i have some brief questions for each witness and i'd like to start with you, admiral giroir. the chairman talked about the comments last weekend saying that -- saying that the double -- testing because when you do testing, quote, you are going to find more people. and then again this morning -- the president tweeted cases are going up in the u.s. because we're testing far more than any other country and ever expanding. with smaller testing, we have shown further cases. this is what he says and he said this morning that he doesn't joke about these things so i know the chairman asked dr. fauci and redfield -- they have been instructed to test less. i will ask you since you are now in charge of overseeing the tests, has the president asked you to do fewer tests? >> thank you. again, i want to clarify that neither the president -- >> yes or no will work. yes or no will work, admiral. has the president -- >> no, the president has -- >> tests. >> neither the president nor anyone in the administration instructed or suggested to do less tested. we want to do more testing. >> okay. >>

giroir. >> i always enjoy our conversation. ranking member walden, distinguished member of the committee. on march 12 secretary azar asked that i lead the coordination of covid-19 detection efforts within the department of health and human services. although i'm no longer full time deployed to fema, i'm maintaining my role coordinating testing. to date the nation has performed over 27 million covid-19 tests, averaging about 500,000 tests per day. even without any major technical advances, i estimate the nation will have the capacity to per form between 40 to 50 million tests per month by fall. to address the public health challenges over the past months, we implemented a phased approach to meet the testing needs at each stage of the pandemic, especially now during reopening when the need for testing is the greatest. in early march, hhs and fema developed and implemented 41 community-based drive-through testing sites in locations prioritized by the cdc in collaboration with state and local partners. these sites have tested nearl

third, admiral brett giroir. admiral giroir is the assistant secretary for health at the u.s.artment of health and human services, he oversees the development of the department's public health policy recommendations. specific to covid-19 response, admiral giroir has taken on testing and focused on increasing the number of tests we can do with existing technology. his federal service includes directing the defense sciences office of the defense advanced research projects, agency, and a variety of other important responsibilities. finally, we will hear from dr. stephen hahn, dr. hahn is commissioner of the u.s. food and drug administration, the fda, before joining fda he had a leadership position as chief medical executive at the university of texas md anderson cancer center and is chair of the department of radiation, oncology at the university of pennsylvania. early in his career he was senior investigator at the national cancer institute, at the national institutes of health. he's been commander of the u.s. public health service commission corps in 2005. we welcome our witnes

>> senator sanders, this is brett giroir. yes, sir, i agree that that is very important because we need to support mask-wearing. i would also point out that dr. cadillac has contracted for hundreds of millions cloth face conversation that could be distributed around the country and those kinds of processes are being thought of. when i'm not in uniform i wear them, they are white and work very effective, and i think they are a great investment for the american people. >> good. thank you. my very last question. it's an issue i've raised now for the last couple of months. all of us hope to god that a good, safe vaccine will be developed as soon as possible, but that vaccine may not mean anything to a lower income person who might not be able to afford it. the i happen to believe that we should make these vaccines, and by the way, as you all know, federal government, our tax dollars, are going to the tune of billions of dollars into your companies to help develop this vaccine. that's okay, but would you agree with me that after t

giroir: thank you. it is a public-private partnership. we have been working very tightly with fda, because innovation has been key. to give an example, when we opened our first 41 testing sites using nasal swabs which would require full ppe and full ppe changes, if we ran those 41 sites full-blown, we would have the stockpile for ppe within one week. it was important for fda to work with sponsors to validate other types of equipment to expand our supplies. partnership,ivate whether it is working with the labs, they have done over half the test in the country. it has been critical. manufacturer that supplies test kits have been working with us. we have a relationship manager with everyone so we know what their limitations are, can we help with supplies, what we can do to maximize tests moving and with montana, it has been a real special case. because although we have millions and millions and millions of tests, only a few are geared to rural areas and are in short supply. we have been working closely to

admiral giroir? >> the answer to the first question is, no, ma'am, i've not been directed to put any resources anywhere. it's always gone through the prioritization cell or other hhs mechanisms. for the second, i have no knowledge on that. i'm not a contracting officer, either. >> okay. thank you. and the federal government has a very bleak history, frankly of failing to provide adequate resources like food, housing, financial support and others to specific communities that have experienced a disaster, and i'm referencing the administration's response to hurricane harvey in texas and hurricane maria in puerto rico. i led a letter in -- i believe this has come up earlier in the hearing. i finally received a response yesterday evening. unfortunately it was inadequate, frankly and referred to data that hhs and cdc are collecting, but in the house hearing last week, cdc director redfield acknowledged that hhs has not fulfilled its responsibility to collect racial data, and as it relates to nongovernment

i would also like to thank admiral giroir, and vice admiral adams for their service during this crisis commission corps. the men and women of the commission corporation will continue to be essential to the points of response, all six points of surveillance, testing, containment, health care capacity, vaccines and therapeutics. to every member of the commission corps who has gone into harm's way in this crisis who spent time away from home and loved once we're deeply grateful. i want to mention one particular step forward we took today to help americans get back to work and back to school while protect us from the guidance. new guidance from the cdc how higher institutions can protect students and their employees. in particular it offers recommendations how and when testing should be used for students, faculty and staff. including testing for symptomatic individuals and testing for asymptomatic individuals who had possible exposure to the virus. the guidance also notes that in areas with moderate or substantial community transmission where sources allow, colleges, universities can work

redfield at the cdc as well as our attorney general, admiral giroir of the u.s. public health service and dr. hahn and seema verma. we will make a series of presentations to update the american people on the status of the coronavirus pandemic in the country and then be available to take questions. but we very much appreciate the attendance of all who are here and all of you who have made time to tune in. as we reported today, we have now more than 2,500,000 americans that of contracted the coronavirus. and sadly we have lost more than 126,000 of our countrymen to this disease. and i know i speak for the president and for every american when we express our sympathies and our deepest condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones. despite of those losses, -- despite those losses, since the end of our 45 days to slow the spread and the beginning of efforts to open up america, thanks to the cooperation of the american people, the efforts of governors and state health officials, efforts i want to proudly say the entire federal team under the leadership of pr

giroir, dr. hahn, and seema verma.ake updates to the american people on the status of the coronavirus pandemic in the country and then be available to questions. we very much appreciate the attendance of all who are here and all of you who have made time to tune in. as we reported today, we have now more than 2,500,000 americans that have contracted the coronavirus. sadly, we've lost more than 126,000 of our countrymen to this disease. i know i speak for the president and for every american when we express our sympathies and our deepest condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones. despite those losses, since the end of our 45 days to slow the spread, and the beginning of efforts to open up america, thanks to the cooperation of the american people, the efforts of governors and state health officials, efforts i want to proudly say the entire federal team under the leadership of president trump. we have made truly remarkable progress in moving our nation forward. we have all seen the encouraging news as we op

redfield at the cdc as well as our attorney general, admiral giroir of the u.s.ublic health service and dr. hahn and seema verma. we will make a series of presentations to update the american people on the status of the coronavirus pandemic in the country and then be available to take questions. but we very much appreciate the attendance of all who are here and all of you who have made time to tune in. as we reported today, we have now more than 2,500,000 americans that of contracted the coronavirus. and sadly we have lost more than 126,000 of our countrymen to this disease. and i know i speak for the president and for every american when we express our sympathies and our deepest condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones. despite of those losses, -- despite those losses, since the end of our 45 days to slow the spread and the beginning of efforts to open up america, thanks to the cooperation of the american people, the efforts of governors and state health officials, efforts i want to proudly say the entire federal team under the leadership of pres

admiral giroir, welcome. >> you just heard the director of the cdc and before him dr. anthony fauci testifying before the senate regarding the coronavirus outbreak. one notable comment there from dr. fauci saying that it remains, as he described it, their aspirational hope to have a working vaccine by early 2020 and 2021. let's go back to hear the testimony on the hill. >> testing now including the rad-x diagnostics program along with dr. collins to assure that innovations are immediately translated into practice. in order to get back safely to work and school, the overarching most critical and essential action we must first accomplish is to control the virus meaning rapidly extinguishing any outbreaks and minimizing community transmission. all of us are concerned about recent data from several states indicating rising infections and now an uptick in hospitalizations and deaths even as other states and the majority of counties are maintaining a low infection burden. knowing what we know now about asymptomatic transmission and the fact that we are in a much better posit

admiral giroir is at the forefront of this. >> admiral? >> i would agree with my colleagues.are all concerned about the possibility of co-circulation of influenza a and b and covid-19 with flu season and want to do everything we can to simplify the diagnosis and you can have -- if you have a single test and working with multiple manufacturers. the cdc as usual is usually in the lead and multiple manufacturers who will have this kind of test available. >> excellent. you all have been subject to a lot of criticism as has the president. often that's leveled after we know facts we didn't know at the time when things started. it is great to have hindsight and 20/20 vision. i want to look forward. what is it you need from congress that you do not have now to have america ready for the fall? what should we be preparing for now for the fall? i don't care who wants to start but i'm down to a minute to answer so -- dr. redfield? >> i think first i want to just express appreciation to congress for the supplemental funding. cdc has been able already to disperse $12 billion to the states

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i have brief questions for each witness and i would like to start with admiral giroir. the comments from last weekend when you dohat testing you are going to find more people. casesesident tweeted that are going up because we are testing far more than any other country. he also said this morning that he does not talk about cases. [indiscernible] now in charge of overseeing the tests has the president asked you to do fewer testing? >> thank you and again i want to clarify -- >> yes or no will work, admiral. -- neither thet president or administration has suggested we do less testing to me. we are proceeding in the opposite. we want to do more things of higher quality. >> ok. do you think it is a good or bad idea to do less testing so it will look like fewer cases? my purpose in leading is to increase the number of testing. the only way we will be able to understand who has the disease, who is infected, and can pass it, and to contact tracing is to test appropriately, smartly, and as many as we can. >> thank you so much. youfauci, i wanted to ask we have seen data the las

admiral brent giroir in charge of testing in this administration said this about testing, the only way we'll be able to understand who has the disease, infected and can pass it and to do appropriate contact tracing, to test appropriately smartly is to test as many people as possible. so that is the message that they're making clear and plan to move and said 27 million people tested and want 50 million people a tested per month and 40 million to 50 million tests per month by the fall and the push by the administration by the officials, much different than hearing from the president who suggesting that perhaps testing is not the way to go, perhaps overrated and needs to be slowed down. they said they need to ramp it up because the disease is still spreading. >> manu, thank you so much. joining me is dr. peter hotez of baylor college of medicine and elizabeth cohen, cnn senior medical correspondent. doctor, you heard dr. fauci there warning of a disturbing surge in infections. what did you think? >> the point is that it's much more than a disturbing surge. we are in a public health crisis

we also had i think it wassed a mirm g -- was admiral giroir to please pull up the guidance. should we take that up by fully following the recommendations, yes or no? >> yes, we should be supporting those businesses. >> can you confirm, yes or no, all businesses have adopted and implemented this guidance as they've opened up? >> i think, senator, as you know, unfortunately that's not been the case. >> so it's an uneven playing field, and it hurts businesses that are trying to do the right thing by voluntarily adopting cdc and osha safety guidelines because their competitors don't have to incur the same safety and health costs. and if you believe we should be supporting the good actors, then shouldn't we create a level playing field by issuing an emergency temporary standard to require all businesses to adopt and comply with enforceable safety standards? >> i'll make two comments, senator. the first one is so important. we've tried to say this is a time that everyone in our nation needs to accept the responsibility that dr. fauci and i spoke about to recognize they have the fu

hahn, admiral giroir and dr. redfield.hanks again to our distinguished panel of witnesses, to the senators who participated and the staff who helped put this together. the committee will stand adjourned.hamber of commerce, the gates are also working toward an international coordinated response to deliver a vaccine equitably once it's created. >> welcome to a special edition of the u.s. chamber fast-forward series. if you been a regular viewer, welcome back, if you are new, thank you for joining us. we hope you find it informative

admiral giroir, let me ask you, do we have enough ppe for every frontline worker who needs it? thousands of others whose jobs put them at risk. our people still having to reuse and 95 masks? and if we don't have enough, why hasn't the administration greatly expanded the manufacturing of the supplies? >> well, thank you for that question, and i will do my best to answer that. certainly running supply chains. but being a member of the unified coordination group at fema for the last several months, i am pretty familiar with this. and i think we all know that there was an absolute shortage of everything when this started. everyone in the world was looking for the same supplies, and we try to manage that both from increasing the supplies and using the dpa multiple times, for example, there were three investments. dpa title i for n-95. to improve production. we estimate that the country in the fall, if there were a covid outbreak to this degree would need about 140 n-95's per month. we should have 180 million per month being produced domestically by that time. this was not available

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. >> desjardins: also testifying today, admiral brett giroir, assistant secretary of health at the department of health and human services.he ocused on testing. >> the only way that we will bet abunderstand who has the disease, pass it, and do appropriate rtntact tracing, is to test appropriately, s, as many people as we can. >> desjardins: that's become a contentious point with administration, after president trump said he called for scalin- back testse said bluntly because testing was driving up case numbers aides said he was kidding, but today came this. >> i don't kid. let me just tell you, let me make it clear. >> desjardins: leaving t white house for arizona this morning, mr. trump doubled dow >> testing is a double-edge sword. in one way, it tells you, you have cases. in another way, you find out where the cases are and you do a good job. >> desjardins: back at the house committee hearing, fauci said that, in fact, the preside has never asked them to cut back on testing. >> none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing. that just is a fact. in fact, we will be doing more testi

. >> admiral giroir, your announcement that provides $100 million, $40 million to go to the morehouse college of medicine for contact tracing and testing. i have introduced a bill which calls for $100 million for testing and contact tracing. $100 million or more for contact tracing and for testing. >> thank you, congressman. for testing and contact tracing, we're going to need billions of dollars. i mean, that's the amount of investment that we're doing partially through cdc. this specific award is to have morehouse lead a consortium of organizations like 100 black men, the national association community of health workers, indian health, et cetera, et cetera, to really focus on the specific educational testing and linkage to care needs of underserved minorities and some of those also in the rural population. my personal opinion is $40 million is a start to. it's going to need to be a lot more than that in order to reach the people that we need to reach. >> thank you, bobby. thank you, admiral. next is mr. upton from michigan. >> thanks very much, mr. chairman, and i really appreciate

trump adadministration's top official leading federal coronavirus testing efforts, a admiral brett giroir, said this s week he e wl be demobilized from m his role n mid-jujune. a coalition of public health officials is calling on police departmements to end the widespspread use of teargas against protesters dururing the pandndemic.. anan online petition signed by nearly infectious disease 1300 specialists warns the gas could "increase risk for covid-19 by making the respiratory tract more susceptible to infection, exacerbating existing inflammation, and inducing coughing." the experts also warn against holding anyone arrested in confined spaces, including jails or police vans, which are some of the highest-risk areas for covid-19 transmission. despite the health risks, the health experts encourage them to continue protesting, including "white supremacy is a legal public health issue that predates the contributes to covid-19." an anti-malarial drug touted by presidident trump as a curative for covid-19 has been found no better t than a placebo at protecting people exexposed to e coronaviru

the governors and all the work at all the laboratories that has allowed us along with hhs and brett giroir who ensured the supplies are there to really increase these orange lines. you can see in each of these cases these orange lines have dramatically gone up over the last four weeks. next slide. like new mexico, the primary infections right now in california at the highest level are in the l.a. area. because l.a. is a large metropolitan area -- next slide -- you really need this kind of more specific and local graphic to really show that it's also increasing in the central valley. this gives us the ability to focus resources among agricultural workers, to improve testing and isolation for those who become positive. i just wanted to take you through how we've been looking at data, how we consolidate that data, and monday report it out to the governors. we hope, over the next week, to be able to have this data available in real-time on the white house website, so that everybody across the country can see where the cases are. in the end, we want to call to action. we said the most important

giroir of the u.s. public health service, and dr. hahn and seema verma.ll make a series of presentations to update the american people on the status of the coronavirus pandemic in the country and then be available to take questions. but we very much appreciate the attendance of all who are here and all of you who have made time to tune in. as we reported today, we have now more than 2,500,000 americans that have contracted the coronavirus. and sadly, we've lost more than 126,000 of our countrymen to this disease. and i know i speak for the president and for every american when we express our sympathies and our deepest condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones. despite those losses, since the end of our 45 days to slow the spread and the beginning of efforts to open up america, thanks to the cooperation of the american people, the efforts of governors and state health officials, efforts i want to proudly say of the entire federal team under the leadership of president trump, we have made truly remarkable progress in moving our nation forward

hahn, admiral giroir and dr. redfield.in to our distinguished panel of witnesses, to the senators who participated and the staff who helped put this together. the committee will stand adjourned. >>> this afternoon the house ways and means subcommittee looks into childcare issue as mid the coronavirus pandemic. watch live coverage at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3, online at c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. >>> tonight on american history tv, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern, a look at the lives of lucretia garfield and mary mcelroy and francis cleveland. c-span in cooperation with the white house historical association examine private lives and public roles they played, first ladies, influence and image features individual biographies in the roll over 44 administrations. >>> next we hear from fcc chair ajit pai and how he helped provi provide americans with access to telehealth services amid the coronavirus pandemic. >>> let me start over. the subcommittee meeting will come to order.ve got a i want to th

dr.ral brett giroir and stephen hahn.ater at 12:30 p.m., the house financial services committee hears from federal reserve chair jerome powell and treasury secretary steven mnuchin at an oversight hearing on operations at the treasury department and the federal reserve's pandemic response. website, ther senate foreign relations committee looks at covid-19 and the international pandemic preparedness, prevention and response efforts. that is at 10 a.m. the house energy and some committee hears for medical professionals on the impact of covid-19 on mental health. that is at 11 a.m. that is daily coronavirus briefing, arizona governor doug ducey announce new actions in hopes of reducing the number of positive coronavirus cases as infections continue to rise in his state since its reopening. the governor ordered the closure of bars, gyms, movie theaters and water parks, and announce the first day of school would be delayed until august 17. this runs one hour and 15 nu

stephen hahn, and assistant secretary of health admiral brett giroir testify before the senate healthd school in the fall as safely as possible. watch live coverage beginning at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span three. on demand on c-span.org. or listen live wherever you are on the free c-span radio app. a hearing to examine how the coronavirus has revealed racial inequalities in education, health care and the workforce. the house education and labor committee heard from former education secretary john kane, who served in the obama administration, and others, about disparities facing minorities as the pandemic continues. this runs four hours. >> the committee is meeting to day on a hearing to hear testimony how covid-19 widened inequities in education, health,

and admiral giroir, the assistant secretary of health, has told our city that we're doing about 10 million tests a month now. that states are submitting to the federal government a plan each month about their testing needs. the federal government is helping fill in any gaps and that over the next two or three months, the number of tests tesl go from about 10 million a month to about 40 million or 50 million a month. that's a lot of tests. we're already testing more than any country in the world. so my guess is that colleges and universities, even though there's 6,000 of them, 127 different institutions in tennessee, if they'll be in touch with their governor and be part of the state testing plan, that they can have adequate tests, not only to contain the disease and isolate those who should be isolated, but to give peace of mind to other students who -- and faculty and members of the community who come on board. finally, we talked a little bit about the role of the federal government. we have a classic discussion about that here. some want to say washington should do it. some want to say t

my recommendation is you want your schools testing plan to be in your statement -- admiral giroir. can contract directly with laboratories to conduct tests, review the fda list of authorized tests ask for help from a local university or hospital that is create its own test. covid-19 plans should last for at least the full school year. the government pursuing vaccine at warp speed but no one expects them in august. in the second semester there should be more tests, more treatments, better contact tracing and vaccines. but amidst the flu season and the return of covid-19, it will be the fall of 2021 before begin to approach normal. students returning in the fall and their families want and need to have peace of mind that they and their loved ones are heading back to a safe environment. testing is the key to providing that. there are several reasons college have an advanced and provide a safe and private for and faculty peer one, younger people have been hurt less by covid-19. for example, in tennessee nursing homes account for 5% of the cases but 36% of the deaths, compare that with

governors and all of the work in all the laboratories that has allowed us along with hhs and bret giroiro ensure supplies were there and really increased these orange lines. you can see in each of these cases, these orange lines have dramatically gone up over the last four weeks. next slide. like new mexico, the primary infections right now in california at the highest level are in the l.a. area but because l.a. is a large metropolitan area, next slide, you really need this kind of more specific and local graphic to really show that it's also increasing in the central valley. this gives us the ability to focus resources among agricultural workers to improve testing and isolation for those who become positive. i just wanted to take you through how we have been looking at data, how we consolidate that data, then monday reported out to the governors. we hope over the next week to be able to really have this data available in realtime on the white house website so that everybody across the country can see where the cases are because in the end, we really want to call to action, when we start

giroir was nominated 2017. so he was nominated a long time ago, and we sure do wish we would have had him confirmed sooner but he was just confirmed a couple weeks ago. he was nominated last year and had to be renominated again this year. >> i won't get into an argument over whether it's more effective to have senate-confirmed positions ornot. i would obviously argue it is. i'm well over my time. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator murphy. mr. grigsby, i can tell you i've got context with the w.h.o., and your suggestion that our talk of withdrawing and withdrawing funds might get their attention, i can assure you it has gotten their attention. it's probably been your experience, too, but it's clearly my experience. in any event, we want to look forward as opposed to backward, and we're going to talk about that in a few minutes. before we do that, senator cardin. >> well, i hope i'm looking forward. mr. chairman, thank you very much for holding this hearing. let me thank all our witnesses for their se

anthony fauci, admiral bred giroir, and robert redfield, and stephen hahn. >> you should not congregatecrowds. you should keep distance, and even though many people for a variety of reasons do not listen to the not suggestion but plea to not congregate in across the board, some people are going to do that anyway. if you do, please wear a mask. as you wear a mask and you're in a situation where you're getting animated in a demonstration, a rally, wherever you are, avoid as best as possible the urge to pull your mask down and shout. >> joining us from washington where the hearing is in a break, lee an co leeann caldwell is joining me. have we gotten a good answer yet of why we're the outlier in the globe? >> reporter: chuck, that's an excellent question. we haven't gotten a direct answer on that yet specifically, but what dr. fauci and the other members of the task force did do, is they contradicted the president and his message throughout. you just played the clip about mask. the president has not come out and said people should wear a mask. he himself is not wearing a mask. dr. fauci is

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hahn, admiral giroir who will give us an update on going back to school, college, and going back to work. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to include in the record my opening statement from yesterday's hearing. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: mr. president, i rise this afternoon to speak about the bill that we voted on earlier today and the debate that has ensued prior to that vote and i'm sure afterwards. this is a moral moment for the country. i think most would agree with that. and the question is, how will our nation respond at this moral moment? the brutal murder of george floyd by a police officer, quote, shames us before the world, unquote. i'm quoting an naacp official, who i think said it well for all of us. his murder did shame us before the world. so did the murder of rayshard brooks and breonna taylor, and you can go on from there, so many other names that we may not have heard before and many that we'll hear offered and over again. -- that we'll hear over and over again p. a lot of us feel that shame. countless millions of americ