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Issue, a major change in the system for manufacturing pharmaceuticals. The implications of one country and the supply of medicines were astounding no matter what country we may be talking about. Think about it. What if there is a Global Pandemic and its hard to lose products across the world. But if there are heightened tensions within the South China Sea. Everyone could be vulnerable and put at risk. The role of the fda in this situation cant be overstated because the fda cannot be as effective in assuring the safety of the medicines and areas of the world as it can at home. Many of us are not aware of the safe debate co facetoface contact that the fda has with those that are manufacturing our drugs, the inspections they conduct, the very handson work that is involved in making sure that the manufacturers drugs are safe. They certainly set up offices all over the world to do that and that is not the same as having offices, having manufacturers in your own country. And with the u. S. L
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Slide 6. Locam i reading it correct its gone down when youre comparing the 18, 19 to the fall of 2019 . This is slide 6 . Yeah. Sorry. Yes. So what this is showing you is the yellow bar is what the 18, 19 school year chronic absenteeism rate and the blue bar is showing what it is in the fall. Right . So our goal is to keep steady at the blue bar which would mean that at the end of this year, our chronic absenteeism rate would go down. Okay. But if we have the jump that weve been seeing over the past three years, it will go up. Okay. Thank you. Does that make sense . We need to it shows how its gone up every year, that slide. This is last year versus midyear and they are trying to maintain yeah. Its a little bit of apples and oranges. Were doing a fall to a year. But this is what were saying is that this is were seeing here is an opportunity we have to hopefully turn back that chronic absenteeism and then for your question, commissioner norton, the last three years of data, and i would