Thank you for broadcasting. The due to the covid19, the Committee Room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. The interpreter, please. Im sorry, i didnt get the whole thing. Im going to find somebody that can assist, because its long. Its pretty long. So i think maybe one of our interpreters has the script and will do a more accurate job. Due to coincident house emergency and to protect boar. S. Due to coincident Health Emergency and to protect Board Members, the board of supervisors, the chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This is pursuant to the local, state and federal orders, declaration and directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participating in the meeting to the same extent as if they are physically present. Public comment is available on each item on this agenda. [ ] i apologize, chair fewer, it sounds like we got disconnected. Can you go ahead and hang up and
Im the chair of the budget and finance committee and joined by supervisor walton, mamd exlman and president yee. Thank you for broadcasting. The due to the covid19, the Committee Room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. The interpreter, please. Im sorry, i didnt get the whole thing. Im going to find somebody that can assist, because its long. Its pretty long. So i think maybe one of our interpreters has the script and will do a more accurate job. Due to coincident house emergency and to protect boar. S. Due to coincident Health Emergency and to protect Board Members, the board of supervisors, the chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This is pursuant to the local, state and federal orders, declaration and directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participating in the meeting to the same extent as if they are physically present. Public comment is available on each item o
Into the congressional record as long as as well as my Opening Statements. I want to think everybody participating and covid19 continues to inflict terrible economic toll in the United States. Just over five months, weve express of our 120,000 deaths. 2 million total infections. Tens of millions have lost their jobs. This Congress Reviews response to covid19 is important take the lessons weve learned learned during this crisis to better prepare for pandemic are the biological events of the scale the future. Folks on todays hearing the Strategic National stockpile. First established with a 51 milliondollar preparations in 1998, was National Pharmaceutical stockpile. The s s was codified in 2002 and obtained his current name with expanded mission in 2003. Over the years, the response ability for the s s has changed between different agencies within hhs and vhs. Developing a plan for this communities oversight for the response to the coronavirus, the Strategic National area of interest as
Emergency management professionals about its role during pandemics. And how best to retool stockpile for future and biological events. On the welcome and thank all of the witnesses for the participation in for the thoughtful testimony and ill ask unanimous consent to enter the full testimony into the record of predisposing doctor garrett has requested the full ending of the crisis in complacency of the report be put into the congressional record as long as as well as my Opening Statements. I want to think everybody participating and covid19 continues to inflict terrible economic toll in the United States. Just over five months, weve express of our 120,000 deaths. 2 million total infections. Tens of millions have lost their jobs. This Congress Reviews response to covid19 is important take the lessons weve learned learned during this crisis to better prepare for pandemic are the biological events of the scale the future. Folks on todays hearing the Strategic National stockpile. First est
Redfield, director of the center for Disease Control and prevention and we thank you for being here this morning. Doctor redfield, to discuss the cdc and ongoing response to covid19. I also want to welcome the subcommittee members, Ranking Member congressman thomas paul andour full Committee Chair. I want to thank you to subcommittee members who are here in person as well as subcommittee members who are participating by secure video teleconference. Before i moved to my Opening Statements and because this is our first labor hhs and Education Appropriations Committee hearing with some members participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work and in order to benefit those members and the public. This hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended sixfoot social distancing between members, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing. Which we have kept to a minimum. Some members have opted to use