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| http://luetkemeyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=400422 | Luetkemeyer, Select Committee on the Coronavirus Hold Hearing with HHS Secretary Azar | 2020-10-02 | 2020 | 2020-10 | Republican | Senate | MO | Blaine Luetkemeyer | L000569 | luetkemeyer.house.gov | legacy | Luetkemeyer, Select Committee on the Coronavirus Hold Hearing with HHS Secretary Azar Washington, October 2, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. Today in a hearing in theSelectCommitteeon the Coronavirus Crisis, Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03) discussed the unintended medical consequences America has faced during the pandemic with Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar. ClickHEREto watch. Congressman Luetkemeyer:We actually have about a 50% higher death rate among the [over 70] population for the lack of attention [to other healthcare needs] because of the total focus on COVID we need to be looking at both sides of this. Secretary Azar:It's what you said, there's got to be balance. We need to protect the vulnerable from coronavirus, but we also have to recognize that mammographies are down 87%... CAT scans down 39%... millions of kids haven't gotten their pediatric vaccinations because of the shutdown. Emergency rooms have seen dramatic drops in people coming in with strokes and heart attacks they didn't stop having them. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |