Opportunity to testify. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado. We hope some of the successful practices will give an example for other states and nations. We set realistic goals. Freedom of movement throughout the United States, it would be impossible to eradicate the virus until there is a vaccine so on the Public Health side, our folks have been destabilized by protecting the most vulnerable, supporting Health Care Providers, making sure people have access to all forms of health care and doing everything we can to acquire testing equipment and personal Protection Equipment and being as smart as we can with the use of limited resources. And making and making sure we meet the needs of every critical patient that comes to the door, covid or noncovid so as not to overwhelm the Health Care System. On the economic side, we take into a number of its ordinary measures to help workers make Strategic Decisions about reopening, really taken into account the econom
Capacity, reopening guidelines, and what the federal government can do to provide further assistance. Difficulties,al this is a portion of the subcommittee hearing. Thank you for the invitation to testify. Thank you, chairwoman. If done a tremendous job in this crisis and beyond. Thank you, Ranking Member guthrie. It is great to see you in this capacity. And rankinghairman member and members of the committee. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado with the hope that some of the successful practices weve implemented here can be an example for other states, the federal government, and other nations dealing with the coronavirus. We started with realistic goals. We knew it would be impossible to eradicate the virus in theredo or america until is a vaccine. Our focus from the start has limitingtabilize by the spread, protecting the most vulnerable, supporting our Health Care Providers, making people received on Covid Health Care and doing everything we can to p
Today address as number of important issues related to ovid19 testing. One issue we examined in this work, i hope we talk about today, is how we can make sure that we are best prepared for potential overlap of covid19 and influenza cases in the fall. Im looking forward to the conversation we are going to have today. I greatly appreciate all three of our witnesses and governors for taking time from their extremely busy schedules to be here. Made a lot of improvement over the last few months, our work is not done and as we continue to work on drafting more legislation responding to covid19 pandemic, it is especially important to hear state perspectives. I thank you. Yield back. Ms. Degette i thank the gentleman for yielding back. I would advise members in case you are unaware of this, there is a window on your screen that says one, two, three clock. This will count down from five minutes for each other statements or questioning. And then it will start going over. If thats not working for
In the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james hes a professor of history and International Affairs at Princeton University as well as author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to Geoffrey Roberts he is emeritus professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to john and paris 1st i mean 30 its been 30 years now believe it or not because i remember it so vividly when it happened a few months before i had been living in poland for a number of years and an avid student of Eastern European communist affairs at the time john 30 years on what is its meaning because i look at cursory reviews of you know that and commenting on it. It is the pe
Its 2027488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, 2027488001. And if youre a medical professional with your own perspective on this, 2027488002. You can also text us at 2027488003. Post on our twitter feed, cspanwj. You can also post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Several polls have been taken over the last few days on the topic of social distancing. This one was about americans oversandall their attitudes towards the process, saying about threequarters, 70 of americans say they are more concerned with moving too quickly than slowly when it comes to this process. Republicans are much more likely to say they are more concerned about moving to slowly moving too slowly to stayathome orders. It was evenly split, 74 to 53 , about those more concerned about moving too quickly in that process. When it comes to individual states, new jersey releasing a poll from Monmouth University found one of the residents of new jersey overwhelmingly support social distancing and some other measures tak