things are going with vaccine distribution and vaccinations in his state. gov. wolf: thank for being here. myoughout the covid pandemic administration has made it a priority to support businesses and to protect our fragile economy in pennsylvania from the consequences of this pandemic, especially to help business owners and their employees. business owners and employees have worked hard to protect their customers and their communities throughout this pandemic and i want to thank all who have prioritized health and safety despite the clear hardship of the past several months. business owners and workers have been forced to make sacrifices because of covid-19 and they need and deserve our gratitude and support for what they have done. in march my administration made low interest loans available to schools and businesses through covid-19 working capital access program. we worked with the pennsylvania control board to waive liquor licensing fees and through the cares act from the
public service. wolfylvania governor tom answered questions about additional financial assistance for businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. the governor also touched on how things are going with vaccinations in his state. governor wolf: welcome and thank you for being here. throughout the covid-19 pandemic my administration has made it a , priority to support businesses and to protect our fragile economy in pennsylvania from the financial consequences of this pandemic especially to help , business owners and their employees. business owners and employees have worked hard to protect their customers and their communities throughout this pandemic and i want to thank all of those in these industries who have prioritized health and safety despite the clear hardship of the past several months. our business owners and workers have been forced to make sacrifices because of covid-19 and they need and deserve our gratitude and support for what they have done. in march, my ad
pennsylvania from the financial consequences of this pandemic. especially to help business owners. business owners and employees of work hard to protect their customers and their communities threat this pandemic and i want to thank all of those in the industries who have prioritized health and safety despite the clear hardship of the past several months. who beeness owners forced to make sacrifices because of covid-19. they need and deserve our gratitude and support for what they ve done. administration made business loans available to small businesses. working capital access program. we work with the pennsylvania liquor control to waive licensing fees. and through the cares act and federal government, directed funds to programs for front-line workers, invested 200 when he $5 million in covid-19 relief to statewide small businesses. and supported our agricultural ,ndustry, health care providers cultural organizations, childcare providers, first responders and many more. theca
has been putting out a lot of the wait time data as part of being very transparent about this. there has been concern that at the facility level they may not be looking at exactly the same data that we were releasing. we wanted to be very careful that we didn t have facility or network directors appear to be misleading their congressionals by saying, well, this is where we are and then having this national data release say something different. so there was a caution put out to wait until we had distributed the data to them that was going to be released, and i will say it was an ill-worded document and it was followed immediately by a statement of clarity. this was not intended that they could not talk to congressionals, to just hold off until they had the data that they could talk to them about and ensure they were getting the right data. you know, we get terribly compromised if we don t if we ve got one person saying one thing and another saying another, and we want to mak
health initiatives, and they were very effective. one last thing, we ve had lots of discussions of how we get additional va doctors into the system and what can we do as far as i guess the medical what is it? the medical so that they can get, i guess, forgiveness on their loans when they work for the va or whether in florida, for example, a lot of our interns go out of the state because we don t have the what s the word? they go out of the state residency. and so we don t have those slots. what can we do? there s two things you re asking about. one is for people who have large med school debt and the average is pushing upwards of a couple hundred thousand now if you don t have help somewhere along the line is can we do debt forgiveness. we have some limited authority. it s insufficient. particularly where we want to place physicians in underserved areas which is the real challenge, it s less of a challenge people want to stay around where they did their reside