The numbers are still down compared to this time last year. Heres a live look at sfo where 60,000 people departed over the weekend. The airport usually sees about 30, about 85,000 passengers departing each day over the Holiday Weekend. As for oakland, tsa numbers were down 61 compared to last year. Only run 6700 people went through the airport on sunday. In san joses airport was even quieter, the minetta airport only saw about 25 of the typical Holiday Weekend traffic that usually does. Numbers are down in the bay area, numbers are up across the country and we have not even seen the busiest travel days yet. Which are always the day before thanksgiving, and the days after. From packed gates at phoenix, sky harbor airport, to long lines at lax and the traffic at Chicagos Ohare International airport, americans are on the move. Covid or not. There is a lot more people here than i thought. Just over 3 million were screened that tsa checkpoints this weekend despite the cdc urging americans n
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They also cautioned against the misinformation on social media regarding the coronavirus. This house, science, space and Technology Hearing meeting is out is about one hour and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and become to get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach
Covid19 is not the first pandemic we will ever deal with and certainly will not be the last one, but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet to get ahead of this, address it, ad, you know, come up with remedy for it. If we think about the basis of Global Health security, it is a threepronged approach containment, mitigation, and then treatment. This is the third hearing that i am chairing on this subject. The first focused on the containment strategy. That was the first hearing that congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain this disease with travel bands, etc. , was likely not going to be successful. Very difficult, and i think what china did was ambitious. About us some time that most of us in the Public Health world recognize that we would likely see in community cases, it would be difficult to stop the spread of this disease. The second hearing we had was on mitigation, largely looking at testing, this wa
This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment, mitigation, and treatment. This is the third hearing that im chairing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conc