Infections. If you look at the country at large, there are some areas doing very well right now, particularly those that got hit badly early on. For example, the new york city metropolitan area has four, at least a month, been less than 1 positivity. In contrast in other parts of the country, particularly in some of the Southern States that had big surges when they tried to open the economy, that brought our baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 a day to as high as 70,000. We are back down between 30,000 and 40,000. Just as those states are starting to level off and come down, which is the good sign, we are starting to see the beginning of surges in places like montana, the dakotas, michigan, minnesota, iowa. It is really a mixed bag, judy. Some areas are doing well and some are still threatening to have surges. It is not an easy situation for us. If someone were to say we are rounding the final curve on this, what would you say . You now, it depends. If you picked the loc
Chief scientist of the food and Drug Administration serving from 20092014. Oodman, good morning. As you talk about your work chief scientist and how it relates to the fdas role with finding a vaccine . The science of vaccines is very complex. They are complex the study. On thentry relies experts at the fda to ensure that any vaccine that goes into clinical studies and oversees the Development Process and ultimately the approval process. Have such ane amazing reduction in childhood illness. Approved, itey are is monitoring their safety. To particular scientists work directly with the companies or is it a team effort . How does that work . There is an office called the office of Vaccine Research and there are experts on a whole range of issues from their chemistry, their manufacturing, their trials. There are different scientific disciplines that interacted the process, but at the end, it is completely independent. Host when it comes to you personally, just to care five to out just to cl
The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer madam president , today the senate will take a rather pointless vote on the latest, highly partisan republican emaciated covid relief bill. The republican leader claims the bill is an attempt at a bipartisan solution but the bill was drafted solely by republicans, no input by democrats and rushed to the floor. Mr. Leader, go look up in the dictionary what bipartisanship is. Its both parties working together, not your party doing a bill and then saying its bipartisan. What the leader has done, the republican leader, is no ones idea of bipartisanship, not even his own members. And lets go over history. Hes done this trick before. Covid 2, covid 3, covid 3. 5. In each case the republicans came out, the leader came out saying this is his own bill, saying this is the only bill that will pass. Democrats are blocking it. Democrats held strong. And what happened . We got much better bills with many of the things we wanted. We got truly bipar
Cybersecurity annual summit. Andill he or from industry government officials about security challenges amid teleworking during the coronavirus pandemic. Minutes. Welcome, everyone, to the pandemic panel. I am delighted to speak today. I am the Raytheon Cyber protection solution. Pleased to be joined by a [inaudible] and also by jeffrey. Im Senior Vice President of the cloud and networking business. Lets jump right into it. Its safe to say we were thinking of the Home Strategies and the big focus was election 2020. We all know we had to leap into a new posture with people working from home and there is a lot of impact not to mention those just from the lifestyle of health to proliferate. It is a pretty big undertaking. I would say that i am really pleased with how prepared are. We already mad made a number of platform decisions so weve are leveraging called services i would say w we have to like everyonhad to likeeveryone elsea better job probably the two biggest areas that were challen
Congresss role in funding fema and other support. The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted the event. I am so excited to bring you this event today. We have an amazing several panels of speakers. Project thatture buildars said we need to the loss ofreduce property and life and bring down the cost of a Natural Disaster response. Hit, we convened a task force of former state and federal officials who oversee Disaster Recovery and have had to secure overseas and federal funding. Many of the programs are being withd as never before covid. As we saw with the recent hurricane, there has been a lot of attention about how you safely evacuate and safely shelterinplace during a hurricane and still maintain social distance to prevent spread. These are challenges Emergency Managers are facing day in and day out, especially with Hurricane Season having nine named storms since june. I all indications, there will be more. We are joined by a number of folks to talk about these two distinct crises. First, w