Stan (Host)

dollar cut in health and human services.

Now, this includes a variety of different things, but one of the agencies that's really going to be hit is the Centers for Disease Control, where many, many programs are going to be cut drastically and in many situations eliminated.

And this by the way, includes on both sides of the equation, infectious disease and also, um, chronic disease.

So, um, here's a major concern that I have, um, is our professional talent and our new and budding talent.

Um,

What's going to convince people, young talent, to get involved in medicine?

What's going to get them involved in public health?

What is it going to take to get them involved in community service?

And how is it that we can help?

So one of the things that we're gonna be doing here in the state of Minnesota, this might land up being done in other states as well, is that those that have been in the field and who are very, very well connected with various people in the field will help mentor those people that were laid off and also new talent

that are trying to land themselves into new positions in the health field.

That's being coordinated here in the state of Minnesota by a former commissioner, Dr. Ed Ellinger.

And that'll be happening within about the next two weeks.

One thing that we're going to be doing, and again, this is kind of taking the hands out from underneath and trying to do some, we're hopefully gonna be doing a live show.

health chatter show where we will be able to have audience participation and it's not the intent of the show will not be to you know list out in many ways how kind of like what we're doing here the things that are troubling but everybody will know what those things are and it's like okay let's put out some ideas and how it is that we can proceed in these in these times to assure that

the safety and care of people at the individual level and community level.

We have gone through tough times.

and we will get through this one way or the other.

It's just, I think what we're all anxious about is what will be on the other side.

Clarence, thoughts?