Continues as more than half of the United States start to partially reopen discretion. Is given to the governors they know the u. S. States. Is no the u. S. Cities. So you want to give them a little wiggle room. But my recommendation is you know dont wiggle too much while the reopening process will likely help the struggling us economy start to rebound from the pandemic. Some say doing so too soon may lead to problems because people are going to go back to more association. In some places in the country, its very likely that theyll be future peaks as well im John Lawrence reporting. According to Johns Hopkins university there are more than 1 million cases in the United States over 50,000 of those cases right here in california. More than 2000 people have died over 1100 of those deaths happening in los angeles. Here in the bay area were seeing more than a 1000 cases and over 260 deaths, majority of those cases and deaths happening in Santa Clara County with over 2100 cases and 111 peopl
Officials are asked about the federal governments response to the spread of coronavirus. We will hear from the director at this security meeting. The committee will come to order. The committee is meeting to receive testimony about confronting the coronavirus. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Today the committees meeting to hear from medical experts about how our country can best confront the coronavirus. Americans are justifiably concerned about the virus, which has spread around the world and claimed the lives of thousands. Understandably, they have questions about how it might affect them, their loved ones and communities. How concerned do we need to be about the virus . Who is most at risk . What can communities do to prepare . What can americans do to protect themselves and their families . What is the federal government doing . What more should it be doing . When might we have a vaccine or other treatment .
[ is distinct conversations ]. And live here this morning on c spann span 3, a discussion about transparency and oversight at the food and Drug Administration. Well be hearing from dr. Scott gottlieb starting off the conference. Introductions under way. Efforts to pass and implement the food safety modernization act, focus on medical devices, especially the potential of using the unique device identifier to improve monitoring devices throughout the product lifecycle. We have successfully worked on products 10 to courage innovation particularly around antibiotics and 10 to sure appropriate use of them. We focused on drug safety and transparency in the supply chain and especially on the safety of compounded drugs. Among other things, pew submitted transparency to the task force back in 2010 if the. They touch on some of the topics well be discussing today. Reading the background papers for todays meet regular mind med of a meeting we convened in a room directly above of us here a few yea
Specific do you think we couldve done it within 24 hours . Then we look at the information that we had at the moment that we heard about the event and the first 24 hours, 48 hours and you watched how the information changed and you saw that most of the time the initial information was not 100 correct. And evolves over time. So you are dealing with this evolving situation, uncertainty ambiguity, yet you still need act. And i think the importance of leadership is in that type of an environment where the information is never going to be complete but its going to be inexact. Is going to be a lot of ambiguity. You will be looking through the fog. You are going to need to be able to give advice or someone is going to need to be able to give advice to leadership in terms of options of actions. That needs to be as informed as it can be. So i think having someone like a bobcat like whos been in biodefense for a long time uzbek bob kadlec, or an individual like they been able to offer that kind
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