Good morning. The committee has come to order. One thing, i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony. Those appearing in person, traveling to d. C. To give it orally, and, also, answer our questions. The title of this hearing now is, i guess, examining the u. S. Approach to early covid19 treatments. I thought it was i originally set out a title of early treatments for covid, a essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic to be politicized into the tragedy it was. From the start, i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response. We were facing a new virus. No one wanted to underreact, and as a result i feared the tendency would be overreact. The challenges facing us were daunting. Our National Strategic stockpile had been reduced during the h1n 1 pandemic. It took time to develop a test. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibit no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I
Reporter neil, good afternoon to you. Start with astrazeneca. That is the top headline. It is covid19 vaccine as you mentioned having a good immune response in older results this is a phase two trial. Heefficacy will not be done untl they resume phase three trials you mentioned pfizer around biontech, they will file for their emergency approval with the fda form for the covid19 that tells us they are on track for the timeline they promised. Johnson johnson ready to have its vaccine ready for approval by february of 2021. Like i said, a bunch of different choices here. New york city in a little worse shape. Public School System is shutting down as of today. The stiffs Public Schools are taking a break, excuse me, because the coronavirus test Positivity Rate of 3 has been at that level for a seven day rolling average. It was reached on wednesday. The decision impacts over a Million Students and their parents and the city is trying to manage these cases and the weight that is placed on th
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Youre watching cspan2. Your unftered view of government. Created by americans Cable Television companies emma is a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Acebook market zuckerberg and twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey testified about the president ial election helped erica manng misinformation online. From this in a jewish inhe judiciary committee. This is four hours. Good morning everybody. I think weave senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct. And is it okay if we moveha forward. Absolutely and thank you very much. I will make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorshipuppression in the 2020 election. Sort of a deep dive when i facebook. Witter and about the platforms and the decisions they make and how they make them. Can we do better. Do we need to do better. So the first thing that i want to talk about here is health risket associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 75013 17 yearolds found that 45 percent online almos