To unmute your microphones anytime you speak. If at any time during hearing im unable to chair the hearing the human chairman colon or vice chairman of the committee congressman kennedy will serve as chair until im able to return. Documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address weve provided. All documents will be entered ininto the record with the inclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an Opening Statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues itser oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Responsee examining a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months we battled covid19 over 7 million americans have had the virus and tragically over 200,000 have lost their lives. Millions ofll people face on employment and have lost their Health Insurance and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19 is especially on th
Microphones anytime you speak. During the any time hearing, the chairman the vice chairman of the committee, congressman kennedy will serve as chair until i am able to return. Beuments for the record can sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address provided to staff. All documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an opening statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues its oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Response. Examining the pursuit of a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months that we battled covid19, over 7 million americans have had the virus, and over 200,000 of them have lost their lives. Millions of the phase unemployment and have lost their Health Insurance, and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19s especially on the line as the virus continues to spread across
So concerned about flu season, about children not getting , not justight now with the Covid Vaccine, but other childhood vaccines that we are seeing a decrease in the numbers. What are your recommendations for how we implement a better strategy in making sure that we are tracking flu and covid, and also getting children, making sure they continue to get vaccinated . Dr. Gayle . Dr. Gayle we really need to build on the existing programs that we have. We have such a strong system for childhood vaccinations that needs to continue to be strengthened. It also, as was mentioned in several other questions and by other panelists, we have got to restore the trust and confidence that has been eroded in vaccines. I think those two things for me are essential. Build on the systems that we know work, get the right information out, and continue to build on the messages on why it really makes a difference to have children vaccinated, and build on those systems that we know work. In my 15 seconds. Dr.
Protection program and businesses of all sizes have started to use the tax tools that we provided for their liquidity. But in that time the critics have also done what they do best. They criticize. The need came has seized on an opportunity to perpetuate every negative story that critics can manufacture. You can imagine my surprise when democrats criticized the net operating loss carryback provisions in the cares act. Because oddly democrats previously supported the last three bills where we expanded the net operating loss carrybacks in 2002, 2005, and even in 2009 with all democrat rule. So i dont recall in any of those instances any partisan attacks from democrats about this previously bipartisan, antirecessionary policy tools. So why now . Sadly, that irresponsibility has led our democratic colleagues in the house to pass legislation that would take back important tax tools that we have provided in the cares act to the tune of 254 billion, and thats a tax increase on the american bu
Senate to talk about how the tragic spread of the coronavirus around the world underscored the need for us to focus on the persistent challenge of china not playing by the rules. Now, in the case of coronavirus that was about china not telling the World Health Organization, not telling other countries, not telling their own people what was happening in terms of the coronavirus, not taking steps to stop International Travel early on. That wasnt playing by the w. H. O. Rules, the World Health Organization rules, and the result has been devastation. It has been the spread of the virus and so much of that devastation weve seen around the globe, in my view could have been avoided had they played by the rules. Unfortunately not playing by the rules applies to china in many other areas too. We talked about trade allot on this floor of the senate to be sure that theres a level Playing Field between china and the United States and making sure they play by the International Trading rules. But he