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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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— Get ready: The gears for getting out the $1,200-plus direct payments for coronavirus relief start grinding today.
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.
April 10, 2020
Tax credits for sick leave, expanded unemployment insurance, tax changes and more.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
April 9, 2020
Washington, DC – Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) are pressing the Trump administration to explain tax provisions in the recent COVID-19 relief bill that cost roughly $195 billion and have no connection to combatting the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout. According to reports, beneficiaries of the tax giveaways may include President Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and “real estate investors in President Trump’s inner circle.”
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
April 9, 2020
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, joined by Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, pressed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for information regarding the precautions they have taken to assure the accuracy of COVID-19 tests, as well as for manufacturers’ data provided to the FDA on false positives and false negatives in administered tests thus far.
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)
April 9, 2020
Austin Public Health won’t provide a comprehensive list of places to get tested so as to not overload them with walk-ups. Austin Regional Clinic has published their testing sites and are exploring more. They are open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday:
Issues:Coronavirus (COVID-19)