{"id":92625,"date":"2021-03-04T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T21:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=92625"},"modified":"2021-03-04T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T21:01:23","slug":"bu-mask-initiative-hits-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2021\/03\/04\/bu-mask-initiative-hits-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Mask Initiative Hits Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2021\/03\/PSI-Masks.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92627\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/>A group of medical students led by Tyler Kalajian, Joshua Gustine and Joseph Cannella, have raised more than $1,000 through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/boston-university-mask-initiative\">BU Mask Initiative<\/a> to purchase over 6,000 disposable masks to be distributed to homeless shelters across Boston to help stop the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2021\/03\/mask-boxes-terrier.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92628\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" \/>Last weekend the group delivered 3,000 masks to Pine Street Inn, whose stockpile was nearly empty, and will be delivering 600 masks to Rosie\u2019s Place.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a suggestion for any shelters or organizations in need of masks who serve vulnerable populations, please contact <a href=\"mailto:tylerk@bu.edu\">Tyler Kalajian<\/a>. Many thanks to everyone in the BUSM community who contributed to the initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical students  have raised more than $1,000  to purchase over 6,000 disposable masks to be distributed to homeless shelters across Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[254,91,123,156],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92630,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92625\/revisions\/92630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}