Competing candidates townhall forms, joe biden may have got the better of the president s ratings, ive not seen an official reaction but the dueling in separate separate town halls got a little heated. Take a look. The president was informed how dangerous his virus was, americans dont panic, he panics. We were expected to lose 2,200,000. You were asked pointblank to do now White Supremacy. Id noun White Supremacy for years, you did not asked joe biden whether denounces antifa. We are hearing the senate is busy not only dealing with the nomination of judge barrett but separately taken up the issue of jack dorsey, they want the twitter ceo to come and talk to the committee and he will not do that voluntarily, they will issue a subpoena to make sure he does, in the meantime, the cool front in all places happening in West Virginia, the hyper loop one, supposed to be the future of modern transportation, they have this and brought in europe and asia but nothing quite like this, we will explo
The committee will attempt to order. We are already having some technical problems. There we go. Thank you. Before i begin my Opening Statement this morning, i want to acknowledge the loss of congressman john lewis. The civil rights icon changed history. In 2015, i was honored to be among those who joined him in selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday march 2011. I send my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Todays hearing comes at a time when our nation is experiencing confluence of the Health Crisis economic depression series of killings laid bare the racial injustices in our country. Our focus today is on covid19 disproportionate impact on black and latino seniors as well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority movies. According to the New York Times analysis black and latino residents are infected with the virus at three times the rate of their white neighbors and they are nearly twice as likely to die from covid19. The state of maine h
We now leave this program to get you alive briefing of 40 governor ron desantis. Good afternoon i want to think Carlos Mcguire for hosting us in jackson and thank you to mayor carlos and manus to all the work he has done over many months working closely with us in the state government. We came to jackson and i think early march when this pandemic was really starting to pick up steam, at that point i dont know if miamidade had a case, positive, maybe a couple but it was obviously much different than what were finding here. [shouting] over 4000 people have died, you have no plans and youre doing nothing. Shame on you. At that time when we had when we were here we had a whole bunch of concerns about what would end up happening in the next few weeks and months craig we had concerns about testing, we were able to get test, we were not able to get test for all the people who needed them at the time, in fact there were probably hundreds of tests being conducted today statewide and nationally
All right then. She has been a practicing physician, scientist in Healthcare Administration for over two decades been among her leadership rolls in academic medicine, she served as the inaugural chief scientific officer at nyu Medical Center and prior to that she sufficed here in radiology. She is the ceo of the utah health and the utah school of medicine in other roles and thought lake city. She was elected to the association of American Medical College council of the ministry to board. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Massachusetts General Hospital and the university of pittsburgh in the writing has appeared in the Harvard Business review, the journal of the association of American Medical Colleges and other publications. Speaking of other publications, her first book was an academic page turner on cardiovascular mri and im told not for the faint of heart, i need to say something, then the 15 years ive been on the job that the first intentionally terrible joke ive ever t
He was a gentleman in his 70s from clay county. Earlier this week we received news an individual in an assisted living facility in Broward County tested positive for covid19 and has passed away. Subsequent to that, difficult news, we learned of two additional people in the same facility that passed away around the around the same time. Department of health has made sure both individually tested as quick as possible. Both tests came back negative. I appreciate the step and department of health and agency for Healthcare Administration are working around the clock to ensure the Elderly Population throughout our state stays safe. We have issued mandatory regulations regarding any worker involved in a nursing home come assisted living facility or serving the elderly and thats not just medical. If involved in food preparation that going to have to wear a mask. I think the fear with the one test the death in broward, that was potentially transmitted by someone who was asymptomatic and was wor