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Pandemic's Impact on Jobs and Travel
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| Dr. Rafreed, I'd like to ask you this question. | |
| What are the key issues in the 2020 election? | |
| Well, I think certainly right now, COVID-19 is at the top of people's concerns. | |
| I think the president deserves an enormous amount of credit, first of all, for banning travel from China in January. | |
| Probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives by doing that. | |
| We know that the virus emerged from the Wuhan province in China. | |
| He later banned travel from Europe because they had allowed unfettered travel from China, which is why it broke out there worse quicker than it did here. | |
| He's also moved heaven and earth to get the ventilators, to get therapeutic medications out there so that we're seeing the death rate plummet. | |
| We're seeing shorter hospital stays. | |
| And of course, this week we saw the announcement that the Trump administration has done a deal with Pfizer for up to 600 million doses of a vaccine that they project will be available as early as December. | |
| So I think the president's done really well there. | |
| Secondly, the economy. | |
| I mentioned what he did before COVID. | |
| I mentioned the 7.5 million jobs that have been created just in the last 60 days. | |
| I think as soon as we can get past this pandemic, this economy is going to explode. | |
| He cut taxes. | |
| He cut taxes for the average family of four in America, the typical household, saved $2,000. | |
| He doubled the child tax credit to $2,000 so that a typical family with two children would be able to write $4,000 off their taxes. | |
| He rolled back the Obama regulations to unleash fracking and the energy industry. | |
| The jobs have exploded, over a half million new manufacturing jobs. | |
| He's done a great job on the economy. | |
| And then I think after that, health care, where Biden wants to basically adopt Bernie Sanders' plan of socialized medicine, | |