covid and therefore tough measures to keep r below one but also required more research and support from the nhs who found it quite difficult because it was a new disease and because of its nature presenting in many different ways, they found that long tarmac difficult to categorise at first and so with simon stephens will work together to bring forward clinics that could look across the range of conditions that are mostly gathered under the term long covid. i cared a lot about this for personal reasons as well as professional. we did not need to sign off from the centre, we just got on with it. do you happen to know, notwithstanding the early days of 2020, the campaign about long covid wasn t launched until october, do you know why there was that potential lag in the communication side of the debate? side of the debate? yes, i think it was essentially side of the debate? yes, i think it was essentially bleak, was essentially bleak, understandably the clinicians found it
And the opioid crisis. Senate minority leader Charles Schumer opens the 25 minute briefing. Schumer good morning, everybody. Thank you for coming here it i want to thank my colleagues for joining me this morning. We are almost at the end of the year of this Republican Senate under President Trump. And the republican credo can be summed up this way, help the rich, hurt the middle class. The whole year can be summed up in that one sentence. Republicans have spent every waking hour catering to be wealthy and special interest, leaving the middle class and those wanting to get there as an afterthought. Republicans have cemented their legacy as the party of the rich. If you ask the top 1 how Senate Republicans did this year, they would give them an a. If you ask the wealthy corporations how they did this year, they would give them an a if you ask the americans how they did this year, they would give the republican senators an a. But if you ask middleclass americans, they would give them a bi
Republicans have spent every hour catering to the wealthy and special interest. Leaving the middle class and those wanting to get there as an afterthought. In doing so republicans have , cemented their legacy as the party of the rich. If you ask the top 1 how Senate Republicans did this year, they would give them an a. If you ask the wealthy corporations how they did this year, they would give them an a if you ask the wealthy americans who have taken advantage of tax loopholes how they did it this year, they would give the republican senators an a. But if you ask middleclass americans, they would give them a big fat, red f. This week crystallizes the last year and a half in the senate than any other. In the same week they lower the tax rate on wealthy americans, they are failing to reauthorize the ship program that provides health care for millions of six kids. In the same week may voted to slash corporate taxes they are , shortchanging millions of middleclass americans who lost their
Our country and our church and by every social and Human Behavior american youth. We strongly urge congress to act and immediately resume work toward a legislative solution. We pledge our support to work on finding an expeditious means of protecting daca youth. As people of faith, we say to daca youth, regardless of your immigration status, you are children of god and welcomed in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church supports you and ll advocate for you. That was september 5, 2017. That was the day that the president issued his statement. Now, having worked with the bishops for a while, for them to have such a definitive statement so quickly is pretty remarkable because sometimes it takes a bit longer for their deliberative process to work. But this came right away. Ok. This is doctors and dreamers. I mentioned about the need for doctors and the ambition and he vocation that these young people were feeling toward becoming doctors and i read this. The association of american medical
For instance. They might find it illuminating and realize that what they have been saying is factually false. Unfortunately, its a much more nefarious condition than ignorance that afflicts this administration on Climate Change. And it is a condition that cannot be cured with facts. This is about fossil fuel money. The malitty is what prevents the stark warnings in the Climate Science report from being a call to action in congress. Mr. President , at the cop23 gathering, we saw that the rest of the world is not turning a blind eye to Climate Change. The rest of the world is confronting it headon, along with Many American states, major american corporations, and virtually every major american university. Those are all very hopeful signs. And while our president and his administration have bound themselves to the fossil fuel polluters, the American People have not. Rhode islanders and americans everywhere care deeply about getting ahead of this problem, about achieving the goals of the u