Jennifer Aniston sends gratitude to nurses and doctors in touching post

Jennifer Aniston is showing how awesome she is yet again. The actress took to Instagram on Tuesday to express her “love and gratitude to all those amazing women working around the clock.”Sending messages to her 30.7M Instagram followers, the Friends star encouraged best social distancing practices and to “stay informed, stay calm, and stay inside or away from crowds to help slow the spread of the virus.” She also praised Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for their donation of $1M to Canadian and US food bank relief nonprofits.[caption id="attachment_4868908" align="alignnone" width="900"] Instagram/@Jenniferaniston[/caption]

I think we can all agree, Covid-19 is an asshole. If you can help, visit, https://t.co/gDZHbYYurJ and/or https://t.co/2fserjQQQs pic.twitter.com/4rb4WpoDKo

— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) March 16, 2020

Our fave Friends star also put forth a few call-to-actions, linking to organizations like Feeding America and the American Red Cross urging people to donate if they can, as well as tagging her own friends at The Smile NYC (a restaurant still offering deliveries) and asking her followers to support "local businesses that are being safe, proactive, and keeping their doors open to feed the city."Other stars sending messages of love and solidarity include Ellen Pompeo, Lady Gaga, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas, Josh Gad and, of course, the Obamas.

We owe a profound debt of gratitude to all our health professionals and everybody who’ll be on the front lines of this pandemic for a long while. They’re giving everything. May we all model our own behavior on their selflessness and sacrifice as we help each other through this. https://t.co/F3tsJTqd4c

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 17, 2020

Since the outbreak in December 2019, over 200,000 people have been infected, with over 8,000 deaths worldwide. Among the list of infected celebrities, athletes and politicians are Idris Elba, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Game of Thrones actor Kristofer Hivju, NBA star Kevin Durant, and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.Aniston is no stranger to philanthropy and sharing her gratitude. Over the past two decades, the 50-year-old actress has donated millions to organizations like Doctors Without Borders and Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation, and helped raise $58M through the “Hope for Haiti” telethon which helped Haitian relief efforts after the 2010 earthquake devastated the country.Global efforts to stop the COVID-19 pandemic have received widespread support from celebrities like Aniston. Hopefully her voice, and the voices of of others with significant influence, will help to bring out the best in everyone. Social distancing and donations, anyone?[video_embed id='1924159']RELATED: The dos and don'ts of self-isolation and quarantine[/video_embed]