Its critical that we allow telework to minimize the number of people in federal buildings. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back and i look forward to hearing from our witnesses today. Thank you. At this time i want to proceed with testimony from our witnesses. Let me do a quick introduction of the four of them. Joining us remotely is Michelle Rosenberg and the Strategic Issues team where she is on capital issues and she served for over 20 years on gaos tenured team. Shes been recognized with Health Care Team awards including two Meritorious Service awards and shell be testifying first and joining us remotely. Mr. Keith waington is with the u. S. Department of troilgz. Has been with the Department Since 1991 and in hiscurrent position he provides leadership and oversight in the areas of Human Resources, security, audit relations, acquitions and gras and transportation and facilities and space management. Maybe you can lead nasa for us next since we need a new director for nasa since yo
Centers event on the nations response to the coronavirus pandemic. I serve as the chief medical advisor. Today the Bipartisan Policy Centers future is releasing a new report. You can find this report at bipartisanpolicy. Org. That is bipartisanpolicy. Org. Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago, there has been more than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430 cases deaths across the country, accounting for 25 of deaths worldwide. While cases, hospitalizations and deaths have slightly decreased, the numbers continue to be staggering and there is great concern variants, more transmissible strains of the virus, may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an effort to combat the pandemic in Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the response and jumpstart the economy. The initiative released its first report, bipartisan subscription for health care in
Once available, icu capacity falls below 15 . That is expected to happen within 48 hours for most of the state, and a short time later. Once it does, more businesses like salons, and personal services, will have to close for at least three weeks. Fresh will be restricted to take out and delivery only, and retail capacity will be reduced to 20 . The governor also slapped a statewide ban on nonessential travel. The bottom line is if we dont act now, our Hospital System will be overwhelmed. There is light at the end of the tunnel. We are a few months away from truly seeing Real Progress with the vaccine, real distribution, real accessibility, real availability. We do not anticipate having to do this once again but we really all need to step up. The governor announced the states first vaccine orders are going into tomorrow and the first doses could be here by december 12. A live look at San Francisco where the ability to work remotely has led to a lot of empty apartments. Good evening, im
Maybe theres good reasoning behind that and so i guess that i would like to know more extensively about, you know, why those are chosen and i also, i guess, on a larger you know, scale, why the second you said its facilities related but maybe that is not time to go into depth, but i dont know if theres a way to increase capacity for those sites. If theres something that we could do, i would want to do it. If its not feasible, okay, but i guess that, you know, in some ability to speak to that, that would be helpful. Id be happy to. I think that, commissioner, just to clarify, while the facilities did share information with the instructional team, just to make sure that we were avoiding any, you know, any sites that had real issues. The selection of the sites is driven by the guiding principle that it is best for students to be back in their normally assigned home classrooms to the extent possible. And so that is that is just the distribution issue which far problem seedprecedes my arriv
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