Assistant hhs secretary admiral brancheau walk and stephen hahn. Good morning. The committee will please come to order. Administrative matters based on the attending physician, after we consulted with the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are at least six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on the committees website. Witnesses are participating in Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators including the chairman are participating via Video Conference. Senators, weve been advised may remove their masks to talk into the microphone when theyre in the hearing room as theyre six feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, Committ
Good morning. The committee will please come to order. Administrative matters based on the advice of the attending physician, after we consulted with the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are at least six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on the committees website. Witnesses are participating in Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators including the chairman are participating via Video Conference. Senators, weve been advised may remove their masks to talk into the microphone when theyre in the hearing room as theyre six feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, Committee Staff, and everyone all for their hard work to k
Essential work places. Im sorry, senator, you broke up at the beginning of your question. If you could just say it again. Im sorry. Yes, dr. Redfield, do you think that the testing protocols currently in place in the white house present a model for other essential work places. Well, thank you for the question. I think one of the important things you bring up is the essential worker guidance the cdc put out and i think it was originally modeled on Health Care Workers where there was significant shortages. Im asking if you think the white house protocol testing are a model for other essential work places. I would say i think each work place has to define their own approach how to operationalize. Had some considerable comment on the fact osha has not stood up an enforceable mandatory temporary standard for workers in all sorts of work settings. That aside, would you say that the ppe rules and protocols in effect right now in the white house are a model for other essential work places . We
Vaping 20 of High School Students now vape. The lingering question is why and what was the role of juul, the countrys dominant maker of ecigarettes with almost 80 of the ecigarettes market share and the dramatic rise of vaping. The panel assembled today will todays address these where and with part two tomorrow monseesl founder james will testify. Today we will look at why it makes it irresistible to kids. Is a preeminent tobacco advertising scholar in the country and will help us answer that question. We hope to understand how juul whileed to youth simultaneously avoiding detection by adults. We will hear about juuls average including how juul entered schools under the guise of antivaping conversations. Then went the juul presenters told kids that their vaping tools were safe. We will hear from the parents of kids who sat through one such presentation. Were soted mothers angry that they founded a nationwide advocacy group. Although the schools that juul entered, it incited the righteo
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