Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing via @YouTube
VP Pence and Pres Trump
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spoke to G20 leaders. working together.
151 nations
He names all leaders of G20 nations.
(anyone want to bet the media doesn't know half of them?)
Thanks President of Mexico for helping
call also included EU, UN WHO, World Bank and IMF
Says he hopes virus won't be a problem for too much longer
agreed to Share information and data among nations. Good meeting
Also spoke to governors of 50 states and territories.
Says one gov probably raised his voice but other than that it was a good meeting. Called the gov a little wise guy: lol
$2.2 trillion package....loan forgiveness if they keep workers on payroll. $3400 for family of 4. 100% of salary for unemployed for up to four months
$3.5 billion for child care for first responders.
$1 billion for defense porcument production
FEMA 9 million n95 mask, 2.2 m gowns 14.6 million gloves 6,000 ventilators.
stockpile is being restocked and it's being used to get supplies to states.
Hospital Ship comfort will be underway to NYC on Sat. Record maintenance time reduced by 3 weeks. Should be in NY on Monday. Trump going to see it off.
Everyone should be proud of their efforts and bringing the country together. Spirit is great. waging war on virus.
Thanks the American people for their efforts.
Record number of tests now. Far more than any other country. in 8 days we did more testing than SK did 8 weeks.
Will be able to deliver more data delivered results.
???time??
Unemployment numbers...not a surprise....??
Trump: nobody's fault. Out of our control. 3.2 million lots of jobs but it could have been worse. Should be a fast turn around once we win the war.
He will find out about it but we have some illegal trade and other things. We have them on our southern border so it's equal justice in a way.
???Surpass China in numbers??
It's because we are testing more plus you can't
???3.2 million you said it could be 6 or 7 million what about their health insurance???
No I didn't say that...I said some people were saying it could be that high. It wasn't. We are taking care of our people.
It's a very tough business. I've heard those numbers but most will come back in one form or another. Might not be the same restaurants or owners but they w
???Defense production act (again)??? (why the heel does the press keep pushing this talking point)
Trump repeats the same answer he has said for last 10 times.
I like that concept but they have thousands of people that work in USA and industry is important to American citizens. But we will try to work something out.
Trump: airline business is a tough business and we have to keep it going. If we didn't help them we would lose our airlines and we need them...
No, I didn't like mid-level guy from China saying the virus was made by US soldiers. talks about the victories on trade over china. Relationship with China is good.
???Did Xi ask you to calm the language done??
???New guidelines...any specific data yet???
Dr. Brix and Dr. Fauci might have something on that
It's his call. I will talk about anything he wants too.
???Market rally has uncertainty passed.??
No but it's come a long way. A lot of great things are happening. mortality rate is down. That take a lot of fear out.
???DOJ on Venezuela today??
We won't hold it against them for virus help but it's a good thing.
?? guidelines change to wait to allow testing???
???Tweeted its important to protect Asian Americans???
Yes it is important...
???What's measures are you taking???
No measures...He wanted to put the message out.
Trump leaves....
VP Pence now up.
President call with governors
10 major disaster declarations have been issues. including NJ, NC, TX IW and IL.
Stimulus should pass tomorrow
family of four $3400
payroll support.
Many small business can now keep people on payroll even if
Testing in all 50 states.
552k tests completed as of today.
increased reporting by hospitals and lab to CDC for full visibility.
Abbott labs submitted a point of care test to FDA
Supplies shipped
9m n95 mask
20 m surgical masks.
6000 ventilators
millions of gowns, faceplates etc.
video produced how to switch devices used in elective surgery to convert into ventilators
Record unemployment numbers but walmart announce hiring 150,000, Amazon hiring 100,000 CVS hiring 50,000
Pizza hut hiring 30,000 almost 1/2million jobs
Businesses are donating and helping all across the nation.
We can do this America but it will take all of us.
15 days to slow the spread.
This too shall pass.
We will slow the spread, heal our land
19 states/40% of the country has very low numbers.
55% of all cases and 55% of all new cases is from NYC metro.
Cook county IL and Wayne county in MI are maybe the next hotspots.
All outspots are in urban areas.
UK report adjustment. 500,000 to 20,000 deaths. we are looking into that adjustment to understand it.
In the model you either have
WOW.
We have more information to make better predictions.
Ventilators. ICU beds still open in NYC. We are good.
Says we have no evidence that there aren't going to be beds for people. (stop the fear-mongering) 60-70% are NOT going to be infected in next 6-8 weeks.
Dr fauci:
When you shut things down. You do it for two reasons. Give us time to prepare and to stop the spread.
vaccine will help for the next cycle not this one. phase 1 trial going on now.(3 months) phase 2 trial ( lots of people)
Safety: does the vaccine make you worse? You can get a feel for that with animal models.
Therapies: the best way to get the best drug is randomize trial
????drug manufactuers in phase 2???
Dr. Fauci...even before. I want that production there when we go into phase 2
???low, mid, high risk but no travel restrictions???
Part of this will be need to
???modeling changes???
CDC contact tracing....CDC will be the workhorse once we switch for contract tracing and mitigation. antibody test will help with asymptomatic numbers.
Dr. Brix we have a lot of states that have been doing testing all a long but media doesn't report it. We have to expand testing for surveillance but we will use the Flu surveillance system too. to find cases and contact tracing.
We have done this with HIV in Africa. We can do it here. GPS coordinates.
???restrictions /warnings to people to avoid infected areas??
We are in the middle of fleshing out the procedure.
We have been able to tag
???What's the timeline??
We are working on it.
Pence we are approaching day 15. We will be presenting to President this weekend with data and advice.
??? on stimulus...do we need a phase 4???
Pence thanks Congress for first three bills.
That's it folks...As always thanks for following along. Hope this helps get information out there to people.
Stay frosty out there.