This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time to give money welcome to todays hearing on coronavirus, understanding the threat of Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i woke frank recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement again thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation to get ahead of this, dress it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment medication and treatment. This is the third hearing that im sharing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain th
They also cautioned against the misinformation on social media regarding the coronavirus. This house, science, space and Technology Hearing meeting is out is about one hour and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and become to get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach
Covid19 is not the first pandemic we will ever deal with and certainly will not be the last one, but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet to get ahead of this, address it, ad, you know, come up with remedy for it. If we think about the basis of Global Health security, it is a threepronged approach containment, mitigation, and then treatment. This is the third hearing that i am chairing on this subject. The first focused on the containment strategy. That was the first hearing that congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain this disease with travel bands, etc. , was likely not going to be successful. Very difficult, and i think what china did was ambitious. About us some time that most of us in the Public Health world recognize that we would likely see in community cases, it would be difficult to stop the spread of this disease. The second hearing we had was on mitigation, largely looking at testing, this wa
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We definitely feel lucky, but we also, you know, cant really believe that we happen to be there for their biggest earthquake in 120 years. San francisco residents caught in the chaos of a deadly earthquake in morocco are making their way home tonight as the country begins three days of national mourning. Thank you for joining us. Im j. R stone. We start with the latest on the rescue efforts underway in morocco. The death toll stands at more than 2000 victims as a result of the 6. 8 magnitude quake which struck friday night. Thousands more have been injured, many terrified moroccans are spending the night on the street, too afraid to return to their homes. The epicenter was not far from popular tourist hub marrakesh, where the Historic Sites a number of them have been damaged. But the hardest hit areas are those nearest to the atlas mountains. A bay area family that was visiting morocco when the shaking began. Is sharing a frightening story about the quake. They tell abc seven News Repo