and then admiral polowczyk, if you step up. we will hear from dr. fauci again and then take a few questions. >> great, thank you, mr. vice president. i don't know if we can get the first slide. thank you. i want to show you a different way of looking at it today. obviously we look at case counts per 100,000 americans in each of our states and metro areas. i wanted you to see an absolute number, how much the new york, new jersey metro area north all other metro areas. so you can't even see chicago, detroit, boston. all of those metro areas are under 25,000 cases. you can see that the new york-new jersey metro area is almost 250,000 when you bring those cases together, almost a log more. that's why you hear us talking a lot about the metro area of new york and new jersey in the counties of rockland and westchester and suffix. why we are so focused on getting resources that metro area. if i can see the next slide. if i take new york and new jersey metro area out, this is the other metro areas we've been tracking very closely. i wanted to show this to y

working with admiral polowczyk. we go over that with administrator gaynor and admiral polowczyk.s we were explaining to governors today, we work with the requests that are coming in from states with the priority on the areas dealing with widespread outbreak like the greater new york city area, new jersey, louisiana, focus own detroit, focus on chicago and illinois, and then what pete gaynor and admiral polowczyk are doing, directing the commercial distributors to send the resources directly to the front lines of the battle against the coronavirus. it is an extraordinary system and as i explained to the governors today, as i have explained to congressional leaders, who have made, what i think is a, a good faith recommendation that we have, that we organize this in a manner of military logistics, that is exactly what president trump has done. it is what we're doing every single day to make sure that health care workers, to make sure that the states are dealing with a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus can be confident that we're going to fair no expense, leave no stone unturned

we go over that with administrator gaynor and admiral polowczyk. an extensive team identifying supplies around the country and around the world. as we were explaining to governors today, we work with the requests coming from states with the priority on the areas that are dealing with widespread outbreak like the greater new york city area and new jersey, louisiana, focus on detroit, focus on chicago and illinois. and then what pete gaynor and admiral polowczyk are doing directing those commercial distributors to send the resources directly to the front lines of the battle against the coronavirus. it's an extraordinary system. as i explained to the governors today, as i've explained to congressional leaders who have made what i think is a good faith recommendation that we have, that we organize this in a manner of military logistics, it's exactly what president trump has done, and it's what we are doing every single day to make sure that health care workers, to make sure that the states that are dealing with a widespread outbreak of coronavirus can

admiral polowczyk and his team. and pete, what job they are do done. they are using detailed data about supply chains to track the deployment of 1 billion pieces of protective equipment through private distributors every two weeks. so what we are doing is we are delivering a number that nobody anywhere in the world is delivering. fema is working closely with dr. birx and the distributors to prioritize supply of resources where they are most needed. we are finding the location that they have to get is not. we have locations that are very important to get to and get to them fast, and that's where they are going. so we have a very strong priority. this pandemic has reaffirmed the importance of keeping vital supply chains at home. we cannot outsource our independence. we cannot be reliant on foreign nations. i have been saying this for a long time. if we've learned one thing, it's let's do it here. let's build it here. let's make it here. we've got the greatest country in the world. we've got to start bringing our supply chains back. somebody years ago cut

as admiral polowczyk described a couple days ago, we established not just an air bridge but a controler system modeled after military logistics out of fema. while fema is acquiring a small portion of what's being acquired, 90 percent of the supplies are being, are being routed directly into our massive distribution system and fema is using data dr. birx provides to target those resources to areas most in need. i asked them to break out a few details about resources just in the last five days have been distributed and i hope it is and encouragement to health care workers all across these regions around the country about these efforts being made to make sure they have what they need. you can see the new york metro area including new jersey, just in the last five days, more than 6 million n95 masks, more than 6 million surgical masks. when governor cuomo and i last spoke he told me there was a real challenge for medical gowns in the new york city area and in new jersey as well. and 2.8 million gowns were distributed to that region as well. going next to new orleans where again, while we

secretary mnuchin, our health experts, admiral polowczyk, dr. us as we discussed a broad range of issues. the treasury secretary touched on the paycheck protection program now in stay five, reporting $125 billion has been approved so far. 30,000 new individual users and 3900 lenders are participating. treasury department will issue a new frequently asked document tonight, an faq as they're known, to clarify how seasonal businesses can participate in the paycheck protection program as well. with regard to direct payments to americans, the treasury secretary assured senators and we assure every american that we remain on the timetable where the first payments and direct deposits will go out by the end of next week. for the average family of four that will be $3400 in direct financial support. it will no doubt be welcome news. anyone who is interested in additional information on any of these programs can go to treasury.gov or sba.gov. since we last spoke i spoke with governor laura kelly of kansas, governor andy beshear of kentucky. i also spoke t

coronavirus task force, jared kushner, the president's son in law and senior advisor, rear admiraljohn polowczykn, vice president mike pence, who leads the coronavirus task force, and peter navarro who's the director of trade and manufacturing policy. i thought it was mike pence who was in charge so who is an overall control to the united states response to this disease? that is a very good question and i think that is part of the concern is that there seems to be conflicting viewpoints within the administration with different people offering different directives. looking behind the scenes someone like donald trump's son—in—law has been taking on an increasing role eclipsing perhaps someone might mike pence with the communication between administration and outside businesses and other officials who are medical experts who are running into conflict with people like the trade representative who has been pushing much harderfor these experimental drug treatments whereas the medical professionals are little more reluctant to order something like that without full testing. but when it comes right down

we also had admiral john poe poe poe polowczyk and distributed on local hospitals with seema verma and what the secretary of state spoke about today. remarkable to think more than 50,000 americans brought back home through nearly 500 flights and we thank members of congress who have worked with the state department to identified family members and groups that found themselves stranded overseas and we were grateful for that. in ad diagnose to our interaction with members of congress today we spoke with the president of the henry ford hospital, bob renny. it is the henry ford hospital that is conducting a clinical trial for hydrochloroquine. they had overwhelming response to initial trial beginning this week with three thousand people taking hydrochloroquine or a placebo so they could match it, but what the president of the henry ford hospital told me they would like to expand the test. i put him in touch with steve hahn of the fda and we'll be adding several more clinical trial paths to look at impacts on particular demographic groups including seniors and minority populations and more

. >> admiral polowczyk and his team at fifa are really, what a job they've done. >> stephen: yes, fifae international soccer federation, has done a great job against the coronavirus. imagine what they could accomplish if they were allowed to use their hands. some people say we need to flatten the curve. i say we need to bend it like beckham. one reporter asked trump about large corporations cashing in on federal grants promised to small business. >> reporter: do you think it's right that major coporations, major institutions like the ruth's chris restaurant chain, like harvard university, apparently got a lot of money under the cares act, money that was supposed to be earmarked for small-business owners. do you think that's fair? >> well, i know one thing. i didn't get any. that's for sure. i didn't get any. >> stephen: okay, that really sounds like he got some. he's like a witness talking to a detective: "what did i see the night of the murder? well, i know one thing: i never saw me murdering anybody. nope, definitely not 23 people between now and 1987. let's just say, digging up my b

so admiral polowczyk got a plane to go to italy to bring back millions of swabs to secure. that is how it started and expanded since then. we're marrying the logistics this is the beauty, logistics and supply to the overall strategy. two pieces of strategy. number one, what is the overall testing strategy? dr. birx has had an elegant strategy in the past, even more important in the future when we make sure we take care of indigent populations and most popular. clinical, contact tracing and monitoring of those who are at most risk. we also married it to the strategy you heard more than you know about, want the to know about it, small machine point of care is good for certain things but it will not test 5000 people over a short period of time. so the small machines, medium machines and large machines how to context allize them. the things thing before i give it to brad, it is really important and critical, coordinating the research, epidemiology and fda regulatory process and why is that so important? when we started five weeks ago if we wanted to test this many people with t

as admiral polo object described a couple days ago, we have -- admiral polowczyk, we have established a control tower system modeled after military logistics out of fema. while fema is acquiring a small portion of what's being inquired, 90% of the supplies are being routed directly into our massive distribution system and fema is using the data that dr. birx provides to target those resources to the areas most in need. i asked them to break out a few details about resources that just in the last five days have been distributed. i hope it's an encouragement to health care workers all across these regions and around the country. the efforts that are being made to make sure they have what they need. you can see the new york metro area, including new jersey the last five days, more than 6,000,095 mass, more than 6 million surgical masks. when governor cuomo when i last spoke, he said there was a real challenge for medical grounds in the new york city area and in new jersey as well. 2.8 million gowns were distributed to that region. going next to new orleans where again while we see some e

and admiral polowczyk and his team, it's all military in there. he is the logistics guy for the joint chiefs of staff. this is what he does. he's a wizard. there are more stars around me in the d.o.t. part of the military than i've seen in the pentagon. i am in the u.s. public health service, so we are part of the h.h.s. the surgeon general and i have the honor of running that part of the service. we're shoulder to shoulder in the military hospitals with everyone else. out of 6100 of us 3,000 of us , are doing direct patient care on a daily basis. the other 3,000, over 2,000 of those are in the field already taking care of patients directly and we have more going out the door every day. reporter: if i could follow up on that quickly, then. is it even worse, governors writing into fema if they've already received their allocation and you're getting data from hospitals to ask for more? admiral: this has been a cooperative action. i talk to five governors every day and we talk out the issues and what they perceive in their state. they often point out

strategic national stockpile but in the largest way, through the control tower system that admiral john polowczyk is running for us that's deploying those resources and making sure they are going straight to where they need to go. as i said earlier, those decisions are being informed by the data, and they are literally being made by our team at fema on a daily and sometimes hourly basis. we will continue to keep you informed as we did today about where some of those are going. let me let admiral giroir finish. >> admiral giroir: i don't have much more to add to that. the vice president is well-informed about it and i want to assure you that all the sourcing around the world, if it's there, we are putting it in our supply chains. we are buying more, manufacturers are stepping up to the plate. this is going not just 5% allocation but it's going to the exact places that need it in the quantities that they need to take care of patients. we want to make sure, it's a two-way street. we get the data in from individual hospitals to know exactly what their burn rate is, exactly what they need. we want to

admiral polowczyk: thank you, sir. updateht i would give an on the air bridge first. up on dr. birx and how we are geographically aligning the supply chain. bridge, we had three additional flights come in today, bringing one million 2.8 millionowns, n95 masks, 2.8 million surgical masks, 11.8 million gloves, 18.6 thousand gowns. that material will be pushed out across the nation, delivered to hospitals, nursing homes across the country. dr. birx went through the geography. so over the last few days, i have been aligning the supply chain to those areas. and then reaching down into those areas and extracting data from those areas on ppe burn rates. for example, i spent the weekend talking to chief operating officer in detroit, for example. i talked to the leadership at detroit medical center, audrey gregory. officer ofhe health oakland county in michigan. and also with chicago health officer, dr. allison ari. reaching down to a level to understand their needs. we are geographically aligning the supply chain. you can see dr. birx went through these counties and we are getting down

the admiral polowczyk and his team at fifa, what a job they've done. what a job pete has done.ey're calling on easter sunday to make sure everyone's ok. they're using detailed data about supply chains to track the deployment of one billion pieces of protective equipment through private distributors every two weeks. so what we're doing is we're delivering a number that nobody anywhere in the world is delivering. fema's working closely with dr. birx and the distributors to prioritize supply of resources where they are most needed, where finding the location that they have to -- they have to get to that location. we have locations that are very important to get to and get to them fast. and that's where they're going. so we have a very strong priority. this pandemic is has reaffirmed importance of keeping vital supply chains at home. we cannot outsource our independence, we cannot be reliant on foreign nations. i've been saying this for a long time. if we've learned one thing it's let's build it here, let's make it here. we have the greatest country in the world, we got to start br