WIN-WIN! Representatives @SusanWBrooks (IN) and @RepBera (CA) call for a #COVID19 Response Corps to help stop the pandemic and create jobs mobilizing returned @PeaceCorps volunteers w/@fema @CSIS Commission on #HealthSecurity #COVIDResponseCorps A thread. csis.org/analysis/covid…
2/n U.S. COVID-19 Response Corps (CRC): trained, deployable workforce for urgent needs of national response with skills in health education, logistics, social program delivery, education, communications, data analysis, and other fields.
3/n Deployed to state and local areas to support contact tracing, isolation, quarantine, social support, logistical support, testing, decontamination, call centers, at-risk populations, elderly, homeless - critical activities to #FlattenTheCurve and mitigate the economic impacts
4/n Ready-made personnel: 7,000+ evacuated @PeaceCorps volunteers who have lost incomes and coming home to very limited job market. Highly dedicated, vetted, ready, trained, motivated for community service, culturally competent, flexible, and accustomed to austere conditions
State and local authorities clamoring for workforce to combat #coronavirus and provide jobs. Smart solution to national crisis. @MorrisonCSIS @T_Inglesby @JeremyKonyndyk @PeaceCorpsDir @CharlesBHolmes @GYamey @DocJeffD @johntmonahan @RebeccaKatz5 @PeaceCorpsNow @DrTomFrieden
6/n Also called for in letter to @fema, @NationalService, and @PeaceCorps from *40* Senators and Representatives led by @VanHollenForMD and @SenatorCollins vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-rel…
