Selfquarantine themselves or canceling events and closing campuses. Because whether or not youre infected or know someone who is infected or have been in contact with an infected person, this is going to require a national response. Not just from our elected leaders or our Public Health officials, but from all of us. We must, all of us, follow the guidelines of the Health Officials and take appropriate protections to protect ourselves and, and critically to protect others, especially those who are most at risk from this disease. Its going to mean making radical changes in our personal behaviors. More frequent and more thorough hand washing. Staying home from work if youre ill. But also all during the deeply engraged habits in our country like handshakes and hugs. Thats why earlier this week on the recommendation of officials, my campaign canceled Election Night rallies that wed planned to hold in cleveland, ohio. Were also reimagining the format for largecrowd events we had planned in
The committee will come to order. I thank all of our witnesses for returning this morning. We appreciate the recognition of our interest and oversight responsibilities. This is a crisis that is evolving quickly. Since our hearing yesterday, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. Cdc has now reported that we have almost 1,000 confirmed cases. That is up from 100 reported cases a week ago. A 900 increase. Americans are worried. They are scared. It is essential that we are able to hear directly from the Health Officials leading this effort with just the facts. Im going to go to the republican side first which is where we left off. Before i do that, without objection, the following three letters we sent on march 3rd to hhs and cdc requesting basic information including about t t testing are entered into the record. We have not gotten any response to those letters. And with that, i recognize mr. Higgins. Thank you, madam chair. Gentlemen, thank yo
Worried. My thoughts are with those who are directly fighting this virus. Those infected, families that have suffered a loss, First Responders and Health Care Providers are putting themselves on the line as i speak for others. Id like to thank those who are already making sacrifices to protect us, whether thats selfquarantine themselves or canceling events and closing campuses. Because whether or not youre infected or know someone who is infected or have been in contact with an infected person, this is going to require a national response. Not just from our elected leaders or our Public Health officials, but from all of us. We must, all of us, follow the guidelines of the Health Officials and take appropriate protections to protect ourselves and, and critically to protect others, especially those who are most at risk from this disease. Its going to mean making radical changes in our personal behaviors. More frequent and more thorough hand washing. Staying home from work if oure ill. Bu
President trump thank you all very much. Its an honor to be with the Prime Minister of ireland. Weve known each other now for quite a while and we have a great relationship and a great relationship with ireland and we have a lot to discuss. We will be talking about the obvious and well also be talking about the virus thats hit the world. I see theyve canceled their big soccer games, their championship games and a lot of other games, theyve canceled a lot over in europe and all over the world. So this is a big world problem. Weve taken some bold steps. We took the original boldest step of all when we closed very early with china. That helped us save thousands of lives. And we went very early with europe and i think that will likewise be very good and hopefully we can get it back together very quickly in terms of reestablishing with china, thats on track to something happened fairly quickly. Because theyve made a lot of progress over the last three or our weeks. Certainly with europe we
Together. Mr. President , i yield the floor. The response to the coronavirus has made it clear that there are lots of things that other responsibility of individuals, things like staying home if you are sick, frankly staying home if you are more likely than others to be sick, practicing the kinds of hygiene are mothers taught us we should follow all along. Personally i may have set a new personal record for just washing my hands in the last two weeks. Ive never been adverse to wash my hands but but i dont know t ive ever watched them half a dozen times a day or more before, but those kinds of things are left up to us. And then there are things that are left up to the local level, things to determine in a local Community Whether things should be open or not, what kind of activities should be the activities where you draw the line in terms of crowds. Much likely to be better decided at a local level by even the state or even more likely by a mayor or account executive than by somebody he