1. This petition seeks to prevent further COVID-19 spread in detention camps. The health of every individual in the United States of America is important and must be protected. Immigrants in detention are kept in close quarters, which does not allow for social distancing. 2. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in detention often are responded to with solitary confinement. This has been proven to have detrimental mental and physical health consequences. 3. Several cases of COVID-19 have already been found in immigrant detention centers. 4. Immigrant detention centers have well-documented issues with providing adequate medical care. Refer to Human Rights Watch and Detention Watch Network reports on the lack of medical care and deaths in detention. 5. Immigrant detention centers are closing off their facilities to visitation because of the pandemic. This further isolates the individuals, families, and children. 6. Community and governmental responses are needed not just to release folks from detention, but to ensure that they have access to safe housing, adequate healthcare, and access to meeting their basic needs. Not everyone has family or friends with whom they can go live with, particularly during this pandemic that requires social distancing. 7. They must be released.

Because of the covic-19 virus that is deadly. The Arizona Department of Corrections prison is not equipped to handle this covic-19 virus, it is putting these people in a unhealthy and unclean environment.Workers and prisoners a like. The extreme measures that are being ask of people around the World to follow 6 feet distance, and no more than 10 gatherings to avoid the spread of the covic-19 virus. Inmates and those who work there are in such a dire situation. That needs to be ruminate by officials in authority with the power in their hands to perform this much needed task.

Every day, Drs, nurses, assistive personnel, dietary staff, environmental service staff, grocery store employees and others are being put on the frontline, many without the proper protection. This, not only risking their own wellbeing, but also their families, and those they come into contact with. According to the Department of Labor, this warrants hazardous pay. https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/hazardpay Demand what we are due!

Recently, the Health Care Authority has temporarily allowed interpreters who cover Medicaid interpreting appointments to work from home while being compensated at their current rate of pay during this COVID-19 situation. On the other hand, L&I has chosen to require medical and vocational providers to only use pre-approved vendors in the Department of Enterprise Services (DES) contract when needing interpreters over the phone. This includes companies like Language Link, and Lionbridge. This is causing extreme hardship to independent interpreters who cover face to face L&I appointments, being obligated to remain at home without any means to support their families. If the HCA was able to quickly find a solution for their interpreters, why can't Labor & industries? As this COVID-19 situation develops, we need to do whatever it takes to help our economy. Please join us and ask the Department of Labor and Industries to do what's right for the majority of workers which are independent interpreters, not just a few companies. While we are at home and staying healthy, we shouldn't be worried that L&I will give our jobs to out of state companies.

Lives are at stake.

I have student loans and a car loan with Nissan Financial and I was told they will push back my auto loan but add on extra interests. I think if we are out of work for a month or two instead of charging extra interest and pushing out our loan out several months that those months be counted as paid and we are given time to settle our lives after everything gets back to normal.

To 10th Floor Brokers, We represent a coalition of your current tenants and allies. We are writing this in light of the current COVID pandemic and how it has impacted all of our daily lives. We are politely requesting that in these uncertain times that rent payments for the month of April be cancelled, as the livelihoods of your tenants, our friends, family, and neighbors, are in flux. With this request, we also ask that payment notices, late fees, or other pressure to pay cease immediately. All of your tenants are doing their best to make it through this difficult time and are staying home to keep all of us safe. Our ability to protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our community should not be put in peril due to job loss caused by this crisis. We want to work with you as partners to ensure safe and secure housing for all of our neighbors. To that end, drastic and widespread changes will be needed to your maintenance schedules. Several buildings you manage have long-standing issues of pests, mold, electrical issues, leaky pipes, flooded basements, and the like. We collectively require that all issues and all buildings be fixed - issues within common areas to be fixed immediately, and issues within individual units to be fixed once the State’s “Stay at Home” order is lifted. We also request that any time you plan to enter a unit that you provide 24 hours notice and get confirmation prior to entering the unit. Beyond the scope of us as renters, this is also a general protest. We invite you to stand with us. If your bills are not able to be paid because of quarantine, we invite you to protest those bills as well. We believe systemic change is needed and this is one path for all of us to reach for that. Stand with us in our stand for healthcare for every person in America. It is needed now more than ever. Just as lives will be ruined by landlords who try to harass and evict during a pandemic, lives will also be ruined by crushing medical debt brought on by a widespread illness. Thank you for considering these items. God bless.

Healthcare staff have the highest exposure rate to COVID-19, but in many states they are not being tested for the virus until they are symptomatic. By that point, they have already exposed countless people to the virus. Additionally, without regular testing, healthcare staff face a constant state of uncertainty about whether they remain virus-free with no real way to alleviate that fear unless they begin showing symptoms. Our healthcare staff (including everyone who works at the hospital, not just the doctors/nurses/therapists) is on the front lines fighting this pandemic for our country every day and they should be prioritized for testing. Public health officials, like those at the World Health Organization, have increasingly warned that health care workers themselves could be vectors for the disease — accelerating its spread and undermining the ability of countries’ health systems to combat it. The United States government should advise healthcare organizations to prioritize making periodic testing available for healthcare staff who work in facilities or homes where patients have tested positive for coronavirus. After healthcare workers, COVID-19 testing should be prioritized for essential workers and for those who care for immuno-compromised family members.

It is the obligation of every Latino elected official or candidate for office to assume leadership to mobilize to create this special fund, and to prioritize it above all other matters. There are many looking for the well-being of all of us, but not many who take on the responsibility to look after our vulnerable undocumented population. Please take the initiative to move this matter, and include me in your efforts.

All of a sudden, Americans overwhelmingly support the principle of federal payments to the poor and middle class alike to establish a floor below which they cannot sink. Thus, the status pf the middle class is protected, and, in the case of the poor, the necessities of life are assured. Americans are now coming to recognize that the economic straitjacket in which most of them find themselves is not their fault, but rather is the result of a fickle and rapidly changing economy, along with tax policies unfavorable to them. Thus there is no moral issue involved in receiving these payments. In fact, with economic pressure relieved, Americans will be freer to pursue advances in their lives, educationally and vocationally. Nobody is going to live off the fat of the land under this modest stipend. Rather, it will serve as an investment in our country's most precious resource: human capital. And for the poor, this will mean the dismantling of the humiliating welfare bureaucracy, with its rules and regulations that have always smacked of a plantation mentality. Additionally, this reform will help heal the tension between the middle class and the poor, which has always been used by unscrupulous politicians who profit from dividing these two groups that belong on the same page. It will also raise the level of basic consumer demand, which is the chief vehicle on which our economy depends. Additionally it will provide desperately needed permanent relief to state and local governments - which have been devastated financially by the Virus Depression - by abolishing the requirement that they appropriate money for welfare, as under the present system. Building on the latter point, we should seize this opportunity to combine Medicare and Medicaid, so both are financed exclusively by the federal government.This would alleviate the longtime Achilles heal of state finances, Medicaid. Not only will this help fill the immediate financial pit the virus has created for the states, but as a permanent feature will free up more state funds for education and other essential local services. Additionally, the new expanded Medicare will give to the poor the dignity that the program has brought for the last half century to seniors of all income brackets. This proposal does not seek government expansion into any area of medical finance it does not presently control. It simply makes uniform the programs it already runs, both in their coverage and in the source of their funding. With the economy collapsing, the federal government is able to find $2 trillion to shore it up. This means that in more prosperous times, it would surely be able to do so on a continuous basis. Tell former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders and President Donald Trump to support making the $1200 payments a permanent monthly feature of American life and to combine Medicaid and Medicare.

Over the course of the past few weeks, COVID-19 has impacted countries across the World and disrupted daily life as we know it. Among those who have been impacted most by COVID-19 are healthcare professionals including PAs, NPs, MDs, DOs, RNs and many other healthcare providers. The coronavirus has not only impacted practicing professionals, but also the students who are currently in training to become the future of healthcare. ARC-PA, the accrediting body of physician assistant educational programs, has been far from helpful during this national crisis. PA programs and their students have been struggling to find answers on what to do for clinical education during this time due to students being removed from clinical sites and the lack of guidance from ARC-PA. Since March 10th, ARC-PA has released two vague statements that have provided very little direction on what is acceptable for completing clinical education during this time. Thankfully, ARC-PA has high standards of education for their programs and students, however during this time of crisis ARC-PA needs to make clear temporary exceptions to their standards of clinical education. Specifically, we are asking ARC-PA to clearly state that clinical students may temporarily fully complete clinical rotation requirements in the form of online distance learning rather than in-person clinical experiences. While we understand the importance of in-person clinical experiences, we must look at the practicality of these types of experiences being completed given the current circumstances. Programs will be unable to place students into clinical sites for weeks to months due to students currently being banned from most health care systems across the country. It is irresponsible for ARC-PA to continue to not acknowledge this, which is why it is necessary that temporary exceptions be made. It should be noted that ARC-PA would not be alone in making these types of exceptions as many other accrediting boards, medical associations, and medical schools across the country have been allowing unique exceptions to occur in order to graduate students on time. Now more than ever the United States needs its healthcare heroes, and now more than ever ARC-PA needs to support PAs and PA students. #PAsSaveLives

People are dying! Trump is not doing his job. Someone needs to! Michael Bloomberg is well-positioned and ideally suited (capital, connections, executive skills) to serve the country in this way.