The White House should be getting the nation ready now for the double threat of influenza and coronavirus in the fall, a group of Democratic senators wrote in a letter addressed to Vice President Mike Pence, head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force
The White House should be getting the nation ready now for the double threat of influenza and coronavirus in the fall, a group of Democratic senators said Thursday.
"The combination of a COVID-19 resurgence with the annual flu outbreak is likely to strain the health care system even further, requiring even greater supplies, funding, and staff than our hospitals have needed thus far, while placing an unprecedented burden on our public health systems," the senators, organized by Massachusetts Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, wrote in a letter addressed to Vice President Mike Pence, head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
The country also needs to start stocking up on vaccines and other equipment now, they said. "The federal government was unprepared for the COVID-19 outbreak and, as a result, our frontline health care workers have been put at risk due to shortages of personal protective equipment , and the COVID-19 outbreak has exploded because of a lack of supplies needed to ensure wide-scale testing," they wrote."Now is the time to increase production and purchasing of essential equipment.
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