To unmute your microphones anytime you speak. If at any time during hearing im unable to chair the hearing the human chairman colon or vice chairman of the committee congressman kennedy will serve as chair until im able to return. Documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address weve provided. All documents will be entered ininto the record with the inclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an Opening Statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues itser oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Responsee examining a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months we battled covid19 over 7 million americans have had the virus and tragically over 200,000 have lost their lives. Millions ofll people face on employment and have lost their Health Insurance and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19 is especially on th
Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Doctor moss thank you for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Host a little bit about your work on the Vaccine Access center. Talk about your international aspect. Guest International Vaccine axes center we celebrated our tenth anniversary just last year and our main focus has been to ouincrease access to lifesaving vaccines throughout the world. Traditionally we have been focused on childhood vaccines particularly making sure that those acts as in africa and asia and that the vaccines are reaching the most Vulnerable Children but weve also been very involved in thinking about covid19 vaccine and particularly how such a vaccine might be distributed, how we will ensureow its safety and efficacy and how we will get equitable distribution of a vaccine around the world. Host with that in mind how does that apply to the current efforts going on with coronavirus . Guest there are a number of initiatives both at National Lev
Announcer of politics, policy and medicine. Found to behave effective is be consistent, be honest and dont tell people things you would think they might want to hear. Tell them the truth that is based on evidence. Politicians, be they in the administration, the congress, may not be happy with what you tell them because it disappoints them. After al respect you if while it is clear to them that you are telling them the truth based on scientific evidence. Dr. Anthony fauci, director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases and a prominent member of the Coronavirus Task force, has become a fixture in americas living rooms. Recent polls give him higher than 75 percent Approval Rating for his communication. Givethe next hour, we will you a more indepth look at this veteran health official. You will learn more about dr. Fauci life, work, and philosophy. Sat down with cuban day q a. Catchy, now 79, has been in his role with nih since 1984. He has advised every president si
Guest its remarkable the United States of america we have aon shortage of really important idicines. This has been going on for 20 years and we have had hundreds and hundreds. One of the medicines that is in shortage right now is a really important blood center that hospitals use every single day. There was an article in a local newspaper about a boston physician saying i dont know if we can do cardiac surgery two weeks from now if we dont have this product. We are walking on a very thin line. We have had shortages of chemotherapy to treat cancer in children and adults. We have had shortages in right now theres a shortage of her really important antibiotic for lifethreatening infections. These are lifeanddeath medicines. Sometimes we can get them and we are rationing medicine in the United States of america. Its really quite remarkable. Host is this hyperbole or isar this a real existing probl . We hear a lot of talk from a lot of Different Industries saying the sky is falling here. Is
Bret 100 percent not. Thanks. Good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight the key prosecution witness in the criminal trial. Concluded his testimony and the prosecution rested its case today. But, before that former trump attorney and selfdescribed fixer admitted to stealing 10s of thousands of dollars from his boss company. When the defense took over, cohen was followed on the stand by one of his former legal advisers. Now, there has been a request by the defense for the judge to dismiss the case from the bench. Correspondent nate foy is outside the New York State Supreme Court again tonight, good evening, nate good evening, bret. Todd blanche requested that the judge dismiss this case on the grounds that prosecutors did not prove that trump falsified Business Records or did anything illegal to influence the 2016 president ial election. The judge reserved his decision and trump spoke about that while leaving court tonight. Hopefully the motion to dismiss this