Wide range of covid19 topics but none more timely than getting our children back to school. Throughout the last two weeks i have spent countless hours talking with educational leaders around the state. Everyone agrees for the future of our children we must do everything we can to have them back in a learning environment again this fall. Working with States School superintendent woods, educational administrators and School Boards around the state we have guidelines for schools that i am very proud of because it took the assumption we would open schools what do it very safely and ensure that schools have the tools they need to protect students, staff, teachers as well as the community as a whole. We fully expect some cases of covid19 among students and teachers and we are doing what we can to provide the resources that need it to protect everyone in the setting. Working with fema, schools receive less in the coming days. To go back to school, we know schools need to be prepared to respon
This episode we really did not have all the preparations that we thought we had. We have been unable to find as a nation a medium thats causing death and suffering thats acceptable to enough people to have some sort of approach that enough people find socially and culturally and economically acceptable. For continuing to see spread around the nation particularly in the south right now. Marilyn is among states it have grappled with epidemic spread and bring virus levels down. We i wanted to talk to the governor today about the things he did to try to a lot of activity in the states to bring back to maryland or and try to open schools and restart the economy and do the things that are people continued risk from the epidemic. So governor thank you for joining us and when to start with the question just generally, what do you think is going to evolve . What are you looking out of respect to the following the risks right now . So first of all, doctor godley, let me thank you for hosting her
Thinking about over the weekend . Next week, which is going to be just gigantic we have everything from ibm, we will bookcase ibm on monday and American Express on friday, both will be challenging and i think they could determine things. Carl, i have to tell you, 8 30 santelli comes on and gives you that housing start number, then diana talks about how there are not a lot of houses. I sit here and i think the fed has done a magnificent job, what can they do . They can take rates down to the point where, yes, maybe jpmorgan doesnt make as much money, bank of america certainly doesnt, but people are buying houses and thats whats been working in the stock market this week is the housing trade the lows, the home depot the deere small tractors, that stuff has been flying off the shelves and thats exciting. It was not, of course, the cloud, saas stocks and cybersecurity. Theres always a bull market somewhere. Right weve been taking note of all the upside reannouncements today. Today its daim
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Moment and a reflection of the part we all have to play when slowing the spread of covid19. In light of this remote format i also some reminders to the members about conduct of the hearing. Members keep their video feed on as long as they are present at the hearing. Members are responsible for muting and unmuting their microphones and please keep your microphones muted when youre speaking. And finally if members have documents they wish to submit for the record please email to the committee whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. Well, good afternoon, and well coom the First Virtual hearing of the committee on investigations and oversight. Today were discussing a critical issue. Research into repurposing existing therapeutic drugs for covid19 treatment as well as scientific basis for the federal governments evaluation of such drugs. I appreciate our witnesses being here under these unusual circumstances, but these are very important issues, and we look forward to your