The committee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. I want to thank all of you who are attending this important hearing, and today we are going to discuss the International Response to the covid19 pandemic and the future pandemic preparedness, prevention and response. The hearing will focus on senate bill 3829, which senator murphy and i have introduced, the Global Health security and diplomacy act. Its written on paper, not on stone, which well talk about a little bit in the future here. This is an important endeavor that this committee is going to take up, indeed probably one of the weightiest matters that well deal with as they attempt to create a new shield to prevent a covid virus type attack from happening again. The covid19 Global Pandemic has reaffirmed what weve long known, and that is Infectious Diseases, particularly those of viral nature, do not respecta tt threat everywhere. Weve been right here to focus on our domestic response to the pandemic, but we ignore the spr
Minutes of this american Artifacts Program by going to cspan. Org and searching stonewall riots. Right now we go live to capitol hill for a Senate Foreign relations hearing on the Coronavirus Response and what the u. S. Is doing to prepare for future Global Pandemics. The hearing will focus on senate bill 3829 with senator murphy and i have introduced. Its written on paper, not on stone, which well talk about a little bit in the future here. This is an important endeavor that this committee is going to take up, indeed. Probably one of the weightiest matters that well deal with as we attempt to create a new shield to prevent a covid virus type attack be from happening again. The covid19 Global Pandemic has reaffirmed what weve long known and that is Infectious Diseases, particularly those of viral nature, do not respect borders. Theyre a threat anywhere, its a threat everywhere. Weve been right here to focus on our domestic response to this pandemic, but we ignore the spread overseas at
Held saniel meeting this week and Member States adopted a resolution to launch a probe into the Global Response to the cole the 19 pandemic i guess china doesnt like this what do you expect from that thats a great question larry because the World Health Organization itself is going to its 6 outlines of this impartial independent review now this was voted upon and approved by a 144 countries china didnt object but we do know that from chinese leaders sieging things speech to the World Health Assembly this is not the investigation that he wanted so i think that theres going to be a lot of behind the scenes scrambling between china on the one side and the rest of the world on the other as to the scope of this review or do you think china doll why doesnt china or is it care if they have to if theyre in their right. That so. Actually i think china believes that there is something to hide because we know that from december all the way through february beijing took a lot of moves that were in
Organizati organization, china as well as investigations of practices of Chinese Companies that are listed here in the u. S. So were up 0. 4 . 3 for the week as a whole sara straight to kayla in washington to recap what we just heard from the president including that significant announcement that the u. S. Would be terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization and sara, the president prevud that a few weeks ago saying it would be reviewing the funding it sends to the w. H. O. In the wake of what it sees as shortcomings by the World Health Organization to alert the u. S. Of some of the risks of the coronavirus. Sources tell me that one of the ways the u. S. Feels most wronged is that there was no information about asymptomatic transmission of this virus until late in the game when the u. S. Population and economy was at risk. He announced the administration would be suspending the entry of foreign nationals from china to the u. S. , that the u. S. Finds at risk to the
Held saniel meeting this week and Member States adopted a resolution to launch a probe into the Global Response to the cole the 19 pandemic i guess china doesnt like this what do you expect from that thats a great question larry because the World Health Organization itself is going to have 6 outlines of this impartial independent review now this was voted upon and approved by a 144 countries china didnt object but we do know that from chinese leaders sieging things speech to the World Health Assembly this is not the investigation that he wanted so i think that theres going to be a lot of behind the scenes scrambling between china on the one side and the rest of the world on the other as to the scope of this review or do you think china doll why doesnt china was it care if they have to if theyre in their right. Thats. Actually i think china believes that there is something to hide because we know that from december all the way through february beijing took a lot of moves that were inten