Chief Information Security officer, meredith harper. Welcome, and over to you. Thanks very much, john. Its nice to see you, even virtually. So, today, you have everyones bio. So, i dont think i need to reintroduce our panel. But what theyre going to offer us, i think, is a way to look at the year, and back at the year in a context of cyber and health care, and give us a little bit different way to look at the latest efforts to get the vaccine out to the public. We actually have some news on this today, by the way. Well get to that a little later. Basically, the New York Times reported that Cyber Attacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been going on since august. Its unclear whether this is about ransomware or something more sinister. But well get to that in a minute. What i thought wed do is divide the discussion basically into three parts. Were going to look at the broader issue of cyberthreats and attacks of the Health Care Sector as we sort of wrestle through a pandemic.
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Phones on silent. Everybody have their phones on silent . All right. Let me welcome all of you and thank you for being here this morning. This has been a group thats been in labor of intense effort. I know every one of us want to thank our staffs because theyve done yeomans work. And as you can see we have with us a Bipartisan Group of people working diligently for the last 30 days or more, trying to get to a conclusion and a template if you will, this is covid emergency release framework is what it is. Take your mask off. Cant hear me . Okay. Back off. Let me just say that this is intense amount of work that the staffs have been doing for quite some time and every senator, every Congress Person here has put in an enormous amount of time on this in person and on the phone. This is a covid emergency relief framework. We worked in the best interest of what we believe is great for our country, good for our states and we can all go home knowing we have worked to make sure that the unemploy
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Task force and we have continued. We have continued to be on the same mission we have been on throughout the course of this year that is to save american lives and work every day toward that day that we put the coronavirus in the past. Im joined today and youll hear in a few moments from members of the White House Coronavirus task force including those that are leading the effort of distribution, vaccinations under operation warp speed. I think you will be as impressed as i was at fema earlier today when i heard the detailed plans for the virtually Immediate Distribution of vaccines when they become approved and available to the American People. From very early in this pandemic had the presence direction we have followed an approach to this pandemic that was federally supported state managed and locally executed and to that end this past monday we completed our 41st Conference Call with all of the nations governor, every state and every territory. There we spoke about our current circu