Crafters across the U.S. are making cloth face masks. Researchers suggest that they don't do much, but they're still better than nothing. And they help save the best masks for doctors and nurses. (wgbhnews)
With medical supplies urgently needed by health care workers, Stephanie Cave of Dorchester was moved to help by an impulse both altruistic and creative. She sat down at her sewing machine and began to stitch together cloth face masks. Then she realized she knew a lot of other people who might want to do the same thing.
Cave, who cares for her toddler during the day, spends the rest of her waking hours running an all-volunteer operation that, in the last week, has delivered 2,000 face masks to homeless shelters, assisted living facilities and hospitals.
“Right now, we have more than three weeks of supplies of pretty much everything we need,” said Jill Batty, chief financial officer of the Cambridge Health Alliance. “But this is going to last longer than three weeks. And right now, the supply chain is extremely challenged.” The 2015 study of mask use in Vietnam has popped up in a lot of internet searches lately, and its author,
But she stressed that homemade cloth masks don’t meet the standard for personal protective equipment — something she said“You should not be working without any PPE or inadequate PPE. It’s a work, health and safety matter,” MacIntyre said. “There’s no point in our health care workers also getting infected or dying.”
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