More Mental Health and telemedicine options. Hello and welcome to axios Virtual Event health care 2021. I am sam Baker Health Care at are coming to you from my home in washington dc. I would like to thank the United Health. For making these conversations possible and thank her audience. Follow along on twitter using the or following. Over the next three minutes we will unpack best way to unpack Health Insurance access and coverage in the United States and exactly what that path forward looks like following the election and in the midst of a pandemic getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith of minnesota. Thank you. It is terrific to be with everyone today. I would like to start off framing this conversation. Obviously, Health Care Access and coverage has been a hot topic for a long time but i think the pandemic has highlighted and illustrated some of the gaps we are dealing with in the system. We have seen millions of people lose their health determines because the
Now and 11, the final push to get votes in across the bay area heard how some counties are handling the unprecedented early voting turnout. The final push for President Trump and joe biden to rally voters. The battleground state both nominees will be hitting her tomorrow. Attends electionyear has many wonder what will happen after a president ial winner is announced. Well take a look back at past elections. Now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a live look from the top of the Sales Force Tower with a big reminder. Less than 48 hours to get your vote out this election. Early voters are coming out in Record Numbers across the bay area. Sonoma countys voter turnout is at 65 . San mateo at 64 and alameda at 57. San francisco, napa and santa clara are all with more than 50 turnout. Kenny choi is in the Processing Center in san rafael were some of those boats are being tallied. Reporter early voter turnout across the country is reaching historic numbers. In marin county ballots are still
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Retirement homes but as in the spring you can only leave home to work for a medical visit to help someone for essential shopping or exercise in a home of. The number of new clothes that cases is rising fast in france with more than 50000 on some days more than half of the countrys intensive care unit beds are occupied by covert patients this doctor says that Health Workers would want for months at a 2nd wave was coming and would be worse than the 1st november is going to be very very hard and we have so we have you know to break that wave that is coming because if we keep accumulating really the cases in the case in cases then very soon we wont have any beds anymore. Really not any for months the government and president of urge people in france to live as normally as possible with the virus but these new restrictions reveal just are challenging that really is possible rather. Government astroid to navigate delicate pasts try to find if i could go in terms of focusing more on. The econ
A response said Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to an extreme situation. Countries are tightening restrictions from says been reporting record daily figures but a leading scientist who advises the french government believes the infection rate could be twice as high adding to calls for full a short term lockdown. The virus is so present around us today we no longer have a choice we have to downsize a bit like what the irish and the welsh have done to reset a time or allow ourselves to reorganize and to stop the situation of intensive care units. In parts of russia doctors are understaffed and overwhelmed during the 1st wave this hospital in siberia handled only a few mild cases now its over a 3rd of hospital staff have tested positive. Its an ongoing war and we have daily losses as medics get sick and people get sick rushes racing against time to develop a vaccine its one of a dozen internationally in the final stages of testing in the u. K. The Oxford University astra zeneca vaccines repo