health emergency. other important provisions have been included to will allow seniors access telemedicine services for coronavirus treatment, require to trump administration reimburse health accounts that raided to pay for the coronavirus response, and ensure state and local reimbursed for costs while assisting to the response. funding iner, strong this legislation is a critical irst step to enable a strategic, coordinated and whole the vernment response to coronavirus. while we all ardently hope that health emergency does not worsen, house democrats hesitate to act again f we must augment this funding with more resources. i urge my colleagues to join me of this legislation nd i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. granger: madam speaker, i ise today in support of h.r. 6074, an emergency supplemental appropriations bill to fund the the response to coronavirus. when the news broke about this irus, the administration was able to respond immediately with appropriationshe committee created for the department of health and human services and the u.s. agency for international devel

and then osha, the occupational safety and health administration, which is the agency designed to protect the health and safety of workers, has the lowest number of inspectors and health specialists it has ever had in its history. and it has not had a leader, a director, for a couple of years. so he failed there. and then at the beginning of this, we knew in december that it was coming and he wanted to pretend that it was just a few people and it was nothing. they even tried to pretend this was a hoax. unfortunately, some people still believe it is a hoax because they said it. we have to tell people the truth and he has not done a particularly good job at that. i think the last couple of days, he started to be more realistic about that and i think that has been a welcome thing, but we have lost four months in the process and a lot of people are going to lose their jobs. a lot of people are going to get very sick. and some people are going to die because that delay was allowed to occur. host: mr. trumka, this week we saw secretary treasury steven mnuchin say privately he believes the unemp

but by cutting our investment in global health, this administration has left us woefully unprepared for the exact crisis we now face. no president can promise to prevent future outbreaks. but i can promise you this. when i'm president, we will be better prepared, respond better, and recover better. we'll lead with science. we'll listen to the experts. we'll heed their advice, and we'll build american leadership and rebuild it to rally the world to meet the global threats that we're likely to face again. you know, and i'll always tell you the truth, this is the responsibility of a president. that's what is owed to the american people. now, in the difficult days ahead, i know that this country will summon the spirit, the empathy, the decency, and the unity needed, because in times of crisis, the american people always, always stand as one if told the truth. volunteers raise their hands to help. neighbors look out for neighbors. businesses take care of their workers. so we'll meet this challenge together. i'm confident of it. but we have to move, and move now. thank you all for taking the

a movie about health administration i just wanted to write you know that decided not to participate in the documentary all other major pet food brands also flat out refused or ignored multiple requests to participate in this town. all. for the world independent pet stores are now offering a solution to the growing population of concerned pet owners. for almost their entire existence major pet food stores only carry dry or canned food while independent stores are adequately addressing the concerns of their customers by selling wrong d. hydrated or alternative diets the industry has built a 3rd of the independent pet stores popping up across the nation in reaction they've launched their own chain of smaller stores with the appearance that what they're offering is healthier. so many well intentioned customers are still left wondering what is the right thing to do. in the end it isn't about perfect it's just about knowing i just happen to see. increased health when you really can feed a biologically perfect diet we shouldn't has strayed so far from it in the 1st place we have that have to

there are public servants, whether it is the scientists at the national institute of health, administrators at the food and drug administration, epidemiologist and researchers at the center for disease control, all trying to work to stem the tide of this pandemic. our public safety professionals, firefighters, paramedics, air traffic controllers all on the front lines trying to make sure this nation remains safe. our military service members, specifically national guardsmen called up by their governors to provide logistical support to other agencies within their states, and then there are the national service programs look for ways to provide help during these trying times. i think it is amazing when you think about what the peace corps has recently done. they had 7000 volunteers spread around the globe. because of this pandemic, they had to repatriate all of them. they repatriated back to the united states within seven days with no incidents. these are the types of folks we want to tap into in times of emergency. if you look at one of the americorps programs, individuals at retirement age

despite the security challenges health administrators hope to declare the country a bona free in a few months doctors fighting the disease see their means to achieve that catherine saw al-jazeera beni in the democratic republic of congo. tougher to take a look at the top stories here of al-jazeera russia has said it can't guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria hours after damascus said it was shutting down airspace over italy these developments came after turkey shot down 2 syrian fighter jets on sunday that's the fighting continues in syria the greek prime minister has warned refugees not to try to enter europe illegally greek police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of refugees on its border with turkey the prime minister. says the country won't accept any asylum requests for the next month and he's appealing to the european union for help. ended his campaign for the democratic presidential nomination the 38 year old made the announcement in his hometown of south bend indiana thanking his supporters there. right reason we got into this race in ord

has fewer inspectors and health specialist than any time in its history and has been without a leader for a couple of years. this administrations more on immigration enforcement then it did on worker health and safety. that is a priority that is distorted and twisted. the american worker deserves better than that, particularly those on the front line right now protecting the lives of others. they should not have to sacrifice their own well-being and their families well-being because they had the courage to conquer fear and fight against the disease when they knew they had inadequate safety equipment. on thejust briefly, specific issue of equipment that you've raised, it sounds troubling. is that something the administration can do without congress where at something they have to go to the hillfort? richard: it was a guideline from the cdc. the guideline said you have to have respirators when you're dealing with people that you know have coronavirus. they changed that to just be a facemask. a facemask is inadequate. the second thing they did, and it was just this week that they change this, the second thing they did was say you

despite the security challenges health administrators hope to declare the country a bona free in a few months doctors fighting the disease. to achieve that catherine saw al-jazeera benny in the democratic republic of congo. this is all just there and these are the top stories turkey's president. says he hopes a ceasefire will be achieved in syria's is a province when he meets with his russian counterpart vladimir putin in moscow on thursday the leaders are expected to discuss the latest escalation in fighting between turkish and syrian government forces and who has more now on the meeting from goes on turkey's border with syria. are gone and putin are going to meet in moscow the russian capital on march the 5th which is it 2 days ahead from now turkey before me it before having this leader to leave their meeting her he is trying to gain leverage on the diplomats the table plus 30 is trying to gain ground again leverage by advancing on the ground and giving a casualties to the syrian government forces basically by trying to hurt the air forces of the syrian government a child has died a

one health administrator did say it was an emergency 11 days in. but not the president. not obama. after a thousand americans had died and tens and thousands of americans contracted the disea disease. that virus, despite thousands of deaths, millions of cases, the media mob's coverage the time? wow. very different. it was measured, it was calm. the mob supported their president. they love their president. take a look. >> let's talk about this, something that's wearing a whole lot of people these days, each one and one, president barack obama declaring a national emergency. should it be a worse-case scenario, administration officials emphasizing that it's not they are expecting one. >> more than a thousand people in the u.s. have died from the h11 virus, 90 in the last week. the federal government predicted there would be 100 million doses of the vaccine, but as of this week and 11 were available. >> what exactly does this declaration mean? >> people shouldn't panic when they hear this. >> they receive two booster shots of their own. president obama has declared the fire is national

pressure on the president to address questions not only about this public health crisis but specifically as well the administration's handling of it. for example, a report out of reuters today that the trump white house tried to order federal health departments to treat any top-level meetings about the coronavirus as, quote, classified. trump officials calling it an unusual step which would understandably hamper speedy information flow while also excluding government experts who know the things you need in that room and don't happen to have security clearances. meanwhile today, two governors with states facing outbreaks speaking out on the federal government. >> i think this is going to be the public health version of hurricane katrina. the federal government has just fallen down on the job, so let the states do it. >> i'm not afraid to say that i am extremely disappointed. again, my job is protecting the health and safety of the people of our state, and i need help from the federal government. >> those are both, we should note of course, democratic governors. meanwhile top health officials like dr. anthony fauci sa

we have the same people in charge today under obama and the health administration.n and is willing to make the decisions necessary. from a medical perspective do the things we have done to prevent the more dangerous flu we know tens of thousands suffer from. the most vulnerable population. but the smart thing is wash your hands, don't touch your face, try to stay certain distances away, and be smart, let the experts do it. trish: the president is about to address america from the oval office. regardless of what he says, you know how the media is going to react. >> this is the worst case scenario that you get from a government that doesn't know what they are doing and is willing to lie to the people about things that will keep them alive. >> i wonder if he's psychologically capable of putting the country's well-being first. >> our government is screwing up. with over 75 years of savings and service, geico is the easy choice. we could even help you with homeowners... oh! not again! oh, thanks! you know automated lights are just the beginning. pretty soon they're gonna

undermining scientific research and scientific fact, this administration is dangerously deficient in credibility and that is directly putting the health and well-being of millions of americans at risk. with an opaque and chaotic response to this outbreak. just a few weeks ago, the trump administration presented a budget that would slash almost $700 million from the centers for disease control, cutting a vital resource that's at the frontlines of this public health emergency. and this administration has left critical positions vacant at homeland security and the national security council. including positions responsible for managing pandemics. americans need their elected leaders to spend less time tweeting and more time making sure that government resources are coordinated and fully funded and ready to combat this outbreak. soon, the house will move forward to provide emergency funding that matches the scale and threat of the coronavirus. we must make sure that the president and the administration uses these funds for what they are intended, a comprehensive and aggressive response to managing the coronavirus outbreak and making sure t

but the health administration there is saying we're hoping we're past the peak.o you know when you're past the peak? >> we don't even know what problem we have right now because we haven't been testing. i think that's one area singapore and south korea were way ahead of us. they were testing extremely aggressively. they knew what the problem is, so they could address it. when we don't know what the problem is, how can we address it? we can't begin to talk about a peak in this country at this moment. >> more than 100 people is the population of a sixth in the u.s. we're trying to spread news to folks at home watching, simple steps that people can take to not eliminate the risk but minimize the risk to themselves. >> the hand washing thing really does work. they looked, for example, at a patient room in singapore, someone who had coronavirus, where did they find the contamination? it was on surfaces. not in the air, on surfaces. if you clean surfaces, if you wash your hands, that's really the source of infection. just to clarify, we have found coronavirus out nine

into account whole continents that at that point didn't necessarily have a thriving public health administration or infrastructure to keep track of numbers. we weren't counting asia or africa. if you start talking about how any people to we think died in india, how many do we think died in china and now the statistics estimate somewhere from 50 to 100 million with higher mortality rates in certain areas. are soed at least for me complete the confusing, we have whole villages north of the arctic circle that are wiped out. everyone dies. and then you have communities that are largely safe and there is no rhyme or reason. that's why the work of the epidemiologist has been so interesting for us. inside the united states it is strange in the ways being poor didn't necessarily mean you would died a higher rate but it would certainly be much less comfortable during that process but the poorest of property would create an additional -- as caregivers for the family and those tried to do the right thing for a sick person in their household. in your research work, did you run across any information which m

business administration from southern methodist university in dallas and a master's degree in health administration from the washington university school of medicine in st. louis. mr. roberts, the national press club podium is yours. mr. roberts: thank you. i appreciate it. good morning, everybody. it's a pleasure to be here. i thank you for the inslitation to be here today -- invitation to be here today. we in local public health, in public health in general, are counting on you to communicate with the american public about the day-to-day steps they can take to prepare for the coronavirus. a few words about -- mike mentioned it briefly. the national association of county and city health officials is the voice of local health departments through 3,000 departments across the country. we have -- the theme that i have is ed with naccho this year leadership. my partner, dr. smith out of arkansas, arkansas health commissioner. mine is transformational leadership. his is community resiliency. both of those pair together so well as we deal with this particular situation that we have on our hands that we a

ineffective it's dangerous national nurses, united petition, the us occupational safety and health administration to adopt an emergency temporary standard to protect patients, but also their health care workers. we know what will happen if the nurses are not protected properly. >>they won't be there. >>they'll be at home in their own communities and that's not what we are the ones that look people in the eye and help them. >>okay, meanwhile in san francisco nurses from zuckerberg san francisco general hospital say the city needs to prioritize safety. it increased staffing levels at the hospital immediately we need to find a way to expedite hiring process overworked mayor they don't have the appropriate staff support all workers have the right to be protected in the workplace in san francisco, michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>ours flattened the neighborhood no longer standing but one weekend weather survivor is thankful to be part of the road to recovery. >>and after the break an early morning scare at a crock of know this place. you know, the happiest place on earth, but... have you flown the fas

fewer inspectors and health specialists than they've ever had in their history and they've been without a leader for two years. this administration, chris, spent 12 times more on immigration enforcement than they did worker health and safety, so as a result of that, we've been left in the lurch and we've had to train ourselves and we've done that but we try to help our members educate each other and get them the proper safety equipment. but we sort have been left in the lurch. today, by the way, administration has a chance to change and correct the oversight when they did away with that occupational disease standard that osha was going to issue and fought and took it out of the bill today so that they put profit in front of workers' health and safety and angry about it. >> so is there no uniform standard in terms of how management and bosses have to deal with making judgments about workplace safety in the midst of this pandemic? >> there is not. there isn't any standard. there would have been. we would have had that and they could have rerest recollected that today and follow the plan and educate workers so workers knew and respo

we should be investing and rebuilding its strengths and global health security which we launched during our administrationecifically mobilize the world against the threat of new infection diseases. id could be hard to see the concrete value of this work. by cutting our investment of global health, this administration is not willfully prepared for the exact crisis that we now face. no president can promise to prevent future upgrades. i can promise you this. when i am president, we'll be better prepared and respond better and recover better. we'll lead with science and listen to the experts and heed their advise and build the american leadership and rebuild it to meet our global threats. this is a responsibility of a president. that's what is owed to the american people. difficult days ahead, i know this country will summon the spirit, empathy and decency and the time that's needed. in time of crisis, the american people always stand as once and tell the truth. volunteers raising their hands to help and neighbors looking out for neighbors and businesses taking care of workers. we'll meet this challenge toge

everyone needs to be their own public health administrator so we can help the community.he president has talked about various possible treatments and one of them is hydroxychloroquine. i hope i'm saying that correctly. there has been a consequence already to his discussion of this. what is that and how realistic is this as a treatment? >> you know, hydroxy chloroquine is a drug that's been on the shelves for a long time. it's been there to treat malaria, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. there's a small case series of patients, less than 50 from france, that have some suggestion that it might decrease the viral burden more quickly. those are the data we're talking about. we have some data from laboratory work not in humans that look like it may prohibit viral replication through endosomes, but we don't have enough real data to say this is going to be the panacea that has been suggested. we don't have a lot of the drug. we can't sort of sprinkle it in the water. we just don't have enough of it. so i would say we really need this drug to do the studies to give it to the peopl

his own health officials, his own vice president, colleges, universities, schools, public health administratorsses, the nba and then he needed to resal bracalibrate th there were reasons why this wasn't his failing. he looked to china and he looked to europe. we see congress now -- this is the moment that we're in. congress and the white house, the democratic-led -- legislation that will get passed and we'll see in the next day whether the rubber can meet the road in terms of actually addressing the immediate needs now. >> yeah. look, couple things. as a former speech writer myself, i got to say, i have no idea how you have a scripted speech in a teleprompter that needs to be immediately corrected on matters of specific policy. >> thank you, john. i'm glad, from your experience you're speaking like this. it has steve miller's fingerprints all over this. >> it's possible the president misread out how'd or -- >> that is possible. that doesn't seem like the president freelancing, free wheeling donald trump. this was a matter of policy with enormous implications for the economy and people at a time

despite the security challenges health administrators hope to declare the country a ball of free in a few months doctors fighting the disease say they're determined to achieve that catherine saw al-jazeera benny in the democratic republic of congo. or why has sworn in its new presidents and louise like out who's leading a center right coalition and doing the sistine your reign of the left as broad front party voters are hoping the new conservative governments will boost the economy cut crime and realign foreign policy towards the us tourism row has more from the capital montevideo. it's the beginning of a new era a new one. the center ride with people was sworn in as president on sunday. for 15 years the center left rule this small south american nation turning it into the most progressive in the region by legalizing marijuana abortion and same sex marriage but the new president says it's time for change or any and all humans are the citizens gave a strong message to me the people spoke that it is necessary to change but a change with consensus that's now time to fulfill people's will

joe has published guidelines for health ministers health system administrators and other decision makers to help them provide lifesaving treatment as health systems are to challenge it without compromising the safety of health workers the guidelines detail actions all countries can take to provide care for patients be godless of how many cases they have they also outline specific actions to prepare health systems according to each of the 4 says no cases sporadic cases clusters of this community transmission these guidelines provide a wealth of practical information on a screening and triage referral staff supplies standard the standard of care community engagement and more we encourage all countries to use this and other many other guidelines which are all available on the deadly 2 website but we are not only advising countries we also have advice for individuals around the world especially those who are now i just to a new reality we know that for many people live his changing dramatically. my family is no different my daughter is now taking her classes online from home because school i

quit lying andnp downplaying the threat, let the trusted akientists and public health leaders in your administration take center stage. in recent days, the president seems to have adopted this veapproach, thank goodness and it is long overdue. congress should ignore the presidents budget that urgent foolish cuts with our public health infrastructure. the administration to cease efforts to dismantle the affordable care t act. one more thing, quit the inflammatory china bashing. did this virus originate in china? i yes. but mr. president, that does not excuse your weeks and weeks of tweeting lies and misinformation about l the virus while leaders of other nations were taking steps to make sure their population could be safe. the fact that the virus originate in china, does not excuse the massive missteps that have led to the united states being so far behind other nations in the world and the ability to provide testing, basic testing to citizens including citizens whosi have serious signs of illness. the president's decision to call this c china virus or wuhan virus or other that he and his members of

by cutting our investment in global health, this administration has left us woefully unprepared for the crisis we now face. no president can promise to prevent future outbreaks. i can promise you this. when i'm president, we will be better prepared, respond better, and recover better. we will lead with science. we will listen to the experts. we will heed their advice, and we will build american leadership and rebuild it to rally the world to meet the global threats that we are likely going to face again. you know, and i will always tell you the truth, this is the responsibility of a president. that's what is owed the american people. difficult days ahead, i know this country will summon the spirit, the empathy, the decency, and the unity needed. because in times of crisis, the american people always, always stand as one. volunteers raise their hands to help. neighbors look out for neighbors. businesses take care of their workers. so we will meet this challenge together. i'm confident of it. we have to move and move now. thank you all for taking the time to be here, and god bless our tro

despite the security challenges health administrators hope to declare the country a ball of free in a few months doctors fighting the disease say they're determined to achieve that catherine saw al-jazeera benny in the democratic republic of congo. a c.j.d. philippines shopping mall has ended after hours of negotiations. but he's tackled the gunman shortly after he when he said he hostages and walked out of the mall ending 10 hours of negotiations the suspect entered the shopping center in west mandela on monday and opened fire injuring one man he is in stable condition police say the gunman was a former security guard at the complex would recently been dismissed. i said ahead in sport coronavirus continues to disrupt global sport as moto g.p. is opening races a console to tease out the details coming up next to stay. fact that it has happened more tasty to fully thank you so much corona virus continues to disrupt global sports it's been announced that the 1st 2 races of the moto g.p. season have been called off riders had been testing in cutter in recent weeks but sunday's opening ra

despite the security challenges health administrators hope to declare the country a ball of free in a few months doctors fighting the disease say they're determined to achieve that catherine saw al-jazeera benny in the democratic republic of congo. well still ahead here on the news hour in sport to the biggest names in basketball go head to head in the n.b.a. to stay with us. for a little. welcome back it's time to support his job on a thank you current virus continues to disrupt global sport it's been announced that the 1st 2 races the most g.p. season have been called off wide as had been testing in cats in recent weeks sunday's opening race has been cancelled because of travel restrictions on people arriving in doha from italy several right isn't. aims are italian a new rules mean that they would have to go into quarantine for 2 weeks the 2nd race in thailand has also been postponed indefinitely earlier we spoke to moshi moshi g.p. journalist simon patterson who's in doha. so within the paddock about a 3rd of the 10 a half dozen people to travel the world are entirely and 2 of our

health advisers, administration health advisers are said to have advised him to restrict all but essential travel to europe and that any americans who would travel there would have to self-quarantine when they come back. one of the things that we're keeping close watch on is this issue related to increasing the capacity of testing. just yesterday in the white house press briefing room i asked the vice president when the administration, specifically when the administration expects the coronavirus test kits would be widely and readily available. the vice president said that millions more test kits have been deployed and have been delivered, but still there is this bottleneck. just today the north carolina congressional delegation, members of that delegation, both democrat and republican, wrote a letter to the vice president, making clear that north carolina is a state with 10.5 million people, they only have 300 test kits left. so there is a clear bottleneck happening somewhere between the delivery of these test kits that the vice president speaks of and the receipt of them all across the co

the national institutes of health, the food and drug administration, the state department, usaid and the small business administration. that package, mr. president, also authorizes an additional 500 million and demanded tory spending for health through medicare. combined, this emergency supplemental provides $8.3 billion in resources to attack the crisis at the local, state, federal, and international l levels. mr. president, the situations like this, i believe no expense should be spared to protect the american people and is crafted in this package. it as is an aggressive plan a vigorous plan that has received an overwhelming positive reaction in the house. today, it is the senate's responsibility to keep the momentum going. i urge our colleagues to vote yes and demonstrate to the american people that we, here in the senate, are unified and have their back on this crisis. >> mr. president, the senator for vermont. >> mr. president, i agree with what chairman shelby has said. we tried to set an example, the two of us from two different parties, two different parts of the country, two

administration to further ensure the safety and security americans. the bill will also direct nearly 1 billion to state and local public health agencies on the ront lines protecting our communities. finally, the bill protects american citizens abroad and prevent further threat of coronavirus worldwide by providing just over $1 billion state department and usaid. administration, through a task force led by vice president pence, is doing what required to respond quickly to this ever-changing threat. e must give them the resources they need. the health and safety of the american people is not and never political issue. i urge all of my colleagues to the me in voting for measure so that we can continue fighting this virus and ones.ting our loved thank you and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the reserves.n from texas the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the reserves.n the gentlewoman from texas is recognized. ms. granger: i yield to the kentucky, the former chairman of the full committee and ranking member of the state and foreign operations rogers, for mr. three minutes. mr.

schultz apply an increasing number of cases a link to the shin georgie religious sect health service administrators are investigating the branch of the church based in the chinese city of war on. christian uncle the size of the group is not that big but there are some cases where we believe people visit with one hand in january. in japan baseball teams play to empty stadiums many sports gatherings have been postponed or canceled raising fears that the coronavirus could do you rail the tokyo olympics due to start in july around 900 cases have been confirmed to japan most from the diamond princess cruise ship with corona virus cases around the world steadily rising chinese leaders are turning their attention to threats from a broad chinese government hasn't yet reporters travel restrictions on any country but officials say they're ready to rip patri chinese citizens for any affected by the outbreak if necessary to train e.u. al-jazeera thinking. the u.k. government says no tactics will be off the table in its plan to contain the corona virus in britain the total number of cases in the u.k. is now ris

the administration overruled health officials who wanted to recommend the elderly and physically fragile americans be advised not to fly. trump t has cold efforts to draw attention to the real risk of coronavirus, the new democrat created hoax. just today it's been reported that the white house has thwarted federal health officials to treat top level coronavirus meet us classified, further hampering information sharing in our response to this virus. we saw what and lack of transparency this, disinformation and then i'll did in china with the spread of the virus. we cannot allow that toin happen in the united states of america. the bottom line, families need clear, nonbiased, accurate and reassuring information. public health officials.alth they needed from their elected leaders. there should be no partisanship in pandemics. the president and his administration have undermined science and our scientist. we have the best scientists in the world. we must put their expertise to work to solve this challenge. we have shown we can do that. congress came together and quickly passed $8.3 billion

but by cutting our investment in global health, this administration has left us woefully unprepared for the exact crisis we now face. no president can promise to prevent future outbreaks. but i can promise you this. when i'm president, we will be better prepared, respond better and recover better. we'll lead with science. we'll listen to the experts. we'll heed their advice. and we'll build american leadership and rebuild it to rally the world to meet the global threats we're likely to face again. you know, and i'll always tell you the truth. this is the responsibility of a president. that's what is owed to the american people. now in the difficult days ahead, i know that this country will summon the spirit, the empathy, the decency and the unity needed because in times of crisis, the american people always, always stand as one if told the truth. volunteers raise their hands to help. neighbors look out for neighbors. businesses take care of their workers. so we'll meet this challenge together. i'm confident of it. we have to move, and move now. thank you all for taking the time to be he