Most importantly, we're gonna get back on to the reason we're here,
which is the success we're having.
OK? Please. You could put it on.
A lot of people are concerned about the coronavirus because
they're hearing a lot of news about it right now.
But the reality is comparing it to the flu, for example,
it's not even close to being at that stage.
What if it is worse?
Is this a moment where maybe countries put politics aside,
a little bit of pride aside?
And do we have US officials, should US professionals
such as yourself get involved?
How worried should Americans be about coronavirus?
Coronavirus is not going to cause a major risk to the United States.
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Well, we've asked them to accelerate whatever they're doing in terms of a vaccine.
We will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States
for the next 30 days.
To unleash the full power of the federal government in this effort,
today, I am officially declaring a national emergency.
Medicare patients can now visit any doctor by phone or video conference
at no additional cost.
The first 1 million masks will be available immediately.
As there were more cases and it was clear that it was spreading
out of China where it originated, the president took this move
that he was widely criticised for by Democrats and even some
Republicans at the time, which was he halted a number of flights
from China into the US.
The idea was to halt the spread of the disease, keep transmissions
to a minimum.
He was accused of xenophobia.
He was accused of making a racist move.
At the end of the day, it was probably effective because it did actually
take a pretty aggressive measure against the spread of the virus.
His team is on it.
They've been responsive late at night, early in the morning, and they've thus far
been doing everything that they can do.
And I want to say thank you. And I want to say that I appreciate it.
He returns calls. He reaches out. He's been proactive.
We got that mercy ship down here in Los Angeles.
That was directly because he sent it down here.
Two thousand medical units came to the state of California.
These FMS, these these field medical stations, and that's been very, very helpful.
The president has been outstanding through all this.
The vice president's been outstanding.
Members of the coronavirus task force, very responsive.
We get asked if we could have, New Jersey, could have access
to a piece of the beds that are on the USNS Comfort
and the president came back and called the a short few minutes
before I walked in here to say, indeed, they would grant that to New Jersey.
So that's a big step for us.
In addition to all the other capacity, that news is literally hot off the press.
And I thank the president and vice president who were
on the call together.
President Trump approved Arizona's request for a presidential
major disaster declaration.
I want to thank the president for a quick turnaround.
We requested this on a Wednesday and we had approval by Saturday morning.
And we are grateful to the administration for their continued support and responsiveness.
Well, first of all, I want to thank the president, the vice president,
for doing a really good job of communicating with all the governors.
So we could give you hundreds of clips like that from governors,
including Democratic or Democrat, as I call them, governors,
which is actually the correct term.
We could give you hundreds of clips just like that. We have them.
We didn't want this to go on too long.