Crowdsourcing desperately needed medical supplies in coronavirus fight.
"I almost have to take a step back," said Siu, the co-founder of 1-mask-at-a-time, a GoFundMe raising money to buy N95 and surgical masks."We started from 150 masks and now we have over 10,000. We're just two simple moms doing the best we can."Last Thursday, Siu and Hsia told a few friends about their idea to buy 150 N95 masks. Within 48 hours, $7,000 poured into Siu's Venmo and 1-mask-at-a-time launched. They've raised $22,000, so far.
"It's a citywide shortage," said an internal medicine resident in New York City."We underestimated the effects of the pandemic and now we are overwhelmed." “Thank you so much for these generously donated N95 1860 and 1860s Respirators,” physicians at a hospital in Santa Clara, California shared with 1-mask-at-a-time. “They could not have arrived at a more crucial time.”On Saturday, multiple grassroots organizations across the country gathered on a call to combine efforts into a national response called #GETUSPPE, headed by Harvard Medical School resident physician Dr. Shuhan He.
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