birx who was working at walter reed on a vaccine. they have worked for many years together on hiv-aids. that is a very different kind of , there than coronavirus were similarities in the way they initially faced this crisis. investigative reporter with the washington post. this is the story he wrote, rx work together at the dawn of the hiv-aids crisis." you can read it at washington post.com. youbirx talked about what were just discussing, the background and fighting the aids epidemic. this from the rose garden last month. [video clip] >> i was part of the hiv-aids response in the 1980's. we knew from first finding cases in 1980 run, it took us until almost 1985 to have a test. another 11 years to have effective therapy. it is because of the lessons learned we were able to mobilize and bring those individual tests that were key -- individuals that were key to this response. host: interns -- in terms of the role each plays on the task force, how would you describe that? >> -- guest: dr. birx is the data person. she shows where the dat

the dog is now at walter reed. iconic photo in the exhibit is of sully in front of president bush's casket. president bush got sully in june for aboute served six months until the president's death on november 30, 2018. so we have a picture of him as a ,uppy, and with president bush and he did everyday tasks and added quality to the last months of his life. the memorial exhibit itself, we have the flag that flew at half staff at the white house, and we also have the flag that flew over the capital. one of my favorite items in this exhibit is the ship's wheel that was built by the crew of the uss 77, which bush, cvn will be the last nimitz-class aircraft carrier. the crew built it and it was 2019,ted here in june of i believe. and they created it themselves. we had all the sailors of the year from the ship here, we bring them in here once a year, the sailors of the year, they come to the library and do a service project. shells thatve the were used for the 21-gun salute, and this is from the air force in houston whe

york times and i wrote an article for the times about a miraculous discovery.there was a guy at walter reed medical center and he was writing in a technical journal called science magazine that he had managed to get some samples from the soldiers who died in 1918 and in that lung tissue were fragments of the virus that had killed them and when i interviewed this man about his work he told me that the influenza pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. i had never heard of anything like this. it was the worst infectious disease epidemic in recorded history. it killed so many people that if something like that came by today it would kill more people than the top 10 killers wrapped together, 1.5 million americans . and i just found out by looking at the cdc papers by the centers for disease control that 99 percent of the people that died in this epidemic were under 65 so it was an astonishing devastating epidemic and what made the story for me was this idea that all these years later, molecular biology, there's such incredible serendipity involved that somebody could have some lung tissue that still

there is a guy at walter reed army medical center and he was writing and that technical journal called science magazine that he had managed to get some lung tissue from a soldier who died in 1918. and that lung tissue, there were still fragments of the virus that it killed him. when i interviewed this man, about his work he told me about the influence of pandemic of 1918. i was stunned. i had never heard of it or seen anything like this. it's the worst infectious disease in recorded history. it killed so many people do something like that came by today i would kill more people the top ten killers wrapped together 1.4 million americans or something like that. i saw that was some centers for disease control that 99% of the people that died in this epidemic were under age 65. it was an astonishing devastating epidemic and what made the story for me was this idea that all these years later, was a century later molecular biology as there is such incredible serendipity involved someone could actually have some lung tissue that some of the viral genes in there and asked the question what was

most of the one withes they sent me in maryland, were all medical facilities, nih, and fda and walter reed. and multiple -- ft. dietrich. so they were federal health facilities or military installations, none of which are state-owned labs or facilities where we can actually do testing. i i'm not sure what the president is refer ping to. i appreciate the information that was provided by his team. he wasn't there, i'm not sure what he was trying to say. >> yeah, and well, you're the chairman of the national governor's association. you're the leader of the guys on the call with the vice president. earlier today, you announceded the shipment of testing comes in from maryland to south career ya that will allow to you conduct half a million tests. how did this deal come through? >> well, as you know, the president has been repeatedly saying the stays should really be with on their own -- not on their own but they should take lead on doing testing, the federal government needed to back us up. but we have been out there -- the governors have been out there trying to compete with one another all ar

c-span: going back to this institute here at walter reed, have you been there? there are 3 million samples? >> guest: they are in boxes and things and it is burning down and if they have box after box after box. he died very quickly because he did and what the person that had gotten the flu virus and then lingered and meanwhile it had died and so since 1970 had been computerized city could get a printout and he goes over with his letters and folks. c-span: there were samples from back in the civil war. >> guest: right after and then on, yes. it was a brilliant idea because when they started this, who knows what you would use it for. no one had ever found of the influenza virus so the idea that they would come back and make use of this material was brilliant. c-span: i know i am jumping ahead. >> guest: at this point they hahave samples for those who did in 1918. it's pushing the limits of molecular biology and it takes a long time you describe it as putting together a very detailed mosaic. the first three things there's the flu virus related to the pig viruses t

is opening its laboratories for maryland to do testing, and we were able to confirm to him that walter reed hospitals capacity is available to maryland. in utah, the governor told us he employees to state do contact tracing in their state. in the last 36 hours, 23,000 residents have also signed up for what they are calling they healthy together app. they have 50 different testing locations across utah and have tested 82,000 people in the state already. other state examples were just as inspiring. governor murphy of new jersey has forged a partnership with records university, working closely with the fda. they have authorized a saliva based test being deployed at that site that is expanding their ability to track what continues to be a very challenging environment in new jersey. governor parsons of missouri also told us how they worked with google marketplace to create an online portal for more than 200 companies in missouri who have repurposed their manufacturing lines to create medical supplies to meet the need within the state. and in connecticut, the governor spoke about the positive tre

we were able to confirm with him that walter reed's capacity is available. in utah, the governor told us he devoted 12 hundred state employees to do contact tracing. last 36 hours, 23,000 residents have signed up for what they are calling their healthy together app. they have 50 different testing locations across utah and have tested 82,000 people already. were juste examples as inspiring. governor phil murphy of new partnershiporged a with rutgers university working closely with the fda. salivave authorized a based test that is being deployed at the site. that is expanding their ability to track what continues to be a challenging environment in new jersey. governor mike parson of missouri told us how they have worked with google marketplace to create an online portal for more than 200 companies in missouri who have repurposed their manufacturing lines to create medical supplies to meet andr need within the state -- with the state. in connecticut, governor ned lamont spoke about positive trendlines, which has been at the center of the outbreak in the greater

and we're working with the walter reed group and the american society of microbiologists and all the lab directors to create a member of understanding of what the capacity is currently, what the capacity can be, and how the federal government can support them in developing their strategies, linked to the overarching federal strategy of testing outlined in our guide loin guidelines, thank you, mr. president. >> dr. birx, the university of southern california in the la county public health put out a report that suggests the virus is almost 40 times what it was believed to be, that as many as 442,000 people in l.a. county may have beenveinfected, which conducts you have -- which suggests the case fatality line is more in line with the 2017-2018 flu than other areas of the world. wondering if you have seen that. >> we're looking at those studies very carefully. you will remember over the last three weeks i've been talking about the level of asymptomatic spread. and my concern about that, because with flu and other diseases, when people are sick, it's easy to contact trace. when people ar

and we are working with the walter reed group and the american society of microbiologists and all the lab directors to really create a web of understanding of what that capacity is currently, what the capacity can be, and how the federal government can support them in developing their strategies linked to the overarching federal strategy of testing as outlined in our guidelines. thank you, mr. president. >> reporter: dr. birx, university of southern california, the l.a. county public health, put out a report today that suggested that the penetrance of the virus is as much is almost 40 times what it was believed to be, that is many as 442,000 people in l.a. county may have been infected. which suggests two things. it suggests you have a lot more people out there who could be spreading the virus. it also suggests that the case fatality rate is more in line with the 2017-2018 flu than what we've seen in some other areas of the world. wondering if you've seen that what your thoughts are. >> we are looking at those studies very carefully and i think you will remember over the last three we

our hope is that by providing this information and by our team that we've enlisted out of walter reed that is contacting everyone of the laboratories in the country to find out what their needs are and to encourage them to activate those testing machines to do coronavirus testing that we'll continue to be able to support a state-managed effort to increase testing even more. couple highlights. governor doug ducey highlighted antibody testing for 250,000. a partnership between the state and university of arizona. we spoke today about governor gavin newsom's announcement he set up a task force for testing and five to seven high capacity testing hubs in partnership with uc san diego and uc-davis to increase testing in high capacity labs around the state of california. we heard from governor ron desantis, mr. president, about the efforts of the state of florida. i believe he said at this time florida had conducted 275,000 coronavirus tests and they're in the process of a major expansion of statewide testing with the goal of opening up additional sites and using the florida national guard t

more than $120000.00 tests a day and we've actually stood up a team from walter reed under the direction of dr deborah burke's that is working around the clock to identify additional testing capacity across the country we believe that states could actually more than double the amount of daily testing that is happening today by simply activating all of the labs and dr burke's will detail some of those resources today and we'll be going over those very specifically with governors on monday we've also been promoting the development of new and innovative tests we all know about the 15 minute abbott test but the f.d.a. is currently working on an antibody test that literally could add 20000000 new tests to our supply even before the end of april i want to assure the american people that we're going to continue to work with your governors and with your state health officials to scale testing in the days ahead but as you'll hear from all of our experts tonight our best scientists and health experts assess that states today have enough tests to implement the criteria of phase one if they choose t

that dog is now at walter reed.he real iconic photo which is of him inibit is front of president bush's casket. he got him in june of 2018 and he served president bush for about six months until the president's death in november. we have a picture of him as a puppy and then with president bush. withd help president bush everyday tasks. it added quality to the last months of his life. itself, wel exhibit have the flag that flew at half-staff over the white house and then we also have the flag that flew over the capital. one of my favorite items in this exhibit is the ships wheel. the crew of the uss george h up you bush -- h w bush. presented here in june in 2019. they created themselves. we had all the sailors of the year from the ship. we bring the men once a year. the cases have shells that are used for the 21 gun salute at ellington air force base in houston which is where the body arrived. here in texas from the funeral in washington, we have the we have the condolence turned to barack and michelle obama and the

. >>> turning now to the race to develop a vaccine for coronavirus, doctors at the walter reed army institutere's already one promising option in the works. human testing could begin by the end of summer, but doctors warn the final vaccine may not be one size fits all. >> there are probably going to be several different vaccines that are needed for different populations. some vaccines may be more appropriate for health care professionals and firstline responders. some may be more appropriate for elderly populations.me mht be b term, some for long term. >> and while there is a race to develop a vaccine, labs are still working together. >>> overseas researchers at oxford university say a vaccine could be ready by september. earlier i spoke with dr. alok patel about a number of issues including the pet dog that tested positive and vice president mike pence not wearing a mask during a hospital visit, but we begin with those hopeful signs about a vaccine. dr. patel, researchers are expressing new hope about a vaccine possibly by september. those university of oxford scientists say they've tested r

in the doctor, at walter reed, finally at the end of the senses, put in requisition for people died about flu that had some viral things in it. and you just saw this pictures, the little pieces of paraffin wax with the lung tissue in an inside lung tissue after all these years, there is still that flu virus from 1918. >> collected his pathology out here at walter reed, have you been there pretty. >> yes, i have pretty. >> the $3m samples. >> yes they are in boxes and margin things. it's his corrugated metal warehouse. it's protected from burning down. and they had these big rocks of boxes after boxes. and his job, is to overthink i would like to get some low samples, the people who had died of influenza in 1918 and he died very quickly. he wants to know who took gotten the flu virus and lingered. so actually since 1917, they had been computerized so you can get a computerized paper and takes at least boxes and there are symbols. their brain tissue, all sorts of stuff in that warehouse. this was lung tissue. >> is in the abraham lincoln started it. so there samples from back then in the ci

still working at walter reed on a trial for a vaccine.hey have worked over the years for many years together on hiv-aids and while that is a very different kind of disease than the coronavirus we are dealing with, there are similarities in the way they initially faced this crisis. this provides lessons for them today. host: investigative reporter with the washington post, this is the story that he was just referring to, fauci and birx worked together at the dawn of the aids crisis, 37 years later they are partners in fighting the coronavirus. i want to show from last month, talked a little bit about what you were discussing, the background in fighting the aids epidemic and some of the lessons from the rose garden last month. >> i understand had difficult this is been. i was part of the hiv-aids response in the 80's. we knew from the first finding cases in 1981, it took us to almost 1985 to have a test. totook us another 11 years have effective therapy. it is because of a lessons learned from that that we were able to mobilize and bring th

and we have actually stood up a team from walter reed of the direction of doctor deborah birx thatisirx that is working around the clock to identify additional testing capacity across the country. we believe that states could actually more than double the amount of daily testing thatis double the amount of daily testing that is happening today by simply activating all of the labs. and doctor birx will detail some of those resources today and we will be going over those very specifically with governors on monday. we have also been promoting the development of new and innovative tests and we all know about the 15 minute abbot test. but the fda is currently working on an antibiotic test that literally could add 20 million new tests into our supply even before the end of april. i want to assure the end of april. i want to assure the american people that we are going to continue to work with your governors and with your state health officials to scale testing in the days ahead. but as you will hear from all of our experts tonight, our best scientists and health experts assess that states

there's a guy at walter reed medical center and he does science magazine and somehow managed to get some lung tissues from a soldier that died in 1918 and the next issue there were still fragments and when i interviewed him about his work, he told me about the pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. i'd nevei had never heard of ang like this. it was the worst thing in history. if told so many people that if something like that came today if that killed more people than the top ten killers wrapped together, 1.5 million mortality rate. and i found out by looking at papers by the centers for disease control 99% of the people that i and the epidemic were under 65 so it was a devastating epidemic and there was this idea there was such an incredible serendipity involved somebody had some lon lung tisse but still had asked the question how good and influenza virus become such a killer and could it happen again and if so would you recognize it in time. c-span: ten to 20 million people died. >> guest: they keep raising the number upward. people now think 40 million is an underestimate and i heard the

we have a team from walter reed under dr. deborah birx working around the clock to identify additional testing capacity across the country. we believe states could more than double the amount of daily testing happening today by activating all the labs. dr. birx will outline some of those resources today and we will go over those specifically with governors on monday. we have been promoting the development of new and innovative tests. we know about the 15 minute abbott test, but the fda is working on an antibody test that could add 20 million new tests to our supply before the end of april. i want to assure the american people we will continue to work with your governors and state health officials to scale testing. as you will hear from all our experts tonight, our best scientists and health experts assess that states today have enough tests to implement the criteria of phase one, if they choose to do so. let me say that again. given the guidance in the president's new guidelines for opening up america again, states that meet

the second half of the physical will probably be done at walter reed. i feel good and according to the doctor in very good shape. >> on a national stay at home recommendation, what is giving you so much pause -- >> i told you. he appreciate his understanding. i prefer for the governors to make the decision. tony said it better than anybody. they are doing what we asked them to do without having to put the seal on it. if i thought it was necessary, i would do it in a heartbeat. >> do you agree with the georgia governor opening the beaches? >> i am going to have to see to what extent, are they crowded, packed, not packed? right now it's very early for beaches in georgia. i will take a look at it. he has done a good job as a governor, but we will have to take a look. it depends how crowded it may be. that question i would ask him. >> mr. president, you said last week you were considering travel restrictions around hot spots. is that still on the table? >> we are looking at it and the airlines have been cutting their routes. you saw that yesterday. they ann

our hope is that by providing this information and by our team that we've enlisted out of walter reedt's contacting every one of the laboratories in the country to find out what their needs are and to encourage them to activate those testing machines to do coronavirus testing that will continue to be able to support a state-managed effort to increase testing even more. but a few highlights. a governor introduced antibody testing for 250,000 health professionals this week and first responders, a partnership between the state and the university of arizona. we spoke today about governor gavin newsom's announcement that he set up a task force for testing at five to seven high-capacity testing hubs in partnership with u.c.-san diego and u.c.-davis to increase testing in high capacity labs around the state of california. we heard from governor ron desantis, mr. president, about the efforts of the state of florida. i believe he said that at this time florida had conducted 275,000 coronavirus tests. and they're in the process of a major expansion of statewide testing with the goal of opening

but as soon as they took her off of the system at walter reed -- >> trying to transfer her. >> it flat lined. >> it was over. it was over. >> yeah. but the good thing that leilani did is she actually, they have passwords on their phones, she took her password off of her phone, she made a video saying good-bye to us and wished everybody the best. and after that they put the tube down her and she had passed away. so when i was going through her stuff, when i got home, just opened her phone up, it wasn't locked and played with her phone and got to the video. and she was -- she told us bye, her sisters, angel, bye and all her friends. she told them, you know, see her on the other side. >> she said -- she said, i never worked at -- again. 27 years old, vulnerable, just wanting to get back to society. just wanting to give back to society. now her little sisters are going to miss her so much. >> of course they are. i mean, and how -- how incredible that she had the presence of mind, though she was sick, to be able to say good-bye to you on that video. that is incredible. incredibly powerful a

hospitals are now performing more than 120,000 tests per day, and we have actually stood up a team from walter reede direction of dr. deborah birx that is working around the clock to identify additional we believe that states can more than double the amount of testing happening today by simply activating all of the labs and dr. birx will detail some of the resources today and we'll be going over those very specifically with governors on monday. we have also been promoting the development of the new and innovative tests and the fda is working on an antibody test that can add 20 million to our supply even before the end of april. i want to ensure the american people we'll continue to work with your governors and with your state health officials to scale testing in the days ahead. but as you'll hear from all of our experts tonight, our best scientists and health experts assess that states today have enough tests to implement the criteria of phase one if they choose to do so. let me say that again. the -- given the guidance in the president's new guidelines for opening up america again, preparing the t

he came out of walter reed and out of the army, i came out of nih, cancer institute.e the blood test for hiv. i know what it takes to make a blood test. i think there are -- i don't want to be critical of anyone. i wasn't in their shoes. but it was evident from china before 2020, and by the way, it's important to follow in a pandemic to be connected and linked to other nations. a pandemic means all. and there was a chinese scientist who predicted the coronavirus respiratory epidemic coming from bats over a year ago that would come in the following year. he actually predicted it in a scientific publication. if we knew the seriousness of the disease in china, if we had close connections to china, you could count on their science getting better and better. it is extremely good right now. then you know the thing is really spreading. and that it was coming. so diagnostics are key. and an antibody test is important. yes, the test for the virus itself, the rna test that we are doing now is, of course, important, but this is not like hiv. it doesn't stay around in your blood.

opening up their laboratories for maryland to do testing and we were able to confirm to him that walter reedilable to maryland. in utah, gary herbert told us he told employees to do tracing in their state. in the last 26 hours, 33 residents have also signed up for what they are calling their healthy together out, and they have 50 different testing locations across utah with 82,000 people in the state already. others were just as inspiring. governor phil murphy of new jersey, the partnership with wreckers, working closely with the fda. they have authorized a saliva based tested that is being deployed at that site that is expanding their availability to contract what continues to be a very challenging environment in new jersey. and governor mike parsons of missouri, mr. president, also telling us how they have worked with google marketplace to create an online portal for more than 200 companies in missouri who have repurposed their manufacturing lines to create medical supplies to meet their needs within the state, and connecticut governor spoke about positive trend lines in connecticut. which

she went to walter reed. she collapsed in the parking lot.hey picked her up and put her in isolation. within less than 24 hours, she was immediately diagnosed as one of the worst case of corona 19 virus. who is protecting the workers? why can't the companies and corporations provide the basic ppe, close the bathrooms down. you can't even go to the pharmacies. i don't care if she worked at the dollar store. i don't care if she worked taking the trash out. even the sanitation, the mail people, who is protecting them? that's my baby. and i can't get her back. if people paying $20 to lose a life, to lose a life, $20 so you tell me what a great job she did. you tell me what a great job she did, giant. and then you give me a pin. they gave me a pin. her five-year pin that they should have given to her last year. who is protecting them? who is protecting the senior citizens that go in there every morning. who is giving the workers the gloves they need to put the food on the counter? who is protecting them? who is protecting their families? who is pr

that dog is now at walter reed.hich isiconic photo in the exhibit is of sully in front of president bush's casket. president bush got sully in june of 2018. forerved president bush about six months until the president's death in november of 18. we have a picture of him as upon it -- we have a picture of him as a puppy. he helped president bush with everyday tasks. quality to the last month of his life. the memorial itself, we have the flag that flew at half-staff over the white house. we also have the flag that flew over the capital. of my favorite items in this wheel thatthe ship's was built by the crew of the uss george h w bush. last of the -- class aircraft carriers. the crew built it. they presented it here in june. 2019, i believe. they created it themselves. we had all of the sailors of the year from the ship here. we bring them in once a year and they come to the library and do a service project. the cases have the shells that were used for the 21 gun salute where the body arrived. here in texas. we have the

hospitals are now performing more than 120,000 tests a day, and we've actually stood up a team from walter reed under the direction of dr. deborah birx that is working around the clock to identify additional testing capacity across the country. we believe that states could actually more than double the amount of the amount of daily testing that is happening today by simply activating all of the labs and dr. birx will detail some of those resources today and we'll be going over those very specifically with governors on monday. we've also been promoting the development of new and innovative tests. we all know about the 15-minute abbott test. but the fda is currently working on an antibody test that could add 20 million to our supply before the end of april. i want to assure the american people, we'll continue to work with your governors and your state health officials to scale testing in the days ahead. as you'll hear from all of our experts tonight, our best scientists and health experts assess that states today have enough tests to implement the criteria of phase one if they choose to do so. le

and we also have deployed a team from walter reed that over the last two weeks has been calling every single laboratory in the country that can do coronavirus testing, and tomorrow we'll be presenting all of those details to governors so that they can activate those tests in their states. >> mr. vice president, aren't you making the case of why this needs to b coordinated? you just said you have identified this capacity, you have identified this. this is why i think a lot of governors have said the federal government has to play point on testing. is there even a single person who is so focused, is on what is happening with our testing strategy in this country and how are we going to expand it? >> chuck, we actually have coordinated it at the federal level. admiral brett girar of the u.s. public health service spends all of his time coordinating testing, deployment, and resources deployment from fema. what we're making clear to governors and i want the american people to know is that we will continue to do that. while the president has made it clear that we want the governors to implem

hospitals are now performing more than 120,000 tests a day and we have actually stood up 18 from walter reeder the direction of dr. deborah birx that's working around the clock to identify additional testing capacity across the country. we believe that states could actually more than double the amount of daily testing that's happening today by simply activating all of the labs. dr. birx will detail some of those resources today. we will be going over there was very specifically with governors on monday. we've also been promoting the development of new and innovative tests. we all know about the 15 minute abbott test but the fda is currently working on an antibody test that literally could add 20 million new tests to our supply even before the end of april. i want to assure the american people that we are going to continue to work with your governors and with your state health officials to scale testing in the days. but as you'll hear from all of our experts tonight, our best scientists and health experts assess that states today have enough tests to implement the criteria of phase one if the

the walter reed team who developed the entire hiv testing program for the military 35 years ago, called them back into service and they're calling lab by lab to find out what are the technical difficulties to bring up all the platforms that exist in your lab. is it swabs, is it transport media, is it extraction? i really want to thank them. they've already worked through over 70-plus of those laboratories to really understand and the american society of micro buy olss and the academic societies are working together to ensure that all of this potential can be unlocked. next slide, please. we talked a little bit yesterday about new orleans. and the president talked about how many tests new orleans has done. during its outbreak, which you can see now is waning. they've done throughout the last month, 27 tests per 1,000 new orleans and louisianaians. so 27 in per thousand. that's a good mark. that's what italy has done about 20 per thousand. in evaluating an outbreak and really to get control of this outbreak, they did about 27 tests per thousand. using that as a measure, next slide, we the

opening up its laboratories for maryland to do testing, and we were also able to confirm to him that walter reedratory capacity is available to maryland. and in utah, mr. president, governor gary herbert told us that he actually diverted 1200 state employees to do contact tracing in their state. in the last 36 hours, 23,000 residents have also signed up the for what their calling their healthy together app, and they have 50 different testing locations across utah and have tested 82,000 people in the state already. other state example, mr. president, were just as inspiring. governor phil murphy of new jersey has forged a partnership with rutgers university working closely with the fda. they've authorized a saliva-based test that is being deployed just at that site that's expanding their ability to track what continues to be a very challenging environment in new jersey. and governor mike parsons of missouri, mr. president, also told us how they've worked with google marketplace to create an online portal for more than 200 companies in missouri who have repurposed their manufacturing lines to creat

when i heard about what went on in walter reed hospital and the treatments that the patients were not getting, this boggled my mind. it is inexcusable, because the politicians get all kind of treatment and benefits and they cannot take care of the veterans the way that they should. from what i gather, they don't. i don't know what the words are, it just irks me. and i will tell you something else, i was going to ask you this question when this was over. i will ask you now. down in the museum in new orleans. i know there is one in washington and i have donated to both of them and i wish i had more to donate. i think i have it with me. one of the guys where i hang out in the morning got this off of the internet. when roosevelt made his speech the day after the japanese attacked us to congress, asking them to declare war, his last couple of statements, we will win this inevitable victory, so help us god. they have that speech in washington, but they left off, so help us god. this bothers me to no end. i'm sorry. there's people -- people died for the freedom of this country. i don't know

they are performing 120,000 test today and we stood up a team from walter reed under dr.birx to identify additional testing across the country. we believe states could double the amount of daily testing that is happening today by activating all the labs, dr. birx will detail those today and we will go over those specifically with governors on monday. we've also been promoting the development of new and innovative test, we know about the 15 minute avid test but the fda's currently working on antibody test that could add 20 million new test to our supply even before the end of april. i want to assure the american people we will work with your governors and state health officials to scale testing in the days ahead. as you will hear from oliver experts tonight, our best scientists and health expert that states today have enough test to implement the criteria of phase one if they choose to do so. let me say that again, given the guidance and the presidency guidelines for opening up america again, states that meet the criteria for going into phase one and preparing the testing

and we were also able to confirm to him that walter reed hospital's laboratory capacity is availableland. and in utah, mr. president, governor gary herbert told us he diverted 1200 employees to do contact tracing. in the last 24 hours 23,000 residents have sign upped for what they're calling their healthy together app. and they have different 50 testing locations across utah and have tested 82,000 people in the state already. other state examines, mr. president, were just as inspiring. governor phil murphy of new jersey has forged a partnership with rutgers university, working closely with the fda. they've authorized a saliva-based test that is being deployed just at that site that's expanding their ability to track what continues to be a very challenge iing environment new jersey. and governor mike parsons of missouri, mr. president, also told us how they worked with google marketplace to create an online portal for more than 200 companies in missouri who have repurposed their manufacturing lines to create medical supplies to meet their need within the state and in connecticut gover

and i have some, the second half of physical is different, probably done at walter reed. will do that at the appropriate time. i feel good. according to the doctor very good shape. reporter: can i ask you again on the idea of a national stay at home recommendation what is giving you so much pause about -- >> i told you. i told you. he understood very well. i appreciate your understanding. reporter: it is not order -- >> constitution of the united states. i would rather have, if possible for the governors to make the decision. if a decision was very necessary and they have done a good job, tony said it better than anybody, they are, they are doing, they are doing what we're asking them to do without having to put the seal on it. but i will say if i thought it was necessary i will do it in a heartbeat. reporter: do you agree with the georgia governor opening beaches. >> eaching what? reporter: the beaches? >> i will have to see to what extent. i will have to see how many people you're talking about. are they crowded, are they packed, not packed? we'll have to take a look at

will probably be done at walter reed. according to the doctor, i'm in very good shape. >> on the idea of a national stay at home recommendation, what is giving you so much pause -- >> i told you. he understood very well. i appreciate your understanding. it's called the constitution of the united states, and i would rather have, if possible, for the governors to make the decision. if a decision was very necessary, and they have done a good job, and tony said it better than anybody, they are doing -- they are doing what we're asking them to do without having to put the seal on it. if i thought it was necessary, i would do it in a heart beat. >> do you agree with the georgia governor opening the beaches? >> i would have to see to what extent. i'm going to have to see how many people they're talking about. are they crowded, packed, not packed? right now it's very early for beaches in georgia. so right now, i'll take a look at it. he's done a very good job as the governor. we'll have to take a look. it depends on, you know, ho

scientists inside the walter reed army institute of research are working 24 hours a day in three shiftsegin testing in humans in late summer, and if that works, to begin vaccinating people in september. they say they've condensed two years of works into two months. scientists at oxford also say they hope to have a vaccine available by september. >> but is september a realistic goal for a vaccine or is it overly optimistic? i spoke earlier with dr. alok patel. dr. patel, researchers are expressing new hope about a vaccine possibly by september. those university of oxford scientists say they've tested their vaccine on some monkeys as you know and gotten good results. your thoughts? >> i think we can all be optimistic and the results with the monkeys are positive. the researchers announced they're going to start human testing on a grander scale about 6,000 people by the end of the month. here's the thing. september does seem optimistic. vaccines have to go through three phases of trial. you've got to make sure there's a good immune response, they're safe, they're stable, and you can manufa