Care and Distribution Systems and imposing a deadly toll on seniors, in particular. It has hit close to home for many on this committee and im sure that all of our members want to join me in expressing our condolences to senator elizabeth warren, who lost her 86yearold brother to the coronavirus. Elizabeth, were very sorry for your loss. Restrictions on visitors to Nursing Homes have affected even those families whose relatives do not have the virus. I know two brothers from maine whose father is in a nursing home and has dementia. They have not been able to see him for some time now and his health is failing. They are worried that he may not still be alive by the time that they are allowed to visit him. Something that used to happen regularly. This virus has already claimed the lives of more than 90,000 americans, the vast majority of whom were older adults. Adults aged 65 and older are more likely to suffer severe complications from covid19 and to have more difficult recoveries. They
Covid19 crisis. It has brought tremendous hardship and tragedy, placing a heavy on frontline workers, straining our health care and Distribution System and imposing a deadly toll on seniors in particular. It has hit close to home for sure thatny and im all of our members want to join condolencessing our to senator elizabeth warren, who lost her 86yearold brother to the coronavirus. Elizabeth, we are very sorry for your loss. Visitor Nursing Homes has affected even those relatives who do not have virus. I know two brothers whose father is in a nursing home and has dementia. They have not able to see him for some time now and his health is failing. They are worried that he may not still be alive by the time that they are allowed to visit him, something that used to happen regularly. This virus has already claimed the lives of more than 90,000 american, the vast majority of whom were older adult. Adults 65 and older are more likely to suffer severe complications from covid19, and to have
Just ahead, the president of the American Medical Association. The impact the coronavirus is having on tourism and the convention business. Our phones a lot our phone lines are open. [indiscernible] , 202 7488001, and if youre a medical professional, 202 7488002. We begin with the numbers courtesy of johns Johns Hopkins university. 1. 6 million confirmed cases and around the world, more than 100,000 deaths, of those, more than 18,000 in the u. S. Our countries dealing with 490,000 cases of covid19 across all 50 states, washington dc and the territories. Six members of congress have been battling covid19, including senator rand paul, representative joe cunningham, representative neal dunn and congressman mike kelly of pennsylvania and ben mcadams of utah. Fromsixth member joins us his home in miami, representative Mario Diazbalart from florida. How are you feeling tonight . . Epresentative diazbalart i am welcome i feel recovered, i am still weak but other than that i feel pretty well.
Having on tourism and the convention business. Our phones a lot our phone lines are open. [indiscernible] , 202 7488001, and if youre a medical professional, 202 7488002. We begin with the numbers courtesy of johns Johns Hopkins university. 1. 6 million confirmed cases and around the world, more than 100,000 deaths, of those, more than 18,000 in the u. S. Our countries dealing with 490,000 cases of covid19 across all 50 states, washington dc and the territories. Six members of congress have been battling covid19, including senator rand paul, representative joe cunningham, representative neal dunn and congressman mike kelly of pennsylvania and ben mcadams of utah. Fromsixth member joins us his home in miami, representative Mario Diazbalart from florida. How are you feeling tonight . . Epresentative diazbalart i am welcome i feel recovered, i am still weak but other than that i feel pretty well. Aeve this unfolded about month ago. Explain what happened, and when you knew you had coronavi
Facebook. Com cspan. 202 7488001, and if youre a medical professional, 202 7488002. We begin with the numbers courtesy of johns Johns Hopkins university. 1. 6 million confirmed cases and around the world, more than 100,000 deaths, of those, more than 18,000 in the u. S. Our countries dealing with 490,000 cases of covid19 across all 50 states, washington dc and the territories. Six members of congress have been battling covid19, including senator rand paul, representative joe cunningham, representative neal dunn and congressman mike kelly of pennsylvania and ben mcadams of utah. Fromsixth member joins us his home in miami, representative Mario Diazbalart from florida. How are you feeling tonight . . Epresentative diazbalart i am welcome i feel recovered, i am still weak but other than that i feel pretty well. Aeve this unfolded about month ago. Explain what happened, and when you knew you had coronavirus. Representative diazbalart a month ago it was a different world, congress was open