Thank you very much for being here, and i want to thank him because he graciously allowed to have the subcommittee hearing and for me to be able to chair it. This is a discussion really important to so many of us here and so many of our colleagues. Information is power today, and we see it all over the globe when its used improperly, hes used as a weapon. Democracies like ours require a well informed electorate, but our enemies are increasingly trying to undermine that principle through socalled disinformation campaigns designed to mislead voters. Malign actors like russia systematically exploit social media, radio, television, and print to twist facts to suit their needs and distort the truth to an unsuspecting populous. Its not just about elections. We see it today with regard to the coronavirus and misinformation thats being spread. Its an interesting tactic because its inexpensive and yet can be very effective. It has a high degree of deniability. Its anonymous almost always and if
Monitor and track down as many people around the country as possible to know their whereabouts to know their Health Status and weve seen this Remarkable Campaign step up in the epicenter of the virus this week what the government has started to do as starting what they pulled a sort of no household Left Behind Campaign the getting teams of people together tens of thousands of people have been mobilized government Workers Communist Party members people neighborhood and Community Volunteers and in teams theyre going household to household door to door knocking on the door doing Health Checks getting peoples contact data if anybody has symptoms theyre sent to hospitals for testing and they continuing to report all of this information and already in the dental compounds are in lockdown so you can actually leave the compound outside the restricted the times or the outside these restricted measures unless you have a very good reason so thats one example of what the government is trying to do
A capability of missiles batteries or. Land to air capacity against the Saudi Air Force that would be quite the disability thing to the saudis and that will actually be a game changer in yemen clearly. If all the reports prove correct the saudis are sort of set in fact from such an upset by the yemenis that what you saw after that are basically revenge attacks basically losing their minds if you were because of the loss that the incurred and this is a difficult thing this has been going on for 5 years now and clearly the saudis are not winning and clearly this sort of incident means that they are losing and this is a big deal knowing that already their partners the yemenis sort of the iraqis you know how for all practical purposes withdrawn left and now the saudis are there and incapable of finishing the war and settling in cable of winning the war and now perhaps with this game changer beginning to lose the war that is for mr says talks to resolve the gulf dispute have not succeeded a
Will be they will be staying in japanese hospitals now the rest will head to these and 4 spaces where they were put into 40 day quarantine before they are before the release of the show any signs or symptoms obviously were told they will be taken to a suitable off base facility meanwhile 100. 00 americans chose to stay on board the ship despite this being the center of corona Virus Outbreak they felt as well as we can hear some of the reasons well look i mean wed rather not go on a pretty cold windowless called her plane all the way to the u. S. I need to be put into quarantine on that would rather actually stay on a on a cruise line however theres some strict rules for them to actually we understand now they will only be let off the ship on february the 19th we understand but they wont be allowed into the u. S. Until march the 4th but as far as this larger issue of the coronavirus in the u. S. Should you be scared it doesnt seem to be. An intense stage of tool really i think the main
A pivotal week in fighting the outbreak may seem to be changing things up a little bit so as you mentioned theres been a change in the how theyre diagnosing these cases of the new coronavirus all curve of 19 doctors no longer have to rely on one single type of test they can now use things like chest x. Rays and c. T. Scans to be able to confirm that people who do have suspected cases other symptoms that they do have the coronavirus so were seeing this huge jump 15000 on wednesday 5000 in the last 24 hours because many of those people in the suspected cases lift list has now have now been moved to this confirmed cases list and theyre also giving doctors a bit more flexibility in trying for different treatments it seems one hospital and is reporting that they are asking patients who have recovered from the corona virus to come back and actually donate blood some doctors there are saying that their blood has a certain type of antibody which will be which seems to be effective in treating