Sean Penn needs to be speaking about his new film, ‘Flag Day.’ However he has a lot extra to say.

Then the pandemic hit. On the time, CORE’s employees was primarily in Haiti, with solely seven employees in the USA. Final spring, Lee instructed Penn about Matthew Abinante, a physician who was doing coronavirus checks out of his workplace in Huntington Seaside. They visited him and earlier than lengthy, CORE had established a free testing web site at Dodger Stadium. This is able to increase in time till 2,781 CORE employees had been operating 47 websites throughout the nation, together with in Chicago, North Carolina and the Navajo Nation. CORE would later distribute vaccine doses, greater than 1.7 million so far. And Penn started to make his strategic media appearances to induce individuals to get examined and vaccinated, whether or not doing a every day replace with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) or occurring cable information.