Hospitals around California are running desperately low on supplies of filtering facepiece respirators (commonly known as "N-95 masks") and other kinds of personal protective equipment (PPE). The need is only expected to increase over the next few days and weeks.
Many solar and storage companies have a stockpile of respirators/PPE. You may have bought them recently before it became clear that PPE was in short supply at hospitals locally.
To help out, volunteers are organizing donation drives all around the state (and country) to collect donated items. Our friend Nick Chaset, CEO of East Bay Community Energy, reached out to me with this request for help and offered to connect the CALSSA-generated donations with a needy hospital in your area. Email us TODAY with your donation and/or to ask us questions.
Please note: You don’t have to get rid of your entire stockpile if you are going to need them over the next few weeks. We ask that you keep only what you need and donate the rest. There is reason to trust that manufacturers of various products (toilet paper and PPEs, to name just two) will ramp up production to meet demand. In the meantime, we need to avoid hoarding and share.
Also, some healthcare facilities are only able to accept respirators in unopened packages. If you have unused respirators but in opened packages, we will still work to find a facility who can use them. Please make sure to specify the condition of your donated items.
Let’s keep our workers, customers, and community safe. Thanks for your help.