News source present debate for the state the u. S. Senate candidate perjury or moderators glory fountain and mike ross. Semacodes near point thank you for joining us for debate for the state. Recovering to you live from Alaska Public Media. Im gonsolin. And im Laurie Townsend and we will pose a series of questions to the two major candidates for u. S. Senate. Republican senator dan sullivan and democratic nominee independent doctors al gross who is in the studio and senator sullivan is joining us from away from washington d. C. Welcome to both of r you. As you might have noticed we are having some technical complications with this setup so if you hear a screech every once in a while gross has an earpiece so he can hear what mr. Sullivan has to say. You will notice we are all distanceez in the studio because of the pandemic. We are taking precautions and we feature video questions from rural alaska and one young alaskan. Tune in to Facebook Live immediately after this program for debate
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The Pacific Research institute who makes the argument against medicare for all. Watch tv tonight starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Joining us from nashville, tennessee is doctor william shatner, a professor of Preventive Medicine and Infectious Diseases and at Vanderbilt University medical center. Doctor, thank you for your time this morning. Sure, good to be with you. Doctor, the United States has surpassed china in a number of cases at 82000. What do you make of that and what are your concerns with that number . Guest my concern, of course, is that it will grow. You know, we have not yet completely define how widespread this virus is in the united instates and how intensely it is just a beaded in different parts of the country. We need to do more testing but the next several weeks, i think, will see a surge of cases coming into hospitals. It may not get as bad as new yorkd everywhere but we are already seeing patients coming ain in a rather steady weight here in nashville and