(Washington, DC) – The District’s reported data for Tuesday, May 19, 2020 includes 117 new positive coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, bringing the District’s overall positive case total to 7,551.
The District reported seven additional COVID-19 related deaths:
32-year-old male
53-year-old male
58-year-old male
69-year-old female
72-year-old male
73-year-old male
93-year-old male
Tragically, 407 District residents have lost their lives due to COVID-19.
Grubb’s Pharmacy in Historic Anacostia. Do NOT go to the pharmacy for a test, make an appointment and get instructions, a voucher and the information on where the drive-thru testing will occur.
IRVING, Texas, May 12, 2020—Health Mart® pharmacies will offer free COVID-19 test collection beginning this week in select pharmacies across the U.S. The Health Mart family of community pharmacies are diligently providing testing options to rural and underserved populations. Sixty percent of Health Mart pharmacies serve low-income neighborhoods, a key reason for their partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide testing to the public free of charge. As part of the McKesson Corporation, Health Mart is committed to innovative public and private partnerships to help address the COVID-19 crisis.
All Health Mart coronavirus test collection sites can be found at DoINeedACovid19Test.com. The new online portal helps patients make test collection appointments at a nearby location after answering a few simple questions about symptoms.
Coronavirus symptoms and tests
According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. If individuals have a cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fever, chills, muscle pain, sore throat or a new loss of taste or smell, they should consider testing. Updated CDC guidelines now recommend testing for people with and without symptoms under certain conditions.
Participating Health Mart pharmacies will provide curbside or drive-through testing options from the safety of a patient’s car. Some locations will provide walk-up testing. The test is self-administered by the patient with a nasal swab and once the sample kit is sealed, Health Mart staff submit the package to the lab for processing. Results are ready in three to five business days.
Critical community COVID-19 response
With some communities lifting shelter-in-place orders, the need for COVID-19 testing is being answered by frontline healthcare workers like pharmacists. Health Mart has dedicated teams and resources to help provide the highest quality care to those in need.
“We need widespread coronavirus testing now. We all want life to return to normal and one way to help is more COVID- 19 testing, even in rural areas. We’re proud to serve our community in these efforts to fight this virus,” said Nancy Lyons, chief pharmacist for Health Mart. “Our fearless pharmacists and healthcare heroes are here for you through the coronavirus pandemic.”
COVID-19 test collection locations
Health Mart pharmacies will provide appointment-based, curbside COVID-19 test collection for pre-screened individuals. Some of the pharmacies offering coronavirus test collection, include:
Lifeline Baltimore Pharmacy in Baltimore, MarylandGristedes Supermarkets Pharmacy in Brooklyn, New YorkRenue Rx in Dallas and San Antonio, TexasOK’Care Pharmacy in Las Vegas, NevadaHayat Pharmacy in Milwaukee, WisconsinApollo Specialty Pharmacy in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaGrubb’s Southeast, Grubb’s of DC and Morgan Care Pharmacy in Washington, DC
The website infrastructure for DoINeedACovid19Test.com and laboratory services are provided by eTrueNorth, the U.S.- based healthcare technology company that enables laboratory testing at retail pharmacies. eTrueNorth is a contractor of the HHS.
The Pet Pantry program was created to support DC residents in caring for their pets by providing free pet food to those who indicate need. The food distributed is intended to supplement the pet's monthly food needs and to reduce the financial burden associated with pet care.
How does it work?
The Pet Pantry operates on a regular schedule, with designated times and days of the week during which pet owners can show up to pick up for their animals. HRA is not able to provide food to pet owners who arrive outside of these timeframes.
Any pet owner who wishes to receive food for their pet through the Pet Pantry will be asked to complete an enrollment form the first time they come to pick up food. After enrolling the first time they show up at the Pet Pantry, pet owners will be given an identification card that must be provided during each subsequent visit.
Food may be picked up once per month for each animal who is enrolled in the program.
Within six months of enrollment, pet owners must show proof of up to date vaccines and spay/neuter for each of their animals. Pet Pantry staff can help any pet owner facilitate vaccination or spay/neuter for their animal, and pet owners are encouraged to inquire about these services when they arrive to pick up food.
Application deadline is Wednesday, May 20. The hiring team may continue to consider applicants after that date until the role is filled. Note: Job Description updated May 15, 2020
About MoveOn
MoveOn is a diverse and vibrant community of millions of people working together to create progressive change in America. We are an innovative campaigning organization that supports people throughout the country to take action through driving impactful campaigns that influence the behavior of people and institutions, shape the outcomes of elections, and expand the realities of what’s possible. We organize to challenge entrenched power, while pursuing economic, racial, and social justice and a vision of a country in which everyone can thrive.
MoveOn has a particularly important role to play in the Trump era. We are working to defeat Donald Trump and the GOP in 2020 by building a powerful, multiracial, and economic populist movement that will give voters something to vote for, not just against—and we're also working to defend communities that are on the front lines of Trump and GOP attacks, including immigrants, people of color, the LGBTQ community, and women. In service of that mission, in 2020 and beyond, MoveOn will drive impactful, movement-connected, multichannel, nimble campaigns aimed at impact.
About the Position
The Digital Voter Mobilization Director is an experienced digital organizer and leader who is excited and passionate about helping to imagine, implement, and drive to results a voter mobilization strategy that uses every tool at MoveOn’s disposal -- and a massive base of millions of members -- to inspire battleground state voters to turn out to defeat Donald Trump, with a focus on scaled multichannel digital tactics.
The goal of the 2020 Voter Mobilization Team at MoveOn is to turn out 100,000 voters as safely as possible across nine battleground states to vote to defeat Donald Trump, with a focus on who we call “high potential voters” (traditionally called “low propensity voters”) -- young voters, first-time voters, people of color, new Americans and low-income voters who may not have otherwise voted. A core part of our strategy to accomplish this goal is to implement scalable tactics through digital or mobile channels such as by collecting “vote tripling” pledges - a tactic proven to increase voter turnout. The Digital Voter Mobilization Director will be responsible for leveraging MoveOn’s reach and base to digitally collect up to 1 million vote tripling pledges from battleground state voters, and identify and implement other scalable digital tactics to drive turnout in the 2020 election.
We are also hiring a Voter Mobilization Director: Vote Captains-- distinct from this role -- who will focus on recruiting, organizing, and supporting thousands of volunteer leaders to organize and turn out 10 of their friends, family members, and community members in battleground states. You can view that job here: https://front.moveon.org/careers/
Through this work, we seek to build durable, progressive people power to expand the MoveOn community for ongoing organizing to win positive change in people’s lives in 2020, 2021, and beyond.
Thanks to our tireless agency, nonprofit, and local business partners, there are a range of services for DC residents who need food resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have created a map of these resources that will be updated each evening.
Please consider the following:
If you have food at home, please stay home. DC Health is prioritizing social distancing and self-quarantine to limit the spread and impact of the coronavirus. Those who have food and other resources at home should use those resources first and maintain social distancing.
Consider home delivery. Currently, the District is providing home-delivered meals for seniors in need (see below). Many grocery stores and local farms also provide home delivery.
Seek out food if necessary. See the range of resources on this map. Notably, meals for children under 18 years old are provided at DCPS sites and charter school sites. Meals for seniors are being delivered to seniors in their homes.
If you’re providing a service not covered below, please email dcfoodpolicy@dc.gov with:
The Community Enrichment Project, a Washington D.C. youth civic engagement organization, is awarding two 2020 Civic Leadership scholarships to outstanding youth civic leaders in Ward 7 and Ward 8 in Washington D.C.
Applications will be accepted until May 29, 2020. The winners will be announced on June 18, 2020.
-High school senior -Ward 7 or Ward 8 Resident -Accepted to a college, university, or trade school for Fall 2020. -Completed at least 100 community service hours during high school.
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