They also cautioned against the misinformation on social media regarding the coronavirus. This house, science, space and Technology Hearing meeting is out is about one hour and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and become to get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach
Covid19 is not the first pandemic we will ever deal with and certainly will not be the last one, but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet to get ahead of this, address it, ad, you know, come up with remedy for it. If we think about the basis of Global Health security, it is a threepronged approach containment, mitigation, and then treatment. This is the third hearing that i am chairing on this subject. The first focused on the containment strategy. That was the first hearing that congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain this disease with travel bands, etc. , was likely not going to be successful. Very difficult, and i think what china did was ambitious. About us some time that most of us in the Public Health world recognize that we would likely see in community cases, it would be difficult to stop the spread of this disease. The second hearing we had was on mitigation, largely looking at testing, this wa
American enterprise institute. Event is hosted by the American Enterprise interested institute. I am a senior fellow at the American Enterprise interested to enterprise institute. Thank you for coming. Thanks to those who are tuning in virtually. What i thought i would do is before getting into our panel, we have a terrific lineup and two excellent panels i am make excited about. I want to start by saying a few words about why we are having this event here now i way of background. I think it would be uncontroversial to say the covid19 crisis was a crisis. We think about it, it is something that we will be grappling with for some time to come and certainly among the most important events of recent times. It was a Public Health crisis, arguably the worst in 100 years, which resulted in unspeakable amount of death and illness. It also has resulted in a set of policy and political decisions which were unprecedented, the effects of which we are grappling with and trying to understand and th
American enterprise institute. Event is hosted by the American Enterprise interested institute. I am a senior fellow at the American Enterprise interested to enterprise institute. Thank you for coming. Thanks to those who are tuning in virtually. What i thought i would do is before getting into our panel, we have a terrific lineup and two excellent panels i am make excited about. I want to start by saying a few words about why we are having this event here now i way of background. I think it would be uncontroversial to say the covid19 crisis was a crisis. We think about it, it is something that we will be grappling with for some time to come and certainly among the most important events of recent times. It was a Public Health crisis, arguably the worst in 100 years, which resulted in unspeakable amount of death and illness. It also has resulted in a set of policy and political decisions which were unprecedented, the effects of which we are grappling with and trying to understand and th
The next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best place to have a meeting like this. I would suggest that the Natural History museum is the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects whatever but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last 300 years and preserving those objects in museums and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth so the records have collect and over the expansion of humans. In any given year, 400 phd is working behind the scenes. Last year, over 400 new species were described. At the same time, we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next year is a different 6 million so in a decade you might get as many as 50 Million People in this building. We live in Interesting Times with human population is growing. There are so many thi