Trump "We have over 100,000 ventilators being built": White House update April 2

Trump "We have over 100,000 ventilators being built": White House update April 2

good to be with you all we're in a very critical phase of our war against the coronavirus it's vital that every American follows our guidelines on the 30 days to slow the spread the sacrifices we make over the next four weeks will have countless American lives saved we're going to save a lot of American lives and we're in control of our own fate very much so maintaining social distance practicing vigorous hygiene and staying at home are your most effective ways to win the war and to escape danger while you're fighting this battle from home we're working with the best scientists doctors and researchers anywhere in the world we're racing to develop new ways to protect against the virus as well as therapies treatments and ultimately a vaccine and we're making a lot of progress I think medically a lot of progress at the same time we're also racing to get relief to American workers and small businesses as you know I want to remind small-business owners across America that the Paycheck protection program is launching tomorrow nearly three hundred and fifty billion dollars in loans will be available to small businesses including sole proprietors these loans are up to 100 percent forgivable as long as employers keep paying their workers gotta take care of your workers furthermore we want Social Security beneficiaries to know that if they are typically not required to file a tax return they don't have to file one in order to receive the direct cash payments that will soon be distributed to American citizens the Treasury will deposit the money directly into the bank accounts and don't forget I will always protect your Social Security your Medicare and your Medicaid today my administration is also issuing new guidelines to protect elderly Americans who remain the most vulnerable by now nursing homes should have suspended the entry of all medically unnecessary person today we're further recommending that all nursing home facilities aside the same staff to care for the same group of residents consistently to minimize any potential spread and we're also urging facilities to designate separate areas for healthy and sick residents and this is a practice that we probably will be recommending into the future long after the enemy is gone we're now conducting well over 100,000 corona virus tests per day it's over at that hundred thousand tests a day and these are accurate tests and they're moving rapidly which is more than any other country in the world both in terms of the raw number and also on a per capita basis the most the FDA has also authorized the first coronavirus antibody test developed about selects a key step that will help identify people who have recovered and to understand their immune response and their immune system moments ago I directed secretary a czar an Acting Secretary wolf to use any and all available authority under the defense production act to ensure that domestic manufacturers have the supplies they need to produce ventilators for patients with severe cases as we have over a hundred thousand being built right now or soon to be started we anticipate issuing more orders under the defense production Act in the very near future in addition to the one that I've just signed against 3m for face masks we assigned a element of the act against 3m and hopefully they'll be able to do what they are supposed to do FEMA continues to deliver resources to areas most affected by the virus including New York on top of the 3,000 beds were already providing to the Javits Center the Department of Defense is adding another 48 ICU beds Governor Cuomo has asked that this facility go and it's a big beautiful facility it'd be converted to a kovat hospital and we hadn't done that yet we hadn't thought in terms of doing that but there uses their real demand is for that and we had meetings on it with the task force we had meetings with the military and I've decided to say yes I'm going to do that and it's going to be staffed by the military and by the federal government and based on the fact that I agreed to that we had two other facilities that were likewise asking for it and that would be in Louisiana and also in Dallas and we'll be doing those we spoke to the governor of Louisiana spoke to the governor of Texas and we've told them that we will be staffing those hospitals again above and beyond but that's okay we have to do that in addition the u.s. NS Comfort is docked in New York to accept patients that is a non Kovac to date FEMA has delivered more than 4 million n95 mask respirators and it's think of that 4 million 4 million don't forget we're a secondary source the states are doing it and we're backing them up but we've gotten four million n95 respirators 1.8 million surgical masks 460 thousand face shields 1.4 million gloves and 4400 ventilators just to the city and to the state of New York and some of them now are being sent I spoke with both Governor Cuomo and mayor de Blasio a little while ago and some of them are being sent to the city all of America stands with the people of New York in this time of need it's definitely a hot spot but we have other hot spots also and we're taking them taking care of them very very strongly very powerfully we have the finest people in the world in those locations and I think the federal government has not only acted early but acted quickly professionally there's no people like this doctors nurses first responders and other health care providers who want to help New York at this critical time should visit website nyc.gov slash help now nyc.gov slash help now New York City needs it Louisiana by the way needs it Michigan needs it whatever you can do those are very strong hotspots they need help in recent weeks as the virus has spread and economic hardship has followed we have seen Americans unite with incredible selflessness and compassion as citizens were linked together by the shared bonds of national love loyalty and affection there's no earthly force more powerful than the patriotic pride that stirs in our hearts and that is so true it's incredible the job that everybody's been doing everybody you