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Contra Costa County Board of Supervisor Diane Burgis this week handed off thousands of new, unused, but expired N95 masks from the federal emergency stockpile, previously stocked in the Contra Costa County warehouse.
“It Takes A Village” is an inclusive community of volunteers that create and deliver PPE into the hands of health care workers serving communities in need throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Over 200 volunteers from across the San Francisco Bay Area are working together to supply face masks and shields to safety net hospitals and federally qualified health care centers.
La Clinica and Lifelong, two medical centers which serve the Latinex community particularly had expressed they could still use more N95’s, even if refurbished. So It takes a Village came back for more.
It Takes a Village gratefully accepted more N95’s, this week totaling at 30,000 masks to date and have assembled the man power and means to refurbish them quickly and distribute them.
Some of the recipients of the repaired masks so far:
- Post Acute Rehab Danville
- Contra Costa Food Bank
- La Clinica
- Life Long Medical Center
See more about It Takes A Village at www.it-takes-a-village.org
