This is just over two hours. This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem because ebola had a mortality rate of 40 , but in the end because of effective action on the part of the world health organization, the Obama Administration and resources we prevented it from spreading some less than 29,000 contracted it and about 11,000 died. Weve had other outbreaks where we are Getting Better and weve developed some relatively effective
Health and Human Services officials held a briefing earlier today to provide an update on the federal governments response to the coronavirus outbreak. During the briefing, h. H. S. Secretary alex azar said the immediate risk to the general American Public remains low. But as we have warned, that has the potential to change quickly. This is 45 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us here today. This is the h. H. S. Briefing on the china coronavirus and we aim to do two things today. Provide the American Public with an update on the risk presented by the virus, and provide the latest update on the actions that president Trumps Administration is taking to respond to the outbreak and keep americans safe. Mr. Azar im joined today by the Principle Deputy Principal Deputy director for the centers of Disease Control and prevention in atlanta. The National Institute of allergy and infectious disease. Dr. Kadlec, h. H. S. s assistant secretary for preparedness and response,
Next, a hearing on how federal agencies are working in response to the corona Virus Outbreak. Ken cuccinelli as acting deputy Homeland Security secretary and doctor Robert Kadlec is assistant secretary of Human Services. Topics include supplychain management, sick pay support and travel issues. Specifically how the coast guard is working with cruise line. This is just over two hours. This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem b
This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem because ebola had a mortality rate of 40 , but in the end because of effective action on the part of the world health organization, the Obama Administration and resources we prevented it from spreading some less than 29,000 contracted it and about 11,000 died. Weve had other outbreaks where we are Getting Better and weve developed some relatively effective vaccines to help protect Heal
Of allergy and infectious diseases. This is 40 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us here today. This is the h. H. S. Briefing on the china c secretary azar good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us here today. This is the h. H. S. Briefing on the china coronavirus and we aim to do two things today. Provide the American Public with an update on the risk presented by the virus, and provide the latest update on the actions that president Trumps Administration is taking to respond to the outbreak and keep americans safe. Im joined today by the Principal Deputy director for the centers of Disease Control and prevention in atlanta. Dr. Anthony fauci of the National Institute of allergy and infectious disease. Dr. Kadlec, h. H. S. s assistant secretary for preparedness and response, and the commissioner of food and drugs. Contacts with those travelers. We have three cases as of this morning, we still have only 14 cases of the china coronavirus detected here in