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When one is approved. This comes as more than 157,000 cases were reported just yesterday marking the 28th straight day of at least 100,000 cases in the u. S. And more than 96,000 people are in the hospital getting treated for covid, another record. So debra lfarone is in wshington. Debra, the big question is how soon can we expect doses of the Coronavirus Vaccine to be made available . Reporter well, annemarie, they could be coming out in just a matter of weeks. It really depends on what category you fall into. It is expected Health Care Workers will be the first to see doses and after that the elderly. Today the centers for Disease Control is holding an emergency meeting to recommend who should get the Coronavirus Vaccine first. Vaccinations, that i ....
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Were pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar, and administrator of center for medicare and medicaid services, seema, thank you both. Thank you both. And thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. The unprecedented reforms were completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july. Statutorily, we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. I was very proud to have gotten this done. We were pushing it very hard. As we did with the vaccines and other things. The first action will save american seniors billions of dollars by preventing middlemen, famous middlemen, they call them, from ripping off patients high Prescription Drug prices. Currently, there are high discounts in the price of prescription medicines, including rebates to Medicare Part d plans last year ....
So today, i have to tell you its a great honor for me to announce that my administration is issuing two groundbreaking rules to very dramatically lower the price of Prescription Drugs for the American People, especially for our cherished seniors. Were pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar, and administrator of center for medicare and medicaid services, seema, thank you both. Thank you both. And thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. The unprecedented reforms were completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july. Statutorily, we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. I was very proud to have gotten this done. We were pushing it very hard. As we did with the vaccines and other things. The first action will save american seniors billions of dol ....