Coronavirus. Like all other efforts on the supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, including my friend and Ranking Member, congressman tom cole. Before you begin of what to extend a very warm welcome to our witnesses, dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives, and former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention. The cdc, from 20092016. And dr. Caitlin rivers, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security, and assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Frieden in his testimony will provide a perspective based on 30 years of fighting epidemics including leaving the cdcs response to ebola, where we are and what we need to do to protect americans. Dr. Rivers makes a case why in the months and years to come will we need additional capacities and diagnostic testing, Contact Tracing an
Good afternoon, everyone. Honored guests, who come from all around the hemisphere to be with us today. Welcome to our washington conference. On behalf of our counsel on the americas i am delighted to introduce our keynote speaker. Senator marco rubio and welcomed the members of his team. Since 2011, senator rubio has been a strong advocate for shared prosperity and Economic Growth throughout the hemisphere. As a member of the Senate Foreign relations committee, he plays an instrumental role in developing and influencing us Foreign Policy across the world. He remains particularly invested in growth and is not in the western hamster. As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on western hemisphere, transnational crime, civilian security, democracy, human rights and global womens issues, senator rubio works to advance common agenda and values that the United States has with 32. Its been a leading voice on human rights and democratic principles. In cuba and in venezuela and in the hemisphere.
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Its really going to depend on the local environment. So, how how about southwest florida . Well, this is one of the reasons we need a supplemental to give resources so we can look at mosquito populations, trap them, analyze them and then sometimes larva siting can have an impact on mosquito populations. Your point is quite correct that the outdoor spraying may have limited impact, if any, on the mosquito population, but were looking at different ways of doing mosquito control. And in some circumstances what theyve done in australia, for example, is use targeted indoor residual spraying for this particular mosquito with as far as weve seen some pretty effective results. But all of that is quite complex to do. And let me see if just taking off on that point so that i understand it correctly. Because, again, we want to get in the game here legislatively so im not just asking to take your time here. Like a lot of things it always impacts the poor. And people that, you know, lifes never fai