Hearing to share their thoughts on the legislative proposal. Sen. Klobuchar i call to order this hearing on s1 the for the people act. Today we are here to consider the for the people act, legislation that im honored to lead with senator merkley and majority leader schumer, which has been cosponsored by every democratic member of this committee. I would like to thank senator blunt, our colleagues, and our witnesses for being here today. I would also like to acknowledge in addition to senator merkley two of our other members who are new to this committee and are new to the senate. Senator ossoff, who along with senator warnock were elected in georgia, where we know election issues were front and center. As well as senator padilla, who has his own extensive experience with these issues from his time as california secretary of state. Last month when we held this committees organizing meeting, i announced the for the people act would be the subject of our first ledge first legislative hear
Sen. Klobuchar i call to order [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2021] senr [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] sen. Klobuchar i call to order this hearing on s1 the for the people act. Today we are here to consider the for the people act, legislation that im honored to lead with senator merkley and majority leader schumer, which has been cosponsored by every democratic member of this committee. I would like to thank senator blunt, our colleagues, and our witnesses for being here today. I would also like to acknowledge in addition to senator merkley two of our other members who are new to this committee and are new to the senate. Senator ossoff, who along with senator warnock were elected in georgia, where we know election issues were front and center. As well as senator padilla, who has his own extensive experience with these issues from his time as california secreta
An update on the state of the pandemic. Dr. Fauci will highlight the most recent science. Dr. Murphy murthy will discuss strengthening vaccination confidence. Our Vaccination Efforts to date have focused on significantly increasing the pace of vaccination. That requires infrastructure, people, and places for nationwide Vaccination Programs. It also meant creating sufficient vaccine supply that did not previously exist. We have seen these efforts pay off. We have 75,000 places for americans to get vaccinated. Importantly, 90 of all americans live within five miles of a vaccination site. By the end of may, we will have enough vaccine for every adult who wants one. Thanks to president biden, everyone 16 and older is now eligible to get a vaccine. As we announced wednesday, we delivered 200 million shots in less than 100 days, at incredible achievement. And incredible achievement. This incredible milestone enabled more than 52 of adults across the country to have at least one shot. That is
People, and places for nationwide Vaccination Programs. It also meant creating sufficient vaccine supply that did not previously exist. We have seen these efforts pay off. We have 75,000 places for americans to get vaccinated. Importantly, 90 of all americans live within five miles of a vaccination site. By the end of may, we will have enough vaccine for every adult who wants one. Thanks to president biden, everyone 16 and older is now eligible to get a vaccine. As we announced wednesday, we delivered 200 million shots in less than 100 days, at incredible achievement. And incredible achievement. This incredible milestone enabled more than 52 of adults across the country to have at least one shot. That is more than 135 million americans who are on their way to being protected from the virus. More than 80 of individuals 65 years and older now have at least one shot. Importantly, seniors accounted for 80 of covid deaths. Now we have seen an 80 reduction in death and a 70 reduction in deat
Joshua salmon and plans only half of the available van secci were shipped to states. To ensure three weeks or four weeks later everyone that gets the first dose can get the second dose. The change from today will ensure states have more dos at their disposal. Reporter the state has 1. 4 million dos available yet to be changed. Are you concerned this change could further spike the backlog . I agree with that. There are local bottlenecks keeping us from getting the available doses administered and we absolutely need to tend to those. Reporter more than 2 million dos have been shipped to local health deputies and Health Care Systems across the state. Yet, as of today, 29 have been used up slightly from 25 reported yesterday. There is a real need to get vaccine out rapidly. Were getting backed up in the hospitals, the icus are full. We need to stop transmission. Reporter providers can start to administer vaccines. Much of the backlog is from Network Providers who are responsible for distri