In an email sent out March 26, MRCA President Fred Horner emphasized the need contractors to donate N95 masks to hospitals and healthcare facilities. Due in part to panic shopping caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks are being bought and hoarded, resulting in hospitals running out of masks for their workers as they treat patients. It's becoming so bad that, in Texas, the attorney general recently sued an auctioneer, claiming they were price gouging face masks and other in-demand items.