I'm glad to see that you're practicing social distancing.

That looks very nice.

It's very good.

I want to thank everybody for being here today.

This morning I spoke with the leaders of the G seven G seven nations and they I really had a good meeting.

I think was a very, very productive meeting.

I also spoke with our nation's governors this afternoon.

We're announcing new guidelines for every American to follow over the next 15 days as we come back.

The virus each and every one of us has a critical role to play in stopping the spread and transmission of the virus.

Week We did this today.

This was done by a lot of very talented people, some of whom were standing with me, and that's available.

Dr.

Burkes will be speaking about that in just a few minutes.

It's important for the young and healthy people to understand that while they may experience milder cinders symptoms, they can easily spread this virus and they will spread it, indeed, putting countless others in harm's way.

We especially where about our senior citizens.

The White House task force meets every day and continually updates guidelines based on the fast evolving situation that this has become all over the world.

It's all over the world.

It's incredible what's happened in such a short period of time on the guidelines of the task force, the new modeling conducted by Dr Berks and our consultation with governors.

We've made the decision to further tough in the guidelines and blunt the infection.

Now we'd much rather be ahead of the curve than behind it, and that's what we are.

Therefore, my administration is recommending that all Americans, including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible, avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people, avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating and drinking in bars, restaurants and public food courts.

If everyone makes this, uh, change or these critical changes and sacrifices now we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus, and we're going there, have a big celebration altogether.

With several weeks of focused action, we can turn the corner and turn it quickly.

A lot of progress has been made.

I'm also pleased to report today that a vaccine candidate has begun the Phase one clinical trial this is one of the fastest vaccine development launches in history, not even close.

We're also racing to develop anti viral therapies and other treatments that we've had some promising results early results but promising to reduce the severity and the duration of the center of the symptoms.

And I have to say that our government is prepared to do whatever it takes.

Whatever it takes we're doing, we're doing it in every way.

And with that I'd like to just introduce Dr Burke's.

Who's going to discuss some of the things that we strongly recommend?

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr President.

I think you know, over the last months, we've taken very bold action to stop the virus from coming to our shores.

And because of that, we gain time to really get together and understand the progress across the globe of what has worked in what hasn't worked.

We now need to appeal toe every single American so that they hadn't have their role in stopping the spread of this virus.

We've talked about things before about washing your hands.

But we're really wanna focus on.

If you are sick, no matter who you are, please stay home.

If someone in your household is diagnosed with this virus, the entire household should quarantine in the house to prevent spread of the virus to others.

The reason we're taking these strong and bold steps is because we know there is virus spread before you develop symptoms.

And then we know that there's a large group.

We don't know the purse I percent yet that actually is a symptomatic or has such mild cases that they continue to spread the virus.

If your Children are sick, please keep them home now to our older population or those with preexisting medical conditions, everyone in the household needs to focus on protecting them.

Everyone in the household I want to speak particularly to our largest generation now are millennials.

I have the mom of two wonderful millennial young women who are bright and hardworking, and I will tell you what I told to them.

They are the core group that will stop this virus.

They're the group that communicate successfully independent of picking up a phone.

They intuitively know how to contact each other's without being in large social gatherings.

We're asking all of them toe, hold their gatherings toe under 10 people not just in bars and restaurants, but in homes.

We really want people to be separated at this time.

To be able to address this fire is comprehensively that we cannot see for which we don't have a vaccine or a therapeutic.

The only thing we have right now is the amazing ingenuity and compassion of the American people.

We're appealing to all Americans to take these steps to protect each other and to ensure that the virus doesn't spread.

These guidelines are very specific.

They're very detailed.

They will only work if every American takes this together to heart and responds as one nation and one people to stop the spread of this virus.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Dr Burke's.

So just to connect with what I mentioned to you in previous discussions in this room.

And Dr Burke said it very well that in order to be able to contain and curtail this epidemic to not reach its maximum capability, we have a two pillar approach, one of which, I believe has been very effective in preventing the substantial seating and namely, the travel restrictions that we've discussed many times in this room.

The other, equally if not more important is when you have infection in your own country, which we do.

And, you know, I could be that the numbers But they're really essentially what we've seen yesterday incremental increases both globally as well as in the United States with the curve doing that.

So therefore, the kinds of things that we do our containment and mitigation Uh, this what we're mentioning now, the guidelines.

When you look at them carefully, I believe if the people in the United States take them seriously because they were based on some rather serious consideration back and forth, some may look at them and say they're gonna be really inconvenient for people.

Some will look and say, Well, maybe we've gone a little bit too far.

They were well thought out.

And the thing that I want to reemphasize and I'll say it over and over again.

When you're dealing with an emerging infectious diseases outbreak, you are always behind where you think you are.

If you think that today reflects where you really are, that's not words Speak.

It means if you think you're here, you're really here because you're only getting the results.

Therefore it will always seem that the best way to address it would to be doing something that looks like it might be an overreaction.

It isn't an overreaction.

It's a reaction that we feel is commensurate, which is actually going on in reality.

So take a look at the guidelines, read them carefully.

And we hope that the people of the United States will take them very seriously because they will fail if people don't adhere to them.

We have tohave as a whole country cooperate and collaborate to make sure these get done.

Thank you.

Okay, go ahead.

President.

A lot of people are concerned about how long all of this my last.

Do you have any kind of estimate that Americans really were to band together?

Do what?

The White House.

Suggesting how quick you could turn for my favorite question.

I tested all the time.

How many times, Anthony?

I think I asked him that question every day.

And I speak Thio Deborah.

I speak to a lot of get the opinion.

So it seems to me that if we do a really good job will not only hold the death down to a level that is much lower than the other way had we not done a good job.

Uh, but people are talking about July August something like that.

So it could be right in that period of time where I say washing it washes through.

Other people don't like that term, but would washes through.

Is this the new normal?

Until I did something, we'll see what happens.

But they think August could be July.

Could be longer than that.

But I've asked that question many, many times.

Yes, Mr President, Americans today and and looking forward to living with so much anxiety and so much fear facing uncertainty right now I'm curious.

How are you talking your own family about this?

How are you talking to your youngest son?

Do you empathize with this sense of anxiety?

People are really scared.

No, I think they are very scared.

I think they see that we're doing a very professional job.

We've been working with the governors and the frankly, the mayors, local government, at every level we have FEMA totally involved.

Team has been.

You know, usually we see FEMA for the hurricanes and tornadoes.

Now we have FEMA involved in this.

They've been doing a fantastic job locally, working with people that they know because they worked like as an example in California, in the state of Washington.

They worked with him a lot on other things, and they're very familiar.

So they're working on it.

Uh, what?

You can do it.

All you can do is said professional, totally confident.

We have the best people in the world.

We have really the greatest experts in the world.

And, uh, someday soon, hopefully it'll end and will be back to where it was.

But this came up.

It came up so suddenly, he was surprised.

We were all surprised we heard about it.

We heard about reports from China that something was happening and all of a sudden we did make a good decision.

We closed our our borders to China very quickly, very rapidly.

That was otherwise would be in a hurry, as Estonia said numerous times would be in a very bad position, much worse than we would be.

Right now, you look at what's happening in other countries.

Italy is having a very hard time, but I think that I think that what we do and I've spoken actually with my son he says.

How bad is this?

It's bad, it's bad, but we're going thio.

We're going to be hopefully a best case.

Not a worst case, and that's what we're working for.

Clear up some confusion on two key fronts.

One is about your own test.

The other is about containment efforts.

Is the administration considering Maur aggressive containment options like a quarantine, a national curfew?

We have very much We have that very much, and we are.

We been pretty aggressive.

We were early with Europe, but we were very, very early with China and other places.

And fortunately we were.

And as far as containment here we are.

We're coming out with strong suggestions and, you know, it's becoming a little bit automatic.

You look at people, they're not doing certain things.

For instance, it obviously not.

I wouldn't say the restaurant business is booming and bars and grills and all people are self containing for to a large extent.

We look forward to the day when we could get back to normal, which are you?

Are you considering instituting a nationwide lock down a nationwide quarantine?

The NSC not that down.

But there's still some questions about how well, at this point, not a nationwide.

But there are some point, you know, some places in our nation that are not very effective in full.

But we may.

We may look at certain areas certain, certain hot spots, as they call them.

We'll be looking at that.

But at this moment No, we're not questioning you.

Have you had your own virus test Friday night?

The White House doctor's office put out a statement around midnight Friday say that no test was indicated.

So when exactly was your tested minister?

I had my test.

I was late Friday night.