And members of the committee and thank you for joining us of the subcommittees first official. I would like to especially thank the members of the committee. And Ranking Members, the and ms. Thank you so much for being with us today. We know that covid19 has also altered the daily lives of americans. That is impacting our health, how we were, how we engage in our communities and how we vote. It is also impacted how we are upholding todays hearing. People putting themselves at risk every day from doctors and nurses to first responders, postal workers and many others pretty including home workers. Congress however, as an option. Many workers do not. We can do our work remotely in a safe and secure online format. The highest levels of the federal government have both recognize the unique circumstances of the covid19 pandemic by holding remote or virtual hearings. And they include the house and the senate which held virtual hearings like this one. It includes a Supreme Court which has modi
Epidemiology at university of Michigan School of public health, Beverly Alvin that beverly allen, a subsidiary beverly allen. The coronavirus has devastated families across the world. People everywhere have grieved the loss of parents, siblings, children and friends. Nearly one hundred thousand people in the United States have died from the coronavirus. The New York Times reported that more americans have died of the coronavirus in the last 12 weeks die in vietnaman and the korean wars combined and more than twice as many as died from battle wounds in world war i. In terms of american deaths, the virus is equivalent of 22 iraq attacks,september 11 41 afghanistan wars, 42 pearl benghazis. Nd 25,000 it has been devastating our country. More than 5000 deaths have happened here in michigan. It is important to never stop recognizing the human toll that this is taking. I want to highlight a couple of people from our state who lost the battle with covid19. Whitehall died at the age of 64 on m
This is how the debate is playing out in the papers starting with the Washington Post. Democrats hang up on Bernie Sanders in South Carolina debate. Ruckus york times, democratic debate yields no clear challenger to sanders. The wall street journal frames it this way, rivals focus on sanders at South Carolinas debate and the Washington Times this morning, not so friendly fire at sanders. What are your thoughts on it this morning . We will show you one of those moments where the Democratic Candidates go after senator sanders and his electability. The only way you can do this is to actually win the presidency. I am not looking forward to a scenario where it comes down to donald trump with his nostalgia for the social order of the 1950s and Bernie Sanders with a nostalgia for the revolutionary politics of the 1960s. This is not about the 1970s or the 1980s. This is about the future. This is about 2020. We are not going to survive or succeed and we are not going to win by reliving the cold
Were fairly good evidence that originated in animals and at some point jump over to humans and then became capable of being transmitted between humans. We dont fully know when that occurred. The initial outbreak was detected at the end of december. Its likely started a month before then but possibly earlier. Host how does the jump from animal to human . Guest that mechanism is it now but its likely a human came in contact with an animal that was infected and that virus mutated all of it so we could live in humans and then became more adapted to being in humans and then able to spread between humans, got thens right receptos to bind to the human lungs trim is it ingesting or just touching . Guest its not larger to be spread by droplet transmission. Somebody is symptomatic can expel virus and they can expel it directly on you or potential on the service you then touch and touch your face or nose turn with what about from animal to human . Is it that they touched this animal or they ate t
At Johns Hopkins here to talk about the coronavirus and the response. Lets begin with this virus. Itt exactly is it and how is that it became something that went from an animal to a human . Guest it is a respiratory virus. There are coronavirus is that circulate and are a frequent cause of the common cold, but this is a new one and people do not have immunity, and seems to be reducing more serial beer severe symptoms. It originated in animals and jumped over to humans and became capable of being transmitted to humans. When that occurred, we dont fully know. The initial outbreak was detected in december and it is likely it started a month before then or earlier. Host how does this jump from animal to human . Guest the mechanism is not known but likely a human came in contact with an animal that was infected and the virus mutated so it could live in humans, and became adapted to living in humans and could spread between humans, got the right receptors to bind to the lungs. Host is it ing