Wendy Sherman: “In all of our bills, virtually all the money goes to bandage the economic wounds. We need a greater focus on beating the…”

“In all of our bills, virtually all the money goes to bandage the economic wounds. We need a greater focus on beating the disease. Workers need paid sick days so they will stay home if they are sick, even if they work for an employer with under 50 or over 500 employees. The Defense Production Act needs to be amended so it can provide for the licensing of new technology, and inventors need to be well compensated if they invent something useful to attack the COVID virus. We have provided money for testing, but only one-quarter of 1 percent of the money we provide in this bill or prior bills has gone for therapeutics, prophylaxes, and vaccines. The clinical medical researchers of this country are sitting at home, because virtually all non-COVID medical research has been suspended. Let's put them to work. Let's learn more of the basic facts of COVID, and let's test every reasonable combination of generic compounds at every stage of the disease. Yes, for a while, we can bind our economic wounds, but ultimately, we need to beat the disease.”