Into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. Im going to start by recognizing myself for five minutes before an opening statement. As i said, today, we begin the process of rebuilding and revitalizing our economy by modernizing our nations infrastructure. Over the last year, we have seen the devastating results of in action. Communities left behind due to the Digital Divide. The lift america act which was introduced last week, will help build back a better economy and invest a total of 312 million in clean and efficient energy, safe Drinking Water, expanded access to broadband. This legislation will serve as the blueprint moving forward and it provides an opportunity to Work Together in a bipartisan fashion. Im hopeful we can Work Together to try to find bipartisan solutions. I said this to our Ranking Member, this is a beginning. We introduced this as democrats, but we would like to have republican input into this before anything moves forward. There are a lot of bipartisan provi
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I am Amanda Glassman is senior fellow and executive price president at cdc. Today we will be talking about death and data in low and middle Income Countries from covid19 and all other causes. Accurate complete and timely data on mortality probably the single most powerful policy tools we have today to mitigate the Economic Impact of covid19 but what is also clear is that we have not collectively built the systems necessary to record peoples death in ways that enable more and to protect livelihoods. This failure does not only spawn individual experiences that creates unnecessary suffering. How is it possible to assess whether Subsaharan African countries are winning the fight against covid if a large share of total deaths and noncovid years go unreported or how to judge the trajectory of pakistan during covid19 if no mortality data of any kind is being ripped ported in the Public Domain according to dub a joes 2019 mortality report. Today will be talking about one strategy and mortality
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