A british war veteran now after now. Raise millions for the National Health service. So the latest coronavirus developments around the world starting in south korea one of the worst hit by the pandemic in asia and for the 1st time in 2 months it has reported no new domestic infections this is since the outbreak peaked in february it means the totals that 10765 cases and 247 deaths according to Johns Hopkins university in britain though the number of deaths has jumped to more than 26000 after the government started to include fatalities in places like care homes for the elderly it means the u. K. Now has the 2nd highest number of fatalities in europe after italy there is some positive news though about a. Possible treatment coming out of the u. S. Officials say their same progress in trials with the antiviral drug. The mortality rate is reported to drop from 11 and a half percent to 8 and americas top advisor on the pandemic Dr Anthony Fauci says the average Recovery Time has gone from
A few weeks, about a month ago. Wall street is passing unemployment news, we are going to get in more depth with that. There obviously seen an improvement in cases, hospitalizations and that. They are also looking at a tiny settling and some friction when it comes to this trade deal. A lot of people have said they dont trust them, how can we trust them on the promises they made on the trade front. Hey, blake. We gotta notice last night that robert, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin had a discussion with their counterparts including the chinese vice premier, i came as a bit of a surprise because weve been pointed to conversation expected to happen next week but clearly, u. S. And china are talking as it relates to the phase one trade deal with conversations expected to happen going forward. If youre of the belief talking is a good thing, he would view that i was a positive signal. Its interesting to hear from resident trump himself this morning when the president appeared on fox and fri
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone and welcome back as we return from Holiday Season to continue our work and Economic Opportunity subcommittee. Without objection the chair is authorized to callec for recesst any time. Todays hearing is entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resourceson come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to
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Work in the Economic Opportunity subcommittee. Without objection the chair is authorized to calle for recess at any time. Todays hearing is entitled redoing the availability of resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on a very important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will examine department of Veterans Affairs and department of Agriculture Programs identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans and provide nutrition assistance for those in need. Specifically, today through aly focus on how veterans access nutrition resources come out recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources, and how congress can more effectively support public and nonpublic agencies that seek to end veteran hunger, so critically important. This continues the subcommittees efforts to get economic factors that contribute to veteran suicide which we note include homelessness and hunger. Our subcommittee works in a bipartisan way to str