>> the white house and might be ready to change some of these distancing guidelines. some who say it should be a lot more than that. at 6 feet, 10 feet, 20 feet. we'll see. >> dana: hello, everyone. i'm dana perino along with greg gutfeld, juan williams, jesse watters, and dagen mcdowell. this is "the five." happy tuesday. the president on the coronavirus task force are set to hold another briefing as the pandemic in america gets deadlier by the minute. we'll take you to the white house once that starts, now killing more than 3600 people and infecting more than 180,000 end. there is some encouraging news.

suggest social distancing restrictions are beginning to slow the spread of the disease in some areas and president trump revealing that the u.s. has tested for than 1 million americans. telling all americans to start wearing masks in public. jerome adams is pushing back on that saying there is no data to support it. take a look. >> if you want to put that aside for health care workers, and we get that but it could actually help us, we love to know. >> the data doesn't show that it helps individuals. >> in china, they walk around with them. >> they have a culture of wearing masks and everyone already has one and if you are sick, wear a mask. you have a mask and it makes you feel better, then by all means wear it but know that the more you touch your face, the more you put yourself at risk to know that right now, the data isn't quite fair to say that there is a net benefit of individuals to

the individual of wearing a ma mask. >> dana: we have a lot to get to today. one thing i noticed a jazz now is 180,000 cases have been identified in america. just three hours ago when i did "the daily briefing," that was 174,000. so i asked the producers before the show, is that accurate? are we getting results back from these tests so quickly that we are seeing big jumps like that and the answer was yes. one that we are getting a lot of data and it's shocking to some people but if you look back, the american media and our government were honest about the numbers as opposed to other countries. we'll talk about that later. a something that really struck me yesterday was that the ceo of united technologies got out the podium and said this is a war and you go into war with a strategy but you win a war with

logistics. so you think about that for a second, an invisible enemy jumping from person to person, family to family, state to state. the federal government is coordinating the production of manufacturing distribution, a thousand different types of medical products all across this great country and you see the coordination and communication labor, business intelligence, everything that goes into that. should make the american people feel really proud about the fight what's going on right now. so when the president of the united states is basically the general in this battle has a certain advantage point because he couldn't see this beautiful logistical mosaic across the map of this country with trucks and planes and all this product moving in and out. he is very, very proud of what's going on and speaks with such reverence to the workers and the executives tend to into the mayors on the governors on the doctors and nurses that are in

the front lines fighting this thing. and from a guy who made a lot of money building and developing and creating some of the most iconic towers and resorts and hotels in this country, he really has a deep appreciation for the mobilization that's taken place. in the scale and the speed with which it's taken place. so when you hear people in the press around the other side of the political aisle ask starkey questions for kind of denigrate the effort that's going into this, the president takes that very personally. because he is saying you are dishonoring and disrespecting the tens of thousands of americans that are putting their blood, sweat, and tears into this battle. and he doesn't want to accept that. and everyone needs to recognize were going to win and were going to win because of the amount of effort that is being put in place by the hardworking men and

women of this country. >> dana: there is no doubt, a ton of hard work being done. and greg, a good question that doctors and the cdc are trying to figure out whether we as civilians out there trying to do our apartment and socially distance should be wearing masks. there was a doctor on the show earlier today. take a listen to his point of view when i want to get your take on it after that. >> i if you are infected, you gt some protection from people around you. it's also a psychological effe effect. that is, if you're wearing a mask, you're going to be more aware of your surroundings. he'll be more aware of the danger that you could be infected or possibly infect others. and then finally although you have to put the mask on your face, it prevents you from touching your face, which is one of the major ways you can be infected. >> dana: interesting to figure out how to make a decision. which we do?

>> greg: the logic from the surgeon general seems flawed. obviously, i'm an expert. a my believe is they didn't tell us the entire truth about the masks because they didn't want to run out of them. they wanted hospital workers to have them and i understand that but you run into a problem here, the general population could increase infections which sends more patients to the hospital workers who end up being infected so you see it's those nonstop little cycle of infection when in fact it would have been just better if we made more masks so that hospital workers would have masks and also so would the general public. i think they're valuable because it keeps you from touching your face and makes you more cognizant of the transmission and it just makes sense. any kind of obstruction or friction will reduce an impact. i do want to use a sports analogy that kind of gives me hope through all of this has were going into our third week. at an auto sports coming of a

yellow flag which indicates a hazard on the track. that means all drivers must slow down and lined up behind the pace car. so what we're doing right now and the key for this to work is that we are all trying to stay put in the same place so that when the race resumes, no one gets shafted or ruined. he can't jump in front of anybody else during this time. we have to look at this next four weeks that we have got a pause. we are all pausing, and i believe for this to really work, we should consider pausing the rent, pausing utilities, pausing car loans. so nothing goes in and nothing goes out. literally a yellow flag for the economic track. so no one can overtake anybody else. because i feel in a very surreal sense, a sense of unity, a feeling like one brain. the united states right now is much like how a hive is working where were all kind of working together in a weird psychic way

going to do the right thing, and all of these myths about as being too capitalist were too greedy or evil bigots or racist, it's all gone. none of those conflicts that the media loves to drum up, it's not there. and i think right now, the yellow flag idea of pausing it and everybody having confidence that no one's going to get screwed is really, really important to get through this. >> dana: i agree. in and me ask you, i heard that you were able to see usns comfort as it came down the hudson. him and it's pretty interesting to see how unifying that really is. >> dagen: thank you for making me a blubbering mess bringing that up. because i did. it was a heart filling moment. wasn't gut wrenching.

i was literally at home walking the dogs and trying to eat some lunch before i came back to do your show and i looked out and i just saw this giant ship in the middle of the hudson and it just meant so much to me personally knowing that here people are coming to the city's rescue in the nation's rescue, but economically just really quickly to greg's point in terms of our wartime footing. to prevent a nation from having liquidity problems have basically companies having solvency problems and that's jay powell the head of the federal reserve. they've already done extraordinary things with the leadership and not some monetary policy nerd. he is a lawyer and he was willing to "the wall street journal" rode about it today willing to act quickly and just throw everything at this problem, six unique lending facilities and he's got $450 billion at the

treasury because that stimulus plan, he can now go out and lend to cities, states, and even small businesses, medium-sized businesses with potentially another four and a half trillion dollars worth of firepower. so he is one of the warriors. >> dana: and people need to take advantage of that because it's there for them. another thing that's been so inspiring is how communities are figuring out ways, we had a story about two young people in their 20s figuring out a way to find out who in the neighborhood needed to get groceries, elderly people that shouldn't go out, they really need to stay isolated. so many volunteers and they were able to go out and shop for them and take it for them and that's happening all over the country and it really is inspiring, you should support it. >> juan: without a doubt, that's the good news. i think so much of what's happening in new york, the ship that she saw, these are things

that just lift your heart and more reminders that people can come together in moments of crisis and what we are seeing in new york now, talking about even nationally the number of deaths, people have to come to understand were going to have to deal with the fact that other communities are going to have to contend with what new york is now experiencing. so we need people who are willing to lend a hand to get out there even especially the medical professionals take that risk. another thing that struck me was a picture i saw today of so many cars lined up outside pittsburgh to get to a food bank and you stop and think about what we heard in terms of unemployment numbers last week, goldman sachs and that unemployment rate going up to 15%, the gdp down about 30%. we end today in terms of the stock market and we know that

it's been a very rough quarter, one of the roughest sins '08. in all those situations, you have to say were going through something in the helping hands, the smile, the willingness of those young people you were talking about really is inspirational. it's a sense of community and reliance on leadership that comes sometimes not from the top of from each other. >> dana: ready to come out for another briefing so while we wait for that, greg is up next on why the media is now attacking the mypillow ceo. stay tuned for that. needles. essential for the sea urchin,

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>> greg: when faced with criticism, the media says it's their job to hold people accountable. >> i think these briefings could be better designed, could come out and say a few words in terms of what the administration is

doing, not have these p.r. stunts like mr. pillow coming out and giving a plug for his company. >> is obviously above my pay grade but it seems crazy to me that everyone is still thinking them when you've got the mypillow guy getting up there talking about reading the bible. >> greg: it wasn't just tv, nonessential bozos with blue checkmarks also took to twitter to mock mike lindell. but while they snark away, he was converting his business into making 50,000 masks a day so laugh all you want. the object of your ridicule will save lives. he is an american success story but because he mentions the bible too much, he is worthy of media scorn because they're so much better than him. so as we strive to unite against one of the greatest foes we've ever faced, you've got to ask does that really help? and does this help? >> do you think there is blood on the president's hands considering the slow response or is that too harsh criticism?

>> leaving aside the election itself, whose eco-virus, orlando nightclub shooting, there's going to be a lot of news in the next nine months. >> coronavirus is clearly a distance going to impact china and ways in our economy they we haven't contemplated.

to back which is why we have to dump this b.s. helps no one. time to wash our hands of the blood on our hands line. the media and press can find a real question, one that seeks an answer instead of attention. so you had mentioned this before and that a block, what's your take on the attack on poor mr. pillow man. the media snobs don't think mike has the corporate pedigree to be at the rose garden. the media snobs hold technology executives and very high regard, but they look down on industrialists, manufacturers,

procter & gamble, united technology and really looked out on people that use infomercials to send their product like mike. what really set them off first was saying read the they don't understand mike as a recovering addict. that's an affirmation for him. everybody understands that people recovering from addiction do that. and it's important to them. the other thing to understand is whenever a culture is challenged by a war, a pandemic, and economic depression, the culture always digs deeper into their face. it's happened throughout history every single time and the fact the media doesn't have the empathy for that, the business intelligence, the compassion to understand that really just makes me realize how shallow they are. on chuck todd and nancy, you can either be with us or you can be against us. some people in this country that are trying to help and there are some people in this country who

are trying to divide. the president, the democrats, no one has been perfect. that's been much more critical in saving lives. in we can play this game all day about who is positive, who is negative, and when that happens. nancy pelosi just a couple weeks ago was in downtown san francisco telling everybody to go to chinatown, get in the big crowd, go to the restaurants and shop. he was telling everybody about impeachment while this virus was spreading. chuck todd moderated the democratic presidential debate just a little while ago. you know how many questions he asked about the virus? zero. we can do this all day long. it's not important, but what is important as everybody needs to get on the same page and to he help. >> greg: i thought you were going to go on. it's a weird media hypocrisy

that if a religious person does something really bad, if you mention the religion, you're a bigot. but if somebody who's very religious does something good, you can make fun of them mercilessly. so you might be islamophobic if you talk about terrorism but you can make fun of mike lindell because he mentions the bible and people who read the bible are a bunch of idiots according to the media. >> dagen: if you don't make fun of those people who cite scripture as part of their recovery and their life and their effort, if you don't make fun of those people, you're not getting invited to chuck todd's cocktail soiree that he's going to throw for all the left-wing liberal bodies when all of this is over. that goes to the point we are a nation that routes for recovery and redemption. we are a nation of people who believe in second chances, so i think all of these people need to go in there man cave and look

in the mirror and ask themselves, and my rooting for catastrophe, for a desk, for dying, for suffering because it might benefit myself somehow and i might have more power because i think they need a real hard check and a hard look in the mirror and ask themselves at the end of the day, do i just need to shut up? >> greg: you are a god-fearing man, you go to mass every sunday. i am not. i am an agnostic. i reflect probably more the media than you do in that sense. does it bother you when you see that they kind of look down their noses at somebody for being from openly talking about god and the bible? >> juan: at sherwood because they be looking down at me. but i didn't take it the way that you did read i saw it as people saying that mike lindell stood up there and he started making political statements about divine intervention in

november of 2016 when trump won, so we turned into something of a political rally when it was intended to be a briefing for the american people on the coronavirus. i think president trump even said i'm surprised he says that, signaling to me that he didn't set it up. didn't seem appropriate i guess to the president either. my bigger point though in regard to the chuck todd thing is i think that you're right in that was a divisive kind of statement. wasn't about insider information, it was about setting up a fight. let me hold your jacket while you to go head-to-head. i didn't think that was right. but if it's about the question of mobilization right now, america is mobilized for action in dealing with this virus. that's the right response now, why can't you say that would have been the right response earlier in the right response a month ago? so if that's the direction of the journalist chuck todd going

there, i would say that's informational and legitimate and let's look at where we are and what we are doing. but setting up a phony fight and even as you heard former vice president biden, he said i wouldn't say that. that's too harsh. that's too far. >> greg: the problem with that question about questioning how fast one should do something can be applied to every single good thing in life because every single good thing in life could be started sooner but that will save that. i keep hearing the train. is that in your town? >> dagen: can you hear it? >> greg: i can hear the train. >> dagen: i was worried you would think it was my stomach. >> greg: i can recognize that new jersey train anywhere because i've been there, i know the train. it's your backyard. >> dagen: it came yesterday too. i remember when i was press secretary, there was one network news reporter, not going to name him, and i remember one time

where the president was giving a speech and at the end of the speech, the president said may god bless you, may god bless america. when this reporter slammed his hands on the table and said i can't stand it. i was just shocked. then i realized, they would make fun of george w. bush for being a faithful person all the time. it's a real cliche paradigm it sort of like when somebody says what grade would you give yourself for the coronavirus? those questions to me are so lazy. but also, let's say something nice about joe biden who didn't take the bait and who said no, i think that's a little too harsh. that was very statesmanlike and he should get some credit for that. >> greg: the only person you

could ask if you have blood on your hands as o.j. simpson, right? not to his face and if he is holding a knife, run. >> dana: let me ask you, do you think any of these reporters would ask president xi that same question? >> greg: probably not. that is a good question. i can't read minds, but i think it's one of those fallback questions that we should just get rid of it. >> dana: a bad denigrating question come out. >> jesse: this is meet the press. i don't think chuck has the chops to host that show. regardless, the white house coronavirus task force will brief very soon and we will wait for that. people who don't practice social distancing could end up behind bars. the mayor of washington, d.c., threatening 90 days in jail for residents who violate or stay

order. a they could also be facing a hefty $5,000 fine. the mayor now backtracking a little bit says he would enforce that order with a heavy hand. and take a look a at this scene coming out of l.a. a huge light of police officers with a birthday party for a 1-year-old. around 40 people attended. no one was arrested but they sent a stay-at-home order. at one, these governors were these local officials have a lot of power in a time like this. some are using it smartly. some are using it a little heavy-handed, but it's all on them. how do you think it's shaking out across the country? >> juan: this is my personal experience as i'm in d.c. so last night when i went for a walk with my wife, i went down to the local recreation center and there was a guard standing by the tennis courts and the

basketball courts and the swimming arena there. if you can't play tennis, can't get on the basketball court, i've never seen anything like this. but what's good about this is there's coordination. so we have ralph northam who was the governor neighboring virginia and enabling maryland all issuing stay-at-home orders. locked it back a little bit and said not trying to put people in jail, but we want to make sure they get the message that right now social distancing is helping us, helping america to slow the rate of this virus spreading. >> jesse: live from the white house, the president briefing the nation on coronavirus. >> president trump: our country is in the mist of a great national trial unlike any we have ever faced before. you all see it probably better than most. we are at war with a deadly

virus, success in this fight will require the full absolute measure of our collective strength, love, and devotion. very important. each of us has the power to our own choices and actions to save american lives and rescue the most vulnerable among us. that's why we really have to do what we all know is right. every citizen is being called upon to make sacrifices. every citizen is being asked to fulfill their patriotic duty in making fundamental changes to how we live, work, and interact each and every day, and i wouldn't be surprised to see this going on long into the future when this virus is gone and faded. some of the things we're doing now will be very good practice for the future including for not getting the flu which is very devastating also.

some of what we are learning now will live on ten to the future. i believe that. shaking hands are not shaking hands, washing hands all the time. staying a little apart. 15 days ago, we published our nationwide guidelines to slow the spread of the virus on sunday and announced that this campaign will be extended until april 30th. in a few moments, dr. birx will explain the data that inform the basis for our decision to extend the guidelines and dr. fauci will explain why it's absolutely critical for the american people to follow the guidelines for the next 30 days, it's a matter of life and death, frankly. a matter of life and death. i know our citizens will rise to the occasion and they already have.

we have the best unemployment numbers and employment numbers that we've ever had by far. and we said we had no choice but to close it up. just as americans have always done, they will do a job like you have seen before. try to do it and you'll see that, it's going on right now. before we hear from our experts, we have a few other announcements today. they announced further details on the paycheck protection program which was made possible by the $2 trillion relief bill signed into law last week. will soon be available through lending partners to help small businesses meet payroll and other expenses for two months.

they will be for given as long as they keep paying their workers. sole proprietors and independent contractors. applications will be started this friday, april 3rd. so on friday, april 3rd, that's when it begins. earlier today, i spoke with leading internet and phone providers who are doing a tremendous job of keeping our internet and lines of communication flowing under very strongly increased strain. more than anybody has seen before because everyone's inside. they were making calls. among the leaders i spoke to where verizon communications, randall stephenson of at&t, mike siebert of t-mobile, thomas rutledge of charter communications, brian roberts of

comcast, john malone of liberty media, dexter, michael of spri sprint, and my entry. also, jeffrey story of centurylink. they're giving an incredible job. you look at other continents, europe and what a different route they did, a much different route just a little while ago, we are having tremendous problems, other countries are having problems, other continents are having problems. but with business at a level that nobody seen before on the internet, it's holding up incredibly well. and they expect that to continue no matter what happened. and no matter how much more it gains which for can gain more

than, than it already is. setting records. let me also update you on the distribution of urgency, needed resources and supplies and we have a lot of numbers. i'm going to let mike pence speak to that in a little while but we are giving massive amounts of medical equipment and supplies to the 50 states. we are also holding back quite a bit. we have almost 10,000 ventilators that we have ready to go. we have to hold them back because the surge is coming and it's coming pretty strong. and we want to be able to immediately move it into place without going and taking it, so we are ready to go and we've also distributed -- i just spoke with the governor of michigan, had a great conversation and we sent a large number of ventilators to michigan, we are sending them to louisiana, we sent additional ventilators to new york, additional ventilators

to new jersey, and i will say in new york, fema has supplied 250 ambulances and 500 emts to help respond to the increasing caseload. that's a lot of ambulances. in california, the army corps of engineers is developing eight facilities to expand hospital capacity up to 50,000 beds, 50,000, and had a great conversation last night with gavin newsom who is doing a really good job. we are in constant communications. the mercy hospital ship is now operational. it's in los angeles and receiving patients and new yorkers, you know the comfort, everybody wants that. it's in place and will be very short while receiving large numbers of patients over 1,000 rooms and 12 operating rooms.

fema has also provided 100 travel trailers to assist with housing needs, and we are ordering hundreds more. in michigan, fema will soon deliver in addition to the ventilators 250 hospitals and army corps of engineers is evaluating locations to build alternate care facilities, so we are doing the field hospital in michigan of 250 beds that we may be doubling up soon depending on the need. they're doing a good job with beds in michigan, but they need may need more than the 250. so fema and the army corps of engineers are prepared to go there quickly and get it done. in louisiana, we are delivering to field hospitals to provide 500 new hospital beds. i've been talking with the governor and the army corps of engineers has been really doing

incredible work establishing a 3,000 bed alternate care site at the convention center which will be operational this week, so we are doing 3,00 3,000 alternate e site and also doing a 500 bed new hospital. and that is in louisiana, which really got hit. started off very late and it was looking good and then all of a sudden, it just reared up, came from nowhere. in addition to the supplies were delivering, we are also giving hospitals the flexibility to use new facilities including surgical care centers to care for hospital patients who are not infected. for example, i know that many expected mothers are understandably concerned about exposing their newborn babies to the virus, and they should be. with our action yesterday,

hospitals now have the authority to create special areas for mothers to deliver their babies in a very safe and healthy environment, totally separate. over the past two months, the u.s. state department has organized one of the largest and most complex international evacuation operations in american history. mike pompeo has been working round-the-clock along with ambassador o'brien since januare successfully repatriated over 25,000 americans for more than 50 countries where they were literally stuck in some cases locked in, and i salute the incredible public servants at the department of state as well as their counterparts at dhs and hhs who have played such an important role in doing this. you probably read about the young people in peru and young people in brazil and they were

absolutely stuck and almost everybody is out now back home with their parents, their wives, their husbands. i want every american to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead. were going through a very tough few weeks. and hopefully as the experts have predicted is a lot of us are predicting having studied it so hard, going to start seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel and this is going to be a very painful two weeks. when you look and see at night the kind of death that's been caused by this invisible enemy, it's incredible. i was watching last night, governor murphy of new jersey saying 29 people died today, meaning yesterday. just talking about numbers far greater but you get to know the

state, 29 people and hundreds of other locations, hundreds of other states. and this is going to be a rough two week period. as a nation, we face a difficult few weeks as we approach that really important day when we are going to see things get better all of a sudden, and it's going to be like a burst of light. i really think, and i hope. our strength will be tested and our endurance will be tried, but america will answer with love encourage an ironclad resolve. this is the time for all americans to come together and do our part. i appreciate a lot of the media. we've had a lot of really good things said. i think only good things can be said when you look at that job that's been done. i just spoke with franklin graham who is an extraordinary person, and samaritan's purse

has been like so many others, just been amazing and so fast. they did it so fast. he's been doing that for a long time, but i think people are really seeing what they have done. franklin graham, very special family. as we send plane loads of masks and gloves and supplies to the communities battling the plague, and that's what it is, it's a plague. we also send our prayers we pray for the doctors and the nurses, for the paramedics in the truck drivers and the police officers and the sanitation workers and above all, the people fighting for their lives in new york and all across our land. i watched as doctors and nurses run into a certain hospital in elmhurst this morning. i grew up right next to it. i know the hospital very well. i've been seeing it all my life.

my young life. and i will tell you that to see the scenes of trailers out there and what they are doing with those trailers and they can even believe it. they can't believe what they are seeing. and i watch the doctors and the nurses walking into that hospital this morning. it's like military people going into battle, going into war. the bravery is incredible. i just have to take my hat, i would take my hat if i was wearing a hat, i'd rip that hat off so fast and say you people are just there very brave. they're going in and we have lots of things flying around in the air, you don't know what

you're touching, is it safe? and you also see where you have friends that are going to the hospital and you say how was he doing? two days later, they say he's unconscious or he's in a coma. so things are happening that we've never seen before in this country and with all of that being said, the countries come together like i've never seen it before and we will prevail, we will win, and hopefully that will be in a relatively short period of time. with that, i like to ask dr. birx to come up and show you some of the data that has been brilliantly put together and right after that, i'm going to ask dr. fauci to speak, and mike pence is going to give you some of the recent events that have taken place and some of the statistics that we have that i

think will be very interesting here. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. president. i could have the first slide, please. so always, and that's what the slide is labeled, is goals of community mitigation. really highlighting that this begins in the middle and the end with community. this community and the community of the american people that are going to have to do the things for the next 30 days to make a difference. i think you know from that large blue mountain that you can see behind me, and i just want to thank "the five" or six international and domestic modelers from harvard, from columbia, from northeastern, from imperial who have helped us tremendously. was their model that created the ability to see what these mitigations could do. how steeply they could depress the curve from that giant blue

mountain down to that more stippled area. in their estimates, they had between 1.52.2 million people in the united states succumbing to this virus. without medications. yet through their detailed studies and showing us what social distancing would do, what would happen if people stayed home, what would happen if people weren't careful every day to wash their hands and worry about touching their faces of what an extraordinary thing this could be of every american follow these. and it takes us to that stippled mountain that is much lower, a hill, actually, down to 100 to 200,000 deaths which is still way too much. next slide, please. simultaneously, there is a model or out of the university of washington that modeled from cases up utilizing the experience around the globe to

really understand how this information that we have for italy and spain and south korea and china really help us give insight into the hospital needs, the ventilator needs, and really the number of people who potentially could succumb to this illness. is this model that we are looking at now that provides us the most detail of the time course that is possible, but this model assumes full mitigation. it's informed every morning for every night by the reality on the ground coming in from new york, new jersey, and around the united states. and it is modeled and informed every morning that it is adjusted so it is up to date every day. this is the model of the predicted fatalities and mortality in the united states and as the president said, it's very much focused on the next two weeks and the stark reality

of what this virus will do as it moves through communities. next slide, please. but this is a slide that gives us great hope and understanding about what is possible. on the bottom of the slide where you can barely see that blue line at the very bottom, that's the current cases in california. the cumulative cases in california where they are doing significant testing. the next line up his connecticut, the orange line is new jersey. the blue line is new york. the yellow line is washington. we all remember washington state. was just a month ago when they started to have the issues in washington state, but they brought together their communities and their health providers and they put in strong mitigation methods and testing. and you can see the results in washington state and california.

but without the continuation for the next 30 days, anything could change. next slide, please. so i'm sure you're interested in seeing all the states. so on the slide, it's all 50 states and the district of columbia, but i think it shows e between new york and new jersey and other states with similar populations and urban. our goal over the states that yu see, the 48 across the bottom maintained this lower level of new cases. with the help that we don't have significant outbreaks in other states and other metro areas. as a community comes together to work together and ensure that the health care providers around the globe and in the united states are strengthened by our resolve to continue to

mitigate community by community, this is done community by community. we all know people are in their states and in their communities. and we are very dependent on each person in the united states doing the same things. following the presidential guidelines to a tee. i know it's a lot to ask because you've done it for 15 days. so if you can show the next slide, please. so this is what gives us a lot of hope. this is the case finding in italy. and you can see that they are beginning to turn the corner in new cases. they are entering their fourth week of full mitigation. and showing what is possible when we work together as a community, as a country to change the course of this pandemic together. is this graphic on the graphic of many of the states that gives us hope of what is possible when continuing for another 30 days.

days. amidst all that hope, i must say that like we warned about detroit and chicago, we start to see changes in massachusetts. new orleans continues to be a problem of new cases. although they are stabilizing, and i think it really shows the depth of dedication of the american people for the health care providers because they can see the strain that this puts on every nurse, doctor, respiratory therapist and laboratory technician that is working together to stem this tide of unrelenting sick people coming to their doors. no one has been turned away, no one who has needed ventilation has not received ventilation. but you can see how stressful it is for each of them. so i know it's stressful to follow the guidelines, but it is more stressful and more difficult to the soldiers on the front line. as we started and we will end with these communities that will

do this, there's no magic bullet, no magic vaccine or therapy, it's just behavior. each of our behaviors translating into something that changes the course of this viral pandemic over the next 30 days. thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much, dr. birx. mr. president, mr. vice president. so what dr. birx has said very simply is there are really two dynamic forces that are opposing each other here. as i've mentioned several times in our briefings, the virus if left to its own devices will do that dark curve that dr. birx showed you. the other dynamic forces what we are doing, what we are trying to do and what we will do in the form of mitigation. now, these are very revealing bits of data because you saw what happened in italy.

you make the turn around the curve and you go. that doesn't happen all at once. and if i explain the steps, which i will, you'll see why we are really convinced that medication is going to be doing the trick for us. because what you have is you have increased and new cases at a certain rate. when the increase in new cases begins to level off, the secondary effect is less hospitalizations, the next effect is less intensive care, and the next effect is less deaths. the deaths and the intensive care and the hospitalization always lagged behind that early indication that there are new cases per day. what we are likely seeing -- i don't want to jump the gun on it, we are seeing little inklings of this right now in new york. so what we are going to see, and that's why we have to brace

ourselves in the next several days to a week or so, were going to continue to see things go well. we cannot be discouraged by that because the mitigation is actually working and will work. the slide that dr. birx showed you saw new york and new jersey and then the cluster of other areas, our goal which i believe we can accomplish is to get this hot spot places and help them to get around that curve, but as importantly to prevent those clusters of areas that have not yet gone to that spike to prevent them from getting that spike in the answer to that is mitigation. and now the 15 days that we had of mitigation clearly have had in effect, although it's tough to quantitate it because of those two opposing forces. but the reason we feel so

strongly about the necessity of the additional 30 days is that now is the time whenever you're having an effect not to take your foot off the accelerator and on the break, but to just press it down on the accelerator and that's what i hope and i know that we can do over the next 30 days. as i said the other day on one of the interviews, we are a very strong and resilient nation. you look at our history, we've been through some terrible ordeals. this is tough. people are suffering, people are dying. it's inconvenient from a societal standpoint, from an economic standpoint to go through this, but this is going to be the answer to our problems. so let's all pull together and make sure as we look forward to the next 30 days we do it with all the intensity and force that we can. thank you.

>> thank you, mr. president and to dr. birx and dr. fauci, i know i speak on behalf of of the president, people all across this country want to express our great admiration and appreciation to both of you for helping to steer our nation through this challenging time. the american people have now seen what the president saw. when he made the decision. at the end of 15 days to slow the spread, to ask the american people to give us 30 more days, to continue to put into practice the president's coronavirus guidelines for america, and as you just heard from the experts, we have reason to believe that it's working. as dr. fauci just said, they were difficult days ahead. our hearts and our prayers go out to the families that have lost loved ones and those that as the president has just

reflected those that we know are struggling at this hour in hospitals across the nation. but to each and every one of us, do not be discouraged. because what you can do to protect your health and the health of your family, what you can do to ensure that our health care providers have the resources in our hospitals have the capacity to meet this moment is put into practice. the president's coronavirus guidelines for america. really is what every american can do 30 days to slow the spread. 30 days to make a difference in the lives of the american people, american families, and the life of every nation. allow me to give you a few brief updates before the president takes questions. first and foremost, we continue to work very closely with governors around the nation. spoke to all the governors, all the states and territories

yesterday, and we have spoken directly to several governors around the country including illinois, louisiana, michigan, new york, and other states. at the present moment, the president has declared 29 major disaster declarations and authorized in ten different states to use federal funding to pay for their national guard. and as of this afternoon, fema reports some 17,000 national guard have been activated and states around the country to provide support for coronavirus response. on the subject of testing, we have now completed more than woh governors with drive-through and community testing centers, i spoke with the governor of illinois today about a testing center that they have established in cooperation with the u.s. public health

service. we remind every governor at every laboratory and hospital in the country that it's imperative you continue to report daily to the cdc on resource decisions. we reiterated today to governors in person and also through correspondence the importance of using their national guard if need be to move medical suppli supplies. fema is very busy delivering millions of supplies around the country but we are working with every governor to make sure their state and emergency management team and maybe use the national guard to move those supplies from warehouses to hospitals. at the present moment, we distributed more than 11.695 millio