Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on food security, and highlights the COVID testing and tracking work of colleague Shawn Boeser and other volunteers on Vashon Island (vashonbeprepared.org), including that of chair Dr. Jim Bristow and other physicians.Read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/health/coronavirus-vashon-washington.html

Image: https://vashonbeprepared.org/testing

Principles: “Our strategy is founded on three basic principles: 1) that informed patients can self-collect nasal swab specimens for testing; 2) that exposure of volunteer healthcare workers to SARS-CoV2 must be minimized; and 3) PPE use can be minimized during testing by isolating patients and workers from each other throughout the testing process.”