A group of volunteers has been working to repair 27,000 desperately needed N95 protective masks for a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital battling the coronavirus pandemic — and they got most of them done in a weekend
How to make your own face mask Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis recently found dozens of cases of the masks in storage but couldn't use them because the elastic straps had dry-rotted and needed to be replaced.It was a huge job that organizers Stephanie Lepone and Ginna Rauls stumbled into almost by accident. The women are longtime friends and have regular sewing get togethers, Lepone told CNN.
"And they were like, 'What? No,' they couldn't believe it."The hospital purchased 16,000 yards of replacement elastic.It came on 50-yard rolls, so an attorney used his office's paper cutters to slice it into thousands of 11-inch-long strips. Lepone says she doesn't know how he heard about the project, but he ended up working all night.
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