Alfredo Ortiz, President and CEO of Job Creators Network, released the following statement:
"The time has come to 'Flatten the Fear,' when it comes to Covid-19. And we don't have any time to waste. We have the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression – more than 42 million Americans jobless and that number grows every day. The purpose of our campaign is to reduce fear through education – basic facts about Covid-19 – and we are putting a microphone in front of doctors who know more about the disease than anyone else. In the past three months, countless Americans have missed out on key preventative and routine treatments because hospitals have been largely closed to non-coronavirus patients. The mental health effects of the lockdown have been equally devastating – measured by a 33% increase in anti-anxiety drug prescriptions, a 75% increase in hard liquor sales, and a 338% increase in calls to the national Disaster Distress Helpline. We can isolate the few and protect the many instead of isolating the many to protect the few. If we don't, sadly we will have more victims of Covid who never have the virus."
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