Bob wachter shared his thoughts monday saying each member provides very different perspectives to the pandemic and this task force is really set up with a broad group of people very diverse in every dimension, including Patient Advocates policy experts act practicing clinicians epidemiologist for allah just doctor David Kessler has been named one of 3 cochairs on the task force he served as commissioner of the fda under president s George H W Bush and bill clinton doctor wachter says cassler knows how to make the washington machine move any move the ball way down the field in terms of in terms of nutrition in terms drug use his dog good, he gets things done he understands how the federal Government Works understands research and i think hell do a terrific job at this doctor eric goosby also brings previous washington dc experience he worked with the Obama Administration to implement the emergency plan for aids relief yeah erica is a legend is an expert in global health. Hes an expert a
Almost a 109,000 every day covid related deaths are up 18 over the same time span averaging 939 per day over the last 2 weeks. The virus has killed more than 237,000 americans. To the south bay now officials are warning of a possible return to tighter Health Orders in the wake of the surge in new covid19 cases. Santa clara countys Public Health officer and other officials calling on the community to stay on guard against the virus. 358 new covid19 cases reported yesterday. It is the most since the middle of july. Theres also been a sharp increase in hospitalizations to more than a 100. The newest infections are mostly in people between the ages of 1834 years old the county is stepping up enforcement of the health order and so far 79 businesses have received notices for noncompliance amid more than 1000 complaints state leaders are already gearing up to work with the president and Vice President elect joe biden and kamala harris. Although President Trump has yet to concede in the presid
Financial roadblocks. This is an hour and ten minutes. Mr. Chairman, are you ready to begin . Yes. Please begin your fivesecond countdown. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Good afternoon. I call this hearing to order. A quorum is present. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call a recess at anytime. I would like to go over items. If you are experience connectivity issues, please contact your staff. It is committee and Sub Committee, participating members will be muting when not recognized and its out of courtesy so that background noise did not interfere with another member recognized to speak. When you are recognized you need to unmute your microphone and pause before speaking so we can hear everything you say. In order to ensure that everything members say is captured on the live stream of the hearing members are asked to pause for two to three seconds before beginning to speak. If you wish to have a document inserted in the record please ask for unanimous consent and have your staff email t
To accelerate. Interestingly we published a couple of weeks back a note that said we might see the acceleration in the short term and this might be as bad as it gets but that should not change the overall picture that the rate of decline has dramatically tolerated for Traditional Television and there does not seem to be any question that we are in a new normal for the rate of decline for the traditional system is 5 or so a year which is extraordinarily rapid decline for something thats been around as long as traditional att division. Host youre talking cable and satellite primarily, correct . Guest correct. Traditional distribution via cable or satellite. What is interesting and most interesting part of the story is if you went back a year ago you would have said the virtual and bpd so the youtube tv and the who live in that sort of thing were really what was driving this migration away from traditional linear tv. Today it looks like that thesis was wrong and the uptake of those Virtua
We are creating the candidate pool doing selections from the candidate pool and bringing those staff in and selecting who we are going to offer employment to. Final category being staff that has been on boarded. That number is 84. That includes people and this number is much larger than it was two weeks ago. That including people who have either been offered a job and accepted and we have at least tentative start work date for people who have already started work. These are positions that have been onboarded from december 2022 to the present. Those 84 positions have started or will start work scheduled in january or february. We are pleased with that progress that we are seeing some movement in getting selections made and staff on boarded. As you can see from that middle column we have a large amount of work to do over the next 60 days to make those selections and get people onboarded in the system. I will pause and turn this over to dr. Cummings to answer specifically your questions a