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The committee will come to order. I thank all of our witnesses for returning this morning. We appreciate the recognition of our interest and oversight responsibilities. This is a crisis that is evolving quickly. Since our hearing yesterday, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. Cdc has now reported that we have almost 1,000 confirmed cases. That is up from 100 reported cases a week ago. A 900 increase. Americans are worried. They are scared. It is essential that we are able to hear directly from the Health Officials leading this effort with just the facts. Im going to go to the republican side first which is where we left off. Before i do that, without objection, the following three letters we sent on march 3rd to hhs and cdc requesting basic information including about t t testing are entered into the record. We have ....
Alone will not be enough. We have to complement those efforts with a thirdparty investigation appointed by the board of supervisors, tasked with effecting change. We will continue to provide direction where the focus of this special investigator will be and better defining this scope of work, but this is the next step in terms of actually moving forward. The motion allows us to move forward with the process of procurement, and i ask for everybodys support. President yee okay. Seeing no other name on the roster, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, motion passes. [gavel]. President yee next item. Clerk item 16 is an ordinance to amend the health code to require the medical examiner to report the information to the mayor and board of supervisors once every four months of deaths arising from Drug Overdoses. President yee supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you, president yee. I want to thank the cosponsors ....
National crisis to get the house and congress in general moving . Rep. Graves it is important to look at where we were. We passed legislation to address this type of scenario. We increased funds for organizations to make sure we are prepared for this. This is an evolving threat. Every country in the world is working together with the World Health Organization till learn as much as we can. The legislation we passed through the house yesterday provides funds to the department of health. The primary objective is trying to get funds out to the state Public Health departments and the folks who are actually on the ground. This is everything from surveillance, trying to understand where the infection is, how it is being transmitted and learning as much as we can. It is about ensuring we are moving forward on treatment and vaccines. Most importantly, getting the resources o ....
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Mrs. Maloney the committee will come to order. I thank our witnesses for returning this morning. We appreciate the recognition of our interest and oversight responsibilities. This is a crisis that is evolving quickly. Since our hearing yesterday, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. C. D. C. Has reported that we have 1,000 confirmed cases. That is up from 100 reported cases a week ago, a 900 increase. Americans are worried. They are scared. It is essential that we are able to hear directly from the Health Officials leading this effort. Im going to go to the republican side first, which is where we left off. Before i do that, without objection, the following three letters we sent on march 3 to h. H. S. And c. D. C. Requesting basic information including basic testing. We have not gotten response to those letters and wi ....