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Coronavirus outbreak. And we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host this is the washington journal for march 2. The Senate Health official Committee Hears from officials in the Coronavirus Response. You can watch that on cspan 3, cspan. Org, and listen on the radio app. President trump will meet with pharmaceutical officials to discuss creation of a vaccine and medicines to moderate symptoms as the Seattle Times reports a second death in king county, washington. About 90 cases confirmed in the u. S. For our next hour, we...

Work on a measure that was approved by the house yesterday providing 8. 3 billion in emergency funds to combat the coronavirus. Senate lawmakers are expect today vote on that measure later this afternoon and work on a bill to reset u. S. Energy and environmental policy. And now to live coverage. U. S. Senate here on cspan 2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of us all, thank you for this moment that unites us in the fellowship of prayer. Make us conscious of your presence and uni...

He will meet with the ceo of 3m once he arrives there. That Company Makes in part surgical masks suddenly becoming popular. The Vice President reminded not like you need to run to the pharmacies to stock up to get these things. Rather, it is the care providers who need the products that 3m produces. Listen. It is very important to say that our medical experts made it clear, the American People dont need to buy masks but we want to make sure that people that are caring for the American Public have the proper protective gear, masks and gloves and goggles, to be able to be safe as they administer...

Gauging the response, what is working and what has done well. We made toefforts implement travel restrictions and limit travel from china clearly bought us some time. It slowed the rate of new cases coming into the country, i think the question becomes what we do with that time and we did some things well and some things not so well. I think we prepared the nation, we got the Health Care System prepared. We will educate providers. Learn more about the virus and how it spread and how you can combat it. One thing we didnt do that we should have was had in place broader screening. We should event...

In isolation. We are working with the Behavioral Health system, and as i said time and time again there is a real issue around equity. Around those 4,000 people that we know we are not serving properly, 35 of them are africanamerican. We need to call out the injustices in these systems and make deliberate investments in targeting the population that continue to get left out when we propose new solutions to support the communities that we know are most vulnerable. So we are going to be making deliberate investments around making sure that africanamericans are supported as we move this process f...