The astronomic rise in demand for these types of masks has led to a deficiency for the people that need it the most: healthcare workers who are surrounded by patients every day. The two of them started Mask Match, a peer-to-peer project with the simple goal of connecting people or institutions who have extra masks to healthcare workers and hospitals who need them. “One example would be folks in California, who had bought many of them during the wildfire season, and now realize there is an urgent need for those masks,” Alpert says. Though Klinger and Alpert are spearheading the effort, enthusiasm and help for Mask Match has come from far and wide. They reached out to Mask Match, and within 4 days they got a donation of 2000 surgical and N95 masks.

Source: Forbes April 29, 2020 14:09 UTC