We begin 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 millions of students are off school and the economy is feeling the pinch all those developments in a moment the 1st take a look at this global picture a covered 19 as the virus is officially known as being tracked by Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. This here is a dashboard that they have put together now if you look over to this side here in the red you can see the total number of confirmed cases as i mentioned that has now surpassed 100000 you can also see there ranking the confirmed cases by country and region at the top there by far Mainland China followed by thought korea iran and then others below that now if we take over the look of this side we have the total number of deaths that now stands at 3411. 00 now in a very important number which we should also be. Paying attention to is over there in the gr
With questions from carolyn maloney. I want to ask about testing. Why being asked over again the United States is so far behind other countries and why the American People cannot get tested. Our first case of coronavirus was on january 21. The u. S. Has tested 4900 people. In contrast, south korea has tested almost 200,000 people. They can test 15,000 people a day. South korea contest more people in one day then we tested over the past two months. So, dr. Fauci, why are we so far behind korea in testing and reporting this crisis . Dont like to pass the buck. Numbers. Eld has the i dont have that in front of me. Is the worst yet to come . Yes, it is. Can you elaborate . When ever you have an outbreak where you can stop seeing Community Spread, and you dont know when the index case is and how you can approach it is my contact tracing, when you have enough of that, it becomes a situation where you will not be able to effectively and efficiently contain it. Whenever you look at the history
We have a change in schedule. As we explained in the hearing memo, we were planning to do Opening Statements from 9 30 to 10 00 and testimony and questions from 10 00 to 1 00. This morning we were informed that President Trump and Vice President pence have called our witnesses to about emergency meeting at the white house. We dont know the details just that it is extremely urgent. Now the witnesses have to leave at 11 45. In light of the sudden change we will significantly reduce Opening Statements. We will do 10 minutes so we can get right to questions. Witnesses, please keep your oral statements as brief as possible. At 11 45 we will recess the hearing and work with the agencies to determine when the witnesses can return. With that i recognize myself for a few remarks. I want to thank everyone for being at this hearing. Our thoughts go out to everyone and our colleagues representative meadows and representative gosar who cannot participate here today. Were now in the middle of a Glob
Brought to you today by your television provider. Next, centers for Disease Control and prevention director dr. Robert redfield and National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases director dr. Anthony fauci testify on the coronavirus outbreak. They were joined by other Health Officials at this House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. It is two hours and 10 minutes. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I want to inform members that we have a change in schedule. As we explained in the hearing memo, we were planning to do Opening Statements from 9 30 to 10 00 and testimony and questions from 10 00 to 1 00. This morning, we were informed that President Trump and Vice President pence have called our witnesses to an emergency meeting at the white house. We dont know the details, just that it is extremely urgent. Now the witnesses have to leave at 11 45. In light of this sudden change, we are going to significantly reduce Openin
Redfielddr. Robert testify on the outbreak. It is two hours and 10 minutes. South korea has now tested more than 196,000 people but we are not anywhere close to that. They started conducting drive through testing, but people here in the United States cant even get tested by their own doctors. This is the United States of america. Were supposed to be leading the world, instead were trailing far behind. How did south korea test so many people so quickly but we didnt test a fracture of that number . Why did it take so long . We must do better. Unfortunately these delays have been systemic. Just last week the Trump Administration promised to deliver a million tests by the end of the week but it didnt even come close. On sunday they admitted they delivered only 75,000 tests, thats over 900,000 tests short. And this was their own stated goal to the American People. Now the Trump Administration is saying they have distributed a million tests and they will be distributing four million by the e