In recent weeks, Americans have discovered that the financial costs of the pandemic — masks, rapid tests and more — are increasingly falling on their shoulders.
have poured their own money into the effort and put out calls for cash and test kits to hand out to those in need.
Sam Stettiner, who is disabled and lives in Brooklyn, said that fear of the disease and anger and sadness over the response, particularly on behalf of disabled people, had almost defined his time during the pandemic. He said it has been hard to acquire tests, and the cost is difficult to swallow because his chronic illnesses make it impossible for him to work.
The hope, Khanna said, was for the federal government to use the Defense Production Act to expand the number of rapid tests and masks available, and then provide them free to every person in the U.S. who needed them. “I had a good call with the White House. They get it,” he said in a text. “They are doing everything now to expeditiously get high quality masks to Americans and I expect a big announcement soon.”
The demand in the U.S. is too high compared with the available supply, said Feigl-Ding, who said that he knew people who had bought huge numbers of tests because they wanted to use them for parties.
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