He was joined by nasa administrator who gave an update on nasas work in the upcoming Spacex Dragon mission. Scheduled for may 27. This is. 5 hours. Allow me to welcome members of the president s cabinet and numbers of the National Space council to the seventh meeting of the National Space council, it is of particular pleasure to be back here at the Washington Headquarters and to be joined by the nasa been a straighter who is in houston as we speak doing important preparations. In Brighton Stan is with us. Bridenstine isim with us. We are one day away from when america will return american astronauts on american rockets from american soil to space. Nearly site extraordinarily exciting time in the life of this program. I know i speak on behalf of the president of the United States and express my appreciation. , the entire nasa team, my humble admiration for the astronauts we will be speaking to in just a few moments. They will be carrying American Leadership back into space. I know i spe
Our moms and dads struggling to purchase diapers, our child care providers and workers who have continued to look after our kids, our family caregivers who are helping iowa seniors and those most at risk during this pandemic. And to ensure we are prepared for whatever might come next, lets not only focus on the immediate needs but on the long term. National priority for critical medical supplies and other materials to be produced right here in the United States of america. We should never again depend on a foreign nation to protect our citizens, especially one like the communist party of china, which has been continually and unsurprisingly deceptive about this threat from the very beginning. Folks, while we still have a ways to go before we can return to life as we know it, we will get through this. And when we do, we will revive the great economy we built together and prepare for an Even Stronger future together. With that, mr. President , i yield the floor. Mrs. Capito mr. President
Howard, glad to have you with us this morning. Invitation. R the money talk to you about journal of american medical association. Who are your typical readers and what are the typical monthly articles, and regular articles that your journal publishes online . Jama is the official publication of the american medical association. , for many Important Reasons has editorial independence from the ama. It has been around for 175 years. It, along with a few other journals are part of the grand weeklies. I would say up to 10 or 15 years ago we published weekly. Currently we are publishing daily. In print we were public thing publishing weekly for well over 150 years. Now our reach is different because of the digital age. Now we reach a million and a half people a day or week through social media, electronic, podcasts, on the majority are physicians from around the world. About 55 of our contacts are from outside the United States. Our content comes in three or four buckets. The first is origin
Once again this morning, for medical professionals we will use 202 7488002. If you would like to text us, that is 202 7488003. Just make sure that you include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are at cspan wj. You can also post your comments on facebook. You may have seen a moment ago the tracker that we are following, the johns Hop University tractor, cases at 609,000. Confirmed deaths, 26,059. Worldwide cases are just about 2 million now. The number that you see here, 7905 deaths in new york city, Scott Gottlieb tweeting this morning about that with a chart saying that the positivity rates of new daily tests in new york are showing signs of a gradual decline, but still very high. This is one data point to watch to gauge the direction of the new york epidemic. A different with story, the New York Times, reporting that a review among passedk city deaths has 10,000, new york city, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus out rake, sharply increasing its death t
Approve the agenda. So moved. Do we have a second . Any discuss in all in favor. Any opposed . Motion carries. May i have a motion to approve the february 5th, 2020, Meeting Minutes . Thank you. Do i have a second. Second. Any discussion . All in favor. Any opposed . Thank you. The motion carries. Now i would like to introduce our newest commissioner, nelson lum, wholl tell us about his background. Thank you. Mr. Chair, fellow commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, good morning, my name is nelson lum, and im the newly appointed member of this commission. Ive been a resident since 1961, and i went to school here. Upon graduation from George Washington high school, in 1966, i was soon notified by uncle sam that he had a special interest in me. I was inducted in the army where i volunteers to be a member of the paratrooper unit, and after training, i was assigned to kentucky with 101st airborne division. In 1967, my division was deployed to vietnam. Luckily, i returned in november 1968, wit