More than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430,000 deaths across this country. Accounting for 25 of of the confirmed cases and 20 of deaths worldwide. While cases hospitalizations and deaths at have slightly decrd in the last few weeks, the numbers continued to be staggering. Now there is great concern of varied and more transmissible strains of the virus may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an aggressive effort to combat the pandemic and Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the Public Health response and jumpstart the economy. The future of Health Care Initiative released its first report of bipartisan prescription for Americas Health care in february 2020 Offering Practical Solutions designed to make healthcare coverage more affordable without adding a growing Systemwide Health expenditures. Todays report was led by a Bipartisan Group of heal
Centers event on the nations response to the coronavirus pandemic. I serve as the chief medical advisor. Today the Bipartisan Policy Centers future is releasing a new report. You can find this report at bipartisanpolicy. Org. That is bipartisanpolicy. Org. Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago, there has been more than 25 million confirmed cases of covid19 and more than 430 cases deaths across the country, accounting for 25 of deaths worldwide. While cases, hospitalizations and deaths have slightly decreased, the numbers continue to be staggering and there is great concern variants, more transmissible strains of the virus, may become dominant over the coming weeks leading to a further worsening of the pandemic. Todays report comes as president Bidens Administration launches an effort to combat the pandemic in Congress Considers additional aid to bolster the response and jumpstart the economy. The initiative released its first report, bipartisan subscription for health care in
Thank you, mister chairman. Let me introduce our witnesses. First witness today is Mister William gerstenmaier, associate administrator at nasa. William gerstenmaier began his nasa career in 1977 performing Aeronautical Research and he has managed nasas human spaceflight portfolio since 2011, received a bachelors of science aeronautical engineering from Purdue University and a masters of science in Mechanical Engineering from university of toledo. Our second witness today is Sandra Sandra magnus, executive director of astronautics. In addition to her role there, Sandra Magnus is a former and nasa astronaut and prior to that worked as a practicing engineer in the aerospace industry. Sandra magnus received a degree in physics as well as a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Missouri University of science and technology. She also earned a phd from the school of material science and engineering at georgia tech and now recognize William Gerstenmaier for five minutes to present his
Here is what dr. Anthony fauci said today after his first meeting with the 46th president of the United States of america, joe biden. And dr. Faucis friend ron klein who will be our first guest tonight and who worked with dr. Fauci when the Obama Biden Administration met the challenge of the ebola virus. You know, actually, i mean obviously i dont want to be going back, you know, over history. But its very clear that there were things that were said, be it regarding things like hydroxychlorquine and other things like that, that really was uncomfortable because they were not based on scientific fact. I can tell you i take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the president. So it was really something that you didnt feel that you could actually Say Something and there wouldnt be any repercussions about it. The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence is, what the science is and know, thats it, let the science people, it is somewh
Said today after his first meeting with the 46th president of the United States of america, joe biden. And dr. Faucis friend ron klein who will be our first guest tonight and who worked with dr. Fauci when the Obamabiden Administration met the challenge of the ebola virus. You know, actually, i mean obviously i dont want to be going back, you know, over history. But its very clear that there were things that were said be it regarding things like hydroxychlorquine and other things like that that really was uncomfortable because they were not based on scientific fact. I can tell you i take no pleasure at all in being a situation contradicting the president. So it was really something that you didnt feel that you could actually Say Something and there wouldnt be any repercussions about it. The idea you can get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence, the science is and know thats it, let the science speak, it is somewhat of a liberating feeling. On his first full day in Of