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April 24, 2020
Due to recent speculation and social media activity, RB (the makers of Lysol and Dettol) has been asked whether internal administration of disinfectants may be appropriate for investigation or use as a treatment for coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).
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April 23, 2020
As Americans battled the human and economic devastation of COVID-19, Congress sent rapid relief out to families, our health sector, small businesses and our economy. The CARES Act enjoyed wide bipartisan support and will help if implemented effectively. But tucked into its 880 pages were Republican-inserted tax provisions. The more we’ve learned about their immense cost and the few that they benefit, the clearer it is that they have to go.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
April 21, 2020
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Doggett (D-TX), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, Representative Susan Wild (D-PA), member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and Representative Cheri Bustos (D-IL), member of the House Appropriations Committee, introduced legislation to require a special enrollment period for COVID-19.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Washington Post: CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating
April 21, 2020
Even as states move ahead with plans to reopen their economies, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that a second wave of the novel coronavirus will be far more dire because it is likely to coincide with the start of flu season.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
April 21, 2020
Washington, D.C. – This morning, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, and U.S. Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL), member of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, led over one hundred fifty members of Congress in sounding the alarm about the importance of maintaining a law to ensure that states do not kick people off Medicaid amid this devastating pandemic. The maintenance of effort (MOE) provisions included in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act protect vulnerable families from having their Medicaid coverage stripped during this crisis by states seeking to reduce access to care. Some Republicans have made repealing MOE a top priority in the next relief package.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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April 18, 2020
In those two months, the value of protective masks and related items exported from the United States to China grew more than 1,000 percent compared with the same time last year — from $1.4 million to about $17.6 million, according to a Post analysis of customs categories which, according to research by Public Citizen, contain key personal protective equipment (PPE). Similarly, shipments of ventilators and protective garments jumped by triple digits.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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April 16, 2020
Like an asteroid, coronavirus is the textbook example of an exogenous shock. The threat came from beyond. Yet the pathogen offers a unique stress test of each country’s resilience. Some nation states are holding up well. In spite of its unmatched scientific resources, the US is not. More worrying, it is showing little sign of lifting its performance. Six weeks after its first coronavirus death, America’s learning curve remains flatter than its infection rate. It should be the other way round.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
April 10, 2020
— NCI tries to adapt cancer trials to the "all hands on deck" outbreak.
— N-95 mask production is stalling amid a government bottleneck.
— New Jersey is scouring for meds as shortages worsen and case numbers climb.
April 10, 2020
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April 10, 2020
As the U.S. quickly builds its capacity to test people for the new coronavirus, some researchers believe that as many as one in three infected people get inaccurate results, raising the chance they may infect others.