Political Quotes

“Mr. President, one thing that is on everybody's mind right now is this: How do we prepare to address the coronavirus? I speak not just as a Senator but, perhaps even more particularly, as a physician who has done public health in my previous practice, working with immunizations, looking at all those issues as to who is vulnerable and who needs to be protected. There are a couple of things that are quite apparent from what we have already learned from this epidemic. Let me compliment the Chinese. They have come in for some criticism that was well deserved, but in other things they have helped determine a lot of things that will benefit the rest of the world in terms of the natural history of coronavirus. By the way, the theme of this talk is that we have to make sure that coronavirus medications are going to be available and affordable for senior citizens. Why do I emphasize senior citizens? One thing we have learned from the Chinese is that those who are 50 and above--and 65 and above, in particular--are the ones who are most likely to die from being exposed to and infected with coronavirus. That is our Medicare Part D population. If you have a chronic illness--and chronic illness can be hypertension, high blood pressure--again, you are particularly susceptible. If we know that our Medicare population is most vulnerable, let us focus particularly upon them. First, science is working.…”