Doctor Robert Redfield as director for the center of Disease Control and prevention he with others give a response before the House Foreign Affairs committee. Members have covered coronavirus spreads and whether china is cooperating with un officials. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. First off, i appreciate the audience patience and given. We dont control the voting schedule so thank you and the witnesses. Without objection all members have five days to submit statements, extraneous materials for the record subject to lengthy and limitations in the world. I will now make an Opening Statement and then turn over to the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i want to thank the Ranking Member for his longtime friendship and partnership in this issue and also thank the members of the cbc and Senior State Department officials for taking the time to come up here. Obviously this is a very timely subject. This is our second heari
[inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. First off, i appreciate the audience patience and given. We dont control the voting schedule so thank you and the witnesses. Without objection all members have five days to submit statements, extraneous materials for the record subject to lengthy and limitations in the world. I will now make an Opening Statement and then turn over to the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i want to thank the Ranking Member for his longtime friendship and partnership in this issue and also thank the members of the cbc and Senior State Department officials for taking the time to come up here. Obviously this is a very timely subject. This is our second hearing. A couple weeks ago we had the first hearing in congress on the coronavirus and this will be my second hearing. I think about this issue based on my background but more importantly, as the former chief medical officer for sacramento in charge of the system and as a faculty memb
Of medicaid and medicare services, as well as Robert Wilkey with the va. First a few basic facts and reports and then well hear from other members of the task force about ongoing efforts. At the present moment we have 43 domestic cases of the coronavirus. 48 cases of individuals who have returned to the United States. Of the domestic cases, 29 of the 43 are either in california or Washington State. And we have communities that are facing facing what the experts tell us could potenti potentially be a cluster in those communities. Sadly today there were four additional fatalities, raising the number that six americans have lost their life to the coronavirus. And on behalf of the president and all of the American People we extend our deepest condolences and sympathies to the families of those that were lost. Despite todays sad news, lets be clear. The risk to the American People of the coronavirus remains low, according to all of the experts that were working with across the government. T
[inaudible] okay, thank you. The Senate Committee on Health Education labor and pensions will come to order. This afternoon, we are going to hear from two panels. We are going to hear from, on our first panel, the assistant secretary for preparedness and response, rochelle walensky, and robert califf. Second panel, we are going to hear from doctor Reshma Ramachandran and dr. Martin makary and dr. Marshall. Let me begin by thanking all of the folks on the panels. All of us know that the last three years have been unprecedented in our lifetimes martin makary, we dealt with the worst Public Health crisis in 100 years, i want to thank all of you under those difficult circumstances. Today, what our job is, is to take a hard look at where we are today, in terms of preparing for another pandemic. And the need to reauthorize the pandemic and all hazards preparedness app act. And i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the previous leadership, senator murray, who was chair of the committ
[inaudible] okay, thank you. The Senate Committee on Health Education labor and pensions will come to order. This afternoon, we are going to hear from two panels. We are going to hear from, on our first panel, the assistant secretary for preparedness and response, rochelle walensky, and robert califf. Second panel, we are going to hear from doctor Reshma Ramachandran and dr. Martin makary and dr. Marshall. Let me begin by thanking all of the folks on the panels. All of us know that the last three years have been unprecedented in our lifetimes martin makary, we dealt with the worst Public Health crisis in 100 years, i want to thank all of you under those difficult circumstances. Today, what our job is, is to take a hard look at where we are today, in terms of preparing for another pandemic. And the need to reauthorize the pandemic and all hazards preparedness app act. And i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the previous leadership, senator murray, who was chair of the committ