Adult entertainment provider Pornhub is donating 50,000 surgical masks to health professionals and first responders in New York and will also make its premium content free for all users amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“With nearly one billion people in lockdown across the world because of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s important that we lend a hand and provide them with an enjoyable way to pass the time,” Corey Price, the company’s vice president said in a statement. “We hope by expanding our offer of free Pornhub Premium worldwide, people have an extra incentive to stay home and flatten the curve.”
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An estimated 75 million people in the United States have been placed under stay-at-home orders as states across the country have shuttered bars, restaurants, and other nonessential businesses in response to the outbreak of COVID-19.
Leading U.S. health officials have urged people to go home, stay home, and practice social distancing in an attempt to slow the spread of the pandemic.
Healthcare workers have been pleading with state and federal authorities to replenish dwindling supplies of masks, face shields, and other devices used to treat the sick on a daily basis.
Pornhub said it will donate 20,000 of the masks to Long Island’s Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital.
“These masks are mission critical in the fight against the COVID pandemic,” Joe Calderone, a senior vice president at the hospital, told the New York Post. “They will help keep our nurses, physicians and support staff safe from infection while caring for those who are stricken with the disease.”
The remainder of the masks will go to local police, firefighter, and first responder unions in New York City, the company said.
“It is up to everyone to work together to help support the community,” Price said.
