a covid-19 bivalent vaccine this fall. you can receive an updated vaccine dose at least two months after your last covid vaccine dose. as 99% of circulating viruses in the united fades are ba.5 or ba.4, updating our vaccines to match the circulating variance helps us to better be protective against these and future variance that might be closely related to omicron. getting an updated vaccine this fall will help restore protection that's wayne since previous vaccinations and laboratory data suggests the addition of the spike protein components may help broaden the spectrum of variance the immune system is ready to respond to. modeling projections show an up take of updated covid vaccine doses similar to an annual flu vaccine coverage this fall could prevent as many as 100,000 hospitalizations. 9000 deaths and save billions of dollars in direct costs. the benefits of being up to date on your covid vaccine are clear. if you are eligible i strongly encourage you to get your fall covid-19 shots and if you are so inclined it's p

post covid is very different. the responsibilities that you have as the emergency response component has not changed. you have to look at your workforce. you have a look at the challenges. you have to look at the appreciate years that you have in place. you need to say that you are learning from the last one. i am not going to be here to say this again. i am not sure parity will hold another hearing from now to the end of the year. i want you to know that i look forward to working with you. i will continue to be resourced and review. i only have one goal. that is that i know for the next little while, this is a lot faster than we did. we have to do much better than we did on monkeypox. that is when this gets out of control. there could be massive amounts of loss of life. >> mister chairman i, thank you for your indulgence. i probably missed the boat. that is okay. i like this more. >> thank you. senator, thank you to the committee for participating. thank you to all of our witnesses. doctor walensky, dr. fauci, mi

i'm terrified of him getting covid. they have high covid rates. we have principals and teachers in our school that don't mask and most of them do. my family got covid three or four weeks after the mask mandate was removed last year, so this affects me personally and affects all of our communities and you can -- i know you know the right thing to do is reinstate the indoor mask mandate in the city and county of san francisco. and you cannot continue to build your careers on basically maintaining a poll tee that has that, have resulted in people getting sick and dying. policy needs to be reinstituted, needs to be instituted again now. the time to do this is now. we need people with courage to serve on this commission. we need people to show courage who are serving on this commission. we need that mask mandate right away and prince george's county mr. mayor land, their schools have reinstated a mask mandate, private schools in san francisco reinstated the mask mandate back in may and many are this fall. it's not fair for our public school students wh

post covid is very difficult. but the responsibilities that you have as the emergency response component have not changed. you've got a look at the workforce, the challenges, you've got a look at the procedures that you have in place and say, have we really learned from the last one? now, i'm not gonna be here to see you again. i'm not sure will hold another hearing before the end of the air. but i want to let you know, i look forward to working with you and i will continue to be a resource to any of you. because i only have one call. and that's that i know for the next one, we've gotta respond a of a lot faster than we did for covid, and we've got to do better than we did on monkeypox. because on the other side of this, potentially, is when it gets out of control with massive amounts of loss of life. miss chairman, i thank you for your indulgence. i'll probably missed about. that's okay, because i think this is more important. >> thank you very much, senator burr. thank you to all the members of the committee for

i want to talk about covid boosters. as you have been telling us, this entire pandemic, getting those boosters and vaccines for those who still have not gone their first or second doses, that is our best shot at protecting against the spread of covid-19. how urgently should people be booking these variant specific boosters for covid? >> one thing i want to make sure we are very crystal clear about, going back to your crystal ball restaurants -- reference, the vaccines are critical in preventing deaths. when it comes to preventing the spread, nothing changes, just like it doesn't change for any respiratory virus. handwashing, wearing a mask, and staying home if you are sick, are very important things people should be doing this fall and winter if they're having a cold. everyone out there should please, have completed their primary vaccine series. when it comes to these boosters, they are important in preventing anything that may happen when it comes omicron. this is the taylor to protection. but i want to be clear, there

setting up the same scenario with covid-19.he has his white house advisor saying this socially experienced, broadly experienced global health phenomenon needs to be moved into commercial products and the commercial private health insurance market, we are going to see thsame kind ooutcomes again. people who have health insurance as he doctors once your mom more likely to get there booster -- and see their doctors once a year are more likely to get the booster. this virus is going to pool amongst black people, latinx, uninsured, poor, working class and people in the political class are going to think things are fine because they're getting there booster. even as we are not doing the work we need to do to make sure health equity happens around the pandemic. amy: professor, what should be done? >> the most important thing i think right now first is the president and congress need to get money to get treatment for those don't have insurance. we have lost a lot of ground around that. we need to as aggressively as possible try to use

covid is a risk to kids and vaccines are less of a risk than covid.ost: jim is our last call from chicago, illinois. caller: i have two quick questions. i read two articles that there are two groups of universities that includes uc berkeley and northwestern that are working on a nasal spray that is supposed to be available in 1.5 years that will be a game changer. can he speak to that at all? in the second question is, this current booster, how long is it supposed to last once we take it? thank you. guest: the second question is, you should have strong immune responses for six weeks to up to three months and then it will start to wane after that. the nasal vaccine comment is a great comment. right now, our vaccines generate immunity in the blood and we are asking those antibodies to go into your nasal track and lungs. they do that but it would be much better if we got the cells within your respiratory tract respond more quickly. nasal vaccines have the potential to do that. they are still experimental, and they are not a short-term solution. if i am b

post covid is very different. but the responsibilities you have as emergency response components haven't changed. you've got to look at your workforce, you've got to look at the challenges, you've got to look at the procedures you've got in place and say have we learned? i'm not going to be here to see you probably again. i'm not sure patty will hold another hearing before we now and the end of the year but i look forward to working with you and i will continue to be a resource to any of you because i only have one goal, we've got to respond a lot faster than we did for covid and we've got to do better than we did on monkeypox because on the other side of this is when it gets out of control with massive loss of life. i thank you for your indulgence. i probably missed the vote but that is okay because this is more important. >> thank you very much. thanks to all members of the committee for participating, all of our witnesses. thanks for this important and thoughtful discussion about the response to the monkeypox o

covid.t is frustrating, the disinformation that still stands out there. the last person that made a reference to trump pushing ahead the vaccine i think is great, but he said at one point that obama did not stop the epidemic and was responsible for those deaths. trump did not stop the epidemic. host: do you think from the sentiments you hear from people -- has that been consistent over the several years we have gone through covid or has that changed from the beginning to now? caller: friends and family that are just blind trump supporters have consistently stayed with that. they have not changed or budged at all. i think it is offensive to anyone who has gotten ill from covid and lost a loved one to covid or a friend. i think it is extremely offensive. host: that is kelly in pittsburgh, pennsylvania on our independent line. on our line for democrats, this is mary and vermont. again, lessons from covid you have experienced. go ahead. caller: i have had covid and everything else. my question t

have covid and get treatment. i'll get to that in a second. those tests are widely available free. third, we have treatments. paxlovid in particular which was not even available except in very small supplies seven months ago wasn't available at all a year ago. and the statistics show clearly that even if you are not boosted, if you find out you have covid soon enough and you get paxlovid which is free and widely available, you will not get seriously gravely ill from covid. we have just in the past year, changed the dimension of attacking the pandemic. it doesn't mean that covid is gone. of course it isn't. but it does mean that this is a very, very different disease. sadly, we still have 400 people a day dying from this disease. virtually every one of those deaths, could be prevented if the person who passed away had gotten boosted, had gotten tested and taken paxlovid. >> given the politicalization of the pandemic and the way that there's half the country that is paranoid about any sort of government intervention

but with zero—covid, nothing is certain. this is us. transport spreads the coronavirus.na, this is more thanjust a health risk. injune, a train was suddenly stopped mid journey after a person who had tested positive was accidentally allowed on board. they are all ordered into immediate quarantine. officials can no longer count on automatic cooperation from travellers burnt out by zero—covid. the thing you have to be aware of when you are travelling in china at the moment is that when you visit a place, cases can suddenly emerge and your phone app health code will change colour. you can't leave again until it's green. who knows how long that will take? we've arrived in xi'an, let's hope that doesn't happen. so on arrival we have to scan a new local health code and then do a pcr test before we can even leave the station. xi'an is one of the most famous places in china. since the days of the silk road it has been an engine for inland china's economy. this ancient capital is a popular place for tourists because you don't have to look far to see the remnants of its former glo

hospitalization, long covid and death. they could be the last shot subsidized by the federal government. by the way, although californians will still be able to get their booster shots free. >> california has received the first 600,000 doses of the new updated. both searched and they are becoming available clinics and pharmacies throughout the state. we are expecting an additional 400,000 of those us in the next 2 days. and we will continue working on getting them communities quickly possible. and remember in california covid pulsars are free of charge to consumers. >> and in the south bay. meanwhile, covid boosters have been offered starting today. the latest boosters. yes, santa clara county's department of public health says the newly approved omicron shots are now available. the county has cleared anybody 18 and older to get a moderna booster and anybody 12 and older to get the latest dose of pfizer's booster dose has 2 main parts, a genetic marker that prepares your immune system against most variants of covid and a m

of covid-19.ptoms include things like that. >> brain fog or fatigue. the study is looking to answer several questions, including how common long covid is in the bay area as well as what causes it and how to prevent and treat it. >> we're trying to find out and try to understand better is what is covid doing inside of our bodies. do we are we caring residual virus? is our immune system just on hyper drive? even though there's no virus there and attacking itself, you know what is driving long covid? we don't really know from a physical why people get the symptoms to get. and we also don't know who's at higher risk. >> researchers are working to make sure a study like this is inclusive of people from all walks of life and all racial and ethnic backgrounds. enrollment in the study has already started. if you have had covid in the last 30 days and you reported your case to your local health department, then you are already on the list of people. researchers will call for voluntary participation if you

the one we are already using for covid vaccines. when it comes to vaccine distribution, some shipments have been sent to the wrong states. even spoiled after storage at the wrong temperature.di there been issues with vaccine supply as well. like when thousands of vaccine doses were delayed because fd had yet to inspect the new plants they're coming from. when the bite administration missed an opportunity to procure vaccines at a crucial point in this outbreak. and again we are seeing in equities worse in this outbreak for some communities. advocates and lgbtq community vast majority of cases have made clear they feel they're being overlooked or in some instances stigmatized. we need to keep focusing and improving on outreach. getting information and resources like vaccines to those who are most in need and most at risk. that must include committees of color who we know do not have equitable access to vaccines. this is especially important as early data suggests a black ando latino communities are disproportionately burdened by this

i'm a employee and just had covid. (inaudible) sit in this room have covid. what i want to talk about is the safety of some of the buildings that we are working in. i work in building 90, 80-90 and those buildings,ventilation is horrible so it is not really safe and it is easy for covid to spread. so, i just would hope that the system, the department would look into that and do something to make the ventilation in those older buildings which is different from the newer buildings to make sure that the people working in those buildings have a safe working environment. >> thank you for your comment. hi, caller you are unmuted. please let us know you are there. >> i am. it is patrick shaw. can you hear me? >> yes, please begin. >> alright. first, either the july august or september monthly contract reports on the full commission monthly consent calendar included (inaudible) june 15 contract (inaudible) adding $5.2 million bringing the contract for hsag to $6.98 million. if they have been on your monthly finance and planning committee agenda, but it is not been pr

if you get covid or anybody you care about gets covid, make me your first call. get you taken care of. if you need toilet paper, you will get you that. if you need food or need anything call us and we will take care of you. through covid me and my team became stronger than we have ever been. once it it was time to get back to it work -- there are companies not back to work yet. my whole team is back to work 4 weeks into the pandemic and worked straight through. >> tucker: did you lose anyone? >> we didn't lose anyone. >> tucker: you were loyal to your employees and never had staff problems? >> my employees were loyal to me for the last 20 years. when the [bleep] hit the fan i was loyal to my people. they were loyal back. we got through this thing. we threw one hell of a christmas party last year and brought kidd rock in and played for everybody. it's like it never happened here. >> tucker: you are showing the rest of the country how to stare down adversity and thrive. did any politicians call you to say i am impressed by what you are doing? >> you know, the presi

the covid eidl portal does not handle servicing. and so we, have to stand up a servicing solution at scale which is a technology lift, as well as a people process lift. so we are facing that in the next 60 days. i understand the frustration that folks feel out there as a part of that 41,000 but, from the perspective of what i can assure you is that we did work with these borrowers to find a yes. it should be mentioned that, with your leadership in 2021, we did 200 billion dollars of support. we did those 400,000 loans checking ip static address. checking business address. validating tax information. we demonstrated that you can do 20% of the total addressable market in place of all ending in 2021 with 7000 employees. we did that together. yes, there are definitely things that we do differently and have learned from, for sure. >> i would just want to point out that the 24 month period is not statutory. you can wave that 24 months if you wanted to. >> sure. i understand the note. >> senator ernst. >> yes, thank you, chairman. i apprec

ha extendido hasta el 30 de diciembre (inaudible) cuando un trabajador se contagia de coronavirus (covidontagio que puedan surgir en otoño e invierno >> hablamos del tema es que cuando se está por cumplir 30 meses sandra desde que el coronavirus (covid-19) fue declarado pandemia el virus sigue en la comunidad >> en esta época del año muchos buscan la vacuna contra la más información al influenza el estado lanza un programa para protegernos del coronavirus (covid-19) >> con una sonrisa el doctor (nombre en inglés) fue el encargado de lanzar la campaña de la dosis contra el coronavirus (covid-19) para el departamento de salud de california >> es importante considerar hoy familias que se vacunen porque ahora viene el invierno y nos vamos a juntar en familia asegurándonos que tengan la vacuna contra el coronavirus (covid-19) y contra la influenza el refuerzo contra el ómicron es gratis desde los 12 años de edad tenemos refuerzos que pueden cubrir nuestra familia contra el ómicron y el coronavirus (covid-19) local es la mejor opción que tenemos >> usted se puede poner la dosis de refuerzo act

we, of course, all want to see covid go. but doctor chin-hong says one good thing about having one variant like omicron. stick around. >> is longer-lasting anti-bodies for those who recover after testing positive reporting live in the newsroom. i'm rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. thank you, rob. >> now to our monkeypox coverage of san francisco's health department will be offering monkeypox vaccines at both the folsom street fair and the castro street fair at the folsom event. you can get shot sunday from 10:00am to 04:00pm castro street that for will hold a vaccine clinic october 2nd. the vaccines are part of a $10,000 dose shipment received from the white house. >> uber is partnering with a statewide lgbtq+ civil rights organization equality, california, to provide free rides to m-pox vaccination sites throughout the state. the offer is good for round-trip right up to $30 each way the m-pox vaccine requires 2 doses. 28 days apart. uber is offering this benefit for both doses of the vaccine. you can find out how to get the code f

it is of flu in the population as we say, with covid as well.— with covid as well.all kind - with covid as well. it is a nasty strain but are we all kind of. with covid as well. it is a nasty| strain but are we all kind of not quite prepared for it, if you like, our bodies have not had to build up resistance in the last couple of years for all the reasons you have explained, so is it a bit of a double whammy?— explained, so is it a bit of a double whamm ? , ., ., ., double whammy? maybe, although one ofthe double whammy? maybe, although one of the thins double whammy? maybe, although one of the things is — double whammy? maybe, although one of the things is the _ double whammy? maybe, although one of the things is the influenza _ double whammy? maybe, although one of the things is the influenza virus - of the things is the influenza virus has not been circulating, so they have not been very many cases of flu around the world, so it changes and becomes a little bit... becomes a little bit nasty as it goes around the world, if it has not been transmitting from person

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hardship as a result of the covid 19 pandemic. as the rush of pandemic aid went out the door, bad actors took advantage of the american taxpayers generosity. we now know fraudsters built millions and millions from s.p.a. and fraudulent loans from this program. as it transitions from supporting small businesses to servicing loans, i am concerned about the spa slack of a tentative to making sure that law enforcement has everything it needs -- wrongfully awarded dollars must be returned to the program and returned to the american taxpayer. timely action is needed in order to do so. in a similar vein, the spa hasn't lawfully approved nearly $100 million in forgivable ppp loans to planned parenthood affiliates. they forgave 40 of these loans, despite being a clear violation of the affiliation rule. yet, today, the spa has not launched an investigation into this issue, or made any effort to recoup the ineligible funds. it is critically important to protect the integrity of the capital access programs that are intended to provide support

in the capitol of at ththibet, were marched off to covid camps.en masse to make shift facilities where some complain of retched conditions. a deputy mayor apologized and promised an investigation into the accident but even on china's heavily censored internet, critics are chiming in. what makes you think we won't be on that late night bus at one point. they have a point. while the rest of the world moves on from the pandemic, in china there's no end to the campaign to eliminate covid no matter the cost. christine, i want to stress. in china the authorities will lock down an entire city of millions of residents if a handful of covid cases are detected. i just want to stress that. it can only take a dozen of cases and millions are trapped inside their apartments. that's led to a saying commonly repeated in china that you are allowed to die of anything in that country except covid. christine. >> and that bus crash really, really just terrible and showing just how hard and stark those covid lockdowns have been. thank you, ivan. >>> a scary blowout. >>

serial passage be transformed to covid-19? is it so far away that you can't do it experimentally, could it be done through gene splicing, we will start with dr. ebright. dr. ebright: the closest relatives are on the order of 97% identical to sars-cov-2 genome. viruses with that level of genetic difference cannot at the timescale of weeks or months, moved from their state into being a proximal progenitor of sars-cov-2. however in the laboratory, those viruses can be combined at will. in particular, using a method that would be described as constructing a consensus genome virus. one takes the sequences of several related viruses, identifies the most commonly observed nucleotides in sequences, and then synthesizes the nucleic asset corresponding to the consensus genome for the group of viruses. this has been done successfully in coronaviruses, it has been done and published a decade ago in coronaviruses. that kind of research could have been done using viruses that are on the order of 96-97% identical in their genome sequence to

w h o data shows last week, 2812 people died of covid. the world has not seen a level that low since march. 9th 2020 when there were 2743 weekly covid deaths. we have never been in a better position to end the pandemic. we're not there yet. but. the end is inside. it's not a clear line where we passed from pandemic to know pandemic because covid is with us and it will be with us, you know for the for the future. dr michael stacy, chief medical officer of lifelong medical, says one positive factor is that the broad number of people getting vaccinated and having mild infections seem to have an impact in this last omicron spike the number of hospitalizations and definitely the number of deaths. didn't get up to the levels that we had seen in previous surges. health officials now are urging people to stay vigilant and are making another big push to get people vaccinated and one god yeah, they all got shot. yes, everybody. area clinics have been getting shipments of the latest omicron targeted booster shot. experts say the omicron booster is i

there have been no animals found to have covid-19. when at the questioned the animals in question 90% had the sars virus. we haven't found any animals yet with covid-19 and most viruses that are animals first, infect a few humans. and you don't have a pandemic like this, it smoldering and then does this. during the smoldering phase you see people with antibodies that had it and didn't know they had it. and when we tested those working with the animals with covid. they found 20% had antibodies having had sars. >> sars 1, correct. but if we test the people in the marketplace, we're not finding that. if we look at the people in wuhan marketplace, we're not finding significant numbers that were positive and finding almost nobody positive from the previous year that had been ill. >> no, it's sorry out of 36,000. >> zero, why don't we do the second round and same order. senator johnson. >> doctor, how did we find out about the nepa virus? >> so, in december 2019, five patients at a wuhan hospital had, bronchial lavage, and for the sequencin

let's look to sars covid two. when you look at the virus that first entered the human population out of the changes in the receptor binding, there are 200 possible chains, 200 amino acids, 200 possible changes. only 17 mutations could make it a better virus. it's a receptor binding optimization was 99.5%. in fact, one of the 17 ended up being the delta variant. that kind of optimization juxtaposed by the fact that there were no patients in wuhan, 36,000 blood back to specimens tested for antibodies in 2019. not a single patient was infected. to go back to sars one, 20% of all people in the markets were infected while the virus was practicing to set up an epidemic. 1% of the general population, 360 in the general population, we had zero. the cleavage site has never occurred in this virus as it played from there from there come in -- around the time of william crossing the channel in 10,060. that was when the virus came. there's never been a fear and cleavage site. the -- news is a code that's never been used that -

through covid that has all changed. what we are doing right now is working on a pipeline from certified nursing assistants, associate degree to bachelor so our hospitals have the team approach and it has really been, when i called them, don't stop those programs, we need you to have pipelines. in the state of texas, something that has been very creative but just starting is our texas workforce commission or alvarez, $50 million so that we can have apprenticeships and nursing program so before students were doing clinical, that was part of the training for a nurse. right now it is being redesigned so that our hospitals will have state resources. it has really been all relationship built. tell us how it has changed and how we will redesign it and it has really served us well. we had a big industry forum on maritime. the demand is there. the biggest thing is the aptitude and skills and how do we build the attitude, building a safety culture, time management, the things you hear about that we are building into the curriculu

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covid surge.andemic could get worse if congress does not act. reporter hannah brandt explains. >> the white house covid team says their pandemic budget is running out and now that congress is back from break, they're pleading with lawmakers to pass more covid funding. it may be time for a trip to your local pharmacy. get your updated covid-19 shot. as soon as you're eligible. a new booster was just approved specifically to find the latest variant the white house covid team says this could become an annual routine. i really believe this is why god gave us 2 arms. one for the flu shot and the other one for the covid shot. but along with this rollout, they have a warning. what we may have the vaccines today. 4. >> folks for this fall vaccine effort. we don't know what's coming next. they already asked congress to pass more pandemic funding 6 months ago, but that didn't happen. and the white house says their covid budget has been dwindling ever sense in order to make these new boosters free and widely