The coronavirus has driven the two parties back together, requiring them to work together for the sake of public health.
WASHINGTON — At a Senate hearing on Tuesday morning, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., held up a small bottle of Purell hand sanitizer, which he said used to retail for $7. Now, he said, it was selling for $114.87 on Amazon, as Americans rush to buy products that might help fend off the coronavirus, which has resulted in nine deaths in the U.S. and more than 3,000 around the world.“I’ll get it to you for $50," Cassidy joked.
“We don’t need to politicize a pandemic,” Roberts said during the morning hearing, musing that “maybe we ought to quarantine people for 14 days” if they can’t “shut up.” Story continuesThe nations are second and third in the world, respectively, in their share of sickened individuals. The leader by far is China, where more than 80,000 people have contracted the coronavirus and nearly 3,000 have died. But in an auspicious development, Beijing’s strict containment measures appear to have succeeded in slowing the spread of the coronavirus across the nation that contains 20 percent of the world’s population.
But earlier that day, top NIH immunologist Anthony Fauci — who was also present for Trump’s visit later in the day — cautioned in remarks on Capitol Hill that both vaccines and therapeutics are many months away. CDC tests kits were found to be flawed, slowing their distribution. Public health officials have rushed to expand the testing regime and make it responsive to local needs.
As he had previously, Food and Drug Administration commissioner Stephen Hahn told lawmakers on Tuesday that 1 million coronavirus test kits would be available by the end of the week, an estimate thmany believe is unrealistic.
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