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[email protected] April 24, 2020 TMA Supports Governor’s INSIDE Science-Based Plan to Reopen Texas The Clark Sisters Debuts, ranked RAPPIN’ #1 across all TV. Tommy Wyatt See LIFETIME Page 3 You are never too old to COVID -19 learn! Texas Governor If you have missed The Greg Abbott Breakfast Club on Trump “donates” KAZI, it is because his salary to HHS. Damita and I have been See SHAM grounded. Neither of us Page 6 were prepared to work from home and the station staff did not offer to help us make the Statement by Texas Medical Association (TMA) President David C. Fleeger, MD, transition. So we decided about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s announcement on reopening Texas. to sit this one out. (AUSTIN, TX) - “Texas physicians are pleased (PPE) for non-hospital based/community physicians, Stimulus package Trying to keep up with that Governor Abbott is taking a gradual, science- nearly two-thirds of whom say they have less than nets wealthy millions the expansion of social based approach to reopen the Texas economy one week’s supply of the most critical supplies, ac- See WINDFALL media has proven to be safely. We applaud the governor for placing four out- cording to a TMA survey conducted late last week; Page 7 one the hardest things standing physicians on his recovery strike force and · A huge immediate expansion in our state that I have done. But the for stating in such a straight-forward manner, ‘We and local public health infrastructure and workforce one thing that I can do is must be guided by the data and the doctors.