Key National Challenges. In 2020, one of the Biggest National challenges we face is to hold the National Challenge National Selection during the covid19 pandemic. Today, we are honored to host leading experts from the national and intergovernmental community that protects state and local government Information Systems. First, well hear from jeffrey hale, the director of the Election Security initiative at the department of Homeland Security. He will be followed by a discussion including questions from the audience. Please feel free to use the chat function here on zoom to ask questions. After that, the second half of our program will feature a discussion with representatives of associations of discussions on leaders. Lindsay forson, with National Association of secretaries of state. And Maggie Brunner, a director for Homeland Security at the National Governors association. First, its really terrific to have an opportunity to hear from jeffrey and the department of Homeland Security. Si
Romaine we tuck about the nasdaq being at that record high. 7 , 8 is still about below its previous high that it hit before the drawdown in february. Likell 2000 down something 14 . When you start to sort of look at how this rally has been distributed, there are certainly a lot of areas that can play catch up. We have seen that kind of bottom feeding. Somel traders picked up on of these stocks that they felt were little bit too beatendown. Looking for a bit of a rebound there as well. Still with us, sarah malik. I just want to talk about the support that this market has had from the Federal Reserve. Policy,banks, monetary both what has been implemented and what has been promised. Goinge point, the fed is to have to reckon with this, whether they should pull this back. Do you anticipate that there would be a negative reaction of any significance in the equity markets to the fed starting to unravel . I think they have been pretty clear in the fact that they are going to provide support a
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Meant. Popular the time dhs is present and they see the infrastructure and this purity is really a supporting function helping to provide information and overbuild man purses to help those stakeholders manage risk to theirs systems. To do so we tried to have an information with the information sharing and analysis and was stood up in 2018 and since that time has two of the states it has more than 2500 local addictions deployed intrusion Protection Centers for helping to understand what type of traffic is targeting election infrastructure across the states. It has really been a rapid evolution of the information of the communal defense in this sector. We have been able to take some of the best practices learned with doing this type of support for other structures and apply it to our support with election infrastructure. Thats a little different we talk about the seventh and of effort supporting partisan efforts with campaigns and Party Committees which we have the same Vulnerability Man
One thing that continues to puzzle people is the multiinflammatory syndrome where kids kind of get that certain kind of rash when theyve been exposed to covid. Can you talk about how thats manifesting itself . Sure. A couple of things. Youre right. Its called misc. The fascinating thing is were only about four weeks into learning about this disease. It first came up in the United Kingdom and italy where reports of kids with fever and rash and some got very, very sick over a short period of time. Right about four weeks after the adult peak. So what that has taught pediatricians and really taught the world is we thought children were not being affected by this disease, certainly very few kids have gotten the pulmonary disease that adults have. So that caused a little bit of concern in the pediatric community. A couple of things i think families should know. Number one, its very rare. Weve seen hundreds and hundreds of thousands of cases of adults very, very sick with covid. And so far ac