The coronavirus has had an effect on everyone’s lives. 

With quarantine being one of the few solutions to this pandemic, many families are working from home.

However, not everyone has a job that can be done from home. 

Those who can’t work from home are losing their wages and have no source of income.

Many of those people are the employees that work in sports games and non-athlete members of the teams. 

To relieve this problem, many teams and athletes have come together.

The Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets, Charlotte Hornets, and the Cleveland Cavaliers are a few of the many teams that have announced that together they will take care of the employees that work during their games.

FC Barcelona’s players will cut their wages by 70% and make contributions to the club workers.

This is not all that athletes have done to help this situation. 

The Arizona Diamondbacks have donated more than $1 million worth of food and equipment for health care workers, the real heroes. 

Freddie Freeman, All-Star first baseman, has donated a total of $125,000 to various food banks. 

Now Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and his wife will donate $5 million to charities that are feeding people affected by the quarantine in Louisiana. 

Spanish basketball player Pau Gasol and tennis player Rafael Nadal started a drive that raised over $12 million. 

The money will be going to their home country of Spain, which has been gravely affected by the outbreak.

The sports community has also contributed in this common war by turning their huge stadiums and arenas into hospitals and medical storage facilities. 

The USTA (United States Tennis Association) center’s indoor training facility in New York City will turn into a hospital to treat COVID-19 patients, according to time.com.

The arena is 100,000 square feet and is planned to be a 350-bed facility. 

The Maracana in Rio will turn into another hospital and will fit 2,000 beds. 

Wales is funding the construction of a 2,000 bed facility at the national stadium, Principality Stadium. 

Santiago Bernabéu, Real Madrid’s stadium, will be used to store medical supplies. 

Health care providers are also using football stadium parking lots for drive-up testing. 

Using these arenas and turning them into only COVID-19 hospitals will help doctors. 

They can separate serious cases into the hospitals and the rest in these arenas. 

These places have electrical power to keep a hospital going. 

The sports community has set the example on how to help out in this global pandemic.