Good morning to everyone. The committee on Health Education labor and pensions will please come to order. First, a few administrative matters. Weve gotten advice from the sergeant at arms health and human services, centers for disease control, individuals in the hearing room will be at least six feet apart. Theres no room for the public, therefore, but this is all streaming and there will be an unedited version of it that anyone can watch later. Our witnesses are participating by videoconference today and some senators are as well. Id like to Say Something about masks. Since were six feet apart we dont need to wear masks, although some may. Thats why my mask is off, although i have one and i wear it outside because as we were reminded yesterday its extremely important tool for stopping the spread of covid. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant of arms, the press gallery, the architect of the capitol, the Capitol Police and our staff, people, all their hard work in helping to kee
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If anybody asks. Boyfriend is a part of the premises. Monday. This is the total hospitalization rate. What you see which you see is basically flat. May is not great, but flat be a reaction to the weekend. But we have the same question, how fast and how steady decline. We dont want to see flat. We want to see an increase in decline. We want to see how fast the decline goes and how low the decline goes. When does the hospitalization rate get down to fully manageable number . When does the incomingcase number get down to a manageable number . You see again, overall hospitalization rate is on the decline. Again, yesterday, a little less than we would like to see. But hopefully it was a sunday anomaly, because of the weekend. Intubations is down. Number of new cases still 1000 new covid cases every day, puts it in perspective. Down a tad from where it was, but again, these weekend numbers sometimes are a little strange. Number of lives lost 337. , still tragically high. But on the decline,
Today is 51 days since the first case in new york, for perspective, so we know where we are. 92 days since the first case came to the United States of america. It was in seattle and in california. The hospitalization numbers for today. A take down yesterday, but a slight tick statistically irrelevant. Is, are wen for us passed the apex . Daysve had a number of that have seen a reduction in reductions across the board. Hospital say anecdotally they have less patience under which again,ms, perspective, the Emergency Rooms were way over capacity. It was chaotic. It was hellish. And the Emergency Rooms are still at or over capacity, but it is better than it was. The total change in hospitalizations has been going down. The threeday average of hospitalizations is going down. The number of integrations is down again. Not down ast news, much as yesterday, but down. The number of new people coming diagnosisr with covid is again, just about flat with yesterday. This was reporting over a weekend