Militarys testing capability, and chinas response to the pandemic. Good afternoon, everyone. The seats are starting to fill up. Good. I want to begin by expressing my gratitude to the more than 62,000 Service Members on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus, including over 3500 medical personnel staffing civilian facilities and embedded operations nationwide. Tomorrow marks the start of National Nurses week. We salute all nurses, military and civilian, who have served and are currently serving. Thanks to their efforts, we are encouraged to see the situation improving in several of the most impacted areas. In new york city, the Javits Centers remaining patients were discharged on friday, indicating stress on hospitals is subsiding. I had a conversation with mayor de blasio last friday. He called to express his thanks for what dod provided his city in a time of need and how warmly they were received by his civilian doctors and nurses. I said to pass along to the force, tho
Civilian facilities and embedded operations nationwide. Tomorrow marks the start of National Nurses week. We salute all nurses, military and civilian, who have served and are currently serving. Thanks to their efforts, we are encouraged to see the situation improving in several of the most impacted areas. In new york city, the Javits Centers remaining patients were discharged on friday, indicating stress on hospitals is subsiding. I had a conversation with mayor de blasio last friday. He called to express his thanks for what dod provided his city in a time of need and how warmly they were received by his civilian doctors and nurses. I said to pass along to the force, those who may be watching may get a readout from this briefing. Over the weekend, the comfort returned to norfolk, virginia, where it will be prepared to deploy as needed. In pennsylvania, the temple alternate care facility discharged remaining patients, while facilities in louisiana and texas are returning to Naval Air St
Coronavirus. Like all other efforts on the supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, including my friend and Ranking Member, congressman tom cole. Before you begin of what to extend a very warm welcome to our witnesses, dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives, and former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention. The cdc, from 20092016. And dr. Caitlin rivers, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security, and assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Frieden in his testimony will provide a perspective based on 30 years of fighting epidemics including leaving the cdcs response to ebola, where we are and what we need to do to protect americans. Dr. Rivers makes a case why in the months and years to come will we need additional capacities and diagnostic testing, Contact Tracing an
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