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We are called to order, subcommittee on oversight. Thank everyone for joining us a today. We are holding this hearing virtually if you didnt realize it and compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings her House Resolution 965. Before we turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of the few procedures and help you navigate this virtual hearing. First, consistent with regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Second, members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. If you need to step away from the proceedings, please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Third, we will dispense with our practice of observing the given to roll and instead go in order of seniority for questioning, alternating between minority and majority, beginning with members of the oversight subcommittee fir
First, consistent with regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for five minutes. Second, members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. If they need to step away from the proceeding, please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Third, we will discuss instead go in order of seniority. Alternating between minority and majority beginning with members of the oversight subcommittee first. Finally without objection, representative judy chu is authorized to serve as chair any event that i have some technical difficulties or whatever. I thank you all for your continued patience and to navigate this technology in order to continue serving our function together in this time of need. With that i will now turn to the important topic of todays hearing. Maximizing Health Coverage involvement administration sabotage. Sounds like aen movie. So
Thats after another 595 fatalities were confirmed over the past 24 hours. Thats the countrys highest daily death toll. Since may, were very much hoping that 2 things will start to come to our aid. Number one, the mass testing the kind i just described, the rapid turnaround testing. Then the other thing is now the prospect, the realistic prospect of a vaccine say you have a kind of, as it were to boxing gloves, to the disease in that, in the weeks and months that followed. But ive got to stress that were not out of the woods yet. Well, corona virus restrictions are being reimposed in several states across the u. S. As infections that shatter more records there. According to the covert tracking project, more than 130000, new cases were confirmed on tuesday, and texas has become the 1st state to record more than a 1000000 cases. More people are hospitalized with the virus than ever before. At least 85 people are now confirmed to have died in the violence surrounding ivory coasts disputed
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