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Covid19 is not the first pandemic we will ever deal with and certainly will not be the last one, but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet to get ahead of this, address it, ad, you know, come up with remedy for it. If we think about the basis of Global Health security, it is a threepronged approach containment, mitigation, and then treatment. This is the third hearing that i am chairing on this subject. The first focused on the containment strategy. That was the first hearing that congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain this disease with travel bands, etc. , was likely not going to be successful. Very difficult, and i think what china did was ambitious. About us some time that most of us in the Public Health world recognize that we would likely see in community cases, it would be difficult to sto ....
This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and get ahead of this and address it and ....
A sense protect the leadership from this virus but also of course there are more than just 3000. 00 delegates you have journalists and staff in total about 8000. 00 people gathered in the great hall of the people for this annual session now the n. P. C. Is important because it illustrates the sort of legitimacy of the party its powerful symbolism this is when we see all chinas leaders on public show well thats not going to happen and we dont know when the m. P. C. Will convene visit because of course we still have no idea really when this virus will finally be brought under control on sunday night president xi jinping told the people of china there have been shortcomings by the government in the response to this crisis were not sure by that whether he was referring to the Central Government or the provincial government in harm but certainly he stressed that this was a very serious moment for china he said that this was the big ....
A cluster of cases its confounding scientists as it has no link to china meanwhile south koreas president says the next few days will be critical for an outbreak that struck more than 600 people 6 have died in the country is now on its highest possible alert robert pride reports. The worst affected areas in southeast korea the city of daegu and neighboring chung the county remained at a virtual standstill to mask clusters of infections account for the majority of cases reported so far one of them at this hospital quickly spread infecting more than 100 patients and staff wards are being prepared to treat the increase of new coronavirus patients raising the alert to the highest level came at an emergency meeting chaired by president moon j. In this weekend the number of new cases has risen alarmingly by the hundreds and he stressed that the next few days will be critical in stemming the break. To morrow you are not going the situation has become completely different since the outbreak of ....