Senator blunt the appropriation subcommittee on labor, health and Human Services, education and related agencies will come together. Im glad to be here this morning with my colleagues, some offices or from some other location. This is the first appropriations hearing being held in person and virtually and want to thank chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frank
Remain open for business while also containing the spread of coalwood i seen this through the strategy of requiring mass that will slow the spread we need the state to me stay away from earth we need to avoid the risk. Its not an either or choice were mask when its indicated by local officials or wear a mask when you cant social decisions and i find it somewhat right or so they found 40 years of. Also on the day turkey acquits a number of Amnesty International volunteers of the terrorism charges while others including imus internationals former head in turkey a convicted its surreal its its its out the child process never happened. To be convicted of membership of a terrorist organizations absolutely. This week has seen the most rapid increase in new corona virus infections since the u. S. Outbreak began at least 15 us states have reported record single day infection figures moved to left Health Restrictions and reopen the economy have shouted to a halt but this is also the weekend of
Social. Right. Also on the day turkey acquits a number of Amnesty International volunteers terrorism charges while others including imus internationals former head in turkey are convicted its surreal. To be convicted of. The most rapid increase in new corona virus infections since the u. S. Outbreak began at least 15 u. S. States have reported single day infection figures moves to left Health Restrictions and reopen the economy have shifted to a halt but this is also the weekend of the 4th of july u. S. Independence day events have been scaled back and officials a Public Private gatherings w. s Washington Bureau chief in a poll has been to ocean city maryland to gauge the mood. For Many Americans this is the 1st time out of 2 months. They are hungry for fun and some. Want to celebrate this 4th of july weekend as they normally do but id like to keep moving on do the fireworks continue normality as much as we can moving back to normalcy is what wed like to do i think if you take the righ
What i meant by its not working is were dealing with Community Spread as a substantial number of people getting infected do not know theyre infected. Theyre not symptomatic. Theyre asymptomatic individuals. The classic paradigm of identification and Contact Tracing is very difficult to make that work under those circumstances. You superimpose upon that the fact that even with identification, isolation and contact trace, often the dots are not connected. If you get on the phone and talk to people who are in some of these communityus find that a lot of it is done by phone. When its done by phone maybe half the people dont want to talk to one who they think is a government representative. If you live in a community thats mostly brown or black youre in a different situation that maybe 70 of them dont really want to talk to you. You can identify a contact but you dont isolate them because you dont have the facility to isolate them. That is whats not working. So what were going to do, and we
[indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] today, the committee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of the Trump Administrations response to the covid19 endemic pandemic. Due to the Public Health emergency, members can participate in todays hearing either in person or remotely via video, and. Theart of this hearing, microphones will be set on mute, for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Remotelyarticipating will need to unmute your microphone speak. Participating in person, please wear your mask when not speaking. Dr. Monahan extract expressed in the updated guidelines that the use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case the wearer is unknowingly infected. When we are not speaking, each of us is playing a vital role in tech and all members and staff in attendance, as well as leaders of the covid19 response will be testifying before the committee. Due