Dear WSCRC Members and Friends,

We hope that you and your families stay well during these uncertain times.

WSCRC is working to collect and disseminate important information for the community throughout this difficult period. We have recently created two documents to provide you with access to information about issues regarding public health, assistance with your business as well as information about where donations can be made to help our local health care industry cope with today’s crisis.

Our first document provides links to a large number of resources to help businesses as well as information from public health authorities aimed to keep us all safe.

WSCRC has also compiled a list where both businesses and individuals may make donations of cash or in-kind goods to support our state’s public health providers, private hospitals and other health service providers as well as to local campaigns which are raising funds. Please click here to access this document.

In addition to providing options for donations we have also developed contacts with medical equipment suppliers in China. If any of you or your companies are interested in becoming directly involved in the import of personal protection equipment, we would be glad to assist you with this effort. We know, through our contacts, that millions of masks can be originated in China and shipped to the U.S. within days.

We are also working to bring you best practices and stories from China where that nation has experienced what is now our daily situation. We held a webinar on March 25 to hear how business in China adapted their operations to cope with the outbreak of Covid-19 (notes will shortly be posted on our website). In our next webinar on March 31, we will hear stories and experience from a Chinese infectious disease specialist who was in the first wave of medical professionals dispatched to Hubei Province to help fight against coronavirus.

We applaud our members who have already taken the initiative to get involved by making cash or in-kind donations. For example, our members Microsoft and Starbucks have contributed to the fund established by the Seattle Foundation to fight COVID-19 while others such as Boeing and Himalaya Capital have made contributions to help combat the virus.

We’d like to know more about what our individual and corporate members are doing to confront this crisis. If you or your companies are making donations of cash or supplies to help fight the coronavirus particularly here in Washington we’d certainly like to know. If you would be willing to provide us with information about your efforts, we’d like to share it with our community to provide better transparency and also to potentially share some best practices about how to respond in this crisis.

We look forward to hearing from you. We send our best wishes to all of you and your families during this difficult period.

Sincerely,
J. Norwell Coquillard and Man Wang