Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said that while the bill has "imperfections," it was "time for urgent, bipartisan action."
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to approve a second coronavirus aid bill Wednesday, paving the way for lawmakers to turn their attention to a third proposal that could include direct payments to Americans.
The legislation, dubbed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, passed on a 90-8 vote in the Senate, and President Donald Trump signed it into law Wednesday evening.
The measure provides free coronavirus testing and ensures paid emergency leave for those who are infected or caring for a family member with the illness. The bill also provides additional Medicaid funding, food assistance and unemployment benefits.
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The media and government have created a nightmare. For gods sake it is a flu virus. They are here all the time. We would see the same type of numbers if we tested for all the different types all the time. We lose 20 thousand plus every year just to flu virus. All we have done is throw an entire nation into a panic state, destroyed small business, and will continue to do so unless someone out there wakes up and tells the truth. Just a lot of politics and media.
ReplyDelete9:27 it is vastly different from influenza. It is a completely separate virus. The flu has a vaccine (dependent on identifying the most probable strain). This builds herd immunity, which you can google, preventing the spread of a disease. Covid has a longer asymptomatic period which means people are likely to feel fine, venture out and expose others without showing signs of sickness themselves. The way Covid is killing most of the older and immunocompromised is through respiratory distress which does not have a magic bullet. This puts a heavy demand on ventilators, which are in finite supply.
ReplyDeleteMarch 19, 2020 at 9:27 AM:
ReplyDeleteYour non-credentialed response is the reason the virus continues to grow, infect, and kill. You and the other woefully uninformed and selfish people that "think" (and I use the term loosely) like you do. Grow up and be socially responsible for once in your life.