Michigan democratic congresswoman, Debbie Dingell, joins us now. She serves on the Health Subcommittee of the commerce panel. And when the Task Force Members came to capitol hill to testify you focus your questions on that on Vaccine Development. Can you ask plain what it means to be in phase three can you explain what it means to be in phase three . Guest as you go through the development of any medicine, the vaccine is extremely important and it goes through different trials. We see what happens in a , frequently they try , and thene on animals a small human trial and a larger human trial. You want to see how effective it normally you have 70 to 80,000 people in the third phase and we are seeing this and there aredly 8000 and one trial and 30,000 in another. Its not as large a sample as you would like to see. For almostdr. Fauci 40 years. And they assured that they were going to make vaccines were safe. And yesterday they released a thatline for the safety they would use before they
Education and the jobs. Thank you all very much. I hope you have a nice weekend. March 13th live to the effect the coronavirus is having on Nursing Homes. Live coverage here on cspan3. We join it in progress. Said, under no circumstances should a hospital discharge a patient to a nursing home that is not prepared to take care of those patients needs pap clear directive. Unfortunately on march 24th Governor Cuomos Health Department issued this directive in contradiction to the cms dai take covid19 patients. New jersey essentially copied the same directive from norcal order with similar deadly results. Two weeks earlier Governor Desantis in florida prohibited transfers kv s covid19 patient were positive to Nursing Homes. Very different orders resulting in very different results. And pennsylvania, continued to accept new admissions and readmissions including patients covid19 positive. While defending this decision even Pennsylvanias Health secretary moved her mother out of a nursing home.
This is just over two hours. Let me begin by thanking our panelists and members of at todays briefing. 40,000, the latest estimate of how Many Americans in Nursing Homes and other longterm care facilities have lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The men and women who died at these Nursing Homes were parents and grandparents, who sacrificed to provide for their families. Some were veterans who fought to protect our country. Many were essential workers who kept showing up to care for the elderly and the sick, even when it meant risking their own lives as our nation faced more deaths from coronavirus than any other country. Lets be clear. These 40,000 americans deserve better. Their deaths in our nation to protect our people. There were warnings. In february the coronavirus attacked the Life Care Center in kirkland, washington. Three quarters of the residents at that facility became infected, along with dozens of staff. 37 people died. Four months later nursing home
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Virtual event hosted by the Washington Post. This is about 45 minutes. Everyone in virginia made sacrifices. Everything you have done has truly made a difference. We must figure out a path forward. But we must always be array aware that the virus is still with us. Good morning and welcome to Washington Post live. I am bob costa, a National Political reporter at the post. We continue our leadership in twong crisis series with governors who have been dealing with the coronavirus pandemic for days and weeks on end. We will begin with Ralph Northam and then we will hear from arkansass republican avenue, asa hutchinson. First, governor northam, we welcome him to Washington Post live. He is a medical doctor and he has recently announced plans to reopen virginias economy. Governor, welcome. Governor northam good morning to you and all your viewers, thank you so much for doing this. So important that all americans and in my case, virginians, have access to updated information so i appreciate t