Good morning. The committee has come to order. One thing, i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony. Those appearing in person, traveling to d. C. To give it orally, and, also, answer our questions. The title of this hearing now is, i guess, examining the u. S. Approach to early covid19 treatments. I thought it was i originally set out a title of early treatments for covid, a essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic to be politicized into the tragedy it was. From the start, i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response. We were facing a new virus. No one wanted to underreact, and as a result i feared the tendency would be overreact. The challenges facing us were daunting. Our National Strategic stockpile had been reduced during the h1n 1 pandemic. It took time to develop a test. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibit no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I
Laters, Veterans Issues either convention at a convention in maryland. Booktv is television for serious readers. The sunday on indepth code pink cofounder medea benjamin. Join our three hour conversation. We will take your phone calls even old, and tweets. Then on saturday, we are live from the Nations Capital for the National Book festival followed on sunday with lynne cheney. Those are some of the upcoming programs on cspan two2s booktv. Senator alexander a representative gordon were part of a recent forum on medical innovation. From the Bipartisan Policy Center, this is one hour and a half. Dr. Frist good afternoon. Today, we are going tos spend the next hour and a half talking about advancing medical innovation for a healthier america. How do we accelerate that innovation to the future . The United States has been a Global Leader in medical innovation for decades. Yet, tens of millions of americans have neither cures nor effective treatments for their diseases. This includes patien
Are taking places and they have their own organizations and clubs on College Campuses. They encourage muslims who are native muslims to become more radical and more extreme, and to convert to islam, but which teaching of islam, the extreme way of teaching that, and encouraging many young people to even go overseas to join many radical and extremist groups, and this is a problem we are noticing and seeing. We have a program on College Campus to work with young people, muslim people, on College Campuses, and these problems that we are detecting in many campuses here and seeing a lot of young people being harassed by the radical groups on campus and not being able to practice their life like any ordinary american young student. Over here. Im glad we moved toward muslims because we were talking about them as though irtheyre mutual lie exclusive categories. Prime minister cam ran and cameron have spoken about being more proactive. I read about radicalization and recruitment. About the ideol
Bill frist and had the opportunity to watch firsthand governor alexander work was a pretty rowdy Democratic Legislature and tennessee that he came forth with education reform, with infrastructure, investments, industrial recruitment. I think regular order is back in the senate and will be a better country for that. Is fortune is going have a good partner in the house, someone for the good fortune to settle the Energy Commerce committee with, diana degette, and diane reminds me, when i think of her i think of a story my grandmother may read the of the detention a good. I think i can, i think i can. I know i can. Thats diana. Come forth with a major bipartisan vote in the house. Senator alexander come to the good partner and diana, tell us whats going on with you. [applause] thanks, part. Im so happy to be here. They dont invite us to come over from the house very often so its really a treat for us. Im so happy, lamar, to hear your reflections on some of these issues, because to some of
Which a therapeutic is not exist does not exist. In most cases, the need for learning is quite acute. How many be accommodated when be how can the need accommodated when the humanitarian need is so great . That point, the leaders of the team finished the report ofently of a on the topic implemented crisis during the epidemic. I will turn over the podium to the cochair team, who is dr. Jerry kirsch, currently professor at boston university, and he is also managing a very important and exciting institution that has been created there where one can do research on emerging and dangerous diseases. This institutional desperately need any United States, and he is working hard. He and his copresenter, david peters, will be talking for about 15 minutes each, and then we will welcome dr. Carrie hesher from a humanitarian group who did more to save ebola lives than any other single group during the Ebola Outbreaks us then jeremy who is with from the ecb who supported the United States efforts to