Mr. President , thank you very much for coming today. I want to again thank you for your support of everything weve been doing in this obviously very important problem. First i would ask to have Francis Collins make a couple comments about the nih in general and then i will talk about some of the things you and i have been talking about for the past few weeks. Thank you. Welcome. Its wonderful to have you here. Even though we are in fact faced with a Serious Public Health situation we have a lot of people here working hard but are honored by the presence of the secretary. Starting over here the Deputy Director of the Vaccine Resource Center ancenter and that is whee right now. Next to him the frontline on the bench making this thing happen. You know doctor fauci of course and next to him, the director of the Vaccine Resource Center and next to him the principal Deputy Director of nih and we are all thrilled to have you here. I just want to say a word about nih because we havent had the
Those who are joining this morning, doctor bianchi of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute for child health and develop, almost as long as the subcommittee on health, education, Human Services and related agencies. Doctor Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases. Doctor gary gibbons, director of the National Heart, lung and Blood Institute. Doctor sharpless of the National Cancer institute. And doctor dora volkow, welcome to all of you. Leader hoyer asked me to you have the nih coming . And he said this is one of the most remarkable hearings we have, thank you for the work you do and the differences you make in saving lives. At the start, let me touch on the matter of the coronavirus. I want to say thank you to the director, all the institutes. I want to say thank you to doctor fauci and say for Public Health experts, what, what you are doing on what is clearly a matter of National Importance and national urgency. We will be discussing the 2021 budget
Oversees the office of Surgeon General and u. S. Public Service Health commission core. And theres a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic, the National Vaccines plan and across Agency Effort to improve the outcome of patients with Sickle Cell Disease. The doctor brings patient han handson to his work and leading americans to healthier lives. I want to thank again bill pierce and worldwide for partnering on this breakfast perspective on Health Policy and with that im pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Well, thank you very much and im going to stand up if thats okay with everyone. Good morning and its great to be here joining you. Again, it has been two years now as they say in d. C. , the days are long, but the years are short and i can certainly agree with that. Its abouten quite an amazing two years with a lot of accomplishments and understanding of what we need to do. If i can get my slides up, please. Well, when we get our slides up, thats okay. So i am the 16th assistan
Good morning. Thank you for joining us on cspan. I am really pleased to be here today. To introduce the admiral who is the assistant secretary for health. He is our 16th assistant secretary of health and the department of health and human services. It is his twoyear anniversary in the role. He serves as the secretary Principal Public Health and science advisor and is responsible for coordinating hhss efforts across the administration to fight americas opioid crisis. He also oversees the office of the Surgeon General in the u. S. Public Health Service commissioned corps. His office leads many Critical National initiatives, including a historic new plan to fight the epidemic in america, the National Vaccine plan, and eight cross agency plan for Sickle Cell Disease. Dr. Giroir brings the hands on perspective to his work. Lead america to healthier lives. I want to thank Africa Worldwide for partnering on this. With that, i am pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Mr. Giroir thank you v
Interview with the ceo of agios. The stock got more than 6 today. Well find out why. And pay attention. Can you name todays mystery chart, the stock dropping at 1. 15 , bounced back a bit, had a bitter cold Holiday Season any ideas . Interesting that means something you probably do its a retailer. Well give you the name coming up but we begin with news on trade. The United States officially dropping the currency manipulator designation for china. Aman jabbers in washington with the developing story. Thats right, the treasury making it official at this hour, they are dropping the currency manipulator designation that they slapped on the chinese last year theyre removing it today. The Treasury Department saying in a statement thats for two reasons. One is the appreciation of the currency thats happened since last fall and the second one is agreements that theyve made inside the socalled phase one trade deal theyre saying in the agreement china has made enforceable commitments to refrain