The fda, it will be the most reliable way to beat the virus. Certainly, the vaccine representing both our hopes and our fears and abc 7 News Reporter kris reyes spoke with a doctor about the worries that keep him up at night and kris, im really interested to hear what he had to say. He had a lot to say. The doctor is very confident about the vaccine calling it a bright light in this long, dark tunnel that weve been traveling through but he says distribution is far from a trivial matter and we need to prepare for dealing with plenty of complications. Neither the cdc nor the state of california are likely to get more granular than to say Health Care Workers and people over 65 in Long Term Care facilities are the first two groups. Reporter the question then becomes which Health Care Worker goes first . Take ucsf that is unlikely to get enough vaccines in the first shipment to cover the 30,000 staff. The complicated task deciding which employee gets the vaccine first and then falls on the
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Incomprehensibly he seemingly did not grasp the toll his absence would have on those who loved him. Joining us in the studio is the democrat from pennsylvania who served in the seventh district. G lvthe morning. Guest thank you for having me. Host what made you to decide to tell that story . Guest it was obviously a difficult personal story but as that first month went onic i realized i had a public platform and i felt it was critically important to elevate the discussion about Mental Health issues generally suicide in particular because frankly were close to an epidemic of it and i just hope it was important to do. It was more a decision of taking my position and elevating it. Host how does the federal government deal doing with not just issue but Mental Health issues behind it . Guest we need to do better. Mental illness and Mental Health issues or coverage are inadequate in this country. The amount of attention and the resources we get we know you got schoolchildren who are affected
Government after that wonderful panel. Im delighted to have travis hill, the vice chairman of the sdi c. The vice chair is a friend and has outed himself as a very unique and thoughtful voice in town. Thank you so much for joining us. I know you are busy i really appreciate it. Thanks for having me its great to be here. Silicon valley bank was a major event in the banking sector. Maybe i should start by you getting your perspective as to some of your drivers and perception of the policy response. Whats been good and whats been bad thus far . Maybe i will start with the first part of the question, in terms of the drivers i think its a very simple y in 2020 had 2021 the Banking Industry ry experienced an enormous explosion of money coming into the system in response to the unprecedented government stimulus resulting from the pandemic. The growth and deposits far outpaced the loan demand slow a lot of banks did was invested in new funds in government bonds. Silicon valley bank was really
[background noises] think you guys so much. Thank you for being here. Im Lisa Freedman report on the some reporter for the New York Times and im very gratefulul to have 2dollar pans beginning with this one that is really going to drill down into a lot of the things that are covered. First let me introduce our panel all the way to my far right that director at the center and regulation markets at the Brookings Institution. The bernard l. Schwartz chair of policy development and the fellow in economic studies at berkeley and the fellow for the initiative for disabled energy policy. Adie tamer in the center is a senior fellow at Brookings Metro and an expert on infrastructure policy and urban economics. With a particular focus on transportation and digital technology. He hedine is working to better understand infrastructure policies from theic federal levl and how they Impact Economic Development social prosperity and and directly to my left Glenn Rudebusch a senior nonresident senior fel