Thanking our panelists. The democratic and republican colleagues for your participation in this forum. Over 80,000 citizens have lost their lives due to covid19. More than in any other question, country unearth. Many families have lost loved ones including my own. Mrs. Waters has also lost a member of her family due to the pandemic. This committee was not established to possibly or cast failures, or to search for the viruses origin. A relative, pursuit future success. We have been tasked with the urgent an important work of ensuring that our countrys response to this crisis is effective, efficient, and equitable. I agree that one of the most important components of our response is answering the question that is being discussed at every Kitchen Table in america right now. How will we know when we are ready to safely reopen our country . To answer that question, we should be informed by history, and guided by science. Well we all want to reopen as soon as possible, doing so before the pr
Treatment under federal programs, and the financial situation. And so the islands having been hit by actual disasters in turn including hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes. Now those are we getting the aslth care infrastructure covid19. Local governments has been working to recover and rebuild under these events. But i believe there is more than needs to be done. Things that this virus has provided all of us is a perspective that as we go through and talk about recovery and relief, that there is a cumulative effect. And theres not been enough resources. Suddenly you are drowned economically and in terms of Health Response this very deadly virus. So it becomes a cumulative effect. Disparity at the beginning, and then you put disparity on top, you demand a response that is already taxing local communities and local governments. So i welcome this discussion. I think it is important. I think my colleagues, vice chair sablan of the full and internal affairs in. Particular. Thank you very, muc
Howard, glad to have you with us this morning. Invitation. R the money talk to you about journal of american medical association. Who are your typical readers and what are the typical monthly articles, and regular articles that your journal publishes online . Jama is the official publication of the american medical association. , for many Important Reasons has editorial independence from the ama. It has been around for 175 years. It, along with a few other journals are part of the grand weeklies. I would say up to 10 or 15 years ago we published weekly. Currently we are publishing daily. In print we were public thing publishing weekly for well over 150 years. Now our reach is different because of the digital age. Now we reach a million and a half people a day or week through social media, electronic, podcasts, on the majority are physicians from around the world. About 55 of our contacts are from outside the United States. Our content comes in three or four buckets. The first is origin
Morning drive for everyone heading out, our essential workers especially. And theres Nothing Holding them up over there getting across the bay. Instead of fog we have an issue of visibility. Youll notice its dark between Treasure Island and the oakland toll plaza. It is dark there. The Street Lighting or the roadway lighting has been out since at least midnight. I saw that noted on twitter. Headlights and taillights no problem. Be extra cautious. Back to you. A look at the latest u. S. Confirmed cases tops 460,000 including more than 16,000 deaths, the second most of any nation behind only italy. Nonessential businesses remain on hold. Today in the bays tracie potts live for us in washington and, tracie, congress was talking about adding more cash to help Small Businesses but thats hit a snag. Reporter exactly. They didnt get it done because republicans want to put more money in the pot where the money hasnt been dispersed yet and democrats are concerned about that because they say the
Once again this morning, for medical professionals we will use 202 7488002. If you would like to text us, that is 202 7488003. Just make sure that you include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are at cspan wj. You can also post your comments on facebook. You may have seen a moment ago the tracker that we are following, the johns Hop University tractor, cases at 609,000. Confirmed deaths, 26,059. Worldwide cases are just about 2 million now. The number that you see here, 7905 deaths in new york city, Scott Gottlieb tweeting this morning about that with a chart saying that the positivity rates of new daily tests in new york are showing signs of a gradual decline, but still very high. This is one data point to watch to gauge the direction of the new york epidemic. A different with story, the New York Times, reporting that a review among passedk city deaths has 10,000, new york city, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus out rake, sharply increasing its death t