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May 25 2020
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Get Us PPE’s Dr. Megan Ranney Testifies at Congressional Briefing to Protect Frontline and Essential Workers

By Advocacy, PPE Insights, Stories From the Frontlines
By Alison Mosier-Mills, a blog contributor at GetUsPPE.org. On Thursday, May 21, GetUsPPE’s Dr. Megan Ranney testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus. She discussed the impact of the crisis on medical staff and first responders, highlighting the urgent need for protective gear and proposing a path toward a sustainable and equitable supply chain. These priorities will be essential to providing high-quality care to Covid-19 patients while also ensuring the well-being of the frontline workers who treat them.  Across the country, hospitals have been overwhelmed by the volume of patients requiring intensive treatment for Covid-19—and many frontline healthcare workers…
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May 22 2020
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Hoopers Meet Heroes: 76ers’ Josh Richardson and Philadelphia’s Nurse Kimberly Nowakowski

By CloseUp360, Partners
The people on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic are healthcare professionals, everyday citizens risking their lives to save those of their patients. They are the heroes right now. In CloseUp360's “Hoopers Meet Heroes” series, which connects NBA and WNBA players with healthcare professionals on the frontline of the fight against the coronavirus in their respective cities, Philadelphia 76ers guard Josh Richardson chatted with Kimberly Nowakowski. Kimberly is a hematology-oncology nurse at Penn Medicine, where the Sixers established a funding campaign for COVID-19 antibody testing of healthcare workers. Healthcare professionals like Kimberly need our help. So many of them are…
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May 22 2020
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Faces of the Frontline: Protect Our Nurses 

By Stories From the Frontlines
By Zayba Syed, a blog writer at GetUsPPE.org This week, one nurse shared her fears and the source of her strength during this pandemic. From the first week of quarantine until now, she has been reminded of her initial drive to be a nurse - “to help people achieve their best health and provide care with compassion.” Despite the generous donations of personal protective equipment (PPE) to GetUsPPE, there is still a huge shortage of PPE in our nation. This nurse and her colleagues are fighting for the equipment they need. On the Medical/Surgery floor where she works, the nurses…
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May 22 2020
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Serving from a Distance: Medical Students Empowering Get Us PPE

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By Grace Jin, a blog writer at GetUsPPE.org and health policy student at Yale University. Most medical students were sent home when Covid-19 first ravaged hospitals around the country, but many have sought ways to help their future colleagues remotely. Suhas Gondi, MD/MBA student at Harvard Medical School, felt that “GetUsPPE provided an avenue to contribute by helping to keep those on the front lines safe—even if I can't be beside them.” Gondi, along with Harvard medical students Adam Beckman and Tomi Ojo, joined GetUsPPE as some of its earliest volunteers and contributors to the grassroots effort. Other current and…
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May 21 2020
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Get Us PPE and Supplies Save Lives Launch Nationwide PPE Donation Hotline

By News, Partners
Text “MASKS” to 844-974-2444 to donate PPE via our hotline At GetUsPPE and Supplies Save Lives, we are excited to announce that we have formed a partnership, combining efforts to get donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to the frontline healthcare workers who desperately need it. Through our joint efforts, we are offering a nationwide text hotline: anyone who has PPE to donate can text “MASKS” to 844-974-2444. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers have been facing critical shortages of the PPE they need to stay safe. This includes masks, gowns, face shields, and other equipment. Supplies Save…
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May 19 2020
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Hoopers Meet Heroes: Magic’s D.J. Augustin and Orlando’s Dr. Sarah Barbour

By CloseUp360, Partners
The people on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic are healthcare professionals, everyday citizens risking their lives to save those of their patients. They are the heroes right now. In CloseUp360's “Hoopers Meet Heroes” series, which connects NBA and WNBA players with healthcare professionals on the frontline of the fight against the coronavirus in their respective cities, Magic guard D.J. Augustin chatted with Dr. Sarah Barbour, an infectious disease physician in Orlando. After treating gunshot victims from the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016—the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since 9/11—she's now helping COVID-19 patients. Healthcare professionals like Dr. Barbour…
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