Sean Penn's CORE Praises Los Angeles' 'Heroes' in COVID-19 Testing PSA
Sean Penn’s CORE praises Los Angeles’ guardian angels — those on the ground administering COVID-19 tests — in a new PSA that reiterates that “testing saves lives.”
On March 30th, CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) opened its first coronavirus testing site in Los Angeles; since that time, CORE now oversees 15 sites, including 12 in California, two in Atlanta and a mobile site in Detroit. Their team of 120 staff members and 300 volunteers have thus far administered 70,000 tests as of May 6th.
The “Guardians” PSA — narrated by actor Edward James Olmos — features a visual tapestry of near-desolate Los Angeles, “the City of Angels,” where only essential workers and CORE volunteers remain on the streets.
“Angels come in many ways. You might not recognize their faces, don’t know who they are,” Olmos says in the PSA over footage of the testers at work. “From downtown to LAX, from South Central to PCH, watching over us. Protecting us. Let them know that we see them.”
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