And lane college. They talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] good morning. The hearing of the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about five minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to fi
Committee heard from the president of urdu and lane college, they talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. Hearing of the Senate Health Prevention Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about 5 minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We
The flu is a respiratory disease like coronavirus, correct . How do you know you have the flu as opposed to coronavirus . The definitive test would be a test for the flu or a test for the coronavirus. You need a test . There are overlapping systems symptoms. Coronavirus is predominantly fever and a low respiratory infection as opposed to an upper respiratory infection starting off with and you might get a pulmonary involvement, which is flu. What is lower respiratory . As opposed to sneezing. When you have lung involvement, you can get that with flu, but usually it is upper respiratory. Fever and a cough . Fever and cough, it can be either of them. What should you do if you have fever and cough . It depends on the circumstance. If you are in the middle of flu season right now and you have fever and cough, you should see a physician, certainly if you are in a risk group. With an underlying condition, during the flu season. We do have antivirals for the flu and you could be helped by doi
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Also a surgeon and author of several books. His latest is the price we pay what broke American Health care and how to fix it. If you had to pick a Tipping Point for health care in america and where you saw the first break, where would that be . Guest really, if you had to identify the issues that are driving our affordability crisis, that nobody is talking about, that we need to talk about, it is number one, pricing failures, number two, the middleman industry, and number three, inappropriate medical care. Collectively, there is broad consensus in america about addressing these issues. But unfortunately, our discussion has been sidetracked into this false choice we have into whether or not you are pro or con health care. Sidetrackede choice we have into whether or not you are pro or con health care. I have yet to meet somebody who thinks that any industry has gone from nontransparent pricing to transparent pricing and then said this is a bad idea, lets go back to hiding prices. People