Good morning. This hearing will come to order. , want to thank eyewitnesses first of all for your service to this nation. On behalf of the committee, if you can thank the men and women who worked with you and apron pretty tremendous effort, trying to deal with an overwhelming situation, as a nation, we need to be grateful for your effort. Had thebly have not days off. I really do appreciate that. Toant to ask for consent have my statement entered into the record. Just a couple of facts. Just to lay out how extraordinary and overwhelming this effort has been. Not thatanuary 21, long ago, we had the first case reported of covid and eight days later on january 29, the administration established the task force. At that time, we only had five cases and zero deaths. Two days later, President Trump announced travel restrictions in china. That was not a popular decision, but it probably saved many lives and but as time to flatten what bought us time. Fema began assisting hhs. 12 cases and zero
If we dont prepare and act now to secure access of void funding shortfalls and disruptions to trade we could be facing multiple famines of biblical proportions within the next few months well here in the United States of america while we may rank 27th in the world in education and health care we do hold the distinction of ranking number one in coded 19 infections and deaths with close 2900000 confirmed cases and roughly 50000 deaths. If that is an american exceptionalism at its finest that i dont know i mean hey we might not be good at math and science and all that but you know that whole reading thing but you know we can we can wreck up some covert 15 recovered 19 numbers thanks to our for Profit Health care systems. So with us citizens near and far battered and beaten down by this virus we now turn to argue. Great and powerful elected officials to find out what ideas or plans they have in place to help stop and protect us from this rampaging virus supposing we hit somebody with a tre
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