Good morning. The committee will please come to order. Administrative matters based on the advice of the attending physician, after we consulted with the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are at least six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on the committees website. Witnesses are participating in Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators including the chairman are participating via Video Conference. Senators, weve been advised may remove their masks to talk into the microphone when theyre in the hearing room as theyre six feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, Committee Staff, and everyone all for their hard work to k
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The committee will please come to order. First, straightive matters based on the sergean u attending physician after we consulted the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Relayingni observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on www. Senate. Gov. Witnesses are participating individual i dont conference in a onetime exception. Some senators, including the chairman, are participating by video conference. Senators, weve been advised, may remove their masks, talk into the microphone in the hearing room six feet apart. Grateful to the rules committee, sergeant of the arms, capital police, Committee Staff all for their hard work to keep us safe. We are hearing last thursday, all roads back to work about back to school run through testing. And what our country has done s
Be in ministrations forthcoming Strategic Plan that is now required under the package that was just passed and signed into law will that Strategic Plan on testing include specific numeric targets for Testing Capacity supply chain capacity and projection of shortages. Thank you for that question and statement senator murray yes we are as ive stated we continue to have a work in progress as we build the Testing Capacity we have established the targets with the state of over 12000000 tests over the next 4 weeks we think those targets are going to be good in may and june but as dr foushee said we really have to be evidence based we expect those targets to go up as we progress simply oping as communities go through phase one and then into phase 2 and certainly those numbers will need to go up significantly again in the fall when we potentially have influenza circulating with with co that so yes there will be targets the targets will need to change based on the evidence that we see but we ar