Obviously is being held remotely. All members and witnesses will participate Via Videoconferencing as part of our hearing microphones will be set on mute to eliminate background noise. Members and witnesses, youre going to have to unmute your microphone each time you wish to speak. So i just say that as a reminder and as a little housekeeping issue, but please remember to do that. Documents for the record can be sent to megan mullen at the email address we provided to your staff. All documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Lets see, where is the clock on the screen . There it is, okay. In any given year, one in five adults experience a Mental Illness such as depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder. But 2020 has been a year like no other. In a recent poll, half of adults report that their Mental Health has been negatively impacted due to the coronavirus. One can only imagine
Watch quote washington journal 7 00 eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Continues. Host we are joined next by former federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator craig fugate. Thank you for being with us on washington journal this morning. Guest thanks for having me. Host a number of items on our plate including the covid19 response. First, to the response to hurricane laura. The hurricane coming effectively the same week marking 15 years since hurricane katrina. What lessons do think fema and the federal government learned in terms of response to hurricanes in particular . Guest i think the biggest lesson was that we dont wait until we are asked to start getting ready. To be ana, there seem lot of confusion about the governor having to make requests and what femas role was going to be. Congress, after katrina launched substantial legislation. Governors are going to be is he dealing with this. The federal
Are refocusing our energies and sense of purpose and a sense of optimism and faith we will get through times challenging, times like today, difficult moments that all of us are working through to reconcile the world we are living in and to reconcile the need to pay our rent and mortgage and to understand whether or not we can educate our kids at home with all the other burdens and challenges we face in the household and where we are going as a state and as a nation. The old adage we are nothing but a mirror of our consistent thoughts. Whatever we tend to focus on we find more of it if youre like me you are focused on the nightly news, 24 7 cycle seven days a week, a lot of anxiety is running through those broadcasts. A lot of fear that is induced focusing on what this nation and the world is doing to meet this pandemic had on. That stress is manifest and that stress is real and all of us work through that stress differently. No one can moralize how some deal with it versus others. Some
Scramble for face musts worldwide shortage of essential medical equipment triggers a 1000000000 more. People are going to die in the near term due to a lack of ventilators that was the warning from the governor of new york in the us his states is the worst hates in the country with the number of cases breaking the 100000 threshold in the past 24 hours meanwhile its been revealed a massive hospital ship berthed in new york city to take a ferry is a noncorporate patients so far treated only 20 well in london the 1st patients can now use a new 4000 bed facility set up in a Convention Center the Nightingale Hospital was created in just. 9 days was comes as the u. K. Is nice in more than 3 sizes current virus deaths where i was brewing after 2 countries accuse the us of hijacking deliveries of protective equipment both france and germany say hundreds of thousands of face masks were diverted to america and canada is investigating similar claims and to underline the global scale of the crisis
Task force is ready to recommend that all americans now wear a mask, a scarf, bandanna or some other protective Face Covering in order to protect against the virus. Here is doctor Anthony Fauci this morning stressing that Face Covering does not mean using the same much needed n95 mask that are in such critical need for our doctors, nurses, healthcare workers who are fighting on the front lines. When you are out, and you cannot maintain the 6foot distance to where some sort of facial covering. The important point to emphasize is that that should in no way ever take away from the availability of masks that are needed for the Healthcare Providers. Lou incredibly, much of Corporate America is working with the president and working for the American People. Acting in the National Interest in the worsening crisis. One firm tonight stands out. The president first requesting and now ordering that 3m stop altogether its export of much needed, critically needed n95 mask that are in such demand in