Saturday, January 01, 2022

Fighting Covid

A group of public health experts and grassroots activists has started a campaign to dramatically improve our efforts fighting Covid. 

Our current methods are inadequate in their opinion: 
"Website-driven sign-ups place the burden on individuals and create unnecessary barriers and delays, often for those with the fewest resources (ie. people in areas lacking internet access, digital literacy, or language proficiency)," the letter reads. "The most efficient, equitable, and effective path requires removing all barriers to [test] access as quickly as possible." 

Here is their proposal: 
"We are asking you to mail an ample and continuous supply of free rapid at-home tests and N95-quality masks to every household in America twice a month through May 2022, with additional supplies sent to first responders, healthcare workers, and public centers in our most impacted communities," reads campaigners' open letter to Jeffrey Zients, the White House's coronavirus response coordinator."

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