Sean Penn’s nonprofit has provided staff to run four of the LA’s 30 Covid-19 testing sites.
, a nonprofit organization founded by actor and philanthropist Sean Penn in 2010 after an earthquake devastated Haiti.According to the mayor, CORE has provided almost 70 staff to run four of the city’s 30 testing sites ensuring those sites can operate while freeing up firefighter/paramedics from the Los Angeles Fire Department to focus on emergency response work.
“This is what I hope will be a model in terms of the governance and [non-governmental organization] or community foundation partnerships that can be replicated not only in the city of Los Angeles and throughout California, but ultimately throughout the country,” Penn said. “And it’s going to be part of our job to take lessons learned… and be able to animate that message beyond.”
One person who understands the importance of testing is Cynthia Davis, a professor at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, who also spoke at Thursday’s briefing. “Just like with HIV infection, you want to use what is called universal precautions, which means you to treat everyone as if they were infected with COVID-19 and take the appropriate precautions,” she said.“With HIV infection, it took approximately 40 years to get to 1.1 million cases of people infected or living with HIV in the U.S.,” she said. “With COVID-19, it has taken two to three months to reach 500,000 plus cases of people infected with COVID-19 in the U.S.
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