Because of this, the organization recently connected with Mask Transit, an initiative founded by Mount Sinai medical students that gets masks to vulnerable communities. After receiving donations from Mask Transit, LSA will be delivering some 400 adult and children's masks alongside food pantry items
LSA Family Health Service needs face masks. The nonprofit employs frontline workers through its visiting nurse service and weekly food pantry in Manhattan's East Harlem. It has also heard from the families it serves that they need masks. Because of this, the organization recently connected with Mask Transit, an initiative founded by Mount Sinai medical students that gets masks to vulnerable communities.
Mask Transit is one of several organizations providing frontline workers and the public with masks amid personal protective equipment shortages. Data released last month from the city's health department found that black residents are dying from the coronavirus more than any other racial group. An NYU analysis also released last month found that the strongest neighborhood factors linked to high COVID-19 rates in New York City were: having a large share of black and Hispanic residents, having a high proportion of overcrowded apartments and having a large share of residents without college degrees.
Story continuesSo far, Mask Transit has given out 5,000 free masks that it's received through donations. Packaged with the masks are physician-reviewed educational materials on COVID-19 precautions and mask use instructions. "The difference of having a cloth mask is that you can wash it, but if there's not instructions that go along with it, I don't think it's something that most people do. So, having the instructions along with how to take care of it and make sure it is effective, is very helpful," Colleen Traub, a community health nurse at LSA, told ABC News.
According to the latest state figures, New Haven County has the second-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases by county in Connecticut, with 9,260.
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