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The Administration Must Do Everything in Its Power to Provide the Health Services and Equipment Needed to Save Lives

As the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting all of us, some communities are at risk of bearing the brunt of an inadequate public health response. The U.S. Administration can and must do more.

Health workers and other frontline responders and those who are marginalized and at greater risk will likely pay the price for something which can be addressed — a lack of testing, personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, and other vital healthcare equipment.

Hospitals in the most hard-hit areas are already over capacity with nurses and doctors having severely limited access to this critical equipment. These critical resources not only enable our health care workers and other frontline responders to protect their own safety and health, they can also help to alleviate suffering and save lives.

As an organization dedicated to human rights, we know that the right to health means we must do everything we can to ensure that access to care is available, accessible, and of good quality for all persons.

While all people can get COVID-19, certain groups appear to be at greater risk of exposure, severe illness, and death. People with pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes or heart disease) seem to be more vulnerable to becoming severely ill with the virus. People with disabilities, people living with critical medical conditions, people living in poverty, the elderly, and communities with chronically under-resourced facilities are also disproportionately impacted.

For our communities to truly get a handle on this crisis and protect all people, we need a national, coordinated action on a scale not yet deployed. Take this urgent action to tell President Trump and other members of the U.S. Administration that we must exhaust every option available, including using the Defense Production Act (DPA) as needed, to increase production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other vital healthcare equipment, and drastically increase testing for COVID-19 across the country.

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President

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Vice President Mike Pence

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Covid 19 Task Force

Secretary

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Secretary of Health and Human Services

Dear President Trump and Vice President Pence,

As someone concerned about the human rights of all people during the COVID-19 pandemic, I write to urge you to take immediate action to ensure everyone who requests it has access to testing  in order to effectively track and prevent its spread, and to ensure our frontline medical care providers and other first responders have everything they need to save lives and ensure their safety.

Health workers are at the frontline of this epidemic, continuing to deliver services despite the personal risks to themselves and their families. The risks they face include contracting COVID-19 while doing their jobs, long working hours, psychological distress, and fatigue. The United States government must ensure adequate and quality personal protective equipment, information, training, and psychosocial support are available to support nurses, doctors, and other response staff in these critical days and weeks.

Further, we urgently need more testing to effectively track and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Until there is widespread testing available in every state, we will not fully know the full scale of this pandemic in the United States and not be able to take the necessary steps needed to limit and stop its spread. The United States must rapidly expand testing in every state and territory.

We urge you to:
 
- Use every option available, including further invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) and using the Strategic National Stockpile, to increase the production of personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, and other vital healthcare equipment.

- Do everything your administration can to ensure that any goods and services necessary to ensure prevention of exposure are widely available and affordable for all persons, including those most at risk of exposure and the most vulnerable populations.

- Drastically increase testing for COVID-19 in every state and territory to ensure we are doing everything possible to limit and stop its spread.

At this time of great uncertainty, I call on the Administration to protect the human rights to  health, safety and security of all people by doing everything it can to limit the spread of COVID-19 and providing our frontline medical service providers what they need to save lives, and protect their own.

Sincerely,

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