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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Two weeks after many Californians came out of quarantine for a sunny Memorial Day weekend, cases of COVID-19 were on the rise in Sacramento County, according to local health officials. Rep. Ami Bera, D-Elk Grove, who is also a certified physician, held a telephone town hall Monday to let Californians know the health threat is far from over. "Sacramento is… Read more »

Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation. Victor Cha is senior adviser and Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor at Georgetown University.The unexplained periodic absences of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over the past two months are troubling. Presumed health… Read more »

In late February, public health officials made an announcement: they had confirmed the first known case of a person getting Covid-19 without having travelled abroad or coming into contact with someone who had had the virus. This first reported case of community transmission was detected at the University of California, Davis Medical Centre in Sacramento.For some, the news was confusing… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Ami Bera, D-Elk Grove, on May 7 praised Sacramento area residents for following Sacramento County's stay-at-home order, and helping to "flatten the curve" against the spreading of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)."We can be proud of ourselves in the Sacramento area for really following the stay-at-home order and avoiding the worst of this pandemic," he said."Of the 50 most… Read more »

A European Union fundraising drive to support medical research into treatments and vaccines for the coronavirus met its initial goal Monday of raising $8 billion despite a lack of involvement by the United States. Even with the initial fundraising goal met, U.S. absence from the EU-led effort, which will provide monetary support to the World Health Organization and other multilateral… Read more »

Everyone, from experts to average voters to even President Trump himself, has graded the federal response to the COVID-19 outbreak.The president's grade for himself is invariably optimistic and self-congratulatory: a 10 out of 10.Experts have been harsher, with grades ranging from B-minus to D-minus.Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif. 7th District), a doctor himself, added his voice to the chorus of… Read more »

When President Trump announced a hold on US funding for the WHO (World Health Organization), nearly every single public health expert objected for the straightforward reason that COVID-19 does not respect borders. So long as the virus exists anywhere in the world, it is a threat to the American homeland.To the extent that the World Health Organization is the entity that is helping… Read more »

(KTXL) — Congressman Ami Bera, D-Elk Grove, hosted a telephone town hall Tuesday night to provide an update on the federal response to COVID-19. The local lawmaker who represents California's seventh district was joined by public health experts as they took the time to answer community questions about what's being done to protect people both physically and financially. "This is a… Read more »

Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) discusses the Trump administration's response to the growing Coronavirus threat, and next steps the country needs to take. Read more »

Today we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). As chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation, I co-chaired a hearing this week on the challenges faced by this landmark treaty. The hearing reinforced that while the threat of nuclear war may not feel as imminent as it did when I was a child practicing… Read more »