Sheltering in place. Addressing the impacts of cove in 19. Its also part of the future of democracy series with Additional Support from the initiative. And a collaborative local center and donor. We hope others will support their examples. I am thrilled to be talking about two experts on a lot of things including the effects of covid19 and the effect it is having. Here in u. S. And around the world. He has written for that magazine since the late 1970s. He takes the human approach to some of the most pressing issues. The authors of the recent beth bestseller. James, thank you so much for being here. He is the director of policy. They had have a impressive career. It has taken her to the International Institute for strategic studies in london. I remember her from in the bay area. In the National Security council. Thank you so much for your time. Its a great pleasure. Thanks to being here. Thank you for joining us. We do want to answer your questions as part of this conversation. You can
I want to let you know where we stand in regards to the state response to the coronavirus. I am very proud that the state response is being led by the Texas State Health services commissioner, dr. John. He and his team worked closely with the Texas Division of Emergency Management to coordinate the response to covid19. Going back, from the very beginning, i began working on first this in midjanuary. I talked to Vice President pence, and the day after that, i talked to President Trump about the very first person who contracted covid19 in the u. S. A couple days later, january 24, the department of state Health Services began leading daily calls with Public Health authorities, health care providers, city and county officials and School Districts across the state of texas. The next week on january 31, the department of state Health Services activated the state medical operations center. That was followed by the dh the dsh s opening 10 Public Health labs to perform covid19 testing througho
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In congress and at the white house on the issue of vaping and underage use of ecigarettes. We are joined by andrew, who covers health care for cq roll call. Tell us why underage vaping became a bigger issue in 2019. Andrew i think it was a combination of factors that really drove this to the front of the policy debate this year. One was just a year over year increases in the number of teens who are reporting ecigarette use. Thats been increasing for several years, but 2019, we saw another significant increase over last year. Another was interrelated, but sort of distinct issue that we saw, starting over the summer with vaping related illnesses that were beginning to emerge, that weve now seen thousands injured and dozens dead from this. Thats related to illicit thc vaping, which is distinct from the problem of ecigarette use. But the urgency of those illnesses i think really prompted policymakers to want to respond more broadly to the vaping issues were dealing with in the u. S. Host a
An incredible experience at the pentagon. It was a beautiful cinema pitiful server money. I was honored and can speak for the first lady to partake in a ceremony that was so lovely, representing september 11th, 3000 lives. If you think about it, that that, got higher than directly and indirectly, a lot of great people. That was a tremendous job everybody did this morning letting the world know we are ready for anything if we have to be. Thank you. I know a lot of you were there. We have a problem in our country. A new problem. A problem nobody thought about too much a few years ago. It is called vaping. Especially as it pertains to innocent children. Sayinge coming home and i want to vape. Nobody knows too much about it, but it is causing a lot of problems. Reasons we are meeting today is to let you know it is out there, and we want to that weents understand are studying it very carefully, it is very new and potentially very bad. There have been deaths and a lot of other problems. An e