Karl-Anthony Towns Gives $100K To Mayo Clinic

MINNEAPOLIS — On Sunday, Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns announced he will be donating $100,000 to the Rochester-based Mayo Clinic, which has begun rolling out a test to detect the new coronavirus.

"Our team has been working around the clock for the past month to develop a test for COVID-19," Dr. William Morice II, chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, said in a statement.

"We are blown away by Karl’s gesture to help us fast-track offering testing to more patients across Minnesota and the nation."

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Mayo expects this donation to help increase testing capacity from 200 per day to over 1,000 tests per day in the coming weeks, according to a news release.

People can visit the Mayo website if they are interested in being a part of making COVID-19 testing capabilities possible and increasing availability, as well as supporting Mayo Clinic’s overall COVID-19 response.

"Thank you to the Mayo Clinic workers and all healthcare workers who are working around the clock to treat us," Towns wrote on Twitter. "You are our heroes. We’re all in this together, let’s protect ourselves and the community around us."

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