Committee will come to order good good morning everyone. I want to think all of you who are attending this important hearing. Today we are going to discuss the International Response of the covid19 pandemic and the future pandemic preparedness prevention and response. The hearing will focus on senate bill 3829 with senator murphy and i have introduced, the Global Health diplomacy act. It is written on paper, not on stone which will we will talk about a little bit in the future here. This is an important endeavor that this committee will take up indeed, probably one of the weightiest matters that we will deal with as we attempt to create a new shield to prevent covid virus type attack from happening again. The covid19 Global Pandemic is reaffirmed what we long have known and that is Infectious Diseases particularly those of a viral nature do not respect borders but they are a threat, a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere. Weve been right here to focus on art of a sick responses to th
Let me take just a moment to talk about what we are attempting to do here in the senate. Exaggeration and hyperbole is the order of the day. Say always reluctant to this truly could be one of the most important things we as members of this committee do. What the world is experiencing today, what the United States is facing today, is one of the most significant challenges that a lot of us will face in our lifetime. The bad news, the really bad possibleit is entirely that it will happen again, and i say this because the experts virus thatt this made the leap from one species can very easily happen again. There are 2000 of these viruses out there. Dohave no idea what they can if they get into a human being. Us they haves tell identified within their ranks about 2000 different viruses. Having said that, we need to want toward, and i stress what i am trying to do with this and what all of us are trying to do, look forward. There are a lot of hearings going on. Theres a lot of hyperbole goin
Bucshon, a medical doctor on the u. S. And Global Response to the coronavirus outbreak. At 8 30 a. M. , congressman tim ryan discusses the Global Response to the coronavirus and camping 2020. Host good morning on this friday. We will begin the conversation with your confidence level and how washington is responding to the coronavirus outbreak. From capitol hill to the white house, your turn to tell politicians how you want them to respond. Republicans democrats and independence state e, city and wjn us on twitter at cspan and facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your calls in just a minute. The Vice President yesterday in washington at the annual conservative clinical action conference talking about what the administration has done to contain the coronavirus outbreak. President donald trump has no higher priority than the health, safety and wellbeing of the American People. [applause] last month following word of the outbreak of the coronavirus in china, trump took unprecedented action
The market selloff continues and so does the search for a safe haven, the spreading virus is the main factor, dow industrials down 400 points at the opening bell, this is shaping up to be the worst week for the dow since the financial crisis of 2008. S p down 50, one. 5 or more and the nasdaq down 2 at the opening bell. The president has offered reassurance about the virus, quote, the risk to the American People remains very low. We are ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads. Now comes news of an unexplained case of the coronavirus in california. The patient did not travel to a virus hotspot and was not in contact with a known virus carrier. In other words it is here. Oversees dramatic action in japan. They closed all the schools until april. In italy, 528 cases at least, 12 that. Iran finally doing something. Having refused to quarantine towns or cities they suggested less unnecessary travel. Listen to what the president said about the Market Reaction. I think the stoc
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