U.S. graduates turn regalia into PPE: Wear the cap, donate the gown

- In this year’s mostly virtual commencement ceremonies, thousands of American graduates are adorning their mortarboards with the slogan “Gowns 4 Good” after donating their gowns to healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic to use as personal protective equipment.

“The image of my colleagues on the front line and at other medical facilities that lack the appropriate PPE and wearing trash bags with no sleeves and no protection under the waist, that just struck me,” Moore, 30, told Reuters. “We are getting cries for help - from New York City emergency departments that have hundreds of patients coming in a day and they have no adequate gown protection to assisted living facilities that are sending us pictures of their staff without gowns,” he said.

On Wednesday, Gowns4Good.net listed more than 75,000 gowns requested by medical facilities, more than 4,100 gowns donated by individuals and more than 1,500 gowns donated by institutional partners, including a regalia manufacturer. Before the crisis hit the United States, Graduation Source in Greenwich, Connecticut, one of several cap and gown suppliers nationwide, received about 2 million orders for regalia for this spring’s graduation season, a spokesman said.

This is a nice story.

3.2 million Americans filed for unemployment last week Latest updates | cases per million population👇 coronavirus Covid_19

How and where do you donate them?

I think most grads rent their gowns...not theirs to donate.

They're a bit grim-reaperish...

USA has witnessed the worst economic downfall since 1930 Latest updates | cases per million population👇 coronavirus Covid_19

Health Health Latest News, Health Health Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

U.S. graduates turn regalia into PPE: Wear the cap, donate the gownIn this year's mostly virtual commencement ceremonies, thousands of American graduates are adorning their mortarboards with the slogan 'Gowns 4 Good' after donating their gowns to healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic to use as personal protective equipment. Sweet I guess they are not that busy if they have time for this BS
Source: Reuters - 🏆 2. / 97 Read more »

3 Russian Medics Fall Out of Windows After Complaining About Lack of PPE: ReportsTwo of the healthcare workers have reportedly died, while a third is in critical condition Murdered!? 😢 The PPE crisis is a world crisis. Shortages have led to black market. In Russia if you complain you get thrown out of a window. In the UK, nurses have been in trouble for complaining but not thrown out of windows.
Source: people - 🏆 712. / 51 Read more »

Reports: In Three Separate Incidents, Russian Doctors Fall From Hospital Windows After Coronavirus PPE ComplaintsTwo of the frontline medical workers died, while a third is in intensive care Fall
Source: TIMEHealth - 🏆 121. / 63 Read more »