He talked about how state governments were balancing Public Health and Economic Needs and responding to the pandemic. He also discussed efforts to reopen schools and more businesses while continuing to monitor his states infection and hospitalization rates. Is the 62ndhogan governor of the state of maryland. The second republican to be reelected in the 242 year history of the state. He has had a number of policy priorities that we will talk about recently during the pandemic, he has been a leader in ensuring that those in maryland have access to testing and they have a set of policies that are thought through and rigorous but also recognized the need to balance these important considerations that we have to go through as we try to deal with this pandemic. He is the author of a book called still standing. Welcome. Thank you, it is wonderful to be with you. Great to be with you. I want to start with your book. One of the things that struck me early on, you talk about your dads influence
American Enterprise Institute about his States Coronavirus response and the federal response to the pandemic. This is about half an hour. Thank you for joining us today. Were here with governor larry hogan of maryland to talk about the challenges we face as a country, grappling with the covid pandemic and some of the things that pamaryland has doneo deal with their epidemic of covid spread. This is really an unprecedented time of Global Pandemic. The Intelligence Community had long warned us about the risks of a pandemic and put it on par with risks of weapons of mass destruction and counterterrorism and cyber attack. As much as we thought we were prepared for this as a nation, we found going through this episode that we really didnt have all the preparations that we thought we had. And weve been unable to find, as a nation, a medium between allowing this virus to spread in a way thats causing a lot of death and suffering and strict lockdown, something thats acceptable to enough people
Grappling with the pandemic and some of the things maryland has done to deal with their academic. This is an unprecedented time. They have long warned us about the risks of the pandemic and put it on par with destruction, counterterrorism but as much as we thought we were not figured for this as a nation, we found going through this episode that we really didnt have all of the preparations that they thought they had and we have been unable to find as a nation a medium between allowing the virus to spread in a way that is causing of death and suffering and something accessible to the defendant committed somenoughthf an approach that enough people find socially and culturally and economically acceptable. So, we continue to see around the nation particularly in the south right now. Maryland is a state that has grappled with widespread and managed to crush the epidemic and bring the levels down so i wanted to talk about the things he did to try to control the epidemic in the state and rest
David hello. Im david rubenstein, and im the president of the Economic Club of washington. And i want to welcome you to our sixth Virtual Event since the corona crisis has begun. We have been trying to give you information about the local community, as well as things going on around the country, and we hope you enjoy these. Today, we have our membership watching. We also have a number of members of the diplomatic corps who are tuning in as well, and a number of invited guests who are not members of the club are also involved in listening and watching as well. We have three special guests today. The first is ted leonsis, who is the founder, chairman, principal partner, and ceo of monumental sports entertainment. The second is the governor of maryland, honorable lawrence hogan, who is also the chair of the National Governors association. And then we have kim ford, who is the president and ceo of marthas table. And we will do them in the order that i just mentioned. I would just like to l
Information about the local community and things going on around the country. Today we have our membership watching and a number of members diplomatic corps tuning in as well. And a number of invited guests, not members of the club, are and watchingtening as well. Our First Special guest today is. Ed leonsis the second is the governor of maryland, governor hogan. And the chair of the National Governors asos asian. And then we have association. And then we have kim ford. Let people know that next week on friday we will probably have another program. We are working on the details of that now. Secondly, april 28, next tuesday, a week from next tuesday we have dr. Fauci, reasonably well known these days as the director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases. And we look forward to a good conversation with him. I would like to remind everybody that after the interview is completed, about one hour, total, we will put this up on our website. You will be a little watch it