While the news surrounding the ongoing spread of COVID-19 has mostly been hard to hear, there have also been a couple of rays of sunshine about how certain companies more or less rooted in video games, such as Razer, Apple and Nintendo, have donated huge amounts of medical equipment to those in need.
Now Microsoft is doing it as well, and according to the Seattle Times, the company has bought supplies for almost $4 million (for which they got 240,000 face masks, 35,000 hand sanitizers, 30,000 box lunches and other things like eye protection goggles and infrared thermometers) and it still plans to buy another 500,000 face masks. Most of this will be used in the Seattle area, but any surplus will be distributed around the rest of the USA.
Microsoft has also previously donated $1 million to a fund called The Seattle Foundation, which is dedicated to combating the spread of the pandemic. Other major contributors to this fund are Amazon and Starbucks.
As we've said before; kudos to all the companies that are trying to help out during this difficult time.