At least 82,000 health care workers have volunteered so far to bolster New York's fight against the new coronavirus:
"Whatever it is that they need, I'm willing to do," Jerry Kops, a licensed nurse on Long Island, told theHe was on tour as a musician in the Blue Man Group before its North American tour was sidelined by the coronavirus shutdown.
Similar recruiting efforts are underway in other states -- including California, Washington, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Virginia, New Jersey, North Dakota and Washington D.C. -- and by the Army and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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