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Today is 51 days since the first case in new york, for perspective, so we know where we are. 92 days since the first case came to the United States of america. It was in seattle and in california. The hospitalization numbers for today. A take down yesterday, but a slight tick statistically irrelevant. Is, are wen for us passed the apex . Daysve had a number of that have seen a reduction in reductions across the board. Hospital say anecdotally they have less patience under which again,ms, perspective, the Emergency Rooms were way over capacity. It was chaotic. It was hellish. And the Emergency Rooms are still at or over capacity, but it is better than it was. The total change in hospitalizations has been going down. The threeday average of hospitalizations is going down. The number of integrations is down again. Not down ast news, much as yesterday, but down. The number of new people coming diagnosisr with covid is again, just about flat with yesterday. This was reporting over a weekend
Good morning. Were going to order. Over two years ago, we kicked off the 2018 farmville, and the whole process was by holding that hearing at Kansas City University. If humans later, we held a hearing in this room. We are from the United States department of agriculture officials. We heard about a Critical Role in Agriculture Researchers play throughout our countrys history. We also heard about the Research Priorities for a 2018 farmville. The knees are certainly great. Every day our producers are counter extreme weather just to name a few things. There are challenges with right to do so with minimal federal resources in an aging infrastructure. The United States produces the safest most affordable food in the world. Ever and in crafting the agriculture and provement act of 2019, Ranking Member deborah safford and myself and i along with members of this committee recognize that we have to continue to build on the strong history of Agriculture Research in the United States. An enactment
That is point one. Point two, there are disciplines that the government based off of research, that are critical to our National Defense and the economy in some ways. We have to vet, seriously, students who are allowed to enroll in that so that, this is not a revolving door and pipeline for china, korea or russia to have technology and research. Coupled with that, we have the ability in how we apply this and take it commercial, and take it to use. Yes, the answer is we have to look at we have enrolled into many of these disciplines in universities and take a good hard look at that. Thank you very much. Just adding my thanks to the witnesses. Most of my questions have been addressed. Thank you. Dr. Go paul i appreciate dr. Gopal i appreciate your various work. They have been toiling in this field as you have for many years. You referred and use the term willful blindness and i appreciate the recognition of the longterm work of this commission. I would argue to you that willful blindness
Margaret thank you to all of you for joining us tonight, to our dedicated staff here at George Washington university. To our media partner, cbs news and sirius xm and our incredible production team. Thanks for helping the Bipartisan Policy Center sponsor this wonderful debate. Its the fourth in a series by the senate project. Tonight promises to be an interesting and informative discussion on some of the most Critical Issues facing our country and our world. We are honored that senator chris coons and senator marco rubio agreed to participate in this important program. Thanks to both of them. As you saw in those two video, the genesis of the senate project came from two u. S. Senators who had very different points of view but looked for Common Ground. Youll be hearing from senator tom daschle in a moment with more on their relationship and what it meant for the senate as an institution and for our country and all of us. I also have the privilege of collaborating with senators kennedy a