widespread testing is really the cornerstone to a strong public health response and in order for public health agencies and officials to really control the outbreaks we really have to have widespread testing available with quick turnaround times so we can identify the people who are sick and control the spread of the disease. >> so i think the question on a lot of americans' minds is we are the most advanced nation on earth in many ways and in many ways the most advanced nation in the history of the earth. why have we not gotten our testing game together? >> it's an interesting phenomenon. i think in the past with many large outbreaks like this, we've seen clear and consistent

services this company minister let's just bring in schools and because both the public health agency of sweden and the finnish institute for health and welfare did a recent study over the school should open and close those you said you've tried to reopen finland actually closed down i mean what were the findings what's that what what were the findings of that report in terms of whether it is a good idea to open or close schools during this pandemic because it is a hot topic not just in europe but in north america at the moment and in many parts of asia as we get towards september when the new school term in university terms open and start made i think every country has to speak for their own decisions being made or not made but in sweden we didn't find that necessary to close down the preschool in the primary school because we needed to have an open and which i don't find in the science so in the knowledge about the virus that the children and the very young persons will drive the infection. but we close down or we said that there yep a secondary school and the universities and the ot

states hasn't done and that i would say the instance of that is follow science have trust in public health agencies and have. a consistent message that you need to wear masks and socially distance. the u.s. hasn't done that the president has personally undermined the c.d.c. and other public health agencies and scientists in his own administration and the public are confused they're not following scientific advice to to wear masks to to be sure sickly distant to have personal hygiene or testing the roll out was really very poor and we simply just let it get out of control while we deflected blame to china or to the world health organization which i think it's unconscionable to support a great organization like the w.h.o. in the middle of a geopolitical brought up that's just intolerable i'm going to talk one minute left professor i want to ask you this really stood to develop a vaccine do you think we have so many people involved racing to be the 1st because they see the vaccine as being a cash cow once they are. you know i think it's partly a cash cow partly it's legitimate because we're undergoing

official who was sounding the alarm on what went very, very wrong with the nation's two major public health agencies this week. stay with us. it's not going away. covid-19. more than ever, california needs rapid coronavirus testing. robust contact tracing. support for community health clinics. masks and ppe for those saving lives... for teachers and school personnel educating students. these heroes are doing their jobs. now government must do theirs. keep working through a special session to combat this crisis right now and provide the revenues to solve the problems we know are coming. >>> good morning, davenport, iowa, today. right at the top of your quad city "times" today, quote, iowa breaks covid-19 daily records. also "the des moines register" led today with coronavirus with two stories. on the left you see des moines will enforce mandate with free masks. a local mask mandate in des moines. on the right, governor reynolds shuts bars and clubs in six counties. virus rates spiking in younger adults. yes, this is the morning paper after the president accepted the republican party's nomination for

public health initiative. dr. frieden, it's nice to see you. thanks for making time for us this evening. >> good to speak with you again, rachel. >> the cdc is and has been a gold-standard public health agency much of its time on earth. how unusual is it for the cdc to put out guidance, that doesn't appear to have scienfic support? and for them to waffle, then, publicly, on whether or not they really mean it? >> statements from people in washington make clear that this was something that was imposed on cdc. this was a decision made in washington, not at ccdc's headquarters in atlanta. and it's not based on science. it's very important to test the contacts of people with covid. not only because they might have covid, themselves, but because if they have the infection, you then have to find their contacts. to make sure they get warned so that they can be quarantined, and not spread the disease further. if you don't do that, you allow covid to spread more. >> if this was improperly delivered advice. if, as you say, this was advice that was generated in washington, not at cdc headquarters. it was, nevertheless, put out under the banner of the cdc, with all of the authority that should grant it.

we're going to take a look at the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic germany's public health agency is warning people to avoid indoor social gatherings as infections climates advising the public eye get togethers should be limited to small groups of close family and friends it has ordered a 3 week closure of all night clubs and discos after an uptick in new cases the government has also made mosques mandatory of nighttime in public and israel has nukes and it's tough travel restrictions citizens residents and foreign workers arriving from 20 countries will now be exempt from quarantine israel's borders remain closed to foreign tourists. moving on to sport and formula one we're defending champion lewis hamilton has won the spanish grand prix for a 4th consecutive time the reset his driver extended his lead in the standings after easily fighting off red bulls 1st up and who finished 2nd said his teammate came in 3rd rounding out the podium how multan is aiming for a 7th title which would equal the record set by germany's. now to an athlete who followed her heart into the waves some le

lately we've had days of mixed messages from the administration and our public health agencies. dr.n hahn the head of the fda is walking back comments on the benefits of convelescent plasma. he touted its effectiveness during a press conference last weekend. dr. hahn now says he could have done a better job explaining the data. yesterday the "new york times" reported that the fda ousted its top spokeswoman apparently to help shore up the agency's credibility. also this week the cdc announced you do not necessarily need a covid-19 test if you are exposed to coronavirus unless you are showing symptoms. then dr. robert redfield the cdc's director walked that back. his revision? if you have had close contact with someone with a confirmed or probable covid-19 infection, you may consider getting tested. as for the messaging on a vaccine the president repeated his claim that one may be ready to year during his acceptance speech. >> like those brave americans before us we are meeting this challenge. we are delivering life saving therapies and we'll produce a vaccine before the end of the ye

>> i would talk to our experts, the cdc experts said -- the leading public health agency in the world, it is in the public health interest that these students get back to schools and are open for phase two of learning. i want these kids back in school, it is paramount to the health of the child. >> mail-in voting or absentee voting, he is saying that it is essentially the same thing, why is it now something that can be done in florida but not other states? why is that separate. >> he is always made the distinction. mass mail out voting where nevada are mailed in mass out to voters, so in places like l.a. were 100 and 12% of -- at least 12% of those are not active voters. so that is the distinction from absentee voting which is where you proactively request a ballot. there is a difference there and the president repeatedly makes the difference. and as i told jeff, there was a victory in the courts in florida. that's what he was referencing in the tweet. >> you mentioned extending the unemployment insurance, on saturday trump tweeted that this was still on the table. >> the president wo

i mean,s what is going on with our public health agencies?g alarming, the degree to which we're getting new information and different takes on what has actually been going on here now for six months. >> well, lou, as you said, that's a very important statistic that they just put out. and as we have been saying all along, for most people this is not a life-threatening situation, it's really just a life-threatening situation for people who are at high risk with other issues. but we've made enormous progress, and i think you're going to see enormous progress on vaccines quickly, between now and the end of the year. last week the president made a major announcement with 150 million new point of care tests so they can be contribute distributed to every school in the country so schools can get open safely. this is really about making sure our kids can be at school and our small businesses can get back to work. lou: and hopefully, our public health agencies can get the facts straight at least in the reporting. it's got to be frustrating. is the pres

think i can emphasize it enough as the director of the center for disease control, the leading public health agency in the world, it is in the public health interest that these k through 12 students get back to schools that are opened for phase two -- face-to-face learning. i want these kids back in scoofment it's paramount to the health of the child. reporter: mail-in voting or absentee voting, he's saying essentially it's the same thing. why is it now something that can be done in florida but not other states? why is that different? press secretary mcenany: he's always made the distifpblgts mass mailout voting -- distinction. mass mallout voting where ballots are mailed out to voter roles. in the place like l.a. for instance, 112% of l.a. county is registered, ballots go out and 12% of those we know are not active voters. so that is the distinction from absentee voting which is where you proactively request an absentee ballot. there is a difference there and the president repeatedly makes the difference. he is also noting -- can you follow up with the campaign on this, but there was a victory in

public health in england. we need a national public health agency, but it needs to have people there who've really done the jobn government say the release of some of the most controversial taliban prisoners is being delayed because of objections from foreign governments and from within kabul. last weekend, a grand council approved the release of 400 remaining detainees, demanded by the taliban as a pre—condition to the start of peace talks. further doubt was cast of the negotiations process earlier after a recent attack by gunman on a negotiator and prominent afghan women's rights advocate fawzia koofi. the taliban has denied involvment in the attack. donald trump's younger brother robert has died in hospital in new york at the age of 71. the president said he mourned robert's death with a heavy heart, calling him his best friend. robert trump, who once said he backed his older sibling 1,000%, died in hospital in new york. president trump visited him on friday. on twitter, tributes have been paid. president trump's daughter ivanka said "we will always love you and you are in our hearts and prayers". the forme

public health in england. we need a national public health agency, but it needs to have people there who've really done the jobere has been an increase in the number of confirmed new cases recently. as this graph shows the uk has averaged just over 1,000 new cases per day over the past week, although this comes in the context of increased testing. meanwhile — the trend in the number of daily deaths in the uk has slowed down. in the same 2a hour period a further 5 people with the virus died — taking the total number of deaths to 41,366. these figures were counted using the governments new methodology to record coronavirus deaths. donald trump's younger brother robert has died in hospital in new york at the age of 71. the president said he mourned robert's death with a heavy heart, calling him his best friend. robert trump, who once said he backed his older sibling 1000%, died in hospital in new york. president trump visited him on friday. on twitter, tributes have been paid— president trump's daughter ivanka said "we will always love you and you are in our hearts and prayers". the former mayor of new york rudi

public health england. we understand the government will have these plans to create a new health protection agency which may busy. public health england has an extremely wide remit. they do everything from helping people stop smoking, obese children, air quality, clean water, immunisations, you name it. anything that keeps us healthy. they have an enormous wide remit. of course public health is always up against some really big monsters like social media, human nature, advertising big business. they are always on the back foot and you‘ll never have perfect public health. but if matt hancock today is announcing a bigger and beefed up public health agency then i‘m all for that. and beefed up public health agency then i'm all for that. i also want to mention to you a story in the telegraph this morning about children being diagnosed with type one diabetes and possibly a link with coronavirus. what can you tell us? well, this is breaking news and it‘s a very small study so i won‘t jump it‘s a very small study so i won‘t jump to any conclusions right now. it was based on an observation in four north west london

the cdc is widely regarded as one of the greatest public health agencies in the world. why the a reason chinese cdc is called the chinese cdc or the nigerian cdc. is the model of everyses with almost crisis in recent history. the ebola crisis. they were out there reassuring the public all the time. and they the expertise should be the voices of young hearing from. ,here was a three month period whether cdc did not hold a single press conference, while trump without their daily, telling people about hydroxychloroquine and the andthetical curative effect all kinds of nonsense. it is shocking. do i know that is the case? some people have written stories about this and gotten some pieces of it, but the fact that the cdc failed to rollout a good diagnostics test early -- i think part of it is trump's failure to respect expertise. this is a man who does not know very much and does not know what he does not know. he lacks humility to know more. tell me what the right thing to do is and advise the country. that is what happened. jeffrey: talk about where we are right now in tes

>> well, it's the fact that they referenced public health agencies in the reopening plan, such as the cdc, georgia department of public health, american academy of pediatrics, yet ignores the most important measures in those. no mandatory masks, no real attempt to distance students apart so they're crammed together on buses, desks in klattrooms for younger grades, lots of individual desks. 30 or more in high school classrooms. setting us up for failure and the consequences have been pretty obvious, do you with that vocal opinion, do you feel in the minority? do you feel like -- are you -- is there incoming hostility towards you because you're saying, hang on a second. why are they sitting four to a desk? or not told to wear masks? what kind of income are you on the receiving end of? >> oh, yeah. getting a ton of negative feedback for being so vocal and becoming like an activist going against current decisions of the school board and being an advocate for teachers afraid to speak up for themselves. yeah. i'm getting everything from low-level threats. i had one blackmail attempt saying

meanwhile, the other public health agency that the world and our country ought to be depe depending on right now and find our way out of it, the cdc tried to ahate their recommendation that america should not get tested if they are expose to someone that's negative. unless you are trying to reduce the amount of testing we do in the country because you don't like the positive test results because it makes us recognize that we got a lot of cases. states and local health authorities have been announcing one after another all week long of guidance of the cdc is insane and they'll define it. leakers had been telling reporters that this recommendation did not come from scientists at the cdc, it came from the trump administration and they made the cdc put their name on it. director redfield is taking back that testing recommendation saying testing quote, "testing may be considered if a person has had contact with somebody that has covid-19." >> may be considered? that's the recommendation now? are we supposed to go with what you said in print. the cdc did not write that either. >> you are the

. >>> a leading public health agencies warning secondhand cigarette smoke could be hampering the global attempt to control the coronavirus pandemic. the american lung association issued a report concluding smokers can exhale infected droplets into the air after taking a puff of their cigarettes and that that smoke can easily drift to people nearby. early studies have arctic concluded that smokers are far more likely than non-smokers to develop complications due to covid-19. >>> health experts now have a warning for people where only plastic face shields in public dr. say they are not in a protection. they say you can certainly clear up your protection but to make sure that at least one of those layers is a facemask. one physician demonstrated how shields can provide a false sense of security. >> washes, what if i sneeze. that would spread the virus there. >>> a computer simulation finds that 80% of the people wore facemasks than it would be more spread than a strict locked in. >>> because of the pandemic, there are record-breaking sales for cleaning products. however, there's a new cdc

week both the cdc and the fda have suffered real blows to their credibility as scientific public health agenciesare there to advocate for what is in the best interest of the public and whether that is the emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma and adequate data and this changed to cdc guidelines and this is very concerning and those of us in the public health community and the epidemiologists have been advocating for more testing and not less testing. if we were doing mass testing cheaply equivalent to the urine test strip where you could potentially do that every day or every couple of days and that is a way to reopen the economy. that is a way to reopen our schools, but this is -- not only is it not mass testing. this is a reversal of what we should be doing. >> in general, though, is this how it should work? changing guidance for how the public should be operating during a pandemic by putting it up on your website with no public announcement and no explanation? >> we should be getting press conference briefings by the cdc at least on a weekly basis, if not on a daily basis just a

struggle of multiple sources of authority but the central government managed to coordinate its public health agency successfully, steering the national response while exercising a light touch that allowed for some local experimentation, and the quick rollout of testing by private companies and labs. the chancellor angela merkel acted as the national guide, presenting the public with clear scientific requirement, the rate of spread, and was crucial to keep that number under one. the result is that germany today has 110 deaths per million people compared with america's 470 deaths per million people. trump actually handle says the bully pulpit aspect of the white house effectively. i don't like the ideas he puts forward often, but he does so in an innovative way, using all the tools of social media on to amplify his voice and get out his message. unfortunately, during the pandemic, he used this platform to promote unproven treatments, discourage mask wearing and stoke anti-lockdown sentiment. still trump seems to think public relations is the essence of his job. as covid-19 hit, he made bold announcem

using all of our agencies, our public health agency, health and hospitals which runs 11 hospitals andics, has tremendous projection capacity out into our communities. it's the operational agency health department has tremendous expertise. we combine that to create our test and trace core, which is now the largest in the nation and is helping us to keep our infection level down to 1%. that's what i reported to new yorkers this morning. 1% infection level based on the tens of thousands of tests we're doing every day in new york city. we have had the lowest number of cases per day since the first half of march. a lot is working. and having that test and trace capacity is part of what is working. it's been a group effort of all parts of government coming together. and that's what actually works, wolf. >> according to the "new york times," dr. barbot added this. what she said, our experts are world-renowned for their epidemiology, surveillance, and response work. the city would be well served by having them at the strategic center of the response, not in the background. so, what do you say

as the leading public health agency in the world, it is in the public health interest that these k-12 students to get these schools back open for face-to-face learning. mental health service, 7.1 million get it in school. nutrition, we talked about. reporting of child abuse, sexual abuse, mandatory in schools. the isolation that these adolescence are feeling that now is associated with increase as you mentioned, increase drug overdose deaths are now, increased suicides, i think it is really important -- as a grandfather, 11 grandkids, i want these kids back in school. i have one child with cystic fibrosis. i want it done smartly. but i think we have to be honest that the public health interest of the students in this nation is to get a quality education in face-to-face learning and we need to get on with it. >> we recognize for five minutes ms. velasquez. congresswoman velasquez: thank you, ranking members and chairman. it has been six months since this crisis begun, yet new infections are climbing in the states. many hospitals are at capsty. and thousands of americans are dying. i am

the 14 day rule is now going to be assessed again by the country's leading public health agency the robot cock institute to have been the one web site that every journalist goes to in the mornings to check how we're doing in terms of corona virus so they're going to see whether that period can be shortened there are other countries who are now going with 10 days for example so they'll have to see how that works but then of course she also said that was interesting it depends on whether you do something consciously or not so if you take the risk of going to you know is risk area then you can't expect the state to compensate you for your loss because you have to go into quarantine because you knew the rules very sensible rule if something happens there while you're there and germany decides to put that country where you currently are on that list then that's basically not your fault and then you can get compensation the chance words on the talk about the electronic entry system now the chancellor mention can you tell us about that it's an important part of tracing you know german government

he said he couldn't emphasize that enough, the leading public health agency in the world. it is in the public health interest at these k-12 students get back to schools that are open for face-to-face learning. it is paramount to the health of the child. >> secretary mcenany>> reporterg absentee voting, whatever you call it, he is saying it's the same thing. why is it now something that can be done in florida but not of the states? >> secretary mcenany: he has always made the distinction. mass mail out voting is with nevada where ballots are mailed en masse to the voter rolls. in l.a., for instance, ballots go out and at least 12% of those, we know, are not active voters. that is the distinction from absentee voting, which is where you proactively request an absentee ballot. there's a difference there, and the president repeatedly makes the difference. he is also noting, you can follow up with the campaign on this, but there was a victory in the courts and that's how he was referencing. >> reporter: on saturday trumped treated about payroll tax. is that still on the table? >

it looks like politics influenced public health will do nothing but undermine the trust in cdc at a time when we really need to be able to trust our public health agency know well dr. anthony fauci and he tells our sanjay gupta he was in surgery the other day on his vocal cords when the task force met to discuss these changes to the testing guidelines. he says he is worried this would give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread isn't a great concern. what is your reaction to that? >> well, it is very concerning. we know now that up to 40% of people who spread this have no symptoms whatsoever and it is identifying those people and you do that by, you know, doing testing, doing contact tracing, and then testing the contacts to know whether or not they are sick. it doesn't mean that if you're a contact and you have one test that is negative that you don't have to worry about it because you could be positive the next day. it means, though, that you need to have even more testing available so that you can follow people during that period when they can turn positive. with this, what this says to me, wolf, is that the recommendations coming

access to health care on this pandemic, quoting you here, the cdc an agency i called home for 13 years uniquely equipped to provide sound, science-based guidance for our nation during this public health agency but if millions can't follow the advice or have their basic medical needs met we'll all continue to pay the price for this pandemic and for however longer we tolerate this broken and unjess system. tell us how we're seeing the holes in the u.s. health care system exposed in the midst of this pandemic. >> covid makes it clear. i saw it clearly before this, because i work as a pediatrician in a community clinic, and i know that patients without insurance don't get the same care, the same quality of care or the timeliness of care, so here in covid, at the start of this, there were 28 million people in america without health insurance, and the recommendation from cdc were if you think you had covid symptoms to call your doctor, don't go to the er, where you could pick up covid. if you didn't have health insurance, who are you going to call? what were you going to do? you were going to show up, show up late and likely going to show up in communities where the quality of healt

public health are saying bad idea, why is this happening? >> it is hard to understand some of the recent decisions. cdc is an extraordinary agency. considered by many to be best public health agency in the world. it is historically trusted and trustworthy, but we're seeing decisions come out in ways that frankly undermine confidence, undermine confidence of public health officials and medical care experts, and the confidence of the public. this is a time on the testing question you just mentioned when we need more test iing. >> especially you mention the testing dilemma, you see 18% in south dakota, 18% in iowa, 24% in south carolina, still in the teens in florida, texas, states that drove the summer surge, everyone would say you need more testing to keep good eyes on the virus. when you were here in washington, look, there is a controversy at the fda, the administrator there, the commissioner had to apologize they rolled out the emergency authorization of convalescent plasma, he said wildly optimistic thing about the effectiveness, then they fired the top spokeswoman. you worked here in washington, she's still at the agency, they

widespread testing is really the cornerstone to a strong public health response and in order for public health agencies and officials to really control the outbreaks we really have to have widespread testing available with quick turnaround times so we can identify the people who are sick and control the spread of the disease. >> so i think the question on a lot of americans' minds is we are the most advanced nation on earth in many ways and in many ways the most advanced nation in the history of the earth. why have we not gotten our testing game together? >> it's an interesting phenomenon. i think in the past with many large outbreaks like this, we've seen clear and consistent organization and orchestration at a federal level so cdc often leads and is organizing and orchestrating and in those kinds of responses, we've seen good -- good availability of testing, good availability of vaccines. i'm hoping that with cdc with the vaccine distribution that they'll tailor and play their role so they can orchestrate and coordinate so we're not seeing ranges based on where you live or geography. >> we need orche

get more now on the health secretary matt hancock's plans to disband public health england — and create a new health protection agencyfunctions. phe has come under intense scrutiny for its response professor maggie rae is the president of the uk faculty of public health, the standard—setting body for public health specialists in the uk. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. it's a pleasure. good to have you with us. when we miss public health england? i think many people working in public health england need our thanks, and one of the things that i was very pleased with the secretary of state, matt hancock, acknowledged it was the excellent work was that excellent work that the people have been doing in the commitment to that staff that he very much sees them as forming pa rt he very much sees them as forming part of the new agency. so i think without the people, the organisation would not succeed. so i'm delighted that the secretary of state was so strong in his messages of support for the public health workforce. how sensible is it to attempt this kind of reorganisation in the middle of a global pandemic? i thi

the doctor said last week and want to reemphasize as director of cdc leading public health agency in the world it's in the public health interest to get the students back open with face-to-face learning we have to be honest we want to get a quality education with face-to-face learning i assume you agree with that statement? >> i do. certainly that should be the goal doing everything we can to get children back into school in a safea manner and flexibility to parents and teachers and school personnel to create the best circumstance for local communities but the goal should be to get kids back in school the prolonged school closures are devastating for children, particularly low income that we know are falling further behind every day schools remain closedrtrt. we have seen public health guidance from the academy of pediatrics, cdc with best practices that can be used to reopen schools wherever s possible it should think creatively of following those guidelines to bring kids back into the classroom. >> there is a paper put out by the cdc extensively with eight pages dealing with compari

public health agencies must make recommendations based on evidence, not politics. we should leave it to the experts to tell us when the time is best to open up school buildings and listen to educators and administrators to say how we do it. i represent a congressional district that is about half and half what we might call rural and urban so even the urban part of our district will be looked upon as being rural as some of my friends here on this panel from new york and california, so maybe i just do have a rural district. all i want to say is different in rural america. then it is in urban america. so i don't know that we can up here, with a one-size-fits-all. we should delegate to the professional were in attendance and the principles of the schools to determine how best to reopen schools. we want them to be on them with all the resources they need to do that. so this whole notion of just telling people to go back to school, that is one thing . give principles that are superintendents of states, them the resources they need and the guidance they need and let them

right now they kept the infrastructure at place to transition back into the general public health implementation agency. i think what we need is surveillance. we need to know what's out there and to be on top of it. the reason they were able to get it under control is because they have that structure in place. what we need is to get out there and find out what diseases people have. we need more work to do that. i think that they need to spearhead the effort. there are some that want to go out there and characterized and that would be an enormous amount of money. basically going out and seeing people develop good diagnostics i understand they are going to o cut down an old growth forest and coal mines was the latest announcement. those fruit bats, is anybody talking about going in and doing regular high-tech surveillance, we could do that. we have the technology. nobody's really done it. we could do with where we've already had a track record. we could do to places where people are in contact and just regularly monitor the. that shouldn't be difficult and certainly somebody needs to david and getting it

this change in policy will kill. >> when you lose the trust in our public health agencies, whether it'sat is a recipe for disaster. >> reporter: the governors of new york and california both say they're not listening to this. >> i don't agree with the new cdc guidance, period, full stop and it's not the policy in the state of california. >> it totally violates public health standards and rationale and just fosters his failed policy of denial. >> reporter: congressional leaders in the house say they will be launching an investigation. cecilia. >> okay, steve, thank you so much. we're joined live by the director of the harvard global health institute, dr. ashish jha. we always appreciate your time, dr. jha. this is a really big deal so let's just break this down. we know that asymptomatic people are one of the driving forces behind the spread of the virus. is there any scientific medical explanation for why the cdc would make this reversal and say people who don't have symptoms now no longer need to get tested? >> yeah, good morning. thank you for having me on. there is no scientific basi

do you use the cdc, the state, or the local public health agency? there's definitely been some conflict between all three agencies that are all about public health. that would be very helpful. i see someone from dph is on the call. >> : thank you. absolutely. and to be clear we want to have these regular meetings every few weeks more than once a month. i would like dph and d c yf to be present at all the meetings. today you'll here from them as well. with that, are you, yes, commissioner ko co llins. i think you are here for the introduction around it. >> : thank you. i really appreciate it both comments. thank you so much for convening this meeting. bringing it up all together. i agree, we need to be in communication more because there's so much information and things flying around. i also really appreciate trustee randol ph. it's non stop for board members because we're connectors for families. we may manage different programs. people want to know what we're doing as far as schools. even that is hard amount of communication to manage. it really hel

do you use the cdc, the state, or the local public health agency? there's definitely been some conflict between all three agencies that are all about public health. that would be very helpful. i see someone from dph is on the call. >> : thank you. absolutely. and to be clear we want to have these regular meetings every few weeks more than once a month. i would like dph and d c yf to be present at all the meetings. today you'll here from them as well. with that, are you, yes, commissioner ko co llins. i think you are here for the introduction around it. >> : thank you. i really appreciate it both comments. thank you so much for convening this meeting. bringing it up all together. i agree, we need to be in communication more because there's so much information and things flying around. i also really appreciate trustee randol ph. it's non stop for board members because we're connectors for families. we may manage different programs. people want to know what we're doing as far as schools. even that is hard amount of communication to manage. it really hel

the health secretary matt hancock has announced plans to disband public health england and create a new health protection agencyrld—class science infrastructure with the growing response capability of nhs test entries and the bio—security centre's ability. we work closely already today but i wa nt to work closely already today but i want to integration to be greater. crucially this will be a national agency working closely with public health directors and their teams, who are in my opinion the unsung heroes of health protection. twice as many adults are now experiencing some level of depression — compared with before the coronavirus pandemic, according to the office for national statistics. nearly one in five adults are now affected by depression — with the majority citing stress and anxiety as affecting their wellbeing, and almost half saying their relationships have been affected. the research also found that the groups most affected are younger adults, women, disabled people and those ‘unable to afford an unexpected expense'. a british man who gave his girlfriend drugs at a festival and filmed her as she die

program at the cdc to address the social determinants and create partnerships with local public health agenciesso they can also address this issue so thank you for bringing that up. we need to have more on mental health and every single parts of our life whether it's homelessness, certainly not under covid-19. we all have family members who have experienced addiction and it's here day in and day out. i want to follow up on you with the topic, my colleague who brought this upon the application. i want to share a personal story. when i was in college, i was applying to be an intern in the white house. remember seeing the application, asking if i had ever seen a mental health professional and my father had been terminally ill all of my last ten years, ten years of his life which was me being in college. i remember thinking to myself, as i leave the white house but if i leave and see a mental health expert, maybe i can't work in government if i go. having that thought had me second-guessing whether i should have a seat on any mental health services. we heard about his belief we should change the qu