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To: President Trump, Governors who have not issued a statewide order

Keep people safe: Issue a stay at home order in every state

Everyone must stay at home if they are able. We know this will mitigate the pandemic and save lives! There must be a national order, and Governors should copy it for their states to ensure we're doing all we can to protect people.

Why is this important?

I've been a doctor for 35 years and I want our country to listen to medical health professionals in this crisis.

Staying at home as much as possible works. We've seen it work in Italy, China, and in areas of the U.S. to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus. However, millions of people live in several states that have not mandated a stay-at-home order. Everyone deserves to be protected in this crisis as much as possible - we need a federal stay at home order, and every Governor must copy it for their state.

If we don't practice physical distancing, then we will continue the exponential growth that I saw in my community and across the country. While some tried to trivialize the impact of the coronavirus just weeks ago we are now seeing over 200,000 reported cases in the United States and more than 5,000 deaths—not to mention record job losses and other immense damage to our nation. Experts say we may end up with hundreds of thousands dead in the United States alone.

As a doctor, I am seeing hospitals scramble for the equipment needed to treat the thousands already infected. Staying home slows the rate of infection and will help ease the demand on our already strained healthcare system.

It is never too late to act. The U.S. has been slow to react to this global pandemic, but expanding the stay at home orders has the potential to save thousands of lives. We all need to work together, this only works if everyone, in every state stays home because our health is all interconnected. President Trump has said distancing should continue through the end of April, but this needs to be required. Actions speak louder than words - declare a national stay at home order now!

We know it works and doctors and other health care providers are willing to put their own lives on the line, this doctor thinks it is more than reasonable to ask EVERY governor and the President to do the right thing and do it NOW, before more lives are needlessly lost.

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2020-04-05 12:45:41 -0400

50,000 signatures reached

2020-04-05 10:34:36 -0400

20,000 signatures reached

2020-04-05 10:12:38 -0400

10,000 signatures reached

2020-04-05 09:58:11 -0400

5,000 signatures reached

2020-04-05 09:51:38 -0400

"Just eight US governors have decided against issuing statewide directives urging their residents to stay at home as the outbreak of the coronavirus escalates and spreads across the country, the last holdouts in the nation.

The governors, all of whom are Republican, have offered a variety of explanations for why they have not followed the lead of their colleagues from coast-to-coast -- along with countries across the world -- by ordering people to restrict their movement in hopes of slowing the pandemic.

In doing so, they've collectively ignored the stay-at-home pleas of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, who said in a CNN interview: 'If you look at what's going on in this country, I just don't understand why we're not doing that.'"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/politics/republican-governors-stay-at-home-orders-coronavirus/index.html

2020-04-02 17:03:34 -0400

1,000 signatures reached

2020-04-02 16:34:54 -0400

500 signatures reached

2020-04-02 15:44:37 -0400

100 signatures reached

2020-04-02 09:03:53 -0400

50 signatures reached

2020-04-01 23:36:10 -0400

25 signatures reached

2020-04-01 17:34:06 -0400

10 signatures reached