No guarantee there will be a safe environment for america when we reopen this economy. I yield the four. There has been a lot of dialogue in the senate for months now. About what needs to be done to respond toe covid19. We are debating behind the scenes right now a fifth bill dealing with covid19, weirdly past four to the house and senate the president has signed, Many Americans know the effects of thens previous bill with the deposit of treasury with 1200 they received assistance from Paycheck Protection Program and their schools have received their systems of the hospitals have received assistance in their states have received assistance and local jurisdictions have received assistance, there has been wide support for multiple housing and idfor health and testing and for vaccines and even what happened in the previous four bills. We passed the last set of bills, there is a lot of thought about what would happen next, how would the virus spread, how long would this last when americans
Good afternoon as chairman of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on manufacture, trade and Consumer Protection i welcome you all here today to a hearing entitled, protecting americans from covid19 scams. The nation continues to fight the unprecedented Public Health present and president Public Health crisis brought on by the covid19 pandemic. In light of the serious threat this post to america, in the shoe shuddering of mainstream businesses, the response of Public Health protocols, have been felt in every corner of the country. It has been clear the preventive practices, policies, and resources, including expanded testing case testing capabilities and the ability to have protective equipment or absolute assess these to reopening the economy extinguishing this health crisis. However, during this time of National Emergency recorded and recovery, there are frustration scam artists that seek to take advantage of consumers, especially of the nations most vulnerable communities like that of o
As well as the early human data we feel cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end of this year and as we go into 2021. Well she is being questioned by congress of the u. S. Response to the pandemic mike hanna in washington has more on his testimony. There were confirmation on some very important factors one is that there is a lag and testing this was confirmed by the assistant secretary of Health Services that test results are taking between 3 to 5 days on average to come back and sometimes as many as 15 Health Experts have been adamant that in order to come to grips with this pandemic of the United States more than 2000000. 00 tests per day need to be conducted at the moment that figure is way below 1000000 so certainly theres a shortfall in the testing and in the results of the testing despite the repeated comments from the white house to this particular another point of major difference what was the president trying treated in well try and during the hearing objec
Good afternoon. All here today to a hearing entitled acting americans from covid19 scams protecting americans from covid19 scams. The nation continues to fight the Health Crisis brought on by the covid19 pandemic. In addition to the threat this pandemic poses to americans, the Economic Impact resulting from responsible Public Health protocols have been felt in every corner of the country. It has become clear that preventing practices and dedicated resources including expanding testing capability and the availability of personal protective equipment are absolute necessities to a responsible path forward in extinguishing this Health Crisis. However, during this time of National Emergency and coordinated recovery, there are scam artists that seek to take advantage of consumers, especially the nations most vulnerable communities, like that of our nations seniors. Networks Consumer Reports consumers across the u. S. Reported over 136,000 Different Cases of covid related scams totaling appro
At home. School will start on august 17. Students will not be in class. Many families hearing it in the form of a voicemail from the school superintendent. This fall semester will begin with Distance Learning. We know our entire Community Needs to make plans. We wanted to share this news hoping to move towards a hybrid approach with a combination of in class and Distance Learning when science and data suggest it is safe to do so. School board president said that they know how difficult this will be for families that will impact disadvantaged kids in the most. But that health and safety of students and staff is of paramount concern. But trendy divers are going in the wrong direction. We will not open up for quite a while until things look better. Reporter the cities covid 19 rates are trending in the wrong direction and students what if your clothes could stay fresh for weeks . Now they can should stay out of class until the numbers turnaround. We will make a decision about downy unstop