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• Ohio: Abortion Is Essential Health Care!

  Abortion care is a time-sensitive medical procedure that cannot be significantly delayed without profound consequences. As part of the continuum of pregnancy care, abortion is provided for almost one in five pregnancies in the United States. Ohioans are continuing to rely on their trusted community abortion providers during the coronavirus crisis, and Ohio’s elected officials should not stand between patients and their doctors. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, along with several other medical organizations, issued a statement calling abortion "...an essential component of comprehensive health care" and that the "...consequences of being unable to obtain an abortion profoundly impact a person’s life, health, and well-being." Tell the attorney general to stop playing political games with the reproductive health care of Ohioans.

  2,683 of 3,000 Signatures

  Created by Kellie Copeland
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  Tell ARC-PA that Physician Assistant Students must graduate on time.

  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

  2,646 of 3,000 Signatures

  Created by Physician Assistant Student
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  Prevent Hospitals From Becoming Coronavirus Super Spreaders

  I am a doctor working on the frontlines at a NYC hospital battling coronavirus and am already seeing the fatal impacts from our failure to take the strictest precautions. At my hospital we have already lost colleagues and far too many patients to coronavirus because we have failed to enact the stringent protections necessary. In addition to the the need for for increased PPE (personal protective equipment), respirators, ventilators, and testing, we also need to protect hospital workers and patients from airborne transmission of the disease. Studies are finding you don't need to be directly coughed on to get the virus - it can linger in the air for up to 3 hours, and contained spaces with closed ventilation (e.g. medical floors and ER departments) are most at risk. The current and tragically inadequate CDC guidelines protect health care workers only from droplet transmission (think of the moisture that lands in your tissue when you sneeze) but this virus can be transmitted by much smaller aerosol particles that float in the air. In order to defeat the virus, we must prevent aerosol transmission in our COVID treatment centers and make sure the treatment center workforce can wear at all times the proper PPE (full body hazmat suits with PAPR or N95 respirators with face shields, gloves, goggles, shoe/boot covers) so they will not get infected, stay healthy and be able to continue to treat patients. We can do this - together. Please sign your name to help get it done and defeat this virus. Reference: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/487110-tests-indicate-coronavirus-can-survive-in-the-air

  2,467 of 3,000 Signatures

  Created by NYC Hospital Dr. P
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  Pass a Rescue Plan that Puts People First

  We built a relief package that is centered on workers and saves our economy from the ground up. Our plan provides government aid to keep people in their jobs so they keep their paychecks and their healthcare. This isn't the corporate bailouts of the past. Every dime of federal grant money under our plan goes directly to people on the frontlines and prevents mass layoffs. At the same time, we hold corporations accountable by enforcing strict rules that will help balance our economy in the future. For aviation, the coronavirus pandemic is creating a financial catastrophe that dwarfs the economic cost of the Great Recession and September 11th combined. Washington is gearing up to save aviation, but we can't have another "no strings attached" bailout where corporations and executives get payouts while workers lose our jobs, our benefits and our pensions. We won't let that happen again. Aviation will be critical for restarting our economy. But nearly all aviation workers need background checks and security training that can take weeks or even months. If workers are laid off and lose their clearance, we will have long delays getting planes back in the air. That will create a bottleneck in our recovery just as we need to get going again. Unions representing workers across aviation have put forward a plan that puts people first, holds corporations accountable AND keeps aviation ready to fly. We need Congress to support it. Our plan starts with keeping people on the payroll with no furloughs or layoffs through direct federal grants so every aviation workers stays on payroll. Airlines and other corporations helped create this crisis by using their cash to buy back their own stock. That's why our plan also bans stock buybacks for companies receiving help, and says no company receiving help can hand out executive bonuses or stock dividends until long after the money has been paid back. It's a model that can be expanded across industries to keep people on payroll and hold corporations accountable. Tell Congress to support the People First package championed by aviation unions.

  2,418 of 3,000 Signatures

  Created by Sara Nelson
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  EXPOSED: Big Money group funds “reopen” protests

  The Convention of States (COS) -- a shady special interest group funded by right-wing billionaires like the Mercers -- wants us to believe that the “reopen” protests popping up in states are led entirely by everyday Americans. But the truth is: they’re not. Behind the scenes, COS is helping to pull the strings. Its members are targeting people on social media and throwing serious funding behind these protests -- to create an illusion of mass discontent against the social distancing guidelines that keep us safe during the COVID-19 crisis. Polling shows widespread support for following social distancing guidelines. [1] But these secretly-funded protests are meant to muddy the waters -- and make states roll back life-saving measures before experts say it’s safe. Make no mistake: these protests are dangerous. Public gatherings give the disease more opportunity to spread… they can incite distrust of public health officials... and reporters covering the event in Lansing, Michigan even noted that the rally blocked ambulances from accessing a hospital. This isn't the first time that COS has pushed for Big Money interests over the needs of the American people. In fact, the group was founded to urge Republican legislators to call for an Article V constitutional convention -- where unelected, unaccountable delegates could write their far-right agenda directly into our Constitution. This is just another ploy by the Convention of States to sow distrust of public health experts and other government officials... so that when the time comes, overhauling our system and rewriting the Constitution seems like the only option. We can’t let this billionaire-backed, far-right special interest group and its allies endanger our friends, families, and communities. We must spread the word about who’s REALLY behind these protests -- as well as continue to listen to health professionals and follow CDC guidelines. 1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-conservative-networks-backing-anti-quarantine-protests/2020/04/22/da75c81e-83fe-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html

  2,403 of 3,000 Signatures

  Created by Common Cause
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  Tell Congress: We demand nurses are protected during COVID-19

  At a moment when we are asking nurses and other health care workers to step up and protect people, we must be able to protect them as well.

  2,250 of 3,000 Signatures

  Created by Nurses United
• Meals On Wheels and SNAP

  There are too many senior citizens and disabled citizens who cannot get out to buy food, let alone have anything delivered. Disabled and seniors living in rural areas, as well as cities, have been hit particularly hard by this outbreak. They need help. Too many disabled citizens are fighting this alone, and they, along with seniors, are going without even the basic necessities. I am hearing from friends within the disabled community that there is little to no support for them through this. They need help now, not weeks from now, but immediate, tangible help and support. As we fight this together, it is incumbent upon us to ensure that no members of our communities are left behind.

  2,195 of 3,000 Signatures

  Created by Stephanie Liss
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  Tell the FDA and State Leaders: Lift abortion restrictions!

  More and more healthcare providers are turning to telemedicine to ensure continued access to health care for patients while reducing the need for patients to travel to receive medical care, risking exposure to coronavirus. Both patients and doctors win in this scenario. Medication abortion, when a pregnant person takes two types of pills that induce an abortion before 10-12 weeks, can also be conducted under the supervision of a physician via telemedicine. It is a safe and effective way to broaden access to abortion care for pregnant people. And yet, 18 states force patients to travel to a clinician's office for medication abortion, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), despite the recommendations of medical experts including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, refuses to lift restrictions on mifepristone, one of the medications needed for medication abortion, that would enable providers to mail it to patients or prescribe it for pickup at a pharmacy. These restrictions are nothing more than ideological, anti-woman excuses to restrict access to abortion. The impact of these restrictions fall disproportionately on women of color, indigenous people, disabled people, and low-income folks. But if enough of us raise our voices and demand the FDA lift restrictions on mifepristone and that state lawmakers expand access to telemedicine for abortion, we can raise enough pressure to force the FDA and state lawmakers to expand access to abortion care and allow telemedicine!

  2,001 of 3,000 Signatures

  Created by SONJA SPOO
• Governor of Nevada freeze rent/mortgages

  A lot of people cant afford rent or mortgages, because they have either been laid off or work is suspended during the coronavirus pandemic. They need our help. As a group, the working-class of Nevada have been financially crippled by the critical and necessary measures put in place to slow the spread of coronavirus. Though the federal or state government may eventually provide relief, the immediate conservation of our limited financial resources is necessary for our own and our family's health and well being. Renters, lessors, banks and other relevant institutions can, as a class seek their own relief; the state and federal government is much more responsive and historically more likely to act on their behalf. We must protect our limited cash flow, ensure people can keep their homes, and protect credit ratings immediately.

  1,847 of 2,000 Signatures

  Created by Tera Kozel
• #Covid19 - We need more Personal Protective Equipment

  During the current Covid19 pandemic, health care providers need personal protective equipment (PPE)--gowns, surgical masks, and N95 masks--to properly and safely care for our patients. We are now facing a dire shortage of PPE, to the point that we are already **reusing masks**. If we do not take this seriously, we will see healthcare workers taken out of the fight by the virus and become patients themselves, compounding the problem twofold. As health care providers, we are perhaps at the highest risk of spreading this disease as we care for those who suffer from it. Ensuring an ample supply of PPE will mitigate this risk tremendously. We must act now to increase funding for PPE. Please join by adding your name to call for a dedicated Federal backing for the production of PPE.

  1,742 of 2,000 Signatures

  Created by James Gaylor