Participate. If joining by videoconference what you start speaking there will be a slight delay on the main screen. We are senators that he is that videoconference option hit the mute button until it is your turn to ask questions. If there is a Technology Issue we will move to the next senator until the issue is resolved. I remind all senators and the nominees the fiveminute clock still applies. For senators using the video option, youll notice a screen labeled clock showing how much time is remaining at 30 seconds i will tap the gavel to remind them the time is almost expired. To simplify the speaking order we have agreed to go by seniority for this first hybrid meeting. Thank you to those of you who are here today and keeping the capital complex safe and functioning while we honor our constitutional duty. Covid19 has challenged our sense of normalcy and tested every institution of daily life that we know. The crisis has had a major impact on the Economic Health of our country and the
Respiratory pathogen pandemic. It was written in september last year at the request of the world health and the world bank in one a professorthors is of epidemiology and Environmental Health at Johns Hopkins university, also a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for health security. Thanks very much for being with us. Thanks for have me, i appreciate it. What did you find out last september, and would it come through come to fruition in . May of this year . The purpose was to address the possibility of there being a pandemic caused by fastmoving respiratory virus. By a fastmoving respiratory virus. The idea was it could spread quickly and potentially affect multiple countries at once, and what should preparedness look like in that scenario was so many places are affected at the same time . The availability of resources would be limited and it would be every country for itself. What we found is we would probably have not a medical countermeasure like a drug or vaccine to combat t
And if you missed any coverage, watch anytime ondemand, at cspan. Org coronavirus. Approaching 257,000. Is joining us. Y he is the dean of Harvard Medical School. I want to start with a story you were quoted in in the wall street journal. You were working with chinese doctors privately for best practices and treatment. Dr. Daley we are. The current pandemic respects no international boundaries. Medicine and science are forces for International Diplomacy that transcend politics. In late january, when it was clear that the virus was ravaging china, colleagues from china reached out to us asking for help. It was a time when there was tremendous tension between our countries. Our government was struggling. Channelse not formal for communication. The centers for Disease Control was not involved in china. The National Institute of health was rebuffed. Because of personal connections, we linked to our chinese colleagues and began working together. In those early times, they were reaching out
That this is somehow manufactured outrage, on the part of us, or republicans in general, and does not fit with the way these comments came across either. I want to read for you from cnn, Supreme Court reporter and i quote schumer speaking at a rally for abortionrights supporters, appeared to threaten cavanaugh and gorsuch president trumps two Supreme Court , nominees who were confirmed after bruising nomination fights. That is the interpretation not a fox news, but of cnn. And i think we need to be very clear when comments like that are made that threaten an independent judiciary in this country they need to be called out in the needs we walked back. Out and they need to be walked back. And i appreciate the fact that the democratic leader acknowledged today that he should have said it differently. But it does not in any way diminish what was said or the context in which it was said. Or the attacks that were made on the Supreme Court. It needs to be recognized as that and i think all of
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