Coverage, watch anytime on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the go with this free cspan radio app. Today, White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany spoke to reporters about the decision to send data from hospitalist directly to hhs instead of the centers for disease control. Press sec. Mcenany hello, everyone. This afternoon, president will deliver remarks on rolling back regulations to help all americans. Deregulation has been a top priority of this president. Reversed the disaster is overregulation of the obama biden administration. Under President Trump, seven have been taken for everyone new regulation. This amounted to 50 billion in regulatory cost savings and it is important to note that this deregulation agenda lowers the cost for every american. The cost of these burdensome regulations fall disproportionately and benefit disproportionately lower income americans so this president took action to rollback the burdensome regulations that harm low income communities and make su
Dr. Fauci was unable to join us in person but wanted to share a message with us. Dr. Fauci i am pleased to address this committee from the conference of mayors on this extremely important topic, covid19. I am going to give you a brief overview on talk about the research response. You all know the history. Ago, but ite years was just a few months ago that we had thrust upon us this new virus that came out of china, after, almost certainly, jumping species from an animal, likely a bat, to humans, leading to end up raked that was first recognized leading to an outbreak that was first recognized that they market in wuhan, china. Januaryese reported on 9, when the information went up on a database for us to look at. I will get back to that. The disease is referred to covid19, for coronavirus disease 19. The virus causes sars coronavirus 2, because of its relationship to the 2002 sars coronavirus. These things happened because of the identification of what was going on in china and elsewhere
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Experiencing at any one time, its different for your peers and you need the very best information, the best guidance you can get but you need the ability to understand your communities, your stakeholders, hospital capacity, Public Health capacity to make the very best decisions for your communities. Cdc has been on it since the beginning but we want to be a resource to you, your Public Health, staff and the city and the state Public Health and government and leadership as well but you, as mayors are playing an incredibly Important Role in amplifying the collective voices on major issues. As you know, your realities have really changed, for many of you since january and more of you since march when the pandemic really got here in the u. S. We know youre on the front lines, implementing the process of reopening our nation, city by city, for some of you it might be neighborhood by neighborhood and we know you are taking priority in this to do things in the manner best for your local area.
Redfield, director of the center for Disease Control and prevention and we thank you for being here this morning. Doctor redfield, to discuss the cdc and ongoing response to covid19. I also want to welcome the subcommittee members, Ranking Member congressman thomas paul andour full Committee Chair. I want to thank you to subcommittee members who are here in person as well as subcommittee members who are participating by secure video teleconference. Before i moved to my Opening Statements and because this is our first labor hhs and Education Appropriations Committee hearing with some members participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work and in order to benefit those members and the public. This hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended sixfoot social distancing between members, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing. Which we have kept to a minimum. Some members have opted to use