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Lisseth DeGracia is a nurse at Children’s Minnesota and previously served as an ER Nurse at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. When the COVID-19 crisis hit New York hard, this single mother from Shakopee, MN heard the pleas from NY Governor Cuomo during a press conference and decided she had to help. This brave and selfless healthcare professional on the frontlines said, “Anybody who has the skill, the background, has the availability and the opportunity to do it, should do it.” She took a leave of absence to volunteer for a 13-week tour at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, the hardest hit hospital in NYC. She will need to quarantine for 14 days when she returns. While it’s a long time to be away from her children, she says it’s a sacrifice she’s willing to make. Click here to read more about Lisseth’s story – https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/minnesota-nurse-heads-to-new-york-city-to-answer-call-for-help
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Iveth Jalinsky, the owner of Green Resources Consulting, LLC in Missouri, began using her company’s facilities to manufacture FFP3 (Face Filtering Protection) masks (equivalent to N-99, a 99% protection rate against the coronavirus) made of bamboo and carbon. They are now producing over 30,000 masks per day, and donating many of them for free to area healthcare providers. Their masks are now on the CDC and NIOSH websites. Testing has indicated 99.17 and 98.17 protection, which is the second-highest in the world. To view a local news report on Iveth’s efforts, click HERE. Click HERE to read an article about Iveth in HerLife Magazine. |
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Award-winning chef & Nobel Prize nominee José Andrés, along with the incredible team at World Central Kitchen, have worked tirelessly to distribute meals to those in need, activate chefs to help meet the need for meal service, and keep local restaurants working. Thank you for all that you do!
According to the World Central Kitchen website, “after six weeks of WCK’s Relief Team working around the clock, our #ChefsForAmerica response to COVID-19 has served more than 3 million meals to vulnerable communities and frontline healthcare workers in over 155 cities in more than 25 states and territories. We are now serving nearly 200,000 meals each day across the country.” The Time magazine article can be found HERE. |
