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🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | COVID-19 in nursing homes continues to drive the death toll upward. |
| 0:14.0 | Congress passes another tranche of COVID-19 relief, but for whom? |
| 0:18.0 | And Trump responds to it all by suspending new green cards? |
| 0:22.0 | This is America Dissected, and I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-El-Sahed. |
| 0:30.0 | Congress just passed an additional $480 billion in Trump package. |
| 0:36.0 | It adds another $320 billion to the Paycheck Prevention Program, |
| 0:40.0 | and funnels some of the small business loan money through smaller banks. |
| 0:44.0 | An additional $75 billion is earmarked for relief for hospitals, |
| 0:48.0 | many of which are currently facing bankruptcy as they battle both COVID-19 |
| 0:52.0 | and revenue slashed because of the reductions in elected procedures that are the lifeblood of most hospitals. |
| 0:58.0 | And then, like an afterthought, there's a little leftover for the most important, most critical, |
| 1:02.0 | most pressing, and most lacking aspect of our federal COVID-19 response. |
| 1:06.0 | We're nowhere near where we need to be on testing. |
| 1:08.0 | There needs to be more testing infrastructure, more test kits, more capacity to test. |
| 1:14.0 | And I don't think you're going to find a governor in the United States who feels differently about that. |
| 1:18.0 | When you get out into the field for the people who are actually going to do the swabbing, |
| 1:24.0 | many times they don't have the swab. |
| 1:26.0 | We still need assistance with testing supplies and personal protective equipment. |
| 1:32.0 | We have the capacity to double or triple the number of tests that we are doing, |
| 1:36.0 | but we need some of these supplies. |
| 1:38.0 | That's right, the all-important testing. |
| 1:40.0 | The package includes $25 billion for testing, which, to be clear, |
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