Public health decisions aren't based on medical factors alone--they must take into account other factors including social, economic, or other risks.
This is not something that's over and done with. It's something that we're going to be dealing with for many years.
We can't expect zero transmission, so we need commonsense policies that not only protect the most vulnerable.
But at the same time, the culture of openness and transparency in research that we've built here in the United States also opens us up to be...
So the question here before the panel today is how do we balance these two ideas that are in tension?
It's been a little over 3 years since the House last held a hearing on this topic.
the big goal here is to try and figure out how to stop the spread of misinformation.
Combatting that spread is something that has been a societal problem for hundreds of years now, but it's exacerbated by the fact that inform...
So no one can deny that this effort to combat the spread of misinformation has severely hampered our ability to identify the origins of COVI...
We have to find this middle ground, this balance in between the two, and I'm confident that we can.
I know Congressman Perlmutter was skeptical about that.