Were connected to fraternities so not necessarily parties at a Fraternity House but maybe activities with the putter need is going to another event at another location but that association was definitely there she says these were indoor gatherings where people were not Wearing Masks or social distancing and some of these infections lead to secondary spread within households. Health officials with the campus and the city of berkeley have been using Contact Tracing to reach people exposed to those students who tested positive advising them of corn teen requirements and arranging for testing but the fact that their case count tripled in just a week has campus officials concerned they may need to re evaluate. Their plans for the fall semester if this trend continues its important for young younger people to understand that theyre not immune from this disease is not only that they can harm others that they care about and maybe not even know, theyre harming them they could be asymptomatic. B
Had coronavirus and recovered . Is a test being developed to determine immunity . Yes. Test that determines not if you are infected but if you had been infected and you have what is called antibodies against the virus, which is a sign you have been exposed and infected, but could be an indication that you are immune and protected from reinfection with the identical virus. One that continues to circulate. There are a lot of unknowns. We still dont know yet the levelonship between the of antibody and the degree of protection. We are not sure what the total correlate to immunity is. The other issue that needs to be worked out is that many of these Antibody Tests have not been completely and totally validated by the fda and nih. We are in the process of validating, telling us they are consistent and reproducible. The bottom line answer to the question, when we get an Antibody Test that can be widely nistributed, we can get a idea of the general exposure of the population come which gets ba
The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome our witness, acting director botacelli, this is the first time he appeared before the Appropriations Committee and i appreciate you coming to testify and thank you for your service. The office of National Drug control policy is charged with extremely Different Task of coordinating multiple efforts to it address many different drug related issues at home and abroad. In addition, you administer some of the very effective Drug Prevention and enforcement Grant Programs. And today the committee will examine the office of National Drug control policies fiscal year 2015 budget request along with your efforts to develop and coordinate our nations drug policies. The budget request submitted by the president has interesting priorities within this subcommittees jurisdiction. While the administration is requesting and increase of over 1 billion for the irs, increase over 500 million for the gsa, the administration has recommended a decrease be
Drugs, including more widespread use and emergency oepiate reversal medication and as well as expanded access to medication assisted treatment. Multiple studies show young peoples attitudes towards marijuana use and nonmedical use of Prescription Drugs are soften. Each day an estimated 4400 young people under the age of 18 initiate drug use for the first time. This can have a profound effect in the future. Since Research Shows us in earlier a person begins to use drugs, the more likely they are to develop a Substance Abuse disorder. To enable ondcp to accomplish administrations goals to at a dress these and other numerous challenges from Substance Use disorders, the perfect is suggesting 311 million for nfy 2015, this represents a decrease of 55 million from ondcps enacted budget. However it has been developed to ensure we have the resources to meet the goals while reducing spending. Ondcps budget request includes funding for two Grant Programs that support efforts throughout the natio
Texas is also close to that threshold. At least now, at least three states now are reporting a Record Number of deaths. Think about that for those that say oh no, the mortality rate is low. Three states setting records. Nearly 1,000 people dieing in the u. S. From the coronavirus just yesterday. Arizona, florida, and texas are seeing alarmingly high Positivity Rates. Dr. Fauci stresses that the u. S. Is not doing well. President trump continues to think that the surge in cases is only because of more testing. Either he does not understand what is happening or he is trying to mislead the public. Those are the only two options because testing has nothing to do with a spike in hospitalizations and deaths. Also, today, the president heads to one of those hot spots, southern florida. The Positivity Rate there is more than 33 . But he will not be meeting with victims, he wont be talking about coronavirus. Instead he is attending an antidrug trafficking event. Joining us is dr. Eileen marty.