The committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. First, the usual administrative matters like the theater announcements we use to receive, we are getting used to those, we follow the advice of the attending physician and sergeantatarms consulted with all the right people, we are seated 6 feet apart, that means no room for public or the media here but the media is participating and we hope the public is as well. And the videoconference is a real change for the United States senate and a very welcome one because it makes it possible to attract witnesses who have busy schedules on the same day such as today, by video conference, you may remove your masks since were 6 feet apart. The sergeant at arms, press gallery, architect of the capital, capital police, committee staff, Evan Griffiths for their hard work to keep us safe. We will each have an Opening Statement and we turn to our witnesses we thank for being with us today, each witness we ask you summarize
New york faang index. Of 4. 8 , surging. Amazon is above 3000 for the first time ever. Last week on the better Economic Data continuing into this week. David it is good news and i will take good news, but we are all worried about what you just talked about. Last time the shanghai went up this far this fast, it did not end well. Are we worried about amazon being that far over the 200 Day Moving Average . Abigail terrific point. The last time the shanghai putting a move of this degree, it went longer and further than anybody expected but ended in a 50 crash. Whether or not that happened in the shanghai composite or when it is probably the bigger question. When it gets this frothy, it is difficult to tell. Relative to amazon the stock is the march lows. Unbelievably overextended. This is nerveracking from the standpoint while you have the ultimate stayathome stock doing so well while the recovery sector of energy and financials are in bear markets, it creates the tension. It tells you tha
Or delayed their plan phase reopening. In texas reversing that saying it must force bars to close today and only remain open for takeout and delivery, that saying that restaurants with indoor capacity right now, lets cut it down from 75 they have been getting used to but the last couple of weeks to 50 and anything to do with rafting and tubing, that stops immediately. So those actions, reversing earlier actions, the first time we have seen it got the markets attention and the fear that other states that have seen a similar uptick in cases with the real test availability and we might do the same. We have gotten hints out of florida that maybe that could be the off thing but that is way too soon to tell. Again, the drill on wall street, you sell first and begin to ask questions and get clarification later. We are also waiting to hear from the president s Coronavirus Task force, we have not seen them in a public setting like this in almost two months, theyre gonna be speaking again were t
Generally vaccines that put the nail in the coffin of these types. We are now mounting a major effort. Washington journal live everyday at 7 a. M. Eastern and all of todays Program Available at cspan. Org. Here on cspan2 we will take you live to the health and Human Services department for live coverage of the White House Coronavirus task force. It is their first briefing in nearly two months. Good afternoon, and to our fellow americans at wes, good morning. We just completed todays meeting of the White House Coronavirus task force come and am pleased to be joined by many members of the task force with us for this briefing. I want to thank secretary azar, dr. Birx and dr. Fauci, dr. Redfield at the cdc as well as our attorney general, admiral giroir of the u. S. Public Health Service and dr. Hahn and seema verma. We will make a series of presentations to update the American People on the status of the coronavirus pandemic in the country and then be available to take questions, but we v
Do just that. But for those in the areas most affected, we just want to encourage you to listen to and respect the guidance of your state and local authorities. I recognize this is different than two months ago, both in our ability to respond, and in the nature of those that are being infected. Younger americans have a particular responsibility to make sure they are not curing the coronavirus into settings where they would expose the most vulnerable. Lasley, as i prepare to bring dr. Birx to the podium, i would encourage every american to continue to pray. Pray for the families that have lost loved ones, pretty or the front lines, and just continue to pray that by gods grace, every single day, each of us will do our part to heal our land. With that, i will introduce the coordinator of the white house effort on the coronavirus, dr. Deborah birx. Dr. Birx thank you, mr. Vice president. Thank you for the great introduction. Just to remind everyone where we have come from in the last four