we're not giving up just yet because i believe there remain ventilators in the strategic national stockpile. among the states and they will take that into consideration and making additional outpatient. we're not going to stop asking for ventilators. we're not going to stop sourcing them elsewhere. we need to increase that capacity here in louisiana. >> any idea if there's like a nurse home or some explanation for that? [indiscernible] >> i do not. i'm not able to really do anything but guess about st. charles. i'm not going to do that. maybe the doctor knows whether there's any speck specific thing. it's unfortunate as i look statewide and there's been lot of focus on new orleans and jefferson parish. just look at the numbers. 1834 in parish, 1193 in jefferson. look at the 242 and 63 next door in bosher. that's what new orleans and jefferson looked like not too long ago. all thee cases are concerning to me and other people across the state of louisiana. regardless what parish they come from. i don't know if you want to alter -- >> i have a question. you talked about the sobering number tod

funding for the purchase of personal protective equipment like masks, respirators, through the strategic national stockpile. i encourage the house to pass the legislation and send the bill to my desk for signature without delay. i would sign it immediately and it will be a great signing and a great day for american families and companies, some of which were having the best years they have ever had the last few years and then little bit less than a month ago, they went into a position they have not seen because of the hidden enemy, the virus. earlier today is with leaders of many nonprofits and thanked them for their unwavering devotion to american. they have been fantastic. they have been distributing food and caring for vulnerable workers and families i encourage them to continue to do it that those nonprofits have been fantastic, they are great people, actually, i know a lot of them. i want to provide a brief update on critical supplies. fema is shipping millions of respirators, 9.4 million. 20 million surgical masks and others will be delivered quickly. the whole world, it is not just us, it is not just

personal protective equipment, you know about that, such as masks and respirators through the strategic national stockpile and i encourage the house to pass this vital legislation and send the bill to my desk for signature without delay. i will sign it immediately. we will have a signing and it'll be a great signing and a great day for the american worker and for american families and, frankly, for american companies, some of which were having the best years they've ever had these last few years and then a little bit less than a month ago they went into a position that they haven't seen because of the hidden enemy, the virus. earlier today i spoke to the leaders of many of america's amazing nonprofit organizations. i thank them for their unwaiving and unwavering devotion to american people, to american families, to our nation and they have been fantastic. they've been collecting supplies distributing food, supporting health care workers, caring for vulnerable workers and families. i encourage them to continue to do it but i'll tell you the nonprofits have been fantastic. they've been great. they're great

obviously, the strategic national stockpile, the military, we do need beds. need more healthcare personnel as well and we need to think about scope of practice. about bringingk retirees back into the fold. students,ssional giving them more responsibilities. but then it also comes down to protectiveal equipment and critical medical material. frontd to get that to the lines. so i hear you and sometimes, it seems that, though, people are thing, itdo the right may steam that nothing is happening at the state level or the federal level, but this is deck, we need every single sector, public, government, private sector, to and do their share and the rest of us we have to do our share as well and that's why staying home and staying safe is absolutely critical. viewers one for our the economic aid package. thatreporter tweets out inspector mnuchin says they're very close to an agreement on a agreement. buy unlimited amounts of government bonds. dr., the surgeon general this morning told nbc i want americans to understand this it's going to get bad. what do you think h

you're looking at video provided by the state shows items received from the strategic national stockpile. those shipments including 358,000 n-95 masks, 162,0mask shields and 471,000 gloves. california has requested even more from the federal government. that includes another 20 million n-95 masks. >> a number of states have issued stay-at-home orders to try to slow the spread of coronavirus. here is david packer. >> reporter: president trump commending everyone for working together during this time of crisis. >> governors, mayors, businesses, charities and citizens are all working with urgency and speed toward one common goal which is saving american lives. >> reporter: negotiations continue on capitol hill as they work on a relief package. the cost of that package could exceed $1 trillion. the president has expressed his support for what he's calling a game changer. a drug that's been used to treat malaria being studied as a treatment for covid-19. dr. fauci is taking a wait-and-see approach. but new york's governor cuomo says they will begin conducting trials for the new drug therapy.

burel about that. >> reporter: greg burel retired in january after 12 years as head of the strategic national stockpile supply of medica equipment, drugs, and protective gear. >> can the stockpile support the needs of american hospitals? >> the strategic national stockpile is the last lifeline. it doesn't have everything and unlimited resources. >> reporter: the began san tapping that lifeline shipping supplies across the country from government warehouses. their locations kept secret for national security reasons. with officials providing cbs news this recent video. >> it would never have been possible even with virtually unlimited funds to supply everything that's going to be needed for this event from the strategic national stockpile. >> reporter: the stockpile's biggest deficit may be ventilators. an official with health and human services confirmed to cbs news there were 16,600 ventilators before covid-19. now there are thousands less as officials anticipate a surge of new cases. >> ventilators are very expensive to purchase. so it's not just the question of buying one of these many thousand-dolla

all total, we have ordered 14,000 or so venter -- ventilators, including 5000 from the strategic national stockpile. the number we have received continues to be 191. we hope that it some point this week we will have another shipment. how will probably be another 100 or so. -- that will probably be another 100 or so. i can tell you that for the last 72 hours, ppe has improved. we know this is going to play out over an extended time. 1.i made and other governors made today, the president and vice president, was to keep the ppe coming in greater numbers. we are really doing just in time deliveries right now. we are emptying our warehouse every single night, going to different regions of the state and different hospitals. and the process will work so that as fema brings an additional ppe to the united states from all over the world, 80% of that will be allocated to traditional ppe vendors and health care providers will access ppe in the way they normally have, and a 20% allocation stays with fema and they allocated to the states based on formulas considered hotspots. they are calling this an air bridge

protective equipment you know about that such as masks and respirators through the strategic national stockpile i encourage the house to pass this vital legislation and send the bill to my desk for signature without delay i will sign it immediately we will have a signing and it will be a great signing and a great day for the american worker and for american families and frankly for american companies some of which were having the best years they've ever had his last few years and then the little bit less than a month ago. they went into a position that they haven't seen because of the hidden enemy the virus earlier today i spoke to the leaders of many of america's amazing nonprofit organizations i thank them for their unwavering and unwavering devotion to american. people american families to our nation. and they have been fantastic they've been collecting supplies distributing food supporting health care workers caring for vulnerable workers and families i encourage them to continue to do it but i wanted the nonprofits have been fantastic they have been great they're great people actually i kn

give you, but i believe he was referring to an allocation we can expect to receive from the strategic national stockpile. we have been sharing information with the white house and with fema about the timeline we are exceed capacity as it relates to ventilators. so hopefully we will get those very soon. i will talk more about ventilators in just a moment as it relates to capacity. we are obviously going to continue to look for ventilators through manufacturers and .endors all total, we have ordered 14,000 or so venter -- ventilators, including 5000 from the strategic national stockpile. receivedr we have continues to be 191. we hope that it some point this week we will have another shipment. how will probably be another 100 or so. -- that will probably be another 100 or so. i can tell you that for the last 72 hours, ppe has improved. we know this is going to play out over an extended time. 1.i made and other governors made today, the president and vice president, was to keep the ppe coming in greater numbers. we are really doing just in time deliveries right now. we are emptying our warehouse every singl

several of these companies are -- [inaudible] >> they got half the shipment from the strategic national stockpile and when the vice president went to washington the second half arrived. i have spoken directly with governor inslee with whom we've had a superb working relationship. he informed me there are some additional needs their hospitals have and we're working thru the strategic national stockpile to make sure we're fulfilling shipments to them as noded -- as needed. >> i want to echo our gratitude to governor inslee and the health officials montana state of washington. our teams are working very closely together. we'll follow up on that public report as the secretary indicated. but we're -- as i said in the next 24 hours, we'll be working with not only washington state, but california, new york, florida, and unveiling our recommendations. c.d.c.'s recommendations to those areas that have been impacted by community spread and then we'll continue to come alongside those communities to do everything in our power to mitigate the spread. let me just say again as a resource, thank you all, we'll b

for vaccines, therapies and public response efforts including $16 billion to build up the strategic national stockpile and i'm going to -- we have tremendous supplies coming into the stockpile. you will be seeing that and hearing about it a little bit. we are doing a news conference on what is happening. we have had tremendous results on the respirators. we have had great results on just about everything we are talking about. owing just announced they are going to be making the plastic face shields, the actual shields , which are hard to come by. they will be making them by the thousands a week. the ventilator, which is probably the most difficult because it's like building a car. we will be announcing thousands. we will have them under contract. as you know, we delivered thousands to new york and they were delivered to a warehouse. them andis taking redistributing them. million.ave $3.5 we have health care workers, first responders, others and $1 million for securing supplies .nder the defense we have enacted the act. we used it three or four times. i pulled it back three times because the companies

million with the development of vaccines and therapies and other response efforts and with the strategic national stockpile and with tremendous supplies coming into the stockpile and you will be seeing that in hearing about that. we will have a news conference at 530. we had tremendous results on the respirators and everything we are talking about a boeing just announced they will be making the plastic face shields which are hard to come by making them by the thousands per week and ventilators which is the most difficult like the car we will be announcing thousands will be built and we have them under contract as you know we delivered thousands to new york and unfortunately they were delivered to a war one - - a warehouse but they did not take them but now new york is taking them and redistributing around the areas that they need. so also three.$5 million to states to expand childcare benefits for healthcare workers and first responders in $1 million for security supplies under the defense protection act and as you know i enacted the act using it three or four times i pulled it back three times because the

the michigan national guard for humanitarian the u.s.and to use army corps of engineers to help construct temporary hospitals. over the weekend, we received a masksnt of 112,000 n95 from the strategic national stockpile, with another 8000 on the way. again, this is good news, but we still need more. we know that a hospital, one hospital in the detroit area, will go through 10,000 of these masks in a day. this isis a helpful -- helpful in this moment, but we have a much greater need that we need to be part of making sure we meet. i want to acknowledge a few more businesses that have stepped up them and a number have, but production of masks and face shields for nurses and doctors. the dedicated and boy is that they have are manufacturing hand sanitizer. a number of executive orders in the past couple of days, including orders that tax deadlinesome through july of 2020. we have also expanded absentee voting and established a $2 million water restart grant program and access to clean water. to successfully deploy qualified physician assistants, nurses, and other health care providers to combat covid-19. i signed two executive's directives temporarily restricting discretionary spending by our state depar

reporter: as the crisis deepens, governors are demanding more help and supplies from the strategic national stockpile. >> apparently, the only way to get the president of the united states to pay attention is to go on national television and make noise about it which i won't stop doing until we get what we need >> reporter: late this afternoon, the president responded. >> the federal government has deployed hundreds of tons of supplies from our national stockpile to locates with the greatest need. >> reporter: the national guard now assisting in all 50 states in oregon, soldiers are setting up this field 40789 as new york calls on fema to do the same inside this massive manhattan convention center. the presence come as u.s. cases pass 30,000, putting the nation third in total cases globally in south carolina, cordy's 7 month old son was hospitalized with covid-19. >> very scary. they haven't tested children, haven't done studies on small babies we are still very nervous. >> reporter: today ohio and louisiana joining other states asking residents to stay home. and hawaii taking the extraordinary step

obviously they don't have enough in the strategic national stockpile to meet everyone's needs an grant everyone's requests. i just asked him that as they slice the pie make sure they slice a piece for louisiana. i haven't heard back on that particular request yet. but we are leaving no stone unturned. i personally went out looking for ventilators earlier today and in conversations with some other individuals, we think we have a lead on them. but you know, they're in short supply. and so we're having to be aggressive and work as fast as we can to get our hands on as many as possible because every other state is in the same situation -- well, they're not in the same situation but they're not far behind us. there's only a couple of other states out there right now that have the pressing problem that we have. yes, sir. reporter: to follow up on procurement. over the weekend when the major disaster declarations were first announced for the three states, california, herb what -- california, washington, new york, there was talk that those states would be prioritized when it came to getting cr

the strategic reserve being deployed, mr. vice president? >> yes, the masks in the strategic national stockpile -- >> so it is not 13,000 anymore. it would be a lower number would that be fair to say? >> masks? >> ventilators. i'm sorry. the respirators. thank you. we're trying to understand if the things we have been told through these briefings in many days are happening and getting into the hands of the health care providers. >> you understand. you understand it. you're an intelligent woman, kelly. you understand exactly what he is saying. and what he is saying is rather incredible because we inherited an obsolete, broken system. and when you hear the number of tests that will be provided and are now, it's incredible. i've heard a lot of governors say the same thing. we took over an obsolete, broken testing system that wouldn't have worked for even a small problem let alone one of the biggest pandemics in history and what these gentlemen have done is incredible. i am going now to negotiate a great deal for our workers and citizens. i'll be back tomorrow. we'll probably do this tomorrow. if i

vaccines, therapies, and other health response efforts including $60 billion to build up the strategic national stockpile with reticle stockpile. we have tremendous supplies coming into the stockpile. you will see that and hear about it because we are doing a news conference at 5:30 on what is happening. resultshad tremendous on the respirators. great results on just about everything we are talking about. boeing announced they will be making the plastic face shields, the shields, which are hard to come by, they will be making them by the thousands a week and the ventilators, probably the most if that's probably the most difficult because it is like building a car. we will announce thousands really built and we have them under contract and we had fast deliveries. we delivered thousands to new york and they were delivered to a warehouse, unfortunately they did not take them but now they are taking them. new york is taking them and we distribute them around the areas that they need. billion dollars to states to expand childcare benefits for health care workers. first responders and others on the front lines

reporter: as the crisis deepens, governors are demanding more help and supplies from the strategic national stockpile >> apparently, the only way to et get the president of the united states to pay attention is to go on national television and make noise about it. which i won't stop doing until we get what we need. >> reporter: the president responded. >> the federal government has deployed hundreds of tons of supplies from the national stock pill to locations with the greatest need. >> reporter: the national guard soldiers are setting up this field hospital as new york calls on feama to do the same inside this massive convention center u.s. cases pass 30,000 but in the nation, third in total cases globally in south carolina is a 7-month-old son was hospitalized with covid-19. >> very scary. they haven't really tested children or done studies in small babies so we're still nervous. >> reporter: ohio and louisiana joining other us states asking residents to stay home and hawaii taking the exfrom ordinary step of requiring all returning residents and visitors to quarantine for 14 days. life at the epic

therapies, and other public health response efforts, including $16 billion to build out the strategic national stockpile with critical stockpiles, and i'm going to, we have tremendous supplies coming into the stockpiles, and you will be seen that, and hearing about it a little bit, because redoing a little news conference at 5:30 p.m. on what is happening. we have had tremendous results on the respirators, great results on just about everything were talking about. boeing announced they will be making the plastic face shields come the actual shields, which are hard to come by, and they will make them by the thousands a week, and the ventilators which is probably the most difficult because it's like building a car, we will be announcing thousands are going to be built, and we have them under contract, and we have fast deliveries. as you know, we delivered thousands to new york, an important date were delivered to a warehouse and unfortunately they didn't take him, but now they are taking them, that new york is taking them and redistributing them around the areas they need, so you have also $3.5 billion to

you know about that, such as masks and respirators through the strategic national stockpile. i encourage the house to pass this vital legislation and send the bill to my desk for signature without delay. i will sign it immediately. we will have a signing and it will be a great signing and a great day for the american worker and for american families and frankly for american companies. some of which were, having the best years they ever had these last few years and then a little bit less than a month ago they went into a position that they haven't seen because of the hidden enemy, the virus. earlier today i spoke to the leaders of many of america's amazing non-profit organizations. i thanked them for their unwaving and unwavering devotion to people, american families and to our nation and they have been fantastic. they have been collecting supplies, distributing food, supporting health care workers, caring for vulnerable workers and families. i encourage them to continue to do it but i tell you the non-profits are great, they are great people. i know a lot of them. i finally wa

we know about that such as masks and respirators through the strategic national stockpile. i encourage the house to pass this vital legislation and send a bill to my desk for signature without delay. i will sign it immediately. we will have a signing and great signing and great day for the american worker and for american families and for american companies which were having the best years they ever had, the last few years and then a little bit less than a month ago, they went into a position they haven't seen because of the hidden enemy, the virus. earlier today, i spoke to leaders of many america's amazing nonprofit organizations. i thank them for their unwavering diversion to american people, to american families, to our nation and they have been fantastic and collecting supplies, distributing food and supporting health care workers, caring for vulnerable workers and families. i encourage them to continue to do it. the nonprofits have been fantastic and great. they are great. i know a lot of them. i want to provide an update on the critical supplies. ma is shipping 9.4 re

you know about that, such as masks and respirators through the strategic national stockpile. i encourage the house to pass this vital legislation and send the bill to my desk for signature without delay. i will sign it immediately. we will have a signing, and it will be a great signing and a great day for the american worker and for american families. and frankly, for american companies, some of which were having the best years they've ever had these last few years. and then a little bit less than a month ago, they went into a position that they haven't seen because of the hidden enemy, the virus. earlier today i spoke to leaders of many of america's amazing nonprofit organizations. i thanked them for their unwaving and unwavering devotion to american. to people, to american families, to our nation. and they have been fantastic. they've been collecting supplies, distributing food, supporting health care worker, caring for vulnerable workers and families. i encourage them to continue to do it. but i tell you, the nonprofit, great people. i know a lot of them. finally, a brief u

you know about that such as masks and respirators through the strategic national stockpile. i encourage the house to pass this vital legislation and send the bill to my desk for signature without delay. i will sign it immediately. we will have a signing, and it will be a great signing and a great day for the american worker and for american families. and, frankly, for american companies some of which were having the best years they've ever had. these last few years and then a little bit less than a month ago they went into a position they haven't seen because of the hidden enemy, the virus. earlier today i spoke to the leaders of many of america's amazing non-profit organizations. i thank them for their unwaving and unwavering devotion to america. people, to american families, to our nation. and they have been fantastic. they've been collecting supplies, distributing food, caring for vulnerable workers and families. i encourage them to continue to do it. but i'll tell you the nonprofits have been fantastic. they're great people actually. i know a lot of them. finally i want t

ventilators, we have put in, maybe days ago, orders for 12,000 ventilators. 5000 of those from the strategic national stockpile, the remainder from private vendors and manufacturers and to date, we have received exactly 192. those 192 ventilators have all been allocated and delivered. we do expect a shipment of another 100 early next week, but we need several thousand ventilators. we are going to keep working on this, obviously. and i would remind everybody that when we overwhelm our capacity, our hospitals' capacity to deliver care, it doesn't just threaten covid-19 patients. it threatens anyone who might need emergency or intensive care at a hospital. , whether you are a motor vehicle accident or heart attack victim or stroke victim or whatever. i'm asking everyone to do what they can to be a good neighbor, to lower the number of cases we are announcing every day, start to flatten the curve. incredibly important. one piece of relatively good news is that the state of louisiana is in the top five states on a per capita basis for testing. we have surged our testing capacity tremendously. we are not testing in

passed earlier this week, had additional resources for the c.d.c., $1.7 billion for the strategic national stockpile, $12 million for the military. national security is always an issue that we pay a lot of attention to, particularly in time of crisis. $10 billion for block grants to states, just directly block grants to states, $12 billion to k-12 education, another $6 billion for higher education, $5 billion for fema disaster relief fund, $10 billion for airports, and obviously airports are very much impacted by this complete dropoff when it comes to air traffic in this country. $20 billion for public transportation emergency relief. that adds up to, mr. president, $242 billion on top of all the things that i just mentioned, going to things that we think are really strategic when it comes to defeating this virus and combating it and making sure that those resources are available to those who are on the front lines and doing that. so all told of that $242 billion, 75% or $ 186 billion goes through the states and the democrats have said we need more money for the states, we need more money for the st

we've asked the federal n-95 nment for two million masks from the strategic national stockpile. thankfully the federal good ment has pushed a deal of product from the s.n.s. here to help fill gaps until our endors could start getting things in from manufacturing plants around the country and ut of the country, quite frankly. we're flying stuff in from all over the place. so you're talking gowns and booties and tie-back suits. 2,000 ventilators we ordered. 5,000 ventilators we asked from government. in the other room, we have hospital beds, we ordered 3,000 of those. i.c.u. beds. this is a massive basically sure l operation, making that while we don't necessarily have that need today, making have hat we're ready to that need in the future. a lot of people think emergency management in the state of hurricanes.ust but all of our emergency managers around the state and counties different know that we have a lot more responsibilities and we got to be thinking ahead. actually today the army corps is out there doing at ssments for us, looking old hospital buildings, old hospital wings t

the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> a lot of transportation right now. there is a lot of assistance required to distribute things like the strategic national stockpile distribution when that is ready to go. we are also able to augment a little bit, just a little bit, with our medical capabilities. a lot of my medical units also work, we are all national guards, but they work as civilians. however, we do have some capabilities. we have the structure in place that we can stand up and work with in the maryland department of health to augment the different counties out there. we are an agile force. we have a lot of capabilities. there are things we have not even discovered yet that we are capable of doing. people ask for help and we figure out a way to get it done. reporter: [indiscernible] i'm going to have to defer to the maryland department of health. they are the ones that have that mission. we assist them when they are ready to distribute it. thank you. announcer: it is easy to follow the federal response to the coronavirus outbreak at c-span.org/coronavirus. trust the spread throughout the u.s. and the world -- track the spread throughout the u.s.

we got our first tranche last night down in riverside, the strategic national stockpile. uite literally opening up those boxes as we speak. we are starting to distribute those assets all throughout the state of california in real time. that is gowns, gloves, masks. it is just the first of four that will be arriving. we are told they are already beginning to send the second order as i speak to you tonight. i say all that from the point of optimism. also appointed deep realism in terms of the magnitude of meeting this moment. we have made it clear that we are prioritizing the most vulnerable californians. we have made clear that are most vulnerable californians include the homeless. 108,000 and sheltered homeless in the state of california. i'm pleased to announce, we have over 2400 hotel rooms that we have already secured, 1900 just down in san diego county. let me tip my hat to the leaders in san diego county in particular for securing those beds, and make sure we secure the resources to get folks off the streets quickly and into those units. seven counties now have alread

bill. $4.5 billion dollars for the centers for disease control. 1.7 billion dollars for the strategic national stockpile. $12 billion to assist the military in addressing this coronavirus. $12 billion for k through 12 education, $6 billion for higher education, $5 billion for fema, disaster relief funds. there's $10 billion in it for airports. my colleagues have heard from airports and $20 billion for public transportation. this is an injection of appropriated money to keep this economy going until this virus subsides. it's an injection of loan money through some large businesses and an opportunity, also, for the federal reserve within their discretion under a program that's been established for decades and decades, to loan money not only to big companies, but medium sized companies and small companies under a federal reserve program commonly known as section 13, subparagraph 3. so i would just say to my colleagues, mr. president, before we come down here and make inaccurate statements, read the bill. understand what we're doing, understand that this is to get money to workers who need to stay on the jo

you to consider additional funding to new jersey and the distribution of items from the strategic national stockpile. new jersey remains committed to fighting novel coronavirus and protecting the public health and safety of all people living in and traveling through new jersey. as the country continues to respond to this public health crisis, we ask that you remain attentive to the evolving needs of each state specifically new jersey and mobilize the information, resources, and funding needed to protect the nation's public health and safety. thank you. >> thank you, sir. and our next witness, which i was told by my staff i butchered your name, so i will try to do better. miss gracia, i'm sorry about that. i now recognize you to summarize your statement for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman payne, ranking member king, and all the members of the subcommittee, good afternoon. i am the executive vice president and chief operating officer at trust for america's health. tfa is a nonpartisan public health organization and among our priorities has focused attention on a strong and effective public health

everything we can in the united states to increase manufacturing of this equipment we do have the strategic national stockpile we have a supply of various medical kept him reserve her situation like that that stockpiles now been opened up and it's being disseminated out to the places that are in most need so there is up there is the potential for some increased equipment in those areas but we're really counting on more supplies to come in from manufacturers and other sources some of this is this this is probably the greatest thing facing us. still had on al jazeera and the struggle to came to people a lot downtown africa's fight to stop the spread of coronavirus and the and how the pandemic is affecting kazakhstan's economy growing of. the and. how we still have a few showers across so the. mediterranean particularly i would say it was the eastern side of the med over towards turkey through greece looking a little live here from time to time that wanted to show as they were towards the that the western side as well as its was at least inside a spy but too bad that over the next couple days further north this

. $27 billion for the coronavirus response, including $16 billion to build up the strategic national stockpilewith medical supplies including masks, respirators, and all sorts of pharmaceuticals. $3.5 billion to expand assistance to childcare providers and childcare benefits to health care workers, first responders, and others on the frontlines of the crisis. and these are really brave, incredible people, i have to say. and some of them are getting sick, and some of them are getting very sick, and some of them don't even recover. they are incredible people. >> $1 billion for defense production act procurement. we are as you using the act but we use it only when necessary. we use it as leverage. we generally don't have to use it to accomplish what we want to accomplish. as of today fema a shipped over 9 million n95 mask, 20 million facemasks and 3.1 million face shields, nearly 6000 ventilators, 2.6 million gallons, 14.6 million gloves and we're sending moreor every day and wee got tremendous amount of equipment coming in. a lot of great companies are making equipment right now. the ventilators

we can in the united states to increase manufacturing of this equipment 'd we do have the strategic national stockpile we have a supply of various medical that's kept him reserve person jewish and white that best stockpiles now been opened up and it's being disseminated out to the places that are in most need so there is there is the potential for some increase equipment in those areas but we're really counting on more supplies to come in from manufacturers and other sources some of this is this this is probably the greatest thing pacing us well the epicenter of the outbreak in the u.s. is in new york and the bar of queens experiencing the worst of it gambling is on to has a story from the. they're sick and in urgent need of a doctor but with the emergency room hospital inundated with coronavirus patients and no available beds they arrive early in the morning to wait in line to try to get seen inside elmhurst hospital medical staff struggle to keep people alive in 124 hour period 13 people died covert 19 the hospital has 500 beds and his overcapacity all that means. even if you. have. a nurse shared v

several of these companies are -- [inaudible] >> so, they got half of the shipment from the strategic national stockpile initially. when the vice president went out to the state of washington, when the second half of the shipment arrived. i spoken with governor inslee who we had a superb working relationship. he informed me there are additional personal protective equipment they need that a couple hospitals have. we're working through the national strategic stockpile we're fulfilling shipments as needed. >> i want to echo again our gratitude to governor inslee and all of the health officials in the state of washington. i was there last week. our teams are working very closely together. we'll follow up on that public report but the secretary has indicated. look, as i said in the next 24 hours we'll be working with not only washington state but california, with new york, with florida. and unveiling our recommendations. cdc's recommendations, to those areas that have been impacted by community spread and then we'll continue to come alongside those communities to do everything in our power to mitigate the s

. >> we have gotten a shipment from the federal government's strategic national stockpile. allotment of ppe allocated for one of our hospitals was thot enough to cover a full shift. >> we must flatten the everythicurve and ensure residents are practicing social distancing. as i have said before, no time to panic, but it is time to be smart, proactive, transparent, a aggressive. it is also no time for business as usual. >> there's a new report from the "washington post" revealing how states desperate for material from the stockpile are encountering a baa leaguer ed system. good morning to you. we have three state officials there. many others saying they do not understand the standards that determine how much of the national strategic stockpile they will get. why is there so much confusion surrounding this? >> i did a little research before coming on air. it's a couple things. the broadest take aways that the federal government is able to disseminate all the supplies needed and the president has been looking at the national strategic stockpile as a way to hand out these types

influx of new patience, the federal government is rationing and replenishing its $8 billion stockpile of medical equipment. >> we want the balance, distressed, and the strategic nationalcommodities so that everyone gets all the materials they need. >> the strategic national stockpile of the federal government's secret stash of vaccines, antitoxins, ventilators, and emergency medicine. already washington state and massachusetts tapped in, asking for gowns, gloves, and the m95 masks. >> already without multiple states request in particular protective equipment. >> personal protective agreement is at the top of the list of hospitals first want to protect doctors and nurses. >> we will do everything we can, but we need federal assets. >> new york's andrew cuomo voiced what he says is the frustration of other governors as fears rise that more than 15% of those infected could require hospitalization. >> that will keep you up at night. >> the u.s. has fewer than three hospital beds per thousand people, less than china, south korea, and italy. the other need ventilators for the many patients who may need oxygen. >> we have 12,000 ventilators in our strategic national stockpil

think and act and the second thing is about domestic capacity and supplies, things like the strategic national stockpilethat have to be maintained over time. one of the findings of the bio defense strategy was we invest $8 billion in this kind of activity each year. sounds like a lot of money but when you consider aircraft carrier cost $17 billion and we have 12 of them that gives you scale of what we invest in one arm of our national defense that we want to invest in our national health security. >> as you know, pharmaceutical companies that exist and operate exclusively in this country often times to partner with pharmaceutical companies in other parts of the world in order to try to solve alzheimer's disease, parkinson's disease, ms, what collaborations are being encouraged with respect to shortening the development time for the vaccines? >> there are some examples, a group that an international consortium that involves the gates foundation, several european governments to focus on major disease areas. coronavirus is one of them and wahlberg virus and hemorrhagic fever and those initiatives are valua

. -- tot the balance balance the stress on the strategic national stockpile in all our commodities so everyone gets all the materials they need. what do we do? because, as the vice president said, last week we had the testing, weough pit are going from manually slow to the management -- the regimen where we contest many hundreds of thousands of individuals per week and maybe even more. we will have 9.1 million more of these high throughput tests available this week with numerous labs starting to turn the lights on beginning this week and over the week. that's a game changer for us because the back of the shop testing capability is there. the front of the shop is what we have been really working on. get a test, you have to swab individuals, get them into the system without paralyzing the health care system. ,ith the emergency declaration this was very, very important to us because it really enable be historic effective processes of working and protecting states through the normal fema mechanisms. so, representatives of fema from across the government and our commission core have been w

the largest disaster assistance we have ever had administered in the nation. on account of shoring up the health system, that's appropriate. you have to remember that the reality is the strategical destitute of national stockpile was never designed to deal with a nationwide disaster pandemic. flu episode swine had used some of that strategic stockpile, we were behind the eight ball on that one. the result is that we are now catching up, doing a good job catching up, but still not adequate. it is going to be a slog, it truly is. i think we need to see what else we need to do before we decide to throw money out there to decide that it works. that's not a good answer. host: on that point, do you think it is likely that there will be a fourth stimulus bill? at this point what are some things that might be considered in the fourth bill? i think there will be a fourth bill, but we need to take time to see the impact. to just do something is not a good answer. my background in washington was mostly businessman. the reality is that we need to take a bit of time to see what happens in the economy, what gaps are there. i am concerned about some of the community banks and the impact it has on their viability. rural commu

fourth, congress should support the medical countermeasures enterprised including the strategic national stockpile which build the pipeline of vaccines, treatment, medical equipment, and supplies for health security threats. fifth, we must build the pipeline of the public health work force. although supplemental funding may help with short-term hiring, this temporary funding does not allow for recruitment and retention of workers. emergency preparedness and response are personnel intensive endeavors that require training, exercise, and coordination across sectors. this experience just cannot be built overnight. six, congress and employers should consider job protected paid sick leave to protect workers and customers from infectious disease outbreaks. one of the recommendations we have repeatedly heard is to stay home when sick. for millions of americans that is not a realistic option. they risk losing a paycheck and possibly their jobs if they stay home when sick or to care for a loved one. in fact, only 55% of the work force has access to paid time off. congress should pass a federal law to requi