Disease, who is at the risk of getting the disease, meaning if you are negative youre still at risk of getting the disease. Andra range of Public Health efforts call surveilling, understanding the prevalence of the disease in the community, that, coupled with knowing how many people are sick, and how toey people die who allow us ultimately open up our community and society back to near normal. It also tells us how close we are to herd immunity, which is the Public Health principle that says that if i have the disease, you will not get the disease. We know that testing is essential to be adequate for the number of people we have in our country. We know that we cannot do Contact Tracing without an adequate number of people and an adequate number of tests. Knowing the test results will ,llow us to target resources quarantine on people who may have been exposed, and to adequately treat people who get sick. I want to point out that the fastest way to be safe at home and away from home is to
Have you and lasted nearly 300 billion in investments to Community Behavior Health Clinics around the country by the crisis support. This is just under one hour. Treating Mental Health on par with physical health. Let this be remembered as the year where we laid the gauntlet to everyone. We challenged everyone to join us. Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics have only been around for a short amount of time. But they have absolutely made a mark. I think there is nothing more fitting then to have the champions and perhaps the instigators, the people that got most in trouble, the most in the way of making sure we got this done, senator roy blunt with us today. I think it is only fitting that they get to talk about the success of really embedding within america what we consider essential health care for all americans. 90 million 90 percent of americans believe that there is a Mental Health crisis. Today, we are talking about providing to americans 24 7 support for crisis care. Tha