Vaccine development and efforts to address disparities in minority communities. This is abouttwo hours 45 minutes. This hearing will come to order. First i would like to welcome our witness, doctor robert redfield, director of the center for Disease Control and prevention and we thank you for being here this morning. Doctor redfield, to discuss the cdc and ongoing response to covid19. I also want to welcome the subcommittee members, Ranking Member congressman thomas paul andour full Committee Chair. I want to thank you to subcommittee members who are here in person as well as subcommittee members who are participating by secure video teleconference. Before i moved to my Opening Statements and because this is our first labor hhs and Education Appropriations Committee hearing with some members participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work and in order to benefit those members and the public. This hearing room has been configured to main
Good afternoon, everyone. We are running a little bit behind today. On behalf of the American Enterprise institute i would like to welcome you with the conversation with pamela paul of the New York Times book review about her recent book how to raise a reader. She coauthored it with her colleague maria russo. So much about raising children is about what we dont want them to do, keep them dangers both real and virtual, no doubt this is a feature and bug of our helicoptering age with this attitude fails to promote a sense of independence in kids. Not only do they not know how to walk down the street by themselves but are incapable of entertaining themselves without a device in hand. For reasons both selfish, parents need a break, and selfless, we know this is an important life skill for them, the Current Situation is pretty untenable, our kids have trouble with any unstructured activity but reading for pleasure is the activity that has suffered the most. According to a recent analysis th
Curve plus. Returning home hundreds of venezuelans who 5 Economic Hardship in their country are forced to go back because of the pandemic. The u. S. Now has the highest number of corona virus deaths in the world 20000 people its tally past italy on saturday across the country at least half a 1000000 people are infected more than half of the deaths are in 3 States New York new jersey and michigan the epicenter remains new york the surge of deaths there has overwhelmed Funeral Homes and the city is using a mass burial site but the state governor says for the 1st time theres been a drop in intensive care admissions new york city has shut down Public Schools for the rest of the academic year. You can see that the numbers somewhat. Stabilizing but it is stabilizing at and horrific rate. 783 people 777799 these are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and pain earlier i spoke to john hendren in chicago and i asked him what the latest death toll means for the United States. Every
Where they have Good Public Health system and you can make critiques about some aspects but china was able to jump on it quickly. That wasnt true in 2014 when people appeared in west africa. There was no Health System and for three months we were unable to know if it was evil and it turned into an explosive epidemic. We have to have no communities left out. We have to think of this not just as a development or equity issue but a Global Health security issue. If you get sick in one of those communities, you are likely to have side effects or die or have that disease spread among you. For all those reasons it is a good community. 75 , 13 large fractional countries, we are going to get granular with a metric, try to take away at that but also a metric on how those 0 dose children get incorporated into a system and we want to build a resilient Health System for everybody. We have to be more differentiated and targeted. We have to go subnational. There is a reason communities are being reac
Specialists. Review the latest events any time at cspan. Org coronavirus. Now several directors from the National Institutes of health testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the president s 2021 budget request and the coronavirus outbreak. The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, all. Dr. Collins welcome back to the labor hhs education appropriationless subcommittee. Let me also welcome all of you, the five institute and senate directors joining in this morning. Dr. Bianchi, director of the Eunice Kennedy sh rieber National Institute of child health and human development. Thats almost as long as the subcommittee on health, education, Human Services and related agencies here. So anyway. Dr. Anthony fauci director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious deceases. Dr. Gary gibbons director of the National Heart, lung and blood institute. Dr. Ned sharpless. Director of the National Cancer institute. And dr. Dara volkow director of the National Institu