Redfield, director of the center for Disease Control and prevention and we thank you for being here this morning. Doctor redfield, to discuss the cdc and ongoing response to covid19. I also want to welcome the subcommittee members, Ranking Member congressman thomas paul andour full Committee Chair. I want to thank you to subcommittee members who are here in person as well as subcommittee members who are participating by secure video teleconference. Before i moved to my Opening Statements and because this is our first labor hhs and Education Appropriations Committee hearing with some members participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work and in order to benefit those members and the public. This hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended sixfoot social distancing between members, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing. Which we have kept to a minimum. Some members have opted to use
Vaccine development and efforts to address disparities in minority communities. This is abouttwo hours 45 minutes. This hearing will come to order. First i would like to welcome our witness, doctor robert redfield, director of the center for Disease Control and prevention and we thank you for being here this morning. Doctor redfield, to discuss the cdc and ongoing response to covid19. I also want to welcome the subcommittee members, Ranking Member congressman thomas paul andour full Committee Chair. I want to thank you to subcommittee members who are here in person as well as subcommittee members who are participating by secure video teleconference. Before i moved to my Opening Statements and because this is our first labor hhs and Education Appropriations Committee hearing with some members participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work and in order to benefit those members and the public. This hearing room has been configured to main
Polands statement was farfetched and made to justify the buildup of forces and means at the border, the United States is ready to cooperate allies to protect nato territory, said pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder at a regular briefing. There is nothing to announce now about any additional changes in the alignment of forces in nato regarding the defense of poland. That we continue. We will take nato security very seriously and continue to interact with allies. And to ensure that every square inch of nato territory remains safe for us no specific threat from wagner against poland or any of our other allies in the alliance is known, and of course we are following this closely. The russian army repelled all attacks by zelenskys formation, more than 800 soldiers and mercenaries were destroyed by a tritank and 16 other armored vehicles, including american infantry fighting vehicles, as well as 23 howitzers , a rocket system and selfpropelled guns, including five search installations, but atta
Settlements, small and small in andreevka since there had previously been a heroic battle of a russian tank against a column of ukrainian equipment arriving for this feat, the crew was presented with a state award, the tankers themselves told our military commander maximum akhmetov how everything was happening. Zaporozhye direction along dusty roads among sunflower fields we are going to visit the fighters of the Eastern District in order to personally get acquainted with the fearless crew. We are at the location of the 127th primorsky order of kutuzov, Second Degree of the division, and now the hero of that battle, the t80 bv tank , is disguised in the forest belt, 8 vehicles are moving. And we have one alyosha there, one alyosha video, which went viral on all social networks, our alyosha gave such a nickname to the tank enters into an unequal battle with a column of enemy armored vehicles. Commander. Tank, weasel led that battle, and the crew, as always, completely trusted him with t
Expressed admiration for the heroism of the tankers and the president s press secretary reported this in the kremlin. Dmitry peskov, this footage was taken from a drone and became available on the internet last week. One russian tank immediately came out against a convoy of vehicles , our crew with the call sign alyosha was able not only to stop the advance of the enemy. Come on and come out victorious and bout with eight Armored Vehicles. Of course, this is such heroism , such professionalism, it causes admiration and a sense of pride for our military, it really is so. This is absolutely unique shots and a unique situation, which, of course , can be almost parsed in textbooks. In the southdonetsk and zaporozhye directions, our position is defended by infantry with the support of a strike group of ka52 helicopters, pilots perform tasks and day and night, our correspondent maksim akhmetov watched the combat work. Our attackers ka52 helicopters returned and literally in 15 minutes. A new