Mayo clinic is an american institution. It is at the heart of our country in many respects. It is the worlds first and largest private Multispecialty Group practice. That is a big, formal term. It means it is specialists working together in a highly organized way, devoting a whole range of unique, diverse talents for the sole purpose of serving each individual patient. It is a model that the mayo family developed with the franciscan sisters that has expanded and grown to other Medical Centers and has welcomed patients from all over the world for more than 150 years. This is Heritage Hall, the museum of mayo clinic that was established with a generous gift from john and lillian matthews. Mr. And mrs. Matthews are loyal patients of mayo clinic and they had a unique vision. They said we want to add more voices to the choir and tell the Great Stories of mayo through contemporary museum exhibits, designs, films and products like that. Today, we are going to explore the history of and more i
Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl
Next, a look at scams, profiteering and conspiracy theories from the coronavirus pandemic. Medical experts, victims of disinformation campaigns and legislatures from both the u. S. And canada discuss the challenges they are facing. Hosted by George Washington Universities Institute for data, democracy and politics on tuesday. This is an hour and ten minutes. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the flaws of big social media platforms in response to the disinformation campaigns around covid19 pandemic, a very serious situation, obviously, where lives are literally in the balance. Im frank sesno affiliated with the institute of data and democracy in politics which is presenting this event together with the International Grand committee on disinformation. I will be your moderator and your timekeeper. I will continue this conversation with our distinguished panelists and guests. If you are a journalist joining us, feel free to put your question into the q a field. I will try to inc
Will try to incorporate any of those questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we discussed are allowing unscrupulous actors to sell unsafe, illegal, and overpriced medical equipment during this pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across the social media platforms. This one is not a new problem. Social media platforms continue to allow these dangerous disinformation during covid 19 pandemic, and in so doing, they expose just how dangerous and how irresponsible this kind of behavior can be and the role they play and continuing to allow it. Rampant conspiracy theories make , confusingon worse people, distracting people. Social media platforms have the technological know how and resources to fix it, that they but they have little incentive to do so. Weve got a distinguished panel these problems. People on the front lines who are dealing with these issues directly and legislators who are trying to do something about it from two countries. First, a look at some
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