Good morning. I am like friedman, the 113th president of the National Press club. I am journalist in residence at university of maryland global conference campus and the executive producer of the public broadcasting series the dekalb report. The spread of coronavirus is now affecting everything from travel and major events to the stock market, in addition to the human toll. Government, community, faithbased and corporate organizations across the country and around the world are meeting, monitoring and urging people to take precautionary measures, including washing your hands frequently, using hand sanitizer, social distancing on site, and staying home if you are not feeling well. We are here this morning to learn more about how our local cities and counties are preparing for possible outbreaks. Do local Health Officials have enough protective equipment, including masks, respirators and gloves on hand . Are Hospital Personnel and First Responders trained up to deal with coronavirus pati
This is just over two hours. This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem because ebola had a mortality rate of 40 , but in the end because of effective action on the part of the world health organization, the Obama Administration and resources we prevented it from spreading some less than 29,000 contracted it and about 11,000 died. Weve had other outbreaks where we are Getting Better and weve developed some relatively effective
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Possible Treatment Options and vaccines and how to effectively protect yourself against catching or spreading the virus. This is about two hours 45 minutes. Minutes. Good morning. The committee on Health Education will come to order. I have one goal today and that is Accurate Information. Accurate information that can help americans understand what they can do and decide what else around the worl world is at f the multiple coronavirus is alarming. 90,000 cases and 65 countries, 3,000 deaths according to the World Health Organization and most people in the United States are at a low risk. Heres what the New York Times said on its front page todays ago on sunday in describing the situation in our country. Quote, much about the coronavirus remains unclear. Its far from certain that the outbreak will reach a severe see proportions in the United States or affect many regions that ones. With its topnotch scientists, modern hospitals and Public Health infrastructure, most experts agree the Un