There's a moment in this #WITHPod convo with @DanaGoldstein that I keep coming back to. Towards the end of the conversation she talks about her own experience getting Covid-19. She was among the first pregnant women in America with a positive case.
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She says that an urgent care center called her and told her she was positive and then...that was it. She and her husband were basically on their own. In other countries, she notes, the government sends medical staff to people with positive tests...
or a box with PPE and instructions about how family members can care for a sick loved one while minimizing their own risk. Here there's just...nothing. Maybe some telemedicine with your doctor. But no comprehensive, governmental response that says to each individual case:
"We see you. We're going to monitor you. And we're going to help you as best we can to get better and keep your household safe."
It's such a damning absence.
It's such a damning absence.
