I'm glad to see that you're practicing social distancing. That looks very nice. It's very good.

I want to thank everybody for being here today. This morning I spoke with the leaders of the G7 nations and they really had a good meeting.

I think it was a very, very productive meeting.

I also spoke with our nation's governors. This afternoon

we're announcing new guidelines for every American to follow over the next 15 days

as we combat the virus each and every one of us has a critical role to play

in stopping the spread and transmission of the virus. We we did this today. This was

done by a lot of very talented people, some of whom were standing with me, and that's available.

And Dr. Burks will be speaking about that in just a few minutes.

It's important for the young and healthy people to understand that while they may experience

milder symptoms, they can easily spread this virus and they will spread it indeed, putting

countless others in harm's way. We especially worry about our senior citizens. The White

House task force meets every day and continually

updates guidelines based on the fast evolving situation that this has

become all over the world. It's all over the world. It's incredible what's happened in such a short period of time.

On the guidelines of the task force, the new modeling conducted by Dr. Burks and our consultation with

governors, we've made the decision to further toughen the

guidelines and blunt the infection now.

We'd much rather be ahead of the curve than behind it, and that's what we are.

Therefore, my administration is recommending that all Americans, including the young and healthy,

work to engage in schooling from home when possible,

avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people,

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