Specialists. Review the latest events any time at cspan. Org coronavirus. Now several directors from the National Institutes of health testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the president s 2021 budget request and the coronavirus outbreak. The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, all. Dr. Collins welcome back to the labor hhs education appropriationless subcommittee. Let me also welcome all of you, the five institute and senate directors joining in this morning. Dr. Bianchi, director of the Eunice Kennedy sh rieber National Institute of child health and human development. Thats almost as long as the subcommittee on health, education, Human Services and related agencies here. So anyway. Dr. Anthony fauci director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious deceases. Dr. Gary gibbons director of the National Heart, lung and blood institute. Dr. Ned sharpless. Director of the National Cancer institute. And dr. Dara volkow director of the National Institu
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Background. I am not a physician but i happened to spend three years researching and figuring out where our medicines are made and it is a shocker about how dependent we are on china for so many of our drugs. You are also an advisor at the Hastings Center. Tell us about what the Hastings Center is any the type of research you do. The Hastings Center is a think tank and we do a lot of and on ethical issues availability of good medicine is one of those. Lets talkut about coronavirus. Everybody is talking about coronavirus. Tell us your assessment of the coronavirus right now. Do have an issue with coronavirus cases popping up around the country and we have to be careful, do all the things we should do, wash our hands, not go out if we are sick, lets hope that it passes quicker and we can get back to normal life again. The subject of your book is china makesct that a lot of the medicine. Wesley the ingredients to make them. They have a global chokehold. We have a global pandemic, and now
Gibson, t. First of all, thank you for being with me again. Its great to see you again. First of all, tell us about your medical background. Im not a physician, but i happened to spend three years researching and figuring out where our medicines are made. Its a real shocker. How dependent we are on china for so many of our generic drugs. You are a Senior Adviser at the Hastings Center. Tell us about what the Hastings Center is and the research you do there. The Hastings Center is a bioethics think tank. We do lots of work on ethical issues and certainly availability of good medicines is one of those. Tell us about your assessment of the extent lets talk about coronavirus first. Sure. Everybody is talking about coronavirus. Tell us about your assessment of the extent of coronavirus right now. Well, i dont want to scare people. We do have an issue with coronavirus cases popping up around the country. We have to be careful, do all the things we should do, wash our hands, not go out if wer
The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning all. Dr. Collins, welcome back to the labor hhs education appropriations subcommittee. Let me also welcome all of you, the five institute and Center Directors who are joining in this morning. Dr. Bianki, director of the u. S. Kenne kenne Kennedy Shriver National Institute and committee. Dr. Anthony fauci, director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases. Dr. Gary gibbons, director of the national heart, lung and Blood Institute. Dr. Ned sharpless, director of the National Cancer institute, and director of the National Institute on drug abuse. Again, welcome, welcome, welcome to all of you. This is leader hoyer asked me this morning, he said do you have the nih coming . I said, yes, indeed. And he said, are you ultimately going to be able to get all the Institute Directors to come up. This is one of the most remarkable hearings that we have, and we thank you for the great work that you do and what a difference you ma