NEW YORK (WKBW) — New York Governor Cuomo's Office announced Thursday the state has received significant donations from dozens of major corporations, organizations, and celebrities to help in the response to the coronavirus outbreak.
"New York is fighting a war against this virus and we need all the help we can get," said Cuomo. "The generosity of these companies, organizations and individuals — and many others coming forward every day to offer support — will play a critical role in our mission to bolster our hospital surge capacity, support frontline workers and get people the help they need."
Below are the initial donations the state will receive:
- Goldman Sachs: 195,000 masks
- Boll and Branch: 1,000 hospital mattresses
- Restore Global: 150,000 coveralls
- Facebook: 2,500 gallons of hand sanitizer
- Rihanna Foundation: Various PPE supplies
- Dominion Energy: Masks
- L'Oréal: Hand sanitizer
- SoftBank: 1.4 million N-95 masks
- Suburban Propane: Propane services for generators and heaters
- Wayfair: Mattresses, linens, sheets and pillows for field hospitals
- Jet Blue: Free flights for incoming medical volunteers
- Walmart: Use of parking lots and store facilities infrastructure
- Niagara Bottling: 560,000 bottles of water
- Keurig/Dr. Pepper: Coffee and beverages for volunteers working in the field
- Four Seasons Hotel on 57th Street in Manhattan: Providing their facility to serve as free housing for nurses, doctors and medical personnel currently working to respond to the coronavirus outbreak
- St Regis Hotel: Providing their facility for non-critical care patients or medical personnel
- The Palace Hotel: Providing their facility for non-critical care patients or medical personnel
- Yotel: Providing their facility for non-critical care patients for a month
- Room Mate Grace Hotel: Providing their facility to serve as free housing for nurses, doctors and medical personnel currently working to respond to the coronavirus outbreak
- Wythe Hotel: Offering free hotel rooms through April for nurses, doctors and medical personnel currently working to respond to the coronavirus outbreak
- Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos: $1 million
- JUDY: 25,000 N-95 masks
- Amneal: 20,000 bottles of Hydroxychloroquine
- The Estée Lauder Companies: 10,000 hand sanitizer bottles (8 ounces each) per week for 4-5 weeks
- Long Island Ambulatory Surgery Center: Ventilator
- Uniqlo: 1.05 million masks
- The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York: 12 ventilators and thousands of pieces of PPE
- Corning Life Sciences: 60,000 15ml centrifuge tubes and 40,000 4ml cryovials
- NBCUniversal: Medical supplies and PPE
- Huawei: 10,000 N-95 masks; 20,000 isolation gowns; 50,000 medical goggles; and 10,000 gloves
- Office of Attorney General Letitia James: 1,700 protective masks and 33,000 pairs of gloves
