Thread by @MarkedByCovid

‼️FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Today, @WhiteHouse and the @HHSGov released reports laying out existing resources and plans to address long-term effects of #COVID19.

#MarkedByCovid is gravely concerned with...

[FULL STATEMENT: docs.google.com/document/d/1Ev…]

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...the missing input from COVID bereaved and the lack of urgency around Long COVID–a condition affecting 1 in 5 Americans who have tested positive.

From @kdurquiza: “There is no federal plan to reckon with the 1 million + lives (and counting) lost to Covid-19. 👇🏾

People who lost loved ones to Covid put their trust in this Administration to respond to the pandemic with the full power of the federal government, but the feds are instead sweeping Covid deaths under the rug and into the memory hole as we did with the 1918 pandemic. 👇🏾

This ostensibly rubber-stamps the approval of mass death, the abdication of government to prioritize saving lives during disasters, and runs counter to the number one recommendation from people experiencing covid loss: We must not bury the legacies of the people we lost. 👇🏾

After two-and-a-half years and over 1 million deaths due to COVID-19, the White House just published two underwhelming reports outlining the research plans and paltry federal resources available to the COVID bereaved and those enduring the long-term impacts of COVID-19. 👇🏾

While the reports do a decent job of confirming the disproportionate impacts this pandemic has had on Indigenous, Black, brown, and other people of color as well as people with low income...

[FULL STATEMENT: docs.google.com/document/d/1Ev…]👇🏾

–essentially confirming Covid-19 as the Category-5 hurricane to advances in racial, disability, economic, and health justice– it leaves much to be desired in creating actionable solutions and nowhere near meets the scale of the problems these reports outline. 👇🏾

COVID bereaved people and those with Long COVID have been through hell and back and are actively being left behind as the country returns to business as usual.

[FULL STATEMENT: docs.google.com/document/d/1Ev…]

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The dire need for pandemic resources and investments in public health infrastructure isn’t going anywhere. The WHO recently declared Monkeypox another health emergency. On the heels of yet another public health crisis, Marked By COVD makes the following demands:
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Read the full statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1Ev…

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Read the @HHSGov press release & access the full reports: hhs.gov/about/news/202…

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