There is a potential of a third vote now, we will not know whether that is happening, but maybe we can work it so we can tagteam the chairmanship. Senator blumenthal i think is back with us. I will make certain he and i can trade positions so we can both vote. If that happens. The committee is reconvened. Mr. Gilman, if you are available , you have about a minute and a half left. We heard your testimony to that last point and we would love to hear your concluding remarks. Can you hear me . Mr. Gilman . Can you hear me . Yes sir. Myi am going to pick up testimony from where i left off . Yes, sir. Ok. I was determined to make isolation gowns because we had the equipment to cut and sew them. I quickly got a sample from a local hospital, design my own pattern, research the materials the gowns were made up, and built a prototype. I sent it to yell new haven hospital, they evaluated it and awarded me an order. There was a surge demand. Hospitals needed more gowns than they could buy from the
Runs just under two hours. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being with us, or being near us, at least in the technology since. I welcome all of you to todays hearing that weve entitled, examining the response to the covid19 pandemic. The subcommittee at the sound of the gavel will come to order. As the nation continues to fight the unprecedented Public Health crisis, americans worked to protect against further spread of the virus while trying to maintain a certain degree of normalcy, including maintaining a job and earning a paycheck. There is not a corner of the u. S. Economy that has not felt the impact of the pandemic todays discussion will talk about the harmful effects on the Manufacturing Sector. During this pandemic, many in the Manufacturing Community have adapted their operations to help provide products needed to prevent the spread of the virus. Distributionlesale company that pivoted to manufacturing face masks in response to a dire National Supply shortage, or a cart
David hawkings is the editor in chief. There are leadership elections. Explain how they go about the two parties electing their leaders and can we see any changes . We will see some so, they meet in caucuses, different causes. No surprise here. The things are happening a little bit differently this year because of the pandemic. The Democratic Caucus which is happening the first of the meetings is happening today. There is a virtual opportunity for members to stay home, stay in their districts and cast the votes in the upcoming leadership elections using a secure app that the democrats have come up with. We wont see any changes at the top. The republican leadership, kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, maybe, maybe not liz cheney, thats staying the same. Were not seeing any changes at the top there either. Remarkably long run of nancy pelosi as the leader and jim clyburn of South Carolina as number three, thats all continuing. Thats continuing for a into a 16th year. Its a remarkably long run
God is 58 seem. To subsist. On. Love and respect. The brace continues for a Coronavirus Vaccine still the highest hopes of treating infections with the medicines that already exist approved for other diseases or in development. Its called repurpose saying. You want to go with the things they do know that work such as severe appears to be. So you want to drugs like that. Its important to know at what stage a treatment is most effective medicines helpful early on when the infection is mild when there are no breathing problems could be affective or harmful to a patient. Continue to scour their portfolios for possible solutions the world has never faced a pandemic of these proportions in a moment ill talk to an expert from the European Medicines Agency 1st a look at some of the drugs that are being repurposed. Antiviral medicines were originally developed for hiv ebola hepatitis c. Influenza and 2 other coronaviruses sars and mares theyre designed to stop the disease from reproducing or en
Infrastructure and construction has brought workers back into the city. But growth is still a lot slower than in previous years private consumption especially is lagging behind companies have cut wages and council bonuses for the employees in downtown beijing that traces of the past 6 months are still visible. Businesses have been hit hard by this crisis many have little to no income from month and month and many shops and restaurants have to shut john experts have long warned of chinas imbalance growth too much investment and today it will consumption corporate 19 has made these warnings ever more urgent. China has a history of ambitious projects the great wall of china the silk road and now its new silk road officially known as the Road Initiative its the largest Infrastructure Project ever seen the transport Energy Mining i. T. And communications projects spanned the globe and even reach into outer space the original so prob a same quaint according to todays standards but the fact i