[inaudible conversations] him him him. The hearing will come to order. Good morning welcome to the labor health and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee todays hearing is with the ongoing response to the coronavirus. Like all other efforts of the supplemental package we have been bipartisan when we commend him my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Before i began i went to extend they were to our witnesses tom friedman president and ceo and former director of cdc in prevention 2009 through sc 2016 doctor rivers senior scholar that hell security an assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Schools of health. Doctor friedman will do is perspective of fighting epidemics including leading the cdc response of where we are and what we need to do to protect americans doctor rivers makes a case where the months and years to come we will need additional capacity heea with Contact Tracing to combat the viru
Effective, it brought down the market up the day about 39 points s p 500 had given a run for the money. We are below that 2,800 level. S p up about 4. 5 keeping in mind the treasury yields right now, the 10year seems to be yielding 0. 606 andrew, ill send it over to you. Well give you an update now on the pandemic numbers. Global cases have reached 2. 7 million with 869,000 in the United States. The death toll in the u. S. Is nearing 50,000 new york cases have hit 263,000 and new jersey over 100,000. Georgia plans to reopen. They have the most confirmed cases with over 21,000 well talk about that throughout the morning. Yesterday, new york Governor Cuomo shared early results from the study of 3,000 people that said one in five new york City Residents tested positive. That means as many as 2. 7 million in new york already encountered the virus and survived and never knew it questioning the available of the test but said new yorks test was reliable enough to determine immunity thats base
Addition of washington journal, on cspan. Senate is expected to vote tomorrow on additional coronavirus funding totaling 500 billion dollars. As states looked to gradually reopen, we talk to a leading Infectious Disease doctor about how to get there with treatment methods of covid19. And later, Public Policy antivirus, with former Senate Republican leader and a trained frist. , dr. Bill numbers, 202 7488000 for the eastern half of the country, for the western half, 202 7488001, and if you are a medical professional, 202 7488002. Johns Hopkins University says worldwide coronavirus cases have cap in the u. S. Totaling the u. S. About 840 5000, just over 47,000 confirmed deaths in confirmed the u. S. Across all 50 states. Is ang us from tennessee Infectious Disease expert from Vanderbilt University. Dr. , thank you. Good to be with you. Steve let me begin with therapeutics and other medicines that will allow us to get to know normalcy in this country. . Hat will it take things. One is bet
Pandemic, members of the House Appropriations subcommittee and on capitol hill to look at the virus. The hearing included testimony from former cdc director tom frieden and caitlin rivers from the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security. This is 2. 5 hours. The hearing will come to order. Welcome to thend labor, health, and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee. Todays hearing is on the nations ongoing response to the coronavirus. On thether supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle clouding my friend and Ranking Member. Before i begin, i want to extend a very warm welcome to our witnesses, dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives and former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the cdc. From 2000 92016. Dr. Caitlin rivers, featured scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security and assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineerin
Facebook page, abc 7 newss Facebook Page and put in your question and i will definitely try to get to that, if we can, during our program. Weve already gotten some really good ones and we just want to see more of them coming so we can address that with dr. Patel. Theres so many interesting new medical developments to cover right now. We want to talk about herd immunity with dr. Patel. We also want to talk about reinfection. We want to talk about just how far the droplets from covid19 can travel and whether thats influencing your decision to wear a mask or not. As you know, theres been a lot of back and forth on that. And now that there are a lot of tests, more people doing tests, there are also people getting false negatives and what is the impact of that, as face our overall, you know, immunity and how safe we are as we start to think about reopening. So, with all that in mind, we want to welcome dr. Alok patel. Hey, alok. Thank you. Great to be here to answer all these questions. Tha