3 News Now: Scooter’s Coffee provides boost of caffeine for those on the frontlines
Scooter’s Coffee donated a total of 29,000 cans of cold brew coffee to hospitals across the state. It’s an effort to make sure our health care workers are taken care of and feel appreciated.
NTV: Green Plains ethanol plant to produce hand sanitizer
A Nebraska ethanol company is helping the cause, as donates industrial ethanol to be turned into hand sanitizer. Green Plains, the largest producer of ethanol in Nebraska is going to donate industrial alcohol from its York plant to the state at no charge.
KLKN: Father and daughter build DIY intubation shield to fight COVID-19 spread
This father and daughter made intubation shields and plexiglass barriers for medical facilities. It’s all in the name to stop the spread of COVID-19 to medical professionals on the front lines.
WOWT: Brickway Brewery & Distillery to make hand sanitizer amid COVID-19 shortage
For more than six years the crew at Brickway has been crafting liquor for a normally packed room. The coronavirus outbreak has changed that.
KETV: Creighton students collecting protective equipment for medical professionals
The students understand the importance of personal protective equipment (PPE) first hand, all of them are medical students soon to be on the front lines in the nation’s hospitals.
News Channel Nebraska: McDonald’s offers free coffee to first responders, healthcare workers
One of the world’s biggest fast food chains is offering a free pick-me-up to Nebraskans on the front lines of the health crisis.
KSNB: Union Pacific donates 6,600 masks to Nebraska Medicine
Countries, cities and states are rallying together, fighting COVID-19 as one. In Omaha, Union Pacific is rallying behind one of the nation’s top hospitals.
WOWT: Bellevue pizza shop feeds medical workers on the front lines
Domino’s made a delivery of 20 free pizzas for the staff at Nebraska Medicine Hospital in Bellevue. The manager of the Bellevue store says his workers have made 70 pizzas that he has donated to eight hospitals in the Omaha-metro since the crisis began.
Omaha: Durham Museum donates boxes of gloves, masks to Nebraska Medical Center
But with the museum’s doors shut due to the coronavirus outbreak, the curatorial staff decided to make use of the spare nitrile gloves and N95 masks.
Journal Star: Colleges donate leftover medical supplies to southeast Nebraska hospitals, health centers
Nebraska Wesleyan University and Southeast Community College donated their remaining caches of personal protective equipment and cleaning products this week as testing and treatment of the novel coronavirus continues to expand in the state.
KSNB Local: University of Nebraska to provide beds for COVID-19 patients
This allows the State to use beds at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Net Nebraska: Faced With Mask Shortages, Nebraskans Are Getting Their Sewing Machines Out
Limited protective equipment is a problem nationwide for workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. While providers in Nebraska brace for a mask shortage, some communities are taking matters into their own hands.
1011 Now: Omaha distillery to make hand sanitizer amid COVID-19 shortage
“We see the need out there on the news – I’ve seen pictures of firefighters going into homes and carrying people out on stretchers and they don’t have any of the PPE that they need. And so then if we can at least get them some hand sanitizer, it’ll help keep them safe,” Zac Triemert, the head distiller, said.
New Press Now: Nebraska prisoners have made more than 960 gallons of hand sanitizer
Staff and inmates working through Cornhusker State Industries have manufactured more than 960 gallons of hand sanitizer, according to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services.
U.S. News: Community College Builds Face Shields for Omaha Hospital
The Metropolitan Community College’s prototype design lab is now producing plastic face shields for Nebraska Medicine amid a supply shortage of personal protective equipment for health care workers. Volunteers from the lab and other areas of the college are helping by assembling the masks from supplies lab coordinator Ken Heinze has collected from Omaha-area stores.
Journal Star: Beer equipment maker to match gift card purchases
Lincoln-based American Beer Equipment has pledged to match gift card purchases from Nebraska brewers up to $10,000.