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Good morning. The committee has come to order. One thing, i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony. Those appearing in person, traveling to d. C. To give it orally, and, also, answer our questions. The title of this hearing now is, i guess, examining the u. S. Approach to early covid19 treatments. I thought it was i originally set out a title of early treatments for covid, a essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic to be politicized into the tragedy it was. From the start, i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response. We were facing a new virus. No one wanted to underreact, and as a result i feared the tendency would be overreact. The challenges facing us were daunting. Our National Strategic stockpile had been reduced during the h1n 1 pandemic. It took time to develop a test. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibit no symptoms made ....
I actually in many ways, i upplayed it in terms of action. The president s new claim the virus could go away without a vaccine and the latest from the campaign trail with just 48 days yours . Its really been nice to kind of sit in your own space and go, oh, wow. Like, i think ill put a picture up over there. To go. Or whats wrong with this door why is it so wonky when you try to look for the graciousness and gratitude in total devastation. Its just like, is this really happening . Thousands of homes destroyed something thats so unprecedented, you start right by those western wildfires. Thousands more in danger. There and think, well, at least and overnight the baseball game i got to chance to kind of sit in seattle called off because of in my own space and feel it. Poor air quality. The smoke even visible on the and it is a very comfy home. East coast. Well, thank you for sitting breaking overnight, horrific with us, too, jon. We appreciate that boy failure. Congress releases its final ....
64 degrees oakland at 68. Napa petaluma and santa rosa, some of your cooler spots in the mid to upper 50s ive got more on your forecast. Still ahead over to you robin thank you job with the traffic is actually improving im checking out the san mateo bridge and im noticing that that the drive time. Is going down so thats good news for you if youre about to use it here it is west 92. A little busy but not bad at all were 15 minutes to the peninsula here at the bay bridge. Yes, we still have slowed traffic rolling into San Francisco, its a slow roll, but its not bad stacked up just the on west grand and heres a look at some of your freeways around the bay area we have 6. 80 pacheco to danville thats going south averaging 15 minutes which is good no problems for the dumbarton bridge, 84 west 5. 80 is recovering from an earlier crash out of haas the so yes, its pretty slow leaving livermore heading toward dublin and then one on one from ....