Supplies or running out. We are live in oakland with more on this bad bug and what area doctors are advising tonight. Jesse. Reporter good evening to you. Every year like you said, doctors say get a flu shot. It seems like every year there is a particularly nasty strain out getting people sick. This year, so many people heeded the warning, took the advice, that it is difficult to find a place that has the shot. Health Officials Say the annual flu shot is researched a year in advance and is a recipe for the likely strain come winter. Her doctor advised to getting inoculated last fall. He was very adamant. It is free, you can get it. Reporter that advice rings true as Health Experts say the current strain spread rapidly. There have been 19 deaths in the bay area. A lot of people are getting sicker than usual and they are waiting longer than usual to come to the hospital. Reporter she strongly suggest people get a flu shot, but some people have told fox 2 that in some places the vaccine i
President s would weve ever had. And a grandfather, whirl wind johnson hosted a tennis camp including for Althea Gibson and arthur ashe. My grandfather, a phenomenal physician, but somehow managed to be a student of the tennis game and transform that learning into a program that would, for decades, provide players an opportunity for africanamericans to integrate the sport. Watch the cspan cities tour saturday beginning at 5 p. M. Eastern, sunday at 2 p. M. On American History tv on cspan 3. Working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. Health and Human Services secretary, alex azar spoke before the Senate Finance committee this week about the president s proposed 2019 budget. He answered questions on a range of issues, including funding for medicare and medicaid, the Opioid Epidemic, Community Based clinic training and autism and also discussed the administrations approach for lowering Health Care Costs including Prescription Drugs. Mr. Azar was sworn in as hhs secretary in
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Do in their states to address the Opioid Epidemics. This is just over an hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Those of you whore Still Standing who plan to set, set it and those of you who stand can stand. My name is charlie baker, governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts and im the chair of the nba health and Human Services committee and i want to welcome you all to this conversation about an issue the nga has been engaged in in a big way for the past several years and i think it is fair to say that every governor of every state has made dealing with this particular issue is significant and important priority in their work and thats certainly been true in the commonwealth of massachusetts. I did run for governor to work on this issue, but upon me because wherever i campaigned, i ran into people who talk to me about it in their stories frankly broke my heart. Over the course of the past several years, working on a bipartisan basis with our legislature and others, we have made some pro