Hello. Im cant hate, the library of congress and welcome to our very First Virtual National Book festival presents. As with all collectively face the challenge of the pandemic, the safety of our staff members, our visitors, our scholars is our First Priority at the library of congress. And so were following this cdc recommendations and guidelines in all of our buildings are close to the public until further notice. However, it is the liberia submission to engage and connect with our users. And so we have been rolling out various programs virtually for parents and teachers, scholars, students and everyone who could benefit, we hope, from our resources online. And so please visit our website llc. Gov for more useful information, not only about was going on currently, but also things that you could use during this time. Now to our events. We will be joined by bestselling author john barry who will be discussing his book the great influenza the story of the deadliest pandemic in history. H
First National Book festival event. As we all collectively face the challenge of the pandemic the safety of our staff members, visitors scholars is our First Priority at the library of congress. We are following the cdc recommendations and guidelines and all of our buildings are closed to the public until further notice. However, it is the librarys mission to engage and connect with our users. So we been rolling out various programs virtually for parents and teachers, scholars, students, and everyone who could benefit, we hope, from our resources online. So please visit our website llc. Gov for more useful information not only about whats going on currently, but also things you could use during this time. Now to our events, we will be joined by bestselling author john m berry who will be discussing his book, the great influenza, the epic story of the deadliest plague in history. He will be joined in conversation by mr. David rubenstein, cochair of the National Book festival and author
This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time to give money welcome to todays hearing on coronavirus, understanding the threat of Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i woke frank recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement again thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation to get ahead of this, dress it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment medication and treatment. This is the third hearing that im sharing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain th
They also cautioned against the misinformation on social media regarding the coronavirus. This house, science, space and Technology Hearing meeting is out is about one hour and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and become to get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach
Covid19 is not the first pandemic we will ever deal with and certainly will not be the last one, but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet to get ahead of this, address it, ad, you know, come up with remedy for it. If we think about the basis of Global Health security, it is a threepronged approach containment, mitigation, and then treatment. This is the third hearing that i am chairing on this subject. The first focused on the containment strategy. That was the first hearing that congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain this disease with travel bands, etc. , was likely not going to be successful. Very difficult, and i think what china did was ambitious. About us some time that most of us in the Public Health world recognize that we would likely see in community cases, it would be difficult to stop the spread of this disease. The second hearing we had was on mitigation, largely looking at testing, this wa