Marathon Petroleum Corporation, in response to a call for N-95 respirators for area health providers, donated over 40 boxes of N-95 respirators to Central Peninsula Hospital on March 29.
Nearly 10,000 individual respirators in total will be available for the fight against COVID-19 through the generous gift from Marathon.
Starting the week of March 23, Marathon Petroleum has deployed its entire stock of personal protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals, healthcare organizations and its own facilities across the country.
Over 500,000 pieces of PPE, including N-95 respirators, masks, and gloves have either been delivered or are in transit to 45 hospitals and healthcare organizations in 20 states.
Marathon Petroleum has had a pandemic response plan in place for many years.
