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I am concerned about our health care providers and our first responders.

There needs to be some prioritization of who--obviously, people who have been exposed.

Well, we will be sure that--because we are working on a bill as I speak, trying to make it a bipartisan bill.

Then that should be in our bill then that we are working on that?

Is the--is the Health and Human Services Department taking any steps here in the United States to boost production of these supplies?

There was no mention of the climate change that may be the cause of these increases, and the seriousness.

Leading the response shouldn't be your side gig.

I think that some kind of White House coordinator was needed.

I think the decision to bring in private labs is a positive decision. It certainly increases the capacity, but that is only going to deal with people who are in a diagnostic or clinical setting.

Five years ago I wrote a piece where I said that Congress should amend the Stafford Act to add epidemics as a disaster for the purpose of the Stafford Act.

I think, on the competence side, the Government has to provide the leadership and the funding to deliver this response.

I don't think they have been prepared for dealing with that, whether that is working with FEMA to temporarily ramp up capacity in those hospitals.

I think that is a product of some bad decisions made at the CDC, and a lack of a real effort to accelerate testing around the country.

There is no reason why other countries--South Korea--are so far ahead of us, 100,000-plus tests in South Korea, less than 5,000 in the United States.

I think that we could have made a decision to adopt the testing protocols and kits used in other countries that have allowed them to ramp up very quickly.

Public officials at all levels of government need to take steps against discrimination.

Congress has to continue to do its own work on the coronavirus.

Congress deserves great credit for acting with unprecedented speed in funding this response.