American public and the american economy. We are going to be asking tomorrow, were seeing the senate, were going to be meeting with house republicans, Mitch Mcconnell and everybody, and discussing a possible payroll tax cut or relief, substantial relief, very substantial relief. Thats a big number. Were also going to be talking about hourly wage earners getting help so that they can be in a position where theyre not going to miss a paycheck. Be working with companies and small companies, large companies, a lot of companies so that they dont get penalized for something thats not their fault. Its not their fault, its not our countrys fault. This is something we were thrown into and were going to handle it and we have been handling it very well. The big decision was early when we shut down our borders, first ones ever to do that. Weve never done that in our country before. Wed have a situation that would be a that would be a lot more dire. Also were going to be seeing Small Business admin
Three press conferences we, monday, wednesday and friday. Obvious of which remain flexible and this can change again but for the time being we are looking into monday, wednesday and friday from the same time for your. I will turn to dr. Tedros for his remarks. Thank you. Thank you, and hope you had a very good weekend, like, say good afternoon. First of all, i would like to start with a brief update on the ebola epidemic in the drc. As you know we have two fronts. Its now three weeks since the last case was reported, and a week sinceas the last survivor left the treatment center. It remains fragile. Mortar outbre end of the outbreak. So we continue to provide care for more than 1100 survivors and keeping teams on the ground and elisabeth needed. The outbreak may be ending. But our determination is not. In our commitment to combating the covid19 and as you know over the weekend we crossed hundred thousand reported cases of covid19. It is certainly traveling that so many people in countr
This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time to give money welcome to todays hearing on coronavirus, understanding the threat of Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i woke frank recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement again thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation to get ahead of this, dress it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment medication and treatment. This is the third hearing that im sharing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain th
Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question as coronavirus challenges society and spreads across america whats the domino effect of keeping millions of students at home lets get to the bottom line. Across the u. S. So far about 5000 cases of coronavirus have been recorded and restrictions are going into effect one of the biggest decisions has been shutting down schools from coast to coast people more than happy to do what it takes to protect themselves and their families but no one knows how the School Shutdown will affect this generation of students and their parents what happens if the School Closures go beyond a few weeks does the entire term get written off what happens if it least one parent cant stay at home with the kids what happens to folks who depend on the free lunches and the breakfasts offered by the Public Schools and with all the talk about Distance Learning is america competent at scale to pull off such a feat so many questions today and fortunately were joined by people
Symptoms. This is not a dream. This is not the time to give up. This is a time for pulling out all the stops. The World Health Organization says some countries have decided its not serious or decided theres nothing they can do. With more on the citys response to those two new cases, and also the closure of Lowell High School. Reporter thats right, heather, andre. You talked about it a moment ago two. Confirmed cases here in San Francisco. And now that Lowell High School student quarantined. It was determined that he saturday child of one of those confirmed cases here in San Francisco. That student were hearing not showing any symptoms of coronavirus. He or she has been sent him throaning with all 3 sent home along with all 3,000 students. We know this is a conservative decision but we did this out of the abundance of caution for the safety of our students. A School Official is not releasing a lot of details about the student but says it does not appear the student has siblings at any o