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New York Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton is donating 15,000 protective face shields to hospitals in Southern California and New York amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times.
The masks designated for Southern California, where Stanton grew up, will be going to Inglewood's Centinela Hospital Medical Center, Van Nuys' Valley Presbyterian Hospital and the East Los Angeles Doctors' Hospital.
"The African-American and Latino communities are hit the hardest,” he told Shaikin. "Those hospitals have the least resources. They were depleted.