Challenges involved in rolling out covid19 vaccines across the country. They will also discuss the opportunities for the Biden Harris Administration to deliver a rapid coordinated response to covid19, that includes strategic use of vaccines to protect more people. The speakers will bring a sciencebased perspective on these and other topics. Please note participants are welcome to use images, video, and quotes readily from the webcast and the content is for immediate relief. Release. I would like to briefly introduce our two speakers. Dr. Chris beyrer is the director for human health and public rights in the department of epidemiology, International Health and Health Behavior and society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and also the founding director of the center for Public Health and human rights. During the pandemic, dr. Beyrer has been engaged in research and focusing on lessening prisons to prevent the spread of covid19, transmission of covid19 and efficacy of
Out covid19 vaccines across the country. They will also discuss the opportunities for the Biden Harris Administration to deliver a rapid coordinated response to covid19, that includes strategic use of vaccines to protect more people. The speakers will bring a sciencebased perspective on these and other topics. Please note participants are welcome to use images, video, and quotes readily from the webcast and the content is for immediate relief. Release. I would like to briefly introduce our two speakers. Dr. Chris beyrer is the director for human health and public rights in the department of epidemiology, International Health and Health Behavior and society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and also the founding director of the center for Public Health and human rights. During the pandemic, dr. Beyrer has been engaged in research and focusing on lessening prisons to prevent the spread of covid19, transmission of covid19 and efficacy of mask wearing, as well as the d
Good to be with you. Miss woodruff lets start with the basics. Where are we right now in the country in the battle against covid19. If you are asked for a status report, what would you say . Dr. Fauci i would say it is a mixed bag. The numbers are very serious and very concerning. We have had now over 185,000 death, sixplus million infections. The country, a large country, there are some areas doing very well right now, got hitarly those that badly early on. For instance, the new york metropolitan area has for at least one month now been less than 1 test positivity. In contrast in other parts of the country, particularly what we saw in some of the Southern States that had big surges when they tried to open up the economy, that brought our baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 a day to as high as 70,000, we are back now to 30000 and 40,000. In those states, they are starting to level off and come down which is a really good sign. We are setting to see the beginning of surge
I know you are there. Dr. Fauci i am here, judy. Good to be with you. Miss woodruff lets start with the basics. Where are we right now in the country in the battle against covid19. If you are asked for a status report, what would you say . Dr. Fauci i would say it is a mixed bag. The numbers are very serious and very concerning. We have had now over 185,000 death, sixplus million infections. The country, a large country, there are some areas doing very well right now, got hitarly those that badly early on. For instance, the new york metropolitan area has for at least one month now been less than 1 test positivity. In contrast in other parts of the country, particularly what we saw in some of the Southern States that had big surges when they tried to open up the economy, that brought our baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 a day to as high as 70,000, we are back now to 30000 and 40,000. In those states, they are starting to level off and come down which is a really good s
U. S. House here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray, lord, father of us all, we give you thanks for giving us another day. At a time when so many are worried about business survival, rent payment and unemployment benefits, impell those in our government that are charged with the general welfare to come together to negotiate solutions benefiting all americans in need. Put forth your spirit of wisdom, patience and goodwill upon all the members of congress during these troubling days for so many of our nations citizens. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 4a of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last