mixing and matching your covid vaccines. experts also now tracking a new delta variant spinoff, but so far they see no reason for alarm. and virginia s terry mcauliffe gets a little help from his friends. tonight vice president harris tries to rally the democratic base. saturday former president obama hits the trail, this as the polls show that governor s race in virginia neck and neck. we begin though with the president. tonight he ll step up his efforts to sell his sweeping agenda directly to you, the american people, taking questions from voters at a cnn town hall live in baltimore. it is a fascinating and consequential moment. it is hard to sell a package that is still tbd because of big differences in the democratic family so as the president tells the voters asking the questions and those of you watching at home he ll also be trying to sell his favorite pieces of the plan and persuade democratic lawmakers it is time to make the tough decisions needed to make a deal. t
health care, helping people through the difficult periods we have. it s been devastating. [ applause ] but we can find purpose in pain. we can find purpose in this pain. equity is the center of my administration s covid-19 response. the vaccination rates among black adults is now essentially on par with white adults. in the mid of this pandemic we re building an affordable care act to extend coverage to lower health care costs for millions of black families. we re also working on lowering prescription drug costs by giving medicare the power to negotiate lower prices, and how do you know the plan will work? because the drug companies are spending millions of bucks to try to stop it. that s how you know. together, making health care a right, not a privilege and to the millions of you who feel financially squeezed in raising a child while caring for an aging parent, the so-called sandwich generation, we re going to make elder care affordable and we also want to make sure that ch
Gone are the days when you have to pull up to a mcdonald s and sit in the parking lot with your child to do their homework when there s virtual learning going on. dr. king said of all the forms of inequity injustice in health care is the most shocking and most inhumane. this is a once in a century pandemic that has hit this country hard and especially the african-american community. it s like you ve all lost someone to the virus or no someone who has lost a loved one. 1 in 600 black americans have died from covid-19. it s been reported that the black children more than twice as likely as white children to have lost a parent or a care giver to covid-19, to have to experience the trauma and loss. many of my colleagues in the congress are working on what we have to now work on even more fervently, and that is mental