The United States may have one of the most advanced medical systems on the globe, but the coronavirus has sparked a dire need for protective equipment -- and some surprising groups of Americans are now pitching in.
MasksForDocs has worked around the globe, but lately, the pressing need has been on the homefront.
"MasksForDocs, If you go to #MasksForDocs, people are taking one or two of these out of their earthquake kit. Or construction workers who don't need the hundred that they have are saying, 'I've got them,' and a motorcyclist is going across town and picking them up, keeping them secure and dropping them off where a nurse or a doctor said, 'It looks like we are all out tonight.
President Trump continuously has defended his administration's response, from barring non-citizens arriving on flights from China in January to the numerous actions taken by the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
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