3, 2, 1. This hearing will now come to order. Is in a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. , a those joining remotely few videoconferencing reminders which you should be familiar with at this point. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your display on the screen. To minimize background noise, click the mute button until it is returned to speak or ask questions. Issue,e is a technology we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I remind senators and our witnesses the fiveminute clock still applies. Those remote should have on your screen one of the boxes labeled clock which will show how much time is remaining. Weve had some trouble getting those boxes to everyone screen or at least getting everybody to be able to find them and follow them. We are going
S soon as we receive it. We are told it will come in batches. In the first several months, our priority will be to get it out to protect the most vulnerable and protect our essential health workers. We will then be able to move to the general population. At some point after that, we hope to achieve significant immunity in ohio. Yought, i want to talk to about what we do until. Do until then. We are now at the most crucial phase of this pandemic. We are in the midst of our third wave in ohio. In the spring, as the virus first surged, we shut things down. We flattened the curve and were able to open back up. In the summer, we got hit again. The virus was heaviest in our urban areas. Some mayors issued mask orders in these hotspots. Mask wearing in those areas went up dramatically, and as a result, cases dropped dramatically. We are now seeing a third spike. But this time, things are much different. We have been warned when it got colder and drier and people are indoors more, the virus wo
He said he would be reissuing the mask order with additional provisions and new restrictions regarding social gatherings. This is 20 minutes. Gov. Dewine my fellow ohioans, good evening. Received, our country some very promising news regarding a Coronavirus Vaccine that pfizer is developing. The first results from p hase three, the final research phase, show it to be effective in preventing covid19. Thats great news. This should give us all great hope. Ascould be here as early december. We will be ready to get it out a s soon as we receive it. We are told it will come in batches. In the first several months, our priority will be to get it out to protect the most vulnerable and protect our essential health workers. We will then be able to move to the general population. At some point after that, we hope to achieve significant immunity in ohio. Yought, i want to talk to about what we do until. Do until then. We are now at the most crucial phase of this pandemic. We are in the midst of ou
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Rules. First the virus spreading at its fastest pace yet. Good evening. Thank you for being with us. It doesnt look like were anywhere near the finish line and doctors are ringing the alarm bells. As hospitals in the bay area see more patients, theyre noticing Something Different about the patients. At Good Samaritan hospital, ten new patients have been admitted to the covid19 ward. Part of the troubling trends across the region thflg shows the rising number of patients being admitted into santa clara hospitals over the last month. Were back almost to the same levels of in patients in march and april. Still about 20 off. Reporter mark brown the chief nursing officer. This week California Nurses Association demonstrated there, one is the short staffing that were experiencing. Reporter Hospital Leaders say they are prepared for the rising cases. Thats because theres a key difference in the cases theyre seeing now and the ones in march and april. The majority are a med surge or telemetry