Good morning. Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee these come to order. We are holding a public pandemic. We will have an Opening Statement and introduce our witnesses. After the give testimony, senators will each have five minutes for a round of questions while yet unable to have the hearing fully open to the public or media for imprisonment pundits, live video is available on our committeeo website health. Senate. Gov in this if anyone is in need of accommodations, reach out to the Committee Or Office of congressional sensibilities service. We are at a time of great Promise And Peril in the fight against covid19 while i am encouraged by the fact that two thirds of adults in our country received their first Dose Of vaccine, i am alarmed by how the rate of vaccination has been slowing and driven by the Delta Variant of covert cases and deaths are on the rise again. Five counties in my state currently have high levels of transmission according to the centers for Disease
People because really, your immune system is in a hold up against that Delta Variant. And Californias Positivity Rate creeping up slowly after a low. 7 , now 1. 2 with months of Summer Travel and upcoming holidays. Should people be taking extra precautions, should we be wearing the masks even though many restrictions have been lifted . You know, the way to think of that is that it is likely not the Delta Variant there yet because less than 5 of our particular variance in this state are the delta. It is more that yes, this was to be expected. If we opened up, if we saw more people, that cases may slightly go up but the important thing and this is really important, is what gov. Newsom said when he opened our state and said this back in april when he was planning on opening it, is we were going to track hospitalizations and deaths. We are going to make sure that our hospitals in no way see increased cases of covid19. We have not that at all. So a lot of people are swabbing peoples noses e
house is finally voting on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. this has been back and forth all day. remember, the original plan was that the house was going to vote on the build back better act on thursday. and the bipartisan infrastructure bill today. that all got scrapped. there s been a lot of push and pull, and the way this all landed was just moments ago, the moderates that had been holdouts on the build back better act issued a statement committing to vote on that by november 15th. in return, shortly after that statement went out, we heard from the chair of the progressive caucus, who said that after that assurance, they will move forward on voting. now, we do expect some democrats to vote no. not all progressives will likely vote for this. so we re keeping an eye on that, and who that might be. we re also keeping an eye on if democrats get some republican support on this. remember, house speaker nancy pelosi is working with a three-vote margin here. she does not like
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