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demise placebo-controlled trial
comparing the Gilead drug REM disappear
with a placebo it was highly powered
with about a thousand ninety plus
individuals so it is the first truly
high-powered randomized
placebo-controlled trial it was an
international trial involving multiple
sites not only in the United States but
in various countries throughout the
world including Germany Denmark Spain
Greece the UK etc the primary end point
was the time to recovery
namely the ability to be discharged when
you have a study like this we have a
data and safety monitoring board which
looks at the data and they are
independent so there's no prejudice on
the part of the investigators because
they're doing the trial or the drug is
from a certain company the data and
safety monitoring born on Monday
afternoon contacted me on April 27th
first on Friday the week before and then
again on April 27th and notified the
study team namely the multiple
investigators who are doing the study
throughout the world
that the data shows that REM de Sevilla
has a clear-cut significant positive
effect in diminishing the time to
recovery this is really quite important
for a number of reasons and I'll give
you the data it's highly significant if
you look at the time to recovery being
shorter in the REM death severe arm it
was 11 days compared to 15 days and
that's a p-value for the scientists to
a-listening of 0.001 so that's something
that although a 31 percent improvement
doesn't seem like a knock out hundred
percent it is a very important proof of
concept because what it is proven is
that a drug can block this virus and
I'll give you an example in a moment of
why we think looking forward this is
very optimistic the mortality rate
trended towards being
better in the sense of less deaths in
the REM decibel group 8% vs. 11% in the
placebo group it has not yet reached
statistical significance but the data
needs to be further analyzed the reason
why we're making the announcement now is
something that I believe people don't
fully appreciate whenever you have
clear-cut evidence that a drug works you
have an ethical obligation to
immediately let the people who are in
the placebo group know so that they
could have access and all of the other
trials that are taking place now have a
new standard of care so we would have
normally waited several days until the
data gets further without the I and
cross the T but the data are not going
to change some of the numbers may change
a little but the but the conclusion will
not change so when I was looking at this
data with our team the other night it
was reminiscent of 34 years ago in 1986
when we was struggling for drugs for HIV
and we had nothing and there was a lot
of anecdotal reports about things that
maybe did work maybe not people were
taking different kinds of drugs and we
did the first randomized
placebo-controlled trial with AZT which
turned out to give an effect that was
modest but that was not the endgame
because building on that every year
after we did better and better
we had better drugs of the same type and
we had drugs against different targets
this drug happens to be blocking a
enzyme that the virus uses and that's an
RNA polymerase but there are a lot of
other enzymes that the virus uses that
are now going to be targets for this
this will be the standard of care and in
fact when we look at the other trials
we're doing we were going to do trial
with another antiviral actually it isn't
an antiviral it's an anti-inflammatory
a monoclonal antibody we're gonna now
compare the combination of REM that's a
bit with this so as drugs come in we're
gonna see if we could add on that so
bottom line you're going to be hearing
more details about this this will be
submitted to a peer review journal and
will be peer reviewed and pro
but we think it's really opening the
door to the fact that we now have the
capability of treating and I can
guarantee you as more people more
companies more investigators getting
involved it's gonna get better and
better so I'll stop there but I'd be
happy to answer any questions
no this has nothing to do with vaccines
this is treatment for people who are
already infected vaccines is to prevent
infection in those who are at risk
no nothing more than that would I
continue at the press conferences that
we have regularly keep you up to date
that everything is on track with the
phase one study we're in the third part
of it we're gonna go into Phase two in
the summer but nothing has changed that
anything I've said when we had press
conference we know Johnson and Johnson's
well if a healthy candidate another one
of several candidates that are moving
along of course we're gonna have a lot
of shots on goal when it comes to
vaccines that's good that's good
yeah well I think it's a beginning I
thought Tony explained it really well
it's a beginning it means you build on
it I love that as a building block you
know just as a building block I love
that but certainly it's a it's a
positive it's a very positive event from
that standpoint and we're gonna be very
careful as we open a lot of people a lot
of Governors are opening I know you're
very advanced you're going to be very
advanced and getting it going but we're
good we're doing it very carefully we've
learned a lot over the last couple of
months and if there's a fire we're going
to put it out if there's a little ember
burning we're going to put it out we're
going to put it out very quickly and I
think we've learned how to do that there
have been some areas that have really
started up and we put it out very
quickly so we've learned a lot yeah
please stop the spread guidelines expire
tomorrow do you intend to extend those
well look Mike do you want to explain
what we're doing on that I think mr.
president we've we've issued the
guidelines now is actual
45 days ago first 15 and then 30 days to
slow the spread and frankly every state
in America has embraced those guidelines
at a minimum or even done more and now
our focus is working with states as as
governors like Governor John bel Edwards
unveiled plans to open up their states
again and the new guidance that we've
issued is guidance for how they can do
that safely and responsibly and so the
not only the gating criteria for when we
believe it's appropriate for states to
enter phase one are included but also
the very specific guidelines for when
states open and how they can open in in
as the president said in a safe and
responsible way are included in the
president's guidelines for open up
America again the current guidelines I
think you can say are very much
incorporated in the guidance that we're
giving States to open up America again
but maybe mr. president I think saying
well they'll be fading out because now
the governors are doing it I've had many
calls from governors governor of Texas
Greg Abbott and many many governors
Tennessee Arkansas was speaking to a lot
of different people and they're
explaining what they're doing and I'm
very much in favor of what they're doing
they're getting it going and we're
opening our country again do you want to
explain that please I think from
California they made slow the spread the
phase one of their four phases so every
governor is adapting both currently
where we are and moving forward of how
to move through phase 1 phase 2 phase 3
so if a governor feels like they haven't
met the creating criteria some of them
have made that their own first phase one
and some of them made up phase zero so
we've been very encouraged to see how
the federal guidelines have Health
informed or at least provide a framework
for governor's and moving forward all
the way through from what they now call
either phase zero all the way through
phase three and Roger says you know
governor of Florida was here yesterday
and he gave I thought a really good
presentation of how he's doing it what
he's doing how he's opening you might
have seen it and he did a very good job
I thought mr. president I would say that
if you look at the plan that you I had
put out for 30 days to stop the spread
the mitigation measures that you
promoted then that plan are carried
forward in the guidelines for reopening
and so it's it's it's sort of a seamless
way to do it by keeping those mitigation
measures in in place that you need to as
you were yelping especially for the
vulnerable population so it's it's
really uh I would agree with the vice
president that it is carried forward not
just theoretically but expressly in the
document that you gave us another thing
thank you for mentioning the vulnerable
people because we've made it clear from
over the last eight weeks that there was
certain risk groups that were
particularly vulnerable to serious
disease that has held up we see in most
of reports about 95 to 96 percent of the
individuals with serious disease and
hospitalizations are still in those
groups I think in a way that's
reassuring but it also should be a
message to all of our vulnerable
populations as we have said for the last
eight weeks in phase one and in phase
two as well as in slow the spread we've
been very clear about them continuing to
shelter and those families protecting
them from becoming infected mr.
president what are you hoping to learn
about China and the World Health
Organization with this investigation
you've commissioned with the
intelligence agencies right it's coming
in and I'm getting pieces already and
we're not happy about it
and we are by far the largest
contributor to w-h-o world health and
they misled us I don't know they must
have known more than they knew because
they came after what other people knew
that weren't even involved we knew
things that they didn't know and either
they didn't know they didn't tell us or
you know right now they're they're
literally a pipe organ for China that's
the way I view it so I'm wishing and
we're looking and we're watching and
again we give five hundred million
dollars and we have over the years from
400 to 500 for a long time for many
years and China is giving 38 million
dollars and yet they seemed to work for
China and they should have been in there
early they should have known what was
going on and they should have been able
to stop it at that when you talk about
stopping the spread or stopping the
embers that could have that could have
been stopped there and then why did
China allow planes to fly out but not
into China but they allow planes to come
out and planes are coming out of Wuhan
and they're coming out to going all over
the world they're going to Italy very
very big time to Italy but they're going
all over the world but they're not going
into China what was that all about so we
had another you'll hear up we're coming
up with a very distinct recommendation
but we're not happy with it we're not
happy with it
even today I've heard some statements
that are very positive there's nothing
positive about what happened in China
having to do with this subject nothing
positive at all and I finished a number
of months ago with a trade deal and you
would have thought it would have been
like somebody would have said hey they
could have stopped that at the source
they didn't have to let airplanes fly
out and loads of people come out and
we're lucky as Tony said we're lucky
that we stopped it in January coming
into our country from China outside of
our citizens you know people now say oh
well you shouldn't have let our citizens
back in let's let's forget about that
one we're lucky we stopped in January a
lot of people long after that date as
you know thought that the measure that I
took was much too strong john breaux
well lucky we stopped at then you know
we put a we put a border we put a ban on
people coming in from China so we'll
have a recommendation pretty soon but we
are not happy with the World Health
Organization World Health with China to
follow
can I ask the question of Technology you
know there was also a study out of China
of room des beer that came out today
that didn't find a significant
statistical significance with the
treatment and wondering if you saw that
it was a Lance of study and widen yeah
it's an underpowered study and it was I
mean it's not the kind of study way
that's the reason why I was very
explicit and saying this is a randomized
controlled deceiver controlled trial
that's powered to the tune of over a
thousand in hospitalized patients and
the endpoint was a clear endpoint the
time that you essentially are discharged
and the secondary endpoint of death so
even though I mean I don't like to
poopoo other studies but that's not an
adequate study and everybody in the
field feels that mr. president what can
you do to help businesses with liability
issues as workers come back in states
that have opened up well as you know we
just worked with the meat processors and
if you think about it that form of
delivery we have tremendous product we
have ample supply but there was a
bottleneck caused by this whole pandemic
and it was pretty it was potentially
pretty serious and I just got off the
phone with the biggest in the world I
mean the biggest distributors there are
and the big companies that you've been
reading about they are so thrilled
they're so happy they're all gung-ho and
we solved their problems we unblocked
some of the bottlenecks and I'm sure
you've seen it I'm sure you've heard I
spoke to him about two hours ago signed
something very important last night in
terms of defense production act and it
was very important there with there was
so happiness there like it's like a new
business but they were they were being
very unfairly treated very unfairly
treated so the farmers are very happy
and the ranchers and they the companies
that we're talking about you know the
ones I'm talking about because they're
all they've all become very well known
they were well known anyway they're big
companies but they're now being treated
fairly they're they're thrilled and that
whole bottle neck is broken up
protects them well they use it that's
what we did we used it and it helps them
greatly greatly to do what they have to
do because they're ready to do it but
they they needed some help what are you
well we're doing that we're gonna have a
report on that probably this afternoon
we're gonna have good form of protection
and through quarantine when we find
somebody that's not we're going to be
very they're going to be very careful
they are as to who's going into the
plant and the quarantine is going to be
very strong and we're going to make
people better when they have a problem
we're going to get them better hopefully
they're going to get better you know we
have a very good record of having people
getting better a lot of people don't
talk about that John Bell where people
go in statistically but you don't read
about the tremendous success we've had
we've had we're just about number one in
the world in terms of success Germany's
doing well we're doing well a couple of
countries are doing okay but we're doing
very well so the statistics are very
good on that so we're gonna we're gonna
get them better yesterday well right now
what's happening that the FDA literally
as we speak is working with Gilead to
figure out mechanisms to make this
easily available to those who needed
with regard to getting to the market
we'll obviously have to be approved by
the FDA for licensure and the FDA is
very well aware that this is something
that is very important so I'm sure
they're going to be moving very
expeditiously but I can't give you a
date kind of when this would be used in
the earlier phases or in the late places
yeah this and thank you for that
question because there are a lot of
different permutations this is in
hospitalized patients and the end point
was the time to discharge so it's
unclear yet right now from this study
whether or not it would be better for
early we don't know it could be but we
only make statements about what we've
proven and the only thing is improving
now is in hospitalized patients so good
question but we don't have the answer
thank you
physically speaking GG shrinks 4.8% sure
to reaction on that so if you look at
what's going on in the market where the
markets at 24,000 and this came from us
blind we never knew we had the greatest
economy ever in the world in the history
of the world we had the best economy I
say it openly nobody even challenges it
and they would if they thought it was
wrong we had the best economy ever and
we're gonna have it again what happened
is look at the market today 24,000 above
24,000 I think you have an in fact I'll
ask you to say a couple of things about
that but if you would have said that we
would have had the worst pandemic since
1917 over a hundred years ago with the
disturbance to a hundred and eighty four
countries at least because that was as
of last week and that a market would be
we're at 29,000 and now we're going to
be a 24,000 and we were at although I
think we're having one of the best weeks
we're having one of the best periods in
terms of stock market which to me is
jobs and future I don't view it as a
stock I've you it as jobs and future if
you would have said to me that would be
a twenty four thousand and we you know
it's we started off at a when I was
elected the number was much lower much
much lower as you know it's called in
the teens but if you would have said we
would have been at 24,000 with what
we've gone through as a country John bel
it's pretty amazing and I think I read
where this is one of the best weeks in
the stock market this last short period
of time that we've had in since the
1950s or 1940s so I think there's a
tremendous feeling of optimism in this
country I can only say that is going to
be a tremendous feeling of optimism I
think the third quarter is transitional
it's a it would were transiting into but
it's a very transitional period I think
it's going to do good but I think the
fourth quarter is going to be fantastic
I think next year all of the fruits of
what we've all done together between the
doctors and the business people and
yours
thank you very much of course you're a
doctor but all of the work from the task
force all of the people that have worked
so hard we're gonna have a tremendous
year next year
and you're gonna start to see that I
think in the fourth quarter maybe even
in pieces of the third quarter but
that's again very transitional now it's
about growth it's about growth we're
gonna be in great shape because we're
growing and we could have done it the
other way you don't spend anything and
you're flat for years you know there
there are ways of looking at it we you
have to throw money at it but we're
throwing money at the people that lost
their job unfairly you saw some of the
people yesterday in the White House
where they were good they were down and
out and we came along and helped them so
we could have been flat for a long time
as a country or we could grow I think
you're gonna see tremendous growth it's
a stimulus and it's it's a it's a great
stimulus now they want more stimulus and
they're pushing for things though but I
don't know that we should be working
with states that have been suffering for
through bad leadership or bad management
for 25 years and I we're supposed to fix
that so we're gonna have to talk about
that maybe they should have brought that
episode I think he's III don't know him
I've never spoken him I think he's a
very very good man who had a very bad
day and then he wanted to be Ernest
Hemingway you know he starts writing
long memos you can't do that when you're
a captain of a ship
especially that ship that's the that's
the ultimate nuclear aircraft carry and
the best in the world 5000 crew members
and he decides to become an Ernest
Hemingway you can't do that you can't do
that with that being said I said he just
had he had a bad day we all have bad
days
well I don't want to I don't want to
comment but I have my feelings on it and
I just think he's a very good man or a
bed and I think the acting secretary is
a very good man also and he had a bad
day
they both had bad days you want another
truth they both had bad days and that
can happen they were under a lot of
pressure because it went very public and
so they'll be seeing me at a certain
point but I think he's a very good man I
think they're both very good men but you
know when you talk about spreading so
it's sorted with two people then it went
to 12 people they don't want to I got a
report yesterday was 851 people now they
have 5000 people so it starts with a
little group and then a few a few weeks
later how long is that for weeks
800 and some weren't people and their
sailors they're young there there is one
death as you know there's one death this
about 10 people in the hospital right
now but there'll be we expect all to get
better but there is one death out of it
but that spread like wildfire right
think of that you know it was 2 and 12
but then you we thought it ended at 41
you didn't think so I don't think you
thought so just the right environment
for spread like that it was it was a
tough environment we will very soon be
testing 5 million people well I don't
know where it came yes I'd like to refer
to these two people because I don't know
where it came up everyone kept saying
you said there'd be five that was a
study that came out somebody came out
with a study of five many people do I
think we will I think we will but I
never said it we're testing millions of
people we're testing more people than
anyone any country in the world by far
by double by much more than double more
than everybody else combined with
testing but somebody started throwing
around five million
I didn't say 5 million somebody said 5
million I think it might have been the
Harvard report there was a report from
Harvard and they said 5 million well we
will be there but I didn't say
a bit I didn't say it but somebody came
out with a report saying five million it
sounds like a lot yesterday I looked at
Debra I said what's with the five
million I think that was from the
Harvard report but we are going to be
there at a certain point we'll be there
but we're we're more advanced than any
country in the world on testing and not
only that the testing is the best at not
only the most we've not only done the
most even when you look at so many
people they love the Abbott Laboratories
test you might have had it did you have
it but everybody comes in - they give
them the test in five minutes they know
they're okay or they're not okay so far
we haven't found any we're not okay but
it's a great test but we that was not
even nobody even thought of that two
months ago or three months ago you know
that was developed over a very short
period of time brilliantly developed by
Abbott so now we'll be at whatever
number it is but we're so far advanced
over and in and you know it'd be really
good if the press would give credit for
it to the people that have done such a
good job because they're always say well
you know you're doing millions but what
about five million I'm saying where did
that number K keep asking where does it
come from I really learned this morning
I think it was probably the Harvard said
that'd be nice and sure will be nice and
we'll be there but but again we didn't
say it who said it is a report we have
other reports talking about a much lower
number but we're doing better than
anybody in the world by far the people
that have worked on it have been
incredible and you know John Bella's
Testament to a testing is one of the
great reasons that you've been
successful in Louisiana yes sir with a
lot of help from from our federal
partners and the best news that we got
as a state quite frankly in all states
got it was on Monday when that bull
jawar said that our plans had all been
received last Wednesday and they were
going to be able to resource the testing
kits so I don't know about five million
for the country but Louisiana's going to
do our part with two hundred thousand
per month and I think if you extrapolate
that out that comes close to me I don't
know what time period you're talking
about
edmodo are said to Time magazine that
five million tests per day is simply not
possible do you agree with that so what
have we have talked about it what was in
the blueprint and talking with states
and you can see I mean this is
Louisiana's curve they got to this curve
of mitigation and containment across the
state with about twenty six thousand
tests per million or about twenty-six
yeah twenty-six thousand tests per
million so million of their population
so these tests and I've been very clear
about it these are RNA tests which means
you take the virus out of their your
nose you've got to crack the virus open
extract out the RNA amplify the RNA and
then get an answer and you can see
that's happening inside of machines
sometimes lab directors and lab
technicians have to physically mix all
of those reagents that's when you hear
about extraction reagents and why
they're needed and so what what we had
in the blueprint is really a call to
action to really work on developing
antigen tests like we use for flu
because when you're using an antigen
test in a doctor's office then you can
get to potentially that number I'm not
sure we need that number I don't want to
validate that number but I'm saying is
with this current test and the
complication of how it has to be run
that's not physically possible and I
think that's what Admiral girar was
speaking to but we've as we talked about
ID now we continue to develop more
testing and different platforms but I
think we do need that kind of new
breakthrough - a new technique a new
measurement to get to the kind of
numbers that Harvard is talking about
but I think we've made it clear all
along that states have controlled and
mitigated with the current number and as
you heard from the governor he didn't
shut everything down there was still he
has a curve like this was still a
significant number of Louisianans
working so I think what every governor
is working on is how do I get the most
people I can back to work and still
maintain high level of safety and I
think what's the road map
and the criteria and the testing come
together to create that this will not be
a testing alone piece and as you just
heard about the Roosevelt and I bring
this up every time this asymptomatic
spread will be important and we just
heard about 800 cases 10 are less than
10 in the hospital or 10 to 15 in the
hospital 800 10 or 15 in the hospital if
you're only diagnosing symptomatic cases
you may be missing a large part of the
spread and I think that's why
strategically using testing in a new way
a monitoring way a monitoring way to
proactively find asymptomatic
individuals particularly when they
surround our most vulnerable groups
whether it's Native Americans our
long-term care facilities we want
governor's to simultaneously work on
finding the cases as they did so
superbly and then work on a proactive
measurement to find the asymptomatic
cases and I think those two pieces have
to come together and I think that's
what's in the blueprint that's what
we're having the calls with the states
with and really see how do we
effectively use our current testing
capacity to ensure we're both monitoring
and diagnosing and you know we're
interesting about that number is that I
remember when we did a million we said
we just did a million and the media said
oh when are you going to do two million
I said soon pretty soon then we do two
million and then they said when you're
gonna do five billion in other words
it's sort of a setup because no matter
what and by the way when we hit five
million what are we gonna hit 10 million
it's a little bit of a trap you know
it's called the media trap it pertains
to me it doesn't pertain to other people
but it's what I've had to experience for
five years I don't know I heard the five
billion is totally unnecessary now that
doesn't mean we're not going to hit it
pretty easily but I again I think it's a
media trap I think the number you know
I've just all I know is this president
moon of South Korea because we've heard
a lot of good things about South Korea
have good relationship he called me to
congratulate me on the testing he said
your testing is the greatest in the
world
how did this happen I kept hearing about
South Korea South Korea and he said I
want to just tell you that what you've
done with testing is incredible okay so
our people should be congratulated and
what they'll do is no matter what if we
test as they say 325 million people
they're going to say when are you going
to test them twice okay so you know it's
a trap it's really a media trap but but
that's okay look we are better than
anybody in the world on testing we have
tested more than anybody in the world
and we have the best tests in the world
and that's been all developed over the
last couple of months because we started
off with nothing we had nothing we had
absolutely nothing and that included
ventilators and that included I always
say the cupboards were bare they were
bare in the military and they were bare
medically in terms of pandemics or
epidemics or whatever you want to call
it so our people have done an incredible
job yeah better gaming you think that
China is playing a better game in terms
of influence well they've been known for
years
and they play the game and I guess we've
had people over the years that never
really focused on that game you know who
would think you'd have to play the game
and it's to a large extent public
relations you know public relations or
whatever but China's not to be
congratulated for what happened just so
you understand it they're not to be
congratulated for what took place and
w-h-o is essentially congratulating them
and when they start doing that we've got
problems and again the United States
pays almost 500 million and they pay 38
million a year 500 million versus 38
million a year so there are lots of
different people that we can give this
to you know we can give this money to
lots of different incredible groups are
a lot of groups out there doesn't have
to go to the WHL we can give it to
groups that are very worthy and get much
more
bang for your buck but we're gonna make
a decision into not to just a future if
I could I just like to have John Bell
finish up by talking about the great
success in Louisiana and you've worked
with our two great senators and they
were absolutely Johnna bill and and they
were really calling me a lot and saying
we got to take care of Louisiana so you
had a great relationship with them we
did I know senator Kennedy worked on the
respiratory I'm sorry the ventilator
issue and senator Cassidy and I work
last night we're talking about testing
and what we can do going forward with
the blueprint because he and dr.
Redfield and discuss that but but we've
obviously turned the corner in Louisiana
and we're in a much much better place
than we thought was even possible five
or six weeks ago I will tell you and and
that's because of our local partners and
our federal partners and and hard work
we've had a lot of lessons to learn
because there's no blueprint for this
there's a blueprint for testing now but
there's no blueprint for a governor how
do you respond to it to a pandemic so
we've had a steep learning curve but I
will tell you we're in a much better
place the field medical stations that
you provided the the Navy medical
personnel that you sent to Louisiana the
testing that we had early was the key
and that has informed our testing
strategy going forward and we're excited
about the opportunity to have the test
kits that we need allocated starting in
the month of May to get to the 200,000
will do 43 persons per 1000 that's what
we're going to get to a clinic and we're
going to we're going to be in much
better shape after that mr. president we
look forward to getting past this we're
turning to a newer sense of normalcy
which I don't think will come officially
and fully until we get the vaccine but
we look we're looking forward to moving
we're looking forward to moving ahead
and and just appreciate your work and
your your contributions to our efforts
very helpful what's an honor working
with you and just people of Louisiana
great people
it could they've really gone through a
lot well I'll just say they're the best
I'll tell you what they're right there
they're great people have enough test
kits and supplies to run as many tests
as you think you need well what I
believe is that with the commitments
that were made this past Monday by
Admiral Gerard that that haven't looked
at all 50 state plans for testing going
forward that they've committed to
resourcing Louisiana's request for
200,000 test kits per month that gets us
to 43 out of each of every thousand
tested every month we believe that
that's sufficient for us to move forward
as we are able to start reopening the
economy we know the lab capacity is
there we have dr. B you here with me
he's done a phenomenal job he's
responsible in large measure for that
curve coming down and so we feel pretty
good at that level and that's one of the
reasons I wanted to be able to come up
here today at the president's invitation
to thank him for that commitment because
this I'm only speaking for myself but
having been part of all the calls with
the governor's this is the big piece
that we've been looking for and with
that commitment we really feel much
better about going forward that's great
great job would you like to say
something dr. weir we know the
importance of testing we can't treat
what we don't find and early on we we
knew that we had a problem and we knew
that we need to search our testing and
so we were grateful to have that support
especially in the epicenter in New
Orleans in the in the parishes right
around there so that we could get a
sense of what's going on with kovat and
then we've continued that pattern
through the rest of the state it's been
great and all of that is coming
everything went and now it's coming and
you'll be in a position I think you said
43 that's a big number that's a great
number you could do that that'll be a
fantastic number one thing I think I'd
like to just finish by saying so we
reached a million cases and that's a
it's a tremendous amount and the reason
is because of testing because other
countries don't test so you if you don't
test you're not going to find cases the
reason we have a million take a look at
number two number two is a fraction of
that because they don't test they they
don't have the ability to do what we're
doing so it's a number that in one way
sounds bad but in another way is really
actually
an indication that our testing is so
superior I mean to think that we have
more people more cases than China and
does anybody really believe that but the
testing is different and and I think
also the transparency is much different
the transparency is like from day and
night we have totally transparent
whatever it is it is but because of our
great testing and because of what we've
done and the amount we've done we are
able to point out far more cases than
anybody else says if other countries did
the kind of testing that we had that
we're a much bigger country than most
also in terms of people but if other
countries did this kind of testing you'd
see numbers it would be much different
okay thank you all very much mr.
president how essential is it of these
states wait
