Good afternoon, everyone. As we all know, we have been gone for six weeks. Necessarily gone, i might add. The has stacked up since senate is in the personnel business and the house is not. Onare working diligently getting nominations out of committee. They are important for the country, they have been languishing for six weeks. Oversight is beginning already. Senator alexander is going to have dr. Fauci and others before his committee next week, related to the coronavirus epidemic that we are all working our way through. We will continue to discuss with the administration a way forward. Many people are asking for additional legislation. Conference for our by saying, we are not ruling that out, but if i could pause here do a good job of evaluating will we have already done. It was encouraging yesterday that the secretary of the treasury issued a guidance that provides some flexibility on the state and local front, where we 150 million. You. Ank he covered well what the senate is doing.
Welcome to the Virtual Event we are having. This is concerning confronting the healthcare crisis in Rural America. Today we are releasing recommendations for this. Im bill hoagland, a Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. We are all adjusting to this new way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as we go through and i want to say thank you to the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined this zoom platform, you will receive a message shortly from one of our staff, morgan bailey, in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website, bipartisan policy. Org, and a link will be on the bpc events page under the health section. Later this morning, you will h
Politicians and activists are arrested in Hong Kong Well have a live report and wildfires rage near the site of the worlds Worst Nuclear Accident causing pollution levels to soar in ukraine. I am. The air. Thank you very much for joining us in many ways theyve been the forgotten victims of the corona virus pandemic but now the impact of the outbreak on elderly People Living in care homes is becoming painfully apparent and its fear many deaths are still going unreported a survey in new york state has found 90 Nursing Homes reported 20 or more deaths in recent weeks but the report only included a fraction of facilities in the states where the figure is believed to be in the thousands and much higher nationally in canada a nursing home in montreal is under investigation after 31. 00 desk. Uncovered the thought is found other residents dirty and unfed in their beds after some staff fled the facility in the u. K. Many deaths in care homes arent included in official figures its estimated the
The edge of our solar system and students it passed within hours. More lives have now been lost to the coronavirus pandemic on u. S. Soil then all of the americans killed during the vietnam war a tally by Johns Hopkins University Shows more than 58300 people have now died and more than 1000000 people have been infected eberle and is on the reports from new york the epicenter of the u. S. Outbreak. We could needed fly over by u. S. Air force and navy planes over new york city a display of gratitude for Health Care Workers and 1st responders here in what is the epicenter of the u. S. Krone by risk crisis a crisis that has put more than 20000000. 00 americans out of work in only one month and at one point had more than 300000000. 00 americans under stay at home warders transforming even the busiest cities like new york into ghost towns the crisis has now hit a new milestone over. 1000000 cases in the u. S. President trump is accused of being slow to take over the bank teen seriously in la
A Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. To this newdjusting way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as it goes through and think the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined , you willplatform receive a message shortly from bailey,ur staff, morgan in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website bipartisanpolicy daughter, and a eventsll be on the bpc page under the health section. Later this morning, you will have an opportunity to submit your questions to our Task Force Members vie the q and a function at the bottom of your screen. To the purpose of this event, personally coming from a rural area of indiana with our family farm still operationa