Sending checks may have a role in coronavirus response, but 'the most urgent need is money in the hands of first responders: the health system, the emergency support personnel (police and others) and the social support systems' | Jeffrey Sachs, CNNOpinion
Jeffrey Sachs is a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author; view more opinion articles on CNN.
As America struggles to confront the coronavirus outbreak, Washington has been consumed with getting money to households and businesses -- but the most urgent need is money in the hands of first responders: the health system, the emergency support personnel and the social support systems that are needed for any effective epidemic control.
Jeffrey SachsCongress should appropriate today at least $100 billion for immediate availability to the states and cities upon a valid request. An epidemic is a public health emergency, not only in the sense that it affects the entire public, but in the crucial sense that public institutions -- governments and the systems that governments control -- are the make-or-break in the life-and-death battle in the coming days.
Berman: Nearly half coronavirus patients admitted to ICU under 65 01:28Standard epidemiological models suggest that an uncontrolled epidemic could potentially infect more than half of New York City's population, and with hundreds of thousands of people potentially stricken simultaneously in the spring and early summer. A study by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention showed that roughly 14% of cases in China's epidemic were severe and required hospitalization.
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