Excerpt from Town Square Delaware | Read Full Article – In addition to an incredible level of spirit and optimism Delawareans possess, it turns out that Delawareans also own a lot of personal protective equipment. And they’re now donating it by the carload to hospitals and other healthcare organizations to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
Starting last Wednesday, people up and down the state have been dropping off boxes of protective face masks, medical gloves, surgical scrubs and bottles of hand sanitizers at any of ten collection locations in the state.
Boxing champion Dave Tiberi and his friend Richard Piendak helped bring hospitals and communities together and jump-start the collection initiative (https://donatede.org). Neither works in the healthcare field. But as businesspeople, they realized that as the number of cases of coronavirus grew, the community would need to step up in a big way.