Washington cut the number of visas for Chinese State media in the us. And with the sports the olympic flame head to tokyo but this is the same to see officials one of whom says its insensitive and irresponsible to hold the games. Welcome to the news hour restrictions are becoming more severe across the globe as more and more countries ramp up efforts to contain the corona virus pandemic now the number of confirmed cases now exceeds 200000 worldwide and thats according to a tally by Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. More than 8000 people have died from the virus the number fatalities in china italy iran spain and france are amongst the higher. With the latest jump in italy and spain the overall death toll across europe are suppose trying to soothe a province where the virus originated the World Health Organization says the continent has replaced today as the epicenter 5 days ago well strict lock downs are now in place across much of europe and the effect is very clear take a look at
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
Member for his longtime friend ship and partnership in this issue. Also want to thank the members of the cdc 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 coronavirus, and this will be my second hearing. I think about this issue based on my background as a physician, but more importantly, as the former chief medical officer for Sacramento County who is in charge of the Public Health Delivery System there. And as a faculty member, my last Home Institution was the university of california davis, school of medicine. The reason why i give that background is last night it became personal for me because its hitting close to home. The first Novel Coronavirus case potentially person to person, nontransmission is in Sacramento County as we speak. That patient is housed at uc davis. I have been in communication with my former colleagues tha
More authority and flexibility. Having Practice Medicine at the top of their licenses, as i recall. From the nursing perspective what are you hoping to have done on the scope of practice . I really appreciate that question. Scope of practice is a top concern for registered nurses across the country. As a union, we would fully support an increase in education and therefore following licensing to move other types of Health Care Workers into the registered nurse licensing fields. However what we are seeing in a lot of hospitals is employers trying infringe on scope of practice of physicians or Nurse Practitioners o r of registered nurses by having lower license, lower educated Health Care Workers start to take over duties that falls in the scope of practice of, say, an rn or a physician. We are c that mainly because of what it means for patient care. For registered nurses, im not a registered nurse. In this job, i have learned about the scope of practice of an rn and there very their very