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Wendy Sherman: “This virus is a machine gun machine-gunning America. This bill provides $2 trillion to bandage some of the wounds. We…”

On the recordMarch 27, 2020
This virus is a machine gun machine-gunning America. This bill provides $2 trillion to bandage some of the wounds. We must stop the machine gun. Less than 1 percent of this bill goes for medical research. Our economic system provides significant incentives to the private sector to research patented drugs, but we should do more. The next bill should provide $5 billion to the NIH to evaluate every reasonable research alternative, particularly those compounds that the private sector will not investigate.
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Wendy Sherman
Democratic · District of Columbia
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Mar 27, 2020

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