Federal agencies are working in response to the coronaVirus Outbreak. Ken cuccinelli is acting deputy Homeland Security secretary, and dr. Robert kadlec is assistant health and Human Services secretary. They testified before a senate committee. Topics included supply chain management, sick pay support, and travel issues, specifically, how the coast guard is working with cruise lines. This is just over two hours. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for your efforts as theyre related to the current, i guess weve got to call it a pandemic at this point in time, right . With covid19, the coronavirus. I guess its important to put things in perspective and i ask to submit my Opening Statement to the record. But i think we oftentimes fail to recognize and put this in proper perspective, so let me just rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola. Total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. Now, i remember in the midst of that c
Cspan book tv to this program. The next pandemic. As a former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the center for Disease Control prevention, doctor kahn has been on the frontlin front line to pe deadliest diseases. Throughout history, humans have been fighting diseases winning deadly neverending wars against rampant contagions. In fact, theres never been a time when humans were not affected with microbes and against them. During the time as a disease detective our speaker has had his ow own brush and own brushi, Infectious Diseases and contagions. For example, in 1995, working with red cross workers for the first ebola crisis and after 9 11, he was called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax to the Senate Office building. And in 2003 he was called to hong kong. But these are just some of the stories doctor khan chronicles in the next pandemic carried as an epidemic intelligence officer, a disease hunter if you go, his missions for two decades
You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease thats fairly accurate for the western world but wildly inaccurate for the rest of the world. In a Nobel Prize Winner that spent most of his life studying influenza concluded that the death toll was a minimum of 50 Million People and possibly as many as 100 million. All this was in a world with the population 28 the size of today. So, if you adjust the population, the death toll on 1918 was between 175 to 350
Education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. I have one goal today and that is Accurate Information. Accurate information that can help americans understand what they should do about the coronavirus and Accurate Information to help members of congress to help decide what else we ought to be doing about the coronavirus. Around the world, the spread of the Novel Coronavirus alarming. 90,000 cases in 65 countries. 3,000 deaths according to the world health organization. But most people in the United States are at low risk. Heres what the New York Times said on its front page two days ago on sunday in describing the situation in our country. Quote, much about the coronavirus remains unclear. And it is far from certain that the outbreak will reach severe proportions in the United States. Or affect many regions at once. With its topnotch scientists, modern hospitals, and sprawling Public Health infrastructure, most experts agree the United States is among the countries best prep
Use board is. This series of gas attacks across zambia sponsored violent reprisals now the president blames Community Leaders for the armrest. We begin to saw with the latest on the corona Virus Outbreak which is forcing people around the world to drastically change the way they live travel restrictions are being tightened to millions of students are off school in the Global Economy is feeling the pinch brant crude oil prices are now down by 7 percent is the Major Oil Producing Countries hold an emergency meeting before we begin our coverage this take a look now at the numbers covered 19 as the virus is officially known as being tracked by Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. Here is the dashboard here as you can see here from the figures weve got 100640 7 total confirmed cases over here. Weve got 3411 is the total number of deaths that have been recorded what we really need to look at is the total number of recovered more than 55000 as it stands now this source is using various figur