it s so much better. well, next holiday season, i doubt it will be gone. it will be endemic. it will be rpbd. but it will be much, much better than this year. while the virus continues to change, so do we. break out your crystal ball. is 2022 going to be the year we finally get a hold of covid. it depends on how you define getting a hold of it. it is a winter virus. we will probably see a surge next winter as well. but the question is what level of disease and hospitalization and death we re willing to live with. two years before this outbreak occurred, the pandemic occurred, influenza caused 700,000 hospitalizations and 60,000 deaths. could we have dramatically reduced this by masking and social distancing over the winter? yes. we grandfather a certain level of cases, hospitalizations and deaths. i m not sure what the numbers are. i agree with dr. jha.
we met the new cms director here at the capitol. she s ready to roll and improve what she can on medicare/medicaid side. you brought up the medicare/medicaid. according to your paper, the columbus dispatch, that covers nearly 14,000 in the ohio district you represent. what happens to those 14,000 folks if your bill passes? we allow the governor to continue to have medicaid expansion. we fade it out. until january 2020, they stay on medicaid expansion. the governor can decide to continue to allow them to stay on it as long as they are on it and we pay them as long as they are on it. we grandfather them in at 90% reimbursement. look, the most vulnerable, the people at 100% poverty and less
administration to put on the pressure. this trial focused on his actions from 13 years ago, first thrown into prison, in september of 2012, by the way, and we will see what happens next. thank you, lisa, for joining us. gregg: the national debate over gun control playing out on the sunday political talk shows. senator feinstein spelling out the details of her proposal to ban assault weapons. on the other side, congressman paul ryan saying that gun control is not the answer to reduced violence. we go from two physical characteristics in the definition of assault weapon. we ban 158 specific guns by make and model. we grandfather 2,200 weapons by make and model that are rifle shotguns, pistols used for recreation, and defense, and hunting.