They also cautioned against the misinformation on social media regarding the coronavirus. This house, science, space and Technology Hearing meeting is out is about one hour and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. 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 and as a planet and become to get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach
Covid19 is not the first pandemic we will ever deal with and certainly will not be the last one, but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet to get ahead of this, address it, ad, you know, come up with remedy for it. If we think about the basis of Global Health security, it is a threepronged approach containment, mitigation, and then treatment. This is the third hearing that i am chairing on this subject. The first focused on the containment strategy. That was the first hearing that congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain this disease with travel bands, etc. , was likely not going to be successful. Very difficult, and i think what china did was ambitious. About us some time that most of us in the Public Health world recognize that we would likely see in community cases, it would be difficult to stop the spread of this disease. The second hearing we had was on mitigation, largely looking at testing, this wa
This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. 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 and as a planet and get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment, mitigation, and treatment. This is the third hearing that im chairing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conc
How confident is yes k of getting a vaccination for those people who are infected with corona virus. So obviously it is a rapidly developing situation normally exene Development Takes 8 to 10 years its up to see not have put into current texts what has changed is that in the lead vaccines can be developed much faster but you still have to test any medicine and specifically vaccines in Clinical Trial its in humans and it takes 20 if to 18 months or for the current outbreak in china its not be hoped for but if that. Develops you see that you have lots of cases in china and maybe if you were to go maybe this doesnt have the yet as yet it has to be said but how difficult is it in the laboratory when of course the corona virus can mutate while the 12 months of research 18 months of research taking place so we have currently no indication that the initial strain has mutated not be actual constituencies them sequel its. Super lifting and for the time being it seems to be the same strain as it
300 kilometers north of damascus and 2017 thats foreign secretary this Prime Minister and that could be policy of accepting the city and dictator assads rule over the country assad has delivered death and destruction on his people a man who has been gassed his own civilians the humanitarian situation has reached crisis point and there are no concerns of war it wasnt clear whether the s. N. P. Leader in westminster then wanted u. K. Military action defacto on the side of alqaeda linked groups in syria even johnson seemed confused i really think that the right honorable gentleman need to consult his memory better because he will find that this country and this government has persistently called for the end of the asaad regime crucial to britains reasons for bombing syria were allegations of chemical weapons used by the Syrian Government now it is the o. P. C. W. That its back. It is a conspiracy of the whistle blower testimony but today the word conspiracy is arguably more so as he aged