Assistant hhs secretary admiral brancheau walk and stephen hahn. Good morning. The committee will please come to order. Administrative matters based on the attending physician, after we consulted with the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are at least six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on the committees website. Witnesses are participating in Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators including the chairman are participating via Video Conference. Senators, weve been advised may remove their masks to talk into the microphone when theyre in the hearing room as theyre six feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, Committ
Good morning. The committee will please come to order. Administrative matters based on the advice of the attending physician, after we consulted with the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are at least six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on the committees website. Witnesses are participating in Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators including the chairman are participating via Video Conference. Senators, weve been advised may remove their masks to talk into the microphone when theyre in the hearing room as theyre six feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, Committee Staff, and everyone all for their hard work to k
Essential work places. Im sorry, senator, you broke up at the beginning of your question. If you could just say it again. Im sorry. Yes, dr. Redfield, do you think that the testing protocols currently in place in the white house present a model for other essential work places. Well, thank you for the question. I think one of the important things you bring up is the essential worker guidance the cdc put out and i think it was originally modeled on Health Care Workers where there was significant shortages. Im asking if you think the white house protocol testing are a model for other essential work places. I would say i think each work place has to define their own approach how to operationalize. Had some considerable comment on the fact osha has not stood up an enforceable mandatory temporary standard for workers in all sorts of work settings. That aside, would you say that the ppe rules and protocols in effect right now in the white house are a model for other essential work places . We
7 i guess. 7 i guess. Not if you were nigel farage, would you take a bank account back from cruise . I think. I think i would just to sort of just to walk in there and sort of see the look on their faces as i went. Id go and sort of see the look on theirfaces as i went. Id go in their faces as i went. Id go in deliberately, physically. I never into a bank these days. Never go into a bank these days. I all on my phone. But i do it all on my phone. But i robot but i would i would physically go in there just to sort of, you know, show show how ive remarkable ive won. Its remarkable how hes to do more to hes been able to do more to change the Financial System than any do remember the any of the. Do you remember the occupy saint pauls protests back 2012 . If theyd back in 2012 . If only theyd got nigel on board. Nigel farage on board. Make magic well, he can make magic happen. No doubt about happen. Theres no doubt about it. Going carrying it. Were going to be carrying on talking about that
Which is incredibly long for an earthquake with the human tragedy and physical damage are dramatically and vividly captured in this book and by henry but on structures and though landscape is only part of the story that henry tells. His book is also a story of how a major Natural Disaster ginsberg scientific inquiries a map are centers around one individual in particular was a geologist he was not an earthquake expert better ride to the day after the earthquake to investigate what happened in the study that he produced help to confirm that now widely accepted idea of plate tectonics although at the time was controversial and much debated notion i will not even begin to get into that because you will get more of that from henry in a minute. This is his first book but he is skilled at combining the Human Interest story with the scientific advancement as a journalist and has been at the New York Times over two decades as a reporter or editor writing about science for much of that time and