Almost 3,000 health workers received free personal protective equipment outside New York's Bellevue Hospital on April 20. NEW YORK - One nonprofit organization decided to take matters into its own hands when it gave out free personal protective equipment (PPE) to health care workers on the front lines of the novel coronavirus fight in New York.
On April 20, almost 3,000 health care workers lined up outside of Bellevue Hospital to receive the free equipment. The equipment was made available thanks to an initiative called Cut Red Tape 4 Heroes, according to Storyful. “More than 2,800 doctors, nurses, and health care staff received bags of PPEs from our truck parked in front of Bellevue Hospital on April 20,” according to a GoFundMe page from