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WASHINGTON, D.C. – While coronavirus-related research is now in overdrive, most other research has been slowed down or stopped altogether due to pandemic-induced closures of campuses and laboratories. Now, tens of thousands of graduate students, postdocs, principal investigators and other technical support staff are at risk of losing their employment and their work without federal relief. Additionally, with this research stopped, America may lose the benefits that come with new technologies and scientific insights.
The official who until recently oversaw the nation's COVID-19 testing efforts told U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette on Tuesday that contrary to President Donald Trump's repeated public statements, he was never pressured to decrease coronavirus testing.
"Neither the president nor anyone in the administration has instructed or suggested we should do less testing," said Admiral Brett Giroir. "We are proceeding in just the opposite."
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Anthony Fauci, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, CDC Director Robert Redfield and Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee tomorrow to provide the panel an update on what's being done to curb the spread of COVID-19 here in the U.S. and what more can be done to protect the public health.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the Trump administration has encouraged the use of telemedicine across the health care industry during the pandemic, it has refused to relax rules around medication abortion, a move that experts warn may put both patients and providers at greater risk of contracting the coronavirus.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is among the cosponsors of a congressional resolution to form a racial reconciliation commission, prompted by a week of protests over the killing of black Americans by police.
E&C LEADERS WANT BETTER DATA MODELING — "[T]he better the infectious disease modeling, the better we can target our response to public health threats," Committee Chair Frank Pallone, ranking member Greg Walden, and oversight subcommittee chair and ranking member Diana DeGette and Brett Guthrie said this week following a GAO report concluding that federal agencies could do a better job on their modeling efforts.