Good morning. The committee has come to order. One thing, i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony. Those appearing in person, traveling to d. C. To give it orally, and, also, answer our questions. The title of this hearing now is, i guess, examining the u. S. Approach to early covid19 treatments. I thought it was i originally set out a title of early treatments for covid, a essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic to be politicized into the tragedy it was. From the start, i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response. We were facing a new virus. No one wanted to underreact, and as a result i feared the tendency would be overreact. The challenges facing us were daunting. Our National Strategic stockpile had been reduced during the h1n 1 pandemic. It took time to develop a test. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibit no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I
Coming after yesterdays euphoria that is part of the momentum growth trade materials and industrials are the only sectors in the green. We have a few more ipos and awaiting more news on tiktok and oracle it will be busy coming up on todays show, mohammed elerian will join us on the on going stimulus stalemate and well speak with Jim Fitterling and shares of Cybersecurity Firm Palo Alto Networks up 80 from the march lows as companies boost protections for employees working from from home the ceo will join us to discuss that trend and much more lets focus first of all on the big stories youre watching. Mike santoli is tracking to days volatile Market Action we have the latest on stimulus in washington and sara has new reporting on the oracletiktok sag yachlt mi saga mike, markets down 1. 4 . The ive been heavy tape all day. We continue this process of sort of undoing that august overshoot to the upside. Ive been focused on levels that we saw back on august 11th thats about 3333 we closed
And it has one of the worlds lowest ages of consent to look at the fight to protect girls in the philippines. And in sports arena williams is in surround 3 at the u. S. Open williams moving a step closer to set a record equalling 24th grand slam sides. Lebanon is about to remember the moment exactly one month ago when a catastrophic explosion tore through the capital beirut some 200 people died thousands were wounded in the blast which was caused by almost 3000 tons of badly stored Ammonium Nitrate of the many buildings reduced to rubble one is now the focus of a such for a possible saliva off the signs of life what detects it on thursday. What we have seen so far is unfortunately no trace off in the big theme of buddy we have been conducting 2 scans in 2 different room holding the scanner on the porch we just need a 4 d inch fence and commit the horse so we did that so far we can see nothing and but we are going to conduct again im sure another scan thing is done we work in face the c
Who i see on my screen here, until im willing your evil to return, documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Taylor and the email address we provided to staff. All documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing, and i want to inform all members and witnesses that we are expected to have a series of hearings on the floor all day today. I expect that what we will do is we will rotate through, so that both on the republican and democratic side, so that we will be able to continue to hearing as seamlessly as possible, when the chair has to go, mr. Pallone will preside, and vice versa mister guthrie, i would hope that the republicans can do the same thing. The chair will now recognize herself for the purposes of an Opening Statement. inaudible my question is, are you needed, chairwoman . I was muted because my staff is looking for my Opening Statement, which was not included in my briefing outlook. I will make my Opening Statement in just one moment. Mr. P
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