Hi there. It’s Andy Levin, Congressman from Michigan’s 9th District.

Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren and I launched a national contact tracing plan that could actually bring coronavirus to heel.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths continues to climb, yet our country still lacks a national testing and contact tracing plan. If we’re going to defeat a virus that jumps from state to state with a simple plane or car ride, we need a coordinated national effort on contact tracing that will help health experts identify infected individuals, trace who they have come in contact with, and help them stay isolated and cared for.

This is the only way we cut the chain of transmission and end this crisis.

Join Sen. Warren and me by signing on as a supporter of our proposal. Click here to sign on.

The Trump administration has spent months denying, minimizing, and lying about this pandemic -- and now they’re pushing states to reopen prematurely. We need to avoid the nonsense and work with scientists and doctors in order to reopen our economy safely and get people back to work with public health in the lead, so we can dramatically reduce the spread of coronavirus.

Senator Warren and I put forth a proposal that outlines how we can create and implement this necessary program:

• The CDC must submit a strategy within 30 days on hiring, training, and deploying many thousands of workers to do contact tracing under the auspices of local health authorities.
• The Labor Department must fund state and local workforce agencies to help unemployed individuals become paid contact tracers and require that diverse individuals are hired from within their communities.
• We must rapidly develop training materials, guidelines, and standards to support public health departments in preparing and deploying these workers.
• We must include tribal health departments.
• We must protect privacy while creating a data system that allows us to track the virus locally and nationally, or else there is no hope of containing it.

Our country needs a national contact tracing program to defeat coronavirus. Add your name as a supporter and join Senator Warren and me. Click here to add your name.

I am proud to have worked alongside PCCC members like you during Elizabeth’s campaign for president, and I know that with grassroots efforts from groups like PCCC we can secure the coronavirus response the crisis requires.

Thank you for being in this fight,

Andy Levin

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