The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today joined fellow members of the
Policy Committee of National Muslim COVID-19 Taskforce in sending a pair of letters to
Vice President Mike Pence and
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar calling on the Trump administration to “increase the production and availability of testing kits nationwide and provide more medical resources and personal protective equipment (PPE) for our hospitals and healthcare workforce” by “immediately invok[ing] the DPA to its full potential to direct American companies to mass manufacture medical supplies.”
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NOTE: Last week, the
National Muslim Task Force on COVID-19, a broad coalition of 34 American Muslim organizations,
released a joint statement strongly recommending that Muslims in North America make every effort to support self-quarantine and social distancing as advised by local, regional, state, and national public health or government authorities.]