Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Epidemiological trends across the country, we have reasons for optimism. With mondays announcement from the monitoring board for moderna candidate vaccine and showed 95 efficacy, we have two safe vaccines that could be authorized by the food and Drug Administration to be distributed within weeks. Operation warp speed has delivered a safe vaccine in a number of ways. And ensure there are no delays in vaccine production. Because of this work, by the end of december, we expect to have 40 million doses of these two Vaccines Available for distribution pending f. D. A. Distribution and going to our most vulnerable americans. We have been laying the groundwork in administration for months. There are four major caps to get the manufactured product to americans safely in order to save lives. Allocation, distribution, administration and ongoing monitoring and data work. We have led the groundwork for these and paid for the vaccines and worked to ensure that the Administration Costs will be cover
Country. This is throw to an hour. This is close to an hour. Thank you for joining this update on operation warp speed. Because of president trumps founding and leadership of operation warp speed, even as we face daunting epidemiological trends across the country, we have reasons for optimism. With mondays announcement from the monitoring board for moderna candidate vaccine and showed 95 efficacy, we have two safe vaccines that could be authorized by the food and Drug Administration to be distributed within weeks. Efficacy, we have two safe vaccines that could be authorized by the food and Drug Administration to be distributed within weeks. Operation warp speed has vaccine in a fe number of ways. Operation warp speed has delivered a safe vaccine in a number of ways. And ensure there are no delays in vaccine production. Because of this work, by the end of december, we expect to have 40 million doses of these two Vaccines Available for distribution pending f. D. A. Distribution and going
Every day. And waiting two or four more months, we count into the tens of thousands of more deaths. A harm to the population, that no vaccine ever would even approach in decades or centuries. So, we believe that these vaccines will have their safety and their efficacy very well documented to the point we are today. We really look forward to the reviews with the fda who are independently with its vaccine review board, potentially approve these vaccines and the cdc and acip as the secretary said, would recommend. Then we look forward to the next two vaccines that we hope will be giving us data on their efficacy, in weeks to come. Maybe in early january for one of them. And for the other, it could be in the next few weeks, if data from trials running outside of the u. S. , or maybe slightly later with trials in the u. S. Read out. Thank you very much. I will pass to the coleader of me with the operations. Mr. Secretary, dr. Solari, my coleader, thank you for this opportunity to talk about
Youre expecting here in the coming days and week. What we should be watching for this week. Hanks for having me, john. That makes two of us as far as trying to keep on top of everything. As far as the current state of play, these past three weeks we have seen three crucial positive readouts of data from leading programs. The first came from pfizer, the second came from moderna, and the third one this morning just came from astrazeneca and the team at oxford. These are three leading vaccine front runners, all three in late stage studies appear to be effective, the first to 95 effective in preventing covid19. Thatnity is expected to do late november, early december. That will set up an fda decision, all eyes turning to the agency to see how quickly they can approve it and for what subgroups of the population. Vaccineing on in the phase, but there is a lot going on and muchneeded positive news when you think about the surge that we have seen in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. The fda