need, and yesterday vice president mike pence fast our nations hospitals to begin reporting total bed capacity. i icu bed capacity, ventilator capacity, and vital medical supply levels on a daily basis. and mike, thank you for the great job. thank you very much. in new york, the 2,900 bed hospital under construction which is now completed in three days, you might say three and a half days at the javits center will be completed today.

and when you look, we are going to be adding some more beds which will be completed today and we've opened up the box and my hair was blowing around, and it's mine. one thing you can't get away with if you're president. nearly 3,000 medical beds will become operational. the u.s. navy ship comfort also arrived today. equipped with 12 operating rooms and 1,000 hospital beds, workers begun on an additional temporary hospital site including a 600 bed capacity nursing home facility in brooklyn and numerous floors of a high-rise building on wall street. so it's been pretty amazing what they've done. the army corps of engineers, what they've done. they just completed, think of it, a 2,900 bed hospital in new york.

in just about three days, maybe four days and the whole city is talking about it. on top of that, we floated in a great ship which is going to be 1,000 rooms which is being used for patients outside of what we are focused on and that will free up a lot of rooms for what we are focused on. so it's been great. the army corps of engineers has awarded contracts for the construction of alternate care facilities also at the state university at stony brook, state university and the westchester community center where we are sending 60 ambulances to new york city today. we've a total of 60. we are getting some additional ones with up to 190 more to follow that different locations. today, fema has obligated more than $1.3 million -- billion dollars in federal support to

the state of new york, so spending a lot of money in new york. it's a hot bed, no question about it and we are spending a lot of time and effort on new york, new jersey, spoke with governor cuomo a lot. spoke with governor murphy a l lot. we are getting the jobs done in addition to the 8,100 ventilators that we've already delivered over the next 48 hours, we are delivering more than 1,000. going 400 ventilators going to michigan, very shortly. 300 going to new jersey to illinois. 152 louisiana and 52 connecticut. fema and hhs already delivered.

5.3 million face shields, 4.4 million surgical gowns, and 22 million gloves created i don't know if you saw it, just came over the wire, for just announced a little while ago. they will produce along with general electric health care 50,000 as we outpace what we need, we are going to be sending them to italy, sending them to france, going to be sending them to spain, tremendous problems. and other countries as we can. but the fact that we're doing so many so quickly is a tribute to

our great companies. and can help supplement the state and local efforts to distribute personal and protective equipment where we are sending a lot. we have plane loads coming in, 51 loads from various locations all around the world a big, though my cargo plane land this morning. we have additional capacity. we have additional product that we don't need. and giuseppe was very, very happy, i will tell you that.

joining us this afternoon are ceos of the great american companies that are fulfilling their patriotic duty by producing or donating medical equipment to meet our most urgent needs. what they're doing is incredib incredible. the areas of common wow honeywell. and has been someone that i've dealt with in the past, and he's a great leader of a great company. michael lindell of my pillow, the way you send wow sell those pillows, it's incredible. procter & gamble, and greg hayes of united technologies. i just want to tell all of you america's very grateful and have done an amazing job and we thank you very much. i'd like you to come up and sing a couple of words if you might. come on up, fellows.

you have to say what you're doing because it's been really incredible. go ahead. >> my pillow is a u.s. integrated company which has been forced to change the changing business environment as a result of the pandemic. my pillow is uniquely positioned as a u.s. company that functions as a manufacturer logistic management distributor and direct to consumer given our current business lines we are experiencing, but they are done with establishing an internal task first which is monitoring future needs of companies across the country as a result of this pandemic. we develop new protocols to address the current and future needs of u.s. businesses across multiple sectors. going to prepare for changes to the current operations to adjust to future threats and pandemics.

my pillow has designated a call center for the many issues for this pandemic. we've dedicated 75% of the manufacturing to produce cotton face masks. i was up to 10,000 a day by friday. thank you, mr. president for your call to action. which has empowered companies like my pillow to help wage of this invisible war. god gave us grace on november 8th, 2016 to change the course we were on. taken out of our schools and lives, a nation had turned its back on god. and i encourage you to use this time at home to get back in the word. read our bibles and spend time with our families.

our president gave us so much hope. richest of a few short months ago, we had the best economy, the lowest unemployment, and we just going up it's amazing. with this administration and all the great people in this country praying daily, we will get through this and get back to a place that is stronger and safer than ever. >> president trump: thank you, mike. please, come on up. i did not know he was going to do that but he is a friend of mine and i do appreciate it. >> first of all, mr. president, mr. vice president, the entire administration and all the agencies, thank you for your strong leadership during this time of crisis. is noticed and it's making a difference. second of all, i'd like to say a big thank you to all the health care workers out there. you are putting yourself in harm's way every day, we really respect what you're doing and we couldn't be thankful and i can tell you that more help is

underway. we had honeywell are industrial technology companies. one of the businesses that we are in protecting industrial worker. what we're doing today is repurchasing a lot of that equipment to serve the health care worker. a few days ago, we announce the start up of a new manufacturing facility in rhode island going to be hiring 500 employees. we already have 200 on board and were going to be starting the production of n95 masks. furthermore today, we are announcing the start up of another manufacturing facility in arizona hiring another 500 people and going to be starting up production in that facility by the middle of may. so in total, we've doubled our production of n95 masks already, going to doubled again in the next 60 days and then the 90 days, for the more we are going

to be providing other safety equipment las. lastly, big thank you to all the honeywell employees and for all the hourly and administrative employees who are having a hard time during this time of crisis. thank you, mr. president. >> president trump: we are not supposed to do that anymore. great job, thank you to honeywell. >> thank you, mr. president and mr. vice president on your guidance during this unprecedented time. i'm very honored to be here today. founded by a minister 144 years ago, jockey international as a family owned company headquartered in kenosha, wisconsin. since 1876, we have been providing socks and underwear for generations of family. is part of our dna to roll up our sleeves and help our country

and her time of need. during world war ii, we made parachutes for the military. and today, we are eager to serve this great country by providing support to the health care workers on the front lines of this fight. as the president and vice president have said, it's a whole of america approach and we are committed. jockey has had a long-standing partnership with the encompass group headquartered in georgia serving the health care community. when we learned of the critical need for ppe, we knew we had to help. that meant restarting production on isolation gowns. monumental lifting by jockey and compass, fema, and the fda was done in just a few days to be production ready. as a result, we expect to begin delivering 30 to 50,000 gallons per week helping those that need it the most right now. in addition this week, we are also donating 10,000 units of scrubs to the front line doctors

and nurses at the javits convention center in new york city. we would not have been able to do this without the collaboration of the administration, representatives from the federal agencies, and congressman brian styles. thank you very much, mr. president and mr. vice president. >> thank you, mr. president and mr. vice president for bringing us together today. i'm 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 essential cleaning products, hygiene products, and health care products for families everywhere. these include health care workers and for institutions serving those on the front line. p&g people are the faces and brands you know and trust, brands like tide, pampers, bounty, sharman, mr. clean.

in addition to making, packing, and shipping these essential items, they work together to transform our plants to make things we never made before like hand sanitizers and facial masks. some of these are already getting to national, state, and local agencies. some of them are in the hospitals already. everywhere around the world, p&g people are working every day to serve everybody. consumers and working together to bring together the full capability of our research. our manufacturing, and our communications capability to make sure we make a difference to the consumers we serve and to all the audience that we can make a difference to you. i want to thank them and i'm very grateful for what they do every day in service to others. thank you, mr. president and mr. vice president for bringing us together today.

>> i'm greg hayes from united technologies and on behalf of the 240,000 employees of united technologies and a 70,000 employees at raytheon which will join together this friday, i want to first of all say thank you to the president and the vice president for your leadership during what is really a war. a different more than anybody has ever fought before, but it's a war we are uniquely qualified to help. in one of the world's largest defense contractors and some of the best technology, using that technology to try to solve some real-world problems. today, we are working with the air force to try to help the pilots as they are moving medical evacuees from th the covid-19 virus so they can be protected. we are also working with logistics and if you can think about a war, strategy is important war. it's imperative along with mr. navarro's office that we coordinate all of these activities. last week, we donated 5,000

pieces of personal protective equipment and next week will have another almost million. again working for our supply chain, also beginning a manufacturer of face shields using additive technologies that we have found what we have available within utc. we stand ready to help in any way we can. again, i always want to say thank you to all of our employees for their work during this crisis as well as to the frontline medical and other first responders. >> president trump: thank you, fantastic. great company. and those are great companies, thank you very much. i'd like to ask to come up and say a few words about what you're doing and what's happening and how positive it's been good i really appreciate it, come on up.

>> thank you, mr. president. let me start by saying i want to convey my deepest sympathies to those who have lost loved ones to the coronavirus. we are all thinking of you. today is doctors day and even without it, i want to send a message of gratitude to the foot soldiers in this war, men and women that are providing care and comfort to americans that have been affected by the virus. your country grateful. and in short as the president had said, we are engaged in a war against an invisible enemy, and wartime, the assumptions of peace time must be revisited and adjusted to meet the demands of the moment. so under the president's leadership, waving a wide and unprecedented range of regulatory requirements. many health care systems won't need these waivers and they shouldn't use them if they don't need them, but the flexibilities are there. in a time of crisis, regulations shouldn't stand in the way of

patient care and there are several components to our announcement today but the first one is the hospital with that. patients that are infected with the coronavirus and those that are not. in new york and other areas but under these waivers, they were empowering local communities. the complement and augment the work of fema and allowing hospital systems to tap into the capacity that already exists in their communities, making use of dorms and hotels for gymnasiums and allowing the main hospital to focus on those that need the most intensive care. they were surgery centers out there today that are delaying elective surgeries, and they may have excess capacity that can be devoted to hospital like care.

we are also making changes to the medicare program to facilitate testing. patients that are in a nursing home. we are also expanding the workforce, taking action today to relax some of our regulations to allow hospitals to increase their workforce and we are allowing a broad range of let health care workers operate at the top of their license. they can provide support to health care workers but now we will allow them to provide child care, meals, laundry services. and then there's also telehealth. the president already directed a dramatic mansion of telehealth to our nation's 62 million

seniors with medicare, and we are so proud of all the health care providers and patients that have rapidly implemented telehealth. but today we are announcing we're going to go even further and were going to be paying for doctors to make phone calls with their patients and provide care over the phone. and were getting rid of long-standing barriers to telehealth in the medicare program allowing emergency rooms to use telehealth and eliminating requirements that some businesses be provided face-to-face. i also want to mention on saturday, directed to offer advanced payments for health care providers that are experiencing cash flow problems. we know many providers are complying with our recommendations to delay nonessential elective surgery and they shouldn't be penalized for doing the right thing. now, i barely scratch the surface of all the flexibilities that we are offering health care workers and health care systems. these flexibilities will provide

a lot of flexibility from regulations that are ill suited to the unprecedented needs of this emergency. and doctors and nurses and other health care professionals that are working long hours and sacrificing time with their families and risking their lives will have the flexibility that they need to confront the needs of the coronavirus pandemic. and there are many heroes in this war, but i want to take an opportunity to thank the team at cms. they worked day and night. the flexibilities that are in this regulation and any regulation usually take cms a year. but we did this in two weeks and i couldn't be more honored and privileged to serve alongside these dedicated public servants. thank you. >> president trump: thank you very much. doing a great job. so, we are in the midst of something that is very difficult, but we are going to win. it's just a question of when we want to do it as quickly as

possible, we want to have as few deaths as possible, and we will meet again tomorrow for some statistics and some updates as to where we think were going and timing. i think timing will be very important because we have to get our country back. we have to get our country back to where it was and may be beyond where it was because we learned so much, but we will have lost a lot of people and in many ways, their heroes. you look at what's happening with our medical professionals, they are warriors. men and women are doing a job the likes of which i don't think anyone's ever seen. i see them coming out of planes today going into new york, going into the most dangerous locations, dangerous areas and they go in there and they just want to do the job. and you see the numbers, you see the numbers like i see the numbers, i have some friends

that are unbelievably sick. we thought they were going in for a mild stay in one case, he's unconscious in a coma. and you say how does that happen? so i just want to thank all of these great professionals, men and women, doctors and nurses and paramedics and first responders and law enforcement by the way if you look at new york and you see how the effect this had is incredible. thank you very much. i few questions john, please. >> thank you, mr. president. you said you would be extending the guidelines of the end of april and that you'd be giving us specific. do you expect the guidelines that will carry on to

potentially be summed up modification? also, you have some travel restrictions that come up for reconsideration, candidate u.s.-mexico border on april the 21st? >> president trump: we may add a few more but the guidelines will be very much as they are and maybe even toughened up a little bit. but they're having a big impact. they are having a tremendous impact and we are starting to see it and that's what we are starting to see. >> if i could ask you, you talked about ford ramping up production of ventilators. the government is sending thousands of ventilators across the country. clearly the supply is increasing but when you look at the production curve against the hospitalization curve, can you guarantee that everyone who needs a ventilator in the next few weeks will be able to get one? >> president trump: i think that some are ramping up to a level that they're not going to have to and i think that we also have kept in reserve almost 10,000 ventilators in our line.

we have held back just because we did the stockpile, we didn't want to give them because we don't know where the emergency hits so fast, it comes so quickly. we are probably going to send some of them now. we've been sending a lot to michigan and various other states, sending some additional ones to washington. we are adding them to the areas that are having a problem, even alabama even alabama all of a sudden flared up a little bit as you saw over the last couple of days and we will send them down to alabama. so we have 10,000, kept them for this very specific purpose. sounds like a lot, but it's not when you think about it. but we are making a lot and were talking about hundreds of thousands being made and were talking about 20 of 10 companies at least making the ventilators. and we say go ahead because obviously other countries will never be able to do it.

it's a very complex piece of equipment and it's big and expensive. >> to believe as we approach this peak in a couple of weeks that they will be enough for the american populace? >> yes, i do. i think we are going to be in some very good shape and we have a great call today with the governor's. it was randomly selected largely democrats and republicans and i think for the most part, they were saying thank you for doing a great job and we discuss that at the end of the call. so people are very happy with what we're doing. the circumstances are so terrible because of what's going on but they are impressed by the federal government. watch the weeks ahead of schedule, almost four weeks ahead of schedule into new york harbor.

and watch it floating into los angeles a week ago. and they are stocked, they are really ready to go, stocked with both talent and tremendous amounts of equipment and the navy and everybody else involved, they got it ready so fast. it's just incredible what they can do. i am so impressed by the people involved. mike and i were talking about it before, the level of genius to put it all together so quickly. i a month ago, nobody ever heard of this. nobody had any idea. the mercy was being maintained, it was in maintenance for a month. and when they heard we needed it -- and i was surprised they said sir, we're ready to go. we are all ready to go. it's incredible. in a matter of days, a few days, just incredible gavin newsom was

impressed by what we've been doing in california los angeles area in particular but san francisco, all over california. when you look at what we're doing with michigan, getting along very well with michigan. a great place, sending a lot of things to michigan and that's become a hotbed. a specific area as you know, it's become very hot. it's become, i don't know, could even at some point superseded, but it's got to be taken care of. so the relationship we have with the governor's, we took a lot of calls from a lot of different states, and i wish you could've heard. even a thing where the governor of ohio called where he has a company that does the sterilization, but they have a problem because it's not going quickly at the fda and i called up steve and steve comes in and said we'll get it done, and they

checked it, and they got it done almost immediately. and originally, they were approving an extra 10,000 masks and then it was supposed to be for 80 and they ultimately proved it, a tremendous number. i kept wondering, why are they sterilizing these? then i looked at them, and they look like it's not cloth, something that could be sterilized. they won't bother showing it to you. it's incredible when you talk about 5 minutes, 15 minutes and highly accurate. not nearly as disturbing to do as the other tests. we just gotten better, doing things nobody else ever thought of. please. >> the governor of virginia took it pretty far. he issued a 70 day stay at home

order. is not constitutional, first off, and secondly, do you think it's warranted to go ahead and issue a 70 day guidance at this point? >> president trump: we are letting the governors do in their states pretty much what they want with our supervision and they consult with us in all cases. some go further than others, as you know and i could give you plenty of examples, but i'm not going to do that because we never want to be controversial. but some of the governors have taken it a step further. when people are questioning that. but look, staying at home with respect to what we're talking about doesn't bother me at all. people should be staying at home, that's what we want. >> 2,405 americans have died from coronavirus in the last 60 days. meanwhile, you have 2,359 children who were killed by their mothers through elective abortions each day. that's 16 and a half thousand children killed every week.

two states have suspended elective abortions to make more resources available for coronavirus cases. texas and ohio. do you agree with states who are placing coronavirus victims above elective abortions, and should more states be doing the same? >> president trump: i think what we're doing is is trying to as a group, republicans and democrats, just working together to solve this problem. what you're mentioning has been going on for a long time and it's a sad event. a lot of set events in this country, but what we are doing is now working on the virus, working with that hidden enemy and doing a great job, as good a job as you can possibly do and when tony and deborah came up with numbers yesterday, saying you could lose up to 2.2, may be beyond the 2.2 million people, we did nothing. and i can't tell you what the

unfortunate final total is going to be, but it's going to be a very slow fraction of that. so we are doing an awfully good job i think with what we are doing. >> are you considering a nationwide stay at home order. i know there's a lot of states that have put the met place but some haven't. i wonder if you are considering a broad at home order. >> we have talked about it, there are some parts of the country that are in a far deeper trouble than others. other parts that frankly are not in trouble at all. hopefully, going to be able to keep it that way by doing what we're doing. so we talked about quarantine as you know the other day. the group came to me, they wanted to do the quarantine and i said let's think about it, and we did and we studied it and by the time the evening came, it was something that was very unwieldy and very tough to enforce and something we didn't want to do.

but we did advisory and doing very well. we look at new york, looked down fifth avenue today, sort of prime time and you've never seen that before. and there is no car, no anything. so i think the people of this country have done an incredible job. we do that, we will let you know, but it's pretty unlikely i would think at this time. >> i had a quick question for dr. birx. you don't mind, you had mentioned today that this model that predicts 100,000 deaths is fitting almost perfectly. are we doing things almost perfectly, or are there more things we need to be doing to not exceed that hundred thousand, 200,000 model? >> thank you. i think that's a really great question. and tomorrow, will go through

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

>> president trump: suddenly outlook monday and i see a lot and then explodes how very powerfully we are building hospitals in a lot of different things for louisiana, so it's very important. >> more that this could be seasonal, cyclical virus. so maybe both of you could comment on this end dr. birx as well. are you prepared for this to strike again in the fall? all the efforts that are taking place right now to contain this to be proactive and. >> president trump: we are prepared. i hope it doesn't happen. would you like to say something about that? i hope it doesn't happen, but we are certainly prepared. >> in fact, i would anticipate

that would actually happen because of the degree of it wily different ball game of what happened in the beginning of this year. they will be several things that will be different. our ability to go out and be able to test, identify, isolate, and contact race with the 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. help one or more of them will be available. and importantly as i mentioned to you many times that these briefings is that we have a vaccine that is on track and multiple other candidates, so i would anticipate that a year to a year and a half will be able to do it under an emergency use if we start seeing an efficacy signal, might be able to use a vaccine at the next season. so things are going to be very did very different. what we are going through now is more than just lessons learned.

the things that we have available to us that we did not have before. >> president trump: okay, please, go ahead. >> thank you. your former fda commissioner wrote a road map for recovery about the coronavirus. he suggests that everybody wear a mask in public. is that something that the task force thinks is a good idea? >> president trump: we haven't discussed it to that extent but it's certainly something we could discuss. we are getting the number of masks that you need. we are in the process of talking about things. i saw his suggestion on that, so will take a look at it. for a period of time. not forever. we want our country back. who were not going to be wearing masks forever but it could be for a short period of time after we get back into gear. i could see something like that happening for a period of time. but i would hope it would be a very limited period