Brett Giroir, asst secretary at HHS, just told a Senate committee that recent declines in #Covid19 cases & deaths could reverse "if we don& #39;t continue to follow the national plan."
There& #39;s a national plan?
4. Dick Durbin puts Brett Giroir on the hot seat over Trump& #39;s claim that testing creates cases.
Not true, Giroir said. Testing finds cases that are there, if they are there.
5. Senator Dick Durbin asks Kadlec, Giroir & Redfield about the plan President Trump has touted as a replacement for the ACA, Obamacare.
Do you know of such a plan?
All three: Not my lane, don& #39;t know anything about a replacement plan.
6. @CDCgov director Robert Redfield had just told a Senate committee it will likely be summer or early autumn 2021 before most Americans can be vaccinated against #Covid19 and the broadcast went blank.
Summer or early autumn 2021.
7. @CDCgov director Robert Redfield tells Senate committee face masks may offer more protection on an individual level than #Covid19 vaccines when vaccines become available.
Puzzled.
8. @CDCgov director Redfield tells the Senate Committee it& #39;s going to take 6-9 months to vaccinate Americans against #Covid19.
9. @CDCgov director Redfield says CDC needs $5B-$6B to distribute #Covid19 vaccines — and it doesn& #39;t have the money.
Bob Kadlec, assistant secretary, says HHS needs an additional $20B for #Covid19 vaccines — and it doesn& #39;t have the money.
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