Dr. Anthony fauci says u. S. Coronavirus cases continue to surge because parts of the country did not follow cdc guidelines when they reopened. While European Countries have seen sharp declines. He was joined by other Health Experts testifying before a house panel. Talking] rep. Clyburn good morning. Let me welcome everybody. Today our select subcommittee is holding a hybrid hearing, where some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webex. Since some are appearing in person, let me first remember to everyone pursuant to the latest guidelines by the house attending physicians, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a Face Covering. Members who are not wearing a Face Covering are not permitted to remain in the hearing room and will not be recognized to speak. Let me also make a few reminders about hybrid hearings. At once and what is known as webex as grid view mode. On the other monitor, you will see each person speaking during the hearing
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting has now come back to order. With us in i understand that admiral will have a hard stop at 11 ha 45678 thats 25 minutes from now. We will go into a second round of questioning but we will recognize that you will have to leave and we appreciate that. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Im going to begin the second round. Referring to while, yield myself five minutes. Okay. Thank you. Now, President Trump just tweet out a statement that im going to quote. In reverence to my chart about the comparing the cases. He says that the United States has far more cases than europe and because we do much more testing than any other country in the world. If we had no test organize bad test it would show very few cases. And dr. Fauci, do you agree with president s statement or too you stand by your previous answer that the difference is caused by multiple factors including the fact that some states did not do a good job of reopening . I stand by my
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting has now come back to order. With us in i understand that admiral will have a hard stop at 11 ha 45678 thats 25 minutes from now. We will go into a second round of questioning but we will recognize that you will have to leave and we appreciate that. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Im going to begin the second round. Referring to while, yield myself five minutes. Okay. Thank you. Now, President Trump just tweet out a statement that im going to quote. In reverence to my chart about the comparing the cases. He says that the United States has far more cases than europe and because we do much more testing than any other country in the world. If we had no test organize bad test it would show very few cases. And dr. Fauci, do you agree with president s statement or too you stand by your previous answer that the difference is caused by multiple factors including the fact that some states did not do a good job of
Are the Health Care Workers themselves, the medical workers themselves, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff who weve relied on from the very first moments that we began to realize that this virus was bigger than any health issue weve dealt with in a long time. Were still depending on it today. At some point you run out of some of the capacity and steam that you had to do the job that needs to be done. But we see these heroes continue to step up. Some giving their lives. In bill in birmingham and kansas city was an emergency medical technician. He was with the Kansas City Fire Department and he died of coronavirus in april. His son described billy as selfless. He said billy had decided he wanted to find new ways to help people and so he reinvented himself as an e. M. T. When he was in his 40s so he could help others and then he was an e. M. T. For about 22 years. We see the Emergency Medical Technicians, the First Responders out there saving lives, bringing people in a desperate
found brittney griner guilty as she was led away in handcuffs. britntney, how do you feel? i love my family. we start with fred pleitgen. what happens now? where do we go? hi, erica. essentially the court sentenced her to nine years in the penal colony. if she would send her, the fields are very far away from the russian capital. they re usually tough places as well. our understanding is that because her legal team say they re going to appeal this verdict, for now she s going to remain in the same detention facility outside of moscow that she has been insofar as long as an appeals process would take place. brittney griner, of course, was essentially appealing to the judge for leniency in a very long speech to the judge asking for leniency. let s listen to some of what she had to say. i know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. again, i had no intent on breaking any russian laws. i had no intent. i