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President Trump and his administration are working around the clock in the fight against COVID-19. Want more information? Here is just a partial list of what they have completed and help coordinated in the past day.
- The President hosted a call with four leaders of pharmaceutical and biotech companies to discuss developments in therapeutics to fight the Coronavirus. - There have now been 3,000 public health personnel deployed to the Javits Center in New York City.
- The President announced they are now allowing USNS Comfort to be used to help NY/NJ Coronavirus patients. - Vice President Pence called Governors of highly impacted states.
- The Army Corps of Engineers is building 22 field hospitals and alternate care sites in 18 different states. - More than 8,000 ventilators sent from the stockpile under DPA. - The President noted we have almost 10,000 ventilators in the federal stockpile.
- FEMA and HHS have distributed 11.7 million N95 masks, 26.5 million surgical masks, 5.3 million face shields, 4.5 million surgical gowns, and 22.6 million gloves. - Apple is producing 1 million plastic face shields for health care works a week.
- The President announced an agreement with 3M for the delivery of an additional 55.5 million high quality face masks each month. They will be producing 166.5 million masks over the next few months.
- Salesforce has donated 48 million pieces of PPE (masks, gowns, suits, and face shields). - The state of California received a surplus of supplies and has since worked with the Federal Government to redeploy 500 ventilators to other locations.
- The President had a 15 minutes phone call with former Vice President Joe Biden on the Coronavirus pandemic. - The President announced 10 therapeutic agents are in active trials with another 15 in plans for clinical trials. - The FDA authorized a second vaccine candidate.
- 1.79 million tests in the U.S. have been completed, growing by nearly 125,000 a day. - CVS is launching two new drive-thru testing sites in Atlanta and Providence with each location being able to test up to 1,000 patients per day using the rapid 5 minute test by Abbott Labs.
- More than $40 billion in relief has been applied for through the PPP for small businesses. This will result in nearly 2 million jobs being preserved. - Nearly 3,000 lenders have already made loans through PPP with more lenders being signed up.
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