Contra Costa County officials announced a trio of donation sites where residents can provide protective medical supplies for health care workers caring for novel coronavirus patients.
Local businesses and residents throughout the county can donate items like goggles, face shields, unopened antibacterial and disinfecting wipes, unopened N-95 and surgical masks and medical gowns.
The three sites — 151 Linus Pauling Drive in Hercules, 1750 Oak Park Blvd. in Pleasant Hill and 4545 Delta Fair Blvd. in Antioch — will be open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The county will begin accepting donations at each site Tuesday.
Residents can contact the Contra Costa Health Services call center at (844) 729-8410 for information on acceptable supplies.
Read: Our society is so messed up professional health care workers are reduced to begging the public for donations.
So backwards… the county should be handing these supplies out to the public. Just more proof the government can’t take care of you like you can take care of yourself!
Why don’t these hospitals use the billions of dollars they gouge out of us and insurance companies? They have the money. We don’t. We’re on our way to homelessness because of the nation shutting down businesses. And if they say they can’t find these medical supplies, where do they think we can find them? This is bs.
THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS
My thoughts exactly.
It’s not a money issue, it’s a supply issue. There aren’t enough masks, and they can’t make them fast enough.
I was thinking the same thing, we paid $35K for a birth with no complications and $9 for aspirin and now you need us to make up for your health system’s mismanagement?
If local communities can organize gun buyback programs, why can’t the same be done for masks and wipes?
I’m surprised at the response to this- shouldn’t we want to support our community in this unprecedented time of need? No one was prepared for this, and shouldn’t we be seeking to help those directly exposed to the virus? Most of us can stay home, but nurses, doctors, and even janitors in medical facilities are short on these protective supplies. Let’s share what supplies we do have with those risking their own health to care for others.
Have to agree with you folks, The high priced directors of the hospital conglomerations and insurance companies should pony up their extravagant salaries and donate big time.
Glad other people are saying what I have been wondering…why the hospitals and medical groups did not have more supplies stocked. They seem to have run out immediately. I am happy to donate a few masks I have left over from the fires for our esteemed health care workers , but seems an elemental part of medicine to have PPE available for your staff. Am a little tired of the narrative that the reason there is PPE available is due to hoarding, seems like a case of passing the buck by management.
It’s not just hoarding that’s caused this. It’s a supply chain problem: most masks are made in other countries, and they have blocked exports of them. China, but also France and others. And apparently there isn’t enough of the special plastic they use for n95 masks to meet the current global demand. The US should have been on this : if we aren’t going to produce enough PPE here, we need a bigger stockpile
The problem is the just-in-time mentality. This is why grocery stores run out of food in three days if the trucks stop coming. No one keeps an inventory if they don’t have to.