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While back, along with these television companies, supports cspan2 as a public service. Dr. Offit, and happy to be talking with you today trantwo the pleasure y is mine, thanks very much. Obviously the themes in your book are very relevant for what were going through today in the pandemic. And i know you said you startedd writing the book around the time the pandemic began, but can yu tell us when the idea for the book came from and why this book now . I think the emotion for this book actually ...

Function research according to the National Institutes of health. This involves the genetic modification of viruses and pathogens to increase strength and transmissibility. We hear about National Security concerns but also how gain of function research has been used to identify and mitigate potential buyers to tatians that could have resulted in pandemic potential viruses and mutations that could have resulted in pandemics. The hearing is one hour and 45 minutes. I call this meeting to order. I ...

Get started. I called this meeting of the Senate Homeland security and Government Affairs subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight to order. I want to thank senator hassan for allowing this bipartisan hearing to occur. Welcome to each of our panelists. Thank you for joining us. The purpose of this hearing by the subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight is to discuss, as our name implies, the emerging threat posed by gain of function research. We will hear from a pan...

[background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] good morning. The Senate Education and labor and pensions given it come to order. Today we are having a hearing on the federal response to the monkeypox outbreak as we work to stop the spread of thisr virus. I will have an Opening Statement followed by senator and then we will introduce our witnesses. For restart, i want to take a moment to congratulate one of our witnesses, dr...

People who have worked this the state know whats going on. Then the challenge is to turn the knowledge into something more than interesting anecdotes of history of a particular state. But to figure out how we can learn to make the whole thing better. Thank you very much, alice. You made a lot of key points about why were here. Im sure for people watching this and listening to it, its a lot to take in. I have been over my career working with many people in this room and in the country on doing st...

Kit cal that we continue to focus on rolling back this trend of disinvestment in research and development so we can ensure that our country continues to produce the kind of lifesaving, worldchanging research that we know were capable of. But i am very concerned. I just need to say this that fiscal awe state and the return of sequestration next year will continue to weaken our ability to respond to needs like this. So, dr. Fast disaster facci he talk about how the sequestration has impacted the u...

Committee on health, education, labor and pensions, and the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services, appropriations will come to order. In march of this year, Public Health officials reported an outbreak of ebola virus in guinea. Unlike past Ebola Outbreaks that it have been efficiently and effect if there stopped, this outbreak has spread in ways that are potentially catastrophic for the world. Due to the gravity of the situation, the danger poses not only to the affected r...

Intelligence training, and ive worked in the control of diseases Communicable Diseases and others since 1990. Ebola spreads only by direct contact with a patient who is sick with the disease or has died from it, or with their body fluids. Ebola is not new, although it is new to the u. S. We know how to control ebola. Even in this period, even in largos, nigeria, we have been able to contain the outbreak. We do that by tried and true measures of finding the patients promptly, isolating them effec...

And couldnt talk about shakespeare theyd be humiliated to admit it. But if they dont know what exponential growth is they would say oh, thats a technical subject of mathematics. So we have a culture that treats mathematics as something thats okay not to know. That only geeks know. They dont have that culture in much of asia where they do much better. And its a broad cultural thing that goes to an attitude towards science and mathematics. Rose nancy gibbs and Larry Summers when we continue. Capti...

And Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. During his weekly radio address today, president obama offered reassurances that ebola does not pose a major threat to the United States. What we...