COVID 19 Issues, Actions and Resources
There are tons of issues, actions, and resources related to COVID 19 and disability. We've consolidated some of them here. Please contact us if you have any suggestions.
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Covid-19 Actions, Issues, and Resources for the Disability Community
The disability community is at high risk from COVID-19. Inclusion for healthcare is a matter of life and death. We are pulling together as many resources as we can and actions that you can take to help ensure that all kids and all adults with disabilities are protected.
COVID-19 has impacted the lives of all of us. The virus poses a risk to everyone’s health, and is proving to be especially dangerous for people with certain types of disabilities and chronic health conditions as well as older adults. The pandemic has disrupted our lives and changed the way that we go to school, work, socialize, and more.
Government and private sector responses may also pose additional harm to disabled people if discrimination based on disability results in the denial of healthcare. And, there is a very real possibility that the spread of COVID-19 will result in a drastic reduction of personal assistants available to provide support to disabled people who rely on their assistance with activities of daily living.
Actions
The Disability Community Must Once Again Show #WeAreEssential
After being all but ignored in the first three legislative packages that Congress has passed to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the disability community must rise…
#NoBodyIsDisposable Campaign Against Discrimination in Triage
WHO WE ARE We are people targeted by triage plans during the COVID-19 pandemic — people with disabilities, fat people, old people, people with HIV/AIDS…
COVID-19 Disability Community Organizing Call – Monday April 6 3:00 pm ET
The coronavirus pandemic and the response to it significantly impact the disability community and our allies. So far, the policies passed and implemented largely leave us…
Issues
Covid-19 New Normal
COVID-19 is not a short term crisis. It is going to require long term changes to a lot of things we’ve become accustomed to. In…
Protect IDEA under COVID
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is under imminent threat as the US responds to the COVID epidemic A provision in the Coronavirus Aid,…
Disability Inclusion in COVID-19 Response
The disability community is at high risk from COVID-19. Inclusion for healthcare is a matter of life and death. We are pulling together as many…
Resources and References
COVID-19 Self care information for People with Disabilities and Older Adults
The Administration for Community Living is maintaining resources for people with disabilities and older adults and the elderly As guidance is updated, ACL will post…
General COVID-19 Disability Resources
We all need to work together to help the disability community through the COVID-19 crisis. If you know of any resource, action, or other information,…
US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights Coronavirus Statement
Dear Education Leader: I write to request your careful attention to recent challenges that have been reported in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19). There has…