First I want to thank Tim lordan, and the internet Education Foundation for hosting the conference, and for inviting me to join you. And to all of the distinguished all woman panel, with its wealth of expertise thank you to each one of you. A few days ago our country surpassed the tragic milestone of 400,000 deaths of our fellow Americans to COVID-19 and sadly the numbers continue to climb. Towards the end of last year, our hope sword is two vaccines were approved by the FDA. I won't rehash all of the details, but the previous administration, I believe lacked a clear plan to vaccinate Americans efficiently equitably and effectively. And this is a major issue, obviously. Thankfully, President Biden has put forward his national strategy for the COVID-19 response, and pandemic preparedness, science, and evidence based plan to crush the virus. Your house health subcommittee, which I have the privilege of chairing is already working with this administration to effectuate this plan, which includes a top level goal to mount to safe, effective, and comprehensive vaccination effort of 100 million vaccines, in 100, days, one obstacle to ensuring Americans are vaccinated will be that we're experiencing what the World Health Organization calls in info demick, an overabundance of both accurate and inaccurate information related to the virus. Since the beginning of the pandemic. We've seen a proliferation of conspiracies on the origins of the virus criminal efforts to sell scam treatments foreign efforts to undermine trust in our institutions and a sustained effort by the former president to spread disinformation clearly misinformation about the COVID vaccine hinders our pandemic response, and we're already seeing evidence of this. Earlier this month, more than half. More than half of Ohio's nursing home staff refused to be vaccinated, even though vaccines are available to them. The reason for this. According to the head of the Ohio Health Care Association is the misinformation that nursing home staff are seeing on their social media accounts. This isn't a problem, limited to nursing homes, or Ohio. The latest nationwide polls show that between 27% and 39% of respondents say they're hesitant about receiving a COVID vaccine. I pleased that many of the social media companies have evolved, their approach, beyond just applying labels to COVID misinformation. Since evidence shows that factual labels, don't work.