but president may talk about it. right now we have very little information about that. >> neil: all right. we shall see, my friend. great job as always. trace gallagher on that. to the briefing seconds away. a lot to find out in just seconds. ♪ >> dana: hello, everyone, i am dana perino, along with juan williams, jesse watters, greg gutfeld, and katie pavlik. and look, he is waving at us! this is "the five." all right, america bracing for the toughest week yet in the coronavirus pandemic. but president trump says there is light at the end of the tunnel. you are looking live at the white house where at any moment the covid-19 task force will hold another briefing. that is most-see television. though death toll in america surpasses 10,000 people. the number of infected nearing

350,000. members of the task force issuing some grim warnings about what is ahead. >> this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most americans lives, quite frankly. this will be the pearl harbor moment, the 9/11 moment, although it will not be localized it will happen all over the country. part of this week is going to be that there is a light at the end of the tunnel if everyone does their part for the next 30 days. >> dana: president trump telling americans to prepare for a tough couple of weeks also saying that we could be nearing a turning point. >> in the days ahead america will endure the peak of the terrible pandemic. our warriors in this life and death battle are the incredible doctors and nurses and health care workers, starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. and hopefully in the not-too-distant future, we will be very proud of the job we all did. >> dana: there are some

glimmers of hope. more than 18,000 people have recovered from the virus in the united states. and in america's epicenter, new york governor andrew cuomo saying new data shows that the state could be flattening the curve. so this has been interesting, because americans have been going through a lot. they can handle a lot of tough information, whatever the facts are. and they told us that this week is going to be a tough one. it's almost as if you could see on the other side of the apex that we are doing the right things in order to get there. >> greg: i guess what upsets me is people who send me videos of empty hospitals, have you been getting those? saying, hey, we have been -- >> dana: no. >> greg: i get three a day. oh, look, there is nothing going on. it's because they send a lot of the elective surgeries and the nonserious stuff home, so they are bracing for it. the fact that there is nobody at the hospital yet does not mean

that the worst will not come. i feel that we have done a lot to prevent the worst. and i am optimistic. bill gates says we are facing a nightmare scenario. but we may not because of the things that we have done. i will say this though. early on i was panicking about this. i feel that i can make the statement. the analogy of pearl harbor and 9/11 is incorrect for me because of the response that is fairly straightforward. you are incentivized to obliterate the enemy. the military leaders know that that's what they do. they have two obliterate the enemy. no matter what you do with a virus, you cannot obliterate it. you can't really compare the two, because at some point you have to make an adult decision about getting back to work. there is not an incentive when you are the leader to do that, because he will be blamed for the deaths of people. to the better comparison would

be katrina in which 2,000 people died and the media laid the blame on leaders. i think we have to understand that a certain point, we need that task force that you were talking about to make the tough decision and decide who goes back to work, who is healthy enough, who is sequestered, because there is always going to be a risk. and now it is time to start planning for it. >> dana: to find out if there is an antibody test so that it is may be, you find out okay, you have it, can you get it? juan, i wanted to ask you about what is happening in washington, d.c., because we know that social distancing is not easy. people like to gather. but tell me what is happening in the capital and what the mayor has been having to do? >> juan: it is interesting, because the mayor has been calling, on the phone, there is a recorded message from the mayor saying stay-at-home. this is quite serious.

also saying, and i think this picks up on what greg was saying, dana. we know about what the governor in new york and the president said about we saw a dip in terms of the number of deaths in new york yesterday. we may see that as a glimmer of hope and hopefully that is an indication that even as things get rough this week, we will see a decline in the number of people dying in new york. but new york is really just a preview, because we have other places like washington, d.c., we see other places like louisiana, new orleans in particular. detroit, and these places are being hard-hit right now. and they are going to climb. so new york is a preview of what we have seen before. and i think that mayors here in washington, but all over our coping with -- coping with the idea that even though new york could be on the downswing. maybe they are not aware that the rest of the country is only

following and want to new york is now experiencing. so more trauma is on the way. >> dana: katie, maybe you can speak of that. i know that you come from out west and you have a view across the country they are. what do you think that people, when you hear the governor saying that things are flattening and it could get better, i hope that they don't have a false sense of security and that they are still planning and preparing. it does seem in some places it is not as bad as some of the models had originally suggested? >> katie: if you look at the data that they put in, it could be because they started mitigation early and also new york city is a very dense population of people, and out west in cities that are laid out differently, people are not as close contact as they would be in new york which makes it worse. it is apples and oranges when it comes to comparisons of the types of places that we are talking about here, but if you look at the data and the polling and the people that i have

talked to out west, people are taking it seriously. arizona is under a 30 day stay at home order, despite not being a densely populated space. and if you look at the questions of whether people will go out after the 30-day period is over, they still feel like they are uncomfortable just going out into large groups after maybe the coast is somewhat cleared. if you look at the curve as new york governor andrew cuomo was talking about, it is all about medication. if we can start introducing new therapies and drugs that may be are already on the market into that plan, then there is less need for emergency rooms. there is less need for ventilators in intensive care units, and i want to say something about what greg said about the elective surgeries that have been canceled. we have a friend with a collapsed lung and he was scheduled for surgery of the day before they asked all of the hospitals not to do elective surgery and he has not been able to get that fixed. it's a ripple effect of thousands if not more people who are also suffering.

and if you get hurt right now or have a heart attack, there are lots of problems whether it is being in the hospital alone, going through something this horrific or not being able to get the care because everybody is focused on the issue. >> dana: i think that is one of the hardest things and the stories that are somewhat the hardest ones to here are the ones of people who are not able to be surrounded by their loved ones when they are in the hospitals. and everybody is trying to do their best. when the president and the surgeon general cautioned that this week is going to be tough, it is something that we all need to brace for. >> jesse: it will be a tough week. but if we are at war, we can all be war heroes by staying at home and watching tv. think about that for a second. you are going to tell war stories to your grandchildren saying, i sat there on that couch, and i watched "the five," and i saved thousands of lives.

it's true. a social distancing is the best weapon to fight this virus. this thing came into austria early. austria basically a social distance to everything. you know what they are doing next week? they are phasing back open their economy. so we are's seeing good statistics out of europe. positive out of new york city, we hope. but here's the truth. to the president says we will see the light at the end of the tunnel, you know what the light is? the sun. because in may and june and july when the sun comes out and it gets hot, you're not going to be able to tell americans know about income, no baseball, no bars, no beaches. they are going to need to be outside. they are not going to survive inside. they have to be outside. mothers are filing for divorce. they can't take it. you are going to have a phone call from the school saying that school will continue to be

canceled and little jimmy who is driving you crazy can't go to summer camp either? this will get really bad really soon once the weather turns ni nice. and i just hope we have it on the down swing by then. because can you imagine the task force telling the jersey shore that you can't go to the beach, you can't get tan, you can't go out at night? it will be armageddon. so if we just social distance for the next three weeks hard, we can turn the thing around and have a great summer. do it now. >> greg: is their actual data on this divorce statistic? people are going to get to divorced because their kids? >> dana: i don't know, they are stuck together and they could have more kids. >> jesse: divorce rates are skyrocketing in manhattan, you realize you don't love the person when you are trapped inside a small apartment for three months. >> dana: i don't know. i don't know. >> katie: this is so sad.

>> dana: we are moving on, prime minister boris johnson has been moved into the intensive care unit after being hospitalized with the coronavirus. benjamin hall is standing by live in london with the latest. it happened just a couple of hours ago, what is the latestrm? >> four hours ago taken everybody by shock. four hours ago he was just in hospital for precautionary tests. here we are learning that he has been moved to the icu and handed over control of the government. he has deputized to the foreign sector to be. you made that call two hours a ago. and that means boris johnson is no longer making those decisions on national security or the coronavirus response. and the u.k. is about to hit the peak of the coronavirus. meaning some decisions will be made in boris johnson will be there to make them. he tested positive for coronavirus ten days ago. and while some of his colleagues like the health secretary and others had shaken it. boris johnson has had a

consistent temperature that he cannot get rid of. as a result yesterday they moved him into hospital. what we are seeing from the government is a sense that there is an attempt to call people to say that the government policy will continue moving forward, but also an acknowledgment that this is now an extremely serious situation. a country at the moment very concerned for their prime minister. they do not know the exact condition he is in. but he is being treated at one of the top hospitals in london, st. thomas. it comes at a terrible time when the country needs to be showing that it is getting a grip of the coronavirus epidemic, a time where deaths are about at 1,000 a day. boris johnson in the icu. and everyone from across the political divide reaching out and urging him, hoping for a fast recovery for him. it's worth saying that his fiancee carrie simmons has also tested positive. she is pregnant and now in isolation herself. so a worrying sign across the board. we'll bring you any information

we get on his condition as soon as we get it. dana. >> dana: benjamin, thank you so much. and the white house coronavirus task force briefing is coming up in any moment. we will make sure you get that right as it starts paired up next, greg's monologue on what comes next for america and the battle against covid-19. ♪ ♪ if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, little things can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated... ...with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression...

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it is over who is right about the pandemic as the outcome turns out to be less devastating than predicted. the opinion verse will fall once again into a prism of two ideas. either the outcome was less calamitous thanks to the hygiene and distancing efforts, or the outcomes were less devastating because the threat was oversold. if you don't believe me, doctors still argue over how they subdue the sars outbreak from 18 years ago. some credit public health practices. others say sars was not as destructive as they thought. the answer to this is probably a mix of both. but that should not matter now, because we are still in the thick of it. it is better to be wrong in or over estimation then in your underestimation. because that meant good news. and may be the over concern helped create the better news that allows you to be mocked for the over concern. do you follow? i barely do. still if we aren't given a light at the end of this tunnel, the

public will make a light of their own. true, we are patient and unified, but we need to eat, and more importantly we need to work. we need a plan created by a new bipartisan task force, day, dana's idea to get people back to work in phases. quarantine the old, get the young and immune back to work. antibody tests and masks go lower. and of course some social distancing remains which means no, mass gatherings. there goes my fan club. but at some point the younger and the healthy need to get to work, and they just might weather the government says so or not. a civil disobedience might not come in the shape of a sit in, but the form of a thermos of hot coffee and a tool belt. so, jesse, i want people to get back to work for selfish reasons, because of my hair. every day i look more and more like holly walnut. i swear i am turning into him. look at that. it is happening. right before my eyes.

>> jesse: if i was president, i would open the salons up first, greg. just to get you a cut. before i will ice people and bearing them out in the place in jersey? i don't know. the pine barons. >> jesse: we should not stereotype those types of people, greg. >> greg: he is a soprano! >> katie: after jesse talks about going to the beach and tanning. >> jesse: the top ceos of the country artie say that they want the thing opened up. but they are afraid to say it publicly, because the u.s. media will chop their heads off and they will say that you are mr. burns from the "simpsons." you are a scoundrel who only cares about dollars instead of death. so we are going to open it up and keep the social distancing and you open it up by four factors. age, region, and job. and everybody under 45 gets to go back to work.

obviously you open up small retailers and then you get the salons open quickly for greg, and they may be moved to restaurants and social gatherings like concerts way later. this is way later. at the very end. maybe you don't open the restaurant. listen, you have to open up the restaurant soon. maybe you don't do it right away, they may be that is phase two. and when you open them up, how about you don't go full capacity. you have may be a table in between each table. like a movie theater. maybe three seats in between each section, because you have to get the thing unplugged. and then new york comes in later than alaska. we all know that. but i think everything has changed their relationship with the government. they have injected cash directly into our bank accounts. if that's going to be very difficult to turn off. and then you have the president who is basically ordering company's produce this, produce this now. and this is how we want of it. that is another tempting thing

for future presidents to do. and i don't know, 4 trillion from the federal reserve, nobody has any idea what is going to happen there. so it is all uncharted territo territory. >> greg: katie, one of the other mitigating factors are the drug treatments that were not factored into the modeling of the outbreak. >> katie: right, because we did not have enough patients to try the drugs on. but now we know that there are some drugs that the doctors are prescribing that are working to keep people out of intensive care that are actually mitigating the symptoms and allowing them to go home earlier. so that is good. as the doctors have been saying in the briefings, the data is only as good as the models of what you put in it. so as we continue to move forward and we get more of the treatments, we cannot have as many issues with the hospitals. but in terms of the economy, i have talked to a lot of nonpolitical people about this who are really angry.

and they believe that the shutdown is going to be much worse than the virus itself. and that is the feeling that a lot of people have when it comes to your point about people wanting to get back to work and may be some civil disobedience, i think you are correct about that. on the issue of not overreacti overreacting, some criticism over whether we are doing too much and if they are not as many deaths as we thought that there would be based on the data, did we overreact? you cannot quantify something that did not happen. it is very difficult to figure out whether that was a good decision or not. people would say when it comes to people's lives, you want to error on the side of safety. that's what the administration has done. >> greg: since you and i debate over everything for the next year you and i are going to debate over whether it was the health practices or whether we overstated the threat. should we start now? >> juan: yeah, we can go for it. but i just think that the idea

is that if you overstate it, at least it gets people's attention. oh, my god, this is serious. and hopefully the health practices kick in. i do feel for jesse, saying, ohe don't like government. government is not good. right now government is playing an important role in each and every one of our lives. and we have to understand that this is a community and we stand together as americans. i will say this in response to the monologue, greg. i think it would be a mistake for us to get out too early. despite what we may hear from mr. burns or ebenezer scrooge about get back to work. i think if there is a second wave and people say oh, my god, this is not over, now we have another way of, there will be a leap in terms of people who feel that they were misled. and therefore it they are won't be the trust. that will crater the economy one more time. and that slow down will be than

necessary economic recovery. because don't forget, people under 40 get the disease. not so much children, but a large percentage of people in the hospital right now are under the age of 40. so it's not as if they are impervious just because they are young. >> greg: dana, i come into work and i see a lot of people outside, i wonder why does social distancing strictly have to be an inside thing when there is all of this -- there are people that can socially distance using common sense and be outside on a 55 degrees day in the spring time. it makes sense to me to let people out. >> dana: americans do have that common sense. and the only thing i will say about this is imagine being in britain right now where believe it or not, people are actually calling the police on their neighbors because their neighbors maybe went out more than one time a day to exercise. honestly. everybody use a little common sense. if you are exercising by yourself, who cares.

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the president is favoring certain states over others. governors who are nice to him as he calls it gets a lot of attention and all the equipment that they want to. >> if you think that during a campaign you are not going to see a lot of money from the trump administration going to battleground states of pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, florida, you would be grossly underestimating the banality of this president. >> jesse: got desperate a source familiar says that joe biden spoke with president trump this afternoon. dana. that's got to be the real perfect phone call. man, i would love to be a fly on the wall for that one. >> dana: i was there in 2008 when john mccain suspended his campaign and he and president obama, then senator obama, but the democratic nominee met over at the white house and there was supposed to be this attempt at unity. and i am telling you that was

the worst meeting i have ever seen in my life. and i was in washington for about 20 years. it was mortifying. i don't -- of the country is in the mood for unity, but we also know what is going on here. it's a little bit of a political gamesmanship. if the former vice president has something useful to tell the president, great. but the president has a lot on his plate right now. imagine all the people to call him all day long with 100,000 ideas. if it is helpful, great. if it was just gamesmanship, it was better to put the phone call off. >> jesse: the way to get to the president is to tweet something, that's how dana gets her ideas out there. she tweets it and the president responds. greg gutfeld. isn't it interesting how all of these liberal democrats assume the worst of the president? like he is only giving aid to states that he likes or is going to try to buy his way into reelection with corona dollars.

>> greg: here is the deal, the democrats are going to democrat. that's just the way it is in election season, so i push it aside and i focus on the thing that is supposed to be objective, which is the media. which is why my head explodes every day. you talk about people accusing people of financial incentives. we have a clip of mika talking about the drug that could save lives. >> why is any network running these press conferences where he keeps talking about an unproven drug. a lot of people would say follow the money, there has to be some sort of financial tie to someone somewhere that has the president pushing this repeatedly. >> greg: two points, jesse. one, they need to rename morning joe to something else. because it is not fair to mika, because she is just as idiotic

as he is. it is unfair to her. number two, the only place where the pearl harbor analogy might work. imagine a country is gearing up for a fight against an insane enemy that just invaded them in the media instead says, wait, isn't it our leadership's fault that we were surprised by the japanese? you can't imagine that because the media was different back then. they weren't all s jay ws with two grad degrees. they weren't all immersed in gender studies and 75 pronouns. they were actually blue-collar. a lot of them did not have college educations and came out of high school. and they were reporters. and they were americans. they were patriotic. so it is a weird thing to see even in the time when we are fighting this invisible enemy, the media still has to sit on their on a fence and gawked. >> jesse: katie? >> katie: well, that was very good, greg.

i would agree with you. i think the president was pretty gracious to accept a joe biden's phone call since he has been trying to rewrite the record when it comes to his support on a ban on travel to and from china, remember it was just up until two days ago that joe biden was against that travel ban and was accusing the president of all kinds of awful and horrific things and having a different motive for doing that. now he is calling the president because he is trying to stay relevant on the campaign trail. the president was very gracious in his phone call. i like jesse want to know what is said. but it does not matter because the president is in the white house leading the task forces and making big decisions and joe biden is still at his house trying to do a podcast about getting his ideas out there about what should be done differently despite the president doing half of what he has done if not more already what he suggested. so. he is lucky he had the phone call. >> jesse: okay, juan, tell us that you think we are all wrong.

>> juan: for one, i don't think that the american media is anything less than patriotic. i think that we are all suffering and we all have family members or know people who have been ill. there is no celebration. but i see people and they want to say the media is somehow less than patriotic, i don't believe it about us. and secondly, i think that when you look at what is going on in terms of democratic strategists throwing spaghetti on the wall and having games about well, how do we position this? how do we get the economy going forward given the coronavirus pandemic? i think that is up in the air. the issue for them and republican strategists as well is is the election going to be a referendum on president trump and his ability in handling not only coronavirus but other places on the country. and i think if it is a pure referendum on trump and his capabilities, i think he is in a little trouble here. we were talking about how his numbers were pretty good on how

he was handling coronavirus even through the two weeks ago, but since then the numbers are either flattened or gone down. a lot of americans not pleased. when you are seeing i think is that people are trying to play out the politics of this and figure out how this is impacting the political universe. katie is right. joe biden is still trying to raise his profile. president trump has the advantage of the platform of that white house briefing room every day. even so, i think that it engenders some criticism when he comes out and he goes off and attacking people, either the reporters in the room or the democrats on capitol hill, or starts talking about drug intervention rather than the coronavirus. so there is a lot of politics going on behind the scenes. i just don't think most people like us are tuned into it, because we are dealing with the reality which is a real threat from the virus. >> greg: to your point -- >> jesse: go ahead, greg. you take it.

>> greg: he is right about the politics. my point is the media is political. they were not political in the '40s or the '50s, or the '60s. they became political in the mid-'60s and onward, that's why they react differently. after 9/11, a lot of the media were more interested in islamophobia then radical islam. and right now they are doing the same thing. they are interested and more on how we react. go ahead. that's all i wanted to say. >> juan: gosh, i think you should go back and talk to dwight eisenhower and richard nixon. he was upset about the way that they covered his wife's coat and he said, oh, we have normal coats. we are a middle-class family. you don't have richard nixon, came from the '50s, and the kennedy campaign. but i think that a lot of that, greg, has been in place. people don't like -- and there is global concern that you see a lot of governments especially

the autocrats using this virus to clamp down on press freedom. my point to you is that you have to be -- >> jesse: juan, i would say that bill maher rooting for a recession to take place is pretty unpatriotic. and then to dana -- >> juan: that was before this. >> jesse: there is a lot of stuff floating around about the hydroxychloroquine home and the media seems to almost be rooting for it not to work. in my opinion, if i was about to die and i had a decision to make, i would say, doctor, try anything. and i think that's what the president is saying. it is a last resort and something that the doctor decides to administer, not the president. >> dana: and this whole debate has really confused me. because i actually think that the government including the president is saying, you know,

it could work. we can be hopeful, your doctor can make that decision. the government is not going to tell doctors that they can't prescribe it. there are some side effects. you have to talk those over with your doctor. but the government, sometimes they are a little slow, but scientists are supposed to look at data. we want them to do that. i think that this has been a little bit overblown. and i also don't understand how it becomes a red versus blue issue when we are talking about a possible therapy or a cure. you know, peter was involved in therapy back in the late '80s. and actually dr. fauci knew about it. it was johnson & johnson sort of, but basically there was hope that it would treat aids. and the activists went absolutely crazy. and they would protest that dr. fauci's office, demanding that he tell every doctor to prescribe patients with this therapy.

and dr. fauci kept saying, be cautious, we can be hopeful, but let's check. and it turns out it didn't work. and it was a therapy that had a lot of hope. i just think that the doctors are being appropriately cautious, but they are not denying people the opportunity to have it if the doctor and the patient decide that it is a good idea. >> jesse: right. katie, what do you think about the fact that this has become such a political issue? and this is a media that is supposed to believe in science and believe in progress, and is supposed to believe in the doctor-patient relationship and they go crazy when the president says, the drug is showing signs of hope, we will at the fda authorize for it to be used on an emergency basis not for covid-19, but whatever -- we have the president now. let's listen into the task force briefing. >> president trump: this week america continues the aggressive effort to defeat the virus as we enter a crucial and difficult

phase of the battle. we continue to send our prayers to the people of new york and new jersey, and to our whole country. but right now new york and new jersey are very hot zones. we are with them. we are with everybody. your struggle is our struggle. and we will beat this virus. we will beat it together. i also want to send best wishes to a very good friend of mine, and a friend to our nation, prime minister boris johnson. we are very saddened to hear that he was taken into intensive care this afternoon a little while ago. and americans are all praying for his recovery. he has been a really good friend pretty something special. very strong. resolute, he does not quit. does not give up. we have made tremendous progress on therapeutics. i had a fantastic call today that i will be talking about a little bit later. and i have asked two of the

leading companies, these are brilliant companies ebola, aids, others, they have come up with solutions and just have done incredible jobs. and i have asked them to contact to london immediately. they have offices in london, major companies. more than major and size, they are genius. and i had a talk with four of them today. and they speak a language that most people do not even understand. but i understand something that they have really advanced therapeutics and therapeutical therapeutically, and that they have arrived in london already. the london office has whatever they need. and we will see if we can be of help. we have contacted all of boris' doctors, and we will see what is going to take place. but they are ready to go. but when you get brought into intensive care, that gets very, very serious with this

particular disease. so, the two companies are there. and with what they are talking about, and it is rather complex, and has had really incredible results. we are working with the fda and everybody else, but we are working with london with respect to boris johnson. across the country we are attacking the energy on all fronts including medical, scientific, social, logistical, and economic. we are pressing into action the full power of american government and american enterprise. and our military has been incredible. we have just sent 3,000 public health personnel that are now deployed in the new york area. and they will be over at the javits center. the great ship. and as you probably have heard, and i was informed that governor cuomo has already told

you and announced, he called me up a little while ago and asked whether it would be possible to use the ship with respect to fighting the virus. and we had not had that in mind at all, but we are going to let him do it. and we are also going to let new jersey, governor murphy. we spoke with him a little while ago. and new jersey is going to use that also. because new jersey is a hot sp hot spot. so governor murphy and governor andrew cuomo are going to be using the ship in new york and new jersey. it is a big ship. it is now set for covid, and we are going to hopefully that will be very helpful to both states. the javits center which is 2,900 beds built for the military will also be manned now by the military and they should be placed in tomorrow, and they will start sending quite a few

people over to the javits center. it is convenient and in the middle of everything. that will be something great. we appreciate governor cuomo's really nice statements. and likewise, governor murphy. we have worked very well with both of them, and with frankly all of the governors. vice president pence del mike pence had a call with them this morning that lasted for close to two hours. and i understand that it was not a negative person on the call. 50 governors, just about 50 governors were all on from what i understood. and they were very positive about everything. are there federal government has been doing for them. and you will hear what that is. and it is rather amazing, actually. nationwide, the army corps of engineers is building 22 field hospitals. these are big hospitals. and alternate care sites in 18 states.

you have a combination of 22 field hospitals. in addition to that we are building alternate care sites which is a smaller version of the hospital. and we have a lot of them. they are going up in 18 different states. in total we have deployed 8,450 hospital beds from federal stockpiles. if you think that this has gone over a period of weeks, it is incredible, actually. more than 8,000 ventilators have been sent from the national stockpile to our cities and states, backed by the defense production act, which we have used very strongly and very powerfully. so powerfully that we don't have to use it too much, frankly. it is nice when you don't have to. we are getting more than we ever bargained for. american industry is stepping up. manufacturers are really going to town. and we have thousands of ventilators being built as we speak. and we have hundreds that are

being sent to different locations. and we are ready to roll with almost 10,000 that we have in the federal stockpile. when i say ready to roll too, i mean exactly what that states. we are or where monster goes, we are able to move with it. great flexibility. and we have people waiting and ready, willing, and able, but ready to bring them wherever they may be if they need it. if they need it. it is possible that they want to be needed. we are fully stocked because numbers are coming in where because of what the american people are doing, we are having fewer hospital visits. i think that that could be the case in new york. it could be the case in a few other states. and fewer beds in hospital visits mean fewer ventilators. we will see whether our original projections were right. but i had a good talk with both

governors. i think they are very happy. extremely happy about what we are doing for them. and especially going all covid. that will take place almost immediately. fema and hs have directly distributed 11.7 million n95 respirators. think about that. 11.7 million n95 respirators. 11.7 million. 26.5 million surgical masks, 5.3 million face shields, 4.4 million surgical gowns. and 22.6 million gloves. 22.6 million gloves. we have also arranged for vast quantities of additional materials to be allocated through donations and existing supply chains. we have also given tremendous medical material and supplies

throughout the 50 states and territories. and through project air bridge, we have succeeded at bringing plane loads of vital supplies into the united states from overseas. we had an additional three, these are massive planes, by the way. the big planes. they are very big. they are very powerful. they are loaded to the gills with supplies, and rather than bringing them into the stockpile, we discussed that we bring them to all the different locations where they are needed so that we can save a big step and a timely step. because of my actions under the dpa, i can announced today that we have reached an agreement very amicable, an agreement with 3m for the delivery of an additional 55.5 million high-quality face masks each month. so that we are going to be getting over the next couple of

months 166.5 million masks for our frontline health care workers. so the 3m saga ends very happi happily. we are very proud to be dealing with 3m. and it is a ceo mike roman, i just spoke with him, and i think him for getting it done. and mike was very happy to get it done. great company. we are getting 166 million masks. mostly that will be for the frontline health care workers. okay? that is 3m. thank you, 3m. i want to thank apple, one of the great american company is is taken into -- leapt into action. apple announced that it is producing plastic face shields for health care workers at the rate of 1 million per week. 1 million, these are the shields that you see on television quite

a bit, and at the highest level of quality and safety. we are grateful as well to salesforce, which has donated for the 8 million pieces of personal protective equipment including masks, gowns, suits, and face shields. so thank you very much to salesforce. i urge all of the nation's governors to ensure that the massive deliveries we have made to your states over the past few weeks are distributed as quickly as possible. so again, we are working very well with the governments. they may see you and say, oh, we are not happy. they are very happy on the pho phone. mike pence is a straight shooter, and he had a great phone conversation to them with all of the governors. teleconference. they are very happy. every one of them. were there any negatives? you see, i told you. mike is the greatest. and you have done a great job, mike. the whole country appreciates

it. anthony appreciates it, right? everybody appreciates mike, special man. so a lot of the things that we have done again are going directly to the states. the state seem to be very happy. if they are not, they can call me directly, they can call mike directly and we will make them happy. tremendous progress has been made in a short period. and very importantly, the progress has been made before the surge comes, because the next week, week and a half is going to be a big surge to professionals -- the professionals tell us. we are in good shape, anthony, so it is really good timing. we can have the stuff that is there for the most part, but we are bringing a lot of different resources to the various locations, especially where the surge is looking like it will take place. resources from the national stockpile need to reach the warriors. they are warriors.

i say it all the time. the young, and many cases older, they are walking into the hospital and they are putting on gowns -- as the doors open, they are going into this place, and you know, it is not exactly too safe. and they are going in there and they are putting the outfits on and putting their masks on, and it's incredible. it truly is like no different then you watch the war movies or you watch the old clips of war running up hills, to me it is the same thing. men and women, young and old, but a lot of young people just going in. they are not thinking about oh, this is dangerous. they are not saying i don't want to go in. they are warriors. they are running through those doors. it is the most incredible thing. it is beautiful. it is an incredible and beautiful thing. resources from the national stockpile need to reach these warriors in the hospitals immediately. and we are making sure that they

do. and again, the states have that responsibility. but we are working with the states and getting them a lot of things that they can distribute. or when they tell us, we bring it to the hospital from the federal stockpile. or from the planes that land without even going to the stockpile. if any state is having difficulty disturbing supplies, we urge you to use the national guard to assist in that delivery. and i have to say, you have done a fantastic job. deborah, you know that you have done great. tony, you know that you have done great. but what a job you have done. i appreciate it. it has been incredible. that's a lot of stars that you have. i will tell you that. he is supposed to do a great job when you have four costars, right? but the military has been incredible. and i thank them for all of us. conversely, if a state believes that it has surplus equipment or supplies, very important. we actually have gotten so much to some of the states that they

are able to now, they have done a fantastic job and they keep that line low. and we have some states that have a surplus equipment and supplies. and they are working with us to rapidly redeploy those supplies to areas of greatest need. we thought that might happen. it worked out well, that's what was going to happen. and it is happening. and i want to thank governor gavin newsom who is doing a tremendous job. who has announced california will send 500 ventilators to be distributed to other locations. i think some are going to arizona. some are going to washington, d.c. we think that they are going to delaware. but 500 excess ventilators from the state of california, and we are going to get them taken care of wherever they have to go. those decisions are being made right now. the members of

members of the white house task force got ir in close contact with mayors and governors, we are told at the present time, most of the critical needs are being more than met. states have to continue sharing detailed information in the amount and utilization rates of medical supplies so we know what to resupply them, or they can get it directly. that includes ventilators. they can get it directly. ideally they can get it directly but if they are unable to do it, we have tremendous amounts of supplies and we are building up very fast. before the big surge. this information is fundamental to our ability to deliver the material when and where it's most needed. mike, in his conversation today, i think got some information as to a couple locations where we are going to be delivering large

numbers of ventilators and large numbers of medical supplies. we will take care of that. some of the states are very happy, even governor pritzker from illinois is happy. he may not be happy when he talked to the press but he's happy. he's a very happy man. we are increasingly hopeful that the aggressive mitigation strategy we put into place will ultimately allow our hospital systems to successfully manage the major influx of cases that we have right now. i say that we are finding, because of the incredible job done by the american people, in conjunction with everybody, governors, military, federal government, state government, local government. had a lot of conversations with new york city and mayor de blasio. i've got to know him. i didn't know him. i've gotten to know him. a lot of people are working

hard. everybody's working hard. a lot of people are doing a great job, i tell you that. a lot of people are doing a great job. with the goal is that all americans have been sacrificing to achieve these last few weeks things a lot of people thought were not possible to achieve. and i think we more than achieved. but we have to go through. again, we are going to have a rough week, maybe a little rough more than a week. but there's tremendous light at the end of that tunnel. i set it last night. there is tremendous light at the end of the tunnel. so many things happening with therapeutics, vaccines, with things that we really want deborah, tony, they are all working so hard on this. therapeutics. the vaccines are going to be always a little bit later because of the testing period. therapeutics, getting the kind of things that i heard about today, talking to these brilliant companies and brilliant people on the phone, it was fantastic. incredible conversation.

i also spoke a few minutes ago with vice president, former vice president biden, who called and we had a really wonderful, warm conversation. it was very nice conversation c. this is what we talked about. this is what everyone's talking about. this is where they want to talk about. he gave me his point of view and i fully understand that and we had a very friendly conversation. lasted probably 15 minutes. it was really good. it was really good, really nice. i appreciate his calling. as we continue, developing treatments and cures. this afternoon i spoke with leaders of the american pharmaceutical companies, and just to give you their