Opportunity to testify. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado. We hope some of the successful practices will give an example for other states and nations. We set realistic goals. Freedom of movement throughout the United States, it would be impossible to eradicate the virus until there is a vaccine so on the Public Health side, our folks have been destabilized by protecting the most vulnerable, supporting Health Care Providers, making sure people have access to all forms of health care and doing everything we can to acquire testing equipment and personal Protection Equipment and being as smart as we can with the use of limited resources. And making and making sure we meet the needs of every critical patient that comes to the door, covid or noncovid so as not to overwhelm the Health Care System. On the economic side, we take into a number of its ordinary measures to help workers make Strategic Decisions about reopening, really taken into account the econom
Capacity, reopening guidelines, and what the federal government can do to provide further assistance. Difficulties,al this is a portion of the subcommittee hearing. Thank you for the invitation to testify. Thank you, chairwoman. If done a tremendous job in this crisis and beyond. Thank you, Ranking Member guthrie. It is great to see you in this capacity. And rankinghairman member and members of the committee. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado with the hope that some of the successful practices weve implemented here can be an example for other states, the federal government, and other nations dealing with the coronavirus. We started with realistic goals. We knew it would be impossible to eradicate the virus in theredo or america until is a vaccine. Our focus from the start has limitingtabilize by the spread, protecting the most vulnerable, supporting our Health Care Providers, making people received on Covid Health Care and doing everything we can to p
You desperately need to keep your economy going. This is not a moment for excuses we are ins or the middle of a pandemic that has cost us more than 85,000 lives off today billions of people. Millions of people, millions of jobs. We are in a position where we got new Unemployment Insurance numbers. Thismillion claims since crisis began, and almost 3 million new claims the last week. The Unemployment Rate is nearing 50 , the highest it has been since the great depression. But i need not tell you all that. It is the least welloff that have been hit the hardest. 40 of households making 40,000 or less experienced job loss, just in march. We are going to have to work harder and smarter than ever before to pull ourselves out of this economic tailspin. But i know what all of you know, that the only way out of this is by following the science, listening to the experts, talking and taking responsible precautions that are going to help us reopen the economy. As quickly as possible. As we do, ther
Today address as number of important issues related to ovid19 testing. One issue we examined in this work, i hope we talk about today, is how we can make sure that we are best prepared for potential overlap of covid19 and influenza cases in the fall. Im looking forward to the conversation we are going to have today. I greatly appreciate all three of our witnesses and governors for taking time from their extremely busy schedules to be here. Made a lot of improvement over the last few months, our work is not done and as we continue to work on drafting more legislation responding to covid19 pandemic, it is especially important to hear state perspectives. I thank you. Yield back. Ms. Degette i thank the gentleman for yielding back. I would advise members in case you are unaware of this, there is a window on your screen that says one, two, three clock. This will count down from five minutes for each other statements or questioning. And then it will start going over. If thats not working for
Program, washington journal. Hearing your thoughts about the Coronavirus Crisis. If you missed any of our live coverage, much any time on demand at cspan. Org coronavirus. 2020 democratic president ial candidate joe biden held a virtual town hall on the coronavirus pandemic featuring three democratic governors. Michigans question, bill murphy in connecticut vermont. The talked about half the states are managing the spread of the coronavirus. The town hall was held at the former Vice President home in wilmington delaware. Thank you all for joining me today i dont want to take too much time, i wanted people to hear directly from you guys, your limited everyday, youre making tough decisions on the ground every day, youve been doing it from day one. There are a lot of scared people in this country, all across the country. Looking for leadership and clear guidance and so often, all of you, this is not a partisan statement. Local theaters, euro stepping up across the country. Republicans and