Sean Penn's nonprofit is providing drive-through coronavirus testing in Los Angeles — he and cofounder Ann Lee are creating a guide to replicate their efforts in other cities
is working with the government of Los Angeles to provide free drive-through coronavirus testing and hopes to create a model that can be replicated throughout the country.
CORE cofounder Sean Penn says there is no bravado in not observing social distancing because it is not about personal risk. He says if we rebel against social distancing "we are not honoring the dead. We're not honoring those nurses and doctors who are so heroic in that hospital."Nonprofit CORE is working with the city of Los Angeles to provide drive-through coronavirus testing.
It was a natural for us to see what gap we could fill, what place we could supplement. And so what happened is, because we happen to be in Los Angeles, which I hope will be a model, as expansion can happen, is we were able, as an NGO, to be plugged into an existing system that Mayor Garcetti and the Los Angeles Fire Department had already established.
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