This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time to give money welcome to todays hearing on coronavirus, understanding the threat of Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i woke frank recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement 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 to get ahead of this, dress it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment medication and treatment. This is the third hearing that im sharing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain th
To serve you as we seek to keep america the land of the free and the home of the brave. Abide with our lawmakers, be their companion as they labor to keep this nation strong. Drive away all snares of the enemy, and may no weapon formed against them be able to prosper. Make our senators models of excellence and integrity for our nation and world. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the Senate Majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , let me quote from a letter i recently received from our colleagues across the aisle. Heres what they said were writing to reiterate our interest in working cooperatively to facilitate the fiscal year 2017 appropriations process. As we see it,
Improving Emergency Response and care and rehabilitation. But here we are really focused on these three things in the middle ground, separating time and space and modifying the basic structures and finding ways to separate people who might be at risk from the hazard it in particular we are most concerned about again responders and care providers of all kind whether occupationally involved in providing care or family members. And when we think about occupational exposures and potential interventions that we can use to get lemonade or reduce exposures, we think about these as occurring on the hierarchy where we know that it is far more efficacious if we can engineer the environment or change the process to prevent the possibility of exposure in the first place, less effective is to take administrative for programmatic behavioral approaches where we try to change the way that people work together, the behavior of the cases and the least efficacious they use a personal protective equipment
Good morning. I and the president of the institute of medicine, and it is my great pleasure to welcome all of you to this very important meeting. I understand that as of yesterday, we have over 700 people registered. Weve limited the size to 250 in order to be manageable in the breakout conversations so a lot of people are going to be here on the webcast. We are seeing the devastating effects of the virus outside of the United States because we are seeing it entered the United States as well. Fortunately the Public Health system responds to the virus is robust and of the small handful of people with ebola in the u. S. Only one has died. In africa the picture is different. We have seen over thousands of cases and high fatality rates. We have just heard that the epidemic is still far from where we need to be. The cdc has predicted that in the worstcase scenario over many people could be affected by january, liberia and sierra leone. What went wrong . There are many lessons to be learned
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