The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. I 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 covid19 as we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country we know that 195,961 americans have died as part of the pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this has been like trying to build a plane while we were flying the plane, and that is a challenging, challenging thing to de
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and human services, education, and related agencies will come to order. I 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 covid19. As we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country, we know that 195,961 americans have died as part of the pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. Pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this has been like trying
Coronavirus pandemic with dr. Redfield. [inaudible chatter] appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services, education, and related agents these will come to order. Witnessesthank our for appearing before the subcommittee today to provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on covid19. Challengednue to be 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 of testing in the pandemic. 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this
He was joined by the task force coordinator, dr. Deborah birx. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Good afternoon. We continue to see a number of positive signs that the virus is past its peak. It has been devastating all over the world. 184 countries, probably more. That number was as of one week ago. Dr. Birx will walk through some of these trends in a moment. But they are very positive trends, for winning. We are going to win and we are going to close it out. While we mourn the tragic loss of life, and you cannot mourn it any stronger than we are morning it, the u. S. Has produced Better Health outcomes than any other country with the possible exception of germany. Anyyou cannot mourn it stronger than we are mourning it, i think we are as good or better. On a per capita basis, our mortality rate is far lower than other nations of western europe. With the lone exception of possibly, germany. This includes the u. K. , switzerland, belgium, the netherlands, italy, france. Spain has a mort
Voted with the far right in the german state up to running my guest is a cd you parliamentarian who serves on the Foreign Affairs committee can his party find its soul and its backbone as europe and the world looks to germany totally. Of at a welcome. How could an election into wrong one of the smallest german states bring down the hand selected successor to Angela Merkel on a car or you that week as a party well i dont think so but we have under estimated or the ramifications of touring year or so that we have to recognize that the Christian Democratic Union has lost the elections in this country some months ago and we have not taken serious consequences so this was the 1st mistake inside the party of touring or the 2nd mistake was that we have underestimated the role of the parliament into ringer and 3rd we have underestimated from the law and the f. D. A. And therefore i think we should be very decent and very careful for the next weeks lets talk a little bit more about the f. D. A.