Lifeline Tablets to provide mobile tablets to isolated COVID-19 patients

Nigel Parry, Lifeline Tablets—Looking for an end of year place to donate? Visit Lifeline Tablets, a new MN nonprofit that puts mobile communications tablets in the hands of isolated COVID-19 patients.

We’ve all seen the heartbreaking stories about how families are not able to say goodbye to their isolated relatives, dying of COVID-19 in the hospitals, and how healthcare workers have been holding up their own phones so that families can say goodbye one last time.

Addressing the problem of patients’ isolation is not cost-prohibitive. Amazon Fire tablets can be purchased for $50 a piece. Paired with a gooseneck stand and headphones with a mic, a kit costs just $100.

The Amazon Fire tablet, roughly the same size as an iPad Mini, but one eighth of its price.

Lifeline Tablets will provide ready-to-use tablet kits with preconfigured video chat apps to isolated COVID-19 patients and those in congregate care facilities at high risk from the virus.

On the back of the tablet, a unique username and password. All a patient needs to do is to give out their messaging username to family and friends and they’re instantly in touch.

The tablet also gives patients something to do in hospital—surf the web, read the news and books, listen to music, and watch YouTube, Netflix, and other video streaming services.

The Coronavirus pandemic has seen many people across the nation step up to help their neighbors get through the crisis. Lifeline Tablets is a straightforward idea to solve an obvious problem. Help us turn this idea into a reality to ease the crushing isolation of COVID-19 patients.

We have medical facilities asking for tablets now.

Please donate at LifelineTablets.org. All donations are tax deductible.