Have learned during the crisis to better prepare for pandemic or other biological events of this scale in the future. Folks of todays hearing is the Strategic National stockpile. First established with a 51,000 appropriation in 1958, the sns was codified in 2002 and obtained its current name with an expanded mission in 2003. Over the years, management responsibility for the sns has changed between different agencies within hhs and dhs. In developing a plan for this committees oversight for the federal governments response to the coronavirus, the role of the Strategic National stockpile was an obvious area of interest, as is the vulnerability of our supply chain and theyre very interrelated. I assume that staff would be able to quickly obtain the list of items that should be held together with required and actual inventory levels of each item. Once again, i learned it is dangerous to assume. We quickly found out that those lists do not exist or certainly are not made available to congre
Very careful calculations, we hear at the Rachel Maddow show have determined that we, us, our collective humanity, we have arrived finally at the Halfway Point of 2020. You guys, technically, as of today, we are halfway threre. Its a leap year there arent 365 days this year. There are 366. At least there will be by the time we get to the end of it there will be 366 days by the end of this year. Divide by two to find the Halfway Point. Thats 183 days. Count up all the days we had so far. Yesterday was day 183. That means at midnight we hit day 184. Which means we have made it through the whole first half of this year that we all wish would stop already. Honestly, 2020 would have been a catastrophic year in the news if it had stopped three months ago. But we have made it halfway through. They cannot make us do that again. And it is astonishing that this first half of this year alone, more than 128,000 of our fellow americans did not make it to see this point because of the coronavirus. A
Its a leap year, so there arent 365 days this year. There are 366 days this year. At least there will be by the time we get to the end of it, provided the giant meteor doesnt get us or the sun doesnt burn out. So there will be 366 days by the end of this year. Divide by two to find the halfway point. Thats 183 days. Count up all the days weve had so far. Yesterday was day 183. That means at midnight, we hit day 184, which means we have made it through the whole first half of this year that we all wish would stop already. Honestly, 2020 would have been a catastrophic year in the news if it had stopped three months ago. But we have made it halfway through. They cannot make us do that again. And it is astonishing that this first half of this year alone, more than 128,000 of our fellow americans did not make it to see this point because of the coronavirus. And there will be more to come. Nbcs tabulation of the new case numbers today these are tabulated as of 6 30 p. M. Eastern time each da
366 days this year. At least there will be by the time we get to the end of it provided the giant meteor doesnt get us or the sun doesnt burn out. So there will be 366 days by the end of this year. Divide by two to find the half way point. Thats 183 days. Count up all the days weve had so far. Yesterday was day 183. That means at midnight we hit day 184, which means we have made it through the whole first half of this year that we all wish would stop already. Honestly, 2020 would have ban catastrophic year in the news if it had stopped three months ago. But we have made it half way through. They cannot make us do that again. And it is astonishing that this first half of this year alone more than 128,000 of our fellow americans did not make it to see this point. Because of the coronavirus. And there will be more to come. Nbcs tabulation of the new case numbers today, these are tabulated as of 6 30 p. M. Eastern time each day, nbc news tabulation as of 6 30 p. M. Tonight shows that today
Cases already that china had for the duration of its epidemic thus far. Think about that for a second. I mean the president wants to call this the chinese virus, right . The state department is trying to insist that it be called the wuhan virus, the chinese virus. China has more than quadrupled the population of the United States. China did also go first. China is the place where the virus was first recognized last year. They had this soaring epidemic in china. They have been contending with it for months already. But weve got double their number of cases and rising. U. S. Deaths are now doubling roughly every three days. Nearly 3,000 americans have already been killed by this virus. Dr. Tony fauci, the nations leading Infectious Disease expert is now saying bluntly that we should expect 100,000 to 200,000 americans to be killed by this virus. It was just a month ago that the president was saying, weve got 15 cases, and its going to go down to zero cases. Were doing such a great job wi