This hearing will come to order ask without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Let me say good morning and welcome to our witnesses. Todays hearing on vaccine science and innovation. Smallpox once plague said the worlds population plaguing 300 Million People in the 20th century alone. Smallpox is the only human disease to be eradicated thanks to the development of the vaccine. Another devastating disease, polio, had just 33 cases reported worldwide in 2018 compared to 350,000 cases in 1988. Every day vaccines are saving lives especially the lives of children and other vulnerable population. Theres no such thing as healthy skepticism when it comes to vaccines. Unfortunately, there is a wellfunded, Disinformation Campaign targeting the public and weakening Public Health laws. School vaccination requirements have been common place in the u. S. For generations and exemptions were granted only for legitimate medical reasons. However, in my home state of texas,
Welcome back. At this time i would like to introduce our second panel of witnesses. The first witness on our second panel is dr. Sharon watkins. Dr. Watkins is the director for the bureau of epidemiology in the state epidemiologist for the Pennsylvania Department of health. Shes also the president of the council of state and territorial epidemiologists. Dr. Watkins is responsible foror management and oversight of the bureau of epidemiology which includes the division of infectious disease, Environmental Health and community health. Dr. Watkins has led disease prevailed at outbreak response efforts include those with zika, hepatitis a. Dr. Watkinss has over 40 peerreviewed publications and over 20 years of experience in applied Public Health and epidemiology. Thank you for being here, dr. Watkins. Our secondgy witness is dr. Robin robinson. Dr. Robinson is currently Vice President of Scientific Affairs for renovacare incorporated. Director of development for wound healing. Previously se
Greg lee with the story. The president must be held accountable, no one is above the law. Reporter facing mounting pressure, nancy pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump. The action comes into response to allegations that during a phone call, President Trump pushed the ukrainian president into an investigation by the biden. There was no official wrong doing by the bidens. The actions of the Trump Presidency reveals dishonorable fact of the president s betrayal of his oath of office. Betrayal of our National Security and betrayal of our integrity of our elections. Reporter today President Trump doubled down into the need to look into the bidens. He has tweeted he has authorizeed the release of the entire transcript of the call. Former vp biden respond first degree the president refeudss to come if the president refuses to comply, impeachment will be the only resort. The president believes he is above the law. Pursuing the leader of another nation to investigate
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The county department of social services sent some money over to the department of aging saying, how about you help with targeting folks 60 and over. And do an allocation base throughout the state and come up with 66,000 which comes down to us, which is to be used to target older adults, 60 and over , solely recognizing that six a 6,000, and the grand scheme, is not the largest amount of money, but we hope to at least cover some staff time to support the much larger coordinated effort. One other question, what would you see as being successful at the end of the day if we were able to in role tenth out able to unroll 10,000 . They are asking us to meet a couple of targets with these funds, and their two categories. There is an outreach category, how many people do we send this information to . That is usually calculated as an estimate. The numbers are asking us to meet on that level within the thousands. Theres also someone asking us to actually track the amount of applications which ar