Good morning. I am my friedman, the 113th president of the National Press club. I am a journalist in residence at the university of maryland global campus and executive producer of the public broadcasting series. The spread of coronavirus is now affecting everything from travel and major events to the stock market, in addition to the human toll. Government, community, faithbased and corporate organizations across the country and around the world are meeting, monitoring and urging people to take precautionary measures, including washing your hands frequently, using hand sanitizer, social distancing on site and staying home if you are not feeling well. We are here this morning to learn more about how our local cities and counties are preparing for possible outbreaks. Do local Health Officials have enough protective equipment, including masks and gloves on hand . Are Hospital Personnel and First Responders trained up to deal with coronavirus patients . Are tests for the virus readily avai
Good morning. I am like friedman, the 113th president of the National Press club. I am journalist in residence at university of maryland global conference campus and the executive producer of the public broadcasting series the dekalb report. The spread of coronavirus is now affecting everything from travel and major events to the stock market, in addition to the human toll. Government, community, faithbased and corporate organizations across the country and around the world are meeting, monitoring and urging people to take precautionary measures, including washing your hands frequently, using hand sanitizer, social distancing on site, and staying home if you are not feeling well. We are here this morning to learn more about how our local cities and counties are preparing for possible outbreaks. Do local Health Officials have enough protective equipment, including masks, respirators and gloves on hand . Are Hospital Personnel and First Responders trained up to deal with coronavirus pati
Today summiteted lengthy meeting of the White House Coronavirus task force. At the president s direction we his continued to implement whole of government approach to bring the full resources of the federal government to bear to confront the spread of the coronavirus in the United States. Saying according to all of the experts gathered here and on our task force the risk to the American Public of contracting the coronavirus remains low. That said, we continue to lean into this effort in full partnership with state and local Health Authorities around the country. To ensure we do everything to prevent the spread of the disease. Expansion, and to provide necessary treatment to americans that have been impacted. First let me turn my attention before we speak about some of our broader efforts. And hear from members of the task force about to an issue on the hearts and minds of people across the country. The grand princess cruise ship has been mourned off the coast of california since wednes
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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