Businesses from coronavirus lawsuits. This is about 40 minutes. Convince house and Senate Leadership to bring it up for debate. Phones on silent. Everybody have their phones on silent all right. Let me welcome all of you. Thank you for being here. This has been a group that has been in labor of intense ever intense. Bicameralbipartisan, group of people working diligently for the last 30 days trying to get to a conclusion and a framework. This is covid emergency relief. That is exactly what it is. You cannot hear me . Ok. Back off. Let me say that this is intense amount of work that the staffs has been doing for quite some time. Every senator, every congressperson here has been an enormous amount of time on this fund. This is a covid emergency relief framework. We have worked more on the best interest of what we believe is great for our country, our state and we can go home knowing that we have worked diligently to make sure that the unemployed, the Small Businesses, the state and local
Congress to take action on additional Coronavirus Relief while testifying before the senate committee. Secretary mnuchin also faced questions about his recent decision to end several Federal Reserve emergency loan programs. This hearing is almost 2. 5 hours. 3, 2, 1. This hearing will now come to order. Is in a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. , a those joining remotely few videoconferencing reminders which you should be familiar with at this point. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your display on the screen. To minimize background noise, click the mute button until it is returned to speak or ask questions. Issue,e is a technology we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I remind senators and our witnesses the fiveminute clock still applies.
Might port or person go into conflict. As a former Commanding Officer of the navys medical unit, a bl 3 force facility in cairo, egypt for four years. My team of about 50 navy people did surveys over Eastern Africa and the mideast region, they included hiv, hepatitis, ebola serious stuff. As you know well, space on navy ships is confined and berthing space is always limited so transmission of Infectious Diseases is a concern. We have shutdown ships in the past to chickenpox outbreaks. As you have seen in the press over 190 navy ships have had covid cases, representing about 65 of all navy ships at sea. Like wise, the marine corp. Recruits have also had significant number of covid cases. Should the marines be required to deploy on ships, which is the usual sequence, the overcrowding will be even worse and theyll be at higher risk. So assuming a twodose schedule will work to provide protect the community, whats the best format for use by the navy and marine corp. . Common sense needs to
Created by americas Cable Television company as a public service, and brought to you by your television provider. Dr. Chrisome next welcome beyrer. , we talk about the road ahead with vaccine. Coming this morning on the news of another successful application of moderna to the fda on approval of their vaccine. Beyrer, what are your thoughts at this stage where we have two vaccines in the pipelines . In the pipelines . Guest this is extraordinary. Both the Pfizer Vaccine candidate and the motor in a and the Moderna Vaccine candidate are based on rna technology. These trials have gone very well. They have been very large. The data from both are remarkably similar around over 90 efficacy in protecting people from serious complications and serious diseases with covid. These are not vaccines that prevent primary infection. What they do is reduce the likelihood if you do have an exposure and you do have covid. With the Moderna Vaccine, there were no serious cases in people who were immunized,
4 all right and good morning and welcome to the 163rd meeting of vaccines and related biological Products Advisory Committee meeting. Ill be todays meeting facilitator. Its a live virtual Public Meeting being broadcast in its entirety through cspan, york cast, facebook live, twitter, youtube, and a variety of other live streams. Todays event is also being recorded and will be posted on the web page along with all relevant meeting materials. Throughout todays meeting, ill be reminding our presenters, Committee Members, sponsors as to when they are close to their a lotted time, reminder to everyone, once called upon, manage your mute and activate your web cam. Note to all members and participants, were aware of the adver adverse weather conditions were experiencing and have taken precautions. If we encounter any issues, we have to take an unscheduled break. Doctor, please go ahead. And take it away. This is is a meeting, the 163rd meeting of vaccines and biological Products Advisory Comm