President, Thank you very much for coming to the N i h.

Today.

We really haven't you please with your visit and I want to just again thank you for your support of everything that we've been doing in this obviously very important problem.

What I've asked is just first to have Francis Collins Argo director, Just make a couple of comments about the n i h in general, and I'll talk to you about some of the things that you and I have been talking about for the past few weeks.

Good. 00:00:58.820 --> 00:01:0.780 Thank you, Mr President. 00:01:0.780 --> 00:01:1.480 Welcome, Dan. 00:01:1.480 --> 00:01:2.910 I just wonderful to have you here. 00:01:2.920 --> 00:01:3.240 Thank you. 00:01:3.790 --> 00:01:4.640 Were in back. 00:01:4.650 --> 00:01:6.950 Faced with a very serious public health situation. 00:01:7.440 --> 00:01:10.700 Have a lot of people here that are working hard on it and are honored by your presence.

Honored also by the presence of the secretary.

My boss on a wonderful boss he is.

You just quickly say who else at the table.

So you understand.

We're starting over here.

Dr Barney Graham, deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center.

And that's where we are, right next.

Dr Corbett is the front line on the the bench making this Corona virus vaccine happened.

Good.

So wanted three talented young scientist.

You know Dr Fauci, Of course.

Next to him, Doctor John Mask Ola, who's the director of the Vaccine Research Center and next to him, Doctor Larry Tayback, who's the principal deputy director of any good.

We're all thrilled to have you.

I just want to say a word about tonight because we haven't had the privilege of having you with us before. 00:01:59.080 --> 00:02:4.290 And just to sort of set the context for this remarkable institution supported by your administration. 00:02:4.690 --> 00:02:8.450 The largest supporter of my medical research in the world, the National Institutes of Health. 00:02:9.240 --> 00:02:12.150 We distribute most of our funds more than 80%.

That's institutions all over the country's.

When you hear about a breakthrough in medical research that happened at the University of Illinois, Florida, it was probably supported by an I.

We use the most rigorous peer review system in the world to decide what we're gonna find, and we do everything from fundamental discovery, the clinical trials and everything in between.

You could say we do Alzheimer's disease go or a disease or some version of that, and we also support infrastructure that makes it possible at a time like this to be able to move rapidly in terms of developing a vaccine, and you'll hear more about that.

The consequences of the night research you could major in various ways.

Extension and longevity reduction and death from heart attack down 70% from one that used to be stroked. 00:02:55.310 --> 00:03:1.860 Likewise, cancer rates of death dropping about one or 2% of year HIV would choose to be a death sentence. 00:03:1.860 --> 00:03:10.360 Now compatibles Long survival Cystic fibrosis, the disease it used to be, may be able to get kids to live for eight or 10 years.

Now, just in the last few months announcement of a drug therapy that means a lot of those individuals they're planning for return.

What a big, correct economics.

I think we could also say this is one of the government's best investments, because the return on investment, every dollar that my expenses about $8.38 because of all of the other economic activity that inspired but a major component of anti age though it's only about 11% of the budget, is the intramural program.

That's where you are now on this campus.

More than 5000 MDs, PhDs and MD Ph.

D's A work here on a wide variety of things.

A few 100 yards from here, the largest research hospital in the world Unite Clinical Center.

Among our achievements.

The first chemotherapy for leukemia.

The development of a Z T for HIV cancer immunotherapy now saving lives, including people who thought that there was no hope for them and are now being not just helped but cured Dramatic advances in treating depression.

Lithium was invented here, Academy now turning to be a really exciting development for people with resistant depression.

The first gene therapy for humans done here at N I.

H.

And now evolving to a point where we're curing on this Campell campus.

People with sickle cell disease, gene therapy and, of course, vaccines.

Vaccines developed here for childhood meningitis for HPV for Ebola, and now we're going to talk about Corona virus.

So for all these reasons, people call us the National Institutes of Hope, and we're happy to embrace that particular description.

And you have next to you the probably most highly regarded infectious disease expert in the country.

I might even say in the world Dr Tony Fauci, we have been graced by his presence from many decades. 00:04:58.330 --> 00:05:7.890 And he is exactly the right person to tell you what we're doing right now about Corona virus and how we're going to address the need for a vaccine in order to tackle this really difficult problem. 00:05:8.200 --> 00:05:9.400 So thank you for being here. 00:05:9.520 --> 00:05:10.280 That's helped us.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

Again.

Thanks again.

I just wanted Connect what we've been talking about over the over the past a few weeks.

So if I could just get the slide here.

Remember when I when I mentioned that the fastest from the time that you get a pathogen, You know what it is to the time you do a phase one trial for safety.

So look at what's happened when SARS was in 2003 from the time we got the virus to the time we did the first phase one trial, remember?

That's not his immediate vaccine.

It means for safety was 20 months then h five n one influenza.

We got it down to 11. 00:05:52.270 --> 00:06:0.670 H one n one, influenza for zika 3.25 And now we believe, as I've told you several times, it's 2 to 3 months. 00:06:0.670 --> 00:06:1.700 I think it's too. 00:06:2.300 --> 00:06:6.640 So that kind of room is what this place is all about. 00:06:6.650 --> 00:06:12.250 It's to kind of like the SWAT team of going out and responding to emerging microbes.

So, uh, you know this building?

This entire center was first started in response to making a vaccine for HIV, but the crew that we brought together and we brought the best of the best of all over the country.

Um, Dr John Rascal, who is the director of this place?

We do everything from fundamental basic science to the clinical trials.

We would.

I mean, I say this with some pride, but also with some with some modesty is that there's a lot of questions and things that we need to do.

But this group is so good at what they do that every time we have a challenge and that challenge could be flu, that challenge could be Ebola.

That challenge could be anything. 00:06:55.490 --> 00:07:3.150 We always turn to this team to do that, and it's really something that we feel that is we're proud of. 00:07:3.590 --> 00:07:7.650 But I think the nation should know that these are the kind of things that we have available for them. 00:07:8.240 --> 00:07:14.330 Um, John, I would just like to also welcome you, Mr President.

It's the secretary thinking you are Vaccine Research center.

We look forward to, ah, brief tour for you upstairs, Doctor Corbin.

Dr.

Greene tell you about how we're working on the throat of ours, Maxine.

Good.

Just to give you a, um um, a comparison because we always talk about SARS, and he was talking about mirrors and things like that.

If we could have just go through with slide, I just want to go to the next slide.

Just This is an article that I wrote a little while ago and I called it a Corona virus infections more than the common cold.

Reason is, up until recently, Corona viruses were like mild things.

They were just common cold. 00:07:59.110 --> 00:08:0.160 Just next slide. 00:08:1.220 --> 00:08:3.220 In fact, those are all different kinds of viruses. 00:08:3.220 --> 00:08:8.470 The ones with the with the red circle around them, all the four viruses that cause the common cold. 00:08:9.250 --> 00:08:11.150 That was until 2002.

Then we got a big surprise.

Surprise was next.

Is that we have the severe acute respiratory central, and that was SARS multiple years.

Lady, we got the Middle East respiratory center.

But a story that you may remember the next line in China, in the Guangdong province still sort of history repeats itself is the president in China, in the Guangdong province, there was this strange disease that came up that nobody knew what it waas.

The Chinese didn't really tell anybody about it for a few months, November until it got to Hong Kong when it got to Hong Kong.

Next slide in a hotel in Hong Kong.

This was way back.

In 2003 someone from China went to the hotel, infected a bunch of people. 00:08:58.070 --> 00:09:0.810 Next slide, and this is what you had. 00:09:0.820 --> 00:09:3.330 You had flights going at the time. 00:09:3.330 --> 00:09:8.550 We didn't make any restrictions the way you did, which I think saved us really lot of lot of hurt. 00:09:8.930 --> 00:09:12.100 Next live, And then this is what happened.

There were 8000 cases 774.

That's and that's how I get the number that I've been telling you that the mortality of Saul's was about nine or 10%.

If you do that math, that's where it is right next life.

The other one is the merest Corona virus, which was the one that was in Saudi Arabia.

That was also from Animal Reservoir.

Next.

In fact, it was from a bat next from a bat to a camel and then for the people in the Middle East who got it.

That was the infection there.

So these are the kind of things that go from an animal reservoir to a human.

Sometimes it doesn't go anywhere.

Just goes one of two people.

But sometimes it adapts itself to function very, very, very efficiently.

Next.

And that's what happened. 00:09:58.040 --> 00:10:1.670 We had mayors Corona virus in a Saudi Arabia. 00:10:1.970 --> 00:10:4.520 We had a few cases in the United States, but not many. 00:10:4.600 --> 00:10:5.560 And finding next. 00:10:7.300 --> 00:10:12.610 This is where we are right now with the crone of ours and then just getting back to the last.

We got this this sequence about a week after the Chinese were able to put it up on the board and next and then these are the things that we do therapeutics vaccine.

So we'll stop there.

But we really like to hear some comments from you, Mr President.

Well, I want to thank you All this is incredible.

And I've heard about you and I know all of you by name.

And now I get to meet you.

Unfortunately, I get to meet you because we're talking about this, but we've made tremendous progress.

I know you're dealing with other nations to help them out because they really they got hit some of them very badly.

And we're talking to him also.

And we're making decisions as to whether or not we're allowed to travel.

They're allowed to travel that we've been pretty severe in those restrictions.

But I guess we did the right thing by being severe. 00:10:59.300 --> 00:11:2.760 And I h is the home of I'm going to see so many different factors. 00:11:3.520 --> 00:11:4.130 And it's true. 00:11:4.130 --> 00:11:5.600 The greatest doctors. 00:11:5.600 --> 00:11:6.830 I've heard that for so long. 00:11:6.830 --> 00:11:15.980 I heard that from my uncle, uh, Dr John Trump, a big fan of what you've done and how it started.

And it's really been an incredible situation.

But the scientists and researchers all over the world, they say this is the best there is.

And I think the world is extremely happy that you're involved in Tony.

Your reputation is second to none.

I think we all agree with that.

You have to agree with that, John, right?

You have no choice, but the fact is it it is in this case, it's true and we're very lucky to have you.

I will say that the vice president over in the Hill is just leaving now, and I told him to stay there and finish it up.

But we're doing very well in terms of getting the funding we need, the necessarily Seri funding and I asked for X and they want to give us more than exit. 00:11:56.870 --> 00:12:3.860 That's OK, as far as I'm concerned in this case, Francis, that's unusual, but that's okay, but I just want to thank everybody at N I. 00:12:3.860 --> 00:12:7.710 H and, uh, all of the great scientists and doctors and everything. 00:12:7.710 --> 00:12:9.690 I know you're working around the clock.

I know you've made some great finds already, and that's really makes us feel very good.

We had some good meetings yesterday with the companies that I guess you ultimately would go to the companies.

You have to go to the company.

So we had a fight, Sir Johnson and Johnson and some of the other great companies and they were very positive is what as to the outcome.

And, uh, therapeutics were a very big thing because I guess there are beauties could happen fast in the actual vaccine.

And certainly the result can happen a lot faster.

So we're looking for some good answers, but I just want to thank you very much time, and we really appreciate it, John.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Fantastic job.

Thank you.

You see him?

I see him every day.

So thank you all very much.

Great job.

Appreciate it. 00:13:6.240 --> 00:13:13.900 Well, I haven't been asked to, but I think we're making decisions on certain parts of those countries.

As you know, we've already made a decision on parts of Italy and Japan is very unfortunate because I've seen the incredible job they did on the Olympics.

As you know, they're building a facility.

It's really finished.

It's beautiful.

It's finished right on time, as usual with the Japanese Prime minister.

Very good friend of mine and Prime Minister Robbie.

And so I don't know what they're going to do.

They have this magnificent facility, and I don't know what they're going to do, but they'll make the right decision.

I know that, Uh, but yes, if it was necessary, we're doing yes.

Further travel restrictions.

Mr.

President.

We'll look in a different areas and will make that decision with these professionals. 00:13:59.020 --> 00:14:2.440 We made a nearly decision based on a little bit of luck, I suspect. 00:14:2.450 --> 00:14:9.230 But that was the original decision on China itself and China and all fairness to them. 00:14:9.230 --> 00:14:10.120 They never blamed us.

It was a tough decision for them, but they they fully understood they were very reasonable about it.

But that was a hard decision to make.

But I guess we would have had a lot more people with difficulty if we didn't make that decision very early on.

But we'll be making additional decisions as they rise.

I guess.

Tony, what about closing the southern borders that's still on the table?

Would have looking at it very strongly.

We're not seeing a lot of evidence of that area.

We're closing and I guess automatically, because we have a very strong border there now.

We didn't have a strong border at all.

We've built 129 miles of wall and the wall areas 100% secure, but we haven't seen any great.

I don't think we've seen any great evidence of that area is a problem at this moment, so we won't have to bother with that at this moment. 00:15:1.440 --> 00:15:1.950 Anybody? 00:15:3.200 --> 00:15:4.400 You're so nice today. 00:15:4.900 --> 00:15:9.000 T o n I h it rubbed off.

Tell us about Super Tuesday How you're watching the primaries that are taking place.

Well, it's gonna be a very interesting evening of television.

I think it's really gonna be something that's got some races going on that didn't seem to exist a few days ago.