Guest good morning, its great to be with you. Its a new day in america. We are closer to crushing this virus, getting our economy back on track, helping people return to work safely, having her children be able to restart in Person Learning in their schools, or College Campuses and universities, our businesses being open again without restrictions and its in large part because of the work of President Biden and the commitment of democrats here in the house and the senate to pass the American Rescue plan and provide the resources so we can crush this virus and build back america stronger and better than ever. Host a caller in our first segment said he was concerned about today in the wake of the mask announcement from the cdc. What will happen to businesses today that require masks indoors, will there be confusion of people hearing this announcement from the cdc . What is your advice for both shoppers and Business Owners today . Guest i know in nevada, Additional Information went out fr
Assistant transportation secretary for technology with the trumpet ministration and now when economic professor at George Washington university. Professor at George Washington university. Joseph kane is with us as well, a Senior Research fellow at the brookings institution. Welcome to you both. Thank you for being here. Diana furchtgottroth, lets begin with you. Describe to our viewers when our infrastructure is like in the United States. Guest we have a lot of infrastructure that needs to be maintained, and one of my particular interests is the Global Positioning system, gps. Backing up gps so that people who are using that kind of navigation system, emergency workers, and nowhere to go. This gps system is dependent on a constellation of satellites that can get knocked out through an electromagnetic storm or some Foreign Military action. As the to permit if transportation, putting in someplace, a kind of backup, groundbased, so that if something happens to these satellites, we still h
Experts talked about the latest research into the development of a Coronavirus Vaccine, as well as safety concerns and the need for global participation. As of this morning, there were over 27 million global confirmed cases of covid19, and 892,000 deaths. Point 3. S. We have six million confirmed cases and we are approaching 190 thousand deaths. We have seen significant economic disruption to businesses and families, and normal daytoday activities have been vastly altered. Leadingexperts experts have said we need a vaccine, which is why the topic is so critical. We will also discuss the lessons that we are learning now in developing a covid19 vaccine, and the implications for if used future Vaccine Development. We have a short amount of time and a number of really terrific speakers, so why do we not get started . Mark, why dont we begin with you. About vaccines under development from pfizer, astrazeneca, in partnership with the university of oxford, all of which are in phase three Clin
Inessential workplaces and believe that they, too, should be protected by system of justice. Im going to stand with them and hope of the members of the senate will join me. Madam president , i yield the floor. Madam president , after a few weeks of working remotely to flatten the coronavirus curve were back in washington to continue our Coronavirus Response and address other important issues. Its been in public difficult couple of months for our country. In fact, for most of the world. More than 1 million americans have contracted the coronavirus and thousands have died. Our economy has taken a huge hit. Millions of americans are out of work and businesses are struggling to stay afloat. And americans are worried. They are worried about their own health. They are worried about the health of their families and their loved ones. And theyre worried about their finances. My colleagues and i know that americans are suffering. And our overriding priority over the past twodi months has been re
Finances. My colleagues and i know that americans are suffering. Our overriding priority for the past few months has been responding to the coronavirus iscrisis. We passed several major response bills and provided substantially more than 2 trillion. We have funded medical care, personal protective equipment for frontline medical personnel and Treatment Development hate sickly of Unemployment Benefits direct relief payments to american citizens, forgivable loans for Small Businesses and much more. Our goal has been to provide a comprehensive responses addressing not just the medical priorities but also the Economic Impact of viruses have on so Many American families. There is more work to be done. Right now a big part of the work is monitoring the implementation of the legislation we have already passed. We provided a tremendous amount of money and we need too made sure its getting word needs to go as quickly as possible and its being spent in the most effective way. Monitoring the impl