Cspan radio area cspan, your unfiltered view of politics area. This week cdc director doctor Robert Redfield took questions from senators on the us Coronavirus Response and how soon a vaccine might be available to the public. He said a vaccine might not be widely available until next year and that facemasks are an effective way of fighting the disease. Afterwards President Trump contradicted doctor redfield coronavirus treatments on timing for a vaccine. Heres a look at thatsenate appropriations hearing from wednesday. Appropriations subcommittee on labor health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Ri want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today. To provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on the covid19. As we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country we know that 195,000 961 americans have died as part of the pandemic and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process
Look at how the outbreak in africa threatens to send malaria related deaths soaring the c. S. And also perhaps. The painstaking process of restoring the acropolis in athens as the greek government revenues its call for britain to return its ancient trusts. And im santa how much not have all the support a big day for your fantasy the syria leaders have the chance to wrap up a night straight at league title. But we begin this hour with the current virus pandemic which is spreading further and faster every day now it took the wild 2 weeks to get from 1000000. 00 to 2000000. 00 infections its now taken just 4 days to make the leap from 15 to 16000000 days out from the u. S. Based on Hopkins University shows the United States. Brazil and india are leading that savage and take a look at this graph it shows the number of cases that are added daily and that curve is clearly rising with more than a quarter of a 1000000 new infections every 24 hours almost 650000 people wild wide are now known t
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Thank you very much we just attended a very important Task Force Meeting on the virus, that everybody is talking about all over the world no matter where you go that is whats on peoples minds and we are going to take care of it happened to be taken care of the American Public and the american economy, we are going to be asking tomorrow we are seeing the senate. We are going to be meeting with past republicans rich mcconnell everybody, and discussing a possible payroll tax cut or relief substantial relief very substantial relief it is a big number. We are going to be talking about hourly wage earners getting help so that they can be in a position where that nikki never miss a paycheck. Will be working with companies and small companies, Large Companies a lot of companies. So that they dont get penalized for something that is not their fault. It is not their fault, our countrys fault. This was something that we were thrown into and we have been handling it very well. The big decision was
Pretty well organized. I think if i want today get things out fast, bringing in the palettes palettes, if i remember, the federal contract governments with fed ex and ups, i would distranscript them to an existing network of pharmacies and i assume that was looked at as well. There is more pharmacies than post offices these days. I would think that we would use an existing system with a controlled mik nism rather than rebuilding one for a redistribution system. I agree i think we want to use any and all capabilities for Counter Measures. There may be particular scenarios where that may be more attractive, for example, a pandemic, where you want perhaps you want to distribute antiviral medications. That is not a attack scenario. And you would leverage your pharmacies to distribute those medications. If were talking about a bio attack, when you look at distribution points, its maintaining security. And it is slightly different. In terms of distributing Counter Measures, if you need to di