On the recordSeptember 14, 2020
It is an honor to be here on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives tonight with my fellow Doc Caucus members. I want to thank Dr. Roe for putting this Special Order together. It is really important that the American people hear from the medical professionals in the Congress about this really critical issue. I remember back in medical school, one of my first rotations, I was on pediatrics. I understood vaccines to a certain extent, but then one of my first patients I had had whooping cough because they hadn't been vaccinated. So that is when I started to understand what it actually means to have safe and effective vaccines, not only for children but also for other diseases. In this situation, what we need to do, as the American people, is we need to work to restore our way of life in America and around the world. And how are we going to do that as it relates to COVID-19? Well, we are going to have to have a safe and effective vaccine. And what I have been impressed with really over the last few months, up to about 6 months, is the unprecedented response from this administration as it relates to developing a vaccine so that we can restore our way of life in America and around the world. And what have they done? Working along with Congress, of course there has been financing to help finance research and development of the vaccine, but also other things. Operation Warp Speed has really put in an unprecedented streamlining of the process.…
