Thank you for joining me for covid19 and a responsible rx supply chain, a look at the prescription chain during a global pandemic. Id like to thank our sponsor the Health Distribution alliance for support of todays program. The pandemic has upended our lives and forced a new normal upon us. While accommodations can be made for our lifestyle choices theres little likability when it comes to our healthcare. When patients for chronic diseases have access to regular medication it isnt a choice and in some cases its amatter of life and death. Both the Healthcare System and patients have changed their behaviors. As a consequence concerns and fears have arisen surrounding drug availability and shortages. What are stakeholders doing to ensure disruptions do not occur and theres collaboration between the public and private sectors and what plans are being put in place for distribution of this corona vaccine once it becomesavailable . We discuss all of this with some of thesmartest minds in Heal
What plans are put in place for distribution of the Coronavirus Vaccine once it becomes available. We will discuss this and more, a few housekeeping notes, at the hill events, the hashtag, special letters, thehillrx supply chain. We will take question throughout the program and i look forward to those. If you experience trouble live stream refreshing it will work i hope. My first guest is National Health expert and respond to the frontlines and implementation of the Affordable Care act, governor secretary Kathleen Sebelius is the ceo of sibelius resources which provide strategic advice to nonprofits that is my go to person when it comes to issues of knowing what a smart Healthcare System looks like. Let me just ask you, you oversaw many of the institutions we are looking at to save this country whether it is pushing the time curve on developing a vaccine and distributing it or how you approve various dimensions of this therapeutic, what would you say is going well, what would you say h
That they will impose a ban on people within the country arriving from places that have been designated hot spots using hotels so thats quite an extreme step to morrow freud a chancellor merkel will meet the 11 large cities to discuss what further measures can be taken i think laws cities are increasingly being seen as a key focus of the fight against corona as you probably know angle merkel has said today that she doesnt want a repeat of the situation we had in the spring what lessons have been learned since the beginning of the outbreak. Yes and the chancellor also said the best package for the economy would be an effective fight against coronas i think a lot of lessons have been learned the horse medical authority is a much better able now to deal with the virus for instance separating patients in hospital there have been a lot of talk about ventilation airing out rooms make sure the virus doesnt spread in that way so i think theres a lot of things that the authorities are doing and
To unmute your microphones anytime you speak. If at any time during hearing im unable to chair the hearing the human chairman colon or vice chairman of the committee congressman kennedy will serve as chair until im able to return. Documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address weve provided. All documents will be entered ininto the record with the inclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an Opening Statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues itser oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Responsee examining a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months we battled covid19 over 7 million americans have had the virus and tragically over 200,000 have lost their lives. Millions ofll people face on employment and have lost their Health Insurance and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19 is especially on th
About 772. 00 deaths per day and under a more aggressive figure that would be about 1200. 00 deaths per day so whereas most European Countries their death rates are lowing lowering here in the u. S. Its just keeps increasing brant. As you just mentioned there are some parts of europe are seeing a 2nd wave of cases what restrictions if any are European Countries doing to deal with the outbreaks so lets take a look at how some of the European Countries are doing right now and how are theyre dealing with their 2nd wave of the virus so france for example they have over 30000 deaths now they have just banned large gatherings in some regions and theyve also imposed a mandatory face masks in hundreds of across france in spain where there is over 228000 deaths now theyve just seen a spike in new cases in catalonia so a new state home water has just been placed on about 4 and. 1000000 residents brand and thats a huge blow for tourism for spain as some European Countries like the u. K. Have issu