Women's Voices For Change

I have been following the success of the Lummi Nation, a Native American community, two hours from Seattle, Washington. They are a model of how a community dealt with and contained the virus quickly.

In spite of the horror of disease, death, and economic havoc that has come from the COVID-19 pandemic, I have hope that a COVID Revolution can produce lasting change that will benefit many.

Today is Day 81 since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the US. We are certainly in the depths of the wilderness. Yet, we are learning to find hope.

I did lots of listening last week. I heard that everyone wanted to do the right thing but many are understandably anxious about what this abrupt change in how we suddenly have to conduct our lives now will mean. 

Until the federal government's new plan to work with private industry actually delivers millions of testing kits to hospitals and labs and we develop drive through stand alone testing units, it will be almost impossible for a patient to have this test, even with symptoms and high risk exposure.

As part of my training to become a board certified physician, I did a year’s fellowship in infectious disease. I tell you this to both explain and share my airline travel routine.