Our first Guest Today is an author. He is we have a former fda commissioner, welcome dr. Scott gottlieb. Thanks for having me. Lets talk about your new book. One of the major themes of the book is the u. S. Health care institutions. We are very unprepared to deal with a pandemic like this and we are seeing some of those same complaints especially with the cdc. Can you talk about what are some of the root causes of those additional problems and what we could do to fix them . I think we need to look at public health appeared in is through national security. If we think of public health and public Health Preparedness through that orientation, you start to think about how you put in place different kinds of catastrophes to us to respond to a crisis of this magnitude. There is a perception that cdc had this and could mount a fullscale response to a crisis of this magnitude but its not the kind of organization they are. They do exquisite scientific analysis of outbreaks. Its a very retrospec
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Good morning. Senate health education, labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Today we are holding a hearing on our federal response to the covid19 pandemic. Ranking Member Burr and i will each have an opening skpimt statement and i will introduce our witnesses. Senators will each have five minutes for a round of questions while we are yet unable to have the hearing fully open to the public or media for inperson attendance, live video is available on our Committee Web Site at help. Senate. Gov and if anyone is in need of accommodations, including closed captioning, please reap out to the committee or the office of congressional accessibility services. We are at a point of great Promise And Peril in the fight against covid19. While i am encouraged by the fact that 2 3 of adults in our country have received their first dose of vaccine, i am alarmed by how the rate of vaccination has been slowing and how driven by the Delta Variant rates of covid19 cases and deaths are on
Good morning. Senate health education, labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Today we are holding a hearing on our federal response to the covid19 pandemic. Ranking Member Burr and i will each have an opening skpimt statement and i will introduce our witnesses. Senators will each have five minutes for a round of questions while we are yet unable to have the hearing fully open to the public or media for inperson attendance, live video is available on our Committee Web Site at help. Senate. Gov and if anyone is in need of accommodations, including closed captioning, please reap out to the committee or the office of congressional accessibility services. We are at a point of great Promise And Peril in the fight against covid19. While i am encouraged by the fact that 2 3 of adults in our country have received their first dose of vaccine, i am alarmed by how the rate of vaccination has been slowing and how driven by the Delta Variant rates of covid19 cases and deaths are on
While we are yet unable to have the hearing fully open to the public or media for inperson attendance, live video is available on our Committee Web Site at help. Senate. Gov and if anyone is in need of accommodations, including closed captioning, please reap out to the committee or the office of congressional accessibility services. We are at a point of great Promise And Peril in the fight against covid19. While i am encouraged by the fact that 2 3 of adults in our country have received their first dose of vaccine, i am alarmed by how the rate of vaccination has been slowing and how driven by the Delta Variant rates of covid19 cases and deaths are once again on the rise. Five counties in my state currently have high levels of transmission according to the centers for Disease Control and prevention. For example, in walla walla county, cases are up in july from june, and they were up in june from april and may, and even though 99 of the covid deaths nationwide last month were among peopl