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If the Baker Administration doesn’t massively expand testing and start focusing on protecting the groups that have been hardest-hit by this virus, we will end up with a second wave, too. Click here to add your name and Stand with Us! tinyurl.com/EquitableReopeningMass!
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Want Massachusetts to reopen safely and equitably? Stand with MPHA and tell Gov. Charlie Baker to listen to the communities that are most impacted. Click here to add your name: tinyurl.com/EquitableReopeningMass #equitablereopening #seatatthetable #COVID19
“I want people to understand that this kind of discrimination is real, and it’s happening now in our community — and something needs to be done about it,” -William Berman, director of The Housing Discrimination Testing Program. www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/01/metro/blacks-voucher-holders-face-egregious-housing-discrimination...
“We don’t say to the fire department, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. There were no fires last year, so we’re going to take 30% of your budget away.’ That would be crazy, right?” said Dr. Gianfranco Pezzino, the health officer in Shawnee County, Kansas. “But we do that with public health, day in and day out.” apnews.com/e28724a125a127f650a9b6f48f7bb938 de Beaumont Foundation MAHB.org
Hollowed out public health system faces more cuts amid virus
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The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources to confront the worst health crisis in a century. Marshaled against a virus that has sickened at least 2.6...Congratulations to MPHA board member and New Bedford Health Director Damōn Chaplin for helping to orchestrate a model response to COVID-19. Gov. Charlie Baker, it’s time for the State to help more cities and towns do the same!
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1/12 Learnings from the @MA_Senate’s powerful health care / public health listening resonate during today's supplemental budget debate.
Tremendously glad to join forces with @CindyFriedmanMA + @adamghinds + outstanding panelists. Here are some highlights with me today:
Advocates say that the best way to prevent new COVID-19 cases and save lives is decarceration. In April, @ACLU_Mass and @MAPublicHealth urged Governor Baker to use his power to release prisoners, but he has taken no action to prevent spread of coronavirus.
COVID-19 Outbreak Feared At Massachusetts Prison After Incarcerated Man Collapses In Kitchen
Advocates and incarcerated people fear a potential COVID-19 outbreak at MCI Norfolk in Massachusetts after an incarcerated man collapsed during his ki...
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THIS seems to be the critical point here. We're nowhere near where we need to be for testing and yet we're opening up to Phase 3! #mapoli https://twitter.com/MAPublicHealth/status/1278748588013649921
Do we have sufficient testing?
✖️No, @MassGovernor is falling dramatically short of meeting his own goal to perform 45,000 tests by the end of July. In May & June, #MA averaged ~10,000 tests/day. Testing is still NOT widely available for high-risk groups who are asymptomatic.
#Massachusetts enters Phase III of reopening, as #COVID19 cases surge in states across the country, and yet:
Massachusetts continues to make progress on stopping the spread of #COVID19MA, per key public health metrics.
As a result, we're able to announce today that Phase 3 of our reopening plan will begin this coming Monday, July 6.
⏩More at http://www.mass.gov/reopening
My new @MassBudget report, "Municipal Budgets, Local Aid, and Property Taxes amid COVID-19" on the importance of aid and progressive property tax reform for cities and towns in hard times https://massbudget.org/reports/pdf/PropTaxes-COVID19-6.30.pdf
