Assistant hhs secretary admiral brancheau walk and stephen hahn. Good morning. The committee will please come to order. Administrative matters based on the attending physician, after we consulted with the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are at least six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on the committees website. Witnesses are participating in Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators including the chairman are participating via Video Conference. Senators, weve been advised may remove their masks to talk into the microphone when theyre in the hearing room as theyre six feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, Committ
Good morning. The committee will please come to order. Administrative matters based on the advice of the attending physician, after we consulted with the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are at least six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on the committees website. Witnesses are participating in Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators including the chairman are participating via Video Conference. Senators, weve been advised may remove their masks to talk into the microphone when theyre in the hearing room as theyre six feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, Committee Staff, and everyone all for their hard work to k
In the drop on record ppe data. Some similar things, but hasnt really captured what we are seeing in terms of covid19 yet. European stocks rolling over. The telco sector is doing reasonably well. Vodafone leading the charge there. Good numbers. Retailers are doing well. Real estate, travel and leisure, insurance is where we are seeing weakness today. We have seen the u. K. Going to the syndicated market today. Usually u. K. Sells debt via auctions. A rare trip there. Absolutely staggering demand for that debt. We continued to see yields going higher in italy. Keep an eye on that. Crude catching a bid. We are up by nearly 2 today. Vonnie also, we are awaiting testimony by dr. Anthony haoching today from the nash dr. Anthony fauci today from the of infectioustute diseases. Lets bring in Bloomberg White house reporter josh wingrove. Will know yet if dr. Fauci say anything that will be troublesome to the administration . Josh i think it could be interpreted as it, but i would expect it is
Consulted with the centers for disease. Individuals are at least six feet apart. Theres no room for public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleague. The hearing may be watched online. An unedited recording will be available on the website. Witnesses are participating by Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators, including the chairman, are participating by Video Conference. Senators, we have been advised may remove masks, talk into the microphone when in the hearing room as they are six feet apart. Im grateful to the roall for t hard work to keep us safe. In our hearing last thursday, i said that all roads back to work and back to school run through testing. What our country has done so far on testing is impressive. Not nearly enough. Over the weekend, senator schumer, the democratic leader, was nice enough to put out a tweet quoting half of what i said. He left out the other half, the impressive part.
For global availability if we have more than one successful candidate we also as the chairman mentioned will be producing that scene at risk which means well be investigating considerable resources in developing doses even before we note any given candidate candidates work i must warn you it is also the possibility of negative consequences for certain that seems can actually enhance that negative effect of the infection the big unknown is efficacy will it be present for absence and how durable will it be and finally i want to mention the n. R. A. Has launched a Public Private partnership called accelerating covert 19 their reputed interventions and vaccines the purpose of that is to prioritize and accelerate clinical evaluation of therapeutic candidates with near term potential hopefully our Research Efforts together with the other public. Efforts to get us quickly to an end to this terrible deal that we are all going through thank you very much happy to answer questions later. Thank y