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Thousands of people around the world, including dozens throughout the United States and three in my home state of new jersey. And i come to the floor because i hope that people understand the fierce urgency of now, the fierce urgency of now. This is a Public Health crisis. And we cant wait to act. The rapid spread of covid19, also known as the coronavirus, has disrupted our daily lives, its destabilized our economy, its imposed enormous strain on our health care system. I think many failed to grasp the scope of this threat. The lack of a National Response just as the virus began to reach ameri...

A week or more because of covid19. That is starting to take a toll, it is understandable, but we cannot afford to stop now. I want to be clear. Social distancing, physical distancing is the single best way to keep the people around you safe. What does that mean . It means keeping two meters between yourself and someone else. It means avoiding groups. It means staying home as much as possible. If you choose to ignore that advice, if you choose to get together with people or go to crowded places, were not just putting yourself at risk, you are putting others at risk too. Your elderly relative wh...

Yesterday as well as the new york governor andrew cuomo. The headline in forbes, new york to begin Clinical Trials for coronavirus treatment. Doctor, what do you know about this treatment . And what are we hopeful for . Greta, thank you for having me on. There are potential treatments that are being talked about. Medications like chloroquine, to treat and prevent malaria. Hydroxychloroquine used to a medication treat diseases like lupus. Its thought that these medications do have antiviral and antiinflammatory properties. There have been some very, very small studies out of france and china de...

Downloaded a ventilator manual and taught employees overnight how to repair ventilators. They then set up an Assembly Line and went to work. A week ago none of us knew anything about ventilators other than we knew what it was being used for, okay . But at the end of the day, here is what we knew. Manufacturing is in our dna. Innovation is in our dna. One treatment that we know works are ventilators. So we need more of them. Reporter the ventilators theyre working on are expired or out of warranty. A company has already delivered 80 ventilators to the state to be dispersed at hospitals, and tod...

The presiding officer the senator from new jersey. Mr. Menendez i ask the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer we are not in a quorum call. Mr. Menendez thank you. First of all, madam president , i want to thank the staff here in the senate. Even in these difficult times, they answer the call of doing the work of the American People, and i want to appreciate their being here so that the senate can conduct its work. They are essential to being able to do that, so i want to acknowledge that. I come to the floor today as our country grapples with a Global Pandemic that has tragically cl...