This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem because ebola had a mortality rate of 40 , but in the end because of effective action on the part of the world health organization, the Obama Administration and resources we prevented it from spreading some less than 29,000 contracted it and about 11,000 died. Weve had other outbreaks where we are Getting Better and weve developed some relatively effective vaccines to help protect Heal
Oversees the office of Surgeon General and u. S. Public Service Health commission core. And theres a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic, the National Vaccines plan and across Agency Effort to improve the outcome of patients with Sickle Cell Disease. The doctor brings patient han handson to his work and leading americans to healthier lives. I want to thank again bill pierce and worldwide for partnering on this breakfast perspective on Health Policy and with that im pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Well, thank you very much and im going to stand up if thats okay with everyone. Good morning and its great to be here joining you. Again, it has been two years now as they say in d. C. , the days are long, but the years are short and i can certainly agree with that. Its abouten quite an amazing two years with a lot of accomplishments and understanding of what we need to do. If i can get my slides up, please. Well, when we get our slides up, thats okay. So i am the 16th assistan
Good morning. Thank you for joining us on cspan. I am really pleased to be here today. To introduce the admiral who is the assistant secretary for health. He is our 16th assistant secretary of health and the department of health and human services. It is his twoyear anniversary in the role. He serves as the secretary Principal Public Health and science advisor and is responsible for coordinating hhss efforts across the administration to fight americas opioid crisis. He also oversees the office of the Surgeon General in the u. S. Public Health Service commissioned corps. His office leads many Critical National initiatives, including a historic new plan to fight the epidemic in america, the National Vaccine plan, and eight cross agency plan for Sickle Cell Disease. Dr. Giroir brings the hands on perspective to his work. Lead america to healthier lives. I want to thank Africa Worldwide for partnering on this. With that, i am pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Mr. Giroir thank you v
Welcomes the program strict new measures to stop the spread of corona virus are ramping up around the world as the number of new cases outside china so posses those inside where the highest death toll outside china has been in iran where 19 people have died iraq has 5 cases its closed schools and banned public gatherings as well as flights from several countries in europe france has recalled its 2nd death well its only has confirmed its 12 and a man who returned to brazil after visiting italy has become latin americas 1st case well globally more than 81000 cases of corona virus have been recorded in 44 countries and territories u. S. President donald trump is due to hold a press conference within the next 30 minutes or so and will be crossing of a live once that gets underway well shortly well cross to latin america at its embassy and human in santiago on the new infections there but 1st lets head to the white house where our correspondent Kimberly Halkett is standing by with the lates
We move 500 points in an hour this morning. Investors whipsawed by another major move for stocks. At the high of the day the dow was up 400 points before dropping big time. In washington, President Trump will address the nation tonight as he comes under attack by democrats who say were not prepared and Health Officials sounding the alarm. We expect to see more cases here tonight, were tracking the spread of the virus with meg tirrell breaking new information on the crisis as it becomes more likely we are on the verge of a deadly Global Pandemic this cnbc special report markets in turmoil starts right now. Heres tyler mathisen. And welcome, once again, everybody. A headspinning day on wall street the stock market volatility reared its head. The dow down more than 2,000 points off 7 for the week and today after rising at one point more than 450 points the dow finished lower by 123. The s p slid 11 but the nasdaq bucked the trend it was up 15 points. Basically flat late today a coronaviru