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we have very little problem in this
country at this moment five when you
have 15 people and the 15 within a
couple of days is gonna be down to close
to zero and I just seen you right now
it's about 149 cases you pretty much
shut it down coming in from China it
will go away to stay calm I am
officially declaring a national
emergency we have a problem that a month
ago nobody ever thought about a lot of
people think that goes away in April but
they think August
could be July and I haven't touched my
face at weeks weeks working very
strongly with China on the corona virus
that's a new thing that a lot of people
are talking about hopefully it won't be
as bad as some people think it could be
but we're working very closely with them
and with a lot of other people in a lot
of other countries and we think we have
it very well under control we have very
little problem in this country at this
moment five how concern to you well we
pretty much shut it down coming in from
China we have a tremendous relationship
with China which is a very positive
thing getting along with China getting
on with Russia getting on the Chinese
President helped with the Cologne you
know we're offering them tremendous help
we have the best in the world for that
we've done a tremendous job in many
other instances also on that even
recently no no we've offered China help
but we can't have thousands of people
coming and who may have this problem the
coronavirus so we're gonna see what
happens but we did shut it down yes the
virus that we're talking about having to
do you know a lot of people think that
goes away in April with the heat as the
heat comes in typically that will go
away at April we're in great shape
though where we have 12 cases 11 cases
and 61% of the voters approve of Trump's
handling of the corona virus and you
know we did a very early move on that we
did it I was criticized by a lot of
people at the beginning because we were
the first to we'd never done it before
we closed our borders to certain areas
it's never happened before
that's a lot of people's mind and that
is the coronavirus how confident are you
that China is being 100% honest with us
when it comes to this scary virus well
I'm confident that they're trying very
hard I mean I know President Xi I get
along with him very well we just made a
great trade deal which is going to be a
lot of business for Arizona and every
other place but they are trying very
very hard and I think the numbers are
going to get progressively better as we
go along they're working that they bid
they built a hospital in seven days and
now they're building another one I think
it's going to work out fine I think well
we get into April and the warmer weather
that has a very negative effect on on
that and that type of a virus so let's
see what happens but I think it's going
to work out fine we have it very much
under control we accepted a few people a
small number of people there very well
could fine and they should be getting
better fairly soon very interestingly
we've had no deaths the flu in our
country kills from 25,000 people to 69
thousand people a year that was shocking
to me and so far if you look at what we
have with the 15 people and they're
recovering one is one is pretty sick but
hopefully we'll recover and again when
you have 15 people and the 15 within a
couple of days is going to be down to
close to zero that's a pretty good job
we've done we have a situation with the
virus we've done a great job
and the press won't give us credit for
we have in a world that has some big
problems you look at China and you look
at industry between the two countries
and I did something that had never been
done before because it had never been
done before I closed our borders to
certain areas of the world yeah I won't
be specific because it's not nice to be
you know specific but you understand
where and I close the borders to certain
areas of the work very early we'd never
closed the border before we've never
done that the right way and flights
coming in and people coming in yeah
because they had a very early problem
and I closed them I took a lot of heat
from the Democrats they said what's he
doing because anything I do they'll do
the other countries are doing well some
countries are not doing well you can see
that for yourself and a lot of things
are happening we're very well organized
we have great talent great doctors great
great everyone this tremendous spirit
now the Democrats are politicizing the
coronavirus you know that coronavirus
they're politicizing it we will do
everything in our power to keep the
infection and those carrying the
infection from entering our country we
have no choice whether it's the virus
that we're talking about or many other
public health threats the Democrat
policy of open borders is a direct
threat to the health and well-being of
all Americans now you see it with the
coronavirus you see it on Monday I'll be
meeting with the largest pharmaceutical
companies in the world actually they'll
be coming to the White House and we're
talking about a vaccine and developing
very quickly and they've already started
working on it developing very rapidly a
vaccine for the virus to combat the
virus and we're having very good initial
feedback and I'd like to just ask and
caution that the media we would
respectfully ask the media and
politicians and everybody else involved
not to anything to incite a panic
because there's no reason to panic at
all this is something that is being
handled professionally our country is
doing very well our professionals are
doing really an incredible job we're
also working with other countries to
help them
I don't think you'll be that because I
really think we're you know extremely
good shape we're prepared for anything
that we could always do that in a later
David we need it but I don't think we
need that at this stage you know
interestingly we would discuss you got a
question I get asked a lot by people is
on average you lose from 26,000 to
70,000 or so and even in some cases more
from the flu we have deaths of that per
year worldwide it's hundreds of
thousands of deaths from the common flu
and they ask you know what's the
difference and how does this differ and
I guess there are things that are
similar and things that are different
every one of them is different you look
at a percentage to have it very very
small percentage and a big percentage of
all we have is when we brought into 40
or so people from the ship we brought
them in we immediately quarantined them
but you're adding that to the numbers
that we had which were very small and I
haven't touched my face in weeks weeks
we had reported a the global death rate
at three point four percent and a report
that the Olympics could be delayed your
reaction to that well I think the three
point four percent is really false
number now this is just my hunch and but
based on a lot of conversations with a
lot of people that do this because a lot
of people will have this and it's very
mild mr. president at the outset of the
coronavirus your administration's
response seemed to some as being
confusing or minimizing what plans are
being considered on a federal level for
the possibility of a long-term
disruption from the novel coronavirus
well actually we're giving I think
really given tremendous marks you look
at Gallup poll you look at other polls
for the way we've handled it and one of
the things I did is I closed down the
borders to China and two other areas
that are very badly affected and really
having a lot of troubles I mean
countries and areas of countries that
have had a lot of problem and I closed
them down very early against the advice
of almost everybody and we've been given
rave reviews and that's why we have only
right now a lets a lot of people but
it's still 11 people versus tremendous
numbers of thousands of people that have
died all over the world we have 11 we
have a hundred and forty nine cases as
of this moment this morning was 129
anybody right now
and yesterday anybody that needs a task
gets a test suite they're there they
have the tests and the tests are
beautiful anybody that needs a test gets
a test if there's a doctor that wants to
test if there's somebody coming off the
ship like the big monster ship that's
out there right now which you know again
that's a big decision so I want to bring
all those people on people would like me
to do that I don't like the idea of
doing it but anybody that needs a test
this was something that we were thrown
into and we're gonna handle it and we
have been handling it very well the big
decision was early when we shut down our
borders were the first ones ever to do
that we've never done that in our
country before it would have a situation
that would be a lot more dire it will go
away just stay calm we want to protect
your shipping industry our cruise
industry cruise ships we want to protect
our airline industry very important but
everybody has to be vigilant and has to
be careful but become it's really
working out the numbers from a week ago
we're great and from two days ago we rip
and now we're hitting the patch and
we're gonna have to do something with
respect to getting this getting rid of
this virus as quickly as possible after
consulting with our top government
health professionals I have decided to
take several strong but necessary
actions to protect the health and
well-being of all Americans to keep new
cases from entering our shores we will
be suspending all travel from Europe to
the United States for the next 30 days
the new rules will go into effect Friday
at midnight we want to lose as few
people as possible so important and what
is the the number as of this morning is
it 32 you could tell me is it 32 deaths
see if around the
I mean think about the United States
because of what I did and what the
administration did with China we have 32
deaths at this point other countries
that are smaller countries have many
many deaths 32 is a lot thirty twos too
many but when you look at the kind of
numbers that you're seeing coming out of
other countries it's pretty amazing when
you think of it to unleash the full
power of the federal government that
this effort today I am officially
declaring a national emergency two very
big words but if you don't have symptoms
are you being selfish by not getting
tested and potentially why did say I
wasn't going to be tested are you going
to be most likely yeah mostly not for
that reason but because I think I will
do it anyway well fairly soon well we're
working on that we're working out of
schedule you also put the test and I
decided I should based on the press
conference yesterday people were asking
that I take the test I don't know
whatever it takes a day or two days
because it almost becomes a habit and
you get out of that habit and frankly I
was a non hand-shaker for the most part
I'd never believe that shaking hands
once you become a politician and I
noticed it too political people walk up
to me they want to shake my hand I said
well you know just take a Dyson AC okay
just relax people come up to me they
shake hands they put their hand out it's
sort of a natural reflex and we're all
getting out of it all of us have that
problem you don't have to buy so much
take it easy just relax people are going
in and they're buying more they I
remember I guess during the conversation
dug of Walmart said that they're buying
more than they buy a Christmas relax
we're doing great it all will pass how
would you rate the response to this
crisis I'd read it at end I think we've
done a great job and it started with the
fact that we kept a very highly infected
country despite all of the even the
professionals saying now it's too early
to do that we were very very early with
respect to China and we would have a
whole different situation in this
country if we didn't do that I would
rate it a very
I would rate ourselves and and the
professionals I think the professionals
have done a fantastic job 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 but people are
talking about July August
something like that so it could be right
in that period of time where it I say
wash it washes through other people
don't like that term but word washes
through this the new normal until items
so we'll see what happens but they think
August could be July to be longer than
that I just say this we have an
invisible enemy we have a problem that a
month ago nobody ever thought about
nobody in a you know I've read about it
I read about many years ago 1917-1918
I've seen all of the different the
different problems similar to this that
we've had this is a bad one this is a
very bad one this is bad in the sense
that it's so contagious it's just so
contagious our guidance yesterday urges
Americans to take action for 15 days to
help stem the outbreak so it's a 15-day
period I guess now would say it's a
14-day period 15 days from yesterday and
we're asking everyone to work at home a
possible postpone unnecessary travel and
limit social gatherings to no more than
10 people by making shared sacrifices
and temporary changes we can protect the
health of our people and we can protect
our economy because I think our economy
will come back to earlier rapidly one
day we'll be standing possibly up here
we'll say well we won and we're going to
say that sure as you're sitting there
we're going to say that and we're going
to win and I think we're going to win
faster than people think I hope