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 maintain the recommended sixfoot social distancing between members, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing. Which we have kept to a minimum. Some members have opted to use
Order first welcoming our witnessdi director of the cdc we thank you for being here this morning to discuss the cdc and the ongoing response to cover 19. Also want to welcome the subcommittee members congressman thomas cole and the full Committee Chair. And the subcommittee members who are here in person as those who are participating by secure video teleconference. With my Opening Statement and this is the first labor hhs education appropriations subcommitteeapri hearing i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how that will work in order to benefit both members and the public. This hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended sixfoot social between witnesses and members and other individuals in the room necessary to operate a hearing. Some have opted use video teleconferencing which allows them to participateat remotely. On those with videoconference once you start speaking there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the main screen. Speak
At the Meat Processing plants and meat suppliers at the moment. Chicken and pork as well. These producers are losing a lot of steam here in this final hour of trade. Sanderson farms down 4. 6 . Tyson down 3 . You can see the rest here. The administration in the last hour did pledge 19 billion to support the nations ranchers and agricultural producers. 16 billion of the 19 billion will be in the form of direct payments but as we wait for the Cabinet Meeting to begin, let us bring in the ceo of restaurant brands, the parent of burger king, popeyes chicken, tim horton. Let me just apologize in advance because we will hop to the president as soon as he begins that Cabinet Meeting, jose, but you are live at one of your burger kings in miami, florida. Thank you for joining us. Your restaurants which number some 10,000, you guys sell a lot of meat and chicken. Give us your reaction to the news that 19 billion will go to the ranchers and agricultural farmers there, but not exactly to that midd
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Much, everybody. So, welcome to our Cabinet Meeting. Every member of my cabinet is working tirelessly to defeat the invisible enemy that should have never happened to our country, should have never happened to the world. It should have been stopped at the source. They decided not to do that. We opened our country and economy. It is happening very rapidly and it is happening interestingly what numbers are going down. You look at florida, the state of florida, good job. Others, at georgia, some are doing extremely well, far beyond what people thought. And the numbers are going down. It is really terrific. In our drive to crush the virus, the u. S. Has completed nearly 12 million tests, and that number today is almost 14 million. Nobody is close. Germany would be second with approximately 10 million less than us. South korea is doing very well. Their numbers are very small by comparison. ,hat has been done with testing with ventilators, with the distribution of product, has been incredibl