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
Vaccine development and efforts to address disparities in minority communities. This is abouttwo hours 45 minutes. This hearing will come to order. First i would like to welcome our witness, doctor robert redfield, director of the center for Disease Control and prevention and we thank you for being here this morning. Doctor redfield, to discuss the cdc and ongoing response to covid19. I also want to welcome the subcommittee members, Ranking Member congressman thomas paul andour full Committee Chair. I want to thank you to subcommittee members who are here in person as well as subcommittee members who are participating by secure video teleconference. Before i moved to my Opening Statements and because this is our first labor hhs and Education Appropriations Committee hearing with some members participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work and in order to benefit those members and the public. This hearing room has been configured to main
Briefing, but did announce what he calls a significant change to the states stay at home order. Hospitals cannot resume surgeries not considered emergencies. It does not apply to purely cosmetic cedars. These are surgeries that are scheduled, but also essential. Tumors, heart valves. This comes a week after him build a plan that must be met before the state can get back to business. Among those goals, testing more californians. Which the governor said averaged about 2000 per day at the end of march. 16,000 on average currently with the forecast an average of 25,000 people tested by the end of the month. The minimum being 60,000 per day. Spin he said to me the need many of the testing sites need to swap testing kits from the federal government and during a phone call with President Trump on wednesday he was promised a shipment thats already on the way. He said we will be provided 250,000 swabs next week. He saidin the 3rd week expect to see a substantial increase above the 250,003 the g
The governor also said he is working with the federal government to obtain hundreds of thousands of swabs and other necessary testing equipment. Taking a look now at the bay area Santa Clara County has reported close to 2000 coronavirus cases and 94 people have died. Alameda county is over 1200 cases with 45 debts. San francisco also has more than 1200 cases and 21 people have died there. In the 9 bay area counties there are close to 7000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 238 people have died be the governor also spoke today about what is happening in Santa Clara County about a report the. Officials are saying the 1st death in the u. S. Linked to the coronavirus happened much earlier than 1st thought. Early february is when they have been. Jesse has more now on those findings and what they could mean moving forward in the fight against covid19. It was somewhat surprising, but not completely because when we identified our 1st travel associated cases in late january we had a very na
Knows why they were targeted. This is the view customers out of waiting for their boba tea drinks outside seven leaves cafi in san jose. Shattered windows everywhere and a Glass Company on hand to repair them. No window was spared. It was actually kind of heartbreaking because we are just trying to operate like a normal daytoday business and this just creates concerns for our employees. Reporter the owner alerted around 5 50 wednesday morning. Close by someone also smashed the windows. Broken glass everywhere. I mean there is a total of probably i have six windows right now that are all broken. Reporter stanley is the owner of lee sandwiches. s family owns three other lee sandwiches. All were vandalized. At first he thought it was personal. Then after a while i found out he was hitting other stories and restaurants as well. So you know, it is scary in the beginning, but now im trying to figure out why he was going around doing this. Reporter in total, seven asian owned businesses targe