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staff to take care of these patients? >> it's an incredibly important question. so you've probably been to an icu or know someone who has and you may recall the normal ratio of patients to nurses is 2-1. you have a nurse taking care of two adjacent rooms typically, mostly because these patients are not only often on a ventilator, but they're on multiple intravenous infusions ranging from pressure medications to keep their blood pressure normal, they're getting fluids, they're getting antibiotics, all kinds of stuff. it's intensive monitoring situation. the situation with covid is really complicated because as you expand these icu care situations, which as i said we're needing to do, you're having necessarily to ask nurses to take care of more patients. also imagine trying to do that in the e.r., where you've got, again, nursing staff trying to take care of all the other
wealth tax. is there a future for the wealth tax in a senate finance committee? >> let me tell you what there's a future for. what we saw the past effort, you saw it in 1980, six the ideas of a minimum tax, it was always focused on income. what we have seen is wealthy people don't even take the salary. they don't have income coming in. they don't have money in wealth. i'll speak for myself as chairman, i'm going to end the double standard. today, in america, you can have a nurse taking care of covid patients and she pays taxes, he or my constituent pays taxes with every single paycheck. these multi billionaires and up figuring out ways their lawyers and accountants --
all right. time for "the mix." up first someone who inspire. i'm telling you about a 90-year-old woman, you might think a nurse is taking care of her but she's the nurse taking care of everybody else. this is the country's oldest working nurse. look at her. looking good. there she is. >> does not look 90. >> her name is cici. florence is her name out in tacoma washington. they're honoring her at the general hospital where she has worked almost 70 years after graduating from the course there. but she has been recognized as the country's oldest working nurse. she says i know i'm a pain in the you know what. thank them all for being so wonderful to her, but she works just two days a week now. that's okay. working her whole life. but still getting it done at 90.
all right. time for "the mix." up first someone who inspire. i'm telling you about a 90-year-old woman, you might think a nurse is taking care of her but she's the nurse taking care of everybody else. this is the country's oldest working nurse. look at her. looking good. there she is. >> does not look 90. >> her name is cici. florence is her name out in tacoma washington. they're honoring her at the general hospital where she has worked almost 70 years after graduating from the course there. but she has been recognized as the country's oldest working nurse. she says i know i'm a pain in the you know what. thank them all for being so wonderful to her, but she works just two days a week now. that's okay. working her whole life. but still getting it done at 0.
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