I thought it was and i originally set out the title of early treatments for covid essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the electe
Commissioner chow helped with improving the health of asianamerican Asian American Pacific Islanders were honored to have among us and acknowledge the contributions this month and with that, Vice President guillermo will read the land acknowledgement. Thank you four ad litem the Asian American Pacific Islanders Asian American Pacific Islanders heritage month. Unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush rahmytoosh ohlone olonee who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. Responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you so excited the apa Hydrogen Month i forgot to ask you to call the roll. I was going to do that. Commissioner christian present and commissioner giraudo present. Vice president guillermo and commissioner chow 2. Approval of the minutes of the Health Commission
Bill frist and had the opportunity to watch firsthand governor alexander work was a pretty rowdy Democratic Legislature and tennessee that he came forth with education reform, with infrastructure, investments, industrial recruitment. I think regular order is back in the senate and will be a better country for that. Is fortune is going have a good partner in the house, someone for the good fortune to settle the Energy Commerce committee with, diana degette, and diane reminds me, when i think of her i think of a story my grandmother may read the of the detention a good. I think i can, i think i can. I know i can. Thats diana. Come forth with a major bipartisan vote in the house. Senator alexander come to the good partner and diana, tell us whats going on with you. [applause] thanks, part. Im so happy to be here. They dont invite us to come over from the house very often so its really a treat for us. Im so happy, lamar, to hear your reflections on some of these issues, because to some of
We are holding our first hearing on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to into intervals Health Insurance market for 2018. We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in individual Insurance Market. Manyve an idea of how people are interested in this, we invited senators who were not on our committee, which is about a quarter of the senate on this committee to come to a coffee with commissioners that we have completed for an hour and 31 senators were there. That is a remarkable level of we will have an Opening Statement and we will introduce the five witnesses. Ask questionskend in fiveminute rounds. This committee includes 23 United States senators. It includes senators with the whitest diversions of abuse. It has a republican majority of only one. Working together during the last two years, we have been able to agree on big steps, big issues, about which we have
a live look downtown. you can see the sun is shining. a lot of you are hoping for had yesterday, but the temperature is changing. olga is here with a check on the forecast. the warm temperatures are gone. we have to get back to it. we enjoyed it. it was a nice break. i think were back to ity. we have a mix of sun and clouds. you definitely want your sunglasses when you step on out. you also need a heavier jacket or a coat than you High Pressure will be settling sunshine today and tomorrow with a few, high, temperatures are the major change. winds are solidly out of the north. not too much of a wind chill e temperatures are feeling like the middle 30s around the region. even the lower 30s in some have the layer as you step on out. the day planner is a mixture of clouds. we get to the 32degree mark time. most of us top out to the near 50s. maureen, im tracking some rain and snow along the way. olga, i guess we have to pay some point. thank you. the cleveland Botanical Garden brought in m