a party motivated by a property dispute. and it s oscar s night in hollywood the controversy continues though over a lack of diversity in the nominations. as the death toll from the coronavirus hits a new milestone the chinese government has announced it will allocate $10000000000.00 to help fight the spread of the disease $814.00 people have now been killed by the corona virus that s more than the 774 killed by the size epidemic in 2003 in both cases the majority of deaths were in china both strains of the same type of virus but the new outbreak has infected far more people more than 37000 sars only at around 8000 confirmed cases but sols was also considerably more deadly killing one in 10 people and then in other developments 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew were stuck on a cruise ship have been allowed to disembark the world tree was quarantined in hong kong when 8 chinese passengers on an early a voyage were diagnosed with the virus katrina you reports to us now from
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Pensions committee. This is part of a series of hearings the committee is holding on the epidemic. Senate committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. Today, we turn our attention again to the Opioid Crisis. The nations number one Public Health challenge. Our witness today is sam quinones, the author of dreamland, a true tale of americas opiate epidemic. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, then ill introduce the witness. Then well hear from mr. Quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since hes our only witness, i have suggested to him if he wants to take a little more than five minutes to say whatever he has to say, we would welcome that. But there will be plenty of conversation back and forth with members of the committee. Member quinones, it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings. But this is an unusual topic, one you quote Washington State Research Professor Gary Franklin as calling th