Name: President Trump leads coronavirus task force briefing
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T09:40:39.000Z
Duration: 21 min 55 s
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before we begin, I wantto mention we're working very hard long on getting a young group of people out of Peru.

We've removed some and the rest are being removed with the cooperation of the Peruvian government.

And we're also dealing with Honduras on getting some people out.

The gut caught up, and we are working on that very well again with the Honduran governments work there working with us.

So I appreciate that we have a couple of other locations that will report to you.

We were able to get a young woman released from a certain area who was being horribly accosted, horribly treated on.

We went in, we got her out and will we'll report further on that one.

But it's, uh that was rough stuff I want.

I want to thank all of the people that were were involved in the people that went in together.

I want to thank you very much as we continue to marshal every resource at America's disposal in the fight against the Chinese virus.

We're profoundly grateful to our nation, state and local leaders, doctors nurses, law enforcement and first responders who are waging this battle on the ground.

It is absolutely critical that Americans continue to follow the federal government's guidelines so important about social distancing, non essential travel and hand washing.

Defeating this unseen enemy requires the help in commitment of every single American.

I wantto I just say that, uh, Senator Rand Paul, a friend of mine, has been a great friend of mine.

He's been always there when we needed him when the country needed him.

And, as you know, he just tested positive.

Jose Diaz Balart spoke to him yesterday, tested positive, and, uh, some people are.

They're getting quite close to home, and it's a terrible thing that's going on the hidden Enemy.

I call it the Hidden Enemy, and I think they'll all be fine.

I hope they're gonna be fine, but I just want to send our regards, and I think I can speak on behalf of our country.

To those two great friends of mine who were working urgently with Congress on legislation to support the millions of workers, small businesses and industries have been hit hard by the virus through no fault of their own Our goal is to get relief two Americans as quickly as possible so that families can get by and small businesses can keep workers on the payroll.

This will help our economy, and you will see our economy skyrocket.

Once this is over, I think it's going to skyrocket.

And I guess you really have to say who knows?

But I think it's gonna be a tremendous day.

When we win this war, we will win the war we want to win.

The war was with his few F If you look at it, just deaths as possible, We wanna have this view, the number of deaths as possible.

Today I'm announcing action to help New York, California and Washington ensure that the National Guard guard can effectively respond to this crisis.

The National Guard, these air, tremendous people.

We've signed what we had to sign and it's been activated.

The states have been hit the hardest, actually, pretty much by far.

Just look at the numbers and through FEMA, the federal government will be funding 100% of the cost of deploying National Guard units to carry out approved missions to stop the virus.

You're going to be in command and will be following them, and we hope they could do the job.

I spoke with all three of the governor's today and just a little while ago.

They're very happy with what we're going to be doing, because we will be announcing some other things for those three states and Cem other states where it's, uh, hit the hardest.

This action will give them maximum flexibility to use the guard against the virus without having to worry about cost.

Your liability and freeing up state resource is to protect the health and safety of the people in their state.

The federal government has deployed hundreds of tons of supplies from our national stockpile toe locations with the greatest need.

I approved the state of New York's request for a major disaster declaration, something which Governor Cuomo has been asking for, in which I agree and we had it done in very rapid fashion.

The We approved this on Friday evening and we're working very, very hard to get all of these things not only signed up but completed and finished in win.

The request from the state of Washington for a major disaster declaration was approved just a little while ago.

Went through the process and we moved it very quickly.

The request from the state of California was just received, and we will have it approved very quickly.

We're working on getting that done very quickly.

We have large quantities of medical equipment and supplies on the way based on all of this to those states, including respirator, surgical masks and gowns, face shields, cover alls and loves with large quantities already delivered to Washington and to New York.

In addition, a large quantities of supplies.

I've also directed FEMA to supply the following four large federal medical stations with 1000 beds for New York, eight large federal medical stations with 2000 beds for California and three large federal medical stations, and four small federal medical stations with 1000 beds for the state of Washington governors?

The supplies in route to California and New York will be delivered within the next 48 hours.

In addition, the Naval Hospital ship, the U.

And S mercy Incredible Ship sees two ships are incredible.

One of the West Coast one of these coast will be deployed to Los Angeles to add emergencies, surge medical capacity and they have a tremendous capacity.

Uh, I will say that if you look at some of the things we've been doing and now those numbers have gone up and just to be a little bit more exacting, we've done a presidential approval for requests for major disaster declaration for the State of New York approval of Title 32 National Guard activation for the state of New York.

We're providing all of this at no cost to the governor.

He's working hard, were working hard together.

The relationship has really been amazing, but it also enables the governor to provide robust National Guard support to the state and the 25% we're going to be waving that 25% cost we're picking up will be coordinating, and they'll be doing something with very special people.

Army Corps of Engineers to provide support to build out alternate care sites.

They're doing various alternate care sites which have now been designated by New York.

Four large federal medical stations of 1000 beds is a very, um, complex places actually with great equipment and, uh, great people Strategic National Stockpile order.

And this is, as of a number of days ago so far delivered to New York.

And this is the 19th we had the n 95 respirators.

We've delivered 444,000 0 78 surgical masks.

We've delivered 84,560 face shields surgery godowns surgical gowns, 9 68,044 to New York cover alls 352 gloves 4 245,086 Also, uh, to New York.

In terms of what's been delivered just since then, the numbers air quite large and We have tremendous numbers of companies also making equipment.

Uh, for the state of Washington, we've delivered 369,000 and 95 respirators.

This is as off, um, about three days ago.

It's being there, being fabricated, that being made.

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