The hearing on the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning, and thank the senators and our witnesses or joining us from around the country at various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing, and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on her weight in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we returned to our witnesses for their statements of about five minutes each, if they could please summarize them and oh, there it is. And senators will each have five minute rounds of questions. We have a vote at 11 40, so we we will need to finish this hearing about noon and hopefully all the senators will have by that time a chance to ask the questions. The question for administrators of 6000 colleges and universities is not whether to reopen in
Good morning. Good morning. The hearing on the senate labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank thean senators and our witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices where we are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe us whoing and those of are here Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting 6 feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement then we will turn to our witnesses for of about fivets minutes each, if they could please summarize them, there it ais. Senators will each have five minutes rounds of questions and we have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to finish this hearing by about noon and all the senators will have had that time and chance to ask theires questions. The question for administrators of the 6000 colleges and universities is not whether to reopen in august but how to do it safely. M
Lockdown measures were in place. The Prime Minister talked about lands for reopening the uks economy at this hearing which was held by videoconference. Order, order. Welcome, Prime Minister to the first evidence session that appears on committee today. We are very grateful to you for responding so promptly to the imitation we sent at the end of last week i would like to thank the working group of members of the Committee Established by the whole committee that is helped set this up very quickly. Working group has agreed to the topics to be discussed and the chairs are here that are representing the committee today. Prime minister, last time we had a Prime Minister before this committee was 12 months ago and the committee agreed the session will focus on the Coronavirus Crisis but remain many other policy areas such as boxes, international areas, trade agreements, domestic qualities that require scrutiny. Prime minister, can i just ask you for housekeeping points can you commit to atten
The committee will come to order. The company is leaving today to receive testimony on confronting the coronavirus, without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee and recess at any point. Today the committee is meeting to hear from medical experts about how our country can best confront the coronavirus. Americans are justifiably concerned about the virus. It is spread around the world and claimed lives of thousands. Understandably, there questions about how how it may affect them, their loved ones in their communities. Our concern how concerned we need to be about the virus. It is most at risk. What can communities do to prepare. What can americans do to protect themselves and their families. What is the fellow government doing. What more should be doing. When might we have a vaccine or other treatment. My constituents are looking to the federal government for leadership, guidance and expertise and i share my colleagues constituents two. I am concerned that the Tru
Coronavirus without objection. The chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Today, the committee is meeting to hear from medical experts about how our country can best confront the coronavirus. Americans are justifiably concerned about the virus which has spread around the world and claimed the lives of thousands. Understandably, they have questions about how it may affect them, their loved ones and their communities. How concerned do we need to be about the virus . Who is most at risk . What can communities do to compare prepare . What can americans do to protect themselves and their families . What is the federal government doing . What more should it be doing . My constituents are looking to the federal government for leadership, guidance and expertise. I shea i am sure my colleagues constituents are as well. I am concerned that the Trump Administration has downplayed the threat and overstated how close scientists are to developing a vaccine