Meanwhile VP Joe Biden holding a round table with nurses, firefighters, and EMTs to discuss further needs.
Suggestions several steps Trump could take to help manage the #COVID19 pandemic today and look toward coming crises to address them now.
Suggestions several steps Trump could take to help manage the #COVID19 pandemic today and look toward coming crises to address them now.
VP Joe Biden tells nurses and other front line people to call him directly if they have trouble getting the help they are entitled to re the legislation passed.
Biden says we should be doing several things:
- Another round of checks in 6 weeks
- Up to $10k student loan debt as proposed by Sen Warren and her colleagues
- Money for states ob unlike fed they can’t have a deficit.
- Another round of checks in 6 weeks
- Up to $10k student loan debt as proposed by Sen Warren and her colleagues
- Money for states ob unlike fed they can’t have a deficit.
VP Biden talks about how we need ventilators ans will be getting them now due to DPA finally being deployed and how to get them where they are needed.
-should go to where they are MOST needed (currently it’s done by population)
- military should help build hospital ICU units
-should go to where they are MOST needed (currently it’s done by population)
- military should help build hospital ICU units
EMT Tony White talking about risks of exposing their families, not having the means to pay for a hotel, etc.
Asks about prioritizing testing for first responders so they can be confident not infecting family.
Biden says tests should be prioritize docs, nurses, EMT frontline
Asks about prioritizing testing for first responders so they can be confident not infecting family.
Biden says tests should be prioritize docs, nurses, EMT frontline
Biden says CDC needs to clarify testing qualifications cuz there are concerns that we don’t have enough frontline workers to respond. Need to Prioritize testing frontline workers.
Biden says there’s been relunctance to say what wasn’t done, why are we so low on testing material, but we need to focus on remedying this.
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Biden talks about the issues facing frontline workers:
- they passed paid leave if they need to be home due to crisis (depends on how it’s implemented he noted)
-providing significantly more help for mental health within their own hospital, $ should be covered
- they passed paid leave if they need to be home due to crisis (depends on how it’s implemented he noted)
-providing significantly more help for mental health within their own hospital, $ should be covered
VP Biden talking about his own awareness (his son-in-law is doc in Philadelphia hospital) of supposedly elective surgery issues now, ancillary issues of not being able to get normal access to healthcare.
He says he would have regular announcements to assure people.
He says he would have regular announcements to assure people.
Trung Le says reusing PPE et causing dread in healthcare workers.
Some banter because Biden called him “Doctor” by mistake, Biden apologizes for “demoting him” (joke as Trung is nurse)
Some banter because Biden called him “Doctor” by mistake, Biden apologizes for “demoting him” (joke as Trung is nurse)
Some people enjoy making fun of Biden for his stutter, but it’s clear he knows what he’s talking about as he discusses these vital issues and how to manage them.
Biden says “there’s nothing we can’t do when we work together.”
Biden says “there’s nothing we can’t do when we work together.”
The end.
And what a relief it is to hear from someone interested in actually managing the crisis instead of turning it into a self-centered circus.
And what a relief it is to hear from someone interested in actually managing the crisis instead of turning it into a self-centered circus.
