Welcome, everybody. Today our select subcommittee is holding a hybrid hearing where some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via web x. Since some members are appearing in person let me remind everyone pursuit to the latest guidance from the house of intended physician, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a Face Covering. We will allow you to remove them as you see me doing in order to speak. I know a little bit about how your glasses get fogged up and you dont see where youre going. Members who are not wearing a Face Covering are not permitted to remain in the hearing room and will not be recognized to speak. When youre not speaking, we expect for you to have the face mask or we will not recognize you. Let me make a few reminders about hybrid hearings. Those members appearing in person you will be able to see members appearing remotely on the two monitors in front of you. On one monitor you will see all the members appearing remotely at
Address the rises in covid19 cases and reopenings in the starting of the economy, how do you balance those two . Guest those are important stories. People are correct to be concerned. The numbers that appear to be going up. People are also concerned about the continuation of having to the economy as contracts the way it has. You will have to balance both. Thise are smarter about disease than they were a few months ago. We have all seen the benefits and wisdom of social distancing. Certainly, i could to give times in the past where i didnt feel well but i went to work anyway. You cannot do that right now. If you are sick, stay home. If you suspect someone is sick, dont be around. Remember back in march, the purpose of Closing Everything down was to save the health care to be from what appeared a coming surge of patients who were very ill. Wouldnt overwhelm our system . Youe was no concern because kind of saw it happen in wuhan, china. You kind of side happen in italy. There was concerne
Leader Kevin Mccarthys briefing. You can watch live coverage of his news briefing also here on cspan 3. Joining us now on washington journal representative michael burgess. He is a republican of texas, serves on the Energy Subcommittee on health as the Ranking Member also serves on the rules committee. Representative burgess, thanks for your time today. Good morning, thanks for having me on. You also have the honor of being a medical doctor, so ill start there. From your view of medicine how would you address people who are concerned not only about in certain areas the United States rises in covid19 cases but at the same time reopenings and the starting of economies. How would you balance those two . Well, both are important stories, and people are correct to be concerned about numbers that appear to be going up. People are also concerned about the continuation for everyone having to stay closed in, shutin as the economy contracts the way it has. So at this point youre going to have to
Www. Health. Senate. Gov is our website. I think it makes it possible for us to be table to attract witnesses who have very busy schedules on the same day such as today. Some senators are participating by videoconference. Senators may remove their masks since were 6 feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sarge want at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, our Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, and then well turn to our witnesses who we thank very much for being with us today. Each witness we would ask that you summarize your remarks in five minutes, which will allow more time for the large number of senators who we expect to participate to present their testimony. Well have one round of questions for a five minute round. Less than four months ago on march 1st the coronavirus situation was about this. At the end of february there were 79,000 cases around the world, only 14 in the Uni
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