in an effort to reduce the risk of inhaling hazardous airborne particles and prevent the spread of COVID-19, Wooter Apparel and GameBreaker announced they are teaming-up to power CovCare, which provides NIOSH certified, N95 respirator facemasks to doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals on the frontlines.
Two leading sports companies in their industries are uniting to champion a cause that has quickly impacted healthcare workers around the world with the outbreak of COVID-19: solving the shortage of Personal Protective Equipment and respirator facemasks.
Wooter Apparel and GameBreaker have announced that they are teaming-up to power CovCare, which provides medical supplies and NIOSH certified N95 respirator masks (along with KN95 and disposable 3-Ply surgical masks) to doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals in an effort to reduce the wearer’s risk of inhaling hazardous airborne particles, including bacteria and viruses.
“These are really difficult times and together with GameBreaker, our sports business was shut down because of the Coronavirus. We saw the struggle governments and hospitals were facing with getting facemasks and respirators in time and we were able to address these concerns thanks to our supply chain in China,” said Wooter CEO, Alex Aleksandrovski
Back in early January, Wooter and GameBreaker announced their partnership to provide athletes, coaches, and teams the chance to purchase GameBreaker headgear and products through Wooter Apparel (which started in 2014 in Staten Island and creates customized sports uniforms and apparel) by providing customized logos and team names on select GameBreaker items. Based outside of Los Angeles, California in Westlake Village, GameBreaker has paved the way in preventing the rise of concussions and head injuries in football, rugby, soccer, volleyball, wrestling, and other contact sports by creating soft shell headgear and undershield practice pads in an effort to help protect athletes.
Since Wooter Apparel and GameBreaker teamed-up to launch CovCare, the medical supplies logistics and distribution company has provided respirators and facemasks to Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai, and Staten Island University Hospital.
While GameBreaker Founder Mike Juels and the team at D3O® have focused on scientifically pioneering protective soft shell headgear since becoming available on the market nine years ago, teaming-up with Wooter Apparel to power CovCare has become a common goal: solve one of the world’s biggest problems with the shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and N95 facemasks for healthcare workers, marking a new venture during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
“For GameBreaker, coming together with Wooter Apparel was the chance to compliment each other’s relationships, supply chains, distribution abilities, software and technological resources in order to do some good in the world,” Juels explained.
“This is bigger than sports right now. This joint venture is about making an impact right here at home. We have remained committed to our employees as a company through this difficult time while pivoting to address the concerns and needs of hospitals and healthcare workers in our own communities.”
Since uniting to form CovCare, the medical supplies logistics and distribution company has provided respirators and facemasks to Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai, and Staten Island University Hospital. For every 10 facemasks sold, CovCare is also donating one disposable facemask to a hospital in need. As demands skyrocket to protect healthcare professionals and first responders battling the Coronavirus pandemic, Wooter Apparel and GameBreaker are working diligently with manufacturers to safeguard those individuals on the frontlines. The announcement from Wooter Apparel and GameBreaker comes days after Wooter Apparel partnered with Staten Island-based PROJECT PROTECT to supply nurses with vital PPE supplies and raise awareness about staying safe and healthy during these unpredictable times.
For these two sports companies — Wooter Apparel and GameBreaker — now is the right time to come together to form CovCare in hopes of earning a monumental victory over COVID-19.