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Max Burns: I'll be live-tweeting the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on @HHSGov's #COVID19
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Max Burns
@themaxburns
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Sep 16, 2020
Good morning! I'll be live-tweeting the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on @HHSGov's #COVID19 response starting in just a few minutes!
We'll hear from CDC Director Robert Redfield, HHS Assistant Secretary Brett Giroir and HHS Assistant Secretary Bob Kadlec.
Max Burns
@themaxburns
This hearing might get interesting. As some of you saw last week, HHS Spokesman Michael Caputo lost his goddamn mind and spent the better part of a day posting conspiracy theories about how "government doctors" were trying to kill Donald Trump.
GIROIR:
- 95 million swabs shipped to tribes and Native American/rural communities
- 2.3 million Abbott IDNow molecular tests to support outbreak control
- Established federal surge testing in 19 different high-risk Native American/rural sites.
GIROIR tacitly admitting testing of schools is not where it needs to be. Instead, Giroir pledges that "we will begin shipping millions of tests per week to support our teachers and students" and keep schools open through the fall.
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