Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome the Health Protection agency with Accurate Information when those threats arrive. As the head of the agency, doctor redfield has been one of the leading voices in this pandemic sharing and issuing publichealth guidance and about how to safely return to work, school and daily life. Cases are spiking across the country and as a result we are seeing some states resort to different types of lockdowns like we saw in the initial and americans everywhere are hungry forer information and guidance about how to navigate the Holiday Season and an uncertain winter. We will address all of these issues and more and take questions from the audience as well. Without further ado, doctor redfield, welcome. What can we tell the audience about the state . G thank you for having me. We are at a very pivotal time in this pandemic. We have a significant number of jurisdictions in the stas that are in what we call the red zone and lasted a lot longer than say the spring and s
I had had to shake his hand and for us it was very poignant last year my dads way when we often called morning to see he was a break to pass and my sister and her family and myself were able to feast with them. Im literally 0 goodbyes to them and as my sister and her family myself were talking we could see without breaching his hands at the same of us beds for our hero he raised in 4 people with her blue gloves on and it was a really great moment because touch was such a reassuring the increment and we werent there the whole my dads hand you know we were denied opportunity to be with him just in his final hours and when we think of the most vulnerable in our society you know our Elderly Population some places theres theres been cases where with people with disabilities and they dont have this embrace that will again and again with them and they are into these homes you cared for to be protected. And this is not happened it was found almost all of the residents and 29. 00 stars in the h
Seattle, Washington State and ry much are first to experience covid19 and really what seattle has achieved has een a model of responsiveness. Can you tell us a little bit about whats happening in seattle today and what you think how it worked . I think the first lesson we learned is looking at the World Health Organizations recommendations, we had to speak with one government. I think we have been able to accomplish what we had as a city and a region because over the eadership. Really looking at what we have to do in concerted action because we know this virus does not respect any boundaries. I also had the good fortune to be talking to mayors around the globe. Im part of c 40. Ric garcetti has convened those mayors on a regular basis to learn lessons. We are able to look at what other cities who experienced this worse did. We had very little tools. By the time we saw the virus erupt in our community, our researchers here told us that the number of cases actually was far understated an
Killed by the house commerce subcommittee on health with representatives from the pharmaceutical industry and policy stakeholders. This is three hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we will come to order. The committee will come to order and the chair will recognize himself for an opening statement. Todays hearing is focus on the critical topic of finding longterm solutions to prevent future drug shortages of key drugs for patients. For months, Cancer Patients including pediatric Cancer Patients, have had to scramble to find the drugs recommended or use alternatives because of instability in the markets and supply chains. In 2022 alone there were over, there were 301 drugs enacted shortages according to the university of utah. For over a decade professions and a medical and Regulatory Community has sounded the alarm on the underlying economic causes of drug shortages. Unforeseen circumstances like a tornado hitting a pharmaceutical warehouse in North Carolina, or
Subcommittee on health with representatives from the pharmaceutical industry and policy stakeholders. This is three hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we will come to order. The committee will come to order and the chair will recognize himself for an opening statement. Todays hearing is focus on the critical topic of finding longterm solutions to prevent future drug shortages of key drugs for patients. For months, Cancer Patients including pediatric Cancer Patients, have had to scramble to find the drugs recommended or use alternatives because of instability in the markets and supply chains. In 2022 alone there were over, there were 301 drugs enacted shortages according to the university of utah. For over a decade professions and a medical and Regulatory Community has sounded the alarm on the underlying economic causes of drug shortages. Unforeseen circumstances like a tornado hitting a pharmaceutical warehouse in North Carolina, or a manufacturing facility in i