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NEW: At 7 am Eastern Mnuchin, on behalf of Trump, pulled out of the agreement they had reached at 4 am to provide relief for Americans impacted by the Coronavirus. The package was the right thing.

He now wants more things Pelosi won’t agree to. I don’t know what they are.
The package includes:

Family and medical leave
SNAP
More desperately needed Medicaid $ for states
Unemployment insurance
If it’s not obvious by now we need this package. In countries where this was turned around, people who needed a paycheck could stay isolated. In Italy they worked.
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Andy Slavitt
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COVID-19 Prep Update- March 14:

Last night I was on with state & local officials around the US well into the night. By March 23 many of our largest cities & hospitals are on course to be overrun with cases.

I am going to prepare a memo for them. I will share highlights here.1/
They are highly dependent on the public response so I will start there. We have no immunity to COVID-19, people who get it don’t know for a while, and for each person that gets it, they infect 2+ people. 2/
You may have seen graphs that look like this. It shows how far behind Italy we are tracking in days & how our trajectory compares. The US and every country that hasn’t taken better preventive measures like S Korea & Japan is directly on course, lagging 2 weeks behind. 3/
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Andy Slavitt
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BREAKING: Pelosi and Trump Administration reach agreement on the Families First Coronavirus Reaponse Act.

This is great news. Obviously still needs passage, the Senate, and wet signature next week. But here’s what’s in it. 1/
Features:
-2 weeks of paid sick leave
-3 months of of paid family & medical leave
-enhanced unemployment insurance
-food- strengthened SNAP, student meals, seniors’ nutrition, food banks
-a 6.2% bump in Medicaid (this is great!)

2/
This is huge thanks to @SpeakerPelosi for holding firm.

Every Republican & Democrat who votes for it should be thanked for doing their jobs.

Senate needs to hear over the weekend how important it is to support as is. Trump also must not change his mind. 3/
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Currently experts expect over 1 million deaths in the U.S. since the virus was not contained & we cannot even test for it.

This will be recorded as a major preventable public health disaster. I will try to relate what I learned from a long day of calls about what is happening.
The original sin is Trump’s months long denial and his dismantling of public health and response infrastructure.

That wasn’t all, but it led to other fatal mistakes. 2/
The public health infrastructure could have been prepared. What does that mean: nasal swabs, respirators, ventilators, RNA kits to read tests, machines, gloves.

We can at best do 10,000 tests/day. We should be able to do millions. 3/
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