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When COVID-19 arrived in the United States, MSF responded by working in key sites around the country in tandem with local authorities and/or partner organizations that serve vulnerable people who often lack access to healthcare. MSF teams worked with migrant farm workers in Florida; people experiencing homelessness in New York; Native Americans –particularly Navajo Nation and Pueblo peoples– in the southwestern states of New Mexico and Arizona; clinical and non-clinical staff in nursing homes in Michigan and Texas; and a range of people and communities in need in Puerto Rico.
MSF has completed its programs in Florida, New York, Michigan, and the Southwest. Medical programs continue in Puerto Rico until the end of September. In Texas, the team will continue to offer on-site infection-control and mental health support to nursing homes until October.
In Puerto Rico, MSF works in close collaboration with local partners to provide primary care consultations in homes and at ‘pop-up’ clinics to people suffering from chronic health conditions who had been unable to or fearful of going to health care facilities due to COVID-19. The team also monitors the symptoms of COVID-19 patients or people who test positive, but are asymptomatic. MSF works across the island in and around San Juan or travel to remote areas in the east (Humacao, Fajardo and Loíza), west (Arecibo and Utuado), south (Ponce and Yobucoa), and the third largest island, Vieques.
When MSF began its COVID-19 response in Puerto Rico in early May, MSF helped support medical facilities with immediate needs for personal protective equipment (PPE) and provided training on infection prevention and control (IPC) measures to health care workers in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus in health facilities, detention centers, schools of nursing, and among high-risk populations. MSF has helped distribute nearly 30,000 PPE, conducted IPC training to staff at 22 facilities, provided 5,100 hygiene kits, and is continuing to provide hand hygiene and COVID-19 health education workshops to high-risk groups.
In August, MSF took its infection-control training and wellness support model for nursing homes to Texas. Nursing home deaths make up more than 30 percent of the state’s total coronavirus fatalities since March. More than 23,000 residents of 1,093 nursing homes across Texas have tested positive for COVID-19. Of those, more than 3,200 have died, according to state data, as of August 27. MSF is also providing its infection prevention and control (IPC) training tool kit and staff wellness model to schools of nursing so students can develop this expertise. The hope is that IPC and wellness training MSF has begun in its nursing home programs can continue throughout the state and nationwide.
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We are worse than a third world country, because of so many people needing medical care/help and unable to get it.
Some people might as well live in the middle of a jungle in the middle of nowhere, because they lack any real medical care.
It is why our life expectancy keeps dropping and dropping.
Why do you say they would be unable to get medical care?
Testing and medical care for covid is typically covered for those who have insurance or are on medicare, medicaid, etc. For those without insurance/medicare it is typically covered using the funding from the CARES Act, though that may stop if Nancy doesn't quit stalling the next stimulus bill. People do need to follow the guidelines if they're wanting insurance or the gov to pay for it.
If we didn't have to provide medical care to illegal aliens that would go a long ways in providing medical care for our own citizens. If we weren't sending our tax dollars to so many other countries including those that hate us it would go a long ways in providing services to our own citizens to.
No, we are not a rich country when you consider how many trillions in debt we are. We are spending more than we are taking in in taxes.
Good point. We should raise taxes, especially in red states that take more federal dollars than they pay into the system. Republicans keep dolling out services to their constituents on the backs of the blue states that pay the bills. "Conservatives" in this country are nothing but a bunch of immoral freeloaders!
Well, just short of 25% of all Doctors Without Borders funding comes from private donations given by citizens of the United States, far, far exceeding any other nation, and this is the first time we have ever received any services of any kind from them. I’d say we have more than paid for it.
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This is so humiliating.
For the United States of America to need a charity medical organization to deal with a health crisis that the whole world is also experiencing - and we are having to rely on resources intended for struggling nations that are in poverty.
Good point. We should raise taxes, especially in red states that take more federal dollars than they pay into the system. Republicans keep dolling out services to their constituents on the backs of the blue states that pay the bills. "Conservatives" in this country are nothing but a bunch of immoral freeloaders!
End political welfare!
I note you didn't provide a link to your assertions and what difference does it make anyway?
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