One of the things we have seen in our hearing from different areas, I hear it from disease groups, is that the piece that goes into children's--treating children's diseases or research on childhood cancer, for example, tends to lag behind, obviously, the adult population.
Highlighting disparities in funding for children's disease research compared to adult diseases.
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I think one of the things, we were talking about fentanyl and overdose deaths and those increasing.
In April, inflation was 8.3 percent, and the cost of food, housing, gas, energy, all of it is at record levels.
If we do not immediately put together a COVID supplemental package, we are going to put everyone, and seniors and people who are uninsured... they will turn around and go home.
In Washington State, just in 2021, there was a 66 percent increase in drug-related overdose deaths, and more than half of these are due to fentanyl.
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