Missouri senator roy blunt chaired the hearing. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health the appropriations subcommittee and related agencies will come together. Come to order and this is always a good hearing for us. I think in the four years we have worked on this committee together we have clearly made this one of our priorities and glad it has been. Weve increased the funding by 9 billion a 30 increase over four years and hopefully we are not done with that process yet. Hearing what you are doing with that money always helps encourage us to not only make those dollars available but even more we have seen Real Progress from vaccines. We have seen the development of blood tests to detect different kinds of cancer earlier than we had been before, the first ever drug use specifically for postpartum depression has been developed during this period of time. Obviously what is happening in immunotherapy during our first hearing was something that had to be explained to all of us an
Ts. We remain laser focused on deploying these tools to protect people to keep businesses open. Vaccines remain our single most powerful tool. Just this week, we had an important milestone. Put this in perspective, we have shipped four times more free doses to and covid is not a crisis, but rather something we protect against entry. With that, i will turn it over to dr. Walensky. Good morning. Is about 21 . Yesterday, they released a new report that details the severity of omicron in comparison to other variants. Similar to prior reports, this data demonstrates that covid19 has a severity that is slower, with the omicron variant. Not with higher variance. You can see the relative rates of cases, shown in purple, with hospital admissions shown in orange. Covid19 related deaths are shown in blue. This compares the outcomes during the three periods of high covid19 transmission. The peak, last winter, shown in the green section, with vaccination rates low, and cases and hospitalizations be
Caller the problem with the school system, it is like a maze. You have to have first i will provide a brief operational update. There more tools widely available for the American People than ever before. Vaccines and was her sense. Convenient test options. Free highquality masks. Effective treatments. We remain laser focused on deploying these tools to protect people to keep businesses open. Vaccines remain our single most powerful tool. Just this week, we had an important milestone. 70 of eligible seniors, those most at risk invulnerable, have gotten their booster shot. Half of all eligible adults are not boosted. This is significant progress rate doctors and data have made Crystal Clear that vaccination and boosters provide the best protection, so we keep driving more progress with millions of shots going into arms, each week. In addition to driving Vaccination Progress at home, the United States continues to lead the effort to help vaccinate the world. President bidens directions se
Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Today the committee is meeting virtually. Just a couple of reminders to members about the conduct of this hearing. First, members should keep their video feed on as long as they are present in the hearing. Members are responsible for their own microphones. Please also keep your microphones muted unless you are speaking. And finally, if members have documents they wish to submit for the record, please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. So good morning. The hearing will come to order. Thank you to our distinguished panel of witnesses for joining our virtual hearing on examining the National Windstorm Impact Reduction program. Weve got witnesses from fema and nsf. We are so looking forward to hearing their testimony today. I am also speaking to all of you and conducting this hearing virtually from city hall in the city of farmington, michigan, to bring attentio
Windstorms and resiliency and preparedness efforts. Officials from the National Science foundation and fema testify at this house science subcommittee hearing. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. To order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Today the committee is meeting virtually. Just a couple of reminders to members about the conduct of this hearing. First, members should keep their video feed on as long as they are present in the hearing. Members are responsible for their own microphones. Please also keep your microphones muted unless you are speaking. And finally, if members have documents they wish to submit for the record, please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. So good morning. The hearing will come to order. Thank you to our distinguished panel of witnesses for joining our virtual hearing on examining the National Windstorm Impact Reduction program. Weve got witnesses from fema a