Opportunity to testify. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado. We hope some of the successful practices will give an example for other states and nations. We set realistic goals. Freedom of movement throughout the United States, it would be impossible to eradicate the virus until there is a vaccine so on the Public Health side, our folks have been destabilized by protecting the most vulnerable, supporting Health Care Providers, making sure people have access to all forms of health care and doing everything we can to acquire testing equipment and personal Protection Equipment and being as smart as we can with the use of limited resources. And making and making sure we meet the needs of every critical patient that comes to the door, covid or noncovid so as not to overwhelm the Health Care System. On the economic side, we take into a number of its ordinary measures to help workers make Strategic Decisions about reopening, really taken into account the econom
Capacity, reopening guidelines, and what the federal government can do to provide further assistance. Difficulties,al this is a portion of the subcommittee hearing. Thank you for the invitation to testify. Thank you, chairwoman. If done a tremendous job in this crisis and beyond. Thank you, Ranking Member guthrie. It is great to see you in this capacity. And rankinghairman member and members of the committee. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado with the hope that some of the successful practices weve implemented here can be an example for other states, the federal government, and other nations dealing with the coronavirus. We started with realistic goals. We knew it would be impossible to eradicate the virus in theredo or america until is a vaccine. Our focus from the start has limitingtabilize by the spread, protecting the most vulnerable, supporting our Health Care Providers, making people received on Covid Health Care and doing everything we can to p
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Sexual assault response coordinator. I immediate privately with the front line defenders on the war on sexual assault, ill say. They report to me overwhelmingly that they think were making progress on all fronts but one. And here comes the hardest of all, i think. Were definitely not satisfied. And that is the issue of retaliation. So, retaliation, by the way, can be if you report sexual assault, the boss takes some action against you, which is or feels like retaliation. Ill call that official retaliati retaliation. The other form is just when your peers in the unit kind of find out whats happened or what allegedly happened and they take sides and maybe they treat you differently or maybe people who are your friends now shun you. Ill call that unofficial retaliation. Our piggest problem is on that unofficial part, people who rush to swrujudgment to and take si who is going to replace dr. La plant as acquisition czar . Rich lombardi is now in the acting capacity. Thats dr. La plants dep