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Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Santa clara county salons were allowed to reopen but only for two days and stylists and clients wore masks and they set up partitions to separate work areas and some salons experimented with working outside. The new bill in sacramento would ease state prescriptions restrictions to allow salons to partially operate. Some things inside but then we could set up a waiting room and social distance and the clients could process outside. If nothing happens the stylists say it could force the industry to go underground or mobile where there would be no regulation. Give us an opportunity to utilize the protocols and do things right. She wants to read dreamed of owning her own salon and now just wants to go back to work safely. Taking a look at the top stories, the man convicted of killing nia wilson will spend two consecutive life sentences in prison. He did not show any emotion during his sentencing. He stabbed wilson and her sister nearly 2 years ago at the Macarthur Bart station. The sister
10000 people already vaccinated around the world we still need to see how the vaccine in older people more is the disease than the. That is so thats the subject of work and to be more public and. The oxford vaccine is adapted from a common cold virus found in chimpanzees spike glycoprotein a genetic material from the code with 1000 virus was added the hope is the human body will develop immunity to the spike protein stopping the virus from entering cells and preventing infection tests indicate the vaccine produces 2 reactions by producing a defensive antibody response as well as t. Cells which attack the infected cells t. Cell response peaked just 14 days after volunteers were injected antibody response peak to 28 days and side effects were minor mainly just tiredness and headaches treated with paracetamol im hopeful ive got my fingers crossed but to say that im 100 percent confident that well get a vaccine this year or indeed next year is a last just you know an exaggeration were not
Politicians divided over a new covered 19 aid bill there as the number of cases in the country edges closer to 4000000. 00 plus. Im going home reporting from the island which used to be the largest exporter of life in the world well tell you why the numbers appeared to do it before. But theres been a breakthrough in the race to develop a curve a 1000 vaccine the Lancet Medical Journal has published some promising results from scientists at Oxford University who have already been conducting early human testing Scientists Say its safe for humans and also triggered the critical immune response which could stop the virus in its tracks while the findings are encouraging larger trials still need to be done and has more from oxford. Phase one really couldnt have gone much better for the oxford team early positive signs now confirmed in the published research so this is an important milestone on the par but were now moving rapidly forwards to trying to evaluate whether the vaccine actually pro