Health and the Right to Testing
There can be no justice without a right to health. Experts say testing as many people as possible is "crucial to saving lives." Why?
Chris Arnold, in his article U.S. Coronavirus Gets a Breakthrough (3/13/20), reported:
The U.S. has a serious testing problem with the coronavirus. Only around 15,000 people have been tested so far, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And public health experts say that's not nearly enough to know how widespread the outbreak is and how to respond. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815522836/u-s-coronavirus-testing-gets-a-breakthrough
We need more testing in order to properly "map" the outbreak. Without that map, as Marc Lipsitch, Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard's School of Public Health says: "We have a lot of uncertainty about whether we have 10 times more or 100 times more cases than we know about; I think we're flying almost completely blind right now."
We have the right to be disease free. Let's not fly blind! Justice demands the right to be tested, in order to gain the knowledge necessary to help save us all. So wash with soap, eat herbs and demand testing.
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