joe biden and john faucher you for holding this important information -- important talk on covid. we are all sick of sickness into the pandemic and we know as we head into the winter holiday season, it is especially important to do what is necessary to keep us safe and healthy. the pandemic has been devastating to older americans. they have been hospitalized at the highest rates and compromised more than 93% of all covid deaths in the country. now we are also seeing dangerous increases in the flu and rsp as well. the good news is each of us has the power to significantly reduce our risk of getting sick. we hear you that there are continued questions about vaccines, which ones you need, how many, and what other treatments are available. we will answer some of those questions today. in addition, i know many of you joining us are also caring for a parent, spouse, sibling, or friend. we want to use today's conversation to help arm you with the information you need to keep your loved ones safe as well. today's conversation is an opportunity for you to hear directly from the experts. i

to be seen if he is going to be able to retain key advertisers with the way he is tweeting about faucher and his politics. i have no further updates. >> you know a lot about the subscription model and the fact twitter relaunched twitter blue, the verification system should how is all this going to work now? >> i saw that they are going to have different color badges. even my organization has a little yellow badge to say we are a news organization. my badge says i am a legacy not verified account. they are tinkering with this and iterating each lunch to see if it is going to be effective. they are definitely building the plane as it is in motion as they say. the tweet because this could affect us, the legacy folks with the blue checked because we are journalists. . he tweeted in a few months we will remove all legacy blue checks. he says the way they were given out was corrupt. how was it corrupt that we got ours? >> i think that jack dorsey the former ceo of twitter has also said verification has been a problem within twitter for a long time. i don't know what mosque has seen that makes

the seniors farmers market faucher is one of my favorite programs because the produce is usually locally grown, organic and fresh. most of the markets that accept the faucher are in pittsburgh so my care workers take me since i am unable to drive it would be nice if the voucher amount could be increased and board be used to home delivered. i used to receive the food box once a month and it would help me if there were fewer processed foods. a little variety and quantity is suitable to a one-person household. i can't go through two large boxes of cereal in a month. also, it's heavier. finally, home delivered meals have been a godsend especially after my most recent hospitalization. while coalescing, i could grab one out of the freezer and have a quick meal. i'm encouraged to learn that the needs of older adults who receive more focus and the dietary guidelines so that more of us can benefit from the service. all of these programs provide invaluable benefits to older americans. i believe the key to improving them is to offer more flexibility, more access to healthy foods and more efforts to