Several cruise lines have announced a 60-day pause in operations.
I think we’ve made a lot of good decisions. The FDA’s goal is to hopefully authorize their application within 24 hours — it’ll go very quickly; it’s going very quickly — which will bring, additionally, 1.4 million tests on board next week and 5 million within a month. THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. I encourage everyone to follow the guidelines we’ve issued by CDC and these commonsense measures. Galvanizing the research community and the commercial labs — the reason why we’re here with ACLA labs, having done about 3 million tests, is because of that day when it was galvanized by the President and the Vice President. MR. GREENSTEIN: Oh, we’ll practice that. Uhhhhh. © 1998 - 2020 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. | All Rights Reserved. So when I said that, I meant the system was not designed for what we need. Now they don’t have any problem getting it done.
At LabCorp, we’re working every second of every day to increase the number of tests that we can run. MR. MORIARTY: Thank you, Mr. President. And I loved being with him, so just say hello to him. Trump’s comments were widely condemned and are indefensible on both human and public health levels. But last Saturday, Senator Graham — he mentioned in the Fox News — he interviewed. Thanks. And, frankly, phase two, we’ll start negotiating. That’s good. Why cancer is more prevalent in some — in mostly in older individuals — because the immune system that screens for it is less robust. It was looking good, but they’ve –the results have been building up pretty rapidly.
Q Mr. President, as you talk about potentially reopening up America again, as we see in the slides behind you, what data are you going to look at in the future to see if restrictions need to be re-imposed? But we’re going to be changing a lot of the old rules and specifications and regulations. THE PRESIDENT: Well, Charlie, there are a lot of ways you can hold them accountable. Q Mr. President, opening up the country, how long will you keep up the travel restrictions for Europe? As a pharmacist, I just want to say one quick thing: I’m really proud to be part of this profession.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Please. Because, as you see, in terms of what this vicious virus goes after, young people seem to do very well. And people talk about South Korea a lot. THE PRESIDENT: Oh, I don’t know.
Tremendously talented people. And just in the past 24 hours, the UK has added 208 coronavirus cases to their total. Americans are the strongest and most resilient people on Earth, and in the coming weeks, we will all have to make changes and sacrifices, but these short-term sacrifices will produce long-term gain. We’ve gotten it very early. Thank you. But I want to thank all of these great businessmen and women for the job they’ve done. So thank you for the opportunity to serve and for being here. Great job. If you have any questions for these great geniuses up here, you should — even a business question related to what we’re talking about. Thank you. I mean, some states are, you know, perhaps a little early, and some states are a little bit late. Appreciate everybody being here. I do know how he’s doing, relatively speaking. But what’s remarkable to me as a layperson, Mr. President, is because of this partnership you’ve forged, we’re — we’re almost there. We’re helping them. THE PRESIDENT: Italy is having a very — yeah — we’re in touch with Italy and, you know, it’s a — it’s a country that we love. At the same time, we’ve been in discussions with pharmacies and retailers to make drive-thru tests available in the critical locations identified by public health professionals. And we think that should have happened. What do you make of that? Look, I built — they were just telling me inside, and it’s fact — I built the greatest economy — with the help of 325 million people, I built the greatest economy in the history of the world. They can do as they want. And we’re going to be working with the retailers — our colleagues that are here today — to help them as they expand their testing capabilities across the entire country. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that Democratic lawmakers unveiled a new, $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill, which she said was a compromise measure that reduces the costs of the economic aid. Our turnaround time for people in beds — hospital beds — is less than 24 hours. We had our citizens — you can’t keep out American citizens. He expected that — that, I can tell you. I appreciate it. But we — we talked about everything. Q Mr. President, nice to see you. And that’s why the President brought together these extraordinary commercial labs that you’ve heard from today. ... play_arrow White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Aug. 19.