Will talk about later to get to senator alexanders remarks at the 10 30 scheduled time. Thank you, mister president. It is such an honor to be here and to join my colleagues in paying tribute to senator alexander, there are many that want to speak and have a few words to say. All of us wish we could do this to a background of music with lamar playing the piano. That would be the proper setting but i am so pleased to stand and honor the three terms of service in this body and the way he touched the lives of individuals in this body and millions of tennesseans. We know that he has talked about it in his remarks, he has worked with educators. He has worked with innovators. He has worked with the healthcare community, and works with entertainers, many of whom called tennessee home. When i was serving in the house and representing tennessees seventh Congressional District so many times i would look over here and i would say what is lamar not working on today because he always had such a bro
Avoiding crowds. We learned last week that despite knowing in january how serious covid19 was, President Trump has been working to down play this is acrisis and on fri night, we learned that trump political operatives in hhs Communications Office have been manipulating cdcs flag ship for months to align with that messaging. Dr. Redfield, did anyone at cdc advise the president to down play this crisis . No. Did you agree with the president s decision to down play it . Im not going to comment on that, but no one advised the president to down play this crisis. Well, understanding the dangers, why have you not done more to push back on President Trumps political interference and his efforts to down play this . I want to make it really clear, senator, and i appreciate your question and the opportunity that, the respect for the science at cdc. At no time has the scientific integrity of the mmwor been compromise and i can say that under my watch, it will not be compromised. Well, i understand
Administration when the covid19 vaccine becomes available. Cdc is leveraging its expertise in imization infrastructure to support operation warp speed and vaccine promotion moderning. In coordination with operation warp speed, cdc is working closely with state and local territorial Tribal Health departments and Community Organizations to prepare a detailed, yet flexible plan, for Vaccine Distribution to Critical Infrastructure workers and people at risk, increased risk for serious outcomes. At this time, cdc continues to support partners with its Ongoing Community mitigation efforts including case identification,ing Contact Trace ing, surveillance and reporting as well as testing capacity. To support these activities on behalf of hhs, cdc has awarded 12 billion to each jurisdiction in 2020 thanks to the support of congress. Include nd that amount was more than 200 million to support the American Indian and alaska native community, which have had some of the most significant effects fro
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
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