For the 58000 High School Students in chinas coronavirus epicenter will han are back in class for the 1st time since the outbreak began after being closed for 4 months more than 120 schools have now resumed middle School Students though they are still at home in a province where is located has gradually eased its lockdown sent a full no new cases have been reported for nearly a month has the details from beijing. This is being held as a milestone here in china the epicenter of the outbreak here the residents had to experience the strictest measures in terms of lock down controls this year and more stood the deaths and cases of the current virus took place in city and now for the 1st time students are streaming into their classrooms after weeks of not being able to go to school and there is a lot of relief and excitement from the students being able to go back to classes only the oldest High School Students will be attending class the seniors theyve been part pirate us as they have to p
[inaudible conversations] him him him. The hearing will come to order. Good morning welcome to the labor health and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee todays hearing is with the ongoing response to the coronavirus. Like all other efforts of the supplemental package we have been bipartisan when we commend him my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Before i began i went to extend they were to our witnesses tom friedman president and ceo and former director of cdc in prevention 2009 through sc 2016 doctor rivers senior scholar that hell security an assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Schools of health. Doctor friedman will do is perspective of fighting epidemics including leading the cdc response of where we are and what we need to do to protect americans doctor rivers makes a case where the months and years to come we will need additional capacity heea with Contact Tracing to combat the viru
Pandemic, members of the House Appropriations subcommittee and on capitol hill to look at the virus. The hearing included testimony from former cdc director tom frieden and caitlin rivers from the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security. This is 2. 5 hours. The hearing will come to order. Welcome to thend labor, health, and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee. Todays hearing is on the nations ongoing response to the coronavirus. On thether supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle clouding my friend and Ranking Member. Before i begin, i want 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 2000 92016. Dr. Caitlin rivers, featured scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security and assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineerin
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The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus there been one of the longest titles at hand, why did you write this . Guest it seemed something they would get sick and get better again. Iive never been interested at all. I wrote an article for the times about a miraculous discovery. Theres a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he does Science Magazine and somehow managed to get some lung tissues from a soldier that died in 1918 and the next issue there were still fragments and when i interviewed him about his work, he told me about the pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. Id nevei had never heard of ang like this. It was the worst thing in history. If told so many people that if Something Like that came today if that killed more people than the top ten killers wrapped together, 1. 5 million mortality rate. And i found out by looking at papers by the centers for Disease Control 99 of the people that i and the epidemic were under 65 so it was a devastatin