Nurses, health professionals, service and maintenance workers, long-term care workers, and firefighters —are on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, but they are running out of critical Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) like masks, gowns, soap, sanitizing wipes, eye protection and gloves.

If health care workers and first responders contract COVID-19 because they are unable to protect themselves while treating patients, the result will be catastrophic for our entire state.

This is a crisis, and it will require extraordinary steps and sacrifice from all of us to save as many lives as possible.