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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 ....
Outreach, because we want to be prepared. We have a government to run. Aswhat options do you have the gsa continues to block the transition . Obviously parts of the transition in our control. We are picking people to work in the white house and cabinet. We are building our policy plans. We are having highlevel meetings with leaders from around the country. There is parts of the transition that are proceeding, and receiving at a recordsetting pace. There are other parts not in our control. The Vice President elect are not getting the Intelligence Briefings they are entitled to. We are not getting access to Agency Officials to help develop our plans. There is a lot of focus on that vaccine rollout plan that is going to be critical in the early days of a biden presidency. And we are not getting background checks. ....
Theres the tend to look at data that have provided by the manufacturers and analyze principally by the manufacturers and dont do a lot of reanalysis of data so its culturally a little different than the way our fda doesnt. Britain as part of the eu has as part of year to the end of the month. Has the ability to pull away from the eus regulatory. Agency and authorize things on its own. For Emergency Public Health reasons so vast that lawn under which this. This falls. So they were able to authorize review unauthorized quickly, the european unions. A European Agency has been or review it next. Tuesday and were going to review it next thursday. So in the grand scheme of things were talking ever difference of about 8 or 9 days. Doctor weatherford as you know a lot of people here say all i want to be first to take the vaccine. So now weve got the people in the uk taking. ....
Interest if he starts coordinating on the virus with the biden team. Like it or not, the president didnt win. The fall out this morning with ron klain, plus insight and analysis from our power house round table. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now chief anchor George Stephanopoulos. Good morning and welcome to this week. We may not be surprised, but we should still be shocked. The Election Results have been clear for more than two weeks. Joe biden defeated donald trump. By recent standards it wasnt that close. More than 6 million votes nationwide. More than triple Donald Trumps 2016 margin in the key mid western battle grounds. Plus wins in georgia and arizona. 306 electoral votes. The same total trump called a landslide in 2016. Faced with those facts, the president and their allies have taken their ....
Covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even m ....