Essential work places. Im sorry, senator, you broke up at the beginning of your question. If you could just say it again. Im sorry. Yes, dr. Redfield, do you think that the testing protocols currently in place in the white house present a model for other essential work places. Well, thank you for the question. I think one of the important things you bring up is the essential worker guidance the cdc put out and i think it was originally modeled on Health Care Workers where there was significant shortages. Im asking if you think the white house protocol testing are a model for other essential work places. I would say i think each work place has to define their own approach how to operationalize. Had some considerable comment on the fact osha has not stood up an enforceable mandatory temporary standard for workers in all sorts of work settings. That aside, would you say that the ppe rules and protocols in effect right now in the white house are a model for other essential work places . We
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[inaudible conversations] him him him. The hearing will come to order. Good morning welcome to the labor health and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee todays hearing is with the ongoing response to the coronavirus. Like all other efforts of the supplemental package we have been bipartisan when we commend him my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Before i began i went to extend they were to our witnesses tom friedman president and ceo and former director of cdc in prevention 2009 through sc 2016 doctor rivers senior scholar that hell security an assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Schools of health. Doctor friedman will do is perspective of fighting epidemics including leading the cdc response of where we are and what we need to do to protect americans doctor rivers makes a case where the months and years to come we will need additional capacity heea with Contact Tracing to combat the viru
Resume when the stayathome order expires. Other topics included guidelines for Meat Processing facilities in the state. Gov. Northam good afternoon and thank you for joining us today. Today, we have updates on our meet processing facilities and allowing our hospitals and outpatient providers to resume nonemergency procedures, allowing our dentists to start seeing nonemergency patients, and allowing veterinarians to see nonemergency pets and their patients. Yesterday, President Trump evoked the defense production act to require Meat Processing facilities to stay open to maintain our food supply chain. Last weekend, i joined the governors of maryland and delaware in sending a letter to President Trump, asking for federal help in coordinating our approach to rising numbers of cases in our poultry facilities. Trump, asking for federal help in coordinating our approach to rising numbers of cases in our poultry facilities. Deployings responded, teams to each of our three states to work with
Expecting to hear from President Trump momentarily in the rose garden here as the president and the white house will tout the progress that has been made on testing. Senior Administration Officials say across the country, 1. 9 million tests over last week, nine million since the start of covid19. Senor officials are pointing to go going ward, that 11 billion set to the states, that is money set aside in the cares age. They identified state goals and needs for month of may. Earlier today, Vice President , when he spoke to state governors encouraged those governors to have Staff Members within Nursing Homes tested. Testing of course what many positives want to see ramped up before states reopened but the president criticized many governors, the president saying that he believes that states arent reopening because of politics this Election Year this is part of the tweet from President Trump earlier today saying quote, the democrats are moving slowly all over the usa for political purposes