Good afternoon as chairman of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on manufacture, trade and Consumer Protection i welcome you all here today to a hearing entitled, protecting americans from covid19 scams. The nation continues to fight the unprecedented Public Health present and president Public Health crisis brought on by the covid19 pandemic. In light of the serious threat this post to america, in the shoe shuddering of mainstream businesses, the response of Public Health protocols, have been felt in every corner of the country. It has been clear the preventive practices, policies, and resources, including expanded testing case testing capabilities and the ability to have protective equipment or absolute assess these to reopening the economy extinguishing this health crisis. However, during this time of National Emergency recorded and recovery, there are frustration scam artists that seek to take advantage of consumers, especially of the nations most vulnerable communities like that of o
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Starved of subsidies. On robots in berlin welcome along now weve seen the shut shops and the closed factories but the Financial Impact of the coronavirus is only now becoming clear starting to count up the costs of the disruption to their supply chains by problems in china is among the 1st to say the figures are looking good. Shopping malls and Stores Closed across the country city streets empty as millions remain confined to their homes factories shows a reopening at a snails pace none of this is good news for apple the worlds most valuable tech Company Makes i phones of various sites across china and also sells millions of them at stores around the country. The profit warning underlines just how serious the corona Virus Outbreak is for a business like apple which is heavily reliant on its supply chains in china as well as its Strong Customer base there apple had already been facing challenges in china before the outbreak in 2019 the company made sales of 44000000000. 00 in the countr