1 00:00:00,187 --> 00:00:02,400 - And I look forward to answering your questions. 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:04,650 I'm not going to go into a lot of detail 3 00:00:04,650 --> 00:00:07,680 on what the concept of what our plan is. 4 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:09,400 Most of you have heard this. 5 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:10,870 I do wanna reiterate, though, 6 00:00:10,870 --> 00:00:13,610 that when we got this call about two weeks ago 7 00:00:13,610 --> 00:00:15,640 to go to help the governor of New York, 8 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,950 we went up with what we call a standard design. 9 00:00:17,950 --> 00:00:19,440 And I have said several times, 10 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,950 this is an unbelievably complicated scenario here. 11 00:00:22,950 --> 00:00:24,940 We need a very simple solution. 12 00:00:24,940 --> 00:00:28,360 So the standard design was basically vetted through FEMA, 13 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:32,720 we are working for FEMA here, but also vetted through HHS, 14 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,300 and then as we continued to be able to support 15 00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:38,320 state governors and local city mayors 16 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,730 to be able to site-adapt a standard design 17 00:00:41,730 --> 00:00:46,630 to be able to apply to both COVID cases and non-COVID cases. 18 00:00:46,630 --> 00:00:50,440 And as you remember, the concept was many of our facilities 19 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:52,480 were gonna be small room, which is 20 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:57,100 hotel or college dormitory, or larger facilities, 21 00:00:57,100 --> 00:00:59,880 which would be more like a field house 22 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:01,950 or perhaps a convention center. 23 00:01:01,950 --> 00:01:04,770 The only reason I bring that up is that any time you have 24 00:01:04,770 --> 00:01:08,260 any type of a standard design, we want to continue to learn. 25 00:01:08,260 --> 00:01:10,920 And I've been on the ground in the last couple days 26 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,140 to New York City, to Chicago, and Detroit, 27 00:01:14,140 --> 00:01:16,720 and we have continued to see where our engineers, 28 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:18,910 who are actually doing this construction, 29 00:01:18,910 --> 00:01:22,110 are being pretty innovative of how do we site-adapt 30 00:01:22,110 --> 00:01:25,440 that standard design to even give more capability 31 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,760 back out to the great doctors and nurses 32 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,210 who are gonna be taking care of these patients out there. 33 00:01:30,210 --> 00:01:32,020 And so I think that's the main thing we want, 34 00:01:32,020 --> 00:01:34,910 is to continue to be learning here. 35 00:01:34,910 --> 00:01:37,130 And then as we continue to thinK about how would we 36 00:01:37,130 --> 00:01:40,230 apply a design to a installation or a city 37 00:01:40,230 --> 00:01:42,020 we've not actually built out yet. 38 00:01:42,020 --> 00:01:44,600 How do we wrap those lessons learned back in? 39 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,490 So I think that's the main thought 40 00:01:46,490 --> 00:01:48,060 that we wanted to try to convey. 41 00:01:48,060 --> 00:01:50,470 I was here, I think, last Friday afternoon, 42 00:01:50,470 --> 00:01:54,680 and you asked me how many requests for site assessments 43 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,540 have we actually received, and the number 44 00:01:58,540 --> 00:02:01,750 was 114 last Friday afternoon. 45 00:02:01,750 --> 00:02:06,500 Today's number is 750 requests for site assessments. 46 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:11,100 And we've actually completed 673, 47 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:12,980 and I wanna reassure every community, 48 00:02:12,980 --> 00:02:15,590 whether a large city or a small town, 49 00:02:15,590 --> 00:02:18,300 if your mayor or your governor needs to be able 50 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:20,900 to have the Corps of Engineers come in to be able 51 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:22,690 to do an assessment of a site, 52 00:02:22,690 --> 00:02:25,730 we have the depth and the capacity to be able to do that. 53 00:02:25,730 --> 00:02:28,200 So we are not resource constrained right now. 54 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:29,410 We wanna stay ahead of this. 55 00:02:29,410 --> 00:02:31,810 And the reason we want to do the site assessment 56 00:02:31,810 --> 00:02:34,187 is we might get a building nominated to say, 57 00:02:34,187 --> 00:02:36,610 "This would be a great facility," but if we go 58 00:02:36,610 --> 00:02:39,260 into the mechanical room and it has a hard time 59 00:02:39,260 --> 00:02:41,610 producing enough heat or we have some type 60 00:02:41,610 --> 00:02:44,350 of a hazardous issue in there, the last thing we wanna do 61 00:02:44,350 --> 00:02:46,850 is to inherit a building that's got problems. 62 00:02:46,850 --> 00:02:50,570 So we're trying to put our approval on it, first of all, 63 00:02:50,570 --> 00:02:52,820 before we do a lot of investments back in there. 64 00:02:52,820 --> 00:02:54,990 I wanna show you just a couple products, 65 00:02:54,990 --> 00:02:57,280 and we're gonna continue to post these 66 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,020 to our website at a relatively consistent time. 67 00:03:01,020 --> 00:03:04,860 I think we're gonna do this around 11:00 every morning. 68 00:03:04,860 --> 00:03:07,620 The first one I wanna show you is what we would call 69 00:03:07,620 --> 00:03:10,700 an infographic, and it is the Corps of Engineers. 70 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:12,890 And again, I wanna reiterate, we're working, 71 00:03:12,890 --> 00:03:15,050 we're obviously at DOD capability, 72 00:03:15,050 --> 00:03:18,080 but we're working under FEMA mission assignments. 73 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:19,860 And I'm certainly not gonna go through this, 74 00:03:19,860 --> 00:03:22,580 but this talks about how many different stadiums, 75 00:03:22,580 --> 00:03:24,800 how many different COVID beds we're gonna have. 76 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,890 And I'm gonna kind of walk you through those numbers today. 77 00:03:27,890 --> 00:03:31,800 But anytime you wanna see, this will change every 24 hours, 78 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,100 and then we will continue to be able to give you assessments 79 00:03:35,100 --> 00:03:37,250 on what we're doing out in the field. 80 00:03:37,250 --> 00:03:39,560 I think the other thing that I wanna stress 81 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,450 is the criticality of what the White House, 82 00:03:43,450 --> 00:03:46,240 the administration, and the Secretary of Defense 83 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,260 are putting on our mission. 84 00:03:48,260 --> 00:03:51,100 I get phone calls from senior leaders 85 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:53,627 consistently throughout the day to say, 86 00:03:53,627 --> 00:03:55,927 "What else can we do to be able to help 87 00:03:55,927 --> 00:03:58,240 "set the Corps of Engineers up for success?" 88 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,900 And we certainly appreciate that, but our ability 89 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:04,010 to have a lot of authority and the ability to go down 90 00:04:04,010 --> 00:04:06,660 and work with the local mayors and governors 91 00:04:06,660 --> 00:04:08,560 allows us to really get this job done. 92 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,910 And then again, the nice thing is our ability 93 00:04:10,910 --> 00:04:13,930 to completely decentralize this down to the Colonel 94 00:04:13,930 --> 00:04:16,190 on the ground to be able to execute, 95 00:04:16,190 --> 00:04:19,680 following the overall intent and the specifications, 96 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,360 but to be able to site adapt it. 97 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:22,720 It's a big deal. 98 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,320 The other thing I wanna stress is that 99 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,260 in the last week or so, we've done a lot more on modeling. 100 00:04:28,260 --> 00:04:31,040 And so now we're taking several of the different models 101 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,470 that's coming outta the Vice President's task force. 102 00:04:33,470 --> 00:04:36,374 And many of those models are really looking at 103 00:04:36,374 --> 00:04:39,950 the slope of people that are getting the virus. 104 00:04:39,950 --> 00:04:42,440 We are putting these against two variables. 105 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:43,870 We're looking at the slope, 106 00:04:43,870 --> 00:04:45,900 and we're really looking for exponential, 107 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:48,720 or a higher rate of growth in the national norm, 108 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,740 but we're also looking at bed shortages. 109 00:04:50,740 --> 00:04:53,020 We have some unbelievable data right now 110 00:04:53,020 --> 00:04:54,450 from every single state. 111 00:04:54,450 --> 00:04:56,751 We can click on a state and we can understand 112 00:04:56,751 --> 00:05:01,150 what are the bed requirements, what are the beds available, 113 00:05:01,150 --> 00:05:03,310 and then have some degree of an understanding. 114 00:05:03,310 --> 00:05:07,100 And this is arrayed along when we think the max curve 115 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:08,840 is gonna be for a given city. 116 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:11,170 So city X right now, we might know 117 00:05:11,170 --> 00:05:12,990 that the 24th of April's 118 00:05:12,990 --> 00:05:14,890 when we're gonna have a mass requirement. 119 00:05:14,890 --> 00:05:17,950 We can see the delta, and that's why as we sit down 120 00:05:17,950 --> 00:05:20,770 to the city and the cities and the governors, 121 00:05:20,770 --> 00:05:23,130 we're able to understand their plan, 122 00:05:23,130 --> 00:05:25,810 because this is a state and city plan. 123 00:05:25,810 --> 00:05:29,330 It is a federal supporting effort to be able to augment, 124 00:05:29,330 --> 00:05:30,330 but it really goes back 125 00:05:30,330 --> 00:05:32,700 to supporting state and local governors. 126 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:35,040 I want to go to a new chart you've never seen, 127 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:36,930 and this is kind of the roll-up, 128 00:05:36,930 --> 00:05:39,670 but I'm just gonna kinda walk you through this. 129 00:05:39,670 --> 00:05:41,490 I don't expect you to read this on TV, 130 00:05:41,490 --> 00:05:44,470 but I'll basically just walk through how this looks. 131 00:05:44,470 --> 00:05:46,140 We want you to understand 132 00:05:46,140 --> 00:05:48,160 where we actually have active contracts. 133 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,000 So the category that's green in here, 134 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,880 and I'll just reflect over to the where it says awarded, 135 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,820 these are awarded contracts where we already 136 00:05:55,820 --> 00:05:59,070 have a contractor in a convention center right now. 137 00:05:59,070 --> 00:06:00,690 And a couple of these I'm gonna give you 138 00:06:00,690 --> 00:06:03,940 by example of the progress that's being done in there. 139 00:06:03,940 --> 00:06:05,680 We have eight facilities. 140 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,950 There's actually nine different contracts, 141 00:06:07,950 --> 00:06:10,890 but two of 'em are in Javits, so eight facilities. 142 00:06:10,890 --> 00:06:15,890 The number today is 9,693 beds that we are creating 143 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:21,977 for mayors and governors in these eight particular sites. 144 00:06:21,977 --> 00:06:25,930 This has been vetted through the governors and the mayors, 145 00:06:25,930 --> 00:06:28,530 and now we are very cautious not to get ahead of them. 146 00:06:28,530 --> 00:06:30,240 They have a lot of different pieces 147 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,200 that they've gotta work in these particular areas, 148 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,220 the walk-through, the mechanics of 149 00:06:35,220 --> 00:06:36,800 how they're gonna roll this out, 150 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,227 so there was a request a couple days ago to say, 151 00:06:39,227 --> 00:06:41,960 "Show me your list of all 750." 152 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:43,590 We're not gonna do that. 153 00:06:43,590 --> 00:06:46,770 We clearly know to leave the mayor and the governor 154 00:06:46,770 --> 00:06:48,870 some decision space as to 155 00:06:48,870 --> 00:06:51,927 do they wanna be able to execute COVID or non-COVID. 156 00:06:51,927 --> 00:06:54,930 And as you're probably aware in the last 24 hours, 157 00:06:54,930 --> 00:06:58,880 just with Javits alone, we have seen a scenario 158 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,430 where some of these have actually changed. 159 00:07:02,430 --> 00:07:06,220 And the beauty of the plan that we have is agile enough 160 00:07:06,220 --> 00:07:09,400 that we can then come back in and either modify, 161 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,450 whether it's pressure in a facility, 162 00:07:11,450 --> 00:07:13,730 whether it's room configuration. 163 00:07:13,730 --> 00:07:16,170 We're able to stay ahead of that. (coughs) 164 00:07:16,170 --> 00:07:18,470 I want to go to the second category, 165 00:07:18,470 --> 00:07:21,780 which is the orange category. 166 00:07:21,780 --> 00:07:23,540 This is primarily pending. 167 00:07:23,540 --> 00:07:25,390 These are contracts that we're 168 00:07:25,390 --> 00:07:27,550 in the final negotiations with. 169 00:07:27,550 --> 00:07:29,910 We're writing the final paperwork. 170 00:07:29,910 --> 00:07:31,670 Perhaps the governor hasn't actually 171 00:07:31,670 --> 00:07:33,730 mentioned it publicly yet, and we're 172 00:07:33,730 --> 00:07:36,940 still working the contract scenarios, but basically, 173 00:07:36,940 --> 00:07:38,540 these are nine more facilities 174 00:07:38,540 --> 00:07:42,730 we're bringing in at about 5,039 beds. 175 00:07:42,730 --> 00:07:44,770 The yellow, the white box in the bottom 176 00:07:44,770 --> 00:07:47,890 is another set that's just a little bit further behind. 177 00:07:47,890 --> 00:07:50,587 A good example, let's assume that a mayor says, 178 00:07:50,587 --> 00:07:54,230 "I'd like to have a facility within a mile of a hospital." 179 00:07:54,230 --> 00:07:55,780 That's kind of our criteria, keep it 180 00:07:55,780 --> 00:07:57,470 as close as can to a hospital. 181 00:07:57,470 --> 00:08:00,430 We find a great facility, but it's four miles away. 182 00:08:00,430 --> 00:08:02,077 The governor has to think through, 183 00:08:02,077 --> 00:08:03,470 "Do I wanna do that or not?" 184 00:08:03,470 --> 00:08:08,020 So there's a whole bin, this is specifically 15 facilities, 185 00:08:08,020 --> 00:08:11,020 about 10,000 more beds, that we're ready 186 00:08:11,020 --> 00:08:13,910 to start building if we get the thumbs up 187 00:08:13,910 --> 00:08:16,070 from the city mayor or the governor. 188 00:08:16,070 --> 00:08:19,640 So I just kinda want you to understand this is iterative. 189 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,340 Green are already awarded, orange are the ones 190 00:08:22,340 --> 00:08:25,560 that we're actually getting ready to pull the trigger on, 191 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,130 and then the white ones are those 192 00:08:27,130 --> 00:08:29,960 that are on deck and will continue to be brought in. 193 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,030 There's a new category here of the blue, okay? 194 00:08:33,030 --> 00:08:35,030 And I wanna be able to let you know, and again, 195 00:08:35,030 --> 00:08:36,872 this is where the power of this idea 196 00:08:36,872 --> 00:08:39,140 is that the Corps of Engineers 197 00:08:39,140 --> 00:08:41,390 doesn't have to be the one that execute this. 198 00:08:41,390 --> 00:08:46,000 This is the entire federal team working together, HHS, FEMA, 199 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,960 and us, under Vice President Pence's direction 200 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,010 here on the task force, but to be able to 201 00:08:53,010 --> 00:08:57,567 basically give a design over to a given city mayor and say, 202 00:08:57,567 --> 00:09:01,277 "We think that hotel number three is a great option for you. 203 00:09:01,277 --> 00:09:03,867 "We think there's a hundred beds that can go in there. 204 00:09:03,867 --> 00:09:07,407 "Here's the specifications that we would recommend you use. 205 00:09:07,407 --> 00:09:09,447 "You apply your city codes into it. 206 00:09:09,447 --> 00:09:12,267 "Here's even a potential lease that you can actually, 207 00:09:12,267 --> 00:09:14,750 "a draft lease you can work with that hotel." 208 00:09:14,750 --> 00:09:18,310 And some of the states have opted to do this themselves. 209 00:09:18,310 --> 00:09:20,950 And that, not only takes some of the workload 210 00:09:20,950 --> 00:09:23,050 off the Corps of Engineers, but today, 211 00:09:23,050 --> 00:09:25,090 we're ready to announce that basically, 212 00:09:25,090 --> 00:09:28,420 eight of these facilities have been done 213 00:09:28,420 --> 00:09:31,430 by local mayors or city governors 214 00:09:31,430 --> 00:09:34,080 with a total of 5,600 beds. 215 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,120 I wanna make sure I condition this. 216 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,390 There are many, many other arrangements 217 00:09:38,390 --> 00:09:42,100 that are done by local leaders that we are not tracking. 218 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:44,310 If it's something where the city understands, 219 00:09:44,310 --> 00:09:46,700 and they're cutting a contract with hotels, 220 00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:49,870 we don't track the entire domain of the problem. 221 00:09:49,870 --> 00:09:54,000 We're specifically asked where there's a requirement delta. 222 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,400 We go in and we make the plan, and we pass 223 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,850 our plan that we design, not only the specifications, 224 00:09:59,850 --> 00:10:03,600 but the specific plan for that building, over to that mayor, 225 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:04,890 and they build that out. 226 00:10:04,890 --> 00:10:06,520 The other thing we wanna say today 227 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,520 is for the contracts we have awarded, we're actually 228 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,320 gonna show you what I would call a quad chart. 229 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:13,890 And if you don't mind, can we bring up 230 00:10:13,890 --> 00:10:16,680 the quad chart for Detroit? 231 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:18,470 So it's gonna be relatively simple, 232 00:10:18,470 --> 00:10:20,120 and you aren't gonna be able to see this, again, 233 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,040 on the screen, but you need to know 234 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,890 that these are now uploaded and you can pull 'em down. 235 00:10:24,890 --> 00:10:26,920 It'll basically, and I'm gonna basically talk off 236 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:31,100 of what's called the TCF center in Detroit, Michigan. 237 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:33,770 I just wanna use this kind of as an example of 238 00:10:33,770 --> 00:10:36,180 how we would continue to go through and kind of 239 00:10:36,180 --> 00:10:37,690 show you what you're looking at here. 240 00:10:37,690 --> 00:10:39,990 So, obviously, how much money do we have? 241 00:10:39,990 --> 00:10:43,055 This particular one is $11.5 million. 242 00:10:43,055 --> 00:10:46,220 COVID or non-COVID, this one happens to be COVID. 243 00:10:46,220 --> 00:10:49,030 The amount of beds, about a thousand beds. 244 00:10:49,030 --> 00:10:51,630 The upper right, you'll actually see our plan. 245 00:10:51,630 --> 00:10:53,430 And we have a lot more details. 246 00:10:53,430 --> 00:10:55,860 You can click and then expand it, but you'll see 247 00:10:55,860 --> 00:10:59,290 where all the individual bed pods are, 248 00:10:59,290 --> 00:11:03,080 normally 10 or 15 beds surrounding a nurses' station. 249 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,000 Then you'll see a nurses' station. 250 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Then you'll see things like shower rooms, extra bathrooms, 251 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,340 crash carts if they're needed, and then 252 00:11:11,340 --> 00:11:12,830 on every one of these facilities, 253 00:11:12,830 --> 00:11:17,270 there's normally an entry side where patients are coming in. 254 00:11:17,270 --> 00:11:20,519 So ambulances come in, they get processed into the facility, 255 00:11:20,519 --> 00:11:24,760 then they go into where that actual patient area is. 256 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,500 There's another one on the other side, 257 00:11:26,500 --> 00:11:28,120 which was mainly where staff. 258 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,120 So think of it as kind of where people 259 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:32,620 that are not affected could come in and 260 00:11:32,620 --> 00:11:34,410 be able to help support, and obviously, 261 00:11:34,410 --> 00:11:36,680 the affected people come from the other direction. 262 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:39,110 And then we basically have a little bit of a heat map 263 00:11:39,110 --> 00:11:41,410 to kinda show when do we think 264 00:11:41,410 --> 00:11:43,940 the potential curve of that will be up. 265 00:11:43,940 --> 00:11:45,841 I think this one here, we continue to, 266 00:11:45,841 --> 00:11:49,250 we're working the anticipated peak, and then perhaps 267 00:11:49,250 --> 00:11:51,870 a picture or two of the work in progress. 268 00:11:51,870 --> 00:11:53,610 And I really wanna brag a little bit 269 00:11:53,610 --> 00:11:55,790 on the leadership in Michigan, here. 270 00:11:55,790 --> 00:11:58,050 I was with Governor Whitmer the other day, 271 00:11:58,050 --> 00:11:59,400 with her leadership, 272 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,010 and just an unbelievably impressive team. 273 00:12:02,010 --> 00:12:03,600 The governor asked us to do this. 274 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:05,200 We laid the design out. 275 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,240 The governor then made the decision 276 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,040 and then we went to FEMA, who gave us the thumbs up. 277 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,900 This particular one, again, it's about a 10x10 area. 278 00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:17,300 It's got three hard walls with a curtain on it. 279 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:19,330 And then inside this particular area, 280 00:12:19,330 --> 00:12:23,050 we bring in electricity for all the medical equipment. 281 00:12:23,050 --> 00:12:26,920 We've also got the ability to put in hot and cold water, 282 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,390 also sewage, to be able to drain 283 00:12:29,390 --> 00:12:30,820 anything out the sewer line. 284 00:12:30,820 --> 00:12:33,390 And this is one where the city of Detroit 285 00:12:33,390 --> 00:12:35,377 went above and beyond by saying, 286 00:12:35,377 --> 00:12:39,310 "We really wanna have oxygen into that area 287 00:12:39,310 --> 00:12:41,820 right there with all those patient areas." 288 00:12:41,820 --> 00:12:45,330 In some of the other facilities, oxygen comes in a tank 289 00:12:45,330 --> 00:12:48,480 and is wheeled in, and it's more of a portable oxygen. 290 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:52,920 Here, the city asked us to design a manifold system 291 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,890 where basically, we're bringing in all these hard pipes 292 00:12:55,890 --> 00:12:59,430 in in the ceiling, and we're dropping oxygen down 293 00:12:59,430 --> 00:13:01,690 into every one of these particular pods, 294 00:13:01,690 --> 00:13:04,370 so if that patient actually needs oxygen, 295 00:13:04,370 --> 00:13:07,380 there is certified oxygen to code 296 00:13:07,380 --> 00:13:09,070 right there in every single pod. 297 00:13:09,070 --> 00:13:11,470 So, I just wanna, as we continue to talk to you 298 00:13:11,470 --> 00:13:13,640 in the next couple weeks here, I think right now 299 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,900 what we've loaded up today is the nine quad charts 300 00:13:16,900 --> 00:13:19,170 for the nine facilities that we've got done, 301 00:13:19,170 --> 00:13:22,330 but we wanna continue to show you the different array. 302 00:13:22,330 --> 00:13:24,770 Every single site is custom built. 303 00:13:24,770 --> 00:13:27,720 Every single site is built to the specifications 304 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,300 of the medical plan that that mayor wants to use, 305 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:33,220 and every single site is being done 306 00:13:33,220 --> 00:13:36,550 with a different type of a business case 307 00:13:36,550 --> 00:13:38,360 on who's the contractor? 308 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,380 Who provides all the rest of the support services? 309 00:13:41,380 --> 00:13:44,420 As I've said in the past, this is a three-legged stool, 310 00:13:44,420 --> 00:13:47,020 and I use the analogy of the three Ss. 311 00:13:47,020 --> 00:13:50,450 We need sites to be able to build these facilities. 312 00:13:50,450 --> 00:13:51,870 That's what the Corps of Engineers 313 00:13:51,870 --> 00:13:53,910 is working with the local officials. 314 00:13:53,910 --> 00:13:57,130 We need the supplies, that's another critical area 315 00:13:57,130 --> 00:13:58,920 and you're tracking this, but that is mainly 316 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,270 gonna be done by the local cities, 317 00:14:01,270 --> 00:14:03,590 the states, and HHS and FEMA. 318 00:14:03,590 --> 00:14:06,240 And then we need the staff, same thing, so today, 319 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,960 if you ask me a lot of questions about supplies and staff, 320 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,010 I would defer back to other agencies. 321 00:14:12,010 --> 00:14:14,630 Our job is to stay in our lane and work the sites. 322 00:14:14,630 --> 00:14:17,460 So I think with that, Colonel, we'll pause right there, 323 00:14:17,460 --> 00:14:19,190 and take what ever questions you have. 324 00:14:19,190 --> 00:14:20,520 - Thank you, sir. 325 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:22,673 Leta, we'll go to you first, Leta Bellgard? 326 00:14:25,380 --> 00:14:26,250 - [Leta] Hi, I'm gonna pass 327 00:14:26,250 --> 00:14:27,450 and let somebody else ask a question. 328 00:14:27,450 --> 00:14:28,283 Go ahead. 329 00:14:28,283 --> 00:14:29,116 - Thank you, Leta. 330 00:14:29,116 --> 00:14:30,423 Travis, Travis? 331 00:14:32,860 --> 00:14:34,816 - [Travis] Hi, sir, thanks for doing this. 332 00:14:34,816 --> 00:14:37,680 This may be slightly out of your purview, I'm not sure, 333 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,510 but I wanted to ask you about the pier-side testing 334 00:14:41,510 --> 00:14:45,840 for the Comfort in New York, the announcement this morning 335 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,650 that there would be this new pier-side testing 336 00:14:48,650 --> 00:14:52,300 and it mentioned taking temperatures and a questionnaire, 337 00:14:52,300 --> 00:14:55,950 and I'm wondering if that is the extent of the screening, 338 00:14:55,950 --> 00:14:59,940 or if there is some kind of quicker testing 339 00:14:59,940 --> 00:15:01,930 that's being done because, as you know, 340 00:15:01,930 --> 00:15:03,873 people can be asymptomatic. 341 00:15:05,220 --> 00:15:07,040 Travis, I imagine that's a great question. 342 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,620 We're working 750 facilities. 343 00:15:09,620 --> 00:15:11,130 I'm worried about the site piece. 344 00:15:11,130 --> 00:15:13,480 I would defer you back to another expert 345 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:14,790 to be able to answer that question, 346 00:15:14,790 --> 00:15:16,240 and I am sorry I don't have the answer, 347 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,303 but that is not in my lane, over. 348 00:15:19,871 --> 00:15:21,660 - [Travis] Okay, thank you. 349 00:15:21,660 --> 00:15:22,493 - Tara? 350 00:15:25,070 --> 00:15:26,360 - [Tara] Hi, General, thank you so much 351 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:27,660 for coming back to talk to us. 352 00:15:27,660 --> 00:15:30,320 I actually have a bunch of questions for you. 353 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,050 So I'm at home and I'm looking at the Army Corps site 354 00:15:33,050 --> 00:15:38,050 with the nine contracts that you've listed, but I don't see, 355 00:15:38,370 --> 00:15:43,370 for example, the CenturyLink center in Seattle, 356 00:15:43,430 --> 00:15:47,060 where work is already underway there. 357 00:15:47,060 --> 00:15:50,610 Is there a place on this website where we can see 358 00:15:50,610 --> 00:15:54,003 everything that is either being considered or underway? 359 00:15:55,380 --> 00:15:58,120 And then I have a couple other questions for you. 360 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,340 - The CenturyLink is actually in the blue category 361 00:16:01,340 --> 00:16:02,610 that I talked about. 362 00:16:02,610 --> 00:16:06,070 This is where the state made a decision 363 00:16:06,070 --> 00:16:08,950 to be able to build this through another venue. 364 00:16:08,950 --> 00:16:12,080 They can either contract it or use their own laborers, 365 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,960 or perhaps their own venue. 366 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:15,930 So they made a decision to actually 367 00:16:15,930 --> 00:16:17,850 build this out themselves. 368 00:16:17,850 --> 00:16:21,860 So while we did the design, we basically, in other words, 369 00:16:21,860 --> 00:16:26,030 how many rooms go where, where are the nurses' stations, 370 00:16:26,030 --> 00:16:29,280 we did the design for that, but we basically 371 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:30,900 passed that over to the state. 372 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:34,540 So it is not on our site, but we wanted to be aware 373 00:16:34,540 --> 00:16:36,670 of that there are some where we've done some work 374 00:16:36,670 --> 00:16:38,190 to be able to design it. 375 00:16:38,190 --> 00:16:41,050 It is not our intent to be able to roll out 376 00:16:41,050 --> 00:16:44,650 all the different locations that are in the orange category, 377 00:16:44,650 --> 00:16:47,280 the white category, or the blue category, 378 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,800 but it's something where clearly, if you have questions, 379 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,000 I would go to that specific state 380 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,870 and ask them questions on those sites. 381 00:16:53,870 --> 00:16:56,830 But we'll certainly be able to advise. 382 00:16:56,830 --> 00:16:58,577 I think there's only about seven or eight sites 383 00:16:58,577 --> 00:17:01,540 that were in the blue category, eight facilities, 384 00:17:01,540 --> 00:17:04,133 but CenturyLink is in the blue category, over. 385 00:17:05,530 --> 00:17:07,540 - [Tara] Okay, thank you for that. 386 00:17:07,540 --> 00:17:09,480 Likewise, last week you talked 387 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,860 about the Sleep Train facility in Sacramento. 388 00:17:11,860 --> 00:17:13,670 Is that another blue? 389 00:17:13,670 --> 00:17:15,407 And just in general-- 390 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,330 - The city very easily can use our resources, 391 00:17:21,330 --> 00:17:24,410 but if they actually have, perhaps, a contractor 392 00:17:24,410 --> 00:17:26,690 in their local state that they wanna use instead, 393 00:17:26,690 --> 00:17:28,740 or they have certain workers they wanna use, 394 00:17:28,740 --> 00:17:30,240 this is their prerogative. 395 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,380 We are here to assist them, but Sleep Train 396 00:17:33,380 --> 00:17:35,730 is the same exact thing as CenturyLink. 397 00:17:35,730 --> 00:17:37,900 That is in the blue category, where the state 398 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:39,870 has made a decision to be able to 399 00:17:39,870 --> 00:17:42,210 build that out themselves, and I'll be honest. 400 00:17:42,210 --> 00:17:44,680 These states are amazing at being able to do it. 401 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,180 Same thing, the city mayors, the leadership 402 00:17:47,180 --> 00:17:50,100 down in some of these large convention centers, 403 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:53,450 and the engineers down there are just as good as ours. 404 00:17:53,450 --> 00:17:56,189 They do amazing work, and wherever I can take 405 00:17:56,189 --> 00:17:59,420 our Corps of Engineers and put them on facilities 406 00:17:59,420 --> 00:18:02,490 that might not have that depth in another city, 407 00:18:02,490 --> 00:18:04,863 it just allows us to spread the workload, Tara. 408 00:18:06,430 --> 00:18:08,670 - [Tara] Okay, thank you, and then finally, 409 00:18:08,670 --> 00:18:10,550 last week when you were talking to us, 410 00:18:10,550 --> 00:18:13,640 you mentioned that you would hit Chicago and probably 411 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,210 Washington state next, where you saw other hot spots. 412 00:18:17,210 --> 00:18:20,550 But I know Washington state fell off your schedule. 413 00:18:20,550 --> 00:18:23,407 Is that because you guys see the curve flattening out there 414 00:18:23,407 --> 00:18:24,730 and there may not be a need, 415 00:18:24,730 --> 00:18:26,430 or do you still intend to get out there? 416 00:18:26,430 --> 00:18:30,050 Are there still sites there that you are assessing? 417 00:18:30,050 --> 00:18:33,680 - I actually try to use my schedule to go to where, perhaps, 418 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,340 leadership on the ground can either help resolve any issues 419 00:18:37,340 --> 00:18:40,930 or just, if nothing else, continue to reinforce success. 420 00:18:40,930 --> 00:18:43,250 I was in Chicago and Detroit this week, 421 00:18:43,250 --> 00:18:45,150 'cause those were the two biggest things 422 00:18:45,150 --> 00:18:46,930 that I wanted to personally see, 423 00:18:46,930 --> 00:18:49,000 and I was very, very impressed by 424 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,520 both Governor Pritzger's team and Governor Whitmer's team, 425 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,180 and so I feel very, very comfortable with those two cities. 426 00:18:55,180 --> 00:18:57,730 Still a lot of challenges, but I think that we've, 427 00:18:57,730 --> 00:18:59,740 at least, got those two facilities up. 428 00:18:59,740 --> 00:19:02,840 Because Washington and CenturyLink primarily 429 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,900 went on their own to be able to do that specific facility, 430 00:19:06,900 --> 00:19:11,360 I have diverted my focus and it is premature to say 431 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:13,720 where I'm going next week, but in the back room, 432 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,530 my staff is working two or three other cities 433 00:19:16,530 --> 00:19:19,060 to be able to go in, probably Tuesday and Wednesday 434 00:19:19,060 --> 00:19:21,210 on one trip and Friday on another trip, 435 00:19:21,210 --> 00:19:22,920 just to be able to see. 436 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,150 And here's where I'm really concerned. 437 00:19:25,150 --> 00:19:28,720 If we know that the peak, again, is in three weeks, 438 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:33,180 and we know that we might need, three weeks is 21 days, 439 00:19:33,180 --> 00:19:36,030 if we need 23 days to build the site, 440 00:19:36,030 --> 00:19:38,440 that means we're already two days too late. 441 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,160 What I've asked my team to do is that 442 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,380 if there's a decision that has to be made 443 00:19:43,380 --> 00:19:46,337 by a senior leader, we've got to be able to tell them, 444 00:19:46,337 --> 00:19:49,410 "You've gotta make that decision by next Monday morning." 445 00:19:49,410 --> 00:19:52,180 And if not, it's gonna be a day-for-day slip. 446 00:19:52,180 --> 00:19:54,590 We are on such a tight timeline, 447 00:19:54,590 --> 00:19:57,070 we can't condense this schedule any more. 448 00:19:57,070 --> 00:19:58,730 So the biggest thing we wanna do is 449 00:19:58,730 --> 00:20:01,870 to advise elected officials that this is 450 00:20:01,870 --> 00:20:05,220 when we've gotta be able to snap the chalk line, 451 00:20:05,220 --> 00:20:06,500 give us the thumbs up. 452 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:09,300 FEMA is exceptionally supportive here. 453 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:13,070 There's been no delay whatsoever in us getting turned on. 454 00:20:13,070 --> 00:20:14,550 But it goes back to making sure 455 00:20:14,550 --> 00:20:18,290 that the local officials understand the timelines 456 00:20:18,290 --> 00:20:20,970 and to be able to set us on a path, 457 00:20:20,970 --> 00:20:23,360 if they're gonna choose to ask us to help, 458 00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:25,943 before the need is identified, Tara. 459 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:29,470 - Thanks, Tara, we'll go to Ryan, in the room. 460 00:20:29,470 --> 00:20:30,303 Ryan? 461 00:20:30,303 --> 00:20:32,110 - Hello, General, thanks, Ryan Brown, CNN. 462 00:20:32,110 --> 00:20:32,943 - [General] Hello, Ryan. 463 00:20:32,943 --> 00:20:35,200 - Couple of quick follow-ups for you, sir. 464 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,320 You mentioned that you had this kind of document layer, 465 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:42,060 this data point laying out bed shortages, 466 00:20:42,060 --> 00:20:44,850 and that's how you're kind of prioritizing your products. 467 00:20:44,850 --> 00:20:46,310 Where are the next... 468 00:20:46,310 --> 00:20:49,150 We've seen the list of eight, those locations. 469 00:20:49,150 --> 00:20:50,740 Where are the next, on that kind of list, 470 00:20:50,740 --> 00:20:52,660 bed shortages, those critical points? 471 00:20:52,660 --> 00:20:54,630 What geographic locations are you looking at right now? 472 00:20:54,630 --> 00:20:56,380 - So, and I think a lot of these, 473 00:20:56,380 --> 00:20:58,240 I'm taking my lead off of things 474 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,930 that the Vice President's team said in the last couple days. 475 00:21:00,930 --> 00:21:02,800 These are the real medical experts, 476 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,010 so we're looking very hard at that. 477 00:21:05,010 --> 00:21:07,250 I, personally, am worried about Florida, okay? 478 00:21:07,250 --> 00:21:09,540 Only because if there is, obviously, 479 00:21:09,540 --> 00:21:11,410 there's an age issue here, to a degree, 480 00:21:11,410 --> 00:21:14,650 and I know the leadership of Florida is engaged. 481 00:21:14,650 --> 00:21:16,540 My colonel in Florida is talking 482 00:21:16,540 --> 00:21:17,960 to the leadership of Florida. 483 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,440 We have a couple nominated sites that we're looking at, 484 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,110 premature to say where they are, 485 00:21:22,110 --> 00:21:25,330 but I think Florida is almost in a realm, a different realm, 486 00:21:25,330 --> 00:21:27,910 to a degree, only because it's a little bit different than, 487 00:21:27,910 --> 00:21:30,620 perhaps, a standard population. 488 00:21:30,620 --> 00:21:31,780 There's a lot of great work 489 00:21:31,780 --> 00:21:33,610 being done in New Jersey right now. 490 00:21:33,610 --> 00:21:36,370 I think that's relatively on track. 491 00:21:36,370 --> 00:21:37,890 But we're continuing to work. 492 00:21:37,890 --> 00:21:39,730 I think, right now, that on the ones 493 00:21:39,730 --> 00:21:41,440 that are in the orange and the white, 494 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,190 there's probably 12 to 14 states are in there. 495 00:21:44,190 --> 00:21:47,090 So this is not focused on a specific state. 496 00:21:47,090 --> 00:21:48,010 It's really focused... 497 00:21:48,010 --> 00:21:49,540 And the other thing we're seeing is 498 00:21:49,540 --> 00:21:51,420 that sometimes these models are changing. 499 00:21:51,420 --> 00:21:54,840 There's actually an area where there was two cities 500 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,360 in one state about three days ago, and we thought 501 00:21:57,360 --> 00:21:59,570 the big problem was gonna be in city number one. 502 00:21:59,570 --> 00:22:01,670 Today, it actually is in city number two. 503 00:22:01,670 --> 00:22:03,740 And it goes back to every single day. 504 00:22:03,740 --> 00:22:06,390 Our guys re-cog the analytics, and they come back and say, 505 00:22:06,390 --> 00:22:07,570 "Here is the threat." 506 00:22:07,570 --> 00:22:09,350 Now, that doesn't mean we do anything different. 507 00:22:09,350 --> 00:22:11,140 We just go to the mayor, and make sure 508 00:22:11,140 --> 00:22:14,420 the mayor understands, your plan as of last week, 509 00:22:14,420 --> 00:22:16,290 is it still on track or not? 510 00:22:16,290 --> 00:22:17,930 And if we need to modify it, 511 00:22:17,930 --> 00:22:19,220 then we're more than willing to modify. 512 00:22:19,220 --> 00:22:20,053 And that's what I said. 513 00:22:20,053 --> 00:22:21,960 This has got to be an agile plan. 514 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,556 This virus gets a vote, and it's trying to figure out 515 00:22:25,556 --> 00:22:28,890 how does it continue to change over time? 516 00:22:28,890 --> 00:22:31,470 We've gotta be smart enough to try to anticipate 517 00:22:31,470 --> 00:22:34,160 where that change is gonna come, and to be able to, 518 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,400 if nothing else, have the appropriate amount 519 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,240 of facilities there so that the site component 520 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,240 is not the critical path. 521 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:42,320 - I saw the sheet of pro-... 522 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,153 Thank you for that. 523 00:22:43,153 --> 00:22:44,530 On the sheet of projects, Javits center 524 00:22:44,530 --> 00:22:46,760 was still listed as a non-COVID facility. 525 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:47,663 Obviously, that's changed-- 526 00:22:47,663 --> 00:22:48,500 - That's just 'cause my guys 527 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:50,780 haven't changed the chart, probably, okay? 528 00:22:50,780 --> 00:22:53,130 - So just going forward, do you anticipate... 529 00:22:53,130 --> 00:22:55,670 We're seeing a lot of the original non-COVID projects 530 00:22:55,670 --> 00:22:58,260 being converted to COVID facilities. 531 00:22:58,260 --> 00:22:59,490 Are you gonna, do you think you're gonna 532 00:22:59,490 --> 00:23:02,070 just do COVID facilities from here on out, 533 00:23:02,070 --> 00:23:04,200 so you don't have to make that conversion down the road? 534 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:05,751 Is that where kind of thinking? 535 00:23:05,751 --> 00:23:07,630 - The best option is go with 536 00:23:07,630 --> 00:23:09,630 what the mayor or the governor want. 537 00:23:09,630 --> 00:23:13,040 They all have different applications of this medical plan. 538 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,080 If we are giving advice, and I had a great talk 539 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,047 with Governor Pritzker the other night, saying, 540 00:23:18,047 --> 00:23:20,100 "There was an advantage of you 541 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:23,590 setting up your center COVID." 542 00:23:23,590 --> 00:23:26,290 Because if you go in, these convention centers, again, 543 00:23:26,290 --> 00:23:28,840 sometimes there's Hall A, B, C, D. 544 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,930 And you can subdivide all those out. 545 00:23:30,930 --> 00:23:33,300 You could theoretically have a convention center 546 00:23:33,300 --> 00:23:38,300 that maybe is only 25% COVID, 75% not, or vice versa. 547 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,600 But then as the population changes in there, 548 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,740 you could theoretically adapt and change those around. 549 00:23:44,740 --> 00:23:47,010 The modifications that we have to make 550 00:23:47,010 --> 00:23:49,720 are relatively minor, believe it or not. 551 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,553 Inside the actual 10x10 pod, 552 00:23:52,553 --> 00:23:56,730 because most of these are almost COVID convalescents, 553 00:23:56,730 --> 00:23:58,300 that's what they're looking at. 554 00:23:58,300 --> 00:24:00,150 These are not a lot of ventilators, 555 00:24:00,150 --> 00:24:01,590 necessarily, going into the COVID. 556 00:24:01,590 --> 00:24:04,570 This is, perhaps, the convalescent side. 557 00:24:04,570 --> 00:24:08,220 So where pressure is probably the single biggest variable, 558 00:24:08,220 --> 00:24:10,090 there's a couple other pieces of equipment 559 00:24:10,090 --> 00:24:11,610 that we might need to put in there. 560 00:24:11,610 --> 00:24:16,180 But if we do get even a couple days to be able to modify it, 561 00:24:16,180 --> 00:24:18,730 I don't think that's gonna be a critical issue 562 00:24:18,730 --> 00:24:19,920 of us having to convert. 563 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,500 You've got a good point, though. 564 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:25,130 It's so much easier to design it the first time and go in, 565 00:24:25,130 --> 00:24:27,070 but we understand that things are gonna change 566 00:24:27,070 --> 00:24:29,380 and the last thing we wanna do is be inflexible. 567 00:24:29,380 --> 00:24:32,220 We've gotta be able to go with where the mayor wants to go. 568 00:24:32,220 --> 00:24:33,053 - Thank you, sir. 569 00:24:33,053 --> 00:24:35,150 We're gonna go to the phone lines again. 570 00:24:35,150 --> 00:24:36,433 Carla, Carla Babb? 571 00:24:37,850 --> 00:24:38,683 - [Carla] Hey, General. 572 00:24:38,683 --> 00:24:40,300 Again, thank you so much for doing this. 573 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:42,480 These briefings have been incredibly helpful. 574 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,200 I have one question, one follow. 575 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,770 My question is, specifically, 576 00:24:46,770 --> 00:24:49,470 what did you do inside the Javits 577 00:24:49,470 --> 00:24:51,240 to transition it from something 578 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,700 that was taking non-COVID patients to COVID patients. 579 00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:56,260 Can you tell us a little how you were able 580 00:24:56,260 --> 00:24:57,500 to bring the pressure down 581 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:01,030 and isolate those barriers a little more? 582 00:25:01,030 --> 00:25:04,290 - Yeah, so I think we're still in the final throes of that. 583 00:25:04,290 --> 00:25:07,130 I did talk to my commander this morning up there, 584 00:25:07,130 --> 00:25:09,740 and part of this goes back, to a degree, 585 00:25:09,740 --> 00:25:12,910 of some of the equipment that is gonna be changed 586 00:25:12,910 --> 00:25:15,590 by the Army hospital that's there. 587 00:25:15,590 --> 00:25:19,830 They went in with a certain application of supplies. 588 00:25:19,830 --> 00:25:22,610 They have said there's some other things they need. 589 00:25:22,610 --> 00:25:25,640 I told you up front that I don't get deep involved 590 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,870 in the supply part, but I am aware 591 00:25:27,870 --> 00:25:30,240 that they have bring in some other equipment, 592 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,240 either civilian equipment or some of their equipment, 593 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,570 back in so they have more tools available to them 594 00:25:37,570 --> 00:25:41,010 to be able to handle the actual services provided 595 00:25:41,010 --> 00:25:42,580 for that particular patient. 596 00:25:42,580 --> 00:25:45,880 On the actual air pressure on it, right now, 597 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,500 we do not feel that we actually 598 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:50,170 have to change the air pressure in Javits. 599 00:25:50,170 --> 00:25:55,100 Some of the different tolerances here are relatively minor, 600 00:25:55,100 --> 00:25:56,660 and some of it has to go back 601 00:25:56,660 --> 00:25:58,680 to how insulated some of these are. 602 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,290 In other words, if you have a place 603 00:26:00,290 --> 00:26:03,270 that when you shut the doors, there's a pretty good vacuum 604 00:26:03,270 --> 00:26:06,040 and you don't have a lot of air being sucked in our out, 605 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,260 if there's a area where you can actually walk in one door 606 00:26:09,260 --> 00:26:10,790 and then you have an area where you're kind of 607 00:26:10,790 --> 00:26:13,210 in an airlock, and before you go in the other door, 608 00:26:13,210 --> 00:26:15,130 there's not a lot of things we do there. 609 00:26:15,130 --> 00:26:17,980 So these real large convention centers 610 00:26:17,980 --> 00:26:19,950 have a great deal of utility. 611 00:26:19,950 --> 00:26:22,330 And as I was briefed a couple hours ago, 612 00:26:22,330 --> 00:26:25,760 we don't see any significant mechanical changes 613 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:26,960 we need to make. 614 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,940 If there are some, this is something as simple as 615 00:26:29,940 --> 00:26:33,630 a couple technicians going to, basically, 616 00:26:33,630 --> 00:26:37,270 the HVAC room and to be able to make some modifications, 617 00:26:37,270 --> 00:26:40,630 more on the controls, kinda like turning your thermostat 618 00:26:40,630 --> 00:26:42,590 in your house, versus going in 619 00:26:42,590 --> 00:26:46,963 and replumbing an entire mechanical room. 620 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:50,153 - [Carla] Great, thank you. 621 00:26:50,153 --> 00:26:52,550 And then my follow to that question is, 622 00:26:52,550 --> 00:26:56,760 so when were you able to realize about the pressure 623 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,900 and all of these details, that you can have 624 00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:01,980 more of these massive convention centers be COVID? 625 00:27:01,980 --> 00:27:04,360 Was it when you were building the Chicago, 626 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:06,870 the McCormick Center? 627 00:27:06,870 --> 00:27:08,010 Can you give us more details on that? 628 00:27:08,010 --> 00:27:10,830 And then my follow about something you said earlier today, 629 00:27:10,830 --> 00:27:14,410 you mentioned the 9,693 beds 630 00:27:14,410 --> 00:27:16,810 in these eight active facilities. 631 00:27:16,810 --> 00:27:18,360 Can you give us a breakdown on 632 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:20,647 how many of those 9,693 are COVID, 633 00:27:21,854 --> 00:27:23,782 and how many of those are non-COVID? 634 00:27:23,782 --> 00:27:24,800 Thank you. 635 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:29,210 - Okay, so, on the when did we learn, 636 00:27:29,210 --> 00:27:33,363 we really got the Detroit and the Chicago centers, 637 00:27:34,230 --> 00:27:37,590 probably about a week ago, and I have to be honest with you, 638 00:27:37,590 --> 00:27:41,300 I was not convinced we could actually change the pressure 639 00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:43,450 in these large convention centers 640 00:27:43,450 --> 00:27:45,600 to a point that would actually 641 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,070 achieve the desired results we're looking for. 642 00:27:48,070 --> 00:27:51,000 When I was in Detroit the other day with the governor, 643 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,620 talking to the mechanical engineers... 644 00:27:54,690 --> 00:27:57,600 Our guys and their guys have done a phenomenal job 645 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,530 of some relatively minor changes. 646 00:27:59,530 --> 00:28:01,520 And so that really has, I think, 647 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:06,120 continued to show us that these are a viable alternative. 648 00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:09,230 So when we go in now, we're trying to make sure 649 00:28:09,230 --> 00:28:14,170 that leaders understand that I think COVID is an option, 650 00:28:14,170 --> 00:28:16,350 certainly in the convention center model. 651 00:28:16,350 --> 00:28:18,160 There's another one, Carla, 652 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,810 that we haven't necessarily done yet, 653 00:28:20,810 --> 00:28:22,799 but think about a field house 654 00:28:22,799 --> 00:28:27,000 with a great big gigantic roof on it. 655 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,590 That's not very easy to contain some of the airflow, so, 656 00:28:30,590 --> 00:28:33,440 again, every single site we go to we learn, 657 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,010 we wrap that back into our analysis, 658 00:28:36,010 --> 00:28:37,690 but the convention center model, 659 00:28:37,690 --> 00:28:40,290 specifically Detroit and Chicago, 660 00:28:40,290 --> 00:28:42,830 convinced us that we are able to do 661 00:28:42,830 --> 00:28:45,250 what we need to do to be able to make that happen. 662 00:28:45,250 --> 00:28:47,493 And then, tell me your last question again? 663 00:28:49,850 --> 00:28:50,683 - [Carla] Thank you. 664 00:28:50,683 --> 00:28:51,660 My last question was on the... 665 00:28:51,660 --> 00:28:52,750 I'm turning the page, sorry. 666 00:28:52,750 --> 00:28:55,720 Thank you, was on the 9,693 beds that are 667 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,070 in the eight active facilities that you're building, 668 00:28:59,070 --> 00:28:59,950 or that you've built. 669 00:28:59,950 --> 00:29:01,480 Can you give us a breakdown on 670 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,190 how many of those 9,693 are COVID, 671 00:29:04,190 --> 00:29:06,300 and how many of those are non-COVID? 672 00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:08,880 - You've got the chart, but I do math in public. 673 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:13,880 It looks like about 2,060 of those are non-COVID, 674 00:29:14,140 --> 00:29:16,370 and then you change the one for Javits. 675 00:29:16,370 --> 00:29:20,097 So when you subtract the 2,060 from the 960, 676 00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:25,213 you're about 7,640, something like that. 677 00:29:28,430 --> 00:29:29,263 - All right. 678 00:29:29,263 --> 00:29:31,330 Our last question today'll go to Ellen, on the line. 679 00:29:31,330 --> 00:29:32,163 Ellen? 680 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,160 - [Ellen] Hi, sorry, I had to take myself off mute. 681 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,610 You actually just answered my question. 682 00:29:37,610 --> 00:29:38,443 Thank you, sir. 683 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,370 - All right, at this point, General, do you have any? 684 00:29:42,370 --> 00:29:43,850 - So I would just say that we want 685 00:29:43,850 --> 00:29:45,280 to be as transparent as you can. 686 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,030 I certainly appreciate your flexibility 687 00:29:48,030 --> 00:29:50,300 and understanding that this is evolving. 688 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:54,490 I told you, 114 last Friday afternoon, 750. 689 00:29:54,490 --> 00:29:56,450 I don't know what the number's gonna be next week, 690 00:29:56,450 --> 00:29:58,960 or the week after that, but what we wanna do is 691 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,270 give local officials the decision space 692 00:30:02,270 --> 00:30:04,640 to be able to make those decisions and get those 693 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,220 on the street long before I'm saying it here 694 00:30:07,220 --> 00:30:10,710 from the Pentagon, and we wanna be as transparent as we can, 695 00:30:10,710 --> 00:30:12,240 so you're informed to what's out there. 696 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,920 I wanna reiterate a couple big points, standard design, 697 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,770 every single facility we build, we learn more and more. 698 00:30:18,770 --> 00:30:21,270 We wrap that back into the standard design. 699 00:30:21,270 --> 00:30:24,650 De-centralized execution, commanders on the ground 700 00:30:24,650 --> 00:30:28,500 have the authority without having to call Washington, DC 701 00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:30,310 to be able to make any of these changes. 702 00:30:30,310 --> 00:30:32,440 And I wanna give a shout out to my team, 703 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,090 36,000 unbelievable Corps of Engineers. 704 00:30:35,090 --> 00:30:37,860 These guys are working 18 hours a day. 705 00:30:37,860 --> 00:30:39,700 They've been, it's six weekends in a row now 706 00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:40,780 that we've been working. 707 00:30:40,780 --> 00:30:42,507 And they're in every single kind of facility. 708 00:30:42,507 --> 00:30:44,980 And there's nothing too small for us to look at, 709 00:30:44,980 --> 00:30:47,860 whether it's 100 beds or 3,000 beds, 710 00:30:47,860 --> 00:30:49,800 we're just as passionate about doing this. 711 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,190 And I can't reiterate again the support I'm getting 712 00:30:53,190 --> 00:30:55,350 from President Trump, the administration, 713 00:30:55,350 --> 00:30:58,537 Secretary Esper of saying, "What else do you need? 714 00:30:58,537 --> 00:31:00,960 "Give us your requirements, so we will do whatever we can." 715 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,470 So I look forward to briefing you. 716 00:31:02,470 --> 00:31:04,800 I think we've got a couple more of these late next week. 717 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,380 We will continue to put our products on. 718 00:31:07,380 --> 00:31:08,690 This is evolving. 719 00:31:08,690 --> 00:31:11,190 I hate to say it, I'm more focused on building beds 720 00:31:11,190 --> 00:31:13,090 right now than I am PowerPoint charge, 721 00:31:13,090 --> 00:31:16,010 so we will continue to be able to show you more and more. 722 00:31:16,010 --> 00:31:17,860 But let us know what your requirements are, 723 00:31:17,860 --> 00:31:20,540 and we'll try to meet the media demand wherever we can. 724 00:31:20,540 --> 00:31:22,740 Thanks a lot, I've loved being here, and again, 725 00:31:22,740 --> 00:31:24,320 thoughts and prayers of all of us out 726 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,270 to all those that are affected by this.